MooPig Bombast Department :: "Blasting the SCOTUS"

What a Long Strange Trip it has Been
mashed articles of Jim Marquis by Pat Darnell  |  Apr 6, 2014  | Bryan TX

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Major Conflict: Dictatorship of the Dollars: " Dictatorship of the Dollars  -- The Right is currently celebrating the Supreme Court's recent decision regarding campaign contributions. However, I have to believe they'll be singing a different tune when Adelson and the Koch brothers are replaced by younger, more liberal tech tycoons (Jim Marquis, Apr 6, 2014. LINK) ..."

“Money in politics may at times seem repugnant to some," he wrote, "but so too does much of what the 1st Amendment vigorously protects. If the 1st Amendment protects flag burning, funeral protests, and Nazi parades — despite the profound offense such spectacles cause — it surely protects political campaign speech despite popular opposition ( Robin Abcarian. April 2, 2014. paraphrased Justice Stephen G. Breyer. no date. LINK )...”

'via Blog this'
In his blog, Major Conflict, Jim Marquis shows us a twist in the wind of the time. Billionaires being replaced by billionaires.

Tech Tycoons ... bring 'em on ... MooPig Tech Coroner Department acknowledges the replacement of billionaires with younger billionaires ... probably with similar results, but nevertheless, it should be mildly interesting. Bill and Melinda Gates are leading the pack by trying to save all the children in Africa.

We must be talking about a new form of a high level of corruption based on Meritocracy, you know, from garage business start-ups to mega-billion industrialist slave driver multi-national corporations. Rags, to slave laboring sweat shops, to unimaginable riches, to philanthropist ... all in one life-time. Wow.

For those who die early, S. Jobs, we will have to sit and wait for his wife and offspring to spread $billions to what they perceive needs philanthropic-ing. Can't wait.

CONCLUSION
In its day Television was "high tech" ... yesiree Bob... and one of the rags to riches top dudes of that time was Art Linkletter,  [Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter (July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010)]: "... Two of his television shows, House Party and People Are Funny, hold the top places for the longest-running shows in broadcast television history. Now in his ninetieth year, Linkletter is known as an entertainer, an author, a businessman, and a philanthropist. (LINK)..."

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"... Art and Lois Linkletter outlived three of their five children. On October 4, 1969, 20-year-old Diane died after jumping out of her sixth-floor kitchen window.[1] Linkletter claimed that her death was drug related because she was on, or having a flashback from, an LSD trip (toxicology tests later determined there were no drugs in Diane's system at the time of her death). After Diane's death, Linkletter spoke out against drugs to prevent children from straying into a drug habit. His record, "We Love You, Call Collect", recorded before her death, featured a discussion about permissiveness in modern society, along with a rebuttal by Diane, titled "Dear Mom and Dad". The record won a 1970 Grammy Award for the "Best Spoken Word Recording".[14] Robert Linkletter died in an automobile accident on September 12, 1980.[15] Son Arthur Jack Linkletter died from lymphoma in 2007.[16 (Y Ikki Peed Ya. LINK)..."

" ... He's a nonstop raconteur, and his life is a living history of the pioneering years of radio and TV. Abandoned as a baby in Canada, in 1912, he was adopted by a one-legged preacher and his wife. "We were really poor -- as poor as a church mouse. But I had one of the greatest assets a kid can have, a loving family." With just $3 to his name, he set out on his own at age 16 as a hobo riding the rails, which was not a life of poverty but "a great way to see America. I never begged, never borrowed, never stole. I worked all sorts of odd jobs (STEPHEN MOORE. Updated March 11, 2009. LINK) ..."

Tech-tycoons, what will be your legacy? Will you buy the SCOTUS?


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http://majorconflict.blogspot.com/2014/04/dictatorship-of-dollars.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-supreme-court-strikes-down-campaign-money-limits-20140402,0,3228984.story#axzz2y7m3Gjvn
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D1EFC345F12728DDDAA0994D1405B8084F1D3&scp=9&sq=diane%20linkletter&st=cse
http://www.legacy.com/news/legends-and-legacies/art-linkletter-said-the-darndest-things/691/
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123673035387989403
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/arts/television/21linkletter.html?scp=1&sq=jack%20linkletter&st=cse

MooPig Site Review :: "Who's a Whack Job?"

UPDATE: Pat Darnell  |  Dec 28, 2013  | Bryan TX  

http://youtu.be/fGLQZKpXUyI

It's a Chicken eat Chicken World
mashed articles by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 17, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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You see, if a moose was taught to eat moose, then it would be a profitable business cycle. If people were taught to eat people, same thing, it would be an efficient, self-perpetuating process. Well, from sources we find out that some chicken farmers feed their chickens by-products of processed chicken, yes, chickens have been taught to eat chicken.

What does that have to do with our site review today? We want to find out why things are not as apparent as they seem to be. So, we look at some sites on the Internet that make sense. We remember the Republican National Convention of 2008, and its presentation of lots of commercials for "lifestyles" ... American style. Eh?

If you try to tell it like it is, and you are accurate in your descriptions, you are called a "whack job." [Whack job (colloquial, pejorative) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person; basket case, loony, nutjob, nutter, screwball, wacko, wingnut. wiktionary]

Everything you wanted to know about mooseburgers: "As psychologists have shown, we respond intuitively and emotionally to stories while numbers and logic leave us cold. This is why stories can sway us like nothing else and why, for someone selling toothpaste or politicians, stories are an essential marketing tool.

"Unfortunately, stories have limitations and the growing importance of candidates' narratives in political marketing leads to problems that were on full display in both conventions. For one thing, the stories tend to be ersatz simply because real life stories are far too complicated and messy to be packaged and advertised."

" ... And so it goes. I watched every night of the Republican convention and I still don't know what John McCain would do about climate change, the deficit, immigration or a dozen other burning issues but I did find out how he and Cindy met and fell in love and I learned that Sarah Palin's dad woke her at 3 a.m. to go hunting.

Oh, and I discovered that Democrats hate ordinary Americans. Good to know. (THE OTTAWA CITIZEN. SEPTEMBER 6, 2008. LINK) ... "

'via Blog this'

Another blogger, Jack Pribek, sees the correlation of  "Bernays" to ersatz, when "marketing" is mentioned. Meanwhile this year from Pribek dot net we read:

" ... Bernays was hired by ALCOA (owned by the Mellon family), in the early ’40s, to do some P.R. around the same time that ALCOA, who was the largest producer of fluoride (basically a by-product of fertilizer manufacturing), was scheming to unload fluoride via the nation’s drinking water supply. Bernays went on to design a P.R. campaign for fluoride based on dental health.

" ... So, if you are a person who assumes that those who speak out about water fluoridation are whack jobs, conspiracy theorists, John Birchers and such because, you believe that fluoride is merely used to prevent cavities, you should be interested to know that the man that wrote that script for you, said this in his own words… (Pribek, Jack. July 12, 2013. LINK) ..."

" ... THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
" ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
" ...Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.
" ... They govern us by their qualities of natural leadership, their ability to supply needed ideas and by their key position in the social structure. Whatever attitude one chooses to take toward this condition, it remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons—a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million—who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. ... "

That is the opening salvo from Edward Bernays’ 1928 book “Propaganda” (Pribek, ibid.) ... "

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Ersatz is with us all in our long-suffering will to do what's right. We cannot drift far from skeptical on almost any "publicized" story, or "professional" research.

It's like this: if you have an automobile manufacturing company, and your first attempts are fire bombs in car crashes, what do you do? You immediately start a "our car is safer than the others" campaign. It is the least expensive solution to the problem.

If you are a dentist, you advertise that your procedures are painless. If you are a nuclear power plant, you propagandize that your plant is engineered and built with redundancy that "insures" no radioactive leaks.

If you are a government gone mad, you rely heavily on "Bernaysian" public relations tactics to keep the public off your back.

CONCLUSION
Be it ever so humble, every living thing has the right to a life. Today, life for humans is plagued with a general feeling of discomfort or illness, or uneasiness, for which an exact cause is difficult to identify.

Our real life stories are co-opted by slugs of deception, who slime their way into our living rooms. It is deemed by the elite just too difficult to tell the real story, with all its intricacies. For elites, it is even more rift to actually spend time and money to fix what is broken.

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," said Thoreau, and it is not by common man's own hand he lives this way. Evidence is everywhere that mankind has been hoodwinked for all of its 12,000 years of written history. People are being taught to eat people.

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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=cc4fee49-e622-43e7-ac7e-129969b04af6
http://pribek.net/2013/07/12/undersatanding-the-impact-of-bernays/

Smear Campaign Solution? As always -- put a little Vaseline on it !!

Yes, to deter campaign signs theft, put a little Vaseline on it; naval jelly, KY Lube... whatever is available.

This suggestion sent in from the Brazos Bryan College Station EAGLE:

Published Sunday, October 19, 2008 6:05 AM
Party leaders: Sign theft rampant

By CASSIE SMITH
the eagle

On at least one thing, Brazos County Democrats and Republicans agree: Swiping the other party's campaign signs is nasty politics.

Leaders from both parties said last week that they had never seen as many political signs stolen or vandalized as during this election season. And they don't like it.

Maggie Charleton, the Brazos County Democratic Party's chairwoman, thinks she has a way to deter the "pranksters."

"We are recommending to people that when they come in and get a sign, that they get a small jar of Vaseline and rub it around the sign and its edges. It makes it a little more difficult to pull it out of the yard," she said. [I can hear it all now: 'Can they do that?']

Charleton also encourages residents to report thefts of yard signs to the police. Anyone caught stealing political signs can be charged with theft.

David Kent, chairman of the Republican Party of Brazos County, said the party headquarters had taken about 15 reports of stolen signs.

But rather than calling the police, he recommends just coming by and picking up another sign.

Charleton said the demand for political signs this election season has been higher than she's seen before. The Democrats have ordered more than 1,500 signs and expect to give them all away. In 2004, they distributed only 400 signs, she said.

The Republican Party ordered an extra 200 signs to meet the demand, said Kent, who has been working with the GOP for 12 years. (SMith, Cassie; retrieved 10.19.2008 here SOURCE)

Thanks, Cassie, for that signs of an election year report: that suggestion is sure to help rampant sign mutilations... errrr... prevention of -- that is. I suppose it is time to take down our Hillary lawn sign now... no?
pd/moopig

FOOTNOTE: College Station police Lt. Rodney Sigler said last week that the department had taken nine reports of stolen election signs.

"We see it at every election time," he said. "There is no way to know unless we catch them. You can always put the conspiracy theory out there that it's the other party stealing the signs, but unless we catch them, it's just a theory."

Bryan Deputy Chief Pete Scheets said four election signs had been reported stolen in the city since Sept. 20.

"Usually, the closer you get to the November election time, the more heated each side of the campaign gets when their stuff is damaged," Scheets said.

So, for all the political rhetoric of the election, Charleton may have the most lucid campaign message.

"Just leave our signs alone," she said. "That's our freedom of speech. That's our First Amendment right."

It depends on what definitions of "Am" am...

More POLitcal Molasses fromMooPig's indelible need to peruse the Net --

"Asked in the interview whether he blames himself for his wife's loss, Clinton replied, 'I've heard it from the press and I will not comment on it. ... There are things I wished I said. Things I wished I hadn't said, but I am not a racist. I never made a racist comment and I didn't attack him personally.'"

"Nevertheless, Clinton did say he thought news organizations covered his wife more harshly than Obama. "A different standard was applied to the finest candidate I ever supported," he said. Clinton declined to comment on whether he thought Obama should put his wife on the ticket and he said he admires how she handled the loss. "She went right back to work," he said."
PHOTO: Ex-squirer da' Bill

For example, he charged that news organizations were more likely to accuse Hillary than Obama of going negative.

Clinton Says, 'I Am Not a Racist' AP [posted: 4 HOURS AGO August 4, 2008]

[Retrieved HERE for critical thinking man's pleasure]

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The Sable Verity You can disagree, but I’ll still be right

"..Race is the proverbial elephant in the living room of this country; the democratic party is not immune from that. After all, check your history books (actually, it’s not in the history books); there was a time when we favored the Republican party." (SV; retrieved HERE for review today)

"Thanks against for your comments,
Sable Verity"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10