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Obama and McCain Walk Into a Bar ...
The New YorkTimes ^ | NOV. 3, 2008 | JOHN TIERNEY

Posted on 12/04/2018 3:17:43 PM PST by daniel1212

Do conservatives have more fun? Should liberals start describing themselves as humor-challenged?..

why didn’t the liberals in the Boston experiment like the nonsense humor of “Deep Thoughts” as much as the conservatives did? ... Rod Martin, the author of “The Psychology of Humor,” said the results of the Boston study might reflect another trait that has been shown to correlate with a taste for jokes: cheerfulness....

“Conservatives tend to be happier than liberals in general,” said Dr. Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario. “A conservative outlook rationalizes social inequality, accepting the world as it is, and making it less of a threat to one’s well-being, whereas a liberal outlook leads to dissatisfaction with the world as it is, and a sense that things need to change before one can be really happy.”

Another possible explanation is that conservatives, or at least the ones in Boston, really aren’t the stiffs they’re made out to be by social scientists. When these scientists analyze conservatives, they can sound like Victorians describing headhunters in Borneo. They try to be objective, but it’s an alien culture...

The studies hailing liberals’ nonconformity and “openness to ideas” have been done by social scientists working in a culture that’s remarkably homogenous politically. Democrats outnumber Republicans by at least seven to one on social science and humanities faculties,...

Could it be that the image of conservatives as humorless, dogmatic neurotics is based more on political bias than sound social science?

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: conservative; manliness; religion
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To: Tenacious 1
Conservatives are more traditionally the rugged, independent individuals that our founders aspired all Americans to be. That character trait tends to create ambition and achievement. Folks that work hard and earn their way tend to be more confident, more charitable and happier in general. They have a sense of control in their own destiny. They do not fear the future

True, in contrast to claiming victim status and being owed benefits otherwise eared by merit. But that is not the psychological disposition that liberals would like for people to have, since they inculcate this in order to gain themselves and audience and power, as the devil did with Eve.

21 posted on 12/04/2018 4:02:13 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: BeauBo

I looking for something. false advertising for this thread.


22 posted on 12/04/2018 4:02:38 PM PST by dirtymac
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To: Karliner
Maybe that’s why leftists can’t meme, understand satire, sarcasm, off color jokes. They’re offended by everything.

Today's universities are sadly largely the model for what the future would be under increasing liberal control. I do not approve of off color jokes, but for Christian moral reasons, not political correctness.

23 posted on 12/04/2018 4:05:52 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

I think obama/mccain have deep throats


24 posted on 12/04/2018 4:07:04 PM PST by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: daniel1212

The nyt’s Throat is raw with mueller


25 posted on 12/04/2018 4:08:58 PM PST by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: BeauBo

The bartender said “We don’t serve assholes”, so they both walked out.


26 posted on 12/04/2018 4:09:23 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: daniel1212

Are they saying that McCain is a conservative?


27 posted on 12/04/2018 4:13:07 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: daniel1212
Obama and McCain Walk Into a Bar......

Maybe it just my dry Downeast sense of humor...but I found that quite humorous in and of itself...The possibilities of the punchline is unlimited....especially at the Bars I frequent.....

28 posted on 12/04/2018 4:13:33 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: daniel1212
I sometimes go up to the university just to see what is going on and it's fraught with left wing groups, trans everything multiculturalism, hate of Israel, serious paganism and satanism( including classes), false science( cliate change, evolution etc) , name it it's like the "hedges" in the Bible. Has to be worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. Has to be.

I don't like off color either but like you I an a follower of The Way. Some i deal with but a person can make a clean joke sans the nasty words. Do love the wit, and everything I posted. I just love to laugh. Used to do a humor group in state hospitals, acute and prisons.

29 posted on 12/04/2018 4:14:37 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: bigbob
Obama and McCain Walk Into a Bar......

you would think at least one of them would have missed it...

(*Originally a Blonde joke)

30 posted on 12/04/2018 4:17:27 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Karliner

Someone once posted here that he was at an Obama fundraiser with an open bar. Obama walked up to the bar and said to the bartender, “Make me a zombie.” The bartender said, “God beat me to it.”

That might have been Mr. Wright, who I thought several times was Steven Wright, but if so he wouldn’t admit it.


31 posted on 12/04/2018 4:20:41 PM PST by firebrand
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To: daniel1212
I think you are performing too many mental gymnastics over an article that is over 10 years old...........

So what DID happen when McCain and Obama walked into that bar?

32 posted on 12/04/2018 4:24:53 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: daniel1212

Ten year old article but probably even more relevant today.


33 posted on 12/04/2018 4:27:36 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: Karliner
That's why I don't have liberal friends or even acquaintances anymore. I avoid them like the plague.

Because none of them can take a "f*ckin' joke"!

No sense of humor. No positive, upbeat look at life. No count your blessings. No look on the bright side of things. Nothing positive at all.

They're all offended haters, victims, sour personalities, woe-is-me, doom and gloom people who couldn't have a good time even if they brought the party to them.

Rub elbows with those "type" folks too much and it starts to have a negative effect on your own outlook after a while.

So from long experience trying to deal with liberals, I find it best just to avoid them completely and not have them to deal with in your life.

Problem solved.

:-)

34 posted on 12/04/2018 4:44:02 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: daniel1212

“... rationalizes social inequality...”

That us all I needed to read to know the bias.


35 posted on 12/04/2018 6:23:31 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: daniel1212

“... rationalizes social inequality...”

That us all I needed to read to know the bias.


36 posted on 12/04/2018 6:23:38 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

A Communist, a homosexual and a Muslim walk into a bar, the bartender says, “Well hello, Barack!”


37 posted on 12/04/2018 6:25:00 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BBB333

I had a zombie many years ago. Talk about an appropriately named drink.


38 posted on 12/04/2018 6:43:04 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Break it off in 'em, Brett. They've earned it, and you've earned it.)
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39 posted on 12/04/2018 7:09:51 PM PST by bkopto
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To: SkyDancer
BRAvo !😀
40 posted on 12/04/2018 7:11:01 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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