Skeptics - always demanding the impossible:

“The minimum sellers of detox products should be able to offer is a clear understanding of what detox is and proof that their product actually works.

The people we contacted could do neither.”

In other words, NewAgers are like Ted Touched-By-God Cruz, trying to stop ObamaCare:

I knew there was some connection,...

 

"STUDY: CONSERVATIVES MORE LIKELY TO MAKE UP FACTS IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY THEIR BELIEFS"

I don't trust that website (at the link) but - Boy - all I have to do is read most comments here, recently, to know this is true:

Like, did anybody else notice, I didn't become a racist to conservatives until after I started commenting on conservative's racism? And it was their open racism - during the Trayvon trial -  that prompted me to make changes in TMR's focus? Really, that's how I became a racist.

(Calling libs racist was "all good" by conservatives, BTW, because, apparently, only white liberals can be racist,...) 

Or, did anybody else notice, how commenting on white conservative's racism, somehow, turned me into an Obama supporter in their eyes?

And, did anybody else notice, once white conservatives made up their minds certain lies are true, they attacked me based on those delusions?

And, did anybody else notice, this is also how slavery got started?

History (and idiots too dumb to read or heed it) explains the Baby Boom/Feminism's outrageous divorce rate - and the destruction it's wrought - after establishing their "love the one you're with" society:

"How does lust affect the way we think about people?

In 1780, Immanuel Kant wrote that 'sexual love makes of the loved person an Object of appetite.' And after that appetite is sated? The loved one, Kant explained, 'is cast aside as one casts away a lemon which has been sucked dry.'”

Hippies - their "open-mindedness" ensured this future,...

 

Forget The Knockout Game, Drudge can't deny this is real:

The white racist guide to reporting crime trends

“For best results, follow these simple steps:

1. Pick a crime trend – or make one up! Consider only street crimes. Crimes against humanity by America or its allies, crimes by Wall Street bankers, American corporations or middle-class white people over the age of 21 do not count. Crimes by white men do not a trend make.

◦ A drop in black crime: This can count as a trend but only if you can credit the actions of white people for it, like 'stop and frisk' or 'The War on Drugs'. Whatever you do, never credit 'black culture', 'black leaders' or 'black parenting' for it! They can only be blamed, never praised. That is like a rule of White American culture.”

Funny - for all his "reporting" - Glenn "Get Yer Guns" Reynolds keeps missing when (and how) it happens, too. But, even with such a glaring oversight - and this ugly trend he contributes to - everyone still wonders (and bugs me about) why I don't listen to his harassing garbage.

Get real:

I've long seen what he's about,...

 

Thanks, Homeopathy!

Whether it's Ted Cruz's dad, or Rand Paul's assistant, you can count on those around the candidate to be more honestly forth-coming than they are, if just as difficult to understand:

“Most conservatives are not, and never were, racists, but many have displayed a disregard for minorities for a very long time and in a plethora of ways. I certainly did.

Minorities think we don’t like them. Not enough conservatives have tried to convince them that’s not true.

The same conservatives who say they believe government treats everyone badly were not willing to see how that was true for black Americans. They either don’t see it or don’t want to see it. I used not to see it. For that, I am very sorry.”

ACCEPTED.

This one's for everybody at Lem's - Trooper, Cody, Shouting Thomas, etc. - who love to deny they've hidden their sheets, while still talking that KKK shit. They know I'm just making shit up because - let's face it - we black people just love to lie on whitey:

"A suburban Detroit police officer admitted he asked a mentally ill black man to sing and dance and video recorded the incident.

Videos and photos with degrading portrayals of black men were submitted earlier this month to the blog, Motor City Muckraker, purportedly from officers who disseminated them to friends and colleagues in the upper class, majority-white Michigan suburb of Grosse Pointe Park. One video portrayed a voice alleged to be an officer asking black men to do humiliating tasks, including “dance like a chimp.” In another incident, an officer allegedly texted a photo of a black man in the back of his trailer with the text, “Gotta love the coloreds.” The journalist, Steve Neavling, told the Huffington Post that he has more than a dozen videos shot by officers, but has not shared most of them because of their “humiliating nature.”

Why not show 'em? Is a "upper class, majority-white" audience too sensitive to know the truth, of who they are, and what they contribute to and support? We are talking about "officers" - plural - making and sending these to "friends and colleagues":

 I mean, every one of us "coloreds" the overseers "shoot" eventually becomes known to blacks.

Because they've, always, been our real family and friends.

Maybe whites still don't think blacks form families (not like they do anyway) because I never understand how anybody white can miss that obvious connection.

Oh wait - yes I can - I just remembered:

Whites tell themselves being black is like being gay,...

I know - don't suggest (again) anybody's deceiving themselves:

"180 years after abolition, why is it the slave trade is booming?"

But you'll have to give me another suggestion to suggest: 

 I'm all out,...

 

Steve Jobs was a NewAge nutjob - they behave the same:

"Why do Scientologists Find it So Difficult to Apologize?"

I've asked this a billion times, of Ann Althouse, Glenn Reynolds - all the bloggers who get shit wrong. I don't know how NewAgers live with each other - or expect others to live with them - being, both, rude and unfair. They even salute each other for these qualities, like becoming an asshole is "enlightenment". 

Whatever the reason, they make me glad Jobs, like slavery, is dead.

That he died following his NewAge "teachings" is the cherry on top.

Racism will end the same way,...

Black women have been pretty damned equal - and loved for it - all along. Feminism is weird - not to mention, someone else's beef:

Y'all should watch 12 Years A Slave, and ask yourselves, "Who's been oppressing who, again?"

 

Here's an idea going around, amongst my friends, anyway:

"No More Slave Movies; Show Us as Kings and Queens Too"

I agree with the "too". It's important, that Hollywood finally makes movies about black successes in history, but here's what I also see:

   

 When you have over 400 years of untold American stories - on the brutality (and length and breath) of slavery, slaves outwitting slavers (brilliantly) the effects of slavery today, then Reconstruction and it's lies and failures (also length and effects), followed by the Civil Rights Movement, etc. - not only is it a crime how few have been told, but it's harmful to society not to mine them so we can, all, be on the same page culturally. Blacks, whites, and everyone else, need to know these stories:

Like studying the noxious, and obviously taboo, topic of NewAge (to understand our current "spiritual but not religious" culture) our racial politics - especially when it comes to identifying bad actors - too often make little sense because, as I've said, they lack context. 

We simply have to look back - to know how we got here:

And why some still resist,...

 

I guess, it could go without saying, I am NOT a social scientist:

"It doesn’t take a social scientist to see that a blizzard of how-to books on “positivity” suggests its lack in everyday life. Behind the facade of smiley-faced optimism, American culture seems awash in a pervasive sadness,...."

But being able to see past the facade ain't exactly a party either,...

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