CRITICAL THINKING

nellyandlynn: You know what Onon, You can shove your BULLSHIT UP YOUR RATTY ASS, and wipe it off with your RATTLER NEWSPAPER

.....never one to be left out.

BY REQUEST

nellyandlynn: I hate people that label themselves after MY GOD, MY JESUS, Good Lord....that is pathetic of that man to name Himself Jesus Claus, Put that in your RATTLER JC

Never let it be said that we are unresponsive to our readers.

JC

TRY TREPANATION

Why, RichardCranial, why do you try and match wits with your betters? This is growing tedious. Do you think maybe we could program a bot to follow you around from room to room with pre-recorded responses? That way, when you repeat the same tired, baseless claim, the JC2000 can rebut you for the thousandth time.

RichardCranial: Employers Boost March Payrolls by 211,000.. Unemployment rate down to 4.7%.
RichardCranial: More Americans are working than ever before
RichardCranial: 30 consecutive months of uninterrupted job growth
Jesus Claus: rc, why do you say dumb things?
Jesus Claus: why why why?
RichardCranial: what was dumb?
Jesus Claus: employment is ALWAYS growing
Jesus Claus: because population is growing
Jesus Claus: new job creation rarely is negative
Jesus Claus: the issue is, did enough jobs get created to keep pace with population growth?
Jesus Claus: you need about 250k new jobs per month
Jesus Claus: we have not had 30 months of 250k job growth
Jesus Claus: hence, job creation relative to population is actually negative
Jesus Claus: and has only recently reached break even
Jesus Claus: now, stop your silliness, rc
Jesus Claus: we see right through you
RichardCranial: thatgot to go now, jc i WILL bring this up with you at a later date
Jesus Claus: don't bother, rc
Jesus Claus: you were wrong, i proved it
Jesus Claus: move on

All too easy.

JC

JESUS COMING?

.SWEETVANILLAMAMMI: JESUS U NEED TO GO FUCK YOURSELF.. U AINT GONNA GET IT ANY WAY ELSE

THE LINK ISN'T MISSING

U.S. researchers say they have found the missing evolutionary link between fish and land animals: fossils of a strange creature that crawled onto the shore about 375 million years ago.
The fossils, found on Ellesmere Island in Arctic Canada, have the skull, neck, ribs and limb bones of four-legged animals and the primitive jaw, fin and scales of fish, according to a report published today in the journal Nature.
"This really is what our ancestors looked like when they began to leave the water," according to an editorial accompanying the report.
The newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, "blurs the boundary between fish and land-living animal both in terms of its anatomy and its way of life,"

I'd like more research done on the AXYLOTL. Not a fossil, but a living example of the transition from water to land. Within the genetic code of the AXYLOTL is the secret of regenerating limbs. (and eventually organs) HERE is the secret of immortality.

MEMO TO VIC FERRARI

To: VicFerrariPoliticalGenius
Re: spinelessness

Vic, only a pussy hits "X" right as he leaves the mic.

Your pal,

JC

DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD!

Well, now that Tom DeLay has fled the field in disarray, I wonder what Vic Ferrari is going to crow about? I recall that when DeLay was originally indicted, Vic cackled, "He's not gonna step down, this is all a frame-up by Ronnie Earle!" Then, when DeLay gave up his position as Majority Leader, Vic gibbered, "He'll be back, he's not guilty, DeLay will rise again!"

Well, Vic, what do you have to say now? DeLay is giving up his reelection bid. He sees the writing on the wall. At least 2 of his former staffers have pled guilty, and Tommy boy knows that it's only a matter of time until the hammer falls. I'll bet we'll soon hear Vic screaming, "It's no big deal, it's only a few years in prison..."

JC

KNOW YOUR RACISTS!

No. 179. Collect them all!

roamer844: really gogo? Since when is some nigger out grandstanding and stirring up hate mongering on the public's airways not important?

Charming.

JC

ORGAN ISATION

ENTIRE human organs grown in the laboratory have been successfully transplanted for the first time, paving the way for a new era of "spare part" medicine.
The tissue was created by taking a small sample of bladder from a patient and growing muscle and bladder cells in a nutrient bath. The cells were then encouraged to grow over a biodegradable bladder-shaped scaffold made of collagen. After a further two months, the full organ had formed, ready for transplantation.

Scientists, marveling at how animals like salamanders regenerate lost limbs, have long toyed with the futuristic possibilities of regrowing worn-out or injured human parts. These developments go a long way towards giving paltalkers such as the famous Vic Ferrari, BruteLogic and ArchieBunker new hope for the future. Perhaps one day science will be able to regenerate the brain cells so tragically destroyed during their slide back into the primordial soup.

DISEASED MINDS UNDIAGNOSED

I quote directly. leaving further comment agape!
nellyandlynn: and People are getting sick here from them bringing over Cockroaches, and LICE to OUR AMERICAN CHILDREN

eileen7348: We have outbreaks of lice too.............every year and it wasn't until just recently that Mexican children have been in our schools.

eileen7348: I wonder where the lice came before that.

nellyandlynn: there are schools in MY city that us WHITE AMERICANS have been taking them out of , because of these Dirty Mexicans

POISON PUP: the good ol roach has invaded america, until then america didnt have a germ

nellyandlynn: Hey, I have hired People that told me that they worked cleaning apartments....and were APPALLED by the Apartments that they had to clean once a Mexican family moved out of after only living there 6 MONTHS, THIS IS A FACT

nellyandlynn: Voo has every right to BE PISSED at MEXICO, and so MANY OTHER BLACK AMERICANS, because MEXICO'S EL PRESIDENTO said......The Mexicans will take the AMERICA Jobs that Our Black AMERICANS WON'T TAKE, and that was FUCKING WRONG OF THAT MAN TO SAY

drclean: WE CAN SET UP MOTION SENSORS AND AUTO MATIC MACHINE GUNS

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

You know the opposition is out of ideas when they can't even answer a simple question for fear it will bash through their ideology like a baseball through a plate glass window.

I just spent a few minutes trying to get resident rodentbrain MosesKnows to answer the following simple query:

Jesus Claus: MosesKnows, Does the US support Iraq's democratically elected leader?

Now, over the last few weeks, this has become a tricky question to answer. MK has been a full-throated Iraqi-ish patriot, clanging his gong and proclaiming the wonderfulness of Iraqi democrary. Isn't it grand, Moses oozes, how the Iraqis voted for their own government! What a triumph for peeance and freeanc, Moses burbled. Oh, for shame, loathsome liberals, shame on you for shitting all over this magnificent new democracy! Eh....not so much:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29 — Facing growing pressure from the Bush administration to step down, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari of Iraq vigorously asserted his right to stay in office on Wednesday and warned the Americans against interfering in the country's political process.
...

The prime minister made his remarks in an hourlong interview at his home, a Saddam Hussein-era palace with an artificial lake at the heart of the fortified Green Zone. He spoke in a languorous manner, relaxing in a black pinstripe suit in a dim ground-floor office lined with Arabic books like the multivolume "World of Civilizations."

"There was a stand from both the American government and President Bush to promote a democratic policy and protect its interests," he said, sipping from a cup of boiled water mixed with saffron. "But now there's concern among the Iraqi people that the democratic process is being threatened."

"The source of this is that some American figures have made statements that interfere with the results of the democratic process," he added. "These reservations began when the biggest bloc in Parliament chose its candidate for prime minister."

Mr. Jaafari is at the center of the deadlock in the talks over forming a new government, with the main Kurdish, Sunni Arab and secular blocs in the 275-member Parliament staunchly opposing the Shiite bloc's nomination of Mr. Jaafari for prime minister.

Senior Shiite politicians said Tuesday that the American ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, had weighed in over the weekend, telling the leader of the Shiite bloc that President Bush did not want Mr. Jaafari as prime minister. That was the first time the Americans had openly expressed a preference for the post, the politicians said, and it showed the Bush administration's acute impatience with the political logjam.

Wow. The Bush administration, undermining democracy? Say it ain't so, Moses!

JC

WHAT THE....?

Well Corker Crikey! Blow me down! strike me Pink! and stone the bloody Crows all at the same time. In the immortal words of the Crocodile-lunatic Steve Irwin: "....Have a go at this little sheila wouldya?..." The most incredulous and baffling beyond belief statement occurred the other day on a chat program by the trollop that by comparison would make Camilla Parker-Bowles appear with all the credibility of a 2 pound prostitute.. I speak of course of the Dope on a rope known as JesSeado.The lame brain nincompoop that coined the famous phrase....: "i....,i.....,i...,i....,i, you know? ..? "
I was as stunned as a mullet on valium when I saw just 3 words typed during World series Chat debates about worlds worst Presidents. She just has to take the cake, the plate and the whole frikkin table for this one:

JesSeado: Bush never lies

Well... Gee ...I guess she should know The Horses ass had become the horses mouth in one short statement. I was speechless for about 4 days afterward. I found my brain laughing at random moments in my daily life from the idiocies carefully formulated behind such a obviously ignorant statement. Gee.. A trollop being paid $14 US an hour to sit on her big fat arse surely is being paid too much to come up with no brainers like that one. I began to ponder (as one does) What would have caused such a statement to come into being. I quickly scribbled a list at work, (Between taking river samples and trying Mrs Whittles' freshly baked lamingtons) to try and seek answers to this great mystery that indeed would leave even a great scientist dribbling his froot loops trying to work out such an illogical statement. It simply defies the laws of probability that Stupidity in a human could have developed to such a level. My work on this statement was tireless. I eventually after a week of serious thought came up with the following. JesSeado would have said such a thing because:
1) She is paid to say such lies
2) She firmly believes such lies
3) She was raised as a redneck with such lies
4) She has brain damage
5) She is just plain and simply stupid
OR:
6) A carefully combined cocktail of the above Selections.

I insisted to my brain that it must be answer 6) In order to sleep peacefully and stop waking up in controlled fits of laughter and incredulous spasms. However I have stopped myself from debating such bull with her ever again. And just whack the lamebrain on ignore instead. For those of you who havent seen my Mainstream Politics Site from a Year ago.. Here is the MP3 of JesSeado (impersonation I made). Its funny how she STILL waffles the same garbage one year on and hasn't been handed a new script in that time since. Still relevant today as it was a year, or two (or 3) ago.
http://www.geocities.com/nephilim_70/JessSeado.mp3

"Better to live in peaceful ignorance of the ignorant than for oneself to be caught up in total ignorance with one as ignorant such as that...."
Nephilim_70 B.B. B. B.B.
(Boogie Boogie in a Big Bloody Barrell)

SORRY

Sorry about the light posting the past few days. Last week I caught some uber-mutated illness, and spent the weekend sick as a dog. Now, a few days later, I'm only sick as a hamster, or a mid-size gerbil. So that's good news. Talk to you soon.

JC

EXTRASTUPID PERCEPTION

Holy shit, you will not believe what I just heard in 2 Way. Hondo_1887 was on the mic, saying some ludicrous nonsense about how the reporters aren't reporting all the schools being painted in Iraq (hey, who can paint schools when they keep finding decapitated corpses and getting shot at and blown up). Hondo even had some weird theory about why Bush was secretly confabbing with teporters off the record.

But get this: as Hondo was telling us about how clever his idea was, he started chuckling a little to himself, like a drooling infant with a favorite toy. And then he said the following, I kid you not:

"Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is like tuned into my brain waves. Like, I'll think something, and the next day, it's like Rush heard my thoughts, and then he's talking about it."

Now, some of you may look at that and say, "Oh, well, he's just saying that like it's a coincidence, like the way two people will think of the same thing at the same time sometimes." Let me tell you, friend, that was not what Hondo was talking about. His voice took on kind of a dreamy, far-off quality as he reminisced about how, one time, Bill Clinton didn't use some idea in one of his speeches because he, Hondo, had thought of it first and somehow communicated it to Rush through brain waves.

I don't think I can accurately convey just how creepy Hondo sounded. This is someone who clearly has delusions of his own grandeur. He was speaking about his interactions, his calls and conversation with Rush, as if he were a central player in this whole drama. Utterly mesmerizing. And yet, strangely entertaining. I sure hope there aren't any tall, easily barricaded clock towers around where Hondo lives...

JC

PUT A MUZZLE ON THIS GUY

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603130003

Please watch the video clip of Bill O'Liar attacking some of the greatest politcal minds over the past 2 years. This man is a world class hypocrite because he will use his radio and TV shows to attack people and I'm not talking about just the run of the mill "he is no good" type of of insults. I'm talking about death threats, threats of bodly harm and other character assassination that go beyond the limits of good taste. Also, he likes to have guests on that make him look like a God and that have weak arguments. For such a "fine and upstanding" tv network like fox and westwood one who broadcasts his radio stations, they should feel ashamed at his actions.

Another thing that pisses me off is when he is on the recieving end of the same abuse, his answer to that is to threaten legal action and more slander. Boy, what a piece of work this guy is and it makes me sick to see him abuse his clout like that. His "NO SPIN ZONE" is making me dizzy and Im fed up with it and I think it is time to take him to task and tell him to SHUT UP for once in his miserable life.

Once again it has been your pleasure,
Z

YOU ARE THERE

From our correspondent with the Nephilim _ 70 News Network, we get this rare candid shot of PalTalk chatmaven High_Falutin24:



An intrepid reporter for NNN also managed to get this photo of the interior of Vic Ferrari's trailer. We heard later that the reporter received a Tetanus shot and will likely make a full recovery:

HALF A HOOF AT TWICE THE PRICE

I took a look at The Tattler's latest message from the planet of pointless platitudes after reading vacreeper's newest masterpiece. (excellently done, sir, and a smoother razor-slicing of puffed-up pedantry we've scarcely seen) Tattle-boy certainly made me laugh when I saw he was singing the praises of Hofbrau the Inept. What strikes me as odd, though, is how any normal, intelligent, nonideologue could possibly consider Hofbrau a serious political thinker.

Hof is one of the lowest breed of debaters, the post-Descartean radical doubter. If you told Hoffy that the sun would rise tomorrow, he'd ask for proof. If you tell him Hitler killed 6 million jews, he'll ask for a list. He turns every straightforward debate into a slog through gummed-up glass shards. I've long since tossed that cretinous asshole with cerebral atrophy over the side of the ship. And for The Tattler to try and rehabilitate Hof's image isn't like the blind leading the blind, it's like the blind dragging a corpse. Of a rhinoceros.

JC

ANOTHER STRAWMAN COURTESY OF THE TATTLER

Today in the Tattler:

“An intelligent person lives in accordance with their beliefs…”

This would be a serious boner had it come from a reputable source; but coming from the blog modeled after the Rona Barrett school of slime and sleaze “journatainment” where fact and fancy are often fused into meaningless, valueless bundles of fluff, our sister publication leaves us, once again, scratching our scalps and wondering: What the Fuck?

Surely the Tattler doesn’t subscribe to its own patently illogical poppycock! It does; however, beg a number of questions: Is the converse of that argument true? Do all ignorant people live in discordance with their beliefs? Are intelligent persons the only people with beliefs? Are there any ignorant people with beliefs? Are the beliefs of ignorant people ignorant beliefs? Are the beliefs of intelligent people intelligent beliefs? Can intelligent people have ignorant beliefs? Can ignorant people have intelligent beliefs? Can an intelligent person be ignorant? Can an ignorant person be intelligent? Do all intelligent people have beliefs? Do all intelligent persons live in accordance with their beliefs? Was the Unabomber intelligent – he lived in accordance with his beliefs? There is no clarity whatsoever to this most inane of statements.

What is clear is the Tattler has ingenuously whored itself out to the world of irrational thinkers. In proclaiming itself a neocon standard bearer, the Tattler trivializes the importance of using logic in debate, blurs the distinction between truth and the nonsensical ramblings of gutless cowards, and panders to those who would summarily surrender their integrity, their honor, and their rights to Fascist pigs intent upon destroying our Constitution and our nation – without so much as whimper.

If the Tattler were informed he would understand that irrationalism is a crucial element of conservativism, and he would disparage the sophistical neocon palaver that Fascism/Nazism is a liberal, left-wing weltanschauung. He would know that National Socialism is the Fascist moniker for nationalism. If the Tattler were intelligent, he would know that conservative ideals like nationalism, pride, and patriotism are not founded on any logical principles, but are purely emotional enterprises, and that emotions are irrational thoughts with little to no probative value insofar as intellect is concerned. Neocons fool themselves into believing they are arguing facts, when in fact they spend the vast majority of their time defending their positions by supplanting facts with fallacy tempered with disingenuous appeals to emotions. If the tattler were informed, he would realize that it is liberalism that seeks to shed the coil of innate ignorance, and that conservatism is the philosophy that is antagonistic toward enlightenment and progress. If the Tattler knew what he was talking about, he would realize those claiming to be blow-hard conservatives are nothing of the sort - but that they are actually narcissistic closet-liberals who erroneously believe George Bush and his retinue really care about them and their well-being - that they are faux-conservatives who swoon at hearing Rush Limbaugh and his ilk spew their acrimony and propaganda - that they are so giddy with power they fail to see how they hasten the creeping pall of Fascism.

The fact of the matter is the Tattler made an utterly ludicrous statement. Why? Because it sounds good; it makes his neocon fans chortle and huff a bit and gives them something to wallow in besides their own feces. It fits in well with the slick and slime the Tattler tries to pass off as polemics and critical thinking. We here at the Rattler didn't fall for the schtik. And to think we expected more of the Tattler! Ha!

But the Tattler is right about one thing: There is nothing more freightening than ignorance in action.

Vacreeper2003

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT

Via AMERICAblog, a new personality study confirms what a few days in PT would make abundantly clear:

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.

A few decades later, Block followed up with more surveys, looking again at personality, and this time at politics, too. The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective.

Block admits in his paper that liberal Berkeley is not representative of the whole country. But within his sample, he says, the results hold. He reasons that insecure kids look for the reassurance provided by tradition and authority, and find it in conservative politics. The more confident kids are eager to explore alternatives to the way things are, and find liberal politics more congenial.

In a society that values self-confidence and out-goingness, it's a mostly flattering picture for liberals. It also runs contrary to the American stereotype of wimpy liberals and strong conservatives.

Of course, if you're studying the psychology of politics, you shouldn't be surprised to get a political reaction. Similar work by John T. Jost of Stanford and colleagues in 2003 drew a political backlash. The researchers reviewed 44 years worth of studies into the psychology of conservatism, and concluded that people who are dogmatic, fearful, intolerant of ambiguity and uncertainty, and who crave order and structure are more likely to gravitate to conservatism. Critics branded it the "conservatives are crazy" study and accused the authors of a political bias.
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I can already hear Vic whining...

JC

HONDO NEEDS HIS DIAPER CHANGED

Just now in 2 Way, Hondo_1887 threw a whiny temper tantrum and stormed out of the room like a petulant child. It seems that Hondo came up with the astounding idea that terrorists pay attention to and try to use the media to spread fear and ideology. Stop the presses! What an amazing revelation! Terrorists using media to spread fear? Pretty soon you'll be believing that drivrs use gasoline to make cars go, or that Republicans use lies to fool voters. Inconceivable.

In service to his theory, Hondo asked for, and received permission from avpete, to play a short Q & A from, I believe, MSNBC. So, the anchor asked the reporter if the terrorists manipulated the media and planned attacks accordingly. The reporter gave a few sentences of his answer, then said, "...there is some coordination, however..." at which point Hondo abruptly stopped the tape. What's this? That reporter was about to give some contradictory information, but Hondo cut off the tape.

I asked Hondo to play the entirety of the tape, but he ignored me. Pretty soon, the room was clamoring in text to hear the whole tape. avpete dotted Hondo and asked him politely to play the portion of the tape after the, "However..." When Hondo retook the mic, he was livid. You could hear the quaver in his voice as he rhetorically stomped his feet at the outrage and injustice of it all. He was sniffling back tears as he pouted in impotent rage. Then, as we laughed, he left the room in a huff.

Hondo began his time in the room telling us that his political opponents are actually all plants and spies working for the terrorists. That's right, we're not really Americans who think this president and his party are a bunch of corrupt liars who are hurting this nation. No, in Hondo's diseased mind, we are all a shadowy cabal bent on undermining America. And nothing stands between the US and total destruction except for SuperHondo and his Wingnut Power Pals. Who knew that it would be so easy to hurt his wittle feelings? If Hondo is our last line of defense against the terroist menace, we're in serious trouble.

JC