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< 9/11 Pays Off >
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09-13-2015, 11:20 AM
< 9/11 Pays Off > a sensational new product just perfect for news votes money control... the dead may rest the living may mourn but the profit WILL be made - - -
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09-13-2015, 11:28 AM
a suggestion for the title would be
9/11 vision, are the [for]'s needed in the first section?
09-13-2015, 12:41 PM
(09-13-2015, 11:28 AM)billy Wrote: a suggestion for the title would beThanks, you're right, using "spectacle" doesn't work. I was using it to connote "bread-and-circus", but that's not the first meaning that comes to a reader's mind. I don't like "vision" because it's something that's going to happen as opposed to something that already has. Looking at the poem again, I think that "pays off" more accurately portrays it. See what you think. I got rid of the "for" 's as well, yep, works much better. Yes?
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
09-13-2015, 12:56 PM
Maybe God misheard them, way back, when the people said they needed a prophet.
09-13-2015, 03:50 PM
I'm curious about this profit..... I guess if you remove the sunk costs....
09-13-2015, 04:14 PM
(09-13-2015, 03:50 PM)Qdeathstar Wrote: I'm curious about this profit..... I guess if you remove the sunk costs.... I read that the corporation who had just bought both buildings also bought anti-terrorism insurance, and sued the insurer for two events, so collected something more than $4 billion. Some say 7. http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/07/15...nce-fraud/
09-13-2015, 07:47 PM
(09-13-2015, 03:50 PM)Qdeathstar Wrote: I'm curious about this profit..... I guess if you remove the sunk costs.... The main profits were made by the military arms and equipment manufacturers to help the U.S. gear up for the "War On Terror". These weren't just the increases for additional anti-terror equipment; their lobbyists, helped by the U.S. congress, were able to reverse some previous military spending cuts that had been made in weapon systems. Tanks, missiles, advanced fighter aircraft -- these last were not ground-support aircraft, but advanced supersonic fighters designed to fight the USSR. Security/Police equipment manufacturers made windfall profits too, supplying the needs of municipalities across the U.S. -- small towns in Nebraska included -- so they could each have their own anti-terror squad complete with armored vehicles. It goes on and on... For these companies, congressman who wanted votes, news agencies who wanted viewers, etc., fear was their ally and they encouraged it. We are now in a state of constant war* that can be used as an excuse for almost anything; especially regressive measures such as spying on U.S. citizens. The U.S. President now has the power to summarily execute any foreigner or U.S. citizen without due process and withhold any information regarding it. ray * "War is Peace" - A Party slogan from Orwell's novel, 1984 :
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09-14-2015, 12:28 AM
09-14-2015, 08:37 AM
the titles much better and so is the edit.
09-14-2015, 10:04 AM
(09-14-2015, 07:09 AM)Qdeathstar Wrote: I think you've succeeded in convincing me that you're a misled conservative; and I've succeeded in convincing you that I'm a raving liberal. So we've probably accomplished enough for this thread. But, if you feel inclined, you could always start a 9/11 thread in the general discussion area. I'm sure it would be interesting. (09-14-2015, 08:37 AM)billy Wrote: the title's much better and so is the edit. What can I say? You're a genius. Thanks for the help.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
09-14-2015, 10:11 AM
It does not seem like enough people realize this... But to your poem... I like how "will" is stressed so hard... And your three profits are true...
09-14-2015, 10:33 AM
(09-14-2015, 10:11 AM)Jezie Wrote: It does not seem like enough people realize this... Part of the reason they don't realize this is that they've been taught to worship sports. They've been taught to root for the "home" team without realizing that someone else owns the team; and that the owners made them pay for the ticket.  (09-14-2015, 10:11 AM)Jezie Wrote: But to your poem... I like how "WILL" is stressed so hard... Thank you. And yes, I just love that "WILL". (09-14-2015, 10:11 AM)Jezie Wrote: And your three profits are true... So you're saying they're "true prophets"?
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
09-14-2015, 12:30 PM
I like how you look at it... Always love good sports analogies... For I see it as the instant win over and also the fact that society as a whole have been taught to drink the kool-aid and eat the cookies never mind the weird smell and funny aftertaste... Being dumbed down as a nation yet still thinking we know and see all... Sad really...
Hmm three prophets... Or true prophets... It does work for word play... But a prophet speaks for a cause not become the cause... If looking at what or who a prophet in this would be... Would it not be the news (media) being the prophet not as much as the votes, control, money? Those are just the profits from the prophet  my limited take on it anyhow hope I do not offend
09-14-2015, 09:58 PM
(09-14-2015, 12:30 PM)Jezie Wrote: I like how you look at it... Always love good sports analogies... For I see it as the instant win over and also the fact that society as a whole have been taught to drink the kool-aid and eat the cookies never mind the weird smell and funny aftertaste... Being dumbed down as a nation yet still thinking we know and see all... Sad really... You're right, they're generalities. Good generalities are 49% lies, and bad ones 51%. So I certainly shouldn't feed all the news media to the same shark. (And I certainly wouldn't feed my wife, who's a part of said estate, to any shark. Hopefully, she feels likewise with respect to moi.) "hope I do not offend" Of course not. (Not that I think it's possible to offend me; my subconscious instantly channels any such emotions directly to cool, logical thinking and/or irrational anger.)
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
09-14-2015, 10:33 PM
I am guilty of the same time and again and not so close to anyone in media the like... This forum like feeding people to things with sharp and many teeth... Hmm starting to wonder of I should hide lol
Still a good read and truth as it stands... 
09-15-2015, 01:32 AM
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"Blue duck fly to north country/prophets for profit keep on coming/where does one draw the line? " . . . (by Sam Signaoff)
09-15-2015, 07:48 PM
(09-14-2015, 10:33 PM)Jezie Wrote: I am guilty of the same time and again and not so close to anyone in media the like... This forum like feeding people to things with sharp and many teeth... Hmm starting to wonder of I should hide lol This forum doesn't have sharp teeth; it has soft gummy-bear teeth which, if you ask, will hug you. (And no, it isn't creepy! A bit warm and very sticky, but not creepy.) (09-15-2015, 01:32 AM)Mark A Becker Wrote: . Oh, wow! Hadn't heard that song mentioned in 20? 30? years. Just had to go and find it... and, of course, someone had uploaded it to youtube: youtube video with song lyrics below:
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
09-15-2015, 11:18 PM
Interestingly, I think that Signaoff is Canadian, and the "blue duck", as far as I know, only exists in New Zealand... HMMM? I wonder if Sam knew this when he wrote the tune.
09-16-2015, 06:47 AM
Ray, old top, I hate to be negative,
but Military-industrial complex bad. Capitalism bad. Undertakings that run at a loss wonderful. Politicians bad. It may be understood on different planes.... but on the surface, do you not think it lacks freshness? A mite Lefty-trite? I too would like to know the 'sauce' for the President acting like Jihadi John. My grand-daughter is in Texas; I may need to alert her.
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