Of course we all caught that absurd Super Bowl commercial starring Clint Eastwood touting “Halftime in America” and the revitalization of Detroit (of course the commercial was not filmed in Detroit but in Los Angeles, Dirty Harry would never walk by himself along 8 Mile Road in Motor City). The whole thing reminded me of a Leni Riefenstahl propaganda piece form the 1930′s. Obama’s America is starting the 4th quarter already down by 17 points.
by Daniel Greenfield
“Halftime in America” is a punchier version of Wag the Dog’s reelection slogan, “Don’t Change Horses in Midstream”. They might have tried, “The Best is Yet to Come”, but Bloomberg already took that one.
It’s one of those wonderful side benefits of socialism that the gap between corporate advertising and a campaign commercial blurs. What’s good for GM is good for America and what’s good for Chrysler is good for Obama. We may not have the pipeline, but we’re still pipelining taxpayer money to a few precious union jobs with car companies that look a lot like the UK’s car companies did in the seventies.
You can’t really blame Chrysler for trying to preserve its Motor City brand, even if it’s with a commercial that wasn’t actually filmed in Detroit. It’s much easier to put together some inspiring scenes of a Detroit recovery if you shoot it in Los Angeles, a place that has its problems, but which is much more likely to have cheerful couples waking up in apartments that seem to be entirely made of glass.
The Motor City brand is one of those things that doesn’t mean a whole lot anymore, but still stirs up sentimentality, like the immigrant experience or freedom of speech. That Detroit is as real today as the Chicago depicted in Sandburg’s poem which served as the hog butcher, tool maker and wheat stacker to the world. Today Sandburg might have called it a food stamp scanner, scammer and welfare taker instead.
American industry is a ghost of that former vigor, its hog butchering, tool making and wheat stacking done in by the progressive vision of a post-industrial society. Today it’s Shanghai that might qualify for a Sandburg poem and it’s also the only place to find that kind of aggressive industrial growth, but Halftime in Shanghai doesn’t sound the same even if Shanghaiing American industry is the name of the game.
Chevy, another government bailout recipient, eschewed the phony clip show patriotism and cut right to showing that their truck could survive an apocalypse. Unlike Halftime in America, that ad could have been filmed in Detroit, which has major apocalypse potential. If you have to choose between trying to convince Americans that Motor City is back or convincing them that the end of the world is near but that the right truck can help them make it out alive, go with the second one.
But Chrysler needs the Motor City brand, because it doesn’t exist anymore. After a brief two year period of being an American company again after its sale by Daimler-Benz, it is now owned by Fiat, which is as All-American as its CEO, Sergio Marchionne, who does not sound very much like Clint Eastwood. It needs that image of American industry, even if it’s an Italian company still employing some American workers and an American brand.
Everyone needs their myths, even if it’s the myth of a booming Motor City created in Los Angeles, starring a California movie star by a company headquartered in Turin, Italy. It beats the tawdry reality of Detroit. It’s not as if anyone confuses myths with reality, or commercials with substance.
Some of Eastwood’s most famous Westerns were actually filmed by Italian directors in Italy. If Sergio Leone could give us Eastwood staging six gun duels in the Apennine Mountains off the Adriatic Sea, then why can’t Sergio Marchionne give us Clint Eastwood pacing around an LA stage and breathily pontificating on how hard it is to keep the people and car companies of Detroit down.
We needed the Westerns at a time when the frontier was closing, and if toward the end they were ugly vicious little tableaux of unredeeming violence being filmed in Spanish ghost towns, no one really cared anymore. As the American car company goes the way of the Wild West, we have spaghetti car commercials instead of spaghetti Westerns reassuring us that we are still the same people we used to be. Strong, resilient and capable of recovering from anything with enough bailout money.
Halftime in America didn’t explicitly set out to promote Obama, but it didn’t need to. Its theme was hope. Its purpose was a defense of widely unpopular policies. It didn’t need to mention him by name, any incumbent would have done. Its come on is the same one used in every casino and by every street corner three-card monte dealer. “Don’t stop now. Sure you may be behind, but if you throw it all in, you’ll double your money.”
Halftime in America depends on the metaphor of halftime to convince us to discount the past and embrace hope and change all over again. Forget how badly we fumbled the ball and believe that this time we’ll make the touchdown.
But the right metaphor isn’t a closely fought game where the lovable underdogs are behind and they just need one golden moment to make it all worthwhile. It’s a game where the quarterback has spent most of the game playing golf a 100 miles away, where the players are angry people who can’t play football but sued their way onto the team, and the coaching staff only knows how to incite the home crowd to assault the opposing fans, but has no idea how the game is played and thinks rules are for suckers.
The coach has been reading Alinsky’s Rules for Radical Players which teaches that the only way to win the Super Bowl is by completely changing the rules of the game on an ad hoc basis and that the only way to accomplish this is by taking over the NFL from within. No touchdowns have actually been scored, but the fawning coverage assures us that we are living in a post-touchdown world where the pigskin doesn’t matter, it’s all about the value of the brand.Cheering for a comeback for that isn’t for halftime, it’s for halfwits. There are baseball and football teams who can never win, but still command passionate followings because they keep losing. The more they lose, the more passionate their fans are about them someday winning. But there’s nothing of the lovable underdog spirit about the people who ran this country into the ground. Instead of projecting the humility of those who tried and failed, they project the arrogance of winners even as they show off a track record that even losers should be ashamed of.
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The gap between Halftime in America and the reality of Motor City is positively narrow compared to the chasm that stretches between the actual economic situation of the United States and the one set out by Obama in his own halftime in America speeches. We are not recovering, things are not getting better, they are on the verge of getting worse. Rather than making adult decisions, the administration has been as greedy, vicious and corrupt as the former indicted mayor of Detroit.
But Eastwood’s rasping narration was right about one thing. Detroit is showing us how it can be done. Not through gumption, hard work, determination and a little spit– but through government handouts that can’t keep the city together, but can help pay for commercials to encourage us to do it all over again.
Instead of fully compensating America for the nearly 2 billion in losses that we took on the Chrysler bailout, the company has spent the money on Super Bowl commercials touting its comeback. This is like the crook who gets out of jail and instead of compensating his victims, spends the money to take out an ad that boasts of how well he’s doing now. The average cost of a Super Bowl spot is 3.5 million for 30 seconds and with a 2 minute running time, that comes out to 14 million dollars. And that’s not counting Clint Eastwood’s fee.
Sure that’s less than 1 percent of the money we’re out for the cost of salvaging Chrysler and turning it over to Fiat, but it might have been nice if instead of spending all that money on an LA ad about how hard the people of Detroit are fighting for a recovery, it had gone to the people who lost their jobs to cover the higher taxes that fund bailouts like these.
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Halftime in America has that same empty optimism, a working class ethos as can only be imagined by a poet from Portland, who wrote the text, and the director of Your Highness. It isn’t patriotic, it invokes the working class romanticism that you can still see in Social Realism art or North Korean posters on behalf of a billion dollar corporation. It champions some vague struggle for progress, without defining what that might be. It tries to connect the plight of Detroit to America, but if that’s so then we’re already doomed.
Like period Communist propaganda, it treats work as a struggle and success as collective heroism, rather than a process. This nationalistic mythmaking disguised the basic reasons for the failures that made all that struggle necessary. Every aspect of Soviet or Communist Chinese industry was such a desperate struggle because the entire system was hopelessly broken. And so there was always a battle on to maintain a steel industry or bring in the harvest. And there always had to be villains who were in the way.When your enterprises are desperately struggling to survive, then you can either try to romanticize the struggle or ask what is really wrong with them. The same goes for a government that can’t fix the economy, but can issue forty press releases a day attaching the blame to someone else. Halftime for Chrysler is also Halftime for Detroit and Halftime for Obama. None of them actually want people to ask what is really wrong, instead they want us to emotionally and financially invest in their struggle. And if we do that, then we lose the game.
Read the rest: Halftime for Obama
Tags: Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish
Explains everything. About half of Chyrsler is owned by Fiat.
eaglesoars wrote:
They don’t make spaghetti Westerns like they used to.
Speranza wrote:
Or Chyrslers for that matter
Clint apparently sold out to the Obama regime (even though he says he didn’t). That wasn’t a car commercial, that was a 2 minute Obama campaign commercial. It was paid for with our bailout dollars.
Here’s the “Halftime In America” commercial the REAL Clint Eastwood should have made:
Im shocked they haven’t done a Juche for Obama.
it was an odd commercial. I was thinking halftime to what? The Obama Presidency? The depression? Detroit? I am out of touch with Detroit. I would only identify with that analogy if I was a rabid union member.
@ Fritz Katz: That is a concise accurate ad, better than the superbowl eastwood clone one.
Fritz Katz wrote:
I don’t think he did. I think he was just clueless. He’s got a soft spot for the auto industry and the culture. Think Gran Torino
I am kinda wondering why the media isn’t yelling from the rooftops.. Santorum!!!!! Santorum!!!! Santorum!!!! the next president…. I will have to check on Romney Supporter Hugh Hewitt and see what his “all locked up” genius is saying now.
Romney needs that Rodan endorsement badly now.
@ eaglesoars:
Go Newports!
@ darkwords:
Heh.
I expect much whining about how all of Romney’s money will be wasted having to fend off Republicans, and he won’t have money left to run his “Obama’s just ‘in over his head’” campaign…
What Eastwood is actually guilty of is doing what he is best at. He is an actor, who acted as a spokesperson in a commercial. His agent got him the gig, and like everyone in Hollywood, he read his lines with out giving a single thought as to what in the world the words flowing from his mouth actually said, nor how they sounded. Imagine his shock when, for the first time in his life, a negative consensus was reached about him personally for a product he hawked and what he said to hawk that product. He awakened on Monday morning to discover that people equate Chrysler with Barack Obama, which is actually fitting, since Barack orchestrated an unfriendly corporate takeover of that company in January of 2009 on behalf of American Taxpayers who really did not want to own a failing auto manufacturer. Once he bought that car company on our behalf, screwing the secured creditors in the process, in a manner that flouted entirely the current debt subordination laws in effect for 226 years, he subsequently thought it appropriate to give our shares to the UAW absolutely free.
Detroit is not on the way back by the way, which is probably why they saw fit to film the entire mess in California, better weather and fewer crack heads with guns throwing random shots at film crews. My advice to Mr. Eastwood is that he start to read the copy of any future advertisements he wishes to participate in. Either that, or have an adult explain it to him.
Surprise! Who would have thunk it!
The ad agency Wieden+Kennedy that produced the spot worked for the Obama campaign.
Eastwood was punked. He was used as a tool.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Up until 1962, Detroit was actually a pretty decent city but the white flight (fueled by growing crime) and the 1967 riots pretty much destroyed the city.
@ Speranza:
Speranza wrote:
fueled by Democrat gov’t
And I would point out that John Conyer’s wife, Monica, who was on the city council, is doing time for bribery.
I took that commercial as a promo for Obama, a payback
by Chrysler.
I do hope & assume that Eastwood was duped.
RIX wrote:
He was a Republican mayor of some city in CA
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, but some Republicans take being Republican more seriously than others do. I could see McCain filming a commercial for Obama, for instance. Hell, he practically did when he was running “against” ihim in 2008.
eaglesoars wrote:
He was mayor of Carmel. He had a Restaurant and had a
problem with the City over a liquor license or something.
So he got himself elected mayor, problem solved.
RIX wrote:
It was called “The Hog’s Breath” I believe.
RIX wrote:
I forgot that!!
Thank you.
But I still don’t think he knew – or intended – how this would c ome across
@ Flyovercountry:
Honeymoon In Detroit sounds like a title for an interesting movie.
Leni Riefenstahl did win awards in the US, right?
Speranza wrote:
That sounds right. I wonder if when He filmed “Play
Misty For Me” He just decided to live in the area.
@ Speranza:
I’ve been to a Hog’s Breath Saloon in Key West.
OT but this is too funny not to share. I didn’t catch this because I’m not in the habit of watching Chrissie Tingle’s show. Ya’ll know he recently wrote a biograph of JFK, right? Apparently, he never misses a chance to plug it on his show. Until recently.
RIX wrote:
Jessica Walters – I have not seen her in while.
I remember Clint Eastwood in Rawhide.
Bumr50 wrote:
I doubt that Clint has anything to do with it.
@ eaglesoars:
JFK was a dangerous man to have as POTUS.
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve never liked Kennedy. That he was a sleezoid just proves he was a Democrat. Those people have no morals, conscience, or principles.
Iron Fist wrote:
Behavior like that indicates someone with no confidence. Lack of confidence in a POTUS is a recipe for disaster.
And forgive the cultural sin I’m about to commit – Jackie may have been a good mom, but she was as dumb as a box of rocks.
@ eaglesoars:
And Urban Infidel is probably going to get on my case……..
sigh
@ eaglesoars:
But, but, she spoke Fwench!
eaglesoars wrote:
Armchair psychologist here thinks that JFK had poor impulse control and little conscience. Clinton, Obama, I see a pattern.
Speranza wrote:
Jessica Walters played the mother in Arrested Development,
very funny series.
She was smokin hot in “Play Misty For Me” ,in a disturbing
sort of way. “This goes out to Evelyn”
JFK for all his faults was heads above Nixon.
JFK Cut Taxes and increased defense.
Nixon raised taxes, devalued the dollar and implemented price controls.
JFK was to the Right of Nixon.
Iron Fist wrote:
I can see Romney doing it as well. After all, Romney conceded the election by calling Obama a nice guy and that the economy is good.
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, that’s what I think too.
yenta-fada wrote:
She was culturally well educated and had excellent taste.
But WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND marries that sleaze? Let alone that toad Onassis. And if you heard the tapes of her recently released, you just scratch your head and think “If she actually believes that crap…”
Rodan wrote:
True. But his dealings w/MLK speak to a cynicism that is stomach churning.
eaglesoars wrote:
Didn’t hear the tapes, but would like to. She, like many women, seems to have married for money. Twice. Now compare the glorious Mooch and her “thesis” and constant vulgarity. Makes you long for the box of rocks!
@ eaglesoars:
Dems still like to point out that Reagan was divorced.
They leave out that Jane Wyman left him.
They are not disturbed by the escapades of FDR, JFK,
Clinton, John Edwards or John Kerry as a gigilo.
They view that as a life style choice and none of your
business.
yenta-fada wrote:
You wouldn’t mean:
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=jimmy+fallon+Michelle+Obama&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Drone surveillance okayed:
The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.
Privacy advocates say the measure will lead to widespread use of drones for electronic surveillance by police agencies across the country and eventually by private companies as well
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/
Spying on Europe’s farms with satellites and drones
Satellites have already been in use for several years, and drones are currently undergoing trials.
Scanning a farm with a satellite costs about one third as much as sending an inspector on a field visit – £115 ($180; 150 euros) rather than £310 ($490; 400 euros), says the UK’s Rural Payments Agency (RPA), which is responsible for disbursing the subsidies in the UK and checking for irregularities.
“The RPA follows up only on those claims where there is some doubt about accuracy, and then only at the specific fields for which the doubt exists,” the RPA says. “This saves time, lifts the burden on farmers and reduces cost to the taxpayer.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16545333
@ waldensianspirit:
Words fail. Talk about your bread and circuses.
yenta-fada wrote:
She married for safety(especially in the case of Onassis) and status.
as for Bovine Butt Moo-chelle, she married the only dumbass who would put up with her (check out Jodi Kantor’s book – she asserts Moo-chelle couldn’t keep boyfriends for long because of her high expectations – ahem. Translation: bitch on wheels)
RIX wrote:
Then they really should do a better job of making sure it never becomes my business. And that doesn’t mean covering up an illegitimate kid conceived behind the back of a terminally ill wife.
waldensianspirit wrote:
her actual thesis
but good luck finding anything Obama wrote -w/o Bill Ayers
eaglesoars wrote:
Like I said, no morals, conscience, or principles. The Democrats didn’t reject Edwards for this, or for his ambulance chasing, but because they felt Kerry was more electible.
@ waldensianspirit:
That’a a man baby!
The sack really should have been over her head.
Just sayin.
@ yenta-fada:
The Poch-eee-stonees are laughing their asses off
@ yenta-fada:
“The French, they are a Funny Race….”
@ eaglesoars:
I will not read that entire Mooch thesis unless there is a large bag of Hershey’s kisses in it for me.
eaglesoars wrote:
it is unreadable, her syntax is awful and its a belly button examination in 60 pages.
“This realization has presently,
made my goals to actively utilize my resources to benefit
the Black community more desirable.”
“One can contrast the mood of the campus years ago and the
level of attachment to Blacks to that of the present mood of
the campus, which is more pro-integrationist, and the level
of attachment to Blacks.”
????
my adviser would have put my skull in a vice if i wrote my thesis that badly…i wont even comment on the garbage stat model…
yenta-fada wrote:
don’t bother. I got to about pg 6 – maybe 8. Christoper Hitchens said anyone who claims to have read it is lying because it’s not written in any known language.
coldwarrior wrote:
You got that far??!!
@ coldwarrior:
The thing is unreadable.
eaglesoars wrote:
That has always been my impression of her.
@ coldwarrior:
I bet plenty of campus advisors worked on that thesis to get it up to the level that we see now. When you listen to Mooch speak, she stays with versions of things she has already said. You have to wonder if she ever read a book that wasn’t assigned. Her vocabulary stinks.
Rodan wrote:
JFK cut taxes across the board, Nixon never did.
eaglesoars wrote:
the words are english words…the order in which they are presented is confounding
eaglesoars wrote:
i have actually read it…much to the chagrin of my old drinking buddy.
@ eaglesoars:
They view it differntly, because they see him as a Democrat
with redeeming qualities.
Only Republicans can ever be guilty of anything.
Barney Frank & Chris Dodd should be under investiagtion
for financial malfeasance, but they are Democrats.
Moochelle hangs out with kids her own age…
http://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/usatoday/article/38529101?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs
yenta-fada wrote:
no one competent with english as a first language worked on that 60 page word jumble.
oh, and 8 references in the bibliography for 60+ pages is just not enough for a serious academic paper.
coldwarrior wrote:
What the hell did you DO? Read it out loud?
In which case, it would be your FORMER drinking buddy.
@ yenta-fada:
I thought that the whole idea of set asides in Ivy
League and other Universities was to mainstream African-
Americans.Yet Michelle chooses an Afro-centric Thesis.
Nice how she decries the possibility that she may be
internalizing consrvative “White” values.
I can see how she and her husband sat in Rev Wrights pews
for twenty years.
yenta-fada wrote:
There’s a RAAACISSSTT joke in there somewhere………
eaglesoars wrote:
hitchens said no one read it because it wasnt in english…i read it, it hurt but i read it.
i used to have weekly beers with hitchens back at the university of pittsburgh in the early 90′s. we went to the same bar on tuesday evenings after afternoon lectures (drink/appetizer specials).
RIX wrote:
MIT had to expand their liberal arts department because of set asides.
coldwarrior wrote:
Well then, who declared that piece of cat food thesis acceptable? I still say that was the improved version.
yenta-fada wrote:
its the sociology department! they will accept garbage as long as it is politically correct garbage. this isnt the econ or physics department we are talking about
@ coldwarrior:
Hey, maybe Michelle wrote the Affordable Care Act.
Nobody actually understands that either.
RIX wrote:
maybe!
@ coldwarrior:
That’s just wrong. Set asides are the flip side of
segregation. Neither is good.
@ coldwarrior:
Well, Mom is in surgery right now.
@ RIX:
You actually made me laugh!
Chicago just held a competition to design a new sticker
for autos.
The winner is a kid from an at risk school.
Oops, upon further review the kid has two hands
in the design that apparently are gang signing.
Next!
coldwarrior wrote:
He drank BEER?? I’m so disappointed.
(I’m too proud to say I’m also jealous….)
Macker wrote:
I live to serve.
doriangrey wrote:
Prayers, dorian. How are YOU doing?
This is picking at nits, I understand.
But in that video, Michelle is not doing
real pushups.
You have to dip lower than that.
Although, the woman does have guns.
doriangrey wrote:
How long is the procedure expected to take?
Hang in there.
doriangrey wrote:
I hope everything goes better than expected.
doriangrey wrote:
prayers…
RIX wrote:
It’s probably a couple of the unions.
Hey, it’s chicago!
eaglesoars wrote:
he drank whatever was in front of him
eaglesoars wrote:
How the hell did they let it slip through?
I saw a photo of the design & it’s fairly
obvious.
The kid won $1,000 & may not want to return it.
RIX wrote:
These things happen.
Vermont inmates slip a pig into state police car decals
h/t instapundit
@ eaglesoars:
Prisoners can be pretty creative.
I nread an article that climed that there is
where most jokes come from.
@ eaglesoars:
I would handle that a whole different way then they’re going to
RIX wrote:
boredom can do that to ya
waldensianspirit wrote:
Why? What would you do?
@ eaglesoars:
They’re trying to find the guy and charge him
I’d commend him and have a beer summit
waldensianspirit wrote:
Oh. I’d have him teach a computer class or something. It IS pretty clever.
@ eaglesoars:
Exactly! And it looks pretty good. It wasn’t like a half time middle finger or anything. I’d want all the prisoners to see I could take a joke and use it to build bridges
eaglesoars wrote:
She just got out of surgery, the doctor said it went perfect, and her lympth biopsy came back negitive
@ doriangrey:
Best news all day!
@ waldensianspirit:
Indeed
doriangrey wrote:
It’s going to be awhile before it hits you just how good that news is.
We are a melanoma-survivor family and believe me – it’s the best news you can get.
You can cry now.
doriangrey wrote:
excellent.
It was Charles Dickens’ two hundredth birthday yesterday. In honor of this, let us have a commercial by Chicago-Jesus Chrysler, announcing that it is half-Tim in America; “God bless us, every other one!”
@ coldwarrior:
The subject of the thesis should have been rejected, IMHO.
@ Bumr50:
About as annoying as honorary degrees
Dreck check!
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The Winter of Our Discontent
Stepping Back, Taking Stock, and Gazing Forward
in the Wake of Occupy Wall Street
An afternoon symposium featuring David Graeber, Jonathan Schell, Rebecca Solnit, Todd Gitlin, Stephen Lerner, Yotam Marom, Marina Sitrin, Steve Max, James Miller, Lawrence Weschler, Teresa Ghilarducci, and Emily Turonis
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2012, from 1 pm to 6 pm
The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC
Free & Open to the Public (on a first-come, first-in basis)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Session 1 — THE MEANS OF SOCIAL CHANGE: The glories and limitations of radical participatory democratic models (leaderless general assemblies, spokescouncils, the human megaphone, working groups, the requirement of consensus, etc.); confrontational direct action (taking over a park, breaking bank windows, guerilla theatrics, etc.) vs. wider outreach (to unions, communities, etc.), more traditional organizing, and electoral engagement.
2:45 – 4:15 pm Session 2 — ULTIMATE GOALS: The abolition of the state in favor of something more directly participatory – or rather the strengthening of a state in which elected representatives insure universal health care, equal educational opportunity, environmental norms, and so forth? The abolition of capitalism – or else the elaboration of new forms of mixed economy (regulation of markets and financial institutions in order to promote social justice and reverse the polarization of wealth; forging new attitudes towards growth, productivity and consumption in the context of climate change; etc.)?
4:30 – 6:00 pm Session 3 — SHORT-TERM TACTICS: The comparative virtues of renewed occupations of public spaces come the spring; mortgage and student loan actions; debt strikes; guerilla theatrics on the campaign trail; mobilization around the Chicago G-8 meetings in May; environmental protests against fracking, oil pipelines, logging; campaigns to get money out of politics; etc.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Tomorrow Michael Mann will give his speechification
@ buzzsawmonkey:
that’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read
gotta go
Bumr50 wrote:
sociology department…
eaglesoars wrote:
You think that’s funny? Try this piece by Lefty wacko “journalist” Greg Palast:
Palast has (no doubt intentionally) confused personal religious practice with what services a religiously-based institution chooses to provide or not provide, including what it chooses to cover as part of its benefits package.
@ doriangrey:
That is great news dorian! Will send up prayers for her.
eaglesoars wrote:
Or did he bet you that you couldn’t get through it?
eaglesoars wrote:
The story refers to “three unidentifiable creatures” in the pasture scene on the decal. Those are old-timey HAYSTACKS, fercryinoutloud. *facepalm*