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A Better "Halftime In America" Commercial
Clint Eastwood drew a lot of ire, rhetoric, and subsequent explanations as to the real motives behind his Superbowl halftime commercial. Frankly, the commercial could and should have been much better. One proposal for what a less cynical and thus far more sincere "Halftime in America" commercial should be comes from Omid Malekan, creator of the original Bears (explaining QE for the "rest of us") cartoon. We believe this is what should have been shown during the superbowl. And certainly not presented under a Chrysler, pardon Fiat, umbrella.
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People who immigrated into America before 1914 did so expecting nothing except an opportunity all that immigrated after 1945 expected things to be given to them(including an opportunity), but there's a difference between an opportunity presented and one provided
...cause....politicians & unions....pure & simple.
How does someone pay when Edison harnesses electricity? How did someone pay when Ford was able to lower the time it took to manufacture a car from materials in the ground to a functioning automobile to two weeks? How does someone pay when James J Hill built train tracks that carried food to starving disease invested war mongering indians? How does someone pay when Rockefeller lowered the price of oil by 99% providing the poorest people something only the rich could afford ? How does someone pay when Frank Lloyd wright built houses and buildings that added value to people's lives?
How does someone pay when the average life span is increased from 40 years to 80 years?
And let me guess you have some genius idea for how to "evenly distribute" the spoils/ Your commentary is a true slap in your own face. It is proof positive you are a loser in life and a sick soul.
Too funny! And I'm a pinko commie socialist to boot.
So there. :>)
No answer? Didn't think so because there isnt one.
Back to your self loathing pathetic life loser.
And I doubt you are a pinko commie at least they have the nads to say they are the ones who should be the redistrubters. Your type is too lacking in any self worth to be able to have the guts to say it. You would just rather ponder...hmmm maybe things could have been better in some somehow some way, how am I to know, could be, possibly, somehow, better dont really know.
I guess it's a perfect example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I don't think he minds at all, simply because he has already made that hurdle from the womb to the land of plenty, does not matter about anyone else from here on out in his mind.
Dude, come in off the ledge. Why the extremely angry responses? What is being triggered inside you that compels such loathing? Are ideas and points of view contrary to yours that threatening and frightening to you? You have taken a few sentences of mine and pigeonholed me in with everything that you hate or that frightens you.
I am not the enemy bro. Try berating a central banker or Ponzi master puppeteer before you go all ugly on me.
Why the anger? Because your statement and philosophy are what enables the central bankers. They are not the cause, they are the symptoms of a failed philosophy(which is the cause) which based on the idea that innovation and wealth come at other people's expense and therefore must be redistributed. Central bankers understand the game of redistribution and therefore can have the wealth of the producers redistributed to them and their cronies. That is why I am angry.
"They are not the cause, they are the symptoms of a failed philosophy..."
you mean this one:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BjjqDgQbxMc/TfinMWS0IWI/AAAAAAAAABU/UbiYxB_Z-zU/s1600/capitalism_cartoon.jpg
(sorry, this is not the failed philosophy you're looking for)
The one I'd wager you were hoping to pass off as 'failing' is actually currently flourishing:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/27/debt-deficit-oecd-countries-data
and has a champion in NA too. With T.Douglas' 17 (yeah, count 'em, seventeen; and that's after inheriting an egregious debt too) surplus budgets, it's pretty tough to twist Maggie Thatcherisms to fit the bill there.
But carry on with your delusions, and bonne chance! I'll be happy to sell you bottles of the only reasonably clean air and potable water left, because, after all, there is absolutely no such thing as public property, and anything and everything is owned a priori by the first strongarm to lay claim to it.
And China has a great environment plus really low birthrates. Hahaha
Erm contemporary Norway+T.Douglas' Saskatchewan aren't summed up by China, unless you are one of those ignorant dupes who is conditioned to reflexively equate Marxism w/mixedeconomies w/socialism w/totalitarianism w/communism w/Stalinism. Hahah.
Eg. just because you choose to pseudonym yourself in memory of Mr.Katz hardly means you are as cool as he was. Kinda like USeans calling themselves a 'republic'.
Your sneery strawman aside, do have an actual argument? Or would you care to dispute any of the facts I mentioned/linked?
<crickets>
Go easy, RIP's having an emotional day.
Lunch and I will be back to refute your comparison of a country with 300 million with one of 4 million. Check back soon so you can get your education.
My comparison? Well, this ought to be rich...
First, I really do not know what was the point of the link.
The US has been a mixed economy from day one. The closest it has come to capitalism was roughly 1850 to 1910 during which there was the biggest gain in quality of life that man has ever known. The poorest people began to live lives that would have made kings of the past envious. After 1910 the wealth that was generated from this boom was taken from the producers and redistributed to the parasites in the form of bailouts, welfare handouts, and lots of something for nothing. The parasites have been growing ever since.
Stop stealing (wealth redistribution) Actually implement capitalism,which means the right to property and free trade. Capitalism includes NO central control of the cost of moneySepearate economics from state. Get the government out of economics with exception of enforcing laws around fraud and theft and this country will regain it's prosperity.
Regarding the countries on that list...I never disputed it is much easier to reallocate property in a country of 4 million people than it is in a country of 300 million. It is an insignificant fact. The US is 300 million very diverse individuals who have a right to trade and a right to property.
And as they say "Now you know"
PS Maybe you didn't hear the US had a surplus some short time ago. Things change fast.
Maybe you didn't hear the US had a surplus some short time ago.
I remember hearing that. It wasn't true, though. It was a "projected surplus" based on future revenues and occurred while Soc-Security contributions were positive and being used to fund government expenditure.
One definition of a "surplus" is that you have more money coming in than you're spending. That didn't happen any time recently if you look at the US government's books.
(Your definition of "surplus" may differ, but I prefer that one.)
Ahhh, a 'bait and switcher'
And thanks so very much for the surreal but entirely spurious Max the 2000 year old mouse version of a US 'history' lesson, it goes a long way to explaining some of the nonsense.
I see that you actually have very little to say about the information in my comment. Or anything whatsoever to the point of why I called you out, anyway.
`Regarding the countries on that list...I never disputed it is much easier to reallocate property in a country of 4 million people than it is in a country of 300 million. It is an insignificant fact."
ooer it was you that was trying to rhyme China, a nation well over a billion strong, with li`l ol`Norway,
"And China has a great environment plus really low birthrates. Hahaha" remember?
So does this mean that you're retracting that comparison? If so, good for you, that's progress. However, differences in scale do not make an insurmountable mountain of your 'exceptionalismist impossibility' molehill; that there's just a common response when someone like you is faced with facts that don't fit: denial.
Eg. an incredibly simplified analogy: 300 people have a basket with 298 apples in it, 4 people have a basket with 4 apples in it; so which group has more apples/head? See that there where the scales are different, yet individually everyone is in roughly the same place?
"The US is 300 million very diverse individuals who have a right to trade and a right to property"
For North America at the time, Saskatchewan was about as multicultural (diverse) as it got when T Douglas was elected Premier. And yet somehow 17 surplus budgets. So perhaps cultural diversity isn't the major issue driving fiscal responsibility?
Incidentally, I`m pretty certain Scandinavians have a right to trade and a right to property, last time I checked.
As for the good people of T.Douglas`Saskatchewan, well,
"The newspapers said we were going to socialize everything, that the gov't would own the farms, the corner store, the barber-shop, and the beauty parlour, and that everybody would be working for the state. When that didn't happen, they had to give some explanation. So the explanation was that we had betrayed our principles, we were no longer Socialists, we were reactionaries and had departed from our original ideas. In effect, we were traitors, because we didn't do the horrible things they promised we would. They had built up the straw man and now they were knocking it down." -T.Douglas 1958
looks like it turned out saimsies property-rights-wise...
"Get the government out of economics with exception of enforcing laws around fraud and theft and this country will regain it's prosperity."
So, in your fantasy of the 'halcyon days of the US' the US gov't had absolutely nothing to do with the economy beyond the exceptions of law enforcement? pull the other one. But yeah, it would be a great start if TPTB even enforced just those laws you hold so dear for everyone. Was that meant to be your one undeniably righteous point, the one that is supposed to leverage your credibility enough to accommodate all the programming that you expect me to swallow along with it?
The points of contention, which you have made heroic efforts to sidestep, or missed altogether, referred to your earlier 'failed philosophy' comment, and the bankster asskissing apologetics it contained. I provided evidence clearly indicating that if any economic philosophy has 'failed' it ain't the one you seem to think it is, rather it's the inevitable consequence of the unrealistic economic dogma that you cling to with such religious fervour. Especially if you still maintain that any culpable bankster guilt is only a symptom and not a root cause.
Or are you just one of ZH's resident 'Libertarians for the Further Deregulation of the Banks'? I suppose that too would explain a lot.
PS Robbing Pension Peter to payPal does not a surplus make, my friend. Clinton mancrush?
Many are angry CD, you hadn't noticed? Well, it seems that that corporate model the US is so proud of --you know, the supposedly 'capitalist' one-- it turns out operates much better under commie oversight. Who knew? Anyway the panic phase is setting in now that people realize that their beloved progeny will have to compete with Chinese who work for fifty cents a day. A final twist of agony that many can't bear. The Unbearable Heaviness of Human Paradox.
Just wait until all those gazillions of greenback dollars we have been globally exporting for several decades come flooding back to our shores. We ain't seen nothing yet when it comes to finger pointing, seething anger and blame seeking.
At least I'll be a Gazillion Ear ;)
Long wheelbarrows.
People don't like being stolen from, which is exactly what you propose as an ideal. Why the fuck are you surprised at that?
You are the enemy, as are the central bankers and the Ponzi operators.
You are not welcome in my home.
+1
It's one thing to disagree with a person's views, but it is a reflection of your own character if you have to demean them as a person.
Thats a good one. Shouldn't say anything bad about Hitler or Mousolini or Stalin based on that logic. Only a reasoned explanation will do carefully laid out in a most polite manner. Well I am sorry good sir, I stand corrected next time I will refrain from stepping on toes.
It's a far cry comparing a person who has done no harm to the likes of them. Your argument is a weak one.
The ideas and people who subscribe to those ideas are the cause of harm. There will always be some sicko to lead these people it is the ideas that have to be vigoursly refuted because they lead to the harm. Its too late once the people are in place. Now is the time.
CD... I bet you're:
Charlie Daniels
The Problem Is ..........
.........that you've outed me. :>)
with their soul, feedom, and a trillion in debt per year of life span...asshat
What? How does having modern dentistry, neonatal care, antibiotics, anaesthetics, vitamins, water purification, etc cost you your soul, freedom and cost a trillion a year in debt (for the nation I assume you mean) ???
Does the dentist make you sign over that you will be a slave for thre rest of your life, and that your soul will work for them for the next 10 Billion years? No, wait, that's Scientology, not the dentist.
I junked you for this. - that carried food to starving disease invested war mongering indians?
CD I love you buddy but I think you're wrong with the wealth distrbution ideas.One of the great things about the American ideal is that you were rewarded handsomely for your inventions.And a rising tide lifts all boats. Where we went wrong is we lost our vigilance and we began to feel entitled to an easier life. We allowed ourselves to get distracted with arguments about to guys kissing or who could smoke what.In doing so we allowed the hucksters to steal our economy right under our noses as we were fed the illusion of wealth based on a debt fueled economy.None of this would have been possible without the federal reserve. We sowed the seeds of our destruction when we allowed that beast to come into existance.
The wars and exporting our inflation is another topic entirely, on those points I agree with you.
"We sowed the seeds of our destruction when we allowed that beast to come into existance."
Thus my root question.....was the American Dream ever valid or realistic?
While some would argue that a fractional reserve system has enabled the American Dream I am simply asking...... at what expense? Some of our productive wealth is siphoned off each year by the system itself and those who are enriched by the system itself. What standard of living would we be enjoying now if that wealth had not been taken? What standard of living would the rest of the world be enjoying now without the leeches attached?
I do not take it for a given (and I know you are not arguing for them) that we "need" the leeches to prosper.
CD. You're right I'm not arguing for the leaches. I think the fractional reserved lending system is a demon spawn that could only be born in a place called Jekkyll Island. My arguments are for the entreprenuer who takes risks. They deserve to be rewarded for success.
My arguments are for the entreprenuer who takes risks.
In principle I agree. But I ask if the entrepreneurs (and their productive output) are actually shouldering the true cost of their hard work.
As a general example, the gas we Americans pump into our cars does not reflect the true cost (meaning all the hidden 'costs') of that gasoline. Hidden as in the cost of the military to bully the world into supporting the petro dollar and the fractional reserve system, both of which we are prolific exporters of.
Hidden cost such as all the unfunded liabilities that the government and it's enabling corporate 'citizens' has promised the average worker....and that the system's elite and benefactors knew would never be delivered, but had convinced nearly all Americans that they would, thus keeping them on the workers treadmill. And so on. The list is long and well documented all over the web.
While the individual entrepreneur is not solely responsible for all these transgressions, it could be argued that he or she is benefiting from them. Thus the proffered cost of the product or service he or she produces does not reflect its true cost.
CD: (u b on a roll here, enjoying it after working today ;-O )
Today, with all taxation, fees, Environmental Pollution Agents, etc. the answer is "Yes." All has been captured!
Same answer as "all market information is priced into the stock." So, once again, Adam Smith proves out.
Of course, there are other "costs" that can be developed to measure the so-called "societal costs." Whatever that might mean. {I postulate an experiment--quantify the environmental impact of the Canadian nickle mines supplying the batteries for the Chevy Volt, then get back to me before the Volt burns up.}
Of course, the proponents of "societal cost" (==tax) are trending towards a different end. Do you have any insight as to that end? I'm just wonderin' 'cuz the current administration's path leads opposite of where they say.
Of course, you would ask if any entrepreneur should do her best, under the current system, then, plop, saddle her skoshi enterprise with "shouldering the true cost".
Who determines the "true cost?"
You?
- Ned
No-one would honestly argue that. It is clear to anyone with any amount of knowledge of economics and history that fractional reserve systems run by central banks are a means of theft.
You yourself propose bald faced theft, so you should be quite happy with their invisible form of theft. Why the disconnect?
You are simultaneously arguing FOR the use of leeches, and AGAINST them. Doublethink incarnate.
fractional reserve systems run by central banks are a means of theft.
Are privately-controlled fractional-reserve systems a means of theft too? Or is it theft only when government gets involved?
Remember: "fractional reserve banking" was invented by the guys who owned all the gold back in the day.
Damn, won't you let anyone have their cake and eat it too?
the one problem I have with the idea
is that few amrkns were aware that the rising tide lifting their boats was from the military intentionally draining other peoples national resources, whether covertly or overtly.
the "debt" is noticeable now, but all those decades of "intervention" on the behalf of corporations - other people noticed it while amrkns were filling their big homes with more toys. . .
CD, the people that help build this country were hungry both literally and figureatively, for a better life. They were willing to work hard to make it happen. The corrupted old entilement systems, crony capitalism, and socialism were already in place from where they came, but they hadn't embedded themselves too thouroughly yet in America. Now they have.
Even a hundred years ago (or more) America's fractional reserve financial system (aka The Fed, its precursors and the overall banking/financial system) needed more and more "greater fools" to feed the leeches. Now the leeches are about to feed on each other.
I love blood and guts Hollywood movies. :)
It was illusion at some levels (thanks to JP Morgan, et al.), while very real at others who made the world a better place in spite of the parasitic nature of the bankster/political class.
I'm surprised that you'd paint the whole thing as a zero-sum game though, CD.
Do you really believe that free people cannot create more than they consume, and thus produce prosperity for all?
Do you really believe that free people cannot create more than they consume, and thus produce prosperity for all?
The operative words in your question are "free people". Show me some and I will be inclined to agree that they can. We are not free and we have never been free. We are corralled, confined and constrained by a social/financial/political system that creates the illusion of freedom to siphon off some of our daily productive output.
I need to lose some weight anyway so what the hell. Suck away Ponzi masters. :>)
And here is another Communist agitator tactic--set the good against the perfect. Use that conflict to install your system of terror and brutality. It's happened hundreds of times before, and ALWAYS takes the long way through tragedy.
If you really believe that then you don't believe in capitalism. People rose by SERVING others. Only loser commies and malcontents characterize such successes as coming at the expense of others.
Good God man, what the hell is up with the Commie bullshit all of a sudden? The standard of living rose because people were allowed to have freedom. The gap between the rich and the poor shrank, and the middle class emerged due to accumulation of capital, something that can not happen with redistribution. If the prosperity had been distributed "evenly", then no-one would have bothered working, or saving, or scrimping.
I can't tell you how disappointed I am with you right now.
And I you, with all your cliche programmed 'commie' crap.
Just the facts please:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10643
It's 'ideologically driven standard of living' disillusionment time for ol' TMos, even though this should be old news. It must be because the US has become way too much like those pinkos in Finland... oh, wait; that comparison ain't workin'.
Looks more like sudden death overtime to me.
That was great... with the exception of showing that little theiving snot Zuckerberg.
Don't be jealous of a man who created a service for you to be able stalk your ex-girlfriend
You know, I had never thought of that, it IS a stalking service!
ditto for Jobs..
TSA putting hands on the lady...that was powerful. Makes you want to cut their heads off and stick them on poles. Doesn't make me want to do that but since it is a video if a hero would jump into the scene and blast them one could not help but cheer. Where have all the heros gone long time passing...Gone to floride everyone. The Farage video on the Greeks was great too. MORE VIDEOS.
These TSA people are collecting paychecks now, they simply have to do something to justify it.
Make no mistake about it, the current man in charge is trying real hard to push as many buttons as possible, as he needs anger to grow even more stronger. Poor folk never have to deal with the TSA
Where's Mitch Rapp when you need 'em? Read Vince Flynn's TERM LIMITS and the ensuing dozen novels....nails it. Political BS is the problem - as Ronald Reagan said, "The government isn't the solution to your problems....the government IS your problem." Was true then...is so much more so today.
Speaking of half time..
Zoellick to abandon ship
Hilarious!
"President ("Useful Idiot") Obama may nominate ("Fat Larry") Summers..."
Priceless...
Neither reflect reality.
Welcome to the Hegelian Dialectic.
"... there you go bringing 'class' into it again..."-Terry Jones
""...but that's what it's all about; if only people would listen..."-Michael Palin
"Please, please good people, I am in haste; who lives in that castle?"-Graham Chapman
"...no one lives there."-TJ
"Then who is your lord?"-GC
"We don't have a 'lord'."-TJ
"What!?"-GC
Seriously though, are you implying that the following isn't reflected in reality:
Malwartism
(?)
is that anything like mid-trib, economically speaking in religious terms?
WTF is this halftime shit? Life is not a football game! F any body that thins it is...
I try not to thin about it.
ad naseum comparisons to sports timeclocks are only in the first quarter.
Analogies help people understand difficult concepts. Like it or not, most Americans are only capable of understanding sports. I commend anyone for trying to educate the masses, but anytime you "dumb something down" that much, most of the meaning is lost.
while I agree with you that most amrkns frame their thoughts in a team spirit, US vs. THEM mentality - sports teams are used globally to train the (mostly male) mind to think in analogies that are easily transferable to wars between nationstates - sports are the best way to keep the minds "fighting" fit just in case they need to stick an "enemy" onscreen to supplant the "other team". . .
"we're #1!! we're #1!! we're #1!!"
of course, nowadays amrkn mostly participate in consumer sports, heroically having parties with keggers & wings, pizza, chips & dip, and whatever else they can stuff in their maws between shouting. . .
Flash crash is coming...
Maybe
Maybe not
OT: Is this going to be the first of many circuit breaker days?
Sometimes 5 stars isn't enough.
Loved it.
I think it will be a number of things that get us into the new dark ages but most of all it will be the breakdown of the rule of law, and the challenging of the old founding principals which will bring America and Americans into a new place of tyranny. The united states have come full circle, and have become what the earliest immigrants were trying to escape.
http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/principal_principle.htm
Solyndra: Half-assed in America.
We need more avenues and forms of media for people to complain in.
Who would pay millions to fund the commerical we want to see in the Superbowl?
crowd-sourced funding perhaps?
A multi-national can not be restricted from donating to the American political process because that would impinge of the free-speech rights of the corporation. Money is speech and as such can not be restricted, so the SCOTUS said. ... Unless the PTB doesn't like how you exercise your "free-speech" rights via your money. If the government decides you gave to the wrong group, you might not even know it's "the wrong group", not only is your "free-speech" curtailed, your freedom is curtailed as you get tossed in the slammer.
I'm not a Constitutional Lawyer like our TOTUS. Can someone explain to me how it is that the corporation's free-speech rights must be recognized and protected, but ours are not?
With all due respect to Clint, his voice is so broken i coudln't understand a word he mumbled anyway. just as well.
Oh here we go! CNBS talking up the " Orangutan" ,in charge based on some B.S. N.Y. Times pole, that was released a day or 2 ago. The N.Y. times " AKA" the East Coast left wing proxy. What a joke!
well we should be getting a bs story to pump the euro b4 the day is over
Halftime !!.....LOL .....This game is inside 2 minutes and we are losing by 49 points....just waiting for the QB to take a knee
You underestimate the Keynesians' ability to use paid Refs and new rules to extend the game.
Our team will eventualy die from dehydration and malnutrition, unless we can muster enough support to storm the sky boxes.
Overtime has and will be a BITCH.
what,... this not-so-apt spaghetti commercial, from a paid for "Dirty Harry" shill - so off the mark - 'tis actions that create profound lexicon language movements',... not fleeting hubris, and narcissistic bravado!
The old playbook, completely non-productive industrialization subsidized by finance debts and government collusion. If that is what is meant by a 'way forward' this is the past.
More lies ending in failure. A change in actors does not alter reality.
I didn't watch the Super Bowl, so I Googled that commercial. The Clint Eastwood version is better.
Not founded on an ideal...
Founded on the Rule of Law, constitutional protections of liberty and property rights...
The refs are bought off (regulators)... The coaches cheat (see Belichick and CONgress)... the players are all brain dead and pumped up on steroids (Wall Street & TBTFs)...
Looks like post game tity shows in Amerika... Not half time...
1 star for comparing Jobs to Zuckerberg.
Who gives a shit if someone is in their garage making the next platform for farmville?
So you believe that the value of an invention should be determined by an absolute judge, or by committee process, rather than by the market?
Who are you, that you are wiser than all of us put together?
I'm Tom from myspace.
Best. Retort. Ever.
"should have been showed"? Seriously?
Billion Dollar Bailout Bonus?! Does this mean my banker doesn't get another record breaking Bonus this year?
While I'll disagree with the bears' assertion to not fight the fed (because that's a fight worth having) I say bravo Omid Malekan.
An even better "Half Time" commercial.
http://youtu.be/6vQo8p92iPk
Humorous, and a decent rubuttal; however, still in the Red v Blue paradigm and expecting Republicans will somehow lead America out of this mess.
huh? this country was based on tabbaco, genocide, land grabbing, war, monopolies, trust, child labor, slavery and a host of other atrocities. Lets stop acting as if yesterday we were some sort of honorable place.
crawldaddy...
Not that those things didn't happen, but this country was founded on the rule of law, property rights, liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness. The things you site were the ways of the times. If you research you may find that because of the principles this country were founded on the errors of our ways were seen for what they were and mostly corrected although we do still have much to work on.
right on!
great video.
here's another parody of halftime in america, by remy, also worthwhile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_8qCbHsUA
The most illuminating episode in recent history that exposed the impotency of politicians to be able to cope with any problem was the pitiful situation in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina. Don't expect anything great to come out of DC because it ain't gonna happen. The people there are not capable of it!
do some research, then do some more.
"Katrina" was more a home run than a foul ball - I use sports analogies in the hopes all grasp my meanings. . .
It's halftime in America in this sense: it's too late to save the old America and too early to create the new America.
. . . in that case, it's fourth down, last quarter. . .
Americans are trained monkeys. Trained to argue over useless shit like a Clint Eastwood commercial. To attach significance to a commercial when it is simply a commercial. Clint Eastwood did a fine job. The above ad was also a fine job. One was a commercial with a little bit of inspiration brought to you by Chysler; the other a commercial with a different message.
Big fucking deal. One sells cars, the other sells a message.
And, yet... like monkeys chasing a banana - America responds. You are trained. Instead of directing your efforts to the real problems... you monkeys are arguing over a commercial. Ring the bell, Pavlov!
Did you hear about Whitey Huston?
Didn't he get fucked by liberty mutual?
http://www.thesixtyone.com/s/MMd7WhFDstJ/
Yeah, and when I finish the rip and divx conversion, I'ma torrent that sex-tape out onto the innerwebz.
GM to eliminate pensions for all salaried workers...
Ouch
VodkaInKrakow: You don't understand, the real battle is a battle of ideas, what people think, what they believe.
Commercials, parodies, satire, all effective tools for transmitting ideas into the minds of large numbers of people. Whoever is most effective, wins.
Matt - you are correct. few understand. clint eastwood represents something that isn't real. whether he was dirty harry or in josie wales. it's NOT real. he did not do any of that. but we americans believe he did. so now the jerk that was represented as the avenging angel for decades has an opinion. but - in reality - he did not do anything that you so admire. it was film. it was fake. i still want to believe in it?
It's halftime in America. We spent the first quarter rubbing out most of the indigenous population, some of whom were peaceful and simply wanted to live their lives unmolested. In the second quarter we turned on each other for a while and tried to rub each other out but gave up on that after a few years so that we could continue to rub out other people in other lands. It's halftime in America and we didn't even stop rubbing out people for halftime because rubbing people out is not only what we do, it's also our entertainment. Halftime's almost over now and so are the lives of a lot of people we are about to rub out when the second half begins.
You should absolutely make that into a youtube parody video, you just need to add a bit more to it, to flesh it out.
The American Dream was an elaborate illusion that became an unnecessary inconvenience after the collapse of the U.S.S.R....
Once upon a time the political establishment felt motivated to moderate the criminal element that permeates all sectors of society including their own and those above them.
What motivation exists when TPTB wake up one day(199?) and realize they no longer require our consent, cooperation or approval?
The end.
1997
Open Source Declaration of Independence
Empire bullsh** is not the business of the military; that’s the work of diplomats. First and foremost, it is the duty of the military to seek God, the unknown, well beyond the event horizon of empire. Next, it is to honor family, so that parents may focus on raising their children in peace, confident that civil society will expand to accept their cause. Finally, it is to serve country, to protect and carry the flame of democracy forward to future generations, opening the NPV window to economic activity for all. Because the flame dies in the US does not mean that it is any less bright. Seek and you shall find.
Of course the sun will rise on America, but that posturing is a poor excuse for its source, love of duty. The military will obey Presidential Order, no matter how stupid, but the president is not, has never been, nor will ever be the captain of the enterprise. There is the appearance of marriage, to the uninitiated, and there is marriage.
Parents are the cradle of life, not a grain of sand, and Marriage is the Holy Grail. It is not love of honor on parade, but love of duty that guides us through the darkness of tyranny, to the constitutional character on the other side. Birth is a right, granted by God, not a whim or edict proclaimed by Head of State.
The military salutes authority; it does not bow. Gather your priests to bow before you and consult your History. The church will burn and the phoenix will rise. The Diplomats start wars on behalf of legacy; the military ends them to the end of new family formation. Selfish, lazy and stupid are prerequisites for admiralty only on the empire side of the contract.
Compromise is for diplomats, not war. A constitution is all about compromise and the empire never entertains a contract it does not intend to break. Watch your step. The empire is not the center of the universe.
Rape perpetuates itself in powerless victimization, seeking power. Don’t exploit the planet and expect others to intercede on your behalf. Closed systems are always hierarchical in nature and controlled by rape, in one form or another. The US military is having difficulty with the gay policy because it opens a door that it would rather keep shut.
The very best a single person can hope for is to be an arm-chair quarterback, on a shrinking circle to the point of prisoners dilemma, addiction to self, in the image of empire, the only way out of which is to nurture the unborn.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men…before this is done, the mighty on earth will be humbled again. Write your constitution and throw it away. THERE IS NO PLAN, but God, direction unknown, depending upon the children yet born. Each and every stepping stone rests upon the abyss.
If Silicon Valley is an economic generator, why must it have free labor and free capital, in a market free from competition, all guaranteed by the empire. What is it that you fear?
Do I have this right?
A whole bunch of ZHer's, who delight in looking down their noses at "the sheeple", getting their knickers in a twist over a Super Bowl Ad?
WTF?
Maybe it is because I live in the country and don't watch TV and don't give a shit about mercantile so-called professional sports; but this is sheeple squared, to get so wrapped up in a fucking commercial. And some of you spin conspiracy theories of a Chrysler payoff to Obama for the bailout, yah da dah yah da.
Holy Shit! Get a grip folks, IT IS A FUCKING AD!
And Chrysler is laughing all the way to the bank about the 'controversy', and the ad agency that pulled it off is rubbing it's hands over next year's haul because now they are hot, and..,.
what a bunch of made-up shit.
And you guys think it is important? And/or real in some sense?
It's a fucking ad!
I'm gonna go out and fire up the chain saw and do some real work, I have been spending WAY too much time on ZH...
JUST DEVELOPING…….
Ron Paul supporters in Maine are now claiming their candidate captured the majority of votes in last weekend’s caucuses in spite of the media’s selection of Mitt Romney as the winner. And there is growing pressure on the Maine GOP establishment to issue the true vote.
Voters in three Maine counties were not represented in the totals…including Washington County, the one county caucus Ron Paul won four years go after an 8- inch snow storm and whose caucus this year was cancelled by a Romney supporter chairman who predicted a 2-inch snowfall that never came.
The other two missing county caucuses were also under leadership of Romney supporters.
Yet Romney was declared winner after a 194 vote lead over Paul when only 84% of precincts counted.
Here’s the story: Reality Check – Ron Paul Cheated in ME Caucus Fraud?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgMQmfOGhQs
Rachel Maddow – Doug Wead – Ron Paul Cheated in ME Caucus Fraud?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvisSBIm8GE
.......and Blue Nile takes a shiner after hrs....-25%. Crows are attracted to bright shiny objects; perhaps there are fewer crows?
I mute the TV volume during commercials, on the rare occassions I watch ad infected TV.
What did Clint say..??
And Chrysler is laughing all the way to the bank
That was a Chrysler ad? I thought it was GM. I don't pay attention to ads, I criticize them.
... Hi! I'm Clint Eastwood, speaking with the new voice of the Suicide Vampire Squid of the Great Wal Mart of China, telling you ''America'' to; ''buy a Fiat with Fiat and Haltime ends America ...BECAUSE YOU ARE IN A COFFIN''.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTV_5PM-5s&feature=related
clint is a corporation like all actors of me myself i.
makin it in hebrew town involves giving in to sexual abuse,satanic cults.
cults as firms as gangs as mafia and it always comes back to sex and drugs.
maybe the star whackers obama division laid it on the line for him.
he lied for an easy life.
he lied rather than stand up and be heard a fine man that people would listen to not a whack job whats the cause today penn.
clint is a liar cos he understands he has had 50 odd years of being analized to understand about how it works.
it is clear he is the control system or he is a liar and a coward.
he could of been a truth telling king until they killed him instead he has been a political smuck for his safe cosy life.safe in his compound.