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What global warming? Where's my fucking summer? Light off some fucking nukes already. That'll heat this bitch up.
Between the 85 IQ idiots and the 138 IQ know it all’s we are truly fucked.
Its not the idiots running the country, its the idiots following them.
Seriously, is that a monkey in the cartoon? Looks like the monkey in the Lion King. Too bad the monkey doesn't have a grenade in its hands.
If ignorance is bliss then Choomboy must be the happiest man in the 57 states.
I thought there were only 56 states. Did we annex the nation of Africa already?
I see what you did there, lmao
The world's always been screwed up. Crisis after crisis after crisis. Nothing has really changed--except we now all shit on toilets. Bitchez.
We may go back to not having toilets again. The Ancient Romans had nice toilets and sewers and baths 3000 years ago. Then after the fall of the empire, and the ensuing dark ages, people were shitting in pots and throwing it out the window into the street. Until about the 17th cenutry. I think Queen Elisabeth had one of the first toilets.
I wish all our troubles could be attributed to "ignorance", but there is far more complex and intelligent planning going on here then most people would like to admit. The money-men are not dumb; arrogant maybe, but not dumb, and Obama takes his marching order from them.
Piss Boy...Come here Piss Boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGfXiIXTpE0
Yes. It is good to be King.
There wasn't any ancient Romans 3,000 years ago: Rome was founded around 776 BC and it was quite primitive at that time.
2,000 years ago is a proper time frame for your 'nice toilets".....
LOL. I knew that, it was typo. Didn't mean to offend. Do we agree people were shitting in pots for about 1200 years before they rediscovered a toilet bowl?
A lot of people don't know this, but another name for Anatolia is Rum (aka Rome).
And meanwhile, on the European side, the land is called RUMelia (again Rome).
And there is the nation of... Romania not too far away.
Anatolia was part of the roman empire. The empire fell in the West, much like today. The Eastern empire called Byzantine continued for centuries,.
YES.
"I think Queen Elisabeth had one of the first toilets."
Wrong Queen. Queen Victoria.
The Romans didn't have flush toilets, but they did have sewers and public baths. Unfortunately public baths were unhealthy as sick people often went to the public baths which ended up infecting other bathers.
That's even worse. Victoria was the 19th century. I think you get the point of how society can go backwards for centuries after a collapse. I think I'm right about Elizabeth though.
If you listen to that entire idiotic statement he stated there are 60 States. Video Here (in new window).
If you don't want to watch the video here is a short summery. When he made that statement he claimed to have visited 57 States, had one remaining State to visit, and his security team was not going to allow him to visit Alaska and Hawaii. That's 60 States.
Of course there are 60 states. Obama confirmed that with a phone call to the President of Canada.
It's like when they asked Jerry Springer where he found the guests to go on his show, he answered, "A better question would be, 'Where did I find the audience?'"
Easy, they are the same people that ridiculed him out of office.
"Its not the idiots running the country, its the idiots following them."
C'mon, Oldwood... you know it is both.
And every ounce of energy spent neglecting false leadership is wasted.
I totally agree with Oldwood. We get the government we deserve. Guns and butter is keeping enough of the population under control that the ones who see the emperor has no clothes have no chance of getting the ball rolling. The Red Pill/Blue Pill ratio is still too low for us to get out from under this cloud of mind control.
Discomfort will not lead to rebellion. It takes outrage. I don't see it yet. If the Pigmen are smart, which they are, they will manage the outrate index to below a tipping point line, and the day of reckoning we are all secretly hoping for may never come. Plan accordingly.
Oldwood is right. The idiots running things are only representing the idiots who elected them. Well, that is if elections are real which seems doubtful in many instances.
"The idiots running things are only representing the idiots who elected them"
Unfortunately there is no IQ limits for voting. My guess is that 90% of voters, vote in order to get something for nothing from gov't. Even many RNC voters want gov't handouts or subsidies.
Snap cards, government jobs, or government contracts- it is all welfare. Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what's in it for you.
"no IQ limits for voting."
Democrats don't even want people to show ID for voting, nevermind IQ test. They would lose every election.
Shoot Jimmy, you don't even have to be able to fog a mirror.
Authority is worthless without obedience.
"Its not the idiots running the country, its the idiots following them."
Exactly. Wanna' see the reason for our current condition? Take a look around you the next time you're out on the town. Or maybe look in the mirror.
How can someone with only a 138 IQ not realize that they don't know it all?
Did you just answer your question with your question?
They do but willful ignorance is the same as deception, on an ethics test. Which they never say they flunked and refuse to take remedial courses in order to pass.
They seem disinterested in it ;-)
economics9698 wrote, "Between the 85 IQ idiots and the 138 IQ know it all’s we are truly fucked."
Let's dissect this statement. The people whom have IQs ranging between 85 and 138 comprise the vast majority of people.
It is those people whom are the problem as they choose to follow the leaders. People with IQs of less than 85 do not know any better and the people with IQs over 138 tend to be the leaders.
Without followers the leaders are powerless and those whom have IQs of 85 or less are not really ever a threat.
So who is to blame?
Take a good look in the mirror.
It is back to that wonderful rhetorical and truthful statement...YOU ARE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE.
I think he was refering to the 138 IQ think tankers who team up with the 85 IQ useful idiots to achieve their agendas.
Arrogance correlates with education level. Not perfectly, but enough to suggest an answer.
Here's the equation for that:
http://enrichthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/09/ego-by-albert-einstein.html
" It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm."
Jeffrey Kluger
So, know yourself then.
The dumber they are the bigger the windbag. Spoiled children think they know it all too, so we're born with it. It's a sign of immaturity and foolishness at any age. And that's our bigger societal problem, we're a bunch of all ego, no substance, dumb know it all bitchez. The truly intelligent people know they don't know squat about anything.
The "problem" with learning new things / ideas, is that the more you learn, the more you realise you do not know, and that in itself is a rather humbling experience.
In "The Good Old Days" before the Internet as we now know it, "learning" usually meant Journal subscriptions, reprint requests and regular Library visits. Nowadays, everyone with Net access also has access to the "Global Library" - some of it good, some of it bad, but all information nevertheless (and those hyperlinks mean no more sticky notes with scribbled refrences). One would have thought (maybe expected) that with all this usually "free"and very readily obtained information, everyone would by now be a little more reasonable, and less dogmatic however we seem to see the opposite. More entrenched views, more social dissatisfaction, and a lot more violence both at home (domestic and National), and abroad (Wars and rumours of wars).
most people seek information they are interested about. Inevitably, this leads them to seek out those opinions which confirms their world view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Today, it is easy to dismiss information and seek another one. In the yesterdays, library or book stores - you invested money and time to seek out maybe 2-6 books. As you did so, you felt the obligation to read them, no matter how stupid you felt for buying/lending it. This was a much healthier process, and gave plenty food for thought.
Now, I just click away whatever I don't want to hear, throw in some punches in the comment section - and off to infowars :-D (not really).
Stupid video about some kittens 15 million views.
Video about how to build your own solar water heating system 10,000 views.
That pretty much sums up how truly ass-backwards most people are.
The naive idealistic view from the ivory towers... Unfortunately it often comes from the same bunch of pompous idiots who have utterly failed to teach the next generation how to think, despite being paid to do so and claiming to be experts in teaching.
A kid can now get a PhD without ever changing out of his pajamas and getting off the couch, either in his parents' or the frat house's basement. Yet instead of better writing or better research, the actual result has been the explosion of the iodiocrasy and its insane drivel passing for educated writing.
Bring back the microfilm!
"How can someone with only a 138 IQ not realize that they don't know it all?"
Because they are sociopaths, so by definition, they believe they are infallible in their own mind. They will never ever even consider that they don't know it all. The world today is run by sociopaths, and it explains why everything is so fucked.
thinking IQ makes it all make you just as stupid as the ones you think of.
Glad I'm outside the range you refer to.
I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that both the mean IQ and the overall IQ distribution of Fight Club is shifted to the right of the general population.
That said, there are a lot of decent and noble people here that are standing up for principles greater than themselves, at great risk of being "listed".
Which suggests that the upper bound of intelligence that you quote and suggest is partially responsible to our ills is just not true.
I don't think it is intelligent people that are screwing us. No, these are socio/psychopathic people that will cross lines that you and I dare not cross.
THAT is the advantage that the establishment has. It's not "intelligence". No, it's ruthlessness and I doubt the R-squared on a fit between ruthlessness and intelligence is that high. So that leads me to believe that our masters are similar to the general population in IQ and are closer representative slice than you might think. From Congress right down to the thug with a badge.
The greater the tendency towards genius the greater the tendency towards psychopathy.
This is very true. I wont elaborate...
Like your summer?..you can keep it
Period.
You asked for it ;-)
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/07/Climate-alarmist-warns-fish-are-the-new-global-warming
It's people like that who, of no utility toi mankind whatsoever, produce unnecessary co2 ...
.... begin the culling
I guess its not enough to point out the factual inconsistencies and mock them anymore. So be it...but lets turn it off before we get down to the seriously ignorant believers.
Before we become a Professor Richard Parncutt ;-)
And you can keep your air jordans to bitch!!
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... http://goo.gl/bhiamE
No stop signs,
speed limits
Were on the highway to hell,,
Were on the highway to hell,,
He's a cold blooded snake. His brain works even less well at cold temperatures. It'll shut down in the Ukrainian winter.
Sometimes I ask my friends and family:
"Is Ignorance Bliss - Or Knowledge Power?"
If they answer either way I tell them about WTC-7
You are one fucking cruel son of a bitch.
+1.
Lucy (before): "Life was given to us a billions years ago, what have we done with it?"
Lucy (after): "Life was given to us a billion years ago, now you know what you can do with it."
That proves that ignorance wins.
Lucy: "Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge. "
If ignorance is bliss, slap the smile off my face.
RATM
affirmitive action is bliss.
I wish I didn't know half the things I know to be true are true and the other half are completely false or a distortion of truth.
Ignorance is bliss ;-)
Know that the power in your life space to protect what you love is in your hands.
Everything else is bullshit.
"You get to keep what you're willing to fight & die for." Captain Milton William Cooper, combat veteran Cua Viet, USNIS. Service terminated at will.
You must choose.
Thomas Jefferson insisted on full disclosure for all contracts. Everything else is illegal; unconstitutional.
Lucy: "We've codified our existence to bring it down to human size, to make it comprehensible, we've created a scale so we can forget its unfathomable scale. "
Kill your tv. Then kill everyone who demands you serve them, for no profit.
Kill Lucy. Kill all the stupid, conformist sheep. They are unconscious. They are destructors.
Lucy found knowledge, and she's everywhere now.
Lowest common denominator.
here a comment:
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i can not say.
crap is old like the hills.
i wonder how many trillions,
capital T, of Q (quantity)
are required to call it
"big money"?
.
i'm not sure how anythingmuch in the
universe could beat this?
.
PETE ANDERSON & THE SWAMP SHAKERS - BABY LET'S PLAY HOUSE (Official video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEwMJ81JyCo
.
i was looking for pete anderson
"big money" but this other thing
arrived. the twist of fame?
the price of entry? the limits
of market availability? the state
of the union? the nature of
the beast? the lost moments and
potential of exposure and
obscurity? the message of the
mess-age?
"...like tears in rain" he said about
moments.
where is your poet?
where is your poet?
.
long dead, still born or just obscured?
life provides everything, always ,,,,,
that is the difference between life and death.
life provides for itself
Obama st-st-st-stuttering? Either his teleprompter is on the fritz, or Reggie Love is under the podium chomping his cock, again.
you just blew my mind. . .ignorance, bliss, the sound of silence. .
Okay, I can't post links that show young christians being killed by the liberal backed ISIS or Arab women dating service. Crap!!
Scrolling down...
Burka
Burka
Goat
Goat
Burka
Obama is not ignorant.
Obama wants to destroy the Military.
He wants to destroy anything that would be perceived as "old" America. Fundamental change works that way.
Actually the fact that he wants to destroy the military force which keeps borders intact across the world shows how ignorant he is
And it's gone..
marketing older americans, who understand the cold war, represents a shift from marketing college students, who understand debt (anyway) this president has so many demographics ([evangelical and right wing] christian missionaries who have ebola - or are trapped on some mountian top by ISIS- MUST be brought back to the US) in time for the midterm elections. and older folks hate the roooskies. there is also the old civil rights movement, doesn't apply to muslims who hate america (much as blacks once hated the usg, we love them now). potus has many groups to market, how does he do it? does he have a big ad agency? or a propaganda network. or both. the marketing angle is tired, consumers no longer buy the product. the salesman reflects on his death
If only it were possible to remain blissfully ignorant. The curtain always goes up eventually, or comes down, or gets pulled... depending on the side of the production you are on.
Obama has ice. ice baby
.
bitchez
Cold War is good for business.
Much more profitable than a Hot War.
Think about all the domestic demand we will have for goods and services when we are no longer allowed to trade with the enemy? we are gona be rich, Globalism is a waste of resources, there is no reason to ship a boat full of steel to china, have them shape the steel into girders and then ship them back, save yourself the trip, the oil and the time, and make it here at home.
All Globalism does is feed a broken system and throw unnecessary amounts of fuel away, sure it might be more profitable in dollar terms to make things abroad, but the fuel youy burn to doit is more valuable in the future than it is today.
The more I come in contact with "the average American"...the more I'm totally;
*disgusted
*frightened
*alarmed
*vomitous
*aware that I'm not fat
*aware that I'm pretty fucking smart
*aware that the end is fucking near
Then there's that night when you wake up screaming because you finally realize that you ARE the average American.
That 'special snowflake' was a lie.
Just another putz doing time on planet Earth.
Embrace it. It's liberating.
"You wander around from place to place
and disappear without a trace
And someone else will take your place in line."
1 each, Suck, standard issue.
Next!
*aware that your ammunition is limited