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July 23, 2003
Medicare to Cover Conservatism Prevention Measures
by Scott Ott

(2003-07-23) -- Now that a report in Psychological Bulletin has identified the causes of political conservatism, Medicare and most private health plans will soon cover experimental preventative regimens for the syndrome.

According to the study, conservatism is brought on by several psychological factors including fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity, and uncertainty avoidance. Researchers emphasized that it is not an ideology arrived at by study, rational discourse and life experience.

"Conservatives should not be debated, anymore than you would try to talk someone out of schizophrenia," said the lead researcher who wrote the journal article. "They are to be pitied, medicated and confined to institutions when necessary."

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said he was "deeply saddened" to hear of the plight of America's conservatives. He called on his colleagues to be "tolerant, patient, but never patronizing to those sick individuals on the other side of the aisle."

While there is no cure for conservatism, early intervention by public schools and welfare agencies offers the best hope for prevention.

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Dang!

Posted by: Chester Cheetah at July 23, 2003 07:49 PM

I wondered how long it would take for Scott's response to that Berzerkly study.

Posted by: David at July 23, 2003 07:52 PM

Government-mandated inoculations, comin' right up! No, ma'am, don't worry about the amount of mercury in this shot...

Posted by: The Other Scott at July 23, 2003 08:07 PM

psssst! anyone here seen uncertainty? Don't tell em ya saw me! I'm so aggressively fearful right now that if I even venture close to the other side of the aisle uncertainty's carma will run over my dogma. Can anyone ( other than uncertainty) help me, please. Should I go back to school and pick up some food stamps on the way?
If I understand the article correctly---if Tolerant Tom Dasschole is president I can come out of hiding because of a new healthcare plan that he creates. He really is a nice man(iac) isn't he?. Id say I'm not sure about that but I am NOT uncertain...Im Avoidance.

Posted by: Avoidance at July 23, 2003 08:10 PM

My God, at first I thought that that was 100% a joke. But now... sheesh. i have never read or heard of something so condescending in my life.

Btw, these I diagnose these Berkley shmucks with bi-polar disorder, in the sense that they are too stupid to figure out that there is more going on in politics than a simple binary liberal-conservative dynamic.

consider this, to bring a little education to the debate. when the republican party was formed, they stood for self reliance, free labor, and they supported a war to uphold american values. The meanwhile the dems supported servitude and opposed a war to uphold american values. By contrast today the democrats... um... wait a minute, maybe there is something to this after all.

Posted by: Aaron at July 23, 2003 08:12 PM

Me am crazy... need money to makes the pain go aways. Too sick to work, will stay home in front of TV, sometime make baby with umm... her.

Make good baby! Two eye, breathes, look like baby. Put in crib until four send to Kind... Kend... skool.

Am also good demoncrap. Vote three times last elktion.

Am part of kollige studie. Am learn about all kind of smart demoncrap. They am pay well two.

More money for edjumakation... and democraps.

Posted by: Fr. Guido Sarducci at July 23, 2003 08:21 PM


Never leave your computer alone with a democratic microencephalic democrat who visits periodically from the neighboring trailer park, one can never tell what horrors might befall one's good name on Scrappleface.

Posted by: Fr. Guido Sarducci at July 23, 2003 08:25 PM

There is no bias in research only B..S

"Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of inequality, the authors said. Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan were individuals, but all were right-wing conservatives because they preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality in some form. Talk host Rush Limbaugh can be described the same way."

Right-wing conservatives? They call this research? If the "researchers" all were paid on the same scale as a hamburger flipper, then I would say they accept equality at all levels.

Racking frackin dddddddddddddooooooooooooh! I will not cuss. Nor think of their tiny pointy heads being devoured by ants, no.

How can they read 50,000 pieces of literature and still not see the bias of their research? The irony is at near lethal levels.

Posted by: Fr. Guido Sarducci at July 23, 2003 09:12 PM

Next comes the cure. I, Dr Bambi-Stokes Hymington, think eight years of President Bill Terwilliger should do the trick, especially if followed immediately by eight years of President Hillary.

Let's Role!!

Posted by: Dr Bambi Stokes-Hymington at July 23, 2003 09:35 PM

Bambi... tell us yer gender darlin. No fair peeking neither.

Posted by: Fr. Guido Sarducci at July 23, 2003 09:42 PM

I have often noticed - and commented upon - the amazing similarities among Hitler, Mussolini and Ronald Reagan. Although R.R. had no "go-to-hell" mustache, a la Hitler; and he had a full head of hair - unlike Benito M.; surely everyone has noticed the similar number of arms, legs, eyes, ears (and presumably "cojones") that could be counted in all three men. When R.R. mounted and dismounted from his helicopter, he often extended his right arm in a sort-of "wave" - easily seen as a carbon copy of the "Sieg Heil" salute. And we all have seen R.R. stand with his head tilted back, and his jaw thrust forth - well! If that's not Mussolini personified - who is it? I am not sure about their philosophies . . . I think R.R. may have been more of a "moderate" than the other two. Hard to say - he WAS the head of a union at one time - and even admitted he had been a (ugh!) Democrat in his youth (before age 60 or so.)

Posted by: Poppa Phillip at July 23, 2003 09:54 PM

Poppa Phillip,

At the risk of identifying myself as a hopeless history geek, as it happens one of the three might have been short one family jewel: Adolf Hitler. And face it, that would explain alot, now wouldn't it?

Really this noxious reductio ad Hitler logic has got to be reigned in a little.

Btw, where does Stalin fit into all this? A left wing dictator for sure.

Don't worry, they will quickly be laughed out of the business and thus will be utterly discredited.

Aaron

Posted by: Aaron at July 23, 2003 10:45 PM

Thirteenth!

Posted by: mooka at July 23, 2003 10:54 PM

"Hey---ya fruitcake, don't tell me to shut up! Come on over here big boy, I'll give ya such a beatin'! Ya, ya, fruitcake you!"

Posted by: Angry DIM who wants to replace Jerry Springer at July 23, 2003 11:03 PM

Bambi, all that would give us is something like...FRANCE. (Except for the winning of recent wars and all...)

Posted by: The Other Scott at July 23, 2003 11:46 PM

Bambi Bamboozled "darlin'" you posted: "Next comes the cure. I, Dr Bambi-Stokes Hymington, think eight years of President Bill Terwilliger should do the trick, especially if followed immediately by eight years of President Hillary. ---Let's Role!!

....that would also be referred to as Armageddon...and I don't believe it's suppose to last 16 years. Matter of fact the "true" Armageddon may be a welcome "relief" after the 192 months you suggest!---and it ain't gonna be pretty at all!!

b.t.w. ???....."role". as in "role playing"?...You oughta hit up Frenchfry for his dictionary!

Posted by: LF Cat(titude) in CO at July 23, 2003 11:52 PM

On the stump with the Rev. Alfred

Weaze always known the conservatives are sick,
(applause, laughter)
Sometimes you want to beat them with a stick
(more applause, cheering)
That Reagan, he shoulda never given up the flick,
Hitler, Stalin, Castro, and Bush for us well folk they are, well, they are just ick.
(Knowing nods)

But be quick
Elect me the second black prez after Slick
Cause I've got more of this shtick.
(laughter, applause, cheering)

By the way did I tell ya? I didn't serve in Vietnam with the Mick?
(Various murmurrings - such as, "I didn't know John F. Kerry served in Vietnam."
"He's not talking about Kerry, Kerry is Jewish. He said Mick."
"Kerry looks French to me."

"Huh, oh I see, that is Sharpness-sans. That explains why there are so many people here; I thought this was a Mosley-Braun gathering.")

And fade......

Posted by: Rev. Alfred Sharpness-sans at July 24, 2003 03:42 AM

Why should this be a medicare program?

Wouldn't we be better served if it where a CHIPs program? Gotta catch them young, ya know.

Posted by: Jericho at July 24, 2003 03:44 AM

This study seems to be very strange. Here, in Brazil, I can identify many of the so-called brazilian 'liberals' in US's vocabulary (here, 'liberals = liberais' is used as US's word for 'conservatives'...) .

What could we do without UCBerkeley's study? :-)

Posted by: brazilian, but not stupid at July 24, 2003 06:12 AM

Another one teed up and knocked out of the park. LMAO!

Posted by: Pooke at July 24, 2003 10:39 AM

Hey Reverend! You packed and ready to head to Liberia?

Posted by: some random guy at July 24, 2003 10:43 AM

Okay, in order to be ìfair and balancedî and in the absence of Dr. Stuhl, I will attempt a quick analysis of the psychological make-up of a liberal.

The major symptoms of liberalism include:

• Arrogance; inability to see viewpoints of others
• Indiffference; inability to separate right from wrong
• Control Issues: Need to control as much of other peoples lives as possible
• Schizophrenia: Can hold varying viewpoints on a single issue
• Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder: Repeating the same arguments over and over regardless of their accuracy or relevancy.

Examples of liberalism would include:
-Marx
-Castro
-Charlie Rangle
-Any and all of the interchangeables

Posted by: Pooke at July 24, 2003 10:43 AM

The above research was qualified by several years of watching Crossfire and Hannity and Colmes.

Posted by: Pooke at July 24, 2003 10:47 AM

FYI
I couldn't help but respond to this ridiculous article in the Bezerkley bulletin (not that it will change anything, but I feel better). Here it is.
Regarding the article, "Researchers Help Define What Makes a Political Conservative", please tell me this is a joke. If it is not an attempt at humor, then it is pure hog slop and these four researchers have wasted a lot of time and money. It might have been more enlightening to have studied what makes the liberal left as they are.

Posted by: joylily at July 24, 2003 10:48 AM

the worst thing is, it was probably paid for with our tax dollars

Posted by: Cassandra at July 24, 2003 11:01 AM

If the worst is that it was paid for with our tax dollars, I guess the second worse thing is that several of us actually wasted several minutes of our lives reading it, to determine for ourselves that yes, indeed, it is a masterpiece of tautological tomfoolery. Goodbye, minutes!

Posted by: Carolinian at July 24, 2003 11:18 AM

My G*d! I thought the comments by 'Dr Bambi Stokes-Hymington' were sarcastic - you mean that was serious!? I knew people hated America, but I had no idea that those same people really, truly wanted to see us go straight to Hell.

Posted by: Never, Ever, Ever Hillary at July 24, 2003 12:02 PM

Where are we going, and what are we doing in this handbasket?

Posted by: mj larkins at July 24, 2003 02:02 PM

Oops. I meant to say that I wrote an email response to the Berzerkley Bulletin. Still no response from them.

Posted by: joylily at July 24, 2003 04:22 PM

they're ignoring you because your email is obviously based on fear and aggression, terror management, dogmatism and need for cognitive closure.

Posted by: Cassandra at July 24, 2003 07:22 PM

Hehehehe. Cassandra brings up the real kicker here- people are going to use this, with a straight face, to create the most embarrassing logical loop-the-loop in the history of debate.

Your conservative views are feuled by your mental illness. Because you've been confirmed mentally ill, your insistance that the Berkely assertations are illogical only proves our point.

Which is more or less how they're going to be reading your e-mails.

Posted by: HitNRunI95 at July 25, 2003 12:32 AM

mmmm - Terror Management!

Posted by: Dark Riders at July 25, 2003 06:28 AM

The lack of intelligent life on US college campuses is made painfully apparent by this study. Do you think if we all pointed at them and laughed uproariously, they would get the point?

Doubt it.

Posted by: Tex at July 25, 2003 02:24 PM

Tex: Hey! Just don't point at me. Point at the far-far-far-far-far-leftist-socialists who run my college's library. I heard the most tolerant comment from one of them. "Oh, great, here comes that right-winger!" (not in response to me - they saw a conservative faculty member coming their way. If only they'd known that there were THREE right-wingers present - him, me, and my brother.) They had been discussing the war in Iraq and how nasty the "Shrub" was. You get the idea.

Posted by: Ken Stein at July 25, 2003 07:35 PM

Sounds a lot like Nazi Germany and the Russian Gulags,
i.e. people expressing any political ideology different than my own has a mental illness and we must shut them up in mental institutions, sterialize them and perhaps do a few thousand lobotomies.

Don't laugh too much at these sick people. Keep your eye on them. Crazy things have happened in the world and it seems like it's getting disturbingly ludicrous.

>^..^

Posted by: Catracks at July 28, 2003 03:32 PM