But sinking fangs into the taxpayers and throwing billion after billion at "solutions" that continually fail is an example of sound reasoning?
But why should us lower classes have to go begging to some rich guy just to get what they need?
LOL! What is this, a Dickens novel?
"Please, sir, may I have some more?" No, wait, that was just in the musical, right? I forget.
If you see yourself as "lower class" don't expect much else. Cripes, how many rags to riches success stories (or just people living their lives normally and comfortably because they act like responsible adults) does this country need before you class warriors give up?
In related news, God-fearing parents in Middletown, Kansas protested the local school board's approval of the new Disney Interactive educational game "Mickey Has Two Daddys" for grades 1 to 3. Students who have played the game have told everyone not to worry because the camera "sucked balls" and the controls were "totally tardo".
Heh heh. Despite my picking on folks here over the Wikileaks issue, I actually like Wikileaks, and think we need more things along those lines for local issues.
If I knew how to do it, and how to get the VC dollars, I'd start a news site and hire nothing but aspiring reporters who want to dig up dirt on politicians. We would infest every single press conference we could and arm the reporters with a list of tough questions and potential followups (all presented in a lovely branching tree format on an iPad).
Remember what Couric did to Palin? That should have happened to *every* person running in that election. No favorites, no prisoners.
I'd be happy if the local media here in California would ask a follow up question once in a while.
All I want is this:
STATE POLITICIAN: This bill will fix global warming, solve hunger and make tasty donuts fall from the skies like kisses from kittens! REPORTER: How, exactly? STATE POLITICIAN: Thanks and good nigh- eh, what? REPORTER: How does the bill do that? What sequence of events did you and the other legislators envision after the bill is enacted? STATE POLITICIAN: (deer in headlights gaze) Uh, well, blah blah blah bullcrap blah symbolism blah feelgood blah TheChildren blah, er, 9/11. REPORTER: Isn't that a pile of bullshit? STATE POLITICIAN: Hey, what happened to impartiality? REPORTER: It wasn't working out very well.
What I want is Spider Jerusalem going after some of these scumbags. Wikileaks is all well and good, but I want these people confronted in their speeches by someone other than media insiders who just sit their dumbly nodding their heads at any crap a politician says. Fuck, every reporter is just a softball Larry King type these days.
The principle of proportionality. Remember that revenge will not only match the deed in size but also in nature. A good revenge is linked to what has been done against you.
Bullshit. The best revenge is one that stuns the target into an eternal state of "WTF?!" and guarantees that the target will never give cause for revenge ever again.
Maybe way back when, but not anymore. Now it's the rag tag rebels fighting the Evil Empire of... someone or other. Jesus or Sarah Palin or somesuch creature. Maybe the Jabberwock?
Dude, you're arguing with the Slashdot Ideological Brigade. There is no hope. There is no reason. It's a pack of teens and young "adults" who have somehow already managed to ossify their brains with the political equivalents of crystal meth and heroin. These are the people who think they live in an actual police state and the NSA is building $100 billion dollar decryption farms to find out what women's underwear they secretly buy on amazon.
You might as well argue the merits of love and charity with Dexter Morgan. They simply cannot understand the idea that if, say, Bill Gates makes another dollar, that does *not* prevent them from earning their own dollar. They view the "rich" as Scrooge McDuck swimming around in a money vault, all those gold coins locked away forever and not, say, out there acting as capital and investments. It's a pre-school, cartoon view of economics that sadly affects all of our cukture. That's why we (as a society) keep doing the same dumb things and voting for the same sociopaths over and over again.
Pogo (speaking of cartoons) was absolutely right. Disclaimer: yeah, I feel the same way about the Tea Party. All you ideologues can go fuck off and die already. You're fucking killing us.
The divide between rich and poor has never been so big
Absolute bullshit. For centuries it was royalty/aristocracy and pretty much everyone else living in the dirt. The ideas of free markets and property rights are what eventually granted you whiney, pampered, angst ridden, panty-wetting, fist-shaking, Western brats the ability to moan and bellyache about how horrible your tiny, petty little existences are.
Let them dream of cake, and they will go as sheep to the slaughterhouse.
Sweet smoking Jesus, you really are mainlining the cherry Kool-Aid, aren't you?
"Put out a contract?" Yeah, then maybe he should chew on a cigar while hanging out of a suicide door on a car as he fires two tommy guns from either arm? And then maybe he should cut off a horse's head and put it in Manning's jail bed? I'm sure after that contract is transmitted out to Kessel, Boba Fett will freeze Assange and deliver him to Sarah Palin.
Actually, that sounds freaking awsome. I *wish* the world worked that way.
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Wow. You mean life isn't perfect? Oh noes! Just because shit happens doesn't make this warmed over class warfare crap sensible.
Oh, OK, never mind then. (facepalm)
Damn! Foiled by lack of invites!
But sinking fangs into the taxpayers and throwing billion after billion at "solutions" that continually fail is an example of sound reasoning?
But why should us lower classes have to go begging to some rich guy just to get what they need?
LOL! What is this, a Dickens novel?
"Please, sir, may I have some more?" No, wait, that was just in the musical, right? I forget.
If you see yourself as "lower class" don't expect much else. Cripes, how many rags to riches success stories (or just people living their lives normally and comfortably because they act like responsible adults) does this country need before you class warriors give up?
And while we are wishing, I'd like seasons 1-4 of Reboot in a Criterion boxed set.
In related news, God-fearing parents in Middletown, Kansas protested the local school board's approval of the new Disney Interactive educational game "Mickey Has Two Daddys" for grades 1 to 3. Students who have played the game have told everyone not to worry because the camera "sucked balls" and the controls were "totally tardo".
How about all those cool Disney Afternoon series? Duck Tales. That Jungle Book one. Darkwing Duck.
Dan Casltellana was a better Genie, IMHO.
I'm old. :-(
Heh heh. Despite my picking on folks here over the Wikileaks issue, I actually like Wikileaks, and think we need more things along those lines for local issues.
If I knew how to do it, and how to get the VC dollars, I'd start a news site and hire nothing but aspiring reporters who want to dig up dirt on politicians. We would infest every single press conference we could and arm the reporters with a list of tough questions and potential followups (all presented in a lovely branching tree format on an iPad).
Remember what Couric did to Palin? That should have happened to *every* person running in that election. No favorites, no prisoners.
Do they bust the myth Obama is the Messiah?
Hey! I'm kidding! Calm down. Put down those DDoS scripts!
Seriously, though, do they bust or confirm he's Kenyan? :-D
Hey! Still kidding!
I'd be happy if the local media here in California would ask a follow up question once in a while.
All I want is this:
STATE POLITICIAN: This bill will fix global warming, solve hunger and make tasty donuts fall from the skies like kisses from kittens!
REPORTER: How, exactly?
STATE POLITICIAN: Thanks and good nigh- eh, what?
REPORTER: How does the bill do that? What sequence of events did you and the other legislators envision after the bill is enacted?
STATE POLITICIAN: (deer in headlights gaze) Uh, well, blah blah blah bullcrap blah symbolism blah feelgood blah TheChildren blah, er, 9/11.
REPORTER: Isn't that a pile of bullshit?
STATE POLITICIAN: Hey, what happened to impartiality?
REPORTER: It wasn't working out very well.
What I want is Spider Jerusalem going after some of these scumbags. Wikileaks is all well and good, but I want these people confronted in their speeches by someone other than media insiders who just sit their dumbly nodding their heads at any crap a politician says. Fuck, every reporter is just a softball Larry King type these days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Jerusalem
Freedom of speech!* Freedom of expression!* Freedom of opinion!* Freedom of association!*
*Unless you disagree with us, then we'll attack your assets and interfere with your business.
The Nintendo DSphone.
You know you want one. You crave it. You'd sell out your own family for one.
Oops, that last bit was supposed to be [subliminal].
Yeah, I was just, like, joking, there, with the "too quiet" comment and the, you know, smiley in there and all.
Mmmyep.
(kicks pebble)
The principle of proportionality. Remember that revenge will not only match the deed in size but also in nature. A good revenge is linked to what has been done against you.
Bullshit. The best revenge is one that stuns the target into an eternal state of "WTF?!" and guarantees that the target will never give cause for revenge ever again.
but it's worth noting here that being a longtime activist would be good cover for an agent.
Therefore it MUST BE TRUE!!!!!!!
Is that enough exclamation points? I have more. !!!!!! See? :-)
Oh, great. More labels.
Especially when you consider every building will be a government building eventually.
Yeah, it was too quiet in here. :)
So it is the Jabberwock, then?
Um... reason.com? :-)
Maybe way back when, but not anymore. Now it's the rag tag rebels fighting the Evil Empire of... someone or other. Jesus or Sarah Palin or somesuch creature. Maybe the Jabberwock?
Dude, you're arguing with the Slashdot Ideological Brigade. There is no hope. There is no reason. It's a pack of teens and young "adults" who have somehow already managed to ossify their brains with the political equivalents of crystal meth and heroin. These are the people who think they live in an actual police state and the NSA is building $100 billion dollar decryption farms to find out what women's underwear they secretly buy on amazon.
You might as well argue the merits of love and charity with Dexter Morgan. They simply cannot understand the idea that if, say, Bill Gates makes another dollar, that does *not* prevent them from earning their own dollar. They view the "rich" as Scrooge McDuck swimming around in a money vault, all those gold coins locked away forever and not, say, out there acting as capital and investments. It's a pre-school, cartoon view of economics that sadly affects all of our cukture. That's why we (as a society) keep doing the same dumb things and voting for the same sociopaths over and over again.
Pogo (speaking of cartoons) was absolutely right. Disclaimer: yeah, I feel the same way about the Tea Party. All you ideologues can go fuck off and die already. You're fucking killing us.
The divide between rich and poor has never been so big
Absolute bullshit. For centuries it was royalty/aristocracy and pretty much everyone else living in the dirt. The ideas of free markets and property rights are what eventually granted you whiney, pampered, angst ridden, panty-wetting, fist-shaking, Western brats the ability to moan and bellyache about how horrible your tiny, petty little existences are.
Let them dream of cake, and they will go as sheep to the slaughterhouse.
Sweet smoking Jesus, you really are mainlining the cherry Kool-Aid, aren't you?
Oh, cheer up. It's nearly (War On) Christmas time! :-)
"Put out a contract?" Yeah, then maybe he should chew on a cigar while hanging out of a suicide door on a car as he fires two tommy guns from either arm? And then maybe he should cut off a horse's head and put it in Manning's jail bed? I'm sure after that contract is transmitted out to Kessel, Boba Fett will freeze Assange and deliver him to Sarah Palin.
Actually, that sounds freaking awsome. I *wish* the world worked that way.
or just the act of a disturbed mind
Or a performance/street artist- well, actually, same thing...
Yes, Hollywood got it wrong about a million times, no big surprise.
True Lies got it right where Arnold assures a fighter pilot that shooting a van transporting a warhead will not set off the warhead.
He *does* turns to others with a "Geez, I hope I didn't just destroy us all" look, but that was pretty funny, actually.