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2005-06-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

Ken Schram Commentary: Just Born The 'Right' Way?

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Posted by anonymous2u 2005-06-22 02:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Iff one believs that any and all mortal humans have a living soul, and said soul is inherently or naturally "good", i.e. born "good", and such "good/goodness", however surreal, is akin to "natural" or innate "Perfection" as recognized by the soul, then its only "natural" for living human souls to seek the best in everyone, the world, and in reality, because "good" wants to work and be with the [other]"good". If RIGHTISM is defined as those common values that makes any organized group or society or nation the same, then Rightism and the Soul complement each other, NOT work against each other, regardless of any minutae differentiations!?

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2005-06-22 02:23|| n/a]">[n/a] 2005-06-22 02:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Ahh, how I love to read a scholarly paper from the Lysenko Institute of Genetic Studies.

Actually, with the exception of America's Test Kitchen and Nova, PBS usually just threatens my ability to stay awake during pledge drives. (Seems like they have 'em every other week now. Zzzzz.)

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-06-22 02:31|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-06-22 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 LMAO!

Hey Ken, bring it. Just be man enough to take the punishment that is coming your way. I guess I sorta knock that house of cards to pieces. Then again, its like kicking puppies, picking on low grade morons like that author. But here goes anyway.

I'd compare SATs anytime. 780 verbal, 790 math. Masters, 2 bachelors, working on PhD.

IQ in excess of 160.

Life-long military and intelligence work. Some would say Patriotic. Catholic. Conservative. Classical (Edmund Burke) Liberal when it comes to freedom. American to my core.

And damn proud of it.

Now Kenny, go back to sleep, dont worry - there are plenty of us smart armed and patriotic types out here so you can sleep safe in your bed. Your betters in the military will take care of you even if you dont deserve it. Just dont think about us if we scare you that much that you have to make up lies about us to try to bring us down to your level.

Its really fairly pitiful that the author would spout pseudo scientific theories in order to comfort himself in his position as loser in a battle of intellgence, wills and ideals. Pitiful, but common in the self-delusional world the Left lives in these days.

Unlike the pusillanimous popinjay that penned the pitiful screed in question, I'm intelligent enough to know that freedom has a price, and honest enough to tell the truth about it; I know people who have paid that price.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-06-22 02:55|| 2005-06-22 02:55|| Front Page Top

#4 *Snicker* Ahh, yes. The New York Times once again presents us with a classic Insecure pseudointellectual (can someone give me the proper latin scientific classification for this common name? Thanks) slamming those he fears are better than he. Note the distinctive markings: claim of inherent genetic superiority, concern that environment may be a modifier (so he can blame it on Mummy and Daddy if he turns out to be wrong), egregious insult using childish images (piddling on the floor), and an unsubstantiated claim that dislike of one of his cherished icons equals intellectual inability.

What a pity the species hasn't gone extinct!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-22 04:35|| 2005-06-22 04:35|| Front Page Top

#5 What about the converse? If being conservative is a matter of genetics, then so is the opposite. So the real argument (such as it is!) is that conservatives are from the "shallow end" of the gene pool, something that the Dems floated after the election, but it sank.

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-22 08:14|| 2005-06-22 08:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Then there is my sister, who probably voted for McGovern, who told me she is getting more and more conservative with time. I told her she was just a little slow, but with age and experience comes wisdom - at least in the folks with the good genes.

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-22 08:16|| 2005-06-22 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Ahh, yes. Genetic Superiority. Where have we heard that before. The left and the fascists have become one.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-22 08:35|| 2005-06-22 08:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Editor note: Three "conservatives is genetic" stories were two to many. Thank you.

Posted by Steve ">Steve 2005-06-22 08:45|| 2005-06-22 08:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Fire up those bread ovens! We have work to do!!

Posted by Joseph Mengele 2005-06-22 08:59|| 2005-06-22 08:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Ken Schram is seattle's village idiot who regularly appears on KOMO TV.

If conservativism is due to gentics then what Ken is saying is akin to racism or gay-bashing. "Oh they cant help themselves because they are [ black | asian | gay | conservative | female | etc... ]

His email address is: kenschram@komo4news.com and he welcomes commentary (which is why I post his emial -- be nice now.)

You can view more of his BS here on the KOMO website.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-06-22 09:09|| 2005-06-22 09:09|| Front Page Top

#11 You can view more of his BS here on the KOMO website.

That's OK. I'd rather not. Life is too short.

(Would it be unsporting to say that he can't help writing dreck like this? I suspect it would be untrue as well).

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-06-22 09:17|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-06-22 09:17|| Front Page Top

#12 It's genetic.

Roe Effect.

Liberalism's doomed.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-06-22 09:19|| 2005-06-22 09:19|| Front Page Top

#13 ..working on PhD.

Ah, so some day we will be calling you "Dr. Spook"?

Has a nice ring to it.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-22 09:58|| 2005-06-22 09:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Desert Blondie---Ah, T.D. Lysenko, now there is a quack that rose to power way beyond the Peter Principle. Classic case of power grab and politics above science and well-established agricultural practices. Read a book years ago called, "the Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko." As Minister of Agriculture (or whatever they called him) he set Soviet agriculture back decades with his vernalization crap, etc.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-06-22 10:59|| 2005-06-22 10:59|| Front Page Top

#15 I am a conservative, have never voted Democrat in my life, but I firmly believe that for the good political health of our country we need two (or more) parties willing to rationally and civilly present their ideas to the electorate.

When I read stuff like this, it seems as if the Democrats are basically saying, "We're losing elections because the voters are stupid. See? It's in their untermenschen genetics." Once one subscribes to that, there is no desire to debate, only to coerce.

Not good for any of us.

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-06-22 11:49|| 2005-06-22 11:49|| Front Page Top

#16 LOL. Though genetics have, by his own account, blessed Kenny with a liberal set of blinders, it seems to have shorted him on intelligence and good looks! Kenny wants attention and cries out for it yet he offers nothing of substance in his "commentary." Lazy tree hut scholar is the most generous description available for Kenny. Dreadnaught is right. Lazy Kenny's found an easy (and very dangerous) answer to what is a complex question. Kenny's a proud and ignorant voice for the new bigotry.

Posted by Tkat 2005-06-22 12:32|| 2005-06-22 12:32|| Front Page Top

#17 Hint to the gene-mappers....

Look for the gene that controls logic.

Posted by Ebbomorong Ebbins3379 2005-06-22 12:57|| 2005-06-22 12:57|| Front Page Top

#18 No discussion of phrenology, Ken? Imagine my disappointment...

Posted by Raj 2005-06-22 13:08|| 2005-06-22 13:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Dr. Spook! I love it! And d@mn it, Old Spook, I only scored 1270 on SAT. Like the cowboy doing better at Yale than sKerry, methinks that Kenny is, oh, what do those psycho-babble call it? Oh yeah, PROJECTION! And, Dread, here's one of my favorite quotes describing how we grow up:

"If you're not liberal when you're younger, then you don't have heart/emotion. But if you're not conservative when you age, you're just flat out stupid!"

Posted by BA">BA 2005-06-22 14:22|| 2005-06-22 14:22|| Front Page Top

#20 Actually, in a way, the genetics argument is true. I was a socialist until a pair of pretty brown eyes came along.

Posted by badanov 2005-06-22 17:42|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-06-22 17:42|| Front Page Top

#21 Like many I started left - but...
Carter's little 28% interest rates destroyed my entry into the job market.
His dealing with the Shah and replacing him with a worse monster then pouting in the rose garden appalled me.
And I have to say it...
At the time I said that supporting Islam against the Russians in Afganistan would come back to bite us. It was a good 1 term policy but an awful long term one.

Never voted dem again.
Majority republican
Sometimes I vote for other parties
Sometimes I just write in Mickey Mouse
Once - anybody but the incumbent.

Oh and I don't know why Kerry bragged about his IQ and SAT. A president should be much smarter!

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-22 18:06|| 2005-06-22 18:06|| Front Page Top

#22 so.....

if my politics are genetically determined then I cant be blamed for them, since Im not really responsible for them... to paraphrase the argument on sexuality that the left likes to use.

Posted by Frank Martin">Frank Martin 2005-06-22 18:15|| www.varifrank.com]">[www.varifrank.com] 2005-06-22 18:15|| Front Page Top

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