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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Premises, premises

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“As an introduction there was a so-called “incentive lecture” by Prof. Wolfgang Benz, the chief anti-Semitism researcher of Germany, on the topic “Islam as Boogey Man — Myth or Reality?” He started off likening fear of the Muslim Brotherhood to fear of a Jewish world conspiracy, as written in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Then he drew a comparison that left us speechless. He compared the attention that critics of Islam give to the high number of Muslim inmates in Berlin prisons (about 70% according to Benz) to Adolf Hitler’s ranting over the high percentage of Jewish Berlin pediatricians in the 1930s (89% according to Benz). Both “attentions” he put on the same level of condemnation.” 
— Til Biermann and Clemens Heni, March 26, 2011 (pajamasmedia.com)

A common species of reductio ad absurdum is proof by contradiction (also called indirect proof) where a premise is proved true by proving that it is impossible for it to be false. It is understood that the method of proof must be based on logical inference, stemming from axiomatic truth. There's the rub.

If the logic evolves from axiomatic falsehood, however, reductio ad absurdum becomes the norm rather than the exception. This is why it is becoming impossible to settle most controversies today by civil discourse. This is why we live in a world gone mad.

Take The Obama (if you dare). If, as He is wont to do, He begins a remark with His signature, "Make no mistake", duck instantly, unless you enjoy eating shit. In The Obama lexicon "Make no mistake" means "I am about to hurl a crap sandwich in your direction". He is the quintessential pathological liar, which is to say an inveterate leftist.

The Obama Lexicon
When He says:He really means:
 make no mistake  I am about to hurl a crap sandwich in your direction 
 hope and change  hopey-dopey 
 trust me  run for your life 
 transparent  opaque 
 not one single dime  a couple of terabucks, give or take 
 shit  Shinola 
 Shinola  shit 
 some of my best friends are Jews  Helen Thomas and her ilk 
 up; black; give; in; etc.  down; white; take; out; anti-etc. (respectively) 
In a topsy-turvy, hopey-dopey world such as ours, you are well advised to go back to basics, namely, the smell test. If it smells like bullshit, it's probably Obama-speak.

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