BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law

Subject: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 12:22 PM

not mine...but GWB as he is stumbling and rambling in front of Putin who is grimicing a frown with the look of " W is such a hopeless moron".

W apologized for much of his unitelligble speech by saying "it's late in the tour".

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 12:27 PM

I love it when he lectures the Russians about "democracy"... :-)

What amazing arrogance.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:10 PM

But is it in fcat a mistake?

I put "capitalicy" in google, and up came a blog with this paragraph:

We're no longer a democracy. I hate to say so, but more and more I begin to see it as such. We have become, are becoming, a capitalicy. A society where those in power are those who can afford to be there, not those who can do the most good. A society where money buys position, instead of the position being filled by the best person for the job.

I think that sums up what Bush is trying to push on the world.

I remember when the line we were always being sold during the Cold War was that the quarrel with the USSR was not about their economic systems or anything like that, it was about the fact that was a repressive society.   The implication was that, without the repression, there would be no quarrel with "socialism with a human face", if that was what people wished.   

But the reality has been very different. All the stops were pulled out to ensure that that would not be allowed to develop. So instead we get repression and corruption, but with a capitalist face - and that is fine by our leaders.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:44 PM

Gorbachev had more class than bush and Putin combined. He knew how to stand on stage with a reigning US president, dis him, and still look ultimately cool. I suppose it helped that Reagan didn't have a clue.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 10:44 PM

someone doesn't seem to LIKE Capitalicy

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 10:46 PM

(Donuel...that came from this page, where they plead with someone to caption it or do a Photoshop number to it!)

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: dianavan
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 11:02 PM

Yup! Capitalicy is a system where the scum rises to the top.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 01:18 AM

The USA is not a democracy, it's a moneyocracy, as is plainly obvious to Putin and everyone else. As for Russia, it's a thinly disguised dictatorship, presently passing through a very trying period of instability and mafia corruption. Whatever Bush says to them is just a meaningless blather of noise that bounces off the walls...sound and fury, signifying nothing. I'm sure they'll be relieved when he goes back home.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 06:53 AM

I'm always relieved when he gets home - in case someone does him a mischief. Its funny I've never felt that about an American President before. I was afraid someone would chuck an egg at him, or something last time he came to London. I'm sure a lot of Americans would be offended.

Perhaps he has a vulnerable quality. Thats supposed to be sexy, isn't it. Somehow i don't feel that about him either.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 07:44 AM

Thanks Bill, Ive never seen Hoffmania.com before.

McG, well shucks, capitalicy may not be a word yet but it seems to have been given meaning that I had missed completely.
Like Bush Sr. repeating the term New World Order it became engrained in the American psyche.

New credo

Let each child rise to the level of their economic birth right.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 08:46 AM

I took it that the heading on this thread was a quote from some Bush-speak oration on tour. Right or wrong???

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 09:03 AM

Yes, when he appeared on stage with Putin. But if capitalicy is a real word it may not be accidental/pathological bush speak at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 09:29 AM

It doesn't seem to have made it through to the media so far as I've been able to find. Maybe the reporters work from the written text that gets handed out, with the corrections in place. (Lots and lots of them in the case of Bush.)

But it's a good word - it seems to encapsulate sums up what it is that I'm against, and why I'm against it.   I think it could catch on.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 11:26 AM

The illegality of pre-emptive war should be the rule of law too.

Matter of fact, it already is illegal.

Capitalicy = Moneyocracy: Possibly the most morally bankrupt social theory of all time.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 03:19 AM

And the oldest. Nowt changes.

Subject: RE: BS: Capitalicy should be the rule of law
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 05 - 12:27 PM

Naw, the oldest social theory is based around sex. That came long before money.