TenuredVulture wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:The problem is that government tends to serve large established corporations because of their ability to lobby and throw cash around.

I've always wondered about Whole Foods--the produce always looked suspiciously pretty to me. Quite unlike what you'd find at a farmer's market.

Mackey's self-indulgent op-ed probably won't torch his business. It does highlight that his 'innovation' was basically to fashion a profitable aura around natural chow for that startlingly large slice of the population who live to eat, rather than eat to live.

What I was getting at is the produce doesn't really look natural at all.

Because people associate "purity" with aesthetic beauty. Even the "farmer's markets" around me are literally repackaged supermarket produce marked up and sold in cute little green cardboard quarts. If you tried to sell them real farm fresh produce they'd balk at how it's ugly and dirty.

Werthless wrote: I want greedy private businessmen coming up with new cures for diseases, faster computers, safer cars, new technologies to save energy, a new flavor of Tang . I want uninhibited markets, quite simply, because I believe such a society will provide a better standard of living in the next 60 years of my life.

Well, what we've seen in the case of health/pharma is, when it's treated as / viewed as a consumer good, that's what you get. You get boner pillz and other repeat sale "consumer products" geared towards a wide audience because that's more profitable. Innovation / research / efforts go to developing mass consumer products (whether needed or not). "Improvements" are typically minute meaningless formula manupulations so a new patent can be filed (and thus exclude generics). You don't get the "cure for cancer/AIDS/nasal warts" because the market for that is too small.

America needs more of this! Barney Frank just became my favorite member of the House of Representatives.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

The dining room table line was great.

Barney had himself a beautiful teachable moment there.

My feeling is he started strong with the 1st amendment reference, but blew it by sinking to that poor deluded girl's level.

He's right though- an Obama picture made to look like Hitler? Nazi policies? I mean really people.

Yes, because he's the first President that's ever been mindlessly compared to Hitler.

At least that lady is probably a LaRouchie and not a Republican

jerseyhoya wrote:At least that lady is probably a LaRouchie and not a Republican

But I thought LaRouche was an anti-Semite/Nazi sympathizer, so would she have been giving a back-handed compliment of sorts?

gr wrote:Yes, because he's the first President that's ever been mindlessly compared to Hitler.

that makes them right how?

Bakestar wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:At least that lady is probably a LaRouchie and not a Republican

But I thought LaRouche was an anti-Semite/Nazi sympathizer, so would she have been giving a back-handed compliment of sorts?

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/08/12/who-s-behind-that-obama-as-hiltler-sign-lyndon-larouche.aspx

jerseyhoya wrote:

Bakestar wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:At least that lady is probably a LaRouchie and not a Republican

But I thought LaRouche was an anti-Semite/Nazi sympathizer, so would she have been giving a back-handed compliment of sorts?

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/08/12/who-s-behind-that-obama-as-hiltler-sign-lyndon-larouche.aspx

I have no problem believing she's a Larouchite.

True fact--Lyndon LaRouche was a Quaker.

I spent a portion of last night explaining to my dad why the Birther movement is full of crazies. That was fun. I capped it off by showing a daily show clip.

Almost fell out of my chair laughing at the site banner here.

dajafi wrote:Almost fell out of my chair laughing at the site banner here.

weird on a number of levels (ex: adherents secretly want to take her from behind?), but they really should have a shot of her straddling one of those oil pipes, complete with her "drill, baby, drill" tagline

Californians on the recession (light):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHB1_ZmSDrs&feature=channel_page[/youtube]

dajafi wrote:Almost fell out of my chair laughing at the site banner here.

She's looking at Russia, don't you know?

Werthless, that video was hilarious. Thanks for sharing.

"Bye, hot sluts!"

drsmooth wrote:

dajafi wrote:Almost fell out of my chair laughing at the site banner here.

weird on a number of levels (ex: adherents secretly want to take her from behind?), but they really should have a shot of her straddling one of those oil pipes, complete with her "drill, baby, drill" tagline

I wanted to sell t-shirts last summer that had the (photoshopped/fake) picture of her in the flag two-piece bikini holding an AK-47 with the legend

DRILL

BABY

DRILL

in big red letters over it.

Unfortunately, my uncle who's in that business is a fairly staunch Republican, and was much less enthusiastic about the idea.

Werthless wrote:I spent a portion of last night explaining to my dad why the Birther movement is full of crazies. That was fun. I capped it off by showing a daily show clip.

That lady's name is Orly...

thank you, werthless. already daydreaming about that girl's breasts.