tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post7340018189699670045..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: Authoritarianism: Past And Future Is NowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-33092107301769178012011-03-12T07:15:13.319-06:002011-03-12T07:15:13.319-06:00Kathy,
I think the link phenomenon was a product ...Kathy,<br /><br />I think the link phenomenon was a product of the browser, so all is well. I got a kick out of the .com attached by the browser to what was ostensibly a senate site.<br /><br />Speaking of links, Dredd Blog has a link, in one of the link sections, to your shoe08 site now.<br /><br />I hope that does not <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/10/new-york-man-faces-five-years-in-jail-for-linking-to-online-videos/" rel="nofollow">cause the authoritarians to come after me</a> any time soon. ;)Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-78840997746044410762011-03-11T18:05:14.102-06:002011-03-11T18:05:14.102-06:00@Randy, blushing, thanks for the nice complimant.
...@Randy, blushing, thanks for the nice complimant.<br /><br />@Dredd, thanks for fixing the link. Is there anything I should be doing to make sure it gets posted properly?<br />.Kathy Podgershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-76967020280150796712011-03-09T23:05:23.580-06:002011-03-09T23:05:23.580-06:00Not only is Obama not closing GITMO as promised in...Not only is Obama not closing GITMO as promised in the campaigns, he has now ordered indefinite confinement of people without trial (<a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/top-counter-terrorism-experts.html" rel="nofollow">Washington's Blog</a>).<br /><br />Authoritarianism is in America's future right now.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-84740104439256524732011-03-09T22:55:31.361-06:002011-03-09T22:55:31.361-06:00States are cutting mental health budgets:
"T...States are cutting mental health budgets:<br /><br />"<i>Two-thirds of states cut mental health funding from their general fund budgets over the last two years, according to a report released by a mental illness advocacy group on Wednesday</i>." (<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/09/two-thirds-of-states-cut-mental-healthcare-funds-advocacy-group/" rel="nofollow">Raw Story</a>).<br /><br />We know <a href="http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/09/etiology-of-social-dementia.html" rel="nofollow">what that means</a> don't we?Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-22227078333485038332011-03-09T18:14:19.465-06:002011-03-09T18:14:19.465-06:00Kathy definitely has her stuff together!Kathy definitely has her stuff together!Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-52614281827870684692011-03-09T07:29:09.090-06:002011-03-09T07:29:09.090-06:00Kathy's link on my OS inserted a .com when I a...Kathy's link on my OS inserted a .com when I attempted to link it ... Lugar.com was funny. <br /><br />I fixed the link so bloggers could get that info ...Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-2630571874406482832011-03-09T06:27:58.301-06:002011-03-09T06:27:58.301-06:00This is a twist ... a Texas Republican introducing...This is a twist ... a Texas Republican introducing <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/08/exclusive-if-we-dont-fight-tsa-like-security-coming-to-sidewalks-football-games-texas-rep-warns/" rel="nofollow">anti-totalitarianism legislation</a>.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-21038635039578665882011-03-08T18:29:17.219-06:002011-03-08T18:29:17.219-06:00Dredd,
I missed something in the whole Kathy'...Dredd,<br /><br />I missed something in the whole Kathy's link discussion. Can someone make it clear to me?<br /><br />On an authoritarian note, it was altogether unsurprising to hear one former presidential hopeful and noted authoritarian - John McCain - call for military intervention in Libya today. He of course qualified his remarks by limiting the call to an Air Force "no fly zone" intervention - "no ground troops needed!" - just as they always do. <br /><br />McCain's always especially amusing because you can read right through his facial expressions whenever he's trying to be duplicitous (which is pretty much all the time). The poor bastard; he's very possibly <i>the worst</i> liar in a business in which lying is the highest skill one can possess. God bless the old white-haired fart - he's definitely gonna need it. <br /><br />On a thoroughly surprising note however (well, ok, <i>mildly</i> surprising), none other than John Kerry, he of the "northeast, limousine liberal" set, beat the war drums likewise as well. What's this country coming to I ask you? Prissy upscale liberals and grumpy old neocons lying down together on the subject of foreign invasions? What's next? John "The Great Orange Boner" Boehner and Barney Frank caught swapping spit and god knows what else in the back seat of a Chevy Volt after hours on K Street? As all the young girls say these days, "Ewwww! That's just plain nasty!"NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-17949417143005347602011-03-08T16:02:36.399-06:002011-03-08T16:02:36.399-06:00Authoritarians do not let loyalty get in the way o...Authoritarians <a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Professor-honored-at-halftime-tossed-from-game-f?urn=ncaab-331238" rel="nofollow">do not let loyalty get in the way</a> of loyalty, if you know what I mean Verne.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-83182177225727969252011-03-08T14:55:01.011-06:002011-03-08T14:55:01.011-06:00Here is the instant link to Kathy's Land above...Here is the instant link to <a href="http://www.lugar.senate.gov/issues/foreign/diplomacy/ChinaInternet.pdf" rel="nofollow">Kathy's Land</a> above ...<br /><br />She had become all exercised then waxed poetic with the "lugar.com" segment of that URL (which I enjoyed to the point of chuckling out loud)... but machines are so damn unpoetic and will not go there ...<br /><br />SO!!! I fixed the link and I recommend the read.<br /><br />DREDDDreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-14101532584439795282011-03-08T14:46:59.406-06:002011-03-08T14:46:59.406-06:00It is amazing to see the "RWA Highs" com...It is amazing to see <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/08/nasa-disavows-its-alien-life-claim_n_832873.html" rel="nofollow">the "RWA Highs" coming out</a> (after literally only a few hours or days) to denounce the NASA scientist who worked for years on the alien microbe project.<br /><br />Like true authoritarians, of the yep yep yep type, they can't handle non-establishment theory.<br /><br />Dredd Blog read the report carefully and included it in <a href="http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2011/03/open-thread.html" rel="nofollow">a post here</a> (alien microbe studies).Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-63402919827856815582011-03-08T11:26:22.851-06:002011-03-08T11:26:22.851-06:00Did not read the book, don't have instant tran...Did not read the book, don't have instant transfer to epad, but, while we are all focused on this, have you all read Lugars's Manifesto?<br /><br />http://lugar/senate.gov/issues/foreign/diplomacy/ChinaInternet.pdf<br /><br />No one should be surprized at any of this, as the CIA rescued their Nazi counterparts, while we "permitted" ghettos in our cities to sprout.Kathyhttp://shoe08.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-45135435717932608482011-03-08T07:42:53.639-06:002011-03-08T07:42:53.639-06:00Thanks all. I sat up past midnight last night glu...Thanks all. I sat up past midnight last night glued to the book. A <i>totally fascinating,</i> read! Thanks to commenter <i>Hancock1863</i> over at James Howard Kunstler's site <i>Clusterfuck Nation</i> for providing the link. I usually don't click on commenters' links, but this one was a gold mine. It really explains a lot, doesn't it? <br /><br />Authoritarians are basically ruled by fear, so much so that it affects and limits their very thinking. And after so many years of that, their thinking becomes impaired and narrowed due to lack of new ideas. At that point, reasoning with them is not only pointless, but it actually <i>infuriates them</i> for you to try. If they become a majority or a near majority in the populace of a country, that country is in grave danger of becoming an unthinking, authoritarian dictatorship that will act out against not only its neighbors, <i>but its own populace as well,</i> in strange, violent, and otherwise totally unpredictable ways. Does anyone <i>possibly doubt</i> that we're standing on that precipice at this very moment?NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-27536467975075342222011-03-08T07:07:09.617-06:002011-03-08T07:07:09.617-06:00I like this quote from page 81 of the book:
... ...I like this quote from page 81 of the book:<br /><br /><br /><i>... research reveals that authoritarian followers drive through life under the influence of impaired thinking a lot more than most people do, exhibiting sloppy reasoning, highly compartmentalized beliefs, double standards, hypocrisy, self-blindness, a profound ethnocentrism, and--to top it all off--a ferocious dogmatism that makes it unlikely anyone could ever change their minds with evidence or logic. These seven deadly shortfalls of authoritarian thinking eminently qualify them to follow a would-be dictator. As Hitler is reported to have said, “What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.”</i>Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.com