One would swear that just four years ago, America was engaged in the “laugh at the rich guy” game for about 6 months; but when faced with a NEW rich guy ex-soldier (who was such a poor soldier that he got shot down and caught rather than fighting his way out like the ‘laughable’ rich guy) he can’t help but do well.
The insane thing is; he’s not even trying: Look at how he reacts to being called out for being so wealthy that he has no idea how many homes/houses he owns:
McCain, who huddled with advisers at his desert compound in Sedona, Ariz., said nothing in public. A nine-car motorcade took him to a nearby Starbucks early in the morning, where he ordered a large cappuccino. McCain otherwise avoided reporters.
Not, he retired to his campaign headquarters and ordered in some coffee. Not, he retired to his home in Sedona and worked on a response. He took nine cars to get one coffee. That’s like using 9 gold bricks to kill one fly! It’s so incredibly ostentatious and austere, I can’t even fathom where the sense of it is. One could argue that two of the cars were secret service, even four. There is no way that eight of them were, not if McCain isn’t wasting taxpayer money. Is he?
So McCain, in his response, comes up with another easy target. “John McCain needs nine cars to go get coffee”!
There’s another Meme in there somewhere. I KAN HAZ GASOLEEN WASTES PLEEZ?
“Mr. Dion is threatening to bring the government down, again, but we’ve heard that same song for nearly two years,” said Mr. Harper, accusing Mr. Dion of doing “everything in his power to slow the business of Parliament.
Ah, it’s refreshing to see a Tory behave like one, getting the Liberals to cow to their requests then accusing them of acting as a disrupting force for what they say in the media. It’s Castigation for Words and ignorance for their deeds. It’s too bad that Celine Dion is all Hat and No Cattle, since this kind of crap will go (Legistlativly) unanswered. At least we get to see Harper baring his teeth and reminding the people who do hear it (I missed it too) that he’s a sneaky bastard in the mold of the Neocons to the south. His near-invisibility in public lets him get away with it.
Now, will Celine Dion get his hand dirty and bring down the Government? Probably not. The Liberals really need to stop playing “politics” and start playing POLITICS and get out there and remind people that excepting ONE SCANDAL the Liberals led Canada to peace and prosperity and the Tories continues to Spend and Spend while cutting services and selling out to the Americans. There is NOTHING wrong with pointing out how often the Tories have cowed to the Bush Admin.
They won’t though, because they are the “New Liberals” and just an organ of the Tory machine.
THE RIAA IS JUST DOING WHAT IT CAN TO MAKE THE GOOD MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY SURVIVE. IT ISNT JUST ABOUT THE BRITNEY SPEARS AND ROLLING STONES. I HAVE A FRIEND WHO IS A SOUND ENGINEER AND LAST YEAR HE ONLY MADE $100,000. THAT IS WAY DOWN ON WHAT HE EARNED BEFORE. IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE MUXTAPE STEEL EVERYONES MUSIC THAT THIS HAPPENED. YOU WOULDN’T GO INTO A RECORD SHOP AND STEEL A CD SO WHY WOULD YOU STEEL MUSIC ON THE INTERNET AND MAKE PEOPLE POORER. IT IS ILLEGAL AND IT IS CAUSING A LOT OF PAIN. THE RIAA IS JUST TRYING TO SAVE PEOPLES JOBS. posted by seanyboy at 12:57 AM on August 19 [3 favorites]
I think my Sarcasm Detector got a bit dented up while I read this. Is it a plaintive troll or an honest malcontent? I’m seriously unsure. The cadence suggests troll, but the sincerity screams honest meathead, you know? The spelling error is also misleading, steel instead of steal… hmm.
What do you think, honest complaint or flame bait?
I make no bones about my dislike of the disorganized, messy and chaotic way the Western Left approaches protest. I’m not a proponent of lock-step marching as protest either; but I’m just looking for cohesion, a phalanx of ideas if you will.
It seems that hippies will decide, as a group to get together to protest “something” but will often show up
Protest at trafalgar Square 24 Feb, 2007
and have their concepts all over the place. The Majority will be on line with the main concept “We Quite Like Tea!” and there will inevitably be some spoilers “We like CHINESE TEA! Those INDIAN Tea lovers can get stuffed!” So the two (or more) factions will be a cacophony of ideals and colors and their chaotic presentation is lost to the “squares” as “Dirty Hippies can’t get it together over their Love of Tea”
They all love Tea, but, you know, can’t agree what brand of Tea. They don’t fight over it, but they all want their message to be heard. Ostensibly the protest comes off a cracking success, hundreds of people getting together to tell the world about the Tea and so on; but to the outside it’s just a bunch of students with more time than sense.
Protest over, it’s left to the organizers to either determine if the “Squares” got it; or if the whole thing should have been thrown over for a good game of Ultimate Frisbee or just a funky Drum Circle session. I think, perhaps, that self-evaluation is not really coming off for the team; since the very next protest is inevitably loud, disorganized and those Chinese Tea bastards are there, working against the rest of the group. I don’t think the protesters refer to each other as “bastards” but in my head they are all from the UK and they love beer.
So, what to do? Get REALLY organized! No outside signs, everyone has signs along the same theme, no sub-protests on the virtue of some other ethos. Everyone marches, bangs, sings and dances to the same BASIC tune. Variations on the theme are fine, as long as we are all on the same page, not to mention the same book.
some practical advice for the modern protester
If you are protesting “The Iraq War” don’t muddy it up with Palestinian Rights and Reproductive Rights protests in the same group. Have those marches on another day.
No one gets your in-jokes except for the other hippies, ask your uptight relatives for input on your visual jokes to make sure that they can appreciate the message. Failing that, ask the local College Republican to look at it. If they get the joke, and appreciate the message, give yourself a Check Plus and hoist that visual metaphor with pride.
No Drugs at the Protest, unless the protest is ABOUT DRUGS. You want to be taken seriously, be straight faced and sober. Simple as that. I got a contact buzz from the last protest I was NEAR, not in, NEAR. If it wasn’t for the stiff breeze I might have had to break out the Phish.
Figure out the phalanx, if the police start hauling you away, lock arms and legs and hold tight in groups of 10 or more. It devastated armies, it can keep you and your friends from being hauled into vans.
Stop respecting “Free Speech Zones” – This may sound like an incitement to riot, but please. Freedom of Assembly (except when we say so) and Freedom of Speech (only in certain circumstances). Step one in civil disobedience class should be how to take down those damn fences without getting killed or stomped by the police put in place to protect them.
So, there you have it. The next time you take to the streets en masse to profess your love for all things Tea, you are all set with these simple pieces of advice. See you on May Day!
Spencer has only recently decided to give up gaming on the 360, up until now he was a big fan of Halo 3, but he’s an FPS purist, loves the keyboard and mouse. You can understand the mouse thing, but the keys are so far apart; how does he do it?
He’s a cat; that’s how.
You can check out more of my photographs at:Flickr
US Politics are Sexy: How does John McCain like his coffee?
Published by NiteMayr on August 22, 2008One would swear that just four years ago, America was engaged in the “laugh at the rich guy” game for about 6 months; but when faced with a NEW rich guy ex-soldier (who was such a poor soldier that he got shot down and caught rather than fighting his way out like the ‘laughable’ rich guy) he can’t help but do well.
The insane thing is; he’s not even trying: Look at how he reacts to being called out for being so wealthy that he has no idea how many homes/houses he owns:
Not, he retired to his campaign headquarters and ordered in some coffee. Not, he retired to his home in Sedona and worked on a response. He took nine cars to get one coffee. That’s like using 9 gold bricks to kill one fly! It’s so incredibly ostentatious and austere, I can’t even fathom where the sense of it is. One could argue that two of the cars were secret service, even four. There is no way that eight of them were, not if McCain isn’t wasting taxpayer money. Is he?
So McCain, in his response, comes up with another easy target. “John McCain needs nine cars to go get coffee”!
There’s another Meme in there somewhere. I KAN HAZ GASOLEEN WASTES PLEEZ?