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September 19, 2005
WB: America the Beautiful
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Hearts and Minds’ first piece should be dated 2004.
Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 19 2005 23:40 utc | 1
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/
We need a full-court press appeal to legions of deep throats
within the heart of the Repug beast. Let them know they can
freely blog here anonymously, tipping tables on the Rovian
spin doctors. What did Bush really mean in his speech. When
is the promised aid money really coming. Who is FEMA, really?
Is it true they hired Chertoff first because he’s a lawyer?
What did Brown *do* to get a post like FEMA. Where is Dick?
Who does Condi’s hair and why haven’t they been fired? Ha,ha.
If MicroSoft employees can anti-Kool-Aid the Beast of Redmond,
surely DoD/DHS employees can anti-Kool-Aid the Beasts of DC.
Posted by: Frangi Pan | Sep 20 2005 0:46 utc | 2
“surely DoD/DHS employees can” keep their jobs, for a while, as long as they shut up, or if they have to open their mouths, sing the praises of our strong and clear leader. If they need to express theirselves further then there are spontaneous walks in support of DoD permanent programs that they can join in.
The DoD is greatly a self-selecting group that believes in the tough work that has been cut out for them. It’s the 20%ers who with their voice of doubt makes it tough for our white collar soldiers (no way any muj will be cutting their pensions).
Oh, the twenty percenters, those are the guys dragging us down opening their doors and buying girl scout cookies.
Posted by: christofay | Sep 20 2005 1:00 utc | 3
EPA Pesticide Study Endangers
Children’s Health
Also, Won’t somebody please think of the children? Oh, don’t fool yourselves! Americans under the age of 12 now spend or influence the spending of $565 billion a year – up from $2.2 billion in 1968, and kid-spending has roughly doubled every ten years for the past three decades, tripling in the 1990s. Which means someone is always thinking of the children. The
American Association of Pediatrics (pdf) cites this bludgeoning of kidvertising as creating in children “a fever for shopping and spending, swollen expectations about material needs, decreasing immunity to the assaults of advertisers, self-concepts defined by brands of clothing, and a rash of of debt by the time they leave college”.
And increasingly alarming is the wedge that advertisers are cynically driving between kids and their parents.
From the AAP page:
(Kid Power) Speakers talk freely of “owning,” “branding,” and “capturing” children, seemingly without a second thought about what those words mean. “Connecting with kids in the face of moms is a constant challenge,” says one Kid Power speaker. So marketers go behind Mom’s back. They refer to parents as “ gatekeepers” and offer tips to increase “ the nag factor,” so children will effectively pressure their folks to buy. They suggest rude and aggressive ads that make parents seem like fools. Paul Kurnit, founder of the KidShop marketing firm, teaches that “anti-social behavior in pursuit of a product is a good thing.”
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 20 2005 1:41 utc | 4
thanks, Billmon. I thght. that was astonishing stuff too!
but apparently too many poor kids are still surviving for the Party of Hobbes. They’re going to war over over what remains of the Estate Tax Now. Red alert
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden will be at the center of it.
Wyden is one of a handful of swing votes being targeted by conservative, anti-government groups in the lead up to Senate debate this week. The Club for Growth, described by its founder Stephen Moore as “the tax-cut enforcer in the Republican party”, is running ads here urging Oregonians to pressure Wyden to end the “death tax.” The ads are apparently effective: perhaps in response to CFG ads against him in New Hampshire, 2008 GOP presidential hopeful John McCain has indicated he will vote to stop an anticipated Democratic filibuster of the Kyl estate tax repeal.
Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform has gotten into the act as well.link
How the F’ can that bloody Reactionary McCain have any say in hell over what the dems. filibuster? Can someone pls. explain this to me?? Truly Frightening.
But put together w/Hurricane Toto funding, this is a backdoor way of gutting Social Security – just steal everything…
Pursue Social Security Privatization. Despite a full court press by the White House and its conservative fellow travelers, the Bush Social Security privatization plan has gone nowhere. The American people’s overwhelming rejection of the Bush budget-busting scheme is apparently no barrier in the time of Katrina. As Congress Daily reported, White House spokesman Trent Duffy “asserted that the vast spending that would be required to address the hurricane’s impact adds to the need to change Social Security, which threatens to strain the budget in coming years.” So much for discretion –or the truth – being the better part of valor.link
Posted by: jj | Sep 20 2005 2:21 utc | 5
Nothing like a hurricane to impose the conservative movements agenda. The Bushies have no friggin shame. Liars and theives is what they are, but the American sheeple are just to f–king stupid to see through the bullshit. I heard Jack Kemp the other day talking about tax free zones and all the conservative bullshit experiments. Thats what NO is, is way to turn all of those poor people on to the conservative way. Tax free industrial and enterprise zones just means someone else picks up the tab.
Man, I just may start drinking more than I do so I can just go through the next three years in a total stuper.
Posted by: jdp | Sep 20 2005 2:37 utc | 6
I know that the Brits can be overbearing and supercilous, but it’s worth noting that the tank and its supporting forces did not flatten, splinter and incinerate everything within firing distance at the first signs of disorder. That sort of behaviour (force protection) looks a good deal more manly through the lense of a camera, but it does have a tendency to get more people killed in the long run.