BS: The NEW 10 commandments

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 10:07 AM

I too saw Jesus this weekend. I asked him about Glen Beck and he said' "Imagine Sarah Palin farting into a balloon and then you put a wig on it...that's Glen Beck."

A corporate 10 commandments need exposure.

Corporations are now on the brink of obtaining super personhood.
Justice and equality need not apply to entities with super personhood. Recapping another post...

Lets imagine a hypothetical situation.

The year is 2011 and our election is being held with twitchy armed National Guard on duty in 28 States due to the shootings of "Democrat" candidates and the attempted assignations of Barack Obama. Some pundits agree that three full length movies released in September are at the heart of the horrible violence.
The first movie released was 'The Kenyan Candidate' followed by 'The Need to Know'.
The Barak Obama film portrayed a violent rape of a Wesleyan co ed by a young Mr. Obama and "The Need to Know" explored the above top secret defusing of nuclear weapons in seven different states under the executive supervision of Richard Cheney.

A smaller feature called 'Only a Mother's Strength' is the inside story of Sarah Palin's experience at top level briefings in national security policy meeting deep within the Pentagon and her actions during her European trip in 2007. It shows her learning the secret struggle against the emerging evil that plans for the destruction of their great Satan, the United States. The most dynamic scene portrayed Sarah Palin is that of striking fear into the heart of then president of Pakistan Mussarev by showing him the spread pattern of 50 US multiple warhead nukes and their overlapping blast zones covering his entire country.   

All the movies were produced, funded and distributed by the following Corporations: Pfizer, Bank of America, Exon, United Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Squib, Johnson and Johnson, Fox networks, Peabody Energy, Lockheed, Black Water and others.

In November the Cheney Palin ticket wins in a landslide losing only 25 electoral votes.


How could this happen? How could this happen aside from most Americans being highly gullible with short memories?   This could happen because the Supreme Court can rule that Corporations not only have free speech rights via the press and political action committees, but also have the free speech to pay for, produce and distribute full length films to promote candidates of their choice. Unions however were not granted this special free speech provision. Essentially the McCain Feingold campaign reform had been found unconstitutional and the 100 year precedent of limiting the Corporate financing of political elections was now completely unregulated. The $85 billion profit of Exon alone contributed two billion dollars to their new found freedom of speech.


Leaving the world of hypothetical speculation, Free speech today is limited for certain government employees with the Hatch Act while the military has even more severe and far reaching limits on free speech. Corporations, acting as an artificial life form with built in limits to economic liability and never die, except for Lehman Brothers, are limited in 24 states regarding campaign contributions. Today 28 states do not limit corporate contributions, one of which is California. Corporations have not been kind to California.   Poor California, they still have not recovered from the devastating multi billion dollar debt incurred by the legal deregulated energy distribution schemes by Enron. but I digress…

Today Corporations spend an average of $500 million on political action committees that all bear the camouflage of struggling middle class folks gathering to just get a fair shake and not let their employers get taxed to death or some other similar cry for help. Corporations spend one hundred million dollars on issue ads on TV. Believe me Networks like CBS Viacom and GE NBC are happy to get that money as well as the Australian based multinational media giant.
Yet corporations say this is not enough. They want super personhood with expanded free speech.

On September 7th the Supreme Court will begin to hear the dispute by corporations that their free speech has been denied. The case started with the movie 'Hillary' being with held from distribution before the 2008 election because it was funded solely by corporations. Corporations have cried foul and now argue they are treated unfairly and unconstitutionally. Corporations cite the Bill of Rights; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The lawyer for the Corporations Lawrence Abrams will argue that Corporations are being denied free speech and participation in our democratically held elections.

Everet Potter represents 50 friends of the court and will argue that certain limits on a Corporate economic entity is just and constitutional. He may say "It is not necessary for corporations to have free unlimited speech to provide for fair and just elections. In fact undue corporate influence could do our republic great harm while aiding only corporations."

Abrams for the corporations will say "If we ban movies prior to an election perhaps tomorrow it will be books!"
(well… not really, the law already has special exceptions for commercial concerns including selling of books and of course exceptions for the press.)

The Corporate argument will reverse legislation going back to Theodore Roosevelt who pleaded with Congress to do something to limit corporate influence on politicians.    This presidential plea of course followed the discovery that Teddy had already taken enormous corporate contributions. Corporations will present evidence that John McCain himself can not recall one instance of corporate influence on a single politician or legislative process. The other side will argue that they have dozens of "former" Senators and Congressmen and women who say otherwise.

The corporate stand will always be stated as "Corporations and UNIONS" but sadly Unions are not considered for this above and beyond free speech. The lawyers for corporations will include unions in their argument but not in their desired outcome which is to have no limits only upon Corporations and the management who decides who shall win or lose an election based on their special self interest.

Corporations owe nothing in the way of patriotism or practice of religion or raising a child. Their only purpose and motivation is for establishing "economic rents" commonly known as profits. They are like a shark doing what it is perfectly designed to do, eat and eat well. They are not evil for simply being sharks. Maybe my bias is showing but honestly should we hold a shark up to standards of morality?


Simply put, a shark is not a person Why should we grant super personhood to a shark?!


What of Multinational Corporations? Currently it is illegal to have a foreign government or individual finance our political campaigns. Most of our corporations list their head office off shore for special tax reasons anyway.
It will be argued whether or not there is too little free speech for corporations starting September 7th. The Corporate position will certainly quote the Bill of Rights; Congress shall make no law to limit their speech, their movies, their networks or untold amounts of money assigned to candidates in US elections or the critical times in which they choose to do so. Today nearly a billion dollars is spent to sway public opinion. Corporations are hoping that $20 billion spent will earn them even more "sway".

The court decision will either let you see Hillary the movie 3 weeks before an election or not. I for one hope we never get to see 'The Kenyan Candidate' or 'The Need to Know"
Personally I would like to see "A Mother's Strength" .
It might actually become a classic cult film like attack of the killer tomatoes.

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 09:01 AM

Sign me cheque???

Don T

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 12:04 AM

Nice of you to give him a lift, PSzymeczek. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: PSzymeczek
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 11:22 PM

Hey, Little Hawk! I found Jesus; he was in the trunk of my car when I got home from Tijuana!

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 01:12 AM

but

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Mark Ross
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 01:10 AM

Thou Shalt Not Commit Nincompoopery!

Mark Ross

Sorry about the strange break in posting, Damn Computers!

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Mark Ross
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 01:08 AM

According to Carl Sandburg the eleventh Commandment should be;

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 11:44 AM

Yes...yes...but if you DO get caught, refer to the commandments that I added on 04 Sep 09 - 10:55 PM .

The important thing is, you have to be a member of the ruling classes. If you are, there are always contingency plans in place to help you evade the consequences of your immoral and illegal actions.

If not...too F-in' BAD!

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 03:32 AM

In 2009 there is only one commandment, Thou shalt not get caught.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 03:03 PM

Feel free to use those commandments I wrote, Donuel. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Micca
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 12:32 PM

Especially in the context of business ethics
13 Thou shalt not see a belt without hitting below it
14 Thou shallt not ignore an exposed back( be it friend or foe) but thou shalt stab it

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 10:39 AM

I always thought it was "Thou shalt not ADMIT adultery"

or was it "Thou shalt not OMIT adultery".

Either will do for me.

If the wife doesn't DO for me first.

Don T.

Subject: What we are up to
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:41 AM

May I use those?

L:ittle Hawk you are psychiic because...

What I am up to is writing the New American Primer of ethics in business, family and self worth.

Im my case it is not so much a conversion from the dark side to the light but an exposition that people who may have thought themselves to be innocent could look inside the cracks in their lives. A book by the common man might carry more wieght than from an expert ethicist or paid pundit.

People have been steeped in techniques of lieing cheating and stealing and probably do not know how to prosper from doing the right thing, so I thought I would write a booklet for them.

Contrasting right and wrong with the old paths that brought us here is the first part.

The second part is about specific jobs, careers and disciplines.

Help, notions, collaborations are welcome and would certainly be acknowledged and rewarded.   Its the ethical thing to do.

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 10:55 PM

If caught, however, thou shalt firmly deny all guilt.

If found guilty in any case, however, thou shalt experience a dramatic conversion and "find Jesus", thus expiating thy guilt and being forgiven all thy prior sins.

Thou shalt then write a book about it, appear on Oprah and Larry King Live, and go about the country, yea, even the world, telling thy inspiring story to the fascinated masses.

Thou shalt grow very wealthy and live in goodness all thy days.

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 09:45 PM

You all seem to have forgotten the 11th -

Thou shall not get caught...

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 09:07 PM

I like Joe's Clough version myself.

Maybe you could assemble one that is not sacreligious but understood to be true to everyone.


PS (a random note on dyslexia. What puzzles me is that I can look at an inverted misspelled word I write and see it spelled correctly with the correct sequence of letters only to discover later it was really inverted. It happend twice just in this PS.

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 08:15 PM

Sounds about right to me, Donuel.

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Joe_F
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 06:28 PM

The Latest Decalogue

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)

Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?

No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency;

Swear not at all; for, for thy curse,
Thine enemy is none the worse;

At church on Sunday to attend
Will serve to keep the world thy friend:

Honor thy parents; that is, all
From whom advancement may befall.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive
Officiously to keep alive:

Do not adultery commit,
Advantage rarely comes of it;

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,
When it's so lucrative to cheat;

Bear not false witness; let the lie
Have time on its own wings to fly;

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.

*

Decalogue

Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil's Dictionary

Thou shalt no God but me adore:
'Twere too expensive to have more.

No images nor idols make
For Robert Ingersoll to break.

Take not God's name in vain: select
A time when it will have effect.

Work not on Sabbath days at all,
But go to see the teams play ball.

Honor thy parents. That creates
For life insurance lower rates.

Kill not, abet not those who kill;
Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill.

Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless
Thine own thy neighbor doth caress.

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete
Successfully in business. Cheat.

Bear not false witness--that is low--
But "hear 'tis rumored so and so."

Covet thou naught that thou hast not
By hook or crook, or somehow, got.

Subject: RE: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: GUEST,maple
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 02:20 PM

Lol.

Subject: BS: The NEW 10 commandments
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 02:18 PM

George Carlin was able to condense them all down to one which was well reasoned and true.

I see another set of "unwritten" commandments being imposed on the world and especially American politics.
It has been in place for some time but C Street scandels and the culture media wars have made them more transparent.




ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before religious authority who work for rich and vengeful.'

TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.' (We just threw this one in to aboish any art or speech that challenges corporate authority)

THREE: 'You shall take the name of the LORD to justify all of your needs and wants.'

FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it profitable.'

FIVE: 'Honor and obey the rich and vengeful'

SIX: 'You shall not murder.'

SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'

EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'

NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

TEN: 'All of the above do not apply to the rich and vengeful but it is highly recommended to contract out 6-9.'






artwork to follow...