The History of the New World Order
How about never? Is never good for you?
From a list of "Dilbert Quotes". This does "niggardly" one better:
As director of communications, I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing our company's training programs and materials. In the body of the memo in one of the sentences I mentioned the "pedagogical approach" used by one of the training manuals. The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was called into the HR director's office and told that the executive vice president wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she wouldn't stand for perverts (pedophiles?) working in her company. Finally, he showed me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired-and the word "pedagogical" circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he looked the word up in his dictionary and made a copy of the definition to send back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it. two days later, a memo to the entire staff came out directing us that no words which could not be found in the local Sunday newspaper could be used in company memos. A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper. (Taco Bell Corporation)
The Church of Reality - A Frank Discussion on Dealing with Christians: This one'll probably get me flamed by the Christians in the audience, but it was too funny to leave out. Don't worry guys, I'm an equal opportunity satirist. I poke fun at everything. I think this writer is a bit more serious about his writing of the article than I am about my reading of it, however. Still, I wouldn't want to meet that Yahweh fellow in a dark alley. He's nasty. [brianf]
The core of Christian belief is based on the idea that everyone has sinned, and because you have done anything wrong that God will punish you by burning you with fire, or otherwise torturing you forever. If a 5 year old tells a lie and then dies, God will burn that kid in Hell forever. Out here in the real world, if someone behaved like God supposedly does, that person would be severely mentally deranged. We put people who behave like God in jail or mental institutions. In fact, many people are locked up every year for imitating the "Wrath of God".
From the Billy Burnout department. On Thursday night we had the annual employee recognition dinner. Good food, short comments from the unit managers, and announcement of the employee of the year. The company president wasn't there this year since his wife had an operation that day. I also heard that Dave and Cathy weren't there because Dave had a kidney stone. Yesterday, we had our weekly operations meeting. The president said his wife was fine, but you shouldn't call her because she was "medicated" and probably wouldn't remember anything you said. I used the opportunity to ask if Dave was OK, too. Everyone pointed at him. He was sitting to my left at about 10 o'clock, almost close enough to touch. Everyone got a good laugh when I said, "I must be medicated, too." Ah, life as a perpetual burn-out. They called me "Billy Burnout" in high school long before I had my first drink or my first joint. Now that I no longer imbibe (18 years on the wagon), I'm still a burnout. Hehe. People tend to call me "Mr. Bill" these days. Ohh Nooo!!!
Michael Gilson De Lemos at Laissez Faire City Times - The Day We Shut Down the City: I pointed at a copy of this story on Free Republic back on 2000/09/07. Mr. De Lemos has a page at About.Com with a link to my review. I found it on my referers page today. Thanks for the link!
In 1971, during the anti-Franco student riots in Barcelona, a city if not the cradle then the trainer of the Old Libertarianism, I and the nascent New Libertarian group there, armed with Murray Rothbard and using the Spanish Army Manual on tactics, brought the city to a standstill for three days by having 5,000 students flush their toilets on the half hour while turning on their home lights and calling government services.
Henry Bowman at Sierra Times - Did Ya Ever? Henry Bowman honors Brother Dave Gardner by using one of his standup comic methods to vent his spleen. [sierra]
Did ya ever wonder when exactly it was that we lost a free press in this country, and why reporters would continue to report a non-story, like the fact that a civilian threw the lever that initiated the surfacing maneuver that caused the sub to sink the Japanese fishing boat, when the reporter knows damn well that no civilian did ANYTHING on that sub without the appropriate naval personnel at his elbow?Did ya ever think that you'd see the day when our fellow citizens would be told to buckle their seat belts when they drive, what kind of hat to wear when they ride their motorcycles, how hard if at all to swat their kids' bottoms when they misbehave, who they can rent or sell their house to, and any of the other myriad human activities governed and controlled by the 1.5 million federal laws and regulations currently on the books, and still stand up tall and straight and sing the last lines of the Star Spangled Banner without any awareness of the irony involved in doing so?
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From time to time I find myself wondering about these things, and wondering why there seems to be so few others doing so. Surely other folks have noticed that today there is less faith and more bastard children being born than at any other time in our nations' history. Some of us have pointed out that when we were kids guns were far more accessible to us, and yet none of us even remotely entertained the thought of shooting each other. A few of us can even remember when the correct term to describe Attention Deficit Disorder was "brat".
Henrietta Bowman at Sierra Times - If you care about Freedom...: "The History of the New World Order", compliments of NameBase. 13 links to the web of connections to people who are definitely NOT our friends (uses Java if you have it or a GIF and image map otherwise): William Rockefeller, Jacob Schiff, George H. Bush, Adolf Hitler, Paul Moritz Warburg, Edward Windsor, Pamela Churchill Harriman, Harry Dexter White, I G Farben Company, Bilderberg Group, Henry Ford Sr, Andrew Carnegie, J P Morgan Company. NameBase is new to me. Veeery Interestink! Definitely NOT Schtupid. [sierra]
