Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Astroturf. Now there is Proof.

Sorry to burst your bubble. There is now confirmed proof that the grass roots you have been part of is nothing but astroturf.

The display of outrage made recently by a thousands of Americans (or as Pelosi might call them, "un-Americans") is just a setup after all. There is nothing genuine about it. We have all been hearing nasty reports (rumors) from MSNBC for some time now, postulating that the angry mob is just a front. The whole charade has supposedly been financed by insurance companies which provide posterboard and crayons

Even the kids made signs

with which thousands upon thousands of angry people are making signs. These hapless automatons are connecting with neighbors, leaving their grandbabies for the afternoon, and/or taking time off of PTA meetings or whatever, or work, to go to town halls. It is all about doing the bidding of lobbyists who want to protect the income stream of the very rich. When these innocent shills get to the meetings, they sometimes yell, mostly when being lied to. One might think this is because these Great Americans are angry about what is being done to their country. But no. Chris Matthews, that crackerjack anchor over at MSNBC assures us that all of these thousands of concerned patriots are acting as part of a coordinated effort in response to The McGuffie Memo.

The main point of the plan, we are told, is to bring down Obama. We don't even know WHY anyone would want to bring down Obama, because he is a very affable guy and he is leading the country we live in. After all, we need for our country to succeed. Many of us don't entirely like Obama's dreams of the world as it "should be", and even more of us just don't think it is practical for him to try and create a utopia on Earth. With our money. For silly reasons like that, we don't support Obama policies. But most people have no interest in bringing Obama down. They just want him to keep his big fat hands off our liberties.

But Mort Zuckerman and some pretty-man anchor from what many insist ought to be called the MS-LSD network, has given us a clue. It has something to do with the word Socialism being spelled wrong, lo these many years. Turns out Socialism should always have been spelled beginning with the letter N! Confused? Let pretty-man anchor explain:




And now we find that this scheme, this conspiracy to bring down Obama, goes back many years, further than that McGuffie Memo and further than the involvement of the insurance industry. (Did we mention that Matthews seems to think the insurance industry is pouring out millions to buy those crayons for the tea partiers, despite the fact that they are at the very same time, spending big money to buy ads to support Obamacare? (The logic dispenser over at MS-LSD must be on the fritz)."

It was really all just rumor, until now. Just today, a reporter has caught it on tape. And now we can conclusively prove the whole thing is in fact, astroturf, carefully laid by a gang of men who pranced about in fancy clothes. The scheme to incite Americans to stand up against tyranny did not start during the week in which Obama ordered the House to pass HR 3200. No, and it did not begin when tea parties were held across the land on April 15th in response to the 787 Billion dollar stimulus plan and other run away spending. The conspiracy did not even begin when Rick Santelli got mad on CNBC's air and bellowed out the famous rant which is famous for having given Americans the idea to have tea parties.

No.

Here is the proof of where all this dissent comes from . Look at this video. One Katy Abram spoke at the Arlen Spector town hall today and she SPILLED THE BEANS!




Did you hear what Abrams said? She is caught red-handed for all the world to see. There is no denying it now. She must not have been very well trained, because she lets the secret slip, at 1:25 in this video. Apparently a group of several dozen schemers were determined to bring down Obama, before he even got elected. Yes, it was some guys you may have heard of, acting in concert with a gang of lesser knowns. In a very sinister manner, they assembled and decided to make life a living hell for today's proponents of a health care plan of the unaffordable lollipop variety. It was THEY who decided to make people rise up against Obama and his nocialist dream.

Signs at Raleigh Tea Party March 2009

Amazing when you stop to think that this happened almost twenty decades before Obama even enrolled in that fancy private school in Hawaii. Also involved in the plot were men by the names of a Mr. Adams and a Thomas-something-or-other, though each was out of the country at the time of the dastardly deed and thus unavailable to sign some kind of a memo to mark the occasion. There was a memo, though. And it, (NOT the McGuffie Memo) is the memo which Katy Abrams read, the one which propelled her on her mission to stand up and speak her mind and defend what is rightfully hers. And THAT is the memo which got so many Americans (real ones, thank you, Ms. Pelosi) all hot and bothered and ready to strike out and attend a bunch of boring old meetings with sourpuss congressmen and senators. So you see, it was all contrived, all planned, and all brought about by that little four-page memo written by a bunch of guys in fancy clothes harboring delusions of grandeur. Somehow they thought that simply by writing some flowy-looking words in cursive on four pieces of paper, they could reach right ahead through the centuries and give people courage and strength to stand up to Obama and others like him. And thus the plot began. Thousands answered the call of the memo. And thus the crowds were manufactured. Astoturf!

Check it out. It is a good memo. It is all the rage right now, and roaring right back into fashion. But be careful and read this document at your own risk. If you succumb to the temptation and actually read it right through, you yourself just might be incited to start shouting at town hall meetings too.
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Friday, April 3, 2009

So Many Friedmans (And Krugmans), So Little Time

If you are like me, you will probably have quite a long reading list, perhaps over at Goodreads.com, and you are not sure what to read first. Here is a little quiz which might help you. Multiple guess!



Which Friedman said it? Tom or Milton?

  • We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
  • If you don`t visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
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Who said it? Milton Friedman or Paul Krugman?

  • “But the vitriol also reflects the fact that many of the people at the Republican National Convention, for all their flag-waving, hate America. They want a controlled, monolithic society; they fear and loathe our nation's freedom, diversity and complexity.
  • A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Who said it? Milton Friedman or Paul Krugman?

  • “The fundamental fact of American politics - and I've sharpened my view on this since last year and the hardcover edition of the book - is that we've got an alliance between the religious right and the accumulators of great wealth. Those are the people who are running things.”
  • “What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system”
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Which Friedman said it? Tom or Milton?
  • I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research
  • The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
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Which Friedman said it? Tom or Milton?

  • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
  • Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Which Friedman said it? Tom or Milton?

  • The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. (Okay, so can we start acting on that now, please?)
  • Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Who said it? Milton Friedman or Paul Krugman?

  • “Those tax cuts, rather than the spending binge, are the primary cause of the (federal) deficit.” (Wow, did a nobel prize winning economist SERIOUSLY say that?)
  • “The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” (Now you're talking!)
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So who should you read? The author who prefers FREEDOM? Or those more interested in creating TYRANNY? The answer of course, is ALL OF THE ABOVE. How else are you going to know what is going on in this crazy world?

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