Posted on 10/28/2008 5:25:58 AM PDT by Perdogg
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Rising to the top of the corrupt cesspool that is Chicago politics. Getting a $385,000 a year political sinecure for his odious wife whose profound sense of entitlement puts her very much in line with most of his supporters. Those "achievements."
unless, of course, you have the proper "pull" with the right bureaucrats.
Watch for the doom of rotted civilizations in Atlas Shrugged:
Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: ‘Account overdrawn.’
Not necessarily, huh? LOL.
Good thing this was in print and not audio. They would have had to have Heimlich's to save them from choking to death on that whopper.
They miss the point. Putting him on the cover before the election serves as a quasi-endorsement at the newstand. They know this and have attempted to omit this through this statement. Anyone you know that subscribes to this needs to cancel it immediately. If this is allowed to stand, even with future “apologies”, then they have won.
We have to re-focus the media during the next few years. If anyone here spends a dime to support any news organization that has jumped the shark during this campaign then you are contributing to what we should be fighting against.
Men’s health makes more than 250,000 per year.
their magazine should be free to redistribute the purchase power of their potential readers.
Transtlation for those from future rioters of amerika: steal the mazagine.
(/s)
Should be called: Feminista-approved Girliemen's Health Rag.
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I cancelled my subscription (company paid for) to Advertising Age because they crowned him “Marketer of the Year”. And I gave the staff an earfull.
All these vacuous rags are in the tank. They’ll be in line with their hands out for the socialist subsidies.
I can’t wait to see 0bama’s picture on the cover of my son’s Formula 1 magazine. Even though it’s published in the UK, you know 0bama’s going to be “leader of the world,” right?
BARNY FRANK, CHRIS DODD, ET AL, REMIND ME OF THE GANG OF LOOTERS IN ATLAS SHRUGGED.....
I guess they all think we be so stoooopid.
From the special 0 issue:
“Smoking a pack a day-the new health shortcut”
“6 weeks to bowling a 50 game”
“Nutrition tips: #1:the pig is an unclean animal-put down that pork chop!”
“A great full-body exercise: Throwing people under the bus”
“Dance like Colin Powell!”
“Picking the Perfect Wife”
“Why telling the truth is bad for your heart”
“Doctors find prayer is beneficial to health-imagine how much better doing it 5 times a day will work!”
“The Havana food-rationing diet: Lose 30 pounds quick-ever see a fat Cuban?”
Never bought or read it. This is somewhat akin to one of my favorite charities, Best Friends in Kanab, UT, getting involved in the Obama dog adoption publicity scheme.
While I’m thrilled for any shelter animal to be taken into a loving, permanent home, BF did not have to get involved. They made a conscious choice to become politically aligned and I let them know I will no longer support them. My tiny donation won’t be missed and will go to local shelters instead, but they do know why I will no longer be associated with them.
“You catchin that, camera guy?”
[Love it!]
Well obviously he told them and therefore it is true. That is all you or I need is his word. Any questioning of 0bama's word will result in your tax records and child support record (if you have them) being looked into by concerned government agencies or the media. If questions persist there will be a bus trip to a retreat where you can get your mind right.
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