Sunday, February 14, 2016

New NRA Lottery

You may know that Russian roulette is "the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one's own head." But did you know we have own version of this deadly game here in the USA? It's called American Arcade. Common people congregate in shopping malls, movie theaters, universities, naval/army bases or churches. There's even a version for children where they gather in classrooms in schools. Once assembled, the innocents wait for an armed gunman to enter the premises and open fire with a variety of different weapons. 

Note tickets to these sordid events are only sold by one entity - the NRA. Their efforts have succeeded in allowing known terrorists to obtain guns and prohibiting the suing of gun manufacturers via campaign contributions to lackeys in Congress who dance to the tunes they play. Even as children die bleeding to death in a hallway, as a Mother and her daughter are killed in a car jacking, as a young husband is gunned down in a street robbery, the whirling dervishes that accept NRA money keep step to the heartrending dirges of death, destruction and mayhem.

And so, to make this a true capitalist endeavor, a national lottery-type game will be held for gun massacres. Instead of selecting random numbers, "Shoot for the Loot" game participants must choose the state, city, date, time and average age for the next gun massacre. Prizes include lifetime memberships to the NRA, gun cleaning kits and free passes to shooting ranges. 

If you'd rather refrain from supporting this deadly new game, take the high road & vote your elected official who may have been bought by the NRA out of office. Follow the accompanying hyperlink below to see if YOUR elected Congress person is on the NRA payroll.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Media Bias

"Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred." ~ Joseph Goebbels.
As the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Germany from 1933 - 1945, the personal perceptions of Goebbels became reality as he systematically primed the Nazi war machine with his biases. His inflammatory rhetoric included labeling Jews as sub-humans, lackeys & parasites. The subsequent deaths of over six million people in concentration camps are grim testimony to the success of his media brain-washing efforts.
More than seventy years later, the construct of Nazi propaganda is mimicked in editorials misconstrued or presented as objective news reporting. The euphoric effect of mainlining media bias results in an initial rush as less informed (a.k.a. dull normal) readers are assuaged by hyperbole into a stupor of self-aggrandizement.
But readership that hasn’t (or cannot due to a diminished intellectual capacity) developed a critical eye to determine fact from fiction eventually scavenges for another media high. The Internet and specifically articles posted onto Facebook serve some as viable news sources. And thus the problem is exacerbated.
Once this high is scored, a still woefully uninformed but erroneously self-confident reader might now consider him/herself an “expert” via their booster shot of editorial incontinence.
The following are a small sample of opinionated articles masquerading as news stories found on Facebook the week of 2/7/16. Any intelligent individual knows the difference between the two and can determine why they are labeled as such. If not, you are a mere board piece in the game of life subject the whim, fancy & vicissitudes of a media hell bent on inculcating its self-serving agenda on the gullible masses.


Thursday, February 4, 2016

De-fund the NRA

The NRA buys members of Congress & has prevented ANY discussion of gun control. How else could one explain its rhetoric for allowing people on terrorist watch lists to buy guns?

So, how can we disarm the NRA? Click HERE and see if any of your Congressional representative have accepted any bribes (sorry; I meant political contributions) from the pro-gun lobbyists. You can filter your results by state. Then, simply vote for his/her opposition. Because if the NRA can't buy votes, they can't control Congress.