Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Communist Fortune Cookies???
Good Fortunes.com ^ | June 23, 2008 | self

Posted on 06/23/2008 11:42:28 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie

Personalized fortune cookies sound like a fun idea for a party or business event, right? That's what I thought until I happened upon goodfortunes.com. They provide suggested "Cookie Quotes", and I figured I would use someone else's creative ideas. Since these cookies would go to a group of businesswomen, I naturally browsed the quotations listed under "Prosperity." Here is a sampling of what I found:

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~Alan Gregg

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ~Friedrich Holderlin

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. ~Aldous Huxley, Island

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~Francis Bacon

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ~Don Marquis

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. ~Adam Clayton Powell, Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. ~Charles Wagner

I am not kidding. The ENTIRE section is made up of this kind of garbage. Inspiring? I think not! Out of curiosity, I browsed their category, "Patriotism." Predictably, this is what I found:

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. ~S.I. Hayakawa

There were a few patriotic quotes that weren't complete crap, but it's hard to believe they suggest putting this kind of garbage in FORTUNE COOKIES! Well, maybe on second thought, they're hoping to get a contract with the DNC for their convention.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: communism; fortunecookies; liberals; progressive
Website where you can read the quotes for yourself: www.goodfortunes.com

I let them know exactly what I thought of their material and that there's no way I'd ever place an order with them.

1 posted on 06/23/2008 11:42:28 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ChocChipCookie

“Your next President will be Barack Obama.”


2 posted on 06/23/2008 11:49:48 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChocChipCookie

No Communism here, but I’m just getting started.

http://twitter.com/cookiefortunes


3 posted on 06/23/2008 11:51:01 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Code Pink should guard against creating stereotypes in the Mincing Community." --Titan Magroyne)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PBRSTREETGANG

“Enjoy your cookie. They don’t have any in the gulag.”


4 posted on 06/23/2008 11:52:14 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ChocChipCookie

There should be Che Guevara cookies that quote him verbatim.

“A revolutionary must be a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate”

“Individualism must disappear!”

“I don’t need proof to execute a man — I only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him.”


5 posted on 06/23/2008 11:55:18 AM PDT by agere_contra
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChocChipCookie
Photobucket
6 posted on 06/23/2008 12:00:27 PM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChocChipCookie
Photobucket
7 posted on 06/23/2008 12:00:57 PM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: agere_contra
"Roses are red,
Violets are blue
Do as we say
Or we will shoot you."
8 posted on 06/23/2008 12:13:57 PM PDT by dirtboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: PBRSTREETGANG

“If you don’t vote for Barack Obama, you’re a racist!”
“If you question Barack Obama about anything, you’re a racist!”

I smell a challenge, do you???


9 posted on 06/23/2008 12:23:06 PM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ChocChipCookie
If you no have a million dollar, I give you a million dollar

If you no have honorable sportcar, I give you honorable sportcar

But I no give you shirt off my back.

you see I HAVE two shirt for my back!

From a story a few years ago from the great Barry Farber

10 posted on 06/23/2008 1:17:49 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Still backing Hunter"I refuse to be fitted with collar and chain, and given a pat on the back")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChocChipCookie

“All power flows from a gun barrel” - Mao Tse Tung


11 posted on 06/23/2008 3:40:00 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson