The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: Middle Man on June 05, 2008, 09:05:56 AM
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Herewith, are my new maxims for the remainder of 2008, they should serve as a powerful balm against the prototypical, neo-hippy B-HO voter or garden variety leftist liberal. Also, guaranteed to send twenty-something (or maybe 50-somethings too) communist wannabes into a fit of rage.
I am quite fond of numbers one and two, hence I have no doubts as to their effectiveness. Three, four, and five remain under evaluation and are subject to change. Further general truths, fundamental principles, and/or proverbial says are in the offing.
1-I don't want any part of your (socialist) change.
2-Leave us out of your Utopian dreams.
3-McCarthy was right, Duranty was a damn liar, and Che was a murderer.
4-Good and Evil, contrary to recent media statements, exist.
5-Chamberlain was a naive fool.
This slogan needs tweaking a bit:
Obama, change (that Jimmy Carter was ashamed to avow in 1976).
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VERY good! I really like #1 and #4. When I think about #4, it really works with #2 in that the mind set of the utopian dream/society is that there is no evil.
Slogan is on track with the tie to Carter too. Maybe some tweak'n. Sure a lot of the creative minds on this forum will help!
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Excellent! +1
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"Peace in our time" (Neville Chamberlain, after Munich sell out) " Piece in our time is a 1911" (Tom Bogan, before the next election)
I bet my pistol lasts longer than his paper ;D
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"Peace in our time" (Neville Chamberlain, after Munich sell out) " Piece in our time is a 1911" (Tom Bogan, before the next election)
I bet my pistol lasts longer than his paper ;D
Great quote! I may plagerize it! ;D
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Great quote! I may plagerize it! ;D
Go for it, much of my blog is stuff written by people more eloquent than I am ;D
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1-I don't want any part of your (socialist) change.
2-Leave us out of your Utopian dreams.
3-McCarthy was right, Duranty was a damn liar, and Che was a murderer.
4-Good and Evil, contrary to recent media statements, exist.
5-Chamberlain was a naive fool.
This slogan needs tweaking a bit:
Obama, change (that Jimmy Carter was ashamed to avow in 1976).
Stolen, stolen....I've stolen this in an email already...but I did give you credit for it!
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Stolen, stolen....I've stolen this in an email already...but I did give you credit for it!
I'm quite pleased that everyone has enjoyed these simple maxims. I'm even more pleased to see that some folks can recall history's lessons.
I may strengthen maxim #1 thusly:
1- I do not need your (socialist) change
It is vastly more demonstrative when stated as a need.
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In light of the Congressional Democrats call to place windfall taxes on oil companies:
Government revenues (i.e. taxes) are nothing more than wealth redistribution
Any (unbiased) high school economics student can tell you that is true and they also know that any tax on the producer will be passed on to the end consumer. Seems there are some members that foolishly think otherwise.
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Middleman: Excellent. You mentioned that your BHO Slogan needed some tweaking. I figured that I would offer my shot. After all, I have a B.S. in Advertising and have yet to work more that six months in the field so I am eminately more qualified that your garden variety badger to offer some advice.
Your present slogan:
Obama, change (that Jimmy Carter was ashamed to avow in 1976).
Some of my proposals:
Obama: The Change Jimmy Carter was ashamed to avow in 1976. Pithiesque with some minor punctuation changes. (BHO voters tend to not understand the parenthetical statement that you and I are so fond of).
Then I got to thinkin' again. With the state of today's education system, how many BHO voters know who Jimmy Carter is, hell what 1976 was. Most weren't alive and those that were, were... well it was the '70's. On top of all that, there is the whole issue of explaining the whole avow thing never mind the silly punctuation.
I think in the proud Democrat tradition of FDR, JFK, RFK, LBJ et. al. we should introduce the BHO concept to the dumb masses drop the date and the avow to give us:
BHO: The Change Jimmy Carter was ashamed of
Then the 'ole hamster got to gallopin' again and I thought of a whole new direction, but I think we should definitely keep the BHO concept in the public eye so I came up with:
BHO: Change! And your folding money too!
Let me know. We still have plenty of lead time.
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Vote McCain, Better an A hole than B-ho
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Vote McCain, Better an A hole than B-ho
That's what we got. :'( Sad but true.
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Some of my proposals:
1- Obama: The Change Jimmy Carter was ashamed to avow in 1976.
2- BHO: The Change Jimmy Carter was ashamed of
3- BHO: Change! And your folding money too!
I tend to enjoy the parenthetical method of adding a bit of information (a sidebar conversation within a larger discussion would be a fine example) set apart from the main thought of a sentence without the necessity of an entire new sentence or a prepositional phrase, with which we may do more interesting things. The parenthetical is more a written representation of the spoken and your change to a colon is more dramatic (more solid in appearance) written. From that perspective, I quite like the change to a colon. The date is important, it tells the reader that BHO's ideas are not new, as many have been led to believe. As for the avow, dictionaries abound...pick one up perchance learn a new word.
I do like the third iteration, yet it seems only to address BHO's fiscal policies rather than his overall ideology.
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So are you in on the BHO? I'll get that pinned down now. On #3 I liked the whole "foldin' money" thing. I have laughed at that since I saw in O Brother Where Art Thou? I went with it because people usually vote their pocket book thing. I wanted to work in a surrender monkey in there somewhere, but that is off limits because I'm not Howard Cosell. We want to keep it intellectual but not too much. You know, just right (key word, right. Damn parenthesis). Another phrase that works well is Bitter Clinger. Like this political advertisment paid for by the Bitter Clingers of America (We approve this message and all that rot). As far as production, if we keep the colors the same we can print a bunch of different bumper stickers so we have a nice variety. Hey, reel me in if I'm getting too far off message. I do tend to wander
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While I do enjoy the humorous connotations in using only BHO's initials, the seriousness of the matter surrounding his proposed change would seem to require proper names. On that basis, (and with many thanks) we shall adopt your rendering.
Obama: The Change Jimmy Carter was ashamed to avow in 1976.
Bitter Clingers of America - very well done sir!
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Glad to be of service.
Bitter Clingers Unite
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Distillate musings:
Liberals (socialists) desire, at their foundation, an unobtainable utopia. Their dreams of an "ideal society" fuel their politically corrected hype in a drive to suppress and control free society.
A Utopian society is a lofty ideal that is doomed to crumble against man's (God-given) freewill, man's desire for power, and man's propensity towards self interest and greed.
A blind adherence to Reason (philosophical logic) is very nearly as detrimental to mankind as the dream of a Utopian society. Reason may be nothing more than a cover for the preferences of an individual. History, tradition, and wisdom of generations past (may) lessen the impact of unintended consequences.
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My advice to the Democratic party:
Why threaten to cut off a set of nuts when you really only need to cull some nuts?
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My advice to the Democratic party:
Why threaten to cut off a set of nuts when you really only need to cull some nuts?
Never in my life thought I would agree with Jesse Jackson on ANYTHING. ???
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C. S. Lewis
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Personal responsibility is like going to the dentist twice a year; it may be occasionally unpleasant, yet this practice will often prevent painful future episodes.
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Bull Connor was a Democrat.