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Remember when it was funny before it became reality?

7/17/2011, 9:41 pm
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We're going to start a new series titled Remember when it was funny before it became reality? starting with that scene from Airplane II where the airport security guys are frisking an old granny while the terrorists walk through with their weapons.

Post your own versions of absurdities that used to be funny before they became the official policies. Examples are plenty; we'll leave it to you to find them.

Ayn Rand wrote:The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.
Ushanka tip: General Secretary
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7/18/2011, 1:47 am
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‘Entitlement' Is a Republican Word
Posted on Jul 14, 2011
By Bill Boyarsky
TruthDig

At his news conference this week, President Barack Obama seized on a misleading Washington word—“entitlements”—to describe the badly needed aid programs that are likely to be cut because of his compromises with the Republicans.

“Entitlement” is a misleading word because it masks the ugly reality of reducing medical aid for the poor, the disabled and anyone over 65 as well as cutting Social Security. Calling such programs entitlements is much more comfortable than describing them as what they are—Medicare, Social Security and money for good schools, unemployment insurance, medical research and public works construction that would put many thousands to work.

It's also a Republican word. It implies that those receiving government aid have a sense of entitlement, that they're getting something for nothing. And now it's an Obama word as he moves toward the center and away from the progressives who powered his 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination over centrist Hillary Clinton.

....It's impossible to decode anyone's language because of the maneuvering over the debt limit. But Obama was clear about his long-range goals in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington on April 13.

....He proposed [highlight=#FFFF00] reducing Medicare and Medicaid[/highlight] by $500 billion by 2023 and “an additional $1 trillion in the decade after that.” And [highlight=#FFFF00] if more cuts must be made[/highlight], the independent cost-cutting commission authorized by his health reform law would do it, although [highlight=#FFFF00] Obama described the process in a deceptively positive way: “additional savings by further improving Medicare.” [/highlight]

He also left open the possibility of [highlight=#FFFF00] cost cutting in Social Security[/highlight]. “Both parties should work together now to [highlight=#FFFF00] strengthen Social Security[/highlight] for future generations. But we have to do it without putting at risk current retirees, or the most vulnerable, or people with disabilities; without slashing benefits for future generations.”

...[highlight=#FFFF00]Obama has to be honest, forthright and progressive—and stop using “entitlements” to refer to worthwhile government programs.[/highlight] He's a writer. He must know what negative nuances the word carries.FULL STORY

OK fine. I got it that us communists socialists progressives liberals MUST abandon using the word "entitlements". And I can see the genius in Fearless Leader finding "additional savings by further reducing improving Medicare" and that "cost cutting Social Security" actually will "strengthen Social Security".

[highlight=#FFFF00]But comrade Bill Boyarsky fails to provide a replacement word for "entitlements".[/highlight]

Salvation comes in reading the wise Comments section, wherein commenter "Leefeller" shows us [highlight=#FFFF00]the correct replacement for "entitlements" is "peoples rights".[/highlight]

Which, when we recall Fearless Leader's memorial speech from his youth in 2001 about the Constitution being a "charter of negative liberties- what the government CAN'T do to you"-

It makes perfect sense that receiving money from the government is a RIGHT, the "positive liberty of what the government MUST do for you"
Image I remember when reading about the absurdities of NewSpeak was funny. Now it IS reality, and it isn't funny.
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7/18/2011, 2:39 am
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Great Idea, Comrade Red Square! Please allow me to enter into evidence my first two examples of Remember when it was funny before it became reality.
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7/18/2011, 10:28 am
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We are all cousin Eddy, now.
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Raum Emmanual Goldstein
7/18/2011, 6:19 pm
Yes! This clip from the Airplane II film is a cutting edge TSA training film!
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Raum Emmanual Goldstein
7/18/2011, 6:25 pm
El Presidente wrote:

We are all cousin Eddy, now.

Yes! But thanks to QE1, QE2, et al.... we'll soon be on a one-to-one currency exchange rate with Zimbabwe. SO! the $52,000 Eddy was looking for won't really amount to very much at all (in REAL dollars)!
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7/18/2011, 8:40 pm
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Raum Emmanual Goldstein wrote:Yes! But thanks to QE1, QE2, et al.... we'll soon be on a one-to-one currency exchange rate with Zimbabwe. SO! the $52,000 Eddy was looking for won't really amount to very much at all (in REAL dollars)!
True. $52,000 might buy cousin Eddy some meat for their burgers after our dollar continues to lose value.
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7/18/2011, 11:50 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdDFV_Q ... r_embedded

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Those of us old enough to remember the drive-in movies, the narrator of the cartoon was the voice in a lot of the intermission film clips.
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Raum Emmanual Goldstein
7/19/2011, 9:56 am
El Presidente wrote:
Raum Emmanual Goldstein wrote:Yes! But thanks to QE1, QE2, et al.... we'll soon be on a one-to-one currency exchange rate with Zimbabwe. SO! the $52,000 Eddy was looking for won't really amount to very much at all (in REAL dollars)!
True. $52,000 might buy cousin Eddy some meat for their burgers after our dollar continues to lose value.

INDEED! Only the BEST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITeuaqc ... detailpage

BUT! .... with $52,000, one can ONLY afford the convenient, single-slice servings... For a cool half-million, one might pool one's meager annual salary with the neighbors' and purchase it by the full-sized can.

Besides, these people shouldn't be outside grilling any way. It's a useless waste of carbon off-sets and contributes to global warming anthropromorphic climate change.
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7/20/2011, 8:21 pm
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Rufus T. Firefly wrote:If any form of pleasure is exhibited, report to me and it will be prohibited! I'll put my foot down, so shall it be... this is the land of the free! The last man nearly ruined this place, he didn't know what to do with it. If you think this country's bad off now, just wait till I get through with it! The country's taxes must be fixed, and I know what to do with it. If you think you're paying too much now, just wait till I get through with it!

The documentary film Duck Soup, current in kinotheaters all over the Union, is sponsored by the National Runaround and starring glorious Marx Brothers.
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7/24/2011, 8:06 pm
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Ahh, the Brothers MARX! The paragon in documentaries of modern Politikal Science!

Spasebo, Postal Censor for knocking the dust off of this classic work and reminding us that the fundamentals must never be ignored!
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7/25/2011, 7:24 am
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What ever it is, I'm against it.
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7/25/2011, 5:31 pm
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Ivan makes the play on words, sounding JUST LIKE Speaker of the House Boehner...
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