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Global Warming Part II: It Really Doesn't Matter What The Facts Are; The Important Thing Is That Our Theory Is Vindicated No Matter What The Facts AreAllah makes a good point that deserves underscoring. Former Senator Bob Kerrey just made the claim that he doesn't know what Loughner's politics are (they're sort of pro-Matrix), and further, that we shouldn't read much into his politics whatever they are. That said, he's pretty sure it's the right's fault. No one can say what drove Loughner violently mad; but we're pretty confident it's anger caused by the Tea Party at ObamaCare. Here''s Allah on that: There’s not a shred of evidence I know of to support his theory and Kerrey himself seems to breeze past it as if it’s an afterthought, quickly qualifying it by noting that Loughner’s obviously disturbed and that his politics aren’t of much significance. But maybe that’s the point — that we’ve now reached the point with this story where the facts are so tangential and egregious smears so casual that this bubbled up to his lips almost instinctively. The past two days have been the media equivalent of a 50-car pile-up, the “conservatives did it!” narrative crashing headlong into the fact of this guy’s apolitical madness over and over again. In the Reynolds piece I linked before, Insty quoted Justice Cardoza as saying that "negligence in the air will not do," which I presume referred to proving the case for a tort (a general harm) at law. What such a suit requires is: 1) A duty of care on the part of the alleged tortfeasor (tort-committer) 2) A breach of that duty (the negligence) 3) A proximate cause between that breach and the harm suffered, and 4) an actual harm. This is why I think liberals are talking so vaguely here. They desperately want to prove their case -- the tort, I suppose, of incitement to murder -- and here they have what they assert is both a duty and a breach (thou shalt not call Obama a socialist, but apparently you can call Bush a murderer), and now they have a harm -- six dead. So they have, in their minds, 1, 2, and 4, but alas not 3. Oh well! Close enough! Three out of four ain't bad, as the song says. (Sort of.) And this is why they talk like crazy about parts 1 and 2 (a "climate of hate") and 4 ("senseless violence") but get very, very quiet about that crucial number three -- an actual more-or-less direct chain of cause-and-effect between the negligence and the harm suffered. "Negligence in the air will not do," Cardoza said -- the negligence must be traced, more or less directly, to the harm alleged. A general purported negligence or bad activity hanging in the air which doesn't actually have anything to do with the harm suffered will not, in fact, suffice to replace the requirement of negligence proximately causing the harm. The fact that one driver at a taxicab company is habitually drunk at work doesn't help you prove your case against that company if that driver actually wasn't at work that day and wasn't driving the car that hit you. You may have "negligence in the air," but that negligence had nothing to do with the harm you suffered. If you don't have three, you have no case. And here, liberals have no case. But they don't care. They know they have no connection between 1 and 2 and 4 but they don't care; they want to score their political points anyway. So they just keep yelling about their pet theory that Sarah Palin makes Conservative Robots kill people, and how horrible this crime was (which it was, of course), blipping right over that important part in the middle: What hath the former to do with the latter? Nothing, it seems, nothing at all, but if they keep screaming enough about it, maybe people will decide that 1 and 2 and especially 4 have been proven so damn well we'll give the liberals a pass on 3. The South Park Assassination Gnomes. The underpants gnomes famously had a three-part business plan: 1. Steal underpants 2. ??? 3. Profit! They could never quite explain how 1 should lead to 3. Similarly the liberals at the moment want desperately to talk about how conservatives are violent moral degenerates. They cannot actually link that to the news of the day, the mass-shooting in Tucson. But they don't care. They'll continue talking about it with that big bullet point of "???" in the middle until everyone in the country is convinced that somehow Sarah Palin is responsible for this shooting, even if they don't really explain how she's responsible. Mugshot of the Decade: Is that a Tea Party twinkle I espy in his eyes? Why yes, I think it is. Watching Hardball, I've become infuriated; Matthews keeps saying "I want to be careful here" but then keeps asking, essentially, "Come on, don't you think he listens to Rush Limbaugh?" David "Sucker of Cock" Corn mentions some crank called "David Wynn-Miller" (I think) who he claims is "popular among the right," whose crazy stuff about finding mathematical codes in government statement is said to have resonated with the idiot Loughner. I have never heard of this person. Have you? I have to google just to find his the correct spelling of his name. Now -- is he "popular among the right"? Is this their Element 3? Some fucking guy no one ever heard of? Here's Miller. Okay, I looked him up. Do you remember that nutter who declared himself a sovereign nation? That seems to be him. Miller is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he describes himself as a "Plenipotentiary-Judge", an ambassador, banker, postmaster,[7] King of Hawaii, and a genius.[8][9][10] "Popular among the right." Right, so fucking popular I had to google him, and (assuming he's the "Sovereign nation" guy I think he is) I and the whole conservative blogosphere goofed on him when he declared himself sovereign territory. Oh: And here's his webpage. IS =SINGULAR-VERB, ARE = PLURAL-VERB ~2-~JANUARY-~2000-NOW-TIME Come on, guys, you know-- the David Wynn Miller. The straw that stirs the conservative Margarita. The guy who shows us how to all be sovereign nations -- by speaking Dahlek. Oh, I meant DAVID WYNN: MILLER. Sorry, I shouldn't have used his tax-slave name. | Recent Comments
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