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    A wonderful historian named William H. McNeill makes a powerful case for the idea that humans are chewed on by two kinds of parasites: the little ones and the big ones. Our little parasites go from hair lice and gut worms down to germs and viruses. Our biggest parasite -- ever since we learned to fend off grizzly bears and rattlesnakes -- is each other.

    When you think about it that way, most societies seem to be heavily parasitized by their ruling classes. Or do you really think that Saddam Hussein needed those 42 palaces?

    Along with a million horrors, the HIV epidemic brought a deeper medical understanding of retroviruses, clever nano machines that drill molecular holes into living cells. From there they drift through the cell to the control room, the nuclear DNA, and take it over to make a zillion copies of themselves, often killing the host.

    Retroviruses are like a speedboat full of grinning Somali pirates who go careering hundreds of miles into the Atlantic to take over passing supertankers, by randomly firing off their ancient AK-47's at anybody on board. When they succeed, they get great big ransom payments from Lloyds of London. Everybody's happy, and the pirates go back to Mogadishu and make a lot of little baby pirates.

    This is what liberals like to call a sustainable lifestyle. Under Obamanomics it's a kind of Stimulus Package for the world.

    Pirates have been raiding off the coast of Africa for thousands of years. Thomas Jefferson tried to get rid of the Barbary Pirates with no luck. That was the first American attempt to bring democracy to Tripoli. Obama doesn't know it, but he is acting (without Congressional authorization) in a 200-year-old American tradition.

    Muslim pirates raided the coast of Britain and Ireland well into the 19th century, making off with slaves and whatever else they could carry away. The peace-loving Swedes and Danes went a'viking for almost a thousand years after the arrival of Christianity in Europe, reaching as far south as Constantinople and west to Moscow. It helped them to get through those long northern winters, cooped up with the wife and kids. (Nag, nag, nag, why don't you go a'viking? she says. So I go, Oh, fer goodness sake ...)

    The totalitarian Left is about as piratical as humans get, witness Stalin's Communist Party -- and Leftist tyrannies in scores of other countries they are all trying to make us forget about. There are reports today of execution trucks driving around China to kill, refrigerate and "harvest" the organs of criminal Falun Gong followers, to supply the human organ trade. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times would no doubt approve of this example of the efficiencies of One-Party Government. Get your heart transplant fresh from the warm and palpating donor!

    No doubt the Chinese political elite, like President Hu, receives the pick of the "harvest." You might remember that President Hu was Obama's Deep Bow #3 a couple of years ago. The most famous Buddhist leader in the world, the Dalai Lama, was chased out the backdoor of the Obama White House, right past the garbage bins, for fear that Hu might get annoyed by our President's fearless recognition of Occupied Tibet. It happens that President Hu rose to power by ruthlessly oppressing the Tibetans. Mr. Hu is Pontius Pilate without the compassion. Obama doesn't leave much doubt about his real values, does he?

    Whether those reports about those human butchery trucks in China are true or not, they reflect the same spirit that led Prime Minister Gordon Brown to declare a couple of years ago that all bodies of freshly dead British citizens belong presumptively to the State -- which paid, after all, to keep their sorry carcasses alive by way of the National Health "Service."

    Really. You can find it here.

    Can't you just see the geniuses who made up Obama Scamacare getting ready, lickety-split, to import that grand idea to the United States? It solves urban blight and the cost of Baby Boomers, all in one grand slam.

    "Thrift, Horatio, thrift! " scoffed Hamlet, "the funeral-baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."

    As in Hamlet's Denmark, in the socialist superstate there will be no time to mourn the dead. Gotta flash-chill those organs while they're fresh.

    And who do you suppose has the first dibs on the fresh "harvest"? Yes. It's Gordon Brown and his fellow travelers! It's the Obamas and Blairs, the Chiracs and Putins who are first in line. The socialists control the medical monopoly in Britain, and you can be very sure they are first in line.

    When you parasitize the productive, all power belongs to the people.

    Or, at least, power belongs to the people who control the people.

    Gordon Brown is a thrifty Scot, 'tis true, but he's also a True Believer in the all-knowing and all-mighty State, which is much more to the point. Adam Smith was also a Scot, but as Professor of Moral Theology -- and therefore a believer in the immortal soul -- Smith would hardly approve of cannibalizing one's loved ones for parts. Adam Smith admired free markets, but only for moral and responsible people.

    How quaint! But then Smith lived fifty years before Karl Marx figured out that all morality is for middleclass suckers.

    So at what point does a power class become a huge parasite?

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/...site_left.html

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    Klansman what public high school limited your intellect to this white trash crying?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    Klansman what public high school limited your intellect to this white trash crying?
    are you two klan brothers?
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alias View Post
    A wonderful historian named William H. McNeill makes a powerful case for the idea that humans are chewed on by two kinds of parasites: the little ones and the big ones. Our little parasites go from hair lice and gut worms down to germs and viruses. Our biggest parasite -- ever since we learned to fend off grizzly bears and rattlesnakes -- is each other.

    When you think about it that way, most societies seem to be heavily parasitized by their ruling classes. Or do you really think that Saddam Hussein needed those 42 palaces?

    Along with a million horrors, the HIV epidemic brought a deeper medical understanding of retroviruses, clever nano machines that drill molecular holes into living cells. From there they drift through the cell to the control room, the nuclear DNA, and take it over to make a zillion copies of themselves, often killing the host.

    Retroviruses are like a speedboat full of grinning Somali pirates who go careering hundreds of miles into the Atlantic to take over passing supertankers, by randomly firing off their ancient AK-47's at anybody on board. When they succeed, they get great big ransom payments from Lloyds of London. Everybody's happy, and the pirates go back to Mogadishu and make a lot of little baby pirates.

    This is what liberals like to call a sustainable lifestyle. Under Obamanomics it's a kind of Stimulus Package for the world.

    Pirates have been raiding off the coast of Africa for thousands of years. Thomas Jefferson tried to get rid of the Barbary Pirates with no luck. That was the first American attempt to bring democracy to Tripoli. Obama doesn't know it, but he is acting (without Congressional authorization) in a 200-year-old American tradition.

    Muslim pirates raided the coast of Britain and Ireland well into the 19th century, making off with slaves and whatever else they could carry away. The peace-loving Swedes and Danes went a'viking for almost a thousand years after the arrival of Christianity in Europe, reaching as far south as Constantinople and west to Moscow. It helped them to get through those long northern winters, cooped up with the wife and kids. (Nag, nag, nag, why don't you go a'viking? she says. So I go, Oh, fer goodness sake ...)

    The totalitarian Left is about as piratical as humans get, witness Stalin's Communist Party -- and Leftist tyrannies in scores of other countries they are all trying to make us forget about. There are reports today of execution trucks driving around China to kill, refrigerate and "harvest" the organs of criminal Falun Gong followers, to supply the human organ trade. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times would no doubt approve of this example of the efficiencies of One-Party Government. Get your heart transplant fresh from the warm and palpating donor!

    No doubt the Chinese political elite, like President Hu, receives the pick of the "harvest." You might remember that President Hu was Obama's Deep Bow #3 a couple of years ago. The most famous Buddhist leader in the world, the Dalai Lama, was chased out the backdoor of the Obama White House, right past the garbage bins, for fear that Hu might get annoyed by our President's fearless recognition of Occupied Tibet. It happens that President Hu rose to power by ruthlessly oppressing the Tibetans. Mr. Hu is Pontius Pilate without the compassion. Obama doesn't leave much doubt about his real values, does he?

    Whether those reports about those human butchery trucks in China are true or not, they reflect the same spirit that led Prime Minister Gordon Brown to declare a couple of years ago that all bodies of freshly dead British citizens belong presumptively to the State -- which paid, after all, to keep their sorry carcasses alive by way of the National Health "Service."

    Really. You can find it here.

    Can't you just see the geniuses who made up Obama Scamacare getting ready, lickety-split, to import that grand idea to the United States? It solves urban blight and the cost of Baby Boomers, all in one grand slam.

    "Thrift, Horatio, thrift! " scoffed Hamlet, "the funeral-baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."

    As in Hamlet's Denmark, in the socialist superstate there will be no time to mourn the dead. Gotta flash-chill those organs while they're fresh.

    And who do you suppose has the first dibs on the fresh "harvest"? Yes. It's Gordon Brown and his fellow travelers! It's the Obamas and Blairs, the Chiracs and Putins who are first in line. The socialists control the medical monopoly in Britain, and you can be very sure they are first in line.

    When you parasitize the productive, all power belongs to the people.

    Or, at least, power belongs to the people who control the people.

    Gordon Brown is a thrifty Scot, 'tis true, but he's also a True Believer in the all-knowing and all-mighty State, which is much more to the point. Adam Smith was also a Scot, but as Professor of Moral Theology -- and therefore a believer in the immortal soul -- Smith would hardly approve of cannibalizing one's loved ones for parts. Adam Smith admired free markets, but only for moral and responsible people.

    How quaint! But then Smith lived fifty years before Karl Marx figured out that all morality is for middleclass suckers.

    So at what point does a power class become a huge parasite?

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/...site_left.html


    So...you think a Grizzly Bear is a parasite?

    What about a rattlesnake? Is it a parasite?
    What kind of country have we become?

    One in which federal prosecutors can take “evidence” before a “grand jury,”

    and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 91 alleged “crimes”?

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    Is there a grumpier old bastard than Ali-ass?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZappasGuitar View Post
    So...you think a Grizzly Bear is a parasite?

    What about a rattlesnake? Is it a parasite?
    I don't think that a rattlesnack will eat a person; but now a mouse like you, is a completly different story.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterThanYou View Post
    are you two klan brothers?
    Your mom married a klansman

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    Ridiculous. The upper class are the parasites on the lower class, not the other way around. Why do you think that workers coming together and all threatening to strike is such an effective strategy? On the other hand, imagine if all the bankers, CEO's, and other useless filth got together and decided to show those workers how much they're needed by striking. It would be absurd! It'd be like if the King of England, in response to the revolutionary war, just got up and left, believing that his presence was so necessary that he'd soon be called back. Thanks for doing our job!

    Such threats are empty threats. No, you can only bargain from a position in which your presence is actually useful. The 99% produces, the 1% receives. That's how the system works.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Pirates have been raiding off the coast of Africa for thousands of years. Thomas Jefferson tried to get rid of the Barbary Pirates with no luck. That was the first American attempt to bring democracy to Tripoli.
    ...no it was not.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Yeah, I posted the first comment before I read the post. Turns out the post was crazy and rambling and doesn't appear to have a point.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    The totalitarian Left is about as piratical as humans get, witness Stalin's Communist Party
    Oh boy, we're off to a good start here.

    -- and Leftist tyrannies in scores of other countries they are all trying to make us forget about. There are reports today of execution trucks driving around China to kill, refrigerate and "harvest" the organs of criminal Falun Gong followers, to supply the human organ trade.
    I hate to be pedantic here, but the official punishment for Falun Gong followers isn't execution, so there wouldn't be execution vans involved. It's imprisonment. However, because the Chinese police are notoriously brutal, that has meant death for large numbers of them. China has officially passed legislation banning the practice of organ harvesting from dead and executed prisoners, but, from experience, I know that the Chinese government has a habit of passing laws as useful international propaganda and then ignoring them.

    You're absolutely right in saying that the political side in American politics that usually brushes off police brutality would be the left, though. Good point.

    Thomas Friedman of the New York Times would no doubt approve of this example of the efficiencies of One-Party Government.
    I doubt it.

    No doubt the Chinese political elite, like President Hu, receives the pick of the "harvest."
    Since Communist party members are effectively above the law, yeah, if he wanted to he absolutely could.

    You might remember that President Hu was Obama's Deep Bow #3 a couple of years ago.
    This has nothing to do with the previous point, but whatever.

    The most famous Buddhist leader in the world, the Dalai Lama, was chased out the backdoor of the Obama White House, right past the garbage bins, for fear that Hu might get annoyed by our President's fearless recognition of Occupied Tibet
    What on Earth was the Dalai Lama doing in the White House when Hu Jintao was visiting? Don't you think that would be an incredible diplomatic faux pas? Why would you even think it would at all be for the US's best interests to invite the leader of a foreign country to the white house and then surprise him with a man who lead a rebellion in his country and has sought to topple his government for the past 50 years? Is this supposed to be like the diplomatic version of Punk'd?

    It happens that President Hu rose to power by ruthlessly oppressing the Tibetans. Mr. Hu is Pontius Pilate without the compassion. Obama doesn't leave much doubt about his real values, does he?
    If Obama seriously invited Hu Jintao to a visit, and was like "Oh hai! BTW, here's the Dalai Lama. You ever heard of him?"



    the only thing it would prove is that he was a diplomatic idiot. Yes, I know you don't like how the Chinese government is running it's internal affairs, but unless you seriously want to start WWIII over it, there's no reason to have terrible diplomatic relations with them. Playing practical jokes on the president of China is not going to get it any closer to democracy.

    Whether those reports about those human butchery trucks in China are true or not, they reflect the same spirit that led Prime Minister Gordon Brown
    Ah, yet another elegant segway into an entirely related topic. I like this guys writing style.

    to declare a couple of years ago that all bodies of freshly dead British citizens belong presumptively to the State -- which paid, after all, to keep their sorry carcasses alive by way of the National Health "Service."
    Yes, killing prisoners and political dissidents and harvesting their organs is exactly in the same spirit as, from your words, "declaring that all bodies belong to the state"*, not killing anyone, not harvesting any organs, nor doing anything with the bodies that would at all differentiate how bodies are treated in Britian in any significant sense from how they're treated in America.

    *I imagine that nothing similar to this ever came out of Gordon Brown's mouth, and that it's just a Foxish incredible hyperbole of some issue that will turn out, should I investigate it, to be incredibly banal, so I will refrain from doing so.
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