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To: tejek who wrote (759777)	12/27/2013 1:19:32 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577883

"Target says shoppers' encrypted PIN data was removed during data hack but says PINs are secure " Yeah, SURE it is. It's a four digit PIN consisting of numbers from 0..9! Who could ever guess that?

To: tejek who wrote (759777)	12/27/2013 1:42:57 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577883

Liberalism is Flailing And The Media Help To Identify Their Position Posted on December 26, 2013 by sundance The progressive mantra of modern liberalism is flailing miserably everywhere you look and the media protestations of a “ Do Nothing Congress” are flares shooting up from their encampments identifying exactly where they reside. All around us are signs the various liberalist causes are visibly in the minority. The odd thing is how willing the progressives are to out their failing positions. Against the liberal yard-stick of emotional legislative advancement, which is diametrically antithetical to freedom, the media are proclaiming congress as failed. However, when you consider that stopping intrusion by government into your life is a central tenant of freedom this congress is the most successful in a decade. Coast to coast people are showing their pushback against the nanny state. People are rising up, or using their TV remotes, or tuning their car radios, or expressing their voice, to reflect an ideology of freedom in opposition to the current federal administration and the beliefs they visibly represent. Duck Dynasty carries more support than GLADD; Fox carries a stronger following than CNN and MSNBC combined; Conservative talk radio carries a stronger audience – and now you see the free market destroying liberal radio talkers which cannot attract an audience to support their “we-know-better” pontifications. The signs are everywhere, including in Obama’s polling numbers which reflect a scant 39% approval rating. In every instance where a solid conservative argument is framed you see wholesale macro and micro deconstruction of liberalism. Why? The answer is simple: The conservative freedom message is the winning argument, period. *Open empirical debate destroys the liberal ruse every time. The progressive left is shrinking as the bitter pills of ideology are brought into increased focus. Most notably with recent ObamaCare empirical evidences but also with the foreign policy failures which media elites are desperately trying to avoid. Liberalism in the United States is just as antithetical to freedom as Multiculturalism is in Europe. Both modern liberalism and multiculturalism rose based on an ideology that never works. However, their is a conversation which rarely takes place in such historical moments. The difference between admissions* of failed liberalism (See Bill Clinton – “the era of big government is over”) and the admissions of compromise (See George W Bush – “compassionate conservatism”) reside in one core distinction, Fabians never stop. Fabians like Clintons, Obama’s, Jarrett’s, Warren’s et al, identify when they are slipping backward in the war of ideas; and instead of re-evaluating their own withdrawal they attempt to diminish the influence of the opposition. That is why you see Fabians, including all of the pontificators of Fabian ideology in the media, attempting to influence the 2014 and 2016 political landscape. They purposely want to choose the representatives of the other side which has the best argument. They do this to defend themselves against full annihilation. So a Machiavellian Fabian will attempt to position their own weak offense by outlining a weak opposition of preferred confrontation. That’s why the liberal objectives are to put the Chris Christie’s, and Jeb Bush’s and Mitch McConnell’s, to be the “other side’s” representative. Progressives are exceptionally good at selecting the allowed vocal opposition of their opponent. It’s the same reason why the media pronounced “John McCain” as the best candidate in 2008, and Mitt Romney in 2012. Fabian progressives are masters within the grey area where bold contrast can be eliminated in favor of their preferred shadings where their positions do not seem all that divergent to the positions of their opponent. There is nothing they fear more than bold contrast. Each and every time the word “stark” is used, a liberal dream is squashed. Fabians are like the periphery shadow within your view of freedom. Every once in a while you think you see something move but when you direct your full attention to the area you find nothing actually there. You note something is different but you cannot fully identify what has changed in the geography. You end up spending an inordinate amount of time playing the mind game “what’s different in these two pictures” as you seek to identify what has been changed, removed or added from the normal cognitive understanding you had of the picture in front of you. As you remain unsure of whether that peripheral image actually was there, you allow yourself to retain the doubt of the intent. You doubt what you think and see because when it had your full attention it was not visible. Surely they didn’t,…. There’s no-way they just,….. I doubt they are actually,…… Actually, they do. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/12/26/liberalism-is-flailing-and-the-media-help-to-identify-their-position/