Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Why We Hold Congress In Deep Contempt

As you probably have heard elsewhere, our brave Congress is pushing for greater use of drones in U.S. airspace.

Whenever there is a conflict between liberty and the ability of some company to make a buck, liberty will always lose. Liberty doesn't create jobs. Liberty doesn't put bribes campaign contributions into the hands of politicians. Freedom doesn't enrich vulture capitalists.

So we have American companies continually coming up with innovative ways to spy on American citizens. They do so because there is money in creating new and improved CopsEyes. The moral and ethical issues are not of their concern for corporations, like money*, are completely amoral constructs. They have no morals and no souls.

If you care about individual freedom and personal privacy, some days if feels as though you're looking out over a sea of approaching zombies, you're down to your last three magazines and you do not have a River Tam to call upon.
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* Or Rmoney.

3 comments:

w3ski said...

George Orwell had a great vision so to speak. He was just a little early in his timing.
w3ski

wolfbitch said...

For the past few days, I've been holding Congress in even deeper contempt over their phony outrage concerning Forcing Religious People To Provide Contraceptive Care to Women OMG It's A War On Religion.

Then I remembered how well that tactic worked for the Pope.

I've been chortling ever since. I'm thinking of encouraging the conservatives to continue belaboring this point (pun intended).... because they'll lose a shitload of women's votes and guarantee Obama's re-election by an even larger percentage than he's looking at now.

Improbable Joe said...

Ummm... first off, what popped into my head first was "I'll be your River Tam" in the voice of Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone.

Otherwise, thanks. I sometimes forget that the real motive of all this stuff is profit, and expanded government power is often just a rationalization for writing bigger government checks.