"Its a marvel of snarky minimalism. I believe it needs further exposition."
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This is like the holy grail of star/monkey poasts. *
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DBC played it beautifully. It touches a tender and a genuine felt chord of remembrance of friends lost while at the same time getting in a blatent dig at the hated arch-rival. On that very arch-rival's board. Need I add, in that arch-rival's greatest hour of loss and need?
The beauty was in the structure: just as we are getting comfortable with a genuine and heartfelt emotion displayed publically, he lets it rip. The set-up is a universally shared emotion we all experience. The pay-off is the pure simplicity of the crack. Lesser wits would have gone for a meat-cleaver, but no, in the right hands, a tooth-pick is just as deadly. Jeremy couldn't have crafted it better.
It's the perfect balance of heartfelt sentiment and and-a-middle-finger-to-you-too snarkiness. In fact, its a "Mona Lisa" of snarky WHAB posts. I think I'm going to print it out it, paste it on my wall and look upon it wisfully when I need inspiration.
It is a masterpiece of unalloyed snarkiness. I bow at the feet of a master.
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Starred by:
WAR DAMN EAGLE
Hobbes
Moe
iPhoneHobbes
Pick Em Guys
Trigger
aubie in bham
Ignatius J. Reilly
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Re-lease der Lützenkirchen!
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Deal 'em up again boys...Romney is running like a Kenyan!
"Give me control of a nation's credit and I care not who makes it's laws. The few [political leaders] who understand the [international banking] system, will either be so enriched from it's profits or so dependent upon it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power of money should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."
President Thomas Jefferson.
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance."
President James Madison.
"We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it."
Congressman Louis T. McFadden.
"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States."
Senator Barry Goldwater.
"The abandonment of the gold standard makes it possible for the statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. Gold stands as a protector of property rights."
Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan.
"From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money and credit, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts."
Congressman Ron Paul.
"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government, combining uber-capitalism and communism under the same tent, all under the control of a cabal of one-world conspirators. So am I suggesting conspiracy? Yes I am. I am convinced there is such a plot, internationalist in scope, generations old in the planning and incredibly evil at its very core."
Congressman Lawrence Patton McDonald.
"The reason it is difficult is to accept alternative explanations is because we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. However, to endorse the accidental view is what is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Any student of history recognizes that conspiracies are the norm, not the exception."
