The Birthers’ BS Is “Finally” Put To Bed (?)
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 11th, 2011
Good morning!
If you didn’t see last week, this is hilarious.
Rachel Maddow Takes Last Of The Birthers To The Cleaners In Hilarious Segment (VIDEO)
Ahhhh, the birthers. Remember them? The folks who just couldn’t be convinced that President Obama was a natural-born citizen and who basically hijacked the first half of 2011 (well, until this happened andthis happened)? Remember Donald Trump and Orly Taitz?
Well, Rachel Maddow remembers them, and she also remembers all those Republicans who persisted in raising doubts about Obama’s birthplace. On her Thursday show, Maddow used the occasion of the president’s 50th birthday to hilariously tell the story of his life from the birther perspective—starting with his mother’s travels to Kenya to give birth to him. It was like an episode of “I Love 2008-May 1, 2011.”
“Why give birth to him in Kenya instead of just staying in Hawaii? I don’t know and you don’t either!” she said. “…Knowing that he would be president is also presumably why they named him Barack Hussein Obama.”
The clan then, of course, returned to Hawaii. Or, as Maddow put it, “now we have a foreign-born, innocuously named president-to-be terror baby presumably being indoctrinated for his eventual covert ascendance to secret illegitimate leader of the free world.”
Since Obama is now president, Maddow congratulated him and his family on pulling off such a dastardly plan. She even gave a little scream of joy at how dastardly and successful the plan was. She then turned more serious, and noted that, with the release of Obama’s long-form birth certificate, the issue has largely been put to rest.
“It is now just the dead enders and the profiteers at this point,” she said. But wait! What about that clip of Rush Limbaugh saying there was “no proof” that Obama was actually born on August 4th, 1961? That came from Wednesday, she said, and put her head in her hands. (UPDATE: Maddowapologized on her Friday show, saying that the Limbaugh clip was actually from a year ago.)
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August 11th, 2011 at 10:53 am
Roi #10 yesterday (August 10):
Just so you don’t think I was being flip when I responded to your post, let me finish the line of thought you were coming from.
“The Justice of this state is the greatest justice of all: because while this knowledge cannot be withheld from those who deserve it, it is the only substance with a discriminating faculty of its own, inherent justice.”
I await your explanation of the first part of this allegory as it relates to earthlings.
HOWIE
August 11th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
A GREAT TRIP — CAN MAGIC MUSHROOMS DELIVER PEACE AT THE END OF LIFE?
Not that I’m an advocate of taking a pill to solve life’s problems… but a drug that could help dying people arrive at a place of serenity and acceptance so they truly enjoy their last months and are able to say their good-byes and leave loved ones feeling peaceful, too?
Now that could be an incredible gift for mankind… most especially for those whose lives are being cruelly cut short by, say, a disease that causes pain and suffering.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University — along with others at New York University and University of California, Los Angeles — are making great progress with a drug that can be used to help produce intense, mystical insights that almost always create a spiritually uplifting, transcendent experience and put seriously ill patients at ease about facing their mortality.
SOUNDS LIKE… ?
If you’re thinking this sounds something like what used to be called “dropping acid,” you’re not far off.
The drug is called psilocybin and yes, it is the active agent in “magic mushrooms,” and it produces effects quite similar to those of LSD, mescaline and ayahuasca.
I had a fascinating conversation about it with the lead author of a new study on the effectiveness of the drug.
Roland R. Griffiths, PhD, a psychopharmacologist at Johns Hopkins, has spent the last decade studying how psilocybin might be put to good use not only for end-of-life care but also for those who are deeply distressed over a cancer diagnosis.
A longtime practitioner of meditation, Dr. Griffiths told me that having experienced something akin to transcendence through his personal meditation practice, he wondered if there might be a medically safe way to induce such experiences therapeutically.
Before we go any further, it’s important to note that we’re not talking about recreational use of this (or any) potent drug.
It is being explored in scientific clinical trials in which the drug is administered under carefully controlled and medically supervised conditions, Dr. Griffiths said.
The doses administered are precise, and volunteers are supervised by trained professionals who provide reassurance and guidance if negative side effects (such as anxiety, panic or paranoia) arise. And this can sometimes happen.
Equally important, people with a history of schizophrenia (their own or a family member’s) are screened out, because in rare cases psilocybin may trigger a psychosis.
A NEW VISION OF THE END OF LIFE
All that said, in Dr. Griffiths’s view, psilocybin has the potential to literally transform our culture’s approach to death and dying. “I am convinced,” he told me, “that there is an important, replicable phenomenon here that is remarkable — and it has important implications on many levels.”
He isn’t the first to study psilocybin scientifically — in fact, earlier research demonstrated that psilocybin can predictably lead to certain types of insights, which Dr. Griffiths characterized as “transcendent and spiritual, leading to the recognition that all people and things are interconnected.
” Explaining that the insights and their meaning vary from person to person, he said that some patients are able to see their experience of life as more sacred and meaningful…
others understand their life experiences as part of a larger story and feel a sense of continuity with what will happen after they’re gone.
“In some instances,” he said, “a person might say that though he or she doesn’t know what happens at death, he now has a sense of a larger picture and a feeling that all of life is beautiful and working just as it should.”
GETTING IT RIGHT
This latest study, published June 15 in the online medical journal Psychopharmacology, explored the effects of several different doses of psilocybin on healthy adults.
Dr. Griffiths said that about 75% of the study volunteers had what qualified as a “complete mystical experience.”
A full year later, 94% of the study participants recalled their psilocybin sessions as among the top five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives or even the topmost.
And very significantly, the effects of psilocybin were shown to be “predictable and dose-related,” in screened participants, Dr. Griffiths said.
The effects got more positive as the dose was increased until participants reached the highest dose studied — 30 mg/70 kg body weight.
At that dose, there was a sharp rise in negative side effects, including extreme fear and delusions. The study also showed that the best effects occurred when participants received lower psilocybin doses before the higher doses.
These participants were more likely to have long-lasting positive changes in attitudes and behavior — such as improved relationships with family and others, increased physical and psychological self-care, and increased devotion to spiritual practice.
Interestingly, Dr. Griffiths told me that there is some evidence that use of psilocybin in the form of mushrooms dates back as far as 7000 BC.
But, he said, the most reliable evidence traces it back to the time when the Spanish explorers conquered Mexico, adding that mushrooms were used by other South American cultures and by Native Americans for sacramental and religious purposes.
He said that natural forms of psilocybin-like drugs, from mushrooms, peyote cactus and ayahuasca, have been used in a structured manner by many different cultures.
LSD, on the other hand, is man-made and “notorious, perhaps iconic in representing what can go wrong when these substances are used irresponsibly.”
If you or someone in the circle of people you care about is struggling with a potentially life-threatening cancer diagnosis, you may be interested to know that Dr. Griffiths’s team is actively recruiting volunteers for a national study on the use of psilocybin to ease distress in this specific situation. You can learn more about this clinical trial at http://www.Cancer-Insight.org.
Source(s):
Roland R. Griffiths, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
August 12th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Howie:
Interesting, I will respond. But first ask Carr the relocation of the Dilan plate in Golden Park in San Francisco was part of the Consortium’s disappearance.
Our failure to locate it hints to supernatural interference.
Roi
August 12th, 2011 at 8:55 am
Human Events
No. 224 of 365
Start a rumor:
Just as Woody Allen would never miss his Monday evening slot playing New Orleans jazz clarinet at Manhattan’s Carlyle Hotel, so Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan refuses to let the dignity of her judicial robes interfere with her regular Saturday night appearance as a female mud-wrestler fighting under her nom-de-guerre Ivana Slipalot at the Happy Girlzzz Bar in Soho.
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These are the people who claim the moral high ground. Yet, the trash, the Office of the Presidency and women whenever it suits them.
Why women accept this behavior from this party is beyond me. The only time the word “dignity” means anything to this party is when it is used to manipulate the masses into accepting one of their lies.
Robert
August 12th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Matt Stoller, Op-Ed: “It was in the 1990s that American multinationals, spurred by government policy, began outsourcing operations to China.
At the same time, the Clinton administration steadily relaxed antitrust enforcement, leading to massive corporate consolidation and the creation of the virtual firm.
By the early parts of the last decade, the ideal American multinational made its profits by using its market power to gut labor and supply prices and by using its political power to eliminate taxation. All of this turned giant American institutions against making things.”
August 12th, 2011 at 9:16 am
Michelle:
I tried to get in yesterday, but I couldn’t. Please send Madaline to help us in Saraqib. The government has kidnapped many women and children to force the people here to reveal information about anyone opposing the government.
HELP!!!!!!!
Ghadah
August 12th, 2011 at 9:19 am
Nomi Prins, Op-Ed: “A one notch ratings drop from AAA to AA+ makes no difference to the US production capacity.
Indeed, with all the scaremongering about how much more expensive it would be to borrow at a higher rate (reflecting the lower credit rating), the bond market rose in a sigh of relief that the downgrade was ‘over’ rendering the cost of the downgrade minor.
As for other countries dumping our bonds, though they should because our policy remains financial market subsidization through debt creation, as long as the dollar remains the dominant global currency, other countries will lend to us though buying our Treasury bonds.”
August 12th, 2011 at 9:31 am
Michelle, while I agree the republicans shouldn’t have been elected in the first place, I think the recalled failed because dems are too fair.
If the republicans wanted to recall someone they would do it simply because their party said they should. But the dems use their own logic.
Here it hurt the party’s effort to get the vote out. Some dems actually voted to allow the creeps to stay in office because they felt it wasn’t fair to force them out before they finished their term.
Some dems believe the recall should be saved when there is actually a derelict of duty, similar to like embezzling or felony charges, not simply because there’s a group of people that didn’t like how a senator voted.
The thing that makes dems the best party(a group of individual thinkers) is also the thing that makes it easy to divide and conquer them.
Connie
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