And Thus It Begins! (jerome Corsi!)

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[s]Perpetual dumb-floopy[/s] Renowned scholar Jerome Corsi has finally connected the dots...


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[i]In a video recently uploaded to YouTube, tea party activist and author Jerome Corsi said there was evidence that President Barack Obama was married to another man before he married Michelle.[/i][/font][/color][color=#555555][font=georgia, 'palatino linotype', palatino, 'times new roman', times, serif]
[i]“The evidence, I think, is very strong,” Jerome Corsi states the video. “The question is not to condemn Obama here for being bisexual or gay, if that’s in fact what he is, but to wonder why he’s gone to the extent of hiding it, especially when he now is supporting same sex marriage what’s the duplicity? What’s the hypocrisy?”[/i][/font][/color][color=#555555][font=georgia, 'palatino linotype', palatino, 'times new roman', times, serif]
[i]Corsi has written numerous books criticizing Obama, claiming he is a radical who is not eligible to be President of the United States because he is not a natural born citizen.[/i][/font][/color]

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[the171]

Hasan! They finally know that you and Obama were lovers! you Pakistani pimp, you!

[Groo the Wanderer]

Corsi is not a tea party activist. You will not find his name registered on the rolls of any tea party organization. He is a conspiracy loon and a nut.



you need to check your sources better man.

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' timestamp='1344937212' post='2467457']
Corsi is not a tea party activist. ... He is a conspiracy loon and a nut.
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you mean there's a difference?

[Nola Seminarian]

Personally I think its funny. I read stuff like this when I need a good laugh

[Socrates]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' timestamp='1344937212' post='2467457']
Corsi is not a tea party activist. You will not find his name registered on the rolls of any tea party organization. He is a conspiracy loon and a nut.



you need to check your sources better man.
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[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1344939127' post='2467461']
you mean there's a difference?
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Hey Groo, didn't you get the memo? Every and any lunatic and crazy is [i]by definition[/i] a Tea Party activist. Actual affiliation with the Tea Party is irrelevant.

Especially if their lunacy is of a violent nature. Like that Holmes guy who shot up that movie theater in Aurora (oops, actually that was someone else, but, hey, he may as well have been!) And that nut who shot up those people in Arizona a couple winters ago (wait, he wasn't either, but the Tea Party musta made him do it! Since when did [i]the facts[/i] have to do with anything?)

In fact, if you oppose Dear Leader's policies or runaway government growth and spending, then you are a conspiracy loon and a nut, a Tea Party Activist, [i]and[/i] probably a violent psycho killer. (Totally unlike all those sane and rational Occupy Whatever kids, who are just absolutely darling.)

Stop trying so hard to think! Let your television do all your thinking for you.
Now breathe slowly, focus on Hope and Change, and chant in unison with me: "O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!"

Edited August 14, 2012 by Socrates

[Amppax]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' timestamp='1344937212' post='2467457']
Corsi is not a tea party activist. You will not find his name registered on the rolls of any tea party organization. He is a conspiracy loon and a nut.



you need to check your sources better man.
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A quick google search of his name and Tea Party shows two things: 1) This story and 2) lots of seemingly Tea Party related outlets citing Corsi on various things. So it seems like calling him a Tea Party activist is fair.

[Socrates]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1344939127' post='2467461']
you mean there's a difference?
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Is there a difference between a liberal and an idiot?

[MIKolbe]

I think idiots may have a higher IQ

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Is there a difference between a liberal and an idiot?
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Yeah. Einstein was pretty flooping stupid.

[r2Dtoo]

The evidence in my view is quite clear Jerome Corsi's mother is gay. I have undeniable proof of this, I swear.

[sixpence]

a random einstein quote from the internet that might be real???

"I believe Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence for fighting for our cause, but by non-participation of anything you believe is evil."

[Papist]

I am surprised. I would think Hasan would be jealous.

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[quote name='sixpence' timestamp='1345056366' post='2468111']
a random einstein quote from the internet that might be real???

"I believe Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence for fighting for our cause, but by non-participation of anything you believe is evil."
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Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
Let us first consider the question from the point of view of scientific knowledge. It might appear that there are no essential methodological differences between astronomy and economics: scientists in both fields attempt to discover laws of general acceptability for a circumscribed group of phenomena in order to make the interconnection of these phenomena as clearly understandable as possible. But in reality such methodological differences do exist. The discovery of general laws in the field of economics is made difficult by the circumstance that observed economic phenomena are often affected by many factors which are very hard to evaluate separately. In addition, the experience which has accumulated since the beginning of the so-called civilized period of human history has—as is well known—been largely influenced and limited by causes which are by no means exclusively economic in nature. For example, most of the major states of history owed their existence to conquest. The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
But historic tradition is, so to speak, of yesterday; nowhere have we really overcome what Thorstein Veblen called “the predatory phase” of human development. The observable economic facts belong to that phase and even such laws as we can derive from them are not applicable to other phases. Since the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development, economic science in its present state can throw little light on the socialist society of the future.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
Second, socialism is directed towards a social-ethical end. Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which to attain certain ends. But the ends themselves are conceived by personalities with lofty ethical ideals and—if these ends are not stillborn, but vital and vigorous—are adopted and carried forward by those many human beings who, half unconsciously, determine the slow evolution of society.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
For these reasons, we should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems; and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supra-national organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: “Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?”[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
I am sure that as little as a century ago no one would have so lightly made a statement of this kind. It is the statement of a man who has striven in vain to attain an equilibrium within himself and has more or less lost hope of succeeding. It is the expression of a painful solitude and isolation from which so many people are suffering in these days. What is the cause? Is there a way out?[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
It is easy to raise such questions, but difficult to answer them with any degree of assurance. I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life. Only the existence of these varied, frequently conflicting, strivings accounts for the special character of a man, and their specific combination determines the extent to which an individual can achieve an inner equilibrium and can contribute to the well-being of society. It is quite possible that the relative strength of these two drives is, in the main, fixed by inheritance. But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior. The abstract concept “society” means to the individual human being the sum total of his direct and indirect relations to his contemporaries and to all the people of earlier generations. The individual is able to think, feel, strive, and work by himself; but he depends so much upon society—in his physical, intellectual, and emotional existence—that it is impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is “society” which provides man with food, [url="http://www.surfcanyon.com/search?f=sl&q=clothing&partner=wtigck"]clothing[/url], a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present who are all hidden behind the small word “society.”[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#444444][font='Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica][size=4][background=rgb(239, 241, 241)]
It is evident, therefore, that the dependence of the individual upon society is a fact of nature which cannot be abolished—just as in the case of ants and bees. However, while the whole life process of ants and bees is fixed down to the smallest detail by rigid, hereditary instincts, the social pattern and interrelationships of human beings are very variable and susceptible to change. Memory, the capacity to make new combinations, the gift of oral communication have made possible developments among human being which are not dictated by biological necessities. Such developments manifest themselves in traditions, institutions, and organizations; in literature; in scientific and engineering accomplishments; in works of art. This explains how it happens that, in a certain sense, man can influence his life through his own conduct, and that in this process conscious thinking and wanting can play a part.[/background][/size][/font][/color]
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[Groo the Wanderer]

that was an ugly cut-n-paste