Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Gerard has come up with an idea. I wonder if it’s parody, or if he’s just taken a couple steps in front of the parade to figure out where it’s going? He does seem to have the direction nailed down accurately.
And “hope” & “change” could be described as having something to do with it…
The summary execution of every man and woman in America over the age of 65 brings two immediate benefits to the United States.
First, it eliminates any call these 37 million Americans might have on Social Security and Medicare. The savings and positive cash flow that will accrue from this government program are obvious.
As we all know, the Social Security Administration (SSa) essentially bet, many years ago, that a lot of people who paid into this Mother of All Ponzi Schemes would simply not live to collect their benefits in any significant degree. It was a “You pay but don’t play” sort of deal. As long as the dead suckers outnumbered the living suckers, all was copacetic.
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And since the dead can’t use the services of Medicare beyond a cut-rate body bag and the rental of a gurney journey to the mass grave next to the spent fuel rod storage site in Nevada, trillions will be saved here as well. In addition, hundreds of thousands of hospital beds will be made available to the morbidly obese Baby Boomers when they just have to lie down and take a break from scooting about in their electric “mobility chairs” after an exhausting day of downloading porn at work.But wait. There’s more.
Not only would this herd cull, this mass kill-off, save many trillions of dollars in SS and Medicare payments, it would also deliver that single thing that most Americans have been praying for in the last few months — their own personal bailout, otherwise known as “an inheritance.”
From house trailers to mansions, from piggy banks to Swiss bank accounts, the elderly among us have been, let’s face it, holding out. What good is money to a person too weak to withstand a weekend in Vegas? What good is money when the main purchase at the market is dog food rather than shade-grown, free-trade cruelty-free foie gras? No good at all.
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Todays parody, Tomorrows truth
- pdwalker | 02/06/2009 @ 12:01Hmmm. I might have found the concept funny about 30 years ago. Strange how one’s perspective changes as one ages, eh? Speaking strictly as a guy who’d have a year left under Gerard’s “modest proposal,” of course. And one not yet fully caffeinated. 😉
- Buck | 02/06/2009 @ 13:52Buck, as usual, beat me to it. Gotta get another cup.
- rob | 02/06/2009 @ 15:18Strange how one’s perspective changes as one ages, eh? Speaking strictly as a guy who’d have a year left under Gerard’s “modest proposal,” of course.
You know, it occurs to me that you and Gerard are within a few months of each other, if I’ve been paying attention properly. Perhaps, since I’m junior by about twenty years, I’m committing a faux pax by linking his plan, of which he himself is innocent since he would only have a few months to enjoy along with the whole lot of you, were it enacted.
Ah well, I’m plenty seasoned enough to be compost in the City of Domes, so we’re all targets.
You know what would be really awesome, is if we could get something like this going and then, through the generations, g-r-a-d-u-a-l-l-y swivel it around to sucking away on the flesh of the idle…especially the idle persons who vote in politicians who pledge to nourish the idle at the expense of the productive. As well as said politicians. I wonder, how come in all of human history nobody’s managed to complete that transformation? Sort of a neo-Nazi means, toward a Libertarian-paradise end. Sure it’s a yawning ideological divide, but it’s a logical progression: You’re culling the herd to elevate the standard of living of those few who are allowed to stick around, once you do that, it’s perfectly reasonable to start feasting on the unproductive.
Perhaps history’s silence on such a situation, is testament to the inherent dishonesty: Everyone likes to have the power to declare others unworthy of continued sustenance, so long as they, and all their peers, have been somehow exempted. Methinks this train of thought is only now elucidating me, through my own idle ramblings, to the true punchline of the subtle joke Gerard is playing here. And it’s a good ‘un. Reminds me of something I noticed awhile ago…
Thing I Know #223. Real liberty labors under a disproportionate burden of fair-weather friendships. Everybody cherishes freedom of self, freedom to live life as they choose, unfettered by any obligation to decide mundane things for the pleasure of others…until they perceive themselves to be in the majority.
- mkfreeberg | 02/06/2009 @ 21:48