BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!

Subject: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 02:57 PM

I was trying to come up with an even less modest proposal involving the dispatch of corrupt politicians (and government advisors) in the least expensive and most globally beneficial way.

Ha! Says I! No one wants to cook and eat politicians. But they could become an integral and very important part of the food chain.

I mean who doesn't associate politicians with horseshit? They must be very rich in valuable nutrients.

So thinking I was onto something good, I Googled politicians and fertilizer and came up with this.

Political Graveyard

*Note the other categories/industry from which politicians hail.

Wonder how John Deere would feel about a quick trip through a chipper shredder and being spread by one of his own nutrient applicators? I am sure Mr. Deere was a fine upstanding member of the community and while profitting from his clever inventions (and possibly foreclosing on farm loans held by his bank) he was a credit to his position as mayor. I am only using him as a weak example for the purposes of the exercise I am about to impart.

Please submit any ideas which take out a named slime ball (bank managers and Bill Gates entries are fair game). Your proposal must also include at least one benefit to Earth, nature and/or humankind.

Thank you for playing.

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 03:00 PM

Hmmmm. Politician Arbor Day. I like it.

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: DougR
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 03:30 PM

Plant a politician and you will surely get poison ivy.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 03:56 PM

Plant a politician and nothing will grow on the spot for years and years.

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: pdq
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 04:00 PM

If they don't grow, it will not be from a lack of fertilizer.

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 05:37 PM

Well, now. . . .

In general, it would be very tempting to join in the feeding frenzy, considering the general stench and many forms of pestilence that emanate from the field of politics. However, I can't condemn all politicians. I know two people personally who, realizing that it's politicians who steer the country, got so disgusted with the direction the country is being steered in, that they figured they'd better see if they could do something about it. So they held their noses, paid the filing fees, and ran for office. One of them ran for city council, but didn't make it. The other ran for state legislature and he did get elected. So far, he's managed to kick a bit of ass.

I know these two well enough to know that they aren't in it to feather their own nests. They're there because they feel that somebody has to do something besides bitch and complain, otherwise it will be "same old same old."

These two guys would be considered to be politicians, but I have nothing but admiration for them.

I also know the Congressional Representative from my district. I have a great deal of admiration for him also. He's stuck his neck out again and again, and has taken his lumps for it. But he keeps at it. He must be doing something right. People like him and keep re-electing him. He go 85% of the vote last time around.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: GUEST,Peace
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 09:02 PM

Could we please add to that the judges in Pennsylvania who put kids in DT centres and reaped $1.6 million from that? I will help dig the hole for them (although they seem to have dug it pretty well for themselves).

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 09:07 PM

Well, Don, my very own brother is running for Mayor of his small town. He's also served two terms as a village alderman, and several terms on the local school board.

He only served two terms as alderman because he believes in term limits. And I'm pretty sure he's honest and all because he's still living in the same house he has been, just bought a USED car, is married to the same wife for 34 years, and doesn't (as far as I know) have a mistress or has had an affair. He pays his taxes on time, except for when he got back from 'Nam and had missed filing that year, but he made it up as soon as he could.

My uncle served God Alone Knows how many terms as alderman back in Ye Olde Home Towne. For the reasons outlined for my brother I'm pretty sure he too is honest, only he's been married to the same person for better than 55 years.

So yeah, there are some honest ones who work for the people out there. But you gotta SEARCH for 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 02:48 AM

Ok Ok folks... Let's keep to the game. Only politicians and other slimeballs that poison the earth and steal from humankind are worthy of this thread.

The charge is to come up with creative "named" plans to remove a scum and transform it into something viable and useful.

For example a franchise to benefit small business and provide a safe outlet for the right to bear arms mob and gangs at the same time getting guns out of homes and off the streets.

Dick Cheney & Charleton Heston shooting ranges - targets selected by a panel must go through stringent scum detecting criteria. Gun toting Americans and gang members permitted to have a go, ONLY if they sign a contract stating they will relinquish their firearms and never lift a gun again.

God! That's pretty awful and me terrified of even cap guns. But you get my drift?

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: DMcG
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 04:57 AM

How about a special tax rate - lets say 80% - for any income earned from speeches (and books, lunches etc) given by a politician/civil service or other publically funded position where the speech arises from the fact they held that position. I would not want to supertax Clinton, Bush or Blair if they gave a lecture on butterflies, but where their return is a consequence of public investment, why not let us get a suitable share?

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 05:28 AM

One radio station is putting local republican politicians "heads on a stick" if they vote or propose tax increases. The California "Governator" has even acknowledged the anger generated from this picture.

http://www.kfiam640.com/cc-common/mlib/616/02/616_1234902273.gif

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 06:34 AM

C Graft abounds in politics. So, ould you graft a new one from an old.

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 08:48 AM

I do think that this is appropriate here:

IF YOU LOVE THAT POLITICIAN (PULL THE CHAIN)
by Tom Paxton

(Intro:)

C G
Someone had the right idea out in Iowa.
G7 C
Palo Alto County had its own straw poll.
F
Folks who listened to their radio
C Am
Were told to flush their toilets so
D G7
Their candidate might win the Super Bowl.
C G
Folks in Emmetsburg have got things in perspective
G7 C - C7
And good common sense that they rely upon.
F
When the beaming smiles and golden throats
C Am
Come shaking hands and begging votes,
D G - G7
The folks in Emmetsburg head for the john.

(Verse:)

C G C
If you love that politician, pull the chain.
C C7 G - G7
Send the world of woe and trouble down the drain.
C C7
It's the road to satisfaction.
F F7
It's a natural reaction.
C G C
If you love that politician, pull the chain.

If you like the things he said, use your head.
You can show the world you think he's thoroughbred.
Choose a favorite son or daughter
With a little running water.
C G C - C7
If you like the things he said, use your head.

(Break:)

F C - C7
Do you get that familiar feeling
F C - C7
When you hear the things they say?
F F7
When they hum their familiar tunes
C Am
Do your thoughts all turn to prunes?
D G - G7
Are you headed for Hernando's Hideaway?

If the man gets through to you, use your loo.
If he's not Number One, he's Number Two.
He's the greatest guy on earth.
Why don't you show him what he's worth?
If the man gets through to you, use your loo.

(Repeat Break)

If you love that politician, pull the chain (pull the chain).
Send the world of woe and trouble down the drain.
It's the road to satisfaction.
It's a natural reaction.
If you love that politician, pull the chain.

When you see the ruling gentry,
Why, the answer's alimentary.
If you love that politician, pull the chain.

Subject: RE: BS: Grow a better world? Plant a politician!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 09:19 AM

Arrgghhhh! Sir Allen Stanford currently missing in action prinicipal player in the biggest money scam ever, has been under investigation by the SEC for 15 years? 15 years? What they hell were they doing?

http://www.1115.org/2009/02/18/behind-the-allen-stanford-scam/

Can't be all bad ... he loves cricket. When Stanford, is found, I propose that he and his two cohorts, James M. Davis and Laura Pendergest-Holt (and any other handily guilty parties) and the idjits in the SEC who waited too long to cap the bastards/bitch be recycled into cricket equipment and donated to schools.

If you can make a diamond from the ashes of your loved one. Certainly you can get a bat or ball or two out these bloodsuckers and their enablers.

So what do we name this new range of sports equipment? Should we name it after unsung hero Alex Dalmady who was writing his concerns sometime before the SEC stepped up its investigation into Stanford Bank.

What I want to know is who is investigating the SEC? Is somone profitting by dragging feet on the Madoff and Stanford investigations?

Conspiracy theory? - You betcha! They are all out to get us.