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Who’s the borrower guy? I think I’ve seen him in some local commercials.
Brian Stepanek. He’s been in a lot of things including his own show, “Brian O’Brian” that was on Nick or Disney.
Now of course we have the new improved way of raising the debt limit. Call it the “Columbia House” method.
Instead of the poor guy having to go hat in hand asking for his debt limit to be raised, he simply writes a new debt limit amount on his contract himself and if the bankers can’t all agree to cancel it in a few days then it becomes the new limit.
Rinse, repeat, as needed until the walls fall down.
I could have sworn I saw the banker guy one or two other places, as well…
I’m not gonna let them see me cry
fuck those bastards
Obama-speak the Washington fools-gold-standard.
Congress, for 3 billion pieces of dross worth nothing — right smart there Mitch — has given a loaded fully automatic fiscal assault weapon to a child whose fondest desire is to kill the US economy, for the international fairness. Fast&Furious III, the revenge of the RINO-tards.
Geez, I believe I posted that video here a couple of years ago? The proggies just sneer at it or ignore it or refuse to understand it.
TANSTAAFL <---- RAAAAACIST!!
madness
Yeah, speaking of that most disturbing sentence, is there any doubt, had George W. said anything so utterly, recklessly stupid, the media and the Democrats would have already seen to it that we were thrust into a second great depression?
The Republican party has been reduced to the enabler of the Democrat Party.
A self induced reduction?
What I see is a result of the “long march through the institutions.” Starting with the one that effectively made all the others easier or even possible, the institution of “higher” education.
Indoctrination, enculturation, over a period of years for an individual, and a couple of generations for a nation, will create a separate polity which is wholly different from those who were not so transformed. And transform all institutions, Parties, they infiltrate as the first choose only others so transformed to come on board the now infected institution. Personnel is policy and staff is the personal personnel.
This is the war. What set of emotional reactions to ideas, symbols, actions, will be passed down to the coming generations as the “way” of the world? They, the left, as they are labeled, are building the “new soviet person” in the schools and colleges. That is the necessary first step to building the Utopia. All must have their hearts right first, the mind and the body will then follow, in lockstep.
By controlling everything around a student the left “encultures” the young into their own world view. Remakes them so that they see all through the emotional lens of the left. This is why there is such a profound chasm between them and us. They experience the world differently from us. Each side, in truth, views the other as insane and is not wrong to do so by their own lights.
The national credit card, with no limit in actual effect, is in these hands.
Salivating for salvation, immanentization is a comin’, it will be cheap but won’t be cheaply paid for.
Why do I suddenly feel like I’m not carrying enough insurance?
You can never have too much insurance. Especially since it tends to fall into lakes so easily.
You also want to make sure you don’t hit your benefits cap too soon.
Ernst,
The Republican party has been reduced to the enabler of the Democrat Party.
They’ve been that way ever since they ran Gingrich out of town on a rail.
They’ve been co-dependent since the Eisenhower era at least.
geoff,
Which is why I don’t feel much sympathy for a 20-something with an “Angry Studies” degree and $70,000 in student loan debt, but I feel a great deal of my own anger towards the tenured mountebanks who’ve fed the 20-something a world of lies.
. . . towards the tenured mountebanks who’ve fed the 20-something a world of lies.
But hey, these too have their burdens in mitigation: after all, only a few generations ago their forebears were enslaved to an ethereal metaphysic, if not actually in chains.
Dicentra, “who’s the borrower guy?”
Echo 3 Gamma in Michael Bay’s “The Island,” if I’m not mistaken.
He was the “cognate” that Dr. Merrick roughly euthenized upon discovering that his clones were catching on to his Lottery scam.
Liberal film critics in the LA/Manhattan papers panned “The Island” in a choreographed campaign to dull popular interest in it for a damn good reason: Bay’s use of visual extravaganza to criticize the Left’s technocratic campuses devastated the Progressives’ models’ reliance on artificial corralls to order and command peoples.
That, and becase the film back-lit the way the Progs stalk citizens from the parapets of elites’ vain health-fads and fickle, casual fashions. So, if you want to see Echo 3 spill his stylish latte after the Doc injects ten cc’s of phenobarbital in his neck, then watch the film – Echo’s “awakening” occurs ‘ bout half-way through.
And, if you’l stay through to the credits and watch them carefully, then you’ll learn the actor’s actual name!
Also it got panned because it was a rip off/remake of Parts: The Clonus Horror.
I would imagine that it may have also been panned because it raises uncomfortable questions about the value of human life.
Hard to watch that movie, cheering on the Ewan MacGregor and Scarlet Johanssen characters’ freedom to live despite being created to sustain their benefactor’s health, and then reconsider one’s stand on, say, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and abortion (especially the kind that weeds out damaged/female/multiple “fetuses”).
it was a rip off/remake of Parts: The Clonus Horror
That’s like trying to remake Casablanca. Failure was inevitable.
Paleo,
Ever wonder why the verb “to pan” is always employed in the passive past-tense?
I do: it’s because panning is a subjective take-down performed intentionally for dishonest reasons. Kinda like how Aaron Sorkin “panned” Sarah Palin.
And, while we’re awarding demerits for unoriginality, wasn’t Edward Scissorhands a “rip-off” of the original Frankenstein film? As I recall, unlike “The Island,” it got the velvet glove treatment in the liberal press and thus a chance to make some decent coin in the theaters.
I’m sorry you and Dicentra didn’t like Bay’s attempt. Me? I love the film (including it’s inversion of the Left’s favorite “Liberation Theology” meme at the end), and I think it is keenly effective at teaching outlaw lessons that every citizen should learn.
I figure, if kids won’t read Orwell, then at least they can imbibe the fruity juices of Bay’s “The Island.”