http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=soothing Thu, 23 May 2013 20:06:41 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=soothing Wed, 02 May 2012 23:56:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8da_1336016915 MB-UK The Pentagon wants to understand the science behind what makes people violent. The question is what do they plan to do with it? In February this year, the US government was forced into full damage limitation mode. News that US troops in Afghanistan had sent copies of the Koran to be incinerated, sparked a wave of deadly protests that left 36 people dead and more than 200 injured. Despite an apology from President Barack Obama and assurances that the burning was accidental, the public relations offensive launched to counter the damage done to the military's reputation and stem the violence showed little sign of success. Now imagine that instead of employing public relations experts to advise on the best strategy, US officials had a device that could advise them what to say, generating a story based on a scientific understanding of the brain's inner workings to soothe tempers and calm the mood of the population. It sounds like something from a science fiction blockbuster, but is in fact the premise behind the Pentagon's growing interest in the neurobiology of political violence, a relatively new field that combines neuroscience with more traditional social science-based approaches to understanding human behaviour. One programme, started last year by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), even looks at finding ways to generate versions of events that could be used in attempts to persuade people not to support the enemy. Known as Narrative Networks , it seeks to "understand how narratives influence human thoughts and behaviour, then apply those findings to a security context in order to address security challenges such as radicalization, violent social mobilization, insurgency and terrorism, and conflict prevention and resolution," says William Casebeer, the Darpa official leading the work. The idea is straightforward: scientists have long known that narratives exert a powerful force on the human mind, helping to shape people's concept of individual and group identities, even motivating them to conduct violent acts. Some bloggers and people posting on Twitter have suggested the Pentagon is seeking to elevate brainwashing to a science. "Darpa looking to master propaganda via Narrative Networks,'" read the headline of a report on the science news website Phys.org, for example, alongside countless similar blog posts and tweets. Those involved in the research disagree. "None of the work we are doing, nor anyone else I know in the Narrative Networks group, is about increasing the ability of soldiers or sailors to kill people or to brainwash people," says Paul Zak, a professor at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, who specializes in neuroeconomics, and whose work has been funded by the Darpa program. Zak and others see this type of research being used in the shaping of messages that shows the US military in the best possible light, such as by highlighting its humanitarian work abroad. "Is there a way to hold events that might publicise things like healthcare, public health factors, tooth brushing for children and you could give away half a million toothbrushes," he says. "There could be things that help countries understand that most of the time what we want to do is get along with everybody." Zak's work involves trying to understand how listening to stories affects the brain's natural release of oxytocin, sometimes called the trust hormone. "Why are we grabbed by some stories and not others?' he says. "It just seems like a great question to ask." To test his theories, Zak uses an experiment that involves involves university students watching a short video featuring a father describing his son's battle with brain cancer. After watching the video, Zak measures oxytocin levels in the blood of the participants, as well as their willingness to give the money they've earned from participating in the experiment to charity. "Our hypothesis is that this connection system that human beings have, which utilizes oxytocin, is activated by these same kinds of narratives, these same kinds of stories," he says.---- Source and more at: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120501-building-the-like-me-weapon http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8da_1336016915 MB-UK The Pentagon's <span class="highlight">soothing</span> device pentagon, USA, like, me, device, soothing, propaganda, war, diplomacy, people, opinions, violence Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:02:23 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=028_1284143590 HydrogenEconomy koran burning edition feat. The Bloodhound Gang http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=028_1284143590 HydrogenEconomy <span class="highlight">Soothing</span> campfire soothing,campfire,koran,burning,bloodhound,gang Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:25:37 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d20_1291075567 star53 Wonderful Chill Out Music - Beautiful Nature Relaxation and soothing music video. Music: Envio - Touched by the sun Rusch and Elusive chill out mix to help you unwind. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d20_1291075567 star53 Wonderful Chill Out Music - Beautiful Nature [Hd] Relaxation,soothing,unwind,Beautiful, Nature,Touched by the sun,Envio,Music Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:10:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=976_1271598079 smazer a Saturday Morning Cipher guided meditation http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=976_1271598079 smazer <span class="highlight">Soothing</span> Moments 'smaze' 'conrad newholmes' 'saturday morning cipher' Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:45:58 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2f1_1231554145 CoolQcumber "We are the only company in the world that does music for, by and with animals and we are doing really well with it," says the creator of the CD Songs to Make Dogs Happy (Photos by CoolQcumber Models Name:Roxy......:D) VANCOUVER - Skip Haynes and Dana Walden are all about making the world a better place for dogs, and their CD, Songs to Make Dogs Happy, is a hit with four-legged music fans. "I wish my old band got the kind of response from humans that this disc gets from dogs," said Haynes, producer and lead vocalist. The music, with titles like You're a Good Dog and Adventure Dog, is relentlessly happy and upbeat. "It's actually a bit nauseating for humans, although people do get addicted to it," said Haynes. "Especially Squeaky Deakey." Dogs do not like sad or angry music, he explained. And they checked to make sure dogs liked what they were doing musically and lyrically. "You can't use the word No, or they just shut down," he said. "And you need to avoid rimshots; they tend to upset the dogs that come from neighbourhoods where there is a lot of gun play." Songs to Make Dogs Happy was tested on 250 dogs in focus groups at animal shelters and in other settings by Dr. Kim Ogden, a top animal communicator approached by Haynes to participate in the making of the album. "I told her we wanted to do music for animals and involve them in the creative process," Haynes said. ``I asked if she could act as a translator for us and she said 'Sure.'" "She is a doctor of public health and wanted to do things very scientifically, testing everything qualitatively and quantitively," he explained. "She insisted that we test over 200 dogs." Ogden tested different types of music on dogs over several months and helped define dog-friendly music and lyric content. The result is striking, though a bit saccharine for human consumption. "Nearly all dogs respond to it," Haynes said. He recommends the CD to calm jangly nerves and ease separation anxiety. The latest version of the CD is the most recent in a growing library of animal-related recordings. Stoked by the early success of Ugly Dogs Need More Love and Cat-A-Tonic, which featured Nora the Piano Cat of YouTube fame, they decided to go into animal records whole hog. Haynes and Walden have a number of other animal titles, including a CD by Koko the Gorilla and one that they cut with Carla the parrot titled I'm a Green Chicken. Koko vetted all the lyrics and helped out with the mixing for her album. Carla was very nearly registered with the American Society of Composer, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) as the first non-human musical artist, but hit a wall when she couldn't get a social security number. "We are the only company in the world that does music for, by and with animals and we are doing really well with it," he said from his Los Angeles offices. "We started it nine years ago as a goof, but it has really taken off." Songs to Make Dogs Happy is constantly updated by Haynes and Walden, who also plays and sings backup vocals. It is selling so well in fact that they are already recording songs for Song to Make Dogs Happy II. "We just started yesterday," said Haynes. "And we are working on one for horses, especially for horse rescue." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2f1_1231554145 CoolQcumber Dogs lap up <span class="highlight">soothing</span> tunes humans find beastly Dogs,Music,Pets, Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:38:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=985_1192847899 Islam_TheTruth http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=985_1192847899 Islam_TheTruth Nasheed (Heart <span class="highlight">Soothing</span>) Nasheed, Islam, Truth, Belief, light, Jew, Christanity, Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:52:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ea_1207522341 Ubernathe Penguin Cafe Orchestra - BBC Broadcast '89 The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was a loose assembly of musicians headed by classically-trained guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes (Sussex, England, 1949-1997). Only Jeffes and cellist co-founder Helen Liebmann were core members; other musicians were drafted for the requirements of particular pieces or performances. Its sound does not fit easy categorization, but has elements of exuberant folk music and a minimalist aesthetic occasionally reminiscent of Philip Glass. The Penguin Cafe Orchestra recorded and performed for 24 years until Jeffes died of a brain tumour in 1997. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ea_1207522341 Ubernathe Perpetuum Mobile music, relax ,chill ,penguin, cafe, orchestra, soothing, uplifting, genius, Simon, Jeffes, tumour, 24 ,years, BBC Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:36:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7c9_1207521396 Ubernathe Penguin Cafe Orchestra - BBC Broadcast '89 The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was a loose assembly of musicians headed by classically-trained guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes (Sussex, England, 1949-1997). Only Jeffes and cellist co-founder Helen Liebmann were core members; other musicians were drafted for the requirements of particular pieces or performances. Its sound does not fit easy categorization, but has elements of exuberant folk music and a minimalist aesthetic occasionally reminiscent of Philip Glass. The Penguin Cafe Orchestra recorded and performed for 24 years until Jeffes died of a brain tumour in 1997. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7c9_1207521396 Ubernathe Music For A Found Harmonium music, relax ,chill ,penguin ,cafe, orchestra ,soothing ,uplifting ,genius, Simon, Jeffes, tumour, 24, years, BBC Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:24:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75a_1207520658 Ubernathe Penguin Cafe Orchestra - BBC Broadcast '89 The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was a loose assembly of musicians headed by classically-trained guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes (Sussex, England, 1949-1997). Only Jeffes and cellist co-founder Helen Liebmann were core members; other musicians were drafted for the requirements of particular pieces or performances. Its sound does not fit easy categorization, but has elements of exuberant folk music and a minimalist aesthetic occasionally reminiscent of Philip Glass. The Penguin Cafe Orchestra recorded and performed for 24 years until Jeffes died of a brain tumour in 1997. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75a_1207520658 Ubernathe Air music ,relax, chill, penguin, cafe, orchestra ,soothing, uplifting, genius, Simon, Jeffes, tumour, 24, years, BBC Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:39:39 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e6_1360485347 Hitler_Is_Amazing MORE ON REGISTRATION (I have included several of the responses as t hey are relevant to the dilemna many of us not in a Free State may face very soon. All relevant comments are welcome, stupid ones might get deleted. ~HIA) and I would concur that the issue is not about background checks but about registration. We've already had defacto registration in the United States since 1968, through the 4473 you fill out with every purchase. But it's weak tea when it comes to our main concern. With California putting confiscation of registered firearms on the table, that's going to change the dynamic for many of our people. Let me offer you a scenario, where a confiscation bill is passed, but they pass it out of the gate, with a failure to do registration first. First, the knock at the door is unlikely, because they don't know what I have. Sure, they could recall all the 4473s, but I think that would be met with mass civil disobedience. The proper response to such an order would be for gun dealers to take all their 4473s out into the streets and burn them. But would they? Even if dealers turn in their 4473s, and a registry is compiled from it, you were still free to sell those firearms privately. If the knock does come at the door "Oh, you know, when it looked like they were going to pass that bill, I went to a gun show and sold them all." Perfectly legal. "Yeah, I checked the guy's ID, but I didn't keep any record of who he was." Perfectly legal. Not that I'd suggesting saying anything to cops who show up at your door, but just to illustrate here. In the event that private sales are banned, if a California-style confiscation bill is passed, you will have no options. If you answer that you sold the guns without "registering" them, you're still going to jail. You just admitted to a crime. If you tell them you lost them on a camping trip when your canoe tipped over, well, now you know what "lost and stolen" is really all about. You're in a no win situation. They know what you have, and if you don't have it, you're a criminal. If you do have it, you're a criminal. You're screwed. I am very concerned we're going to get a private transfer ban rammed down our throats, and if we do, I can only hope it can have enough exceptions tacked onto it such that it does not make for an effective registry. The anti-gun folks have to understand this: we don't trust you. We don't trust the politicians. Confiscation is on the table. Your machinations that it is not are soothing lies meant to trick the more gullible among us. They barely avoided confiscation in New York, and now California is floating a bill to confiscate registered firearms. I am very sympathetic to the concern background checks are meant to address, but the whole system would have to be rethought from the ground up before we're going to agree to apply them universally. It might also help to tell politicians and radicals in your own movement that if you want to have some credibility with "we're not out to take your guns," it would help to stop floating proposals that would, you know, take our guns. Related posts (automatically generated): De Facto Registry? Registration in Pennsylvania Rapid Tracing of Firearms 9 Responses to "More on Registration" Miguel says: FEB 9, 2013 AT 1:31 PM There is a way to "give in" to the Universal Background check avoiding registration: Allow citizens access to NICS. No FFL, no record keeping other than a bill of sale and a NICS approval number on the bill. If I am not mistaken, there is an online NICS already in place for FFLs. Just make it accessible to anybody and I would even say charge a small fee for it so the costs of using it are covered. reply McThag says: FEB 9, 2013 AT 2:46 PM Not screwed. Now free to have any gun I want, including a machinegun. All I have to do to confirm that is talk to the local drug dealers. They all have guns, they're all convicted felons. reply Harry Schell says: FEB 9, 2013 AT 3:16 PM Any banned or unregistered weapon could be seized when a LEO sees it, the owner brought up on charges. The state can go after those who have registered, as it has the time, but you cannot use a banned weapon, even for a lawful purpose, without facing charges yourself. This has another dimension. Since you are now a criminal, you will be reluctant to discuss what you have with others. You will be reluctant to travel with the banned weapon, lest an ordinary traffic issue turn into felony charges and seizure. You are guilty, which will color any interaction with LEO's, not knowing what they know or don't. This tends to isolate people from each other. It makes planning for emergencies more difficult, the formation of a militia in response to any significant threat harder. You are somewhat immobilized, and should develop distrust in LEO's or any government rep. Having someone do work in your home may be problematic for the amount of space you have to conceal "bad stuff". Damage is done to the fabric of society, and the hold of government increased for the walls one builds to stay safe from seizure and jail. Since government can't get them all, when they do find someone, an example will be made, to the fullest extent of law and the imagination of a prosecutor. They'll examine your dog to find out if they can add sodomy to the writ. You can bet any family members they can get to will have their homes tossed, in case they are accomplices and also can be charged. It's for the children, y'know. Resistance is not futile, but it has a price, general and individual. reply mattcfii says: FEB 9, 2013 AT 9:38 PM I agree that registration leads to confiscation. But in my book, hypothetically, confiscation day is the last straw for me. Too many people have the the exact mentality that burying your guns is the response to registration and that just allows allows them to weaken and divide us. Not registering prevents you from starting in the political fight and practicing with that firearm until finally come for it. I understand that registering means they come for me sooner, but since I'm waiting my first NFA item, that is already a given. I know that doesn't necessarily mean an instant raid. California can't even go after all the felons they know have guns, the NFA database does have holes. I don't think they can find everybody or even attempt to get everyone at once. It will give time for a hopefully peaceful response and others to prepare and dig up their guns. As the cliche goes if it is time to bury your guns, it's time to use them. "First they came for the Jews..." and first they come for the still registered "assault weapons..." This will divide us publicly, but you guys that don't register better be there to back us up with all your unregistered stuff and have better upped the firepower since you are no longer confined by the law. I would agree more with the whole "I just won't register" line of thought if it didn't make me a criminal and force me underground well before where I think most people will draw the line. Most people will take Sebastian's line of thought, they won't register and they'll go in hiding instead of forcing the issue (which I believe should be peaceful public protest and civil disobedience but self defense is a human right). The problem with sticking your head in the sand and losing all your firearms on a boat trip is that having an unregistered gun will be a felony. A decent number of 4473s, NRA membership (you still should be a member to prevent all this), internet gun forum/blog posts, or East German style informants (nosey neighbors, anti co-workers, family members) will quickly be enough probable cause for a search warrant with this weakened 4th Amendment. They will find many of you and your hidden unregistered guns (actually they will come for some of you first but you will be painted as criminals and the remaining legal owners will be limited with what we can do). Of course, no longer being on the legal side you can then go to the blackmarket after that. But, how are you going to confirm function and gain proficiency with these new to you firearms of questionable functionality? Plus there was that trip to Club Fed... Now, I do think no one in New York should register right now, there is still a lot of legal fight left. But if it comes to that on a National level, I'd be registering because the rest of you will be trying to lay low and leave the political fight. I'd be waiting to the last possible second to do that, hoping SAF pulls it out, but I'd still stay on the legal side. I'll be out there they fighting politically after registration because so many of you will then be out of it. It will be a lonely fight that will be a losing one with how little support I will have. Remember that many people underground kills the industry and its support. While I believe our true strength is our grassroots, you will all be underground seeds. Our sunlight, fertilizer, and water of NRA, industry, and pro gun rights politicians will be gone. I will be one of those few wilted blades of grass, ready to be cut down. The rest of you better sprout up fast before all is lost. It's a good thing that is all hypothetical!!! Now is the time to stop them. With the darkness of registration, how it really ends is the antis get their long game to just run out the clock as gun culture slowly dies due to the division killing our lawn. Why cut the grass when you can just wait for the drought? http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/02/09/more-on-registration/ reply Bryan S. says: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e6_1360485347 Hitler_Is_Amazing ON THE COMING GUN REGISTRATION IN MANY (POLICE) STATES gun grab, police state, tyranny, obama, democrats, nazi america Sun, 02 Dec 2012 04:46:35 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=153_1354441466 Baysangur An 8-year-old Florida boy plays the harp in hopes of soothing patients in the lobby of the hospital treating his mother for cancer. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=153_1354441466 Baysangur Boy plays harp to sooth cancer patients eight year old cancer mother harp play for patients radiatian boy Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:17:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=34f_1351616872 Bob_Lablaw The Obama Campaign, that strange 4-year marriage of Generation X hipsters, inner city bosses, suburban college educated boomers longing for racial healing, Big Green businessmen and shady Saudis, appears to be finally sinking beneath the waves. It isn't going out in a blaze of glory, but with mumbles of trending topics. . Obama was always a petty man and his campaign has descended into pointless pettiness, into Team Big Bird, binders full of women and bayonets and horses. Like so much hipster culture, it exists so that the participants can entertain each other with something that no one else thinks is funny or clever. And that elitism is precisely the point. It's the last resort of losers who hide from their lack of taste behind walls of exclusivity. Abandoning mass appeal, Obama is getting back to his roots of entertaining upper middle class college kids with his 'hipness'; both actual college kids and the overgrown middle aged variety that make up the professional class of the mediacracy who treat the rest of the country the way that they treated the natives on their Peace Corps assignments. The Obama Campaign was never serious, but it once aspired to an Oprah level of seriousness, to the dignity of the self-help sections where trite observations are recited with great solemnity so that they sound like they must mean more than they do. For the Northeastern New York Times reader, Obama held out the promise of atonement for the country's grave racial sins. For the San Francisco wind farm executive, he offered the prospect of a presidency that would be one long endless TED talk with plenty of subsidies for the cunning Greenvestor. And the college student would finally have a president who watched the same shows, listened to the same music and got the same jokes making him the perfect Resident Adviser for the country. Obama wasn't actually interesting, he just seemed interesting in a cursory sort of way Two biographies and four years later those same people have learned that, like that party guest who mentions that he's a nuclear physicist, a poet and an explorer of supernatural phenomena, Obama wasn't actually interesting, he just seemed interesting in a cursory sort of way. Obama's biography made him an interesting party guest, but not past a 5-minute chat, and it in no way qualified him to hold the country' top job during an economic crisis and two wars. Obama's seriously intent tone, the one that signals you to pay attention, no longer works on even the faithful. Like Pavlov's dogs, they have stopped coming once they realized that just because the bell rings doesn't mean that dinner or a functional economy will be served. The weighty tone that he once used to deploy to great effect, borrowing the tricks of the preachers that he encountered in his huckstering days, has come to seem as empty as Oprah's smile or Bill Clinton's sincere head nod, just another of the tricks of hollow public personalities signifying nothing. For years and years, he has talked and said nothing of any import. All the talk, the endless speeches and addresses, the verbal and facial tics that indicated seriousness of purpose, have never led to one single thing. Not one problem solved, not one crisis resolved and not one plan laid out and completed in four years with something to show for it. Somewhere along the way, Obama became boring Somewhere along the way, Obama became boring. He became that one man at a party that you don't want to talk to because he will go on forever and all his chatter leads nowhere, because for all his conversational skills, he is capable of nothing but talk. And after talking to him for ten hours, you don't know him any better than you did after ten minutes. Voting for Obama was never the right choice objectively, but it was the right cultural choice, it was the trend, the impulse that everyone seemed to be following, the style that everyone was wearing and the book that everyone was reading. But trends like that don't last. How many people will have Lady Gaga songs in their players or Fifty Shades of Grey on their bookshelves ten years from now? This too is the fate of the president of the trending topic, the commander-in-chief of the pet rock and the mood ring with his binders full of women and t-shirts with pictures of horses and bayonets on them. A joke that like Snakes on a Plane or All Your Base Are Belong To Us never gets old until 5 minutes later. When times are bad, people have a well-known escapist streak. During the Great Depression, lavish musicals were popular. After September 11, Zoolander topped the box office. Facing two wars and a failed economy, the American people followed their own escapist streak to a smooth talking trickster with a soothing bag of promises that were too good to be true. Who wanted to listen to McCain, a man who looked like a walking war injury and kept talking about sacrifice, when you could get big bags of free stuff from a man who offered a post-racial society as a free gift with every vote. Americans escaped to Obama and now they're escaping from Obama Americans escaped to Obama and now they're escaping from Obama. The vacation was already being cut short in 2012 and now it's approaching its blackout date. Instead of taking Americans away from everything, Obama took everything away from them, and now they're gearing up to take it all back and put him on a back shelf next to last summer's beach reads and last decade's pop hits. Obama is over. And confronting his 'overness', that deadliest of fates for a hipster, he is crawling back to pander to his original audience, the graphic designers who put together posters of him on their free time; the celebrities who were eager to form his Jack Pack, to be his Joey Bishop or his Marylin Monroe; the musicians singing about him; the netroots bloggers cranking out their sensations of euphoric immediacy at being in his presence and the professional leftists cheering for him to take down the American Empire like Godzilla took down Tokyo. But all the trending memes with hashtags and Tumblr pages, the calculatingly overexposed Instagram photos and the celebrities scribbling things on their hands and Twitpiccing the results, can't bring back the thing that's over. And even if they could, it won't make a difference to the election. Hipsters like things that are different before they become popular, because it makes them seem like interesting people. Once something is popular then liking it no longer means that you're interesting, instead it comes with the ego-deflating revelation that you are just like everyone else, except more so. There's no point to liking Obama anymore. Not when Obama is everywhere, more overexposed than Instagram, grinning from every corner, from every screen and magazine cover, selling out to get ahead and making the old faithfuls wonder if he ever stood for anything at all. Theirs is the sad burden of knowing that they will never have their own JFK who died, tragically and horrifyingly, before he could dive all the way into Vietnam, before stories of his carousing hit the papers forcing him to go on television and insist that he never had sex with any of those women. Obama will not be immortalized by a Communist with a rifle. Instead he is doomed to be mortal, his hair turning white and his musical tastes turning worse. Any day now he will admit to a fondness for Kenny G and after that there will be no saving him from the dread ravages of time. And so he is over because the alternative to him being over is the tastemakers having to confront their own overness. Their own mortality. If Obama were cannier than he seems, then he would embrace his own fakeness, becoming a self-constructed celebrity, glorifying in his own artificiality, until like Lady Gaga or Lana Del Rey and every third hip hop star with a pulse, his very fakeness would serve as proof of his inventiveness and his media savvy. Such an Obama would present a birth certificate showing that he was born in Kenya to challenge our notions of identity, admit to squandering all the country's money for its own good and keep us entertained with his latest antics. It might not win him the election, but considering the example of Zoolander, it might, because then instead of being over, he would be a new escape all over again. But Obama is determined to be a hipster to the very end, instead of embracing the shamelessness of his own media manipulations, he veers erratically between an insincere sincerity and the sneer of the spitefully superior. It's the performance we saw in the third debate, the antics of every college kid you ever argued with, that combination of smugness and insecurity that marks the hipster as an impossible conversationalist. The only thing sadder than a hipster is a wannabe hipster and that's what Obama is now The only thing sadder than a hipster is a wannabe hipster and that's what Obama is now, a man in search of a meme, a one-man band in search of an artfully touching documentary about its travails in the wilds of Portland and a flat line in search of its trend. Obama does not know how to govern. He does not know how to address the economy or war. The one thing he knows how to do is be popular. That is the one and only skill that he has cultivated in his life. And it is a good skill for a politician, but a politician whose only skill is popularity had better avoid taking responsibility for anything that might make him unpopular. Popularity is a trend, and like every reality show star still pounding away on Twitter five years later, trying to move their latest CD or comedy club appearance, Oprah's most popular boy toy since Dr. Oz has failed to realize that he is no longer popular, his moment has passed, his relevance is through and no one wants a man whose only skills are on-camera skills to be the one standing between them and economic oblivion. The country doesn't hate him, but it is tired of him. It wakes up every morning, remembers the time everyone got drunk and decided to vote for the cool black dude who talked a lot about hope, winces and then forgets about him all over again until it looks at the latest economic news. It's over him and it wishes that he would show some dignity and walk away from a job that he isn't qualified for on his own. His fundraising emails walk the thin line between emotional blackmail and hysteria Obama has gotten desperate. His fundraising emails walk the thin line between emotional blackmail and hysteria. Increasingly they read like Cousin Larry phoning for bail money from Tijuana. Shrilly needy they demand that we pay attention to him, that we love him, adore him and spend money on him. They are the missives of a man who cannot conceive of a life outside the spotlight, the vapid fear of a celebrity who cannot confront the real world and cannot understand why their public is walking away. In the last stages of his career, Obama has become Norma Desmond, waving around a social media gun and shouting, "No one leaves a star. That's what makes one a star." But the country has left and what they leave behind is a star falling from the sky over Chicago . http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50528 Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=34f_1351616872 Bob_Lablaw A Star Falls Over Chicago Obama defeat,the thrill is gone