the Sovs had it all wrong

Post #127,267 by rcareaga 11/22/03 1:10:19 PM Reply	the Sovs had it all wrong Secret police, a network of informers, prison camps strung the length of the land—what a stupid, crude and inefficient system of keeping your subject population docile (John Ashcroft, take note)! Rather, give 'em television and easy consumer credit: impart by turns fear, envy, desire; convey the seductive dream that the emptiness these machine-raised souls dimly apprehend within themselves may be filled by goods and services; put the murderous arithmetic of compound interest in the service of those induced cravings and watch the proles erect and maintain their own prison-house with minimal effort and expense to the management. Heck, it's only "CSI"—and of course, a word from Our Sponsor... cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #127,274 by Ashton 11/22/03 4:47:07 PM Reply	Shocking, I say shocking! Hast thou then, no Christian Charity, Senator.. none at all? Wouldst inform a height-challenged tyke that, He Hath No Chance of becomimg a professional basketball player {and that, therefore; his life as he imagined it - Is Over?) Wouldst interfere with \| interrupt! the pheromonal interactions between the new-leather seats-smell and.. a salivating purchaser's choice of the 60-month or 84-month payoff of the 95% balance? (While Little Timmy's crutches need revarnishing) Wouldst inform a Thuggee that, it is not Nice to burn the widow (for luck) on hubby's pyre? even if she doth receive a new sari for the occasion. Wouldst Interfere with God's Will re the nailing of a local queer, causing cognitive dissonance within a Sincere Believer-in-Large-Manuals of behaviour? If wouldst do any of these things, why Sir - Thee Be No Murican! Mine breast is filled with Apprehensions and sorely troubled for thine future Tribulations, Norman Vincent Peeled PS - what's a "credit card"?
Post #127,401 by drewk 11/24/03 9:13:30 AM Reply	Payoff? Where the hell have you been? ... choice of the 60-month or 84-month payoff ... I've seen commercials for leases at "only" $465 a month. For 60 months. With $1800 down. Yes, you read that right: $1800 down and $465 a month for five years, and you still don't own it at the end. Then I remember that no one takes one of these leases unless it's a perk of the job, and the company paying for it is writing off the cost anyway, so it's you and me paying for it. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.

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