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 )...”

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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's Blog This :: "Maybe You Saw The Signs | The Official BitTorrent Blog"

Maybe You Saw The Signs | The Official BitTorrent Blog: "Matt Mason currently serves as Vice President of Marketing at BitTorrent, Inc. He is also the bestselling author of The Pirate’s Dilemma, the first book in the history of the world to hit the number one spot on Amazon’s economics/free enterprise bestseller list and the rap bestseller list at the same time. He has written and produced TV series, screenplays, comic strips, apps and records, not to mention award-winning, global advertising campaigns. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer Music Monthly, Dazed and Confused, Adweek, VICE, and other publications in more than 20 countries."

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http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/10/08/maybe-you-saw-the-signs/

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."