Kevin Trudeau Owes $37 Million (Spends 1 Day In Jail)

“Why the judge doesn’t put him in jail until the money is paid, or at least a substantial part of it is paid, I don’t know. The whole court system is a total mess.”

Yeah, because if he were black,...

"Colorblind" White People (Who Talk About Race All The Time) Don't Like It When Blacks Join The Conversation

White supremacists stake claim 

to North Dakota town 

as sheriff’s office prepares for trouble

Court backs firing of Arkansas cop 

for drunken, racial slur

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

"I had to hold my head down and could not make contact with the white masters. I heard the instructor ask kids behind me to open their mouths so their teeth could be checked. Some were asked to jump up and down."

“Why Are You Looking for My Son?” 

The Day Troy Davis Was Wrongfully Accused of Killing a Police Officer

Obama is the Antichrist

The loyalty blacks have to their church also has proven costly, said officials at Faith Communities Today, a nonprofit based in Hartford, Conn. A 2013 study revealed that black churches have collected more than $420 billion in tithes and donations nationwide since 1980, an average of $252 million a week. “What people fail to see and understand is that, the church pastors aren’t waiting for miracles to fund their lifestyles, they don’t have to pray, day in and day out, to make their ends meet,” said Northwest resident and author, Byron Woulard. “They are getting rich off God, not from God,” he said.

DMX Has Just $50 In His Wallet; 

Nothing In The Bank

Instapundit "Got" An Honorable Mention As 1 Of The 25 Most Influential People On The Right (As He Gets "Got")

Stick with me, kid, you'll,...something.

Away we go:

This morning I noticed Glenn Reynolds said, "I think the GOP can win even by losing," which I identified as con artist patter - and, Good Golly Miss Molly, what do you know?

It IS con artist patter! Straight from The Atlantic:

Now is the time for all good men to fail. Good women, too. Fail early and often, and don’t be shy about admitting it. Failing isn’t shameful; it’s not even failure. Such is the message of a growing body of self-help and leadership literature. 

...Given this growing cultural fixation on failure, it was probably inevitable that politicians would begin clambering aboard the pro-failure bandwagon.

There it is - our buddy - good ol' Self-Help to the rescue!

Are you listening, y'all? You can't hear it:

Glenn Reynolds is in the NewAge world of Billary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey/Tony Robbins/James Arthur Ray/Louise Hay Grade-A bullshit, and he's delivering it to your door as political wisdom without the slightest clue how he's being played.

As a matter of fact, back when Reynolds used to post TMR and it was almost All-NewAge-All-The-Time, that's what his last email to me indicated:

Hey, I've got nothing against you, Crack.  But I really don't get your blog, and God knows I've tried.  Sorry.

Think about that for a second:

Glenn Reynolds has been seen to "get" a Mormon for president - who devoutly believes he'll get his own planet. Glenn can "get" that you can relearn to breathe with Laughing Yoga, all the many bogus concoctions, preparations, and devices in Quackery - and even inserting vapid win-from-losing Self-Help nostrums (I know you don't think I "get" it but I got it) into our supposedly serious game of politics - but he doesn't "get" why a conservative blogger, versed in NewAge solipsism, would be skeptical of the whole election-losing Instapundit enterprise.

Why wouldn't I point it out?

This flaw in conservative reasoning needs addressing and now:

I've got nothing against Glenn. What I really don't get will be conservatives losing through NewAge, and God knows I've tried. 

O.K., there is no God, but - even for that - I am really and truly sorry,...

 

I've Been At This For A While, I've Got A Little Expertise, And - Despite My Gruff Manner - I Like You (Ignore Me)

How in the world do you spot a political con man? This is how you spot a political con man:

  "I think the GOP can win even by losing,…"

Now go give him some money because - if you're dumb enough to follow that political advice twice - he's earned it,...

 

You Go Into Business And You Work It Like A Business

I'll never be virtuous enough for this world,...

Miley Cyrus Can't Even Start To Compete With Madonna

Terrible news - Madonna's "twice" married spiritual leader, Phillip Berg, has died - and (as rationalizing more than one marriage indicates) in what's become the NewAge's traditional fashion:

"In 2010 I told you about Karen Berg globe trotting around the world with a new paramour while Philip Berg languished at home. 

Thanks to the canny manipulation of a few celebrities, the Bergs have managed to amass quite a war chest and a lot of real estate. In the last few years they managed to get Madonna involved in the ill-fated charity Raising Malawi, collecting millions of dollars for a leadership academy that was never built in the central south African country of Malawi."

That's O.K., unlike Obama, she was working for style points.

Got 'em, too.

Now let's Twerk!

 

Cults, Gurus, NewAge - The Stuff Accepted As Normal

I’m convinced my friend has joined a cult.

 What can I do?

Feet of Clay - A Study of Gurus

Witchcraft Mentality and Freethought 

in Northern Ghana

Parents say church 

is brainwashing daughter

Children’s book by Mormon apostle’s wife 

draws fire

WATCH THIS SEGMENT IF YOU GET ABOUT 15 MINUTES:

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Dream Seller (Full Episode)

James Arthur Ray: The Sweat Lodge Killer's Evolution From NewAge Master Of The Universe To Dirty Hippie

Ray at the height of his fame, after doing Oprah, and The Secret, and killing people.

And here's our boy after he got busted for three deaths in (where else?) that hot bed of NewAge gullibility spirituality, Sedona Arizona.

This is Jay Ray during his trial, totally stressed, after he'd spent every dime he scammed on a defense that netted him only two lousy years in prison.

And this was the guru in July - released on probation, to scam and/or kill again,...

 

"Getting Away With Something" Doesn't Mean You Move

Yesterday a reader, who likes to challenge my take on politics, asked what kind of plot I thought Obama might be working. I told him I don't know - plots are, by definition, secret and crafty. I know, by his other statements, my reader thinks I'm crazy - or too black to think straight about this president I didn't vote for - twice.

But what I really am is not so stupid as to forget Obama's socialist/communist background - or episodes like this:

 

Meanwhile, Hot Air's pondering Syria: 

  Here’s the thing: Doesn’t the Russian proposal get Obama what he ostensibly wants, i.e. an Assad who’s afraid to use chemical weapons again?

Yeah, it does - a gift from the enemy in Obama's self-created crisis he's supposedly losing to everyone in - whoda thunk it? And why would Putin do it? And - as we consider things that don't make sense - here's another question:

If the Right Wing is so concerned about having an anti-American communist Manchurian Candidate in the White House - as they used to scream all night over hootch - why should the idea there's a potential plot unfolding (several even) communist or otherwise, not be credible? Or even come as a surprise?

And, with Putin helping Obama out, if there might be a plot, why must just Republicans - and not the country - be the potential mark? 

I mean, there is an anti-American communist Manchurian Candidate in the White House, riiiight? 

Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot:

In this evolving scenario, you geniuses have already settled on a another narrative that, you think, puts you in a flattering light,...

 

I Could Be Mistaken About How This Country Operates But I Really Don't Think So (I've Lived Here A Long Time)

It says a lot, that I had to brutalize a Paul Krugman quote to agree with it, but it had to happen:

“The widening “wonk gap” — the G.O.P.’s near-complete lack of expertise on anything substantive,...the dumbing down extends across the spectrum, from budget issues to national security to poll analysis. Remember, Mitt Romney and much of his party went into Election Day expecting victory…. 

But that was then. Modern conservatism has become a sort of cult, very much given to conspiracy theorizing when confronted with inconvenient facts,...Mitt Romney would have won if only he had been a real conservative. 

It’s all kind of funny, in a way. Unfortunately, however, this runaway cult controls the House, which gives it immense destructive power,...and it’s disturbing to realize that this power rests in the hands of men who, thanks to the wonk gap, quite literally have no idea what they’re doing.”

The immediate talk of our, or Obama's, international prestige - when faced with kids being gassed as canaries in the coal mine to gauge our tolerance of crimes against humanity - is a fine example of missing the substance by a mile. The problem is not that our people aren't smart, it's that they think they're clever - and inevitably put their smarts to arguing the wrong issues. Ask Bernie Madoff. Even better, ask my online friend, Harry Markopolos.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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Now that's an angry patriot. And a guy who should be put in charge of something. You know why? Because he actually catches the bad guys red-handed, not hoping something falls in his lap he could capitalize on, like the Right and these imaginary "scandals" that have still come to nothing what-so-ever while they crow - over obvious bad guys, large and small, operating openly.

Or do I just imagine there are "psychics" working throughout this country?

Sure, and almost-president Mitt Romney's homeopathy franchise has always been totally on the up-and-up,...