Comments on: Blarney http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: maryland state income tax return http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-58004 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:57:47 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-58004 <strong>maryland state income tax return</strong> can you provide more info ? maryland state income tax return

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]]> by: The Mahablog » Giant Bloodsucking Worms http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-42133 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:37:41 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-42133 [...] Once again, I am dumbfounded &#8212; which is what happens when you have found stuff that&#8217;s dumb &#8212; at how little the righties understand the history of Iraq&#8217;s WMDs and by their utter inability to comprehend linear time. (See also, from the Maha archives, &#8220;Jeez, Righties Are So Gullible.&#8221;) [...] […] Once again, I am dumbfounded — which is what happens when you have found stuff that’s dumb — at how little the righties understand the history of Iraq’s WMDs and by their utter inability to comprehend linear time. (See also, from the Maha archives, “Jeez, Righties Are So Gullible.”) […]

]]> by: The Mahablog » The Persistence of Stupid http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-17268 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:23:17 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-17268 [...] And speaking of coincidences &#8212; what a coincidence that John Negroponte had a hand in this! Negroponte was also behind the last March&#8217;s &#8220;junk intelligence&#8221; escapade, also known as Dumbo Document Dump; see here, here, here, here, here, and here. [...] […] And speaking of coincidences — what a coincidence that John Negroponte had a hand in this! Negroponte was also behind the last March’s “junk intelligence” escapade, also known as Dumbo Document Dump; see here, here, here, here, here, and here. […]

]]> by: The Mahablog » More Junk Intelligence http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5293 Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:45:08 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5293 [...] March 17 &#8212; &#8220;Blarney&#8221; [...] […] March 17 — “Blarney” […]

]]> by: No More Mr. Nice Guy! http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5249 Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:33:22 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5249 Happy P-day, Maha! Happy P-day, Maha!

]]> by: Steve from Canuckistan http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5248 Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:05:57 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5248 Maha, excellent post and great comments. I don't mean to sound like a conspiracist but this reminds me of the book Animal Farm which “remains an excellent account, set in allegory, of the Russian Revolution and the Communist experiment of the early twentieth century. Its warning, of the dangers in naivety and second-hand thinking are as relevant now, as they were then”. http://www.optimnem.co.uk/reviews/animal_farm.htm Maha, excellent post and great comments. I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracist but this reminds me of the book Animal Farm which “remains an excellent account, set in allegory, of the Russian Revolution and the Communist experiment of the early twentieth century. Its warning, of the dangers in naivety and second-hand thinking are as relevant now, as they were then”.
http://www.optimnem.co.uk/reviews/animal_farm.htm

]]> by: The Mahablog » Junk Intelligence http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5235 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:29:43 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5235 [...] I want to revisit the last post, because I have realized a couple of things since I wrote it that change the emphasis, so to speak. There is something way screwy going on that is way screwy even by Bush Administration standards. [...] […] I want to revisit the last post, because I have realized a couple of things since I wrote it that change the emphasis, so to speak. There is something way screwy going on that is way screwy even by Bush Administration standards. […]

]]> by: Anonymous http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5234 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:53:44 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5234 Yea this is all smoke and mirriors and the wmd was bogus but this is like pissing on a grass fire in a high wind. Go read Glen Greenwald about the new Enabling legislation that makes it legal to spy on anything anywhere anytime- dictatorial power is being handed over with a smile. It is time the issue of whether we have afuture or not is addressed. Yea this is all smoke and mirriors and the wmd was bogus but this is like pissing on a grass fire in a high wind. Go read Glen Greenwald about the new Enabling legislation that makes it legal to spy on anything anywhere anytime- dictatorial power is being handed over with a smile. It is time the issue of whether we have afuture or not is addressed.

]]> by: The American Street » Blog Archive » Kissing the Blarney Stone http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5231 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:56:53 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5231 [...] It&#8217;s just another neocon-job, as Barbara O&#8217;Brien sees it. [...] […] It’s just another neocon-job, as Barbara O’Brien sees it. […]

]]> by: alyosha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5230 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:54:53 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/03/17/blarney/#comment-5230 It's very intriguing to me the "cognitive research" you're doing maha, about how righties "think", and I use the word loosely. What I wonder about is whether this type of thing has ever occurred on the left. The defunct Soviet Union is a mirror for our times, how a leftist ideology took over and ran that country into the ground. I'm certain that loads of otherwise intelligent people in the USSR committed mental errors similar to those we constantly see in our mental landscape, by the right. The common factors between right wing USA and left wing USSR, seem to be excessive faith in a particular ideology (doesn't matter what it is), and an unwillingness to apply critical thinking skills to this faith, either individually or structurally by the mass media. Throw in a personality cult, where a leader such a Bush or a Stalin embodies the ideology, and it only compunds things, making it harder to get free of the mental trap practitioners find themselves in. There's gotta be a whole subfield of psychology or sociology that deals with this, and a lot of PhD theses underway, since the two countries, USA and USSR present so many ripe comparisons. It’s very intriguing to me the “cognitive research” you’re doing maha, about how righties “think”, and I use the word loosely.

What I wonder about is whether this type of thing has ever occurred on the left. The defunct Soviet Union is a mirror for our times, how a leftist ideology took over and ran that country into the ground. I’m certain that loads of otherwise intelligent people in the USSR committed mental errors similar to those we constantly see in our mental landscape, by the right.

The common factors between right wing USA and left wing USSR, seem to be excessive faith in a particular ideology (doesn’t matter what it is), and an unwillingness to apply critical thinking skills to this faith, either individually or structurally by the mass media. Throw in a personality cult, where a leader such a Bush or a Stalin embodies the ideology, and it only compunds things, making it harder to get free of the mental trap practitioners find themselves in.

There’s gotta be a whole subfield of psychology or sociology that deals with this, and a lot of PhD theses underway, since the two countries, USA and USSR present so many ripe comparisons.

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