Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
People who are different than you and me.
Straight from the "Republican Shangra-La":
Yeah, I wrap all my gifts in dollar bills.
Via the Wall Street Journal, no less:
Plutocrat Lesson No. 4–How to Wrap Gifts in Dollar Bills
If you want to be a successful plutocrat, you have to perfect the art of the hostess gift.
Edwina Rogers, the wife of Washington lobbyist Ed Rogers, is a master of the form and has developed her own signature specialty. She wraps her thank-yous in sheets of real dollar bills, purchased from the Bureau of Engraving.
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She unfurls a roll of dollar bills and starts slicing them up to make the appropriate wrapping sheets. No matter that she slices several dollar bills in half–it is all about lining up the George Washingtons on the front.
“The effect is fabulous, especially for foreigners,” she says. “They love it.”
I'm sure they do, Edwina, I'm sure they do.
Jim Downey
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You'll like this Jim...
This is a billboard that the Daily Show folks put up. Pretty damn funny.
Hilarious!
Thanks, BA.
Jim Downey
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A little perspective
Okay, so some rich bitch spends money (which she has a lot more of than your average bear) in a way that you never would. If I were rich (sometime in the near future, I'm thinking) (well, hoping, anyway) I wouldn't spend my money in that way, and I would discourage my wife from doing the same, but I bet I'd be spending my money in some way that other (presumably less rich) people would disapprove of. And anybody who has a problem with how I spend the money I earn can go pound sand.
So, Jim, was this a poke at rich people in general, or just at rich Republicans? I'm just wondering what your point is.
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
Our money
Maybe his point is this is being funded by the massive budget deficits indebting the entire country for the purpose of enriching Bush/Cheney croneys.
Close.
That's close, KY Boy.
I'm not against people earning a lot of money. Not at all.
And I'm not against people spending their money however they want. More power to 'em.
I am against stupidity. Cluelessness. Having a tin ear. Did this twit woman have no idea how absurd she would sound in this situation, using money in such a wasteful and gauche manner?
When someone who is rich gets so far removed from reality that they can say or do something like that (or forgetting how many houses they own), then they're just asking for us plebes to revolt. It's the modern day equivalent of "well, let them eat cake." Particularly when the source of their money is lobbying our government ("...of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation.")
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
I understand, but...
In the video, she says she only wraps small gifts. In this case, she used $9, but six of them were essentially wasted because she cut them in half. If she'd cut them 75/25, she could have taken the 75% back to the bank and gotten the dollar back. Better yet, since she cut the same amount off each side, she could have left them intact and still been able to match up the Washingtons or whatever. As it is, her speaker gifts cost her an additional $9, $3 of which the speakers can use for whatever they want (assuming they don't rip it open like I always do with normal gift wrap.)
As I said, I wouldn't spend money in that way, but an extra $9 a pop for speaker gifts (that probably cost 10X that much, if not more; they didn't say in the video) just doesn't raise my ire.
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
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