Sometimes art follows life. Not sure if you're a scifi fan, but there are some parallels in the new "Battlestar Galactica" now and current events. Here's one scene with relevance from the episode "The Oath":
Posted on 02/19/2009 8:37:47 AM PST by kcvl
Per Drudge:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853
“...Barack hates white people?JUST LOOK AT HIS PASTOR OF TWENTY YEARS! Would you sit around listening to a white preacher bash another race FOR TWENTY FRICKIN? YEARS if you weren?t in agreement?...”
Bump to that truism!!!!!
That’s great... except you’re asking the enemy to gather the polling data for you.
THAT WAS GREAT!!!
Yeah. He’s as slimy as they come but, you may be right, not really bright.
WHATTHA? It's not a joke.
And any similarity between a certain leader's initials and the name of the show is purely coincidental.
“Believe me, in this leftist minefield, it would be a BIG risk.”
I was referring to the guy that was arrested for having an Anti-Obama sign on his car in Ok City. You are right too though about being a target for Obamanites! They sure did a lot of vandalizing during the campaign.
Just makes it that much more fun though to get under their skin.
“I think we have been punked by a cabal, the extent of which will probably surprise us.....”
We have been. This may give you a clue.
“Slowly, as the pieces fit together, we shared a horrifying epiphany: the banks, corporations and investors acting in each global region were the exact same players. They were a relatively small group that reappeared again and again in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Asia accompanied by the same well-known accounting firms and law firms.
Clearly, there was a global financial coup d’etat underway.
The magnitude of what was happening was overwhelming. In the 1990’s, millions of people in Russia had woken up to find their bank accounts and pension funds simply gone – eradicated by a falling currency or stolen by mobsters who laundered money back into big New York Fed member banks for reinvestment to fuel the debt bubble.
Reports of politicians, government officials, academics, and intelligence agencies facilitating the racketeering and theft were compelling. One lawyer in Russia, living without electricity and growing food to prevent starvation, was quoted as saying, “We are being de-modernized.”
http://solari.com/blog/?p=2058
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Be responsible, save money, and live within your means?
Sorry, you're f*cked. You have to pay for all the above.
Transcript
RICK SANTELLI: The government is promoting bad behavior. Because we certainly don't want to put stimulus forth and give people a whopping $8 or $10 in their check, and think that they ought to save it, and in terms of modifications... I'll tell you what, I have an idea.
You know, the new administration's big on computers and technology-- How about this, President and new administration? Why don't you put up a website to have people vote on the Internet as a referendum to see if we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages; or would we like to at least buy cars and buy houses in foreclosure and give them to people that might have a chance to actually prosper down the road, and reward people that could carry the water instead of drink the water?
TRADER ON FLOOR: That's a novel idea.
(Applause, cheering)
JOE KERNEN: Hey, Rick... Oh, boy. They're like putty in your hands. Did you hear...?
SANTELLI: No they're not, Joe. They're not like putty in our hands. This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills? Raise their hand.
(Booing)
President Obama, are you listening?
TRADER: How 'bout we all stop paying our mortgage? It's a moral hazard.
KERNEN: It's like mob rule here. I'm getting scared. I'm glad I'm...
CARL QUINTANILLA: Get some bricks and bats...
SANTELLI: Don't get scared, Joe. They're already scaring you. You know, Cuba used to have mansions and a relatively decent economny. They moved from the individual to the collective. Now, they're driving '54 Chevys, maybe the last great car to come out of Detroit.
KERNEN: They're driving them on water, too, which is a little strange to watch.
SANTELLI: There you go.
KERNEN: Hey Rick, how about the notion that, Wilbur pointed out, you can go down to 2% on the mortgage...
SANTELLI: You could go down to -2%. They can't afford the house.
KERNEN: ...and still have 40%, and still have 40% not be able to do it. So why are they in the house? Why are we trying to keep them in the house?
SANTELLI: I know Mr. Summers is a great economist, but boy, I'd love the answer to that one.
REBECCA QUICK: Wow. Wilbur, you get people fired up.
SANTELLI: We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm gonna start organizing.
(Whistling, cheering)
QUICK: What are you dumping in, what are you dumping in this time? Housing...?
SANTELLI: We're going to be dumping in some derivative securities. What do you think about that?
QUINTANILLA: Mayor Daley is marshalling the police right now.
KERNEN: Rabble-rouser.
QUINTANILLA: The National Guard.
After Jason Roney of Sharmac Capital makes some comments, it's back to Santelli.
QUINTANILLA: You know, Rick, one of our producers says if Roland Burris steps down, man, "Senator Santelli," the junior senator from Illinois. It's a possibility. I'm just saying...
SANTELLI: Do you think I want to take a shower every hour? The last place I'm ever gonna live or work is D.C.
KERNEN: Have you raised any money for Blago?
SANTELLI: No, but I think that somebody's gonna have to start raising money for us.
QUICK: Hey, Rick? Can you do that one more time, just get the mob behind you again?
QUINATILLA: Have the camera pull way out.
QUICK: Yeah, pull way out. Everybody listen to Rick Santelli.
KERNEN: He can't... I don't think... You can't just do it at will, can you Rick? I mean, you have to say something.
QUICK: No, do it at will. Let's see.
SANTELLI: Listen, all's I know is, is that there's only about 5% of the floor population here right now, and I talk loud enough they can all hear me. So if you want to ask 'em anything, let me know. These guys are pretty straight forward, and my guess is, a pretty good statistical cross-section of America, the silent majority.
QUICK: Not so silent majority today. So Rick, are they opposed to the housing thing, to the stimulus package, to everything out there?
SANTELLI: You know, they're pretty much of the notion that you can't buy your way into prosperity, and if the multiplier that all of these Washington economists are selling us is over... that we never have to worry about the economy again. The government should spend a trillion dollars an hour because we'll get 1.5 trillion back.
WILBUR ROSS: Rick, I congratulate you on your new incarnation as a revolutionary leader.
SANTELLI: Somebody needs one. I'll tell you what, if you read our founding fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson,... What we're doing in this country now is making them roll over in their graves.
Far -——— out.
“It’s like silent screaming. How do we get HEARD?”
Rick was heard today.
I want all people who have the opportunity, however insignificant it might seem, to speak out—to spread the message.
This is how we get heard.
If they continue to steal money/freedom from us then we have to escalate—that’s all there is to it.
We either fight them, or go home and let it all fall down around us.
Get it, America?
We fight, or we forget about it.
We resist, or go watch American Idol or surf the net for porn.
We become willing to make a sacrifice to answer the attack on our freedom or we, by our own passivity, lay down to be raped by them.
They left is powerful, tenacious, intelligent, passionate and willing do most anything to get what it wants.
We do not respond to this with reason alone. We must switch to “guerilla” tactics.
Why can’t we reason with them, you ask?
In any argument between a rational person and an irrational person—THE RATIONAL PERSON ALWAYS LOSES.
The irrational person does not have to take on the burden of defining the terms—it’s anything goes, baby! Principles? What principles? Who needs principles?
Oops! You lost, sorry.
Now add the power of the US government and you’ll see exactly what we’re up against.
THERE IS NO ARGUMENT THAT WILL WIN THIS! YOU ARE ON THE WRONG BATTLEFIELD! YOU ARE BEING FLANKED! YOUR LINES ARE BEING BROKEN!
We have to move to where they are attacking us and fight them there.
Sorry, all you nice-guy, pragmatic, soft-shoe “Republicans” sometimes you don’t get to choose the location and style of battle.
“because we all will be looking side to side to see who is brave enough to go first..”
My neck doesn’t turn anymore. Blood red rage keeps me focused tightly on my enemy’s tender under-belly.
You are the leader! You are an American citizen.
Start with you!
If there is such a leader he will catch OUR wave, not the other way around, with all due respect.
We have to light the fire!
Libs love the wrong incentives.
You’re exactly right. We must use guerilla tactics and be as mean and nasty as it takes. They are vile, evil people and we must defeat them by any means necessary.
Bless you for posting the transcript!
Starve the Beast is a good start!
“AM I THE ONLY ONE THINKING THIS IS BACKDOOR REPARATIONS?”
“No.
I have been saying it for a while now.”
Yes, Rush Limbaugh has been saying this for months, too.
We have taxation without representation. The Constitution and Bill of Rights have been trashed. We have a socialist in the White House and socialists dominating Congress. The goal of socialism is the destruction of capitalism and freedom.
The Democrat Party should be renamed The National Socialist Party, and the Republican Party should be renamed The Fake Capitalists Party.
Who in his right mind would want to invest, start a business, or expand a business in the United States while the government is controlled by people who want to resurrect the USSR right here?
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