Nixonland

The syllogism is simple: first in 1966 with Ronald Reagan, then in 1968 and 1972 with Richard Nixon, Republicans ascended to higher office by pinning on the Democrats responsibility for riots and disruptive protests carried out on the left, successfully framing themselves (as I detailed in my 2008 book Nixonland) as the preservers of order and decorum in a society that seemed to be falling into chaos. The Chaotic Trump Campaign ☀

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White Ideology and Nazism

“They [Nazis] attacked liberalism because it seemed to them the principal premise of modern society; everything they dreaded seemed to spring from it: the bourgeois life, Manchesterism [laissez-faire capitalism], materialism, parliament and the parties, the lack of political leadership. Even more, they sensed in liberalism the source of all their inner sufferings. Theirs was a resentment of loneliness; their one desire was for a new faith, a new community of believers, a world with fixed standards and no doubts, a new national religion that would bind all Germans together. All this, liberalism denied. Hence, they hated liberalism, blamed it for making outcasts of them, for uprooting them from their imaginary past, and from their faith." Fritz Stern

Race Is Social Not Biological

Taken from various Anthropology textbooks:


HUMAN VARIATION
“Race” is always a social not a biological
concept
Conventional Classification of “Race” is
pseudoscience.


Hair texture, skin color and facial
characteristics are arbitrary and randomly
selected Skin tone is function of evolutionary
adaptation to climate Race as conventionally used is wrong!


Do Human Subgroups Exist?


The idea of race has historically meant more
than just physical traits. The concept of race is socially constructed, meaning that it is something defined by our society. The American Anthropological Association
(AAA) states that race does not exist as a scientific category. More genetic variation exists within races than between them. An individual’s behaviour and personality are largely conditioned by his or her
culture. The idea of race has been used in the past to justify social, economic, and political inequalities and excuse hatred, cruelty, and violence. Some examples include the Nazi persecution of Jewish people, apartheid in South Africa, and the Ku Klux Klan in
North America. Racial beliefs are considered by the AAA as myths and folk beliefs and have no biological legitimacy (AAA, 1998).


Can We Study Human Variation in a Legitimate Way?


Anthropologists look at human variety and try to understand a specific trait, such as skin colour or blood type, in terms of evolutionary advantage. Blood type is an example of a trait that is easy to measure objectively.
Anthropologists have found that certain blood types are connected to certain parts of the world, but blood type does not correspond to external characteristics. Anthropologists have concluded that race is a cultural myth,
not a biological reality (O’Neill, 2010). In natural selection, traits develop to
help individuals survive and reproduce in a particular environment, but many
traits are the result of a population’s isolation or migration. Many “racial” traits, such as eye colour, probably have no evolutionary advantage at all.

Is President Obama A Muslim?

Proof That President Obama Is Not A Muslim:


1. No Mosque has ever registered his name, nickname nor has produced any material evidence or proof that President Obama has attended any Islamic religious services before he become President, no witnesses have ever stepped forward to claim he has.


2. No one has ever observed President Obama bending down towards Mecca 5 times a day, as is required by Islamic religious teaching, nor saying any Islamic prayers nor displaying Islamic symbolism, or allegiance. Sympathy doesn't count as the former does and is not the same.


3. President Obama has signed orders to kill hundreds of radical Islamists, including Osama Bin Laden, that were successfully killed via special forces or drones. Many of these radical islamists were leaders.


4. My Muslim friends and Christian ones that are lifelong Muslims and Christians from the Holy Land including Israel, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt view President Obama as either a Christian or agnostic. but do not think he is or was ever a Muslim, even if he admires and respects his father and his father's religion, as religion is not inherited and he was raised by a single, American mother, very open minded and multicultural at that and not his biological father.


5. He attended Catholic school as a child like President Kennedy Did.


6. He volunteered for Catholic Charity's and The RCC during the mid 1980's for apx 3-4 years. for 12 parishes in Chicago.
I've spoken with priests and nuns that knew him and said he was a good, Godly man and community organizer and volunteer.


7. He chose and appointed VP Joe Biden, a Catholic liberal, formerly a conservative.
8. None of his White House staff are of Islamic origin but rather American Christian like him, most of them, others may be agnostic or atheist.


9. His roots and activism, esp in social justice, are largely Catholic based ones (Google: Obama Catholic Roots).


10. He attended a Christian church in Chicago for over 20 years with dozens of church members.


11. He eats pork and drinks beer, clearly that is violation of Islamic religion and law and those beliefs cannot be suspended by practicing Muslims (Muslims dislike non-practicing Muslims and consider them not Muslim or not holy) as well as supports gay rights, freedom of religion, feminism, equality, gay marriage, etc. Has never endorsed Islam (except in false quotes attributed to him).


12. The Washington State Police, FBI, CIA, ATF, Secret Service, DoD, Homeland Security and detectives hired by Hillary Clinton before she became friendly with President Obama could not find any incriminating evidence that he was either a Muslim nor not an American citizen. GWB also looked into him before handing officially the Presidency over to him.


13. He supported many of GWB's bill's and policies as Senator of Illinois (Around 60-80%).


14. He has never attended any Mosque openings in America nor elsewhere.


15. Supporting freedom of religion does not make him a Muslim, neither does the fact that his father was a non practicing Muslim make him one.


America was founded on the principles of freedom of religion, not on a theocracy, nor one official religion nor a secular idea of a nation.


16. Has never been seen reading a Quran, interestingly many Muslim friends have Qurans and Bibles they read, side by side.


17. Has openly and publicly denounced radical Muslim terrorist groups Al Queda, The Taliban and ISIS, also attacking them via hundreds of drone strikes.


18. Does not follow the 5 Pillars of Islam nor their tenets.


19. Has shown no mercy to radical Islamic terrorist groups.


20. All claims that President Obama is a Muslim would not hold up in a court of law, not even an Islamic one, it would be considered character assassination, bogus, false claims, slander, lies, hate speech, speculation, heresy, imagination based, invalid, nonsensical, made up, conspiracy theory based, etc and has no supporting material evidence whatsoever to back up any of these claims.


Only the most ultra conservative or conspiracy based judge would find any sort of merit in these false claims and speculation of President Obama being a Muslim or Islamic sympathizer and rule that he is a Muslim.


Written by: Robert A. Kiehn, 09/20/2015


P.S. I wonder if Donald Trump reads the Bible and attends church on Sunday?


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For Trump Muslim Question Guy Part 3

General Colin Powell quoted regarding if President Obama was a Muslim: "So what if he is? Is there something wrong with that?" (Look for it on goodreads quotes under Colin Powell).

I have Muslim friends. They are good, godly and hardworking people. The women are beautiful like Queen Rania of Jordan and very clean, friendly and nice.

President Obama attended a Catholic school as a child like President Kennedy did, volunteered for the Catholic church during the 80's in Chicago for 12 parishes for 4 years and picked a Catholic VP in Joe Biden.

There is nothing wrong with being a Muslim. They have lived in America for generations.

Also President Obama's roots and activism are Catholic based, shame on people like Trump and others like Muslim Question Guy for behaving like those in Nazi Germany.

Hate at it's worst as well as human behavior.

You sir are nothing but a hate monger, psychologically damaged and deranged, not a true American nor Christian, on par with Nazi Germany, shame on you.

‪#‎PresidentObama‬ ‪#‎DonaldTrump‬ ‪#‎MuslimQuestionGuy‬ ‪#‎TrumpAudienceMember

Message To Trump Audience Member

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You are misinformed, conspiracy minded and have obvious psychological issues that have manifested themselves in the form of fears, phobias, Islamophobia and racism plus speculation, fantasy and imagination in the fact that you believe that President Obama is a Muslim and not American.


He is not a Muslim and in fact did years of work for the Catholic Church in Chicago for 12 Parishes during the 1980's, plus attended a Christian Church for over 20 years and has stated numerous times that he is a Christian.


You sir and others have no right to lie, slander, make false accusations nor character assassinate our current President, a Christian and natural born U.S. Citizen.


Just because hid father was a Muslim does not mean he is and there is no proof, a court of law would claim here say on you.


Even Colin Powell remarked "So what if he's a Muslim?"


Shame on you.


You are what's wrong with America.

Food Stamps Help The American Economy

Food stamps help contribute to the American economy.


 They not only feed people esp children that need food and the disabled but they contribute to giving profits to food distributors, manufacturer's, suppliers, grocery chains and grocery truck drivers plus employees and food companies.


 It made me sad that President Obama cut $10 Billion on food stamps over 10 years but also that IL Gov. Bruce Rauner made even more cuts in food stamps

Right Wing Hypocrisy

"These right wing people are such hypocrites. they talk about freedom, but oppress gay people. i don't get it.
" PFC via Facebook


*Grammar edited

Donald Trump is a Pompous Jackass

“Donald Trump got a standing ovation today at the Iowa Freedom Summit when he promised that if he won the presidency he would defeat the Islamic State, build a fence along the nation’s southern border to stop illegal immigration, repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and stand up to Democrats. He said Republican politicians had let Obama “get away with absolute murder,” that Mitt Romney “choked” in the 2012 campaign and shouldn’t be nominated again, and Jeb Bush is unsuitable because he’s “very, very weak” on immigration and supports Common Core educational standards. The news here isn’t that Trump is a pompous ignorant right-wing megalomaniac.


That’s well established. The news is that the Republican Party hasn’t learned a thing since the last presidential election when a Star Wars barroom of neo-isolationists, fundamentalists, and racists split the GOP into warring factions that, financed by a handful of wealthy reactionaries, flamed on for a year or more and fueled the fanaticism that’s become the lifeblood of the party. (Sarah Palin is signaling this weekend she may be in the running, too.) That one of the two major parties of America is incapable of seriously governing poses a clear and present danger to the Republic." Robert Reich ☀

President Obama's SOTU Address last night

Was fantastic.


"To CEO's and business owners: if you want something done, hire a Veteran."


"I won both campaigns" quote


"Try feeding or supporting a family on less then 15k a year"


"We will continue the fight against ISIS"


President Obama talked about free speech and other pressing matters as well.


The Republicans and conservatives will continue to oppose him, even though he is a moderate middle of the road, in many ways conservative like GWB.


And no he is not dividing our country but right wingers are.

Right Wing and Class

The Right Wing is the Anti-Christ

There, I finally said it.

Dallas in 1963..

The anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination is upon us; I wanted to post this quote from William Manchester's book "Death of a President November 1963" from book 1, chapter 4 "Volunteer" page 288:
 "there were complaints that the city (Dallas, Big D) was being victimized, that left wing Eastern liberals and intellectuals were ganging up on Dallas conservatism. There was no remorse among the city's rightists on the afternoon of November 22. At 3:05 P.M., when 80 percent of the American people were in deep grief, an NBC camera panned toward a group of spectators outside Parkland's emergency response entrance and picked up a young man with a placard that read "YANKEE GO HOME" Barefoot Sanders was astounded to learn that although next day's Harvard-Yale game had been called off, interrupting the oldest football rivalry in the country, most Dallas County high schools were going ahead with plans to play under lights that Friday evening. When Warren Harding arrives home, a child who lived in his block said "I'm sorry your President died." Harding didn't know what to say. He puckered and then replied. "Son, he was your President, too. He was everybody's President." The child then shook his head. "He wasn't ours," he said. "My Mom and Daddy didn't vote for him. He didn't mean anything to us."
 On a side note, some people accused the Kennedy's of thinking of themselves as royalty, much parallel to the Obama family today and right wing accusations, slander and complaints.

Conservative Thinking, Values, Morals, Ethics

"Conservatives, on the other hand, have a very different view of democracy. For them democracy is supposed to provide them with the liberty to do what they want, without being responsible for others and without others being responsible for them. For them, there is only personal responsibility, not social responsibility. Indeed, providing public resources is, to a conservative, immoral, taking away personal responsibility, making people dependent, lazy, unable to take care of themselves. Removing public resources is seen as providing incentives, and individual liberty is seen as the condition in which you can carry out your incentives." -George Lakoff,

America Is Not A Christian Nation

“Instead of preaching a gospel of self-sacrifice and generosity, right-wing Christians support the mega-wealthy who yearn to stifle democracy and move us further toward plutocracy: Keep the riffraff from voting. Keep alternative views out. Live in the bubble of like-minded people, not the marketplace of ideas and diversity where Jesus lived. Instead of proclaiming confidence in God’s care, they push fear: fear of immigrants, fear of the dark-skinned, fear of Islam, fear of Ebola, fear of education, fear of honesty, fear of the poor, fear of gays and lesbians, fear of women, fear of the gospel that Jesus actually proclaimed. America Isn’t a ‘Christian Nation,’ via Never Has Been ☀ via azspot.net

Right Wing Fallacies

So many right wingers claim snopes.com news items are not true when in fact they are, thoroughly researched by an educated couple that are not even registered Democrats nor liberals. Plus with sources provided. This also reminds me (see article Obama Is A Republican, from The New American Conservative, I think) of claims of (non existent) voter fraud in the last two elections even though President Obama won fair and square through grassroots movements and large numbers of minority voter turnout (hell GWB never even contested giving the Presidency to Obama, unlike he did with Al Gore back in 2000).