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lot about the liberal opinion of the people they pretend to serve and honor the term useful idiot comes to mind in political jargon it is a term often attributed to vladimir lenin for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause the democratic mind even has a greater disdain for the intelligence of republican voters according to chris mooney book the republican brain and other scientific ideologues they are convinced that conservatives suffer from a genetic cognitive impairment that causes them to favor small government so all this is in the dna this is an observation that only a left wing ideologue could fathom stupidity has always been part and parcel of the american character democracy could not live without it starting with christopher columbus who discovered america while he was looking for india which happened to be 1000s of miles in the other direction and then there was the fatal stupidity of george armstrong custer who led the 7 th cavalry into a trap of several thousand indians at the little big horn i need only mention the names of a few of our presidents such as nixon carter and obama to show how stupidity has reigned in the white house stupidity is also at the core of our comedy entertainment let s face it stupidity is funny very funny in the best comedy teams in history from abbott and costello martin and lewis laurel and hardy and burns and allen the one who always got the laughs was the stupid one not the serious straight man the lovable stupid character forrest gump captivated the hearts but maybe not the minds with esoteric statements like stupid is as stupid does many people may think old yankee catcher yogi berra is stupid for saying things like when you come to a fork in the road take it or i observed a lot by watching the man has an innate brilliance that someone like dr gruber could appreciate and berra has written far many more best selling books than gruber stand up comedian ronald dee ron white is best known for his show you can t fix stupid of course when obama leaves office we hope to fix some of his stupid mistakes serious actor jeff daniels is reprising his role as harry dunne in dumb and dummer why is this actor renown for his roles in gettysburg or his award winning hbo show the newsroom doing it ostensibly to demonstrate his great range as an actor this sequel led all films its first weekend having grossed 38 1 million in revenues stupidity is as american as apple pie but for those that may still think that being stupid or laughing at stupid jokes is somehow un american i refer to a couple of scientific studies that have conclude that stupidity is just another viral disease researchers from johns hopkins university and the university of nebraska have discovered a virus that makes you just a little bit dumber the scientists stumbled upon the previously unknown stupidity virus in the throat cultures of healthy subjects during a completely unrelated experiment the 44 of people who tested positive for the virus performed seven to nine points lower on iq tests that measured attention span and how fast and accurately people process visual information when the nebraska researchers injected the virus into the digestive systems of mice they got the same result the rodents blundered around mazes appeared flummoxed by new toys and seemed oblivious to new entryways in and out of their cages of course as is true in all science except studies on global warming opposing views are always expected in forbes magazine purdue university virologist david sanders said he would need to see this replicated before he d believe the claim the claim went viral in a manner of hours as wired put it researchers at the john hopkins medical school and the university of nebraska have discovered a virus that infects our brains and makes us more stupid what s misleading here is the story never reveals who is being quoted saying makes us more stupid the implication is that it s the scientists or someone in authority but there s no such phrase in the paper or the press release from johns hopkins university nor does the story seem to include an interview the source may have been newsweek with its story american researchers discover stupidity virus they really don t speculate as to how this is transmitted and whether we should be quarantined after watching reruns of the three stooges or peewee s playhouse but we should be prohibited from laughing in someone s face all things considered jonathan gruber s blatant arrogance adds yet another chapter to the growing saga of the obama administration and its distrust and contempt for the american people in exposing his own ignorance and abject stupidity by jeopardizing a multi million dollar gig with the federal government as one of their most brilliant health care expert gruber openly revealed the liberal contempt for the american people his words demonstrate clearly that doctrinaire liberals condescend to the american voter they secure their own lucrative livelihoods through mendacity deception false promises and character assassination it is a formula that they have employed in some manner since the days of fdr and harry hopkins their overt elitism is a standard characteristic of liberals not only in government and academia but also in its allies in the mainstream media as ell as their capitalistic cronies they all dine from the same trove of arrogance greed and lust for power this is not a new idea liberalism as it is practiced today traces its roots back to an early christian heresy gnosticism dates back just after the beginning of the christian church gnosticism has affected the culture and church of the time and has evolved over the centuries into the marxism and liberalism of today the word gnosticism comes from the greek word gnosis which means knowledge liberals under its influence are often blinded by their own elite confidence in what they deem to be their intellectual superiority to people who work for a living they erroneously believe that their command of enlightened ideas unfathomed by the masses privileges them to sit in rule of their subjects obama keeps reminding the american people that he is not a king or a prince left unsaid is that he wishes he were with unrestricted use of the executive order he still may get his wish i would not be surprised to find a dog eared copy of the prince by his bedside as for professor gruber it appears as the joke immanent in american stupidity falls squarely on his slumping shoulders it has been nice knowing you johnnie posted in uncategorized tags abbott and costello dumb and dumber to gnosticism jonathan gruber stupidity virus useful idiot uncertain truths november 5 2014 3 comments according to a recent issue of the ny times clive james is dying but he s pretty good natured about it once a three fisted drinker and smoker mr james 75 was found to have leukemia in 2010 with the added complications of emphysema and kidney failure his condition is irrevocable james is a polymath who found his way from a poor sewer free suburb of sydney australia to become a beloved writer entertainer and figure in british life what interested me was his relaxed and almost casual way of looking back at his life while at the same time contemplating what the future might have in store from him as the times so lyrically put it he can look back with astonishment and amusement and look forward with a trenchant eye i am amazed at how much at peace and detached he is from the reality that his life is nearing its completion my entire life i was taught either overtly or subtly to fear my death because of the serious judgments that followed each human being s death of course this was during the old days that the proponents of vatican ii have deliberately sought to stricken from the church s history their laudable goal was to replace it with a kinder gentler church that appealed to more people and did not tax them with too many rules and strictures ever since the 1960 s i have found my soul torn in two between these two sales pitches while the one uses hell and damnation to terrify and frighten us the other uses a big easy way of getting saved without a great deal of effort on our part while the 10 commandments reigned in one the corporal works of mercy seem to have the big edge in the other the first seemed to imply that only a small percentage of god s creation actually get into heaven their sears catalogue of serious sins seemed to second that opinion when you are sixteen years old and have a body flowing with relentless hormones a pretty girl can easily morph into a vehicle headed down the road to hell and damnation the new church has almost eliminated the word sin from our vocabulary this explains why so few people feel the need to go to confession or what we now call reconciliation i go twice a year just to play it safe while the first attitude has given us generations of stiff sour and basically neurotic catholics the other has opened the gates for an exodus of faithful who seek an even easier fulfillment in another religion it has also given the breakdown of marriage and the family sexual promiscuity and a confusion of what even constitutes a marriage that pretty girl who used to turn my head is now seen as a more aggressive object of pleasure and delight and she knows it this conflict still tears at my innards sometimes the first left me with a terrible unease that i do not miss at all while the second one gives me not much more than uncertain truths supported by a world of doubts james clive does not seem bothered by any of that he simply says i should have been a more honorable man but the regrets don t overwhelm me he said they re such a good subject for writing my bifurcated situation is akin to the broadway musical a year with frog and toad written by brothers robert music and willie reale book and lyrics based on the frog and toad children s stories written and illustrated by arnold lobel the musical follows the woodland adventures of two amphibious friends a worrywart toad and a perky frog with their assorted colorful hopping crawling and flying companions over the course of a year at times my old faith makes me fearful like mr toad and my new faith brings out more the joy and wonder of being alive both seem valid to me i am fearful of letting go of the former while frustrated for not being able to fully enjoy the latter on a personal note my 12 year old granddaughter will play the frog in an upcoming st louis presentation of this musical to alleviate my stress i have taken it upon myself to study for the most important final exams of my life i am not kidding when i say i still study for everything including my thrice annual blood test james did address his own eschatology saying an afterlife both virgil and dante set some of their greatest work in another world he replied but shakespeare didn t and his is the attitude i prefer there is enough of heaven in a hedgerow and enough of hell in the perfidy of man i believe in heaven and hell but with a bit of a twist i have written several times in this space about heaven and my high hopes to be able to walk one of its beaches someday and embrace all the people who have meant sometime special to me in my life including even those who may have shared nothing more than a long conversation my view on hell is optimistically cautious an old jesuit friend once told me it was two weeks after his ordination in 1969 that as catholics we had to believe in a hell but we did not have to believe that anyone other than lucifer and his minions ever went there i like the sound of that because it makes a certain kind of sense other than mary and jesus the angels are the only ones who had a perfect choice between good and evil i do not believe human beings always fully understand the gravity of their decisions oh we may feel that something may not be right about an action but under the pressure of any moment most people can think of a plausible rationalization that would provide a reasonable doubt in god s moral court and even if i am wrong the eternal part of hell is the game breaker lucifer was so proud that literature has quoted him as wont to say that he would rather reign forever in hell than serves for one day in heaven this tells me that he knew the score on his level how many human beings ever get that clear a choice again this is one of my uncertain truths purgatory makes the most sense to me we are all imperfect beings the book of genesis and any daily newspapers attest to that fact we must be perfect to see god and unless we have suffered the most excruciating pain imaginable that is not going to happen to explore what my vision of purgatory is i wrote gaby s people for the local stage i hope instead of the tradition habitat of punishment and suffering for sin my purgatory is more to enlighten the person of his or her weaknesses and negative behaviors that separate him from their final destination using a massage spa as my venue for healing understanding and reconciliation with the absolute truth of one s life i found it more consistent with my understanding of god as all merciful and all loving god i saw it as a place of forgiveness self awareness and redemption rather than a place of pain and temporal torment it is probably the place most people will wind up after this life is done most people i know never think of any of the above when their time comes they seem to easily adapt an attitude like clive james confidant self satisfied and ignorant of what may follow i don t know if that s the kind of bliss i long for but that s just another one of my uncertain truths gaby s people is under competitive consideration by a local theater group if anyone would like to read the play just contact me and i will send you an e copy posted in uncategorized tags free will frogs and toads gaby s people lucifer purgatory about author after graduating from holy cross bill borst earned an ma in asian history from st john s university and a ph d in american history from st louis university 1972 a former new yorker he taught for many years in the st louis area while also hosting a weekly radio show on wgnu from 1984 2006 he currently is a regular substitute for conservative phyllis schlafly on ksiv radio 1320 he is the author of two books on social history liberalism fatal consequences and the scorpion and the frog a natural conspiracy he just retired as the features editor of the mindszenty foundation monthly report in his 11 years from 2003 2013 he wrote nearly 130 essays on catholic culture and world affairs many in st louis also know him as the baseball professor because of a course that he offered at maryville college from 1973 74 it was arguably the first fully accredited baseball history course in the midwest the author of several short books on the old st louis browns he started the st 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