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News Briefs 02-08-2010

By Katon

As Greg recently said, There’s some good in this world, Mr Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for. Not to mention, complacency will get you eaten by orcs.

H/T to xnewsnow.

Quote of the Day:

The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, in Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (1970).

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17 Comments

    1. Precisely
      I posted those articles as a reminder to people that they shouldn’t be surprised.

      Did you watch that deer video?

      Which would you say is the dumbest – the cat that was licking the fawn, the overly-domesticated dog, the deer that saw trouble where there was none, or the person who thought it would be cute to video her pets messing around with a wild animal’s baby?

  2. Politics on the Daily Grail
    The Daily Grail is my first stop every morning and has been for over a decade. I send support under my husbands’paypal. I get real turned off when the Grail gets involved in American politics. Todays teabagger type post about Obama doesn’t fall under the umbrella of topics that are definitive of the Grail. If your intent is to offend, congratulations.

    1. politics
      David Icke isn’t a tea partier. He’s a British conspiracy theorist who believes that shape-shifting extra-terrestrial Reptilians are trying to take over the world. It’s been quite a while since we’ve posted one of David Icke’s… err.. essays, and this one from 2008 was fairly-well documented, as these sorts of things go. We posted similar things about the Bush administration too.

      Sorry you were offended, but the Daily Grail has occasionally posted about politics – especially conspiracy theories about politics – since its inception nearly 12 years ago. At this very moment, the big article at the top of the DailyGrail’s homepage is The Birth of the Illuminati.

      Btw, for anyone who hasn’t read it yet, I lifted today’s chillingly-Orwellian Quote of the Day from that David Icke article.

      1. david
        If I read David Icke’s ideas right, the usual conspiratorial suspects (Illuminati and their ilk) are not the dark forces behind what is happening.

        They are just the public front for the real conspirators.

        Or do I not have enough levels of conspiracy?

        1. Yup….
          Although Ickes is pretty much accurate in describing Obama as a vacuous tool of someone like Soros, with no true experience or concept of what it means to actually LEAD, I still regard David as mentally unbalanced, and right up there with Hubbard in the kookoo-sphere.

          Even the most psychotic can have that rare moment of lucidity, and Ickes tried to warn folks about the danger of a Manchurian candidate like Obama. Still, even a broken clock is correct twice a day, and I read Ickes for the hilarity factor, much like I watched “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”.

    2. Dear Kathy…….

      Tea Bagging is a repulsive term for a gross sexual act that I had never heard of until the leftist CNN folks started their “wink wink, nudge nudge” use of the term to describe folks who supported the “Tea Party” movement.

      Using such a derogatory term is beneath anyone who graduated past the 6th grade, but, sadly, seems the norm these days for pretty much anyone registered as a Democrat or who considers themselves a “progressive” or “leftist”.

      The proper term for the grass-roots movement to rein in Congress and our current Imperial Presidency, and restore the balance of power outlined in our Constitution is “Tea Party”.

      2. Better late than never…
        [quote=Gwedd]The proper term for the grass-roots movement to rein in Congress and our current Imperial Presidency, and restore the balance of power outlined in our Constitution is “Tea Party”.[/quote]

        I’m having trouble reading this comment, the irony is so thick in the air…
        😉

      3. Dear Gwedd….
        I gather you missed yesterday’s memorandum:

        ProfessorBainbridge.com:
        It’s getting to be embarrassing to be a conservative
        […]
        Let’s tick off ten things that make this conservative embarrassed by the modern conservative movement:

        1. A poorly educated ex-sportwriter who served half of one term of an minor state governorship is prominently featured as a — if not the — leading prospect for the GOP’s 2012 Presidential nomination.

        2. Tom Tancredo calling President Obama “the greatest threat to the United States today” and arguing that he be impeached. Bad public policy is not a high crime nor a misdemeanor, and the casual assertion that pursuing liberal policies–however misguided–is an impeachable offense is just nuts. …
        .
        .
        Little Green Footballs:
        Klinghoffer Is Embarrassed by All The Craziness

        The Discovery Institute’s David Klinghoffer says it’s embarrassing to be a conservative, and he should know — as one of the most embarrassing public examples of conservative anti-science creationist bad craziness on the Internet.

        Klinghoffer titles this one: “From neocons to crazy-cons.” I shudder to think what he considers “crazy.”

    3. Lost in Translation
      [quote=Kathy]The Daily Grail is my first stop every morning and has been for over a decade. I send support under my husbands’paypal. I get real turned off when the Grail gets involved in American politics. Todays teabagger type post about Obama doesn’t fall under the umbrella of topics that are definitive of the Grail. If your intent is to offend, congratulations.[/quote]

      Thanks for your contribution, it is appreciated.

      However: I think we must be doing okay when the four most recent complaints I’ve had are (a) We’re tea-bagging Obama, (b)We’re far too supportive of Obama (c) We’re obviously anti-Global Warming and (d) We’re far too brainwashed by the whole Global Warming thing.

      For the record, I’m no fan of political posts here on TDG either…my opinion is that all politicians are lying liars out to further their own ideology, at our expense if need be, and the only way out of the current paradigm is going to be some cataclysm or revolution down the road someways. Given my pre-determined conclusion I therefore consider most posts about politicians to be a waste of time (unless they show good evidence that I am wrong). But it does interest others, including some of the TDG news admins, and they put enough passion into collecting all manner of news for us all that I think it’s fine if they include something that they’re politically passionate about. Throw in that this post is from a guy who believes in a human-skin wearing reptilian conspiracy, and it seems very Grail-like in my opinion.

      As I’ve said previously, if an item in the news briefs doesn’t sound like your cup of tea (no pun intended)…skip to the next line. We post between 5000 and 10,000 individual news briefs in a year – I’d say everyone is bound to be offended by what we post at some time.

      1. Ickes is a plagiarist
        [quote=Greg]

        Thanks for your contribution, it is appreciated.

        However: I think we must be doing okay when the four most recent complaints I’ve had are (a) We’re tea-bagging Obama, (b)We’re far too supportive of Obama (c) We’re obviously anti-Global Warming and (d) We’re far too brainwashed by the whole Global Warming thing.

        For the record, I’m no fan of political posts here on TDG either…my opinion is that all politicians are lying liars out to further their own ideology, at our expense if need be, and the only way out of the current paradigm is going to be some cataclysm or revolution down the road someways. Given my pre-determined conclusion I therefore consider most posts about politicians to be a waste of time (unless they show good evidence that I am wrong). But it does interest others, including some of the TDG news admins, and they put enough passion into collecting all manner of news for us all that I think it’s fine if they include something that they’re politically passionate about. Throw in that this post is from a guy who believes in a human-skin wearing reptilian conspiracy, and it seems very Grail-like in my opinion.

        As I’ve said previously, if an item in the news briefs doesn’t sound like your cup of tea (no pun intended)…skip to the next line. We post between 5000 and 10,000 individual news briefs in a year – I’d say everyone is bound to be offended by what we post at some time.[/quote]

        Hi Greg – There was some guy in Virginia several decades back who was going on about the Queen of England and the Illuminati – he funded his operation by defrauding a wealthy widow and was put in jail. I’ll try to locate his name. The part about the aliens is original, though.

        Personally I always considered politicians insane to a certain degree, as the money paid did not compensate for the grief. If you weren’t crazy, why would you want the job?

        But I later learned that there are some folks who take stewardship and public service as operative moral values.

        I think that the framework (language) for political thinking has been so trashed that discussion is very difficult.

        A lot of times people look for sense where there is none, a simple explanation, and construct imaginary worlds.

        Their perceptive framework determines their reality.

        In my view, there’s a lot of us around now, and mankind as a whole will have to come up with coordianted technological solutions. This applies in particular in regards to dealing with the impact hazard.

        Don’t forget how to laugh.

  3. angry deer
    The mother deer protect the fawn does not surprise me. What really bothers me is why the hell there is a dog outside not on a leash sitting near the middle of the road? Obviously he belongs to someone, the dumb lady yelling”STOP!” as if the damn deer will. Honestly I can’t stand people who let there animals outside (includes cats) without supervision. Cars, poisoned pet food left by psychos to kill pest animals, the neighbors…and their rifle, other animals wild and domesticated. The dangers are endless! It’s one thing if your pet runs away, but most of the time it’s because someone opened the door. I’ve even heard of people stealing dogs out of the back yards to sell as lab animals to corrupt medical universities!

    1. Protection
      [quote=LastLoup]The mother deer protect the fawn does not surprise me.[/quote]

      The only people surprised by this behaviour I think would be people who don’t spend much time in the country or on farms. You can have a cow with the nicest nature, once she has a calf you better watch your back if you walk near it (and if a dog goes near it, I’ve seen not just the mother, but the entire herd start attacking the dog).

      1. cows
        [quote=Greg]The only people surprised by this behaviour I think would be people who don’t spend much time in the country or on farms.[/quote]

        …and a lack of common sense…

        1. science fiction, science, bambi, deer
          Quite a few people watch science fiction and believe the science in Star Trek is real.

          Other people watch nature movies, about how mother earth naturally takes care of us, and nature is our friend, and the bears and lions and deer are gentle loving creatures.

          Sure they are gentle and loving, to their own kids. Deer and cows are stupid, but not that stupid.

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