Re: Dear George, (you fucking idiot), please join the majority of Americans!

I applaud your global historical perspective, and predict that it will be
greeted by the sound of crickets chirping. Schade. The only thing more
powerful than stupidity is ignoranz, and you are dealing with both here.

Dr Freud.

"O.H. Lee" <popem@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Oooooh boy...
>
> The police action in Iraq is something that so few can understand.
> Well... given the significance of what happened some 42 years ago
> today, perhaps it is time I helped y'all to figure it out.
>
> The key to understanding it requires that we all put aside our
> pre-conceived ideas, political leanings, and in general ignore the
> media.
>
> The TV set or other media outlets aren't going to tell you the real
> deal, because truth isn't something they can milk and/or stir the pot
> with and make money. See, that's the goal of the media and Michael
> Moore: to make money. They are not the saviors of the Common Man
> (tm). I don't care if they are liberal, conservative, communist, or
> any other label you want to stick on them.
>
> Many folks here are probably too young to remember the late Erma
> Bombeck. She was a humorist who used to take a half-truth or truth,
> and stretch it just enough to keep it semi-believable, and by
> illuminating the absurdities make it absolutely hilarious. Take away
> the humor aspect of her writing, and you have most of the formula the
> media pundits are using today. What they do is take a truth or
> semi-truth, stretch it just enough to make the target audience yell
> "right on!", and (this is the genius of it) outrage just enough of the
> mindless idiots outside the target audience to be totally freaked out
> by it, scream and yell about it, and keep listening for the next
> "outrageous" statement. The True Believers (tm) will repeat the
> opinions you thoughtfully fabricated for them as if they were their
> own. With a little luck, a media pundit can expand their audience to
> include those directly opposed to their target audience, increase
> their market share... and get rich in the process.
>
> Now, if you're an outsider to the business, and you want to get in on
> the cash, you have to get noticed as an outsider first. After that,
> you get yourself noticed as a real obnoxious loudmouth outsider. Stir
> the pot enough, and with a little luck you can get on the inside game
> as an "outsider". You're an advocate of some kind, a Voice of the
> People (tm), or some other label that suits the role you intend play.
> You aren't really any better than the "establishment"; you just keep
> it simple, keep it one-dimensional so the lowest common denominator
> can understand it, and stir the pot while the money starts rolling in.
> Overall, this aspect isn't too different from a pro wrestling grudge
> match in that it's an act to make the whole show more entertaining.
>
> The key to making money as a pundit or advocate is to keep all the
> arguments one-dimensional, the responses reactionary, and the
> "solutions" just as ideologically (and many times just as absurdly)
> one dimensional mixed with lots of emotions. You make careful note of
> the facts that support your position and ignore or blow off the ones
> that don't. It's an edited-for-broadcast version of what your
> working-class parents and their friends used to do when they got
> together for coffee and discussed "what's wrong with this world" and
> came up with ludicrous solutions to fix it. In fact, that's the
> market for those media types. Do you honestly think that people in
> the upper 2% of the income bracket listen to that crap? Heck, THEY
> are the ones making money off it, regardless of the audience being
> catered to!!
>
> Does any of the above hit home and ring any bells yet? If it does,
> now you know why the media in all its forms and "alternatives" can't
> be trusted. Not even Michael Moore. (am I the only person who
> noticed he is wearing expensive tailored suits nowadays, even if he
> adds his obligatory baseball cap to it?)
>
> Ok... so let's assume now we have figured out that nobody can be
> trusted to do your thinking for you. That goes against the grain of
> everything you were ever taught in the public schools, but after the
> last 40 years of listening to the nightly news and chasing your tail,
> you finally have realized that was the goal all along: keep you,
> mister average guy, running in circles by reacting rather than
> thinking, fighting amongst yourselves, and in general participating in
> the circle jerk that keeps politicians in power. (and the liberals
> want you to disarm yourselves with people like that in power for the
> Greater Good (tm) !! DUH!! )
>
> So, back to the police action in Iraq. (and I'll assume that most
> folks here are observant enough to know that the official "war" that
> both sides of the fence voted on starting really ended some time ago.)
> To figure out how we really got where we are now, you have to look at
> the whole picture.
>
> China is industrializing. Despite the political turmoil that has
> historically existed in that country from day #1, all sides involved
> have known for the last 50-plus years that in order to live the good
> life they are going to have to put aside a lot of differences, work
> together, and start making things happen. Ignorant farmers turned
> political dictators aren't going to accomplish anything other than
> consolidating their own power & making life miserable for everyone
> else. That means ditching those bozos and starting a massive build-up
> of industry, infrastructure, education that is actually worth
> something, and plenty of engineers. To make all these things happen,
> you need raw materials. (It's tough to embark on an expansionist
> policy without them... remember why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?)
> Number one on the list is energy. Once they get that and shift into
> high gear, history has shown us that like others who have
> industrialized, they will experience a population explosion. Speaking
> of blow jobs, what do you think they will use that excess population
> for? Hint: it won't be for goodwill ambassadors!
>
> China has plenty of money thanks to what was once an uneasy
> relationship between them and a place called Hong Kong. The Brits
> handed that over to them some time ago. Among the first things they
> started doing was buying our factories, shipping companies, etc. some
> 20 years ago and establishing them on their home turf. Next, they
> start loaning huge amounts of money to fuel US deficit spending the
> likes of which we have never seen before. That took down the trade
> barriers, and allowed them to loan us the money we sent them for cheap
> junk. Unlike our country where we live from one election (or one
> quarter if you're a corporation) to the next, China thinks in terms of
> 100-250 years or so.
>
> Now we all know what we think of stuff made in China... cheap junk
> that falls apart. Anybody here old enough to remember when "Made in
> Japan" was a joke? How long do you think China will keep selling
> cheesy crap? Anyone notice that a Mercedes is now made in China?
> Truth is that China is getting their start (and man, it is one helluva
> start) with all that cheap junk to destroy our competing industries,
> gain market penetration (via contributing to politicos here so they
> can sell us out with legislation like NAFTA) and in general squeeze
> our balls. (Maybe the huge loans will ultimately make them our
> partners, and then again maybe they will call the loans in an effort
> to bring down what remains of our economy and write off the losses to
> the costs of an economic war... too early to tell at this point.)
>
> Now I'll pose a question: if nobody was in Iraq right now, what are
> the odds that China might decide to waltz in there and control those
> oil spigots? If I were China, I'd kick my feet up at the royal palace
> and start slowly closing those spigots to the USA... and slooowly let
> the price of oil rise, all while stealing a good portion of the
> product for myself. What would happen to the US economy if gas hit
> first $5/gal, then $10/gal... maybe over the course of 6 months to a
> year?
>
> Now who would you rather have in Iraq: the USA or the Chinese? Is
> the current state of affairs making any sense now?? Was that scraggly
> bearded *** really a threat to us? Doubtful, but he was a good
> enough excuse & we kept him around long enough for when we needed him.
> Purpose served, case closed. Now that his own people have him, they
> can hook his nuts to a field telephone and wire him for sound. And
> don't think for a minute that they won't.
>
> George W may not be the brightest star in the sky, but he's not the
> complete idiot that Moore and his followers would lead you to believe.
> Fact is that you don't hand a complete meatball an Air National Guard
> F-102 and expect him to survive his own stupidity. (Century-series
> fighters have one common characteristic to nearly all of them: they
> are unforgiving to pilot error since they don't have sophisticated
> computers to prevent mistakes.) Big oil may want higher prices, but
> they really don't want to be cut out of business by having their raw
> materials flow shut off.
>
> I figure that within the next 15-20 years, we will be at war with
> China. It's a war we can't win the way things are now. (Heck, the
> average guy today can't handle the recoil of an M-16, which is little
> better than a pest gun!) If we prepare and stop the bull***, it
> might not happen 'cause the Chinese don't get involved in wars they
> can't win... unlike the USA did first with Korea and then Vietnam.
>
> Follow the money, gang. It HASN'T been about Truth, Justice, and the
> American Way (tm) since the end of WW2. Eisenhower tried to warn you.
> If LBJ, Nixon, and Clinton didn't wake you up to this, you're so dense
> that there's no hope. The real enemy is our own laziness that
> continues to lower standards and allow things like this to happen.
>
> And Jesusmotherfriggin'christmas TURN OFF THE DAMN TV SET!!!


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