Like tinsel on a bare Xmas tree...
From the film "Network", written in the 1970's by Paddy Cheyefsky as almost satire....now is the unmistakeable truth and gospel, according to the WSJ, Fox "News", etc. , so help them "God" (who of course was made in man's own image: vengeful, mean-spirited, petty, etc.)...
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Arthur Jensen: [to Howard] They say I can sell anything; I'd like to try to sell something to you.
Arthur Jensen: It is the international system of currency which determines the vitality of life on this planet. THAT is the natural order of things today. THAT is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And YOU WILL ATONE. Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America, and democracy. There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it. Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars.
Arthur Jensen: The world is a business, Mr. Beale; it has been since man crawled out of the slime. Our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality - one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock - all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.
Howard Beale: Why me?
Arthur Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.
Howard Beale: I have seen the face of God.
Arthur Jensen: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.
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Bill O'Reilly? Ann Coulter? Brit Hume? Tinsel on an empty Christmas tree. Distractions. Intentional distractions.
I have been so misguided, so wrong, so very very misguided. Bill fucking O'Reilly? Ann god-damn Coulter? President In Retardation Bush? There are only 24 hours in a day. Every minute, every second spent contemplating the crap these moron spins is wasted, time that would be better spent on shit that matters. That's their plan, man. That's their plan. Fucken' brilliant.
Get pissed off at the ignorant and vindictive Coulter. Spend an hour or two writing a blog entry about how wrong she is, how evil she is. Damn. And feel so good about it....like you're making a difference, however small, in this screwed up world.
Shit, what a sucker I am.
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Get a kick out of late night tv's "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" when they point out what a dunce the dude who is nominally in charge is. Newsflash: W can't complete a sentence or thought. Wow. This is the same moron who, upon graduating with an MBA from Harvard Business (he was rejected by the U of Texas Law School, but accepted by the best university on the planet...hmmmm.....think maybe his dad had something to do with this?), moved to Texas and named his oil company "Elbusto". El-fucking-busto. Yes, Elbusto. He named the company after the Spanish word for "bush", thinking he was cute and clever. This was probably the last important decision that "The Retard In Charge" ever made. Literally.
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You think a guy who burned through a couple million bucks drilling holes in the ground (ostensibly "oil wells"..yeah, right)) is going to have anything to do with making decisions in this country, when his VP ran one of the biggest and most profitable corporations in the world? Bush II was a junior partner in the ownership of the Texas Rangers MLB club, and ran it badly. Dracula/Cheney ran Halliburton. Who do you think does the "thinking" on Pennsylvania Avenue?
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And who do you think tells Cheney what to think? He STILL refuses to release the names of the people who made the administration's initial energy policy, but we can guess.
People like Sumner Redstone, that's who, to name someone who gets a bit of media attention (much more than he wants) as the owner of Viacom, owner of CBS, employer (sorry, former employer) of Dan Rather. You think Redstone wants to pay MORE taxes? You think Redstone gives a flying fuck where Rather and his producer got that memo/letter regarding Bush's National Guard's "service", and whether it's valid? Dan Rather made a couple of mill per year and was someone whom a lot of Americans trusted to tell them what's what. Yeah.
Redstone is another vampire/billionare who, while about a hundred years old, thinks only of the bottom line, shareholders, and the price of the goddamn stock. So he throws Rather under the bus, gets CBS to apologize, and keeps the business friendly (meaning humanity hating) administration in power.
So so many others. So many other vampires.
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Example numero uno: (see, I speak Mexican, too)..
David Addington, Cheney's Chief of Staff. Vampire. Supposedly carries around a copy of the Constitution on his person. Um, yeah..... Addington is one of the few lawyers in The White House (Mr. Rove currently has a high school diploma....thas' it.). Cheney's Big Swinging (St)ick carries a lot of weight in DC, but shuns the media spotlight, as do most of the folks who run the US. Big article in last week's New Yorker about Addington: the gist was, rule number one of The White House Club: don't fuck with Addington/Cheney. Or you will get fucked in return. Thanks, New Yorker.
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Question for the night: (It's Wednesday, right? Answer when I sober up tomorrow morning....that would be Thursday, I think.)
Why did the US invade Iraq in 2003?
Hint: It has something to do with oil, but not in the way you think.
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Arthur Jensen: [to Howard] They say I can sell anything; I'd like to try to sell something to you.
Arthur Jensen: It is the international system of currency which determines the vitality of life on this planet. THAT is the natural order of things today. THAT is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And YOU WILL ATONE. Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America, and democracy. There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it. Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars.
Arthur Jensen: The world is a business, Mr. Beale; it has been since man crawled out of the slime. Our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality - one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock - all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.
Howard Beale: Why me?
Arthur Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.
Howard Beale: I have seen the face of God.
Arthur Jensen: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.
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Bill O'Reilly? Ann Coulter? Brit Hume? Tinsel on an empty Christmas tree. Distractions. Intentional distractions.
I have been so misguided, so wrong, so very very misguided. Bill fucking O'Reilly? Ann god-damn Coulter? President In Retardation Bush? There are only 24 hours in a day. Every minute, every second spent contemplating the crap these moron spins is wasted, time that would be better spent on shit that matters. That's their plan, man. That's their plan. Fucken' brilliant.
Get pissed off at the ignorant and vindictive Coulter. Spend an hour or two writing a blog entry about how wrong she is, how evil she is. Damn. And feel so good about it....like you're making a difference, however small, in this screwed up world.
Shit, what a sucker I am.
---------------------------------------------------
Get a kick out of late night tv's "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" when they point out what a dunce the dude who is nominally in charge is. Newsflash: W can't complete a sentence or thought. Wow. This is the same moron who, upon graduating with an MBA from Harvard Business (he was rejected by the U of Texas Law School, but accepted by the best university on the planet...hmmmm.....think maybe his dad had something to do with this?), moved to Texas and named his oil company "Elbusto". El-fucking-busto. Yes, Elbusto. He named the company after the Spanish word for "bush", thinking he was cute and clever. This was probably the last important decision that "The Retard In Charge" ever made. Literally.
--------------------------------------------------
You think a guy who burned through a couple million bucks drilling holes in the ground (ostensibly "oil wells"..yeah, right)) is going to have anything to do with making decisions in this country, when his VP ran one of the biggest and most profitable corporations in the world? Bush II was a junior partner in the ownership of the Texas Rangers MLB club, and ran it badly. Dracula/Cheney ran Halliburton. Who do you think does the "thinking" on Pennsylvania Avenue?
--------------------------------------------------
And who do you think tells Cheney what to think? He STILL refuses to release the names of the people who made the administration's initial energy policy, but we can guess.
People like Sumner Redstone, that's who, to name someone who gets a bit of media attention (much more than he wants) as the owner of Viacom, owner of CBS, employer (sorry, former employer) of Dan Rather. You think Redstone wants to pay MORE taxes? You think Redstone gives a flying fuck where Rather and his producer got that memo/letter regarding Bush's National Guard's "service", and whether it's valid? Dan Rather made a couple of mill per year and was someone whom a lot of Americans trusted to tell them what's what. Yeah.
Redstone is another vampire/billionare who, while about a hundred years old, thinks only of the bottom line, shareholders, and the price of the goddamn stock. So he throws Rather under the bus, gets CBS to apologize, and keeps the business friendly (meaning humanity hating) administration in power.
So so many others. So many other vampires.
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Example numero uno: (see, I speak Mexican, too)..
David Addington, Cheney's Chief of Staff. Vampire. Supposedly carries around a copy of the Constitution on his person. Um, yeah..... Addington is one of the few lawyers in The White House (Mr. Rove currently has a high school diploma....thas' it.). Cheney's Big Swinging (St)ick carries a lot of weight in DC, but shuns the media spotlight, as do most of the folks who run the US. Big article in last week's New Yorker about Addington: the gist was, rule number one of The White House Club: don't fuck with Addington/Cheney. Or you will get fucked in return. Thanks, New Yorker.
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Question for the night: (It's Wednesday, right? Answer when I sober up tomorrow morning....that would be Thursday, I think.)
Why did the US invade Iraq in 2003?
Hint: It has something to do with oil, but not in the way you think.
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