noozguru, not to be too persnickity but I just saw on the weather report this
morning that there is already drought in California. And no rain in the long
range forecast!
I'm beginning to suspect that *the powers that be* are using Super Bowls and
Golden Globe Awards, etc. to distract the masses from the reality that we're
schtooked!
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:19 AM, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Oh, but that would be taking "other people's money" which we all know they
"worked so hard for.":-D
Actually I suspect Scorsese probably would say he got his desired
effect with you. I haven't seen the film yet as I relegated it to
the BD rental phase.
You are not alone in your reaction to the Oxfram study (which I
posted here yesterday) as I heard several radio commentators say
the same thing. Just take their money and redistribute it. As I
see it the the rich, like dogs, have so soiled their capitalist
beds that the penalty should be global socialism for the next 400
years. Doesn't have to be mean, authoritarian or totalitarian.
Could be very transcendental and pleasant.
But looking at the weather, the coming drought and famine there
might not be anyone around in 40 years let alone 400.
On 01/21/2014 05:58 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote:
>>
>> I'd ride with 'em, I ain't prejudiced agin rich folk.
>
>Personally, I suspect that the planet would be better off if we managed to get
>all 85 of these people on one bus, and then threatened them with driving the
>bus off a cliff with them on it unless they signed over all of their money to
>the poor people they fucked over to get it. After they signed, then we'd take
>the signed papers, get off the bus and push it over the edge anyway, and then
>redistribute the funds.
>
>But that may just be how I feel today, after having
been forced to sit through "The Wolf Of Wall
Street." I now completely agree with everything said
in the open letter written by Christina McDowell, daughter
of one of the real-life scumbags who worked with the real-life Jordan Belfort.
I think that Martin Scorcese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and all of the other producers
who glorified greed and immorality in this film should be sentenced to spend
the rest of their lives doing "community service" by making movies about the
"little people" these real-life scumbags ripped off, and whose lives they
ruined.
>
>Those of you who mouth off about misogyny, you
really haven't even *seen* misogyny until you've
seen this movie. There is not a woman in the film
who isn't portrayed as a bimbo, a hooker, and just
one more rube to be fucked and fucked over. I
literally had to take a shower after watching it.
>
>The experience made me rethink Martin Scorcese's
work as a whole. Yes, he has made the occasional
film that *doesn't* celebrate greed, corruption, and
misogyny (although the only ones I can think of
right now are "Hugo," "The Last Temptation of
Christ," and "Kundun"), but those subjects have been
the focus of and the preoccupation of almost *all*
of his other films. Only 3 films as a director out
of 55 *not* about slimeballs. And his next film is
going to be about Frank Sinatra. What a fuckin'
waste of creative talents.
>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> On Tue, 1/21/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
>>
>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] New meaning for Kesey's "Are
you on the bus or off the bus?"
>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 8:19 AM
>>
>> According to a recent
>> OXFAM report the 85 people who own *half of the
planet's
>> wealth* could all fit onto this bus:
>>
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/17/oxfam-bus-wealth_n_4616103.html
>>
>
