A NASA astronaut embarks on a sad journey; Chris Mathews drops the 'F' bomb on Imus In The Morning; observers climb all over Joe Biden for thinking out loud (and structuring his words in a manner that could be interpreted); President Bush agrees with just one word of Biden's insight of Obama, (articulate) and some people assume offense was intended by the use of a single word; people rush to die in the name of a belief; mothers and fathers react to childish acts and turn them into hatred filled responses; gangs take hold of youth, congress tries to usurp the Constitutional power of the Presidency.... all for one reason.
To be articulate one expresses oneself readily, clearly, or effectively (a trait Joe Biden should have engaged). To say a person is articulate is to compliment that person. But if your perspective is defensive it would not matter what word would be used to compliment. You would perceive that word to be an attack on those not the focus of the comment.
It would take a specific form of reasoning to arrive at such an illogical conclusion.
Valentine's day 2007, Howard Fineman of Newsweek wrote a 'tell-something' about Al Franken. He stuck it in a blog entry. In it he displayed the type of thinker he is, as well as the type of thinker Al Franken is, how they both agree with Bush and how their methods of logic are the same, but Franken is just so much smarter at it.
"At a diner on the Upper West Side, Al laid out his idea of how we should handle the problem of Saddam Hussein and his cache of WMD. Al's idea was to flood the country with weapons inspectors -- under U.N. auspices, probably, but most of them our forces if necessary. Saddam was tied down by sanctions and the world's disapproval. We could have forces there under the peaceful banner of inspections -- and keep a lid on things indefinitely. I didn't have a good answer then for why that was a bad idea, and I don't now. It was pretty logical."
Do you know what one liberal not getting what another liberal said, when it was staring them right in the face is called? Inductive Logic, or inductive reasoning. It accounts for so many different factions that all call themselves Democrats.
Al Franken's 'idea', is blatantly obvious to me as a giant indicator of the type of thinker Franken is. Oh, he thinks visually, but we already knew that. I wasn't sure whether the visual control was long-term or short-term for Franken. Now I am. A long term visual thinking process (how your sub-conscious works) is recalling things because they look like they fit together, it is a reaction. A long-term aural thinking process would be recalling things because they fit a concept, whether the reaction existed or not.
Franken is so aurally (don't ever confuse that with ‘orally') smart, in short term (conscious level) that what he reaches into for recall, appears to be the same as his short term; after all, they both use neurons and the same brain to do their work.
Inductive reasoning or logic, is when assembling a position or memory, by what seems to fit, (accepting a theory as fact, blindly adhering to some person's interpretation of ancient texts) runs up against the reality, that was perceived to create it. Read that again.
Intelligence is made up of the long and short of memory processing, in both which one is in control over long term, as well as which one is in control over short-term, as well as which of those is in control of the whole brain.
But those just temper intelligence, which is based in speed of processing and clarity of recall.
Franken has a great deal of both. It is the 'control' problem which is his. He has so much 'non' control that what he says means exactly what it says, even though he meant it to be descriptive or metaphorical (which is his humor).
What he said, was that we are right to be there, we are right to have ousted Saddam, we were right to do so for WMD (which he obviously agreed with at that time), and we are right to win the battle completely. We just didn't do it as deceptively and under-handedly sneaky as Franken thinks we should have. So much for the 'defender of the down-trotted'. Franken is all about superiority. He has nothing at all to do with the constituency.
It was fitting the article from Fineman was published on Valentine's day. A love-fest it was not, but it came as close to one as it could.
When did you last celebrate Valentine's day? When you were a kid, from classmates and perhaps your one and only. That was it. In honor of the moment that candy box said it was, we hugged. So there. Valentine's day.
But no. The rest of the culture is becoming commercially controlled far too much. I saw two, not one, but two outdoor six foot tall blow up hearts in front yards with cacti and rock.
It is a visual holiday now. It represents presents and food and red hearts. And now my wife likes Valentine's day and I can't fathom the reason I would ever do anything visual, other than tinkering with art programs. Suesie is visual long-term (typical female) and I suppose it won that one on the battlefield of life.
But just like Valentine's day, the notion that the United States of American should stoop so low as to hide in clothing of the U.N., invade a country without justification, carry a peace sign to cover up the heavy weaponry; and when Fineman could not find anything wrong with what his friend said, he said; "I didn't have a good answer then for why that was a bad idea, and I don't now. It was pretty logical."
I would like to personally welcome both Fineman and Franken to the world of reality as it really is. Just as they describe it, when thinking they are describing their perception of it.
Reality is: the war was just, the goal was just and we should have used for more power than we did.
It is nice to know Franken understood that when he tried to be funny..
To understand how liberals think all one has to do is take a short test. Since Valentine's day is so good for children, because it might very well be today, the only time a child feels the comfort of being the target of affection (parents are far too busy with themselves, individually since they are not much aware that they are part of a greater thing,) and they get feel affection from chocolate, not intimacy.
The liberal 'take' on that scenario is that we have an obesity problem and that is caused by chocolate consumed on Valentine's day and the solution to obesity today is to ban Valentine's day.
The conservative take on that scenario is to say good! The child given the upbringing to be aware of her or his 'self' will be properly in control of their brain to know the difference of chocolate and pleasure, safety and womb-envy.
Valentine's day is for the children and those who are children again from love. It is good to have that concept in our culture.
Our families are suffering; our children are suffering, while our parents, teachers and future leaders and leaders in power re-do the same mutual interest or cause or media created hype: because far too many liberals are patriotic without being aware that it really means to know you are a part of a greater whole and to place that whole above yourself. We call that a country. Some call it God.
In this country, inductive logic is fatal to the culture. It was not formed by it. Socialism is formed by inductive logic. When it replaces deductive logic the result is not utopia, it is chaos and ruin. But that perception of utopia is what liberals ‘see' as the way things ‘aught to be'.
Here's to good ol' Al Franken for making me agree with my wife, (yes I got the candy before that moment).
Animals learn how to be animals from other animals. I'm saddened this generation is learning how to be adults before they have experienced how to be children, from adults who have never grown up to be one.
Liberals believe parenting is loving and nurturing and come across as possessive and controlling as well as lenient and permissive. Conservatives know parenting is teaching and leading by example and come across as possessive and controlling as well as harsh and punitive. Both sides engage inductive logic to arrive at the conclusion that Franken was being funny. Franken is only funny if he is controlling you. It is not funny if your children are controlling you.
Valentine's candy should help. How the term 'gay' ever got imposed upon happy animals is far past inductive logic. But it is Al Franken's form of thinking. (See any recent study on penguin and other animal 'gay-ness'.)
The only reason sex is pleasurable for humans (who then impose that on animals who do not know they exist let alone what sex is) is that sex is for procreation and if it was not enjoyable there would be no humans to impose inductive logic on anything. Its 'human nature'.
Evolution has a way of weeding out the stupid as well as the slow and lame. So a few Al Frankens won't hurt us as a culture for now. As long as we know it is humor and not reality.
So as the Democrats try to dismantle the defense posture of this nation at least you will know, how they reached that conclusion.
I have to go now as KD the puggle has decided to hump the big stuffed dog. No, she's not a lesbian slut. She is just very happy to be happy.