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 12 Days of Doom Prep :: DAY ZERO "It's HERE ..."

I would Resign, but Then there would be no one to Blame!
by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 21, 2012  |  Bryan TX

MooPig Enterprise will be held over for another year. We, I, will continue the quest of the witless and half-baked. We, I, will lambaste the bombast. The younger generation keeps distancing itself from us, me. But, that will not dissuade us, me. We, I, will carry on in our pilfering, pirating, ways. We have resigned ourselves to this end.

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It's 4 AM and the "thing" is all but over. What ever that "thing" was, it attracted a tenth of the world's attention. I wonder how many people resigned last year because of the fruitlessness of it all, thinking it was ending anyway?

" ... I RESIGN: In June, Peter Doyle resigned from the European Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC. "After twenty years of service," he wrote, "I am ashamed to have had any association with the Fund at all."
(June 12, 2012. Peter Doyle. http://cnnibusiness.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/doyle.pdf ) ... "

-- OR --

" ... In July, an employee of a Chinese auto parts maker submitted a resignation letter that went viral. His reason for quitting:

"The factory is small and the women are few. It's too difficult to land a girlfriend here."

In the space on the form for the boss to sign off, his supervisor wrote:

"Don't blame others when you don't have game. It's your own fault you can't get a girl."

Chinese journalists debated the resignation letter's authenticity. (Adam Taylor | Jul. 18, 2012. HERE)... "

-- AND, SADLY --

" ... In November, a New York Jets fan known as "Fireman Ed" resigned, returning to his full-time role as a New York City firefighter. In a letter to the public at large, he explained:

"The fact that I chose to wear a Mark Sanchez jersey this year and that fans think I am on the payroll -- which is an outright lie -- have made these confrontations [with other Jets fans] more frequent. Whether it's in the stands, the bathroom or the parking lot, these confrontations are happening on a consistent basis. Although I can 'hold my own,' I do not want to lose my temper and make a stupid mistake. I have a responsibility to the families and kids that enjoy the game and Fireman Ed."
In closing:

"I will always love the Jets because they are in my heart, and I will attend games as usual, just not as Fireman Ed." (Fireman Ed. November 25, 2012. HERE)... "






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http://cnnibusiness.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/doyle.pdf

http://www.metro.us/newyork/sports/article/1156831--guest-column-fireman-ed-steps-away-but-not-as-fan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-rodota/resignation-letters-2012_b_2331601.html?ir=
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-factory-resign-letter-girlfriend-2012-7

MooPig Site Review :: "...Skyboxification of American life,” and it is troubling. ..."

Reviewed by Pat Darnell | May 26, 2012 | Bryan TX

Are Consumers Truly Free to Make Choices in the Market, or are they oppressed, manipulated, deviously twisted, constrained and held down?
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This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone - NYTimes.com:
EXCERPT  |  " ... When the umpire calls the runner safe at home plate, a corporate logo appears on the television screen, and the play-by-play announcer must say, ‘Safe at home. Safe and secure. New York Life.’ ” (Thomas L. Friedman. May 12, 2012. HERE ).... "
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This looks like a fun book to read. We might download it to our Kindle Fire.

" ... And while I knew that retired baseball players sell their autographs for $15 a pop, I had no idea that Pete Rose, who was banished from baseball for life for betting, has a Web site that, Sandel writes, “sells memorabilia related to his banishment. For $299, plus shipping and handling, you can buy a baseball autographed by Rose and inscribed with an apology: ‘I’m sorry I bet on baseball.’ For $500, Rose will send you an autographed copy of the document banishing him from the game.” (ibid.)... " 

The author says the end of the cold war caused us to celebrate by becoming a "market society." The results of that we are seeing today.

" ... he argues, when America’s victory was interpreted as a victory for unfettered markets, thus propelling the notion that markets are the primary instruments for achieving the public good. (ibid.) ..."

Compared to the 1960's our market society looks like a class war. The corporate sponsors look like the Bureau Chiefs of China sitting in skyboxes at the corporate named stadiums "even at college games — that cost tens of thousands of dollars a season, and hoi polloi sit out in the rain."

Arguments for the 'common good' are difficult to make in a commercialized society. Manipulation of demographic groups is thinly disguised as a struggle between 'haves' and 'have nots.' How can Democracy survive in this type of "market society, skyboxification of American life,... and it is troubling...." decline? The author would hope that sanity could rise above this trend. But we at MooPig know that bombast often wins in our 'market' society.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opinion/sunday/friedman-this-column-is-not-sponsored-by-anyone.html?src=me&ref=general
http://accesstoinfo.blogspot.com/2010/08/market-society.html
http://kozinets.net/archives/90

MooPig's Music Depreciation Chart... latest in Quantifying Subjective Science Industries

Discussion of Pop "Music" and the Maturing Organism being Cloned Piteously into Replicate Fade

We enter the conversation in mid-stream where the bombastic glam rock Guns and Roses group of last century is being discussed. MooPig took a front position with a more severe bombastic stance to guild out guile and ferver of commentators: Read the Post HERE --

MooPig's Pat Darnell...But, but but…. wait a minnit in New York!! or versa vica:

I just came from Sans’ page on the tuning issues… and some other intonation issues… it must be that time of the month. 1-3-5, and concert C, b flat on the B flat clarinet.. …and the subject page at Pribek’s, well forget about it in my universe.

Now, reproduction tech has a flaw: replicate fade — more copies will result in loss of integrity.

I have a had a rough ride through my personal experiences with recorded music history.

Let me explain — Inheriting from my mother… I was born with perfect pitch, but cannot sing perfect pitch.. you know the type, I got half my Mother’s skills and twice as much as you. As I listened to vinyl and then tape then eight track, then cassette in my car, at home… … then I try to tune my guitar to what I am supposing is actual!! Not so. I tuned to exactly the frequencies of the turntable Hifi, etc. It was not to my or my mom’s pleasure. I remained stubbornly self oppressed about it, for a long time.

Wow, I decided some where in time that I am a loser, and will never be able to tune a guitar. I went around grimacing every time I heard Sinatra records, “Man he sings flat!” A lot of people wanted me dead for that.

You see those tapes had a flaw… they were a half step flat. So when I showed up at fellowship with a flat tuned ax, all the people looked at me like I was the last puppy at the pound; respectful but piteous.

When did I discover this? When I heard my first CD. Guess what, Suite Judy Blue Eyes was for the first time ever on pitch to my bloody brain, and I weeped.

How old was I at that time.. about thirty something. I am supposing that digital maintains integrity of tone better than all the other reproduction types.

Now, in the YT subject, everything in the whole presentation is a hodge podge of flatness. Even the drums sound like they’re pushed through the community pool.

I suspect something is amiss with the reproduction. Otherwise I would say the group here has provided a rendition that is worse than its original by GnR. I give this rendition a 1.5 or so… no grievances, just a little sad.

My scale of music appreciation low to high:
1 Grimace
2 Nervous
3 Eyes shut, nasal cavity resonating
4 BTU at normal respiration of 3.14 btu per hour
5 Sporadic Yawning
6 Tingling Sensations from head to foot on one side
7 Tingling “Ditto” on both sides
8 Full frontal body resonating
9 Entire body experiencing to point of dancing in the aisles
10 Converging arts in cranium resulting in visions and edifications

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Author: MG Comment:
I like this version, Ovidiu. I thought that flat note might be just that acsending "harmony/root-third thing" he was getting into at that point.? Oh well. Uhhmm...I don't get that Pat Darnell thing-wtf!?”
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Full frontal body resonating”? That sounds a bit disturbing… (Dr J)

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A lot of folks play half a step down, if you think about it. Actually while in GnR, Slash did the same and here I guess he had no reason to change it. Plus that is easier for the singer and has a lower tension in strings, which gives a nice sound to the guitar, if you listen to his guitar sound, I think the low tension in the string due to that half step down tune is also responsible for this.

@Dr J: looking closely, indeed, Slash takes a F instead of a F# in D, you would have said that after all those years such mistakes are not easy to make, buy hey, we are all human, I guess nobody could say never played a flat note, right? I know it happened to me

The interesting part is that he didn’t seem bothered by this and let this recording when I guess he could have taken another one.
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It’s like this MG, I’m making a statement about quality :
:this is and example of Ax’s only mentioned musical influence: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1c196_new-gospel-family_music

:notice any similarities in the soloists and Axl?? Just screw down GnR stuff and there it is.

The performers today, who have no musical talent like GnR, play a half step flat because they grew up copying tapes that are always technically inferior repro’s. Dupes, Duds, and 2% is the game now. I am only judging the performances and the growling going on now is like an amphibian drowning in a vat of alcohol.

And I fully understand that most patrons are tone deaf… but

Screaming and caterwauling is now a trend. My youngsters play the most awful sounding stuff and I ask them is that nice?

That wtf means? why the flats?

Ovidiu is right, the song Patience is absolutely beautiful, and I love its possibility but the out take here and with the original GNr is akin to a Buck Owens performance, the flattest in the West, God forgive them.

Please look at the flatness factor as a high priority. The rhythm guitar seems off on two strings, tambourine is off on some tempo…

This argument of mine comes from a long time love/hate relationship with Rock, and these guys are eat up bad. Usually a flat or sharp in a band situation is a “look at me” tactic, “I’m the solo act all the others are just clowns.”

I am suggesting the flat fault theory is a de-evolutionary quirk, that most quality experts in other industries would stop the production lines.. no?

Do you drive a Honda with flat tires?

(pd/ 24 - 27 July 2008 wtf)