Soldier Of Fortune (Define "Fun")

 

 "30% of Americans Consult Astrology, Tarot Cards or Fortune Tellers" reports the Pew Research Center. 

    

 That's a lot, but "most say they engage in these practices for fun, rather than for insights or guidance on life decisions." Which makes me wish Pew had probed deeper, to maybe ask what's so "fun" about telling manipulative types the inner workings of your relationships and community? 

    

Or what's so "fun" about letting liars know you're gullible? 

    

 What's so "fun" about possibly helping "fortunetellers" update the information on you, kept on their own private online community bulletin boards, that they can consult to know specific things about someone, no matter which "fortuneteller" they consult in the area?

What's so "fun" about undermining science, while keeping profoundly unscientific (and sometimes destructive) practices alive?

And what's so "fun" about representing, and proving, how bad your education, and the system that produced it, is?

 

Bringing It Home (When Bill Cosby No Longer Has One)

Who agreed with Bill Cosby politically and follows the "teachings" of a guy with a 14 year old wife?

All I have to look at is two Pew Research Center polls, one saying:

“Fewer than half of Americans say the country has made substantial progress towards racial equality”

And another saying:

 “Most Americans give relatively low marks to police departments around the country for holding officers accountable for misconduct, using the appropriate amount of force, and treating racial and ethnic groups equally,” 

And I get confused what the Right's arguing over.

To Bill Cosby this is a brown photo, but it looks like Michael Brown to me

Dr. King specifically mentioned “the unspeakable horrors of police brutality” as something blacks must live with - and something we’d stopped being satisfied with - in his “I Have A Dream” speech.

Wash, rinse, repeat: Bill Cosby's guide to success

And yet, no matter what “unspeakable horrors” they know blacks are living with, there is still an expectation to - let’s say your family’s being torn apart by the larger culture - endure it with 1963's nobel stoicism; an almost-inhuman calm, for (this is rich) the sake of the majority’s shaky nerves while they further assess us for possible signs of dignity.

If Bill Cosby jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too?

The same folk who now knows they just freaked-the-fuck-out and called the first black president an “incompetent” because he wouldn’t lose his head over a single American death from ebola from Africa.

Misunderstandings aren't as common when Bill Cosby's putting his hands on you

They also got the Benghazi thing wrong - while loudly criticizing Obama for (what else?) “incompetence.”

You gotta believe it'll all be fine in the end,...Bill Cosby's been orchestrating

They, unnecessarily, made even that black man’s life infinitely more difficult, but - looking at the upside - they also got to be heard offering uninformed solutions to a non-existent dilemma, so yeah, let's hear it again for life in my never-ending NewAge America.

Visualizing the Left and Right, together, in a single physical form - after Bill Cosby 

Racially, we’re really "making progress" now:

And TMR's coming totally full-circle,...

Keeping Us Moving Is How Slow Some Of The Public Is

The feeling's mutual.

"In general, Americans don't like the idea of atheists in certain parts of public life, like politics, but they definitely don't like the idea of an atheist shacking up with their kid for life. In a new Pew survey, nearly half of respondents said they would be unhappy if a member of their immediate family married an atheist, including 73 percent of conservatives, 51 percent of moderates, and 24 percent of liberals. In fact, liberals were only slightly more likely to be unhappy if a family member married a born-again Christian."

I Want Cable In Every Room For No Extra Money Down

"I tried listening to that speech but he lost me the minute he started talking about banking transactions."

- Mitchell the Bat, on Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech

Damn that "fake" culture of victimhood! It keeps sneaking up on reality right at the moment it's denied the hardest:

"Despite large and persistent gaps between blacks and whites on virtually every indicator of economic well-being, about half of all whites say the average black person is about as well off financially or doing better than the average white person, according to a survey released last week by the Pew Research Center. 

The survey found that 53% of whites say that, on average, blacks are 'about as well off' financially as whites (43%) or say blacks are doing better (10%). 

But when you ask black Americans the same question, about six-in-ten blacks (59%) say, on average, blacks are worse off financially than whites. 

Among blacks, about a third (36%) say the average black person is doing better or about as well off as the average white person. 

So how does perception square with reality? 

On the eve of 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s historic 'I Have a Dream' speech, decades of government data finds that blacks have consistently lagged far behind whites on most indicators of economic well-being. If anything, the gaps on some key measures have grown over the years."

I consider the condescension, and shame, that's ladled out with all that - no matter how hard I work - to be just gravy,...

 

"Occult" Means "Hidden" (It's Best To Stay That Way,...)

Check, check, and double check:

America’s “Mormon moment” is over, and public opinion appears to be little changed. Eight-in-ten Americans (82%) say they learned little or nothing about the Mormon religion during the presidential campaign, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. Most Americans still are unable to correctly answer basic questions about the history and sacred texts of the Mormon Church. And three-in-ten Americans continue to consider the Mormon religion a non-Christian faith, though there appears to be some warming of attitudes toward Mormonism, especially among religious groups that voted heavily for Mitt Romney in the 2012 election.

But the man was vetted! Sure, and really well, too: 

 As the old saying goes, you can fool some of the people some of the time,…

 

BIGOTRY! BIGOTRY! BIGOTRY! BIGOTRY! BIGOTRY!

This HAS to be my Quote Of The Day:

“Cult” was the top one-word description for the Mormon religion in a Pew Research Center poll last November,...

Don't let THAT get out,...wait: 

I think it already has,...

 

Bah! In Your Face, Baby!

"According to Pew, the media ran nearly seven times as much coverage of President Bush's faith-based initiative during his first six months in office as President Obama's. And the stories on Mr. Bush's initiative were almost 50% more likely to be on the front-page, emphasizing the controversial nature of the program. The stories on Mr. Obama's initiative were buried deeper in the paper and focused on procedure. Few, if any, stories questioned whether the current president would use his office to advance a religious agenda, a major theme of coverage during the Bush ­administration."

-- Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, highlighting the NewAge Left's "spiritual" hypocrisy - again - but, this time, in The Wall Street Journal.

This Is A Dog That Don't Hunt

"Barack Obama’s approval ratings have suffered major declines. The president’s overall job approval number fell from 61% in mid-June to 54% currently. His approval ratings for handling the economy and the federal budget deficit have also fallen sharply, tumbling to 38% and 32%, respectively. Majorities now say they disapprove of the way the president is handling these two issues. The new poll also finds significant declines over the last few months in the percentage of Americans giving Obama high marks for dealing with health care, foreign policy and tax policy."

-- The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

Don't forget this article as you watch Obama's nose-dive, people:

It's a pre-election portrait of the "messiah" Americans hired to fix things - and our liberal media that chose not to better inform them.

This Is A Man's World (Women Want Superstition)

"The news consumption survey,...found that Limbaugh's audience included a greater share of men than the audiences for any other news or opinion outlet included in the survey. Fully 72% of those who said they regularly listen to Limbaugh were men while just 28% were women.

The news consumption survey found that women outnumbered men among those who regularly listen to religious radio; 69% of religious radio listeners were women, while just 31% were men."

-- The Pew Research Center For The People And The Press