Just heard Chuck Norris on MSNBC bragging that Huckabee executed MORE people than Romney!

[MoonRiver]

:puke::puke::puke:

[babylonsister]

1. Oh my. Desperate times... nt

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Since we don't have the DP in MA, I assume

that's true. :crazy:

[MoonRiver]

10. Didn't Romney try to reinstate the dp?

Maybe Norris was making a sly reference to that failed attempt? :shrug:

[bicentennial_baby]

11. IIRC, yes, and failed

[MoonRiver]

12. Good for MA!

:thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

3. Kill, kill, kill!!!

Why in the hell are Republicans so kill-happy?

[Skidmore]

4. Strange time to make those types of arguments...

Iowa doesn't have capital punishment.

[Cha]

17. Well, then that was an even more

dipshit thing to gloat about.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Erg. What is wrong with that guy? Guess he played at being a Texas Ranger a little too long

[Javaman]

39. He doesn't play a texas ranger, texas rangers play him. nt

[Justitia]

6. Sweet Jesus, what the fuck do we even do with that claim???? -eom

[gateley]

7. Jesus must be proud of his disciple. nt

[VP505]

8. Now there is something for

a good Christian to write home and brag about. :sarcasm:

[pingzing58]

9. When will we realize that Norris is an actor/idiot who is so far to the right as to make him an

extremist. Idiots for listening to Mr. Idiot Norris!

[Javaman]

40. chuck isn't an extremist, extremists try to emulate him!

LOL

[AndyA]

13. Chuck Norris.

Second rate actor with more hair growing on his shoulders than brain cells in his head.

Enough said.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

21. If Chuck Norris didn't drive an ice cream truck made of human skulls...

...I might be worried about this.

[fascisthunter]

28. So He Does Drive around in an Ice Cream Truck with Skulls....

hmmmmmm

[Didereaux]

14. wooses all of them Dubya killed off more in 6 mos as gov than those wimps full terms

men, women, imbeciles, all of 'em...no damn reprieves or stays either! the chimp is good I tell ya. And judst look he's killed off almost 4000 soldiers and maimed 20000 or so in just 4 short years. Good I tell ya, goooood! The repugs have a new living gayawd!

[Cha]

15. chuck norris is a barf bag.. If I

see his mug on tv when I'm flipping the 'mote he gets zapped before I have time to reflect on what a clueless asshole he is.

[Javaman]

42. remember chuck's roundhouse kicks travels at the speed of light

so even before you click the channel he will kick you. LOLOLOL

[pleah]

16. These right wing religious nuts sure like to kill things and brag about it.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. Chronic Rusk

needs a frontal lobotomy

[Neecy]

19. the entire interview was appalling

Here's a gem from it (paraphrased):

"Oh, and tell Romney that LA doesn't have a caucus - it's the LA primary!" (said very seriously)

He also used a couple of words that don't appear in any dictionary on the planet. The guy is really dumb.

[ORDagnabbit]

20. chuck norris isnt even a half way decent martial artist....

I've never liked that man...he's a blowhard who couldnt fight his way out of a wet paper sack so of course he's popular in the same way that coward john wayne was popular....purely by the magic of the camera.

[harun]

24. He plays a tough guy on TV, just like B*sh does (n/t)

[Javaman]

43. wet paper sacks envy chucks roundhouse kicks. LOL nt

[JDPriestly]

22. What a Christian thing to do! (sarcasm)

[pacalo]

23. The man who "doesn't understand evolution, despite access to mirrors."

http://www.buffalobeast.com/122/50mostloathsome2007.html

[MoonRiver]

25. Unbelievably clueless loser.

If the Republics nominate this neanderthal they are hopeless.

[fascisthunter]

27. Be Careful... Be Nice to the Repubics (nt)

[MoonRiver]

29. Huh?

[fascisthunter]

30. It Was a Joke Regarding a Thread

where people were telling people to lay off the stereotypes of republicans.

[MoonRiver]

32. I see. Thanks for the clarification.

Posts are difficult to interpret sometimes without the relevant context.

But, but why was somebody on DU posting a thread saying that we should lay off stereotyping Republics?

Unless....

[NNN0LHI]

26. Yea but the number of straight teeth in Huckavees mouth is less than Romneys

Like none.

Don

[Javaman]

44. Chuck offered to fix huckleberry's teeth with a roundhouse kick. LOL nt

[shaniqua6392]

31. Walker Texas Ranger???

Need I say more? What an awesome show that was!!! :sarcasm:

[Javaman]

46. The show had to be awesome because it was afraid that chuck would

roundhouse kick it out of the ratings LOL

[Beaverhausen]

33. OT - but - I saw Chuck Norris on a Toyota truck ad last night

I thought it was rather odd that he'd take money from a foreign car company.

[Javaman]

45. chuck drives a foreign car because he roundhouse kicked it into submission and

it's now his slave. LOL

[JerseygirlCT]

34. I know. I thought I'd be sick

How vile is that?

But then again, this is Chuck Norris speaking. Mr. Class, Talent and Intelligence.

[TheCowsCameHome]

35. Why does upChuck Norris wear a beaver pelt on his head?

Is that a badge of honor, or something?

[Javaman]

38. because the hair plugs he had in were afraid they would roundhouse kicked by him,

so they jumped out.

[Elidor]

36. This is the latest Huckabee talking point

About mid-way through the ad, during a litany of accusations against Mitt Romney, Huckabee criticizes his rival with this data point: "No executions."

Apparently, Huckabee -- you know, the evangelical, pro-life Republican -- is going after Romney for not having executed any Americans during his gubernatorial tenure.

I realize Republican politics are far more crass than norms should allow, but it's disconcerting to think "You didn't kill anyone" has suddenly become a criticism in conservative circles.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_01/012818.php

[Javaman]

37. I think chucks mom gave him a roundhouse kick to the head when he was a baby. nt

[citizen49]

41. Romney would rather torture them....

Romney Fires One Teen-Abuse Linked Financier, Keeps Big One

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/romney-fir ...


Posted September 6, 2007 | 12:07 PM (EST)
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Radar has the news that Mitt Romney has kicked troubled-teen titan Robert Lichfield to the curb. Lichfield's organization, the World Wide Association of Specialty Schools and Programs (WWASPS, previously WWASP), is being sued in a class action suit by over 100 plaintiffs, alleging serious sexual, emotional and physical abuse. In the worst cases, teens were beaten, kept in stress positions, sleep deprived, made to walk thousands of laps on a hot desert track, forced to eat their own vomit and held in dog cages. Mexican police shot footage of the dog cages and the track, which was aired on Inside Edition.

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Another lawsuit alleges educational fraud by one facility-- that facility was already made to pay parents back over $1 million for falsely claiming to provide legitimate New York state high school diplomas, in one of the largest educational fraud judgments in New York history.

Lichfield was Romney's Utah co-chair for finance-- and he has been relieved of that position "until the lawsuit is resolved in the positive, which we are confident will happen," WWASPS spokesperson Ken Kay told Radar. This is the same Ken Kay who said under oath in another civil suit that he did not know whether sex between staff and teens in WWASPS programs was necessarily abusive.

But Romney's national finance co-chair, Mel Sembler, remains. While Sembler has not been linked with any abuse personally, the organization he co-founded, Straight Inc., paid out millions of dollars in similar suits during the 1980's and 1990's. The abuse included kidnapping, false imprisonment, beatings, sexual humiliation (boys were called "fags," girls, "whores"), punitive use of isolation and restraint and bizarre incidents like teens being gagged with Kotex and held on the floor for hours until they wet or even soiled themselves. In every state where Straight had a facility, regulators and/or lawsuits eventually documented serious abuse.

The treatment regime itself is essentially abusive-- it was virtually identical to a program in which Sembler was a participant that a Congressional investigation compared to North Korean brainwashing. (That investigation prompted the founding of Straight as the prior group had been so discredited by the report and resulting bad publicity).

And in Florida, home to both Sembler and the first Straight site, when Straight finally folded in 1993 after nearly two decades of documented abuse cases, lawsuits and investigations, one final investigation suggested that political influence had kept regulators from shutting it down sooner. At the time, Sembler was serving as a U.S. Ambassador. The Florida Inspector General's report said, "there were indications that outside influence was involved with this licensing issue. It appears that pressure may have been generated by Ambassador Sembler ."

Of course, Lichfield has only raised hundreds of thousands for Romney; Sembler, who was national finance chair for the Republican party for the 2000 election season, can raise many millions.

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Sembler is one bad apple ... http://www.thestraights.com/index.htm


RW Authoritarianism it can be very much a group think mentality consisting of leaders and followers:

Right-wing authoritarianism is defined as the co-existence of three attitudinal clusters in a person:

1. Authoritarian submission — a high degree of submission to the authorities who are perceived to be established and legitimate in the society in which one lives.
2. Authoritarian aggression — a general aggressiveness, directed against various persons, that is perceived to be sanctioned by established authorities.
3. Conventionalism — a high degree of adherence to the social conventions that are perceived to be endorsed by society and its established authorities. (Source: Altemeyer, 1996, Chapter 1)

snip>>>>

1: Faulty reasoning — RWAs are more likely to:

* Make many incorrect inferences from evidence.
* Hold contradictory ideas that result from a cognitive attribute known as compartmentalized thinking.
* Uncritically accept that many problems are ‘our most serious problem.’
* Uncritically accept insufficient evidence that supports their beliefs.
* Uncritically trust people who tell them what they want to hear.
* Use many double standards in their thinking and judgments.

2: Hostility Toward Outgroups — RWAs are more likely to:

* Weaken constitutional guarantees of liberty such as the Bill of Rights.
* Severely punish ‘common’ criminals in a role-playing situation.
* Admit they obtain personal pleasure from punishing such people.
* Be prejudiced and hostile against racial, ethnic, nationalistic, sexual and linguistic minorities.
* Volunteer to help the government persecute almost anyone.
* Be mean-spirited toward those who have made mistakes and suffered.

3: Profound Character Attributes — RWAs are more likely to:

* Be dogmatic.
* Be zealots.
* Be hypocrites.
* Be absolutists
* Be bullies when they have power over others.
* Help cause and inflame intergroup conflict.
* Seek dominance over others by being competitive and destructive in situations requiring cooperation.

4: Blindness To One’s Own Failings And To The Failings Of Authority Figures Whom They Respect— RWAs are more likely to:

* Believe they have no personal failings.
* Avoid learning about their personal failings.
* Be highly self-righteous.
* Use religion to erase guilt over their acts and to maintain their self-righteousness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_Authoritarianis...

[salin]

47. they are insane.

and sick. I am not easily shocked - but this Huckabee - "I'm gonna brag about how many more people I put to death than you" as a campaign selling point - just floors me. And if it works at all, it deeply disturbs me.