Fear Of A Dumb Planet

SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking through the woods in Como Park, looking for a place to practice the bagpipes.

Suddenly, Avery LIBRELLE jumps out from behind a tree.

LIBRELLE: Hey, Merg! Your sides has been owned again!

BERG: Er, Avery? What are you doing in the middle of the woods?

LIBRELLE: Stakeout for climate criminals. So anyway, we were talking about how your side has been owned again.

BERG: “We” weren’t. You were.

LIBRELLE: Hahaha. And it comes from Canada. Here. Read it.

LIBRELLE: So yet again, a Canadian proves he knows what’s best for us better than the American electorate does.

BERG: Well, no. He’s shown he’s absorbed Deb Wasserman-Drescher’s chanting points like a Macalester College poli-sci grad. Pretty much every point Richard Brunt of Victoria British Columbia says is wrong.

LIBRELLE: No way!

BERG: Way. Corporate profits are high because companies are sitting on cash, rather than investing. The “under 6%” unemployment number is a sham; the percentage of people in the workforce who are working is essentially unchanged since the lowest point in the depression. The GDP growth rate Mr. Brunt is bragging about is the slowest of any recovery in the post-war era. This is especially noteworthy because, normally, steep sharp recessions have steep, sharp recoveries (see 1982). This one was a steep recession with a painfully-slow recovery. How painful? The current GDP growth is equal to the WORST quarter of growth in the recovery from the 1982 recession.

Gasoline prices are “falling” to about $1 more than they were when Obama took office. Worse than that when you adjust for inflation.

LIBRELLE: Hah, Merg! There is no inflation!

BERG: Does you or Mr. Brunt ever buy bread, beef, chicken, eggs or health insurance? …? CPI shows low inflation, but that’s largely a function of the price of debt – which is being kept artificially low:

Oh, yeah – and oil imports are declining partly due to the slow economy, and partly due to drilling in the Dakotas, which is basically happening over Obama’s, let’s just say, passive-aggressive objection.

As to the “respected around the world” bit? That’s just delusional.

LIBRELLE: That’s just like a typical Repblicon. A message based on fear!

BERG: Fear?

LIBRELLE: Yeah. Fear of black people!

BERG: How did fear or black people enter the conversation?

LIBRELLE: You’re afraid, aren’t you? Boo! There’s a black guy sneaking up on you!

(BERG turns, inflates the bag on his pipes, and starts playing random noises to drown LIBRELLE out as he walks back to his car).

Posted

November 12, 2014

Democrat Party, Entitled America!, President Obama

Mitch Berg

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9 responses to “Fear Of A Dumb Planet”

kel

November 12, 2014

is Richard Brunt really Emery?
Chuck

November 12, 2014

Fear of black people. Minnesota liberals like to pick on conservative Republican Mississippi. But here is an intersting stat.

There are 849 Blacks elected to public office in the state of Mississippi.
There are 17 in Minnesota. And look at what the liberal establishment, including the Star Tribune, did to keep lily white geriatric Phylis Kahn in office this past year, vs the Somlia-American who is more representive of that district.
Draw your own conclusions.
Night Writer

November 12, 2014

Mr. Brunt may be hearing from the cherry-pickers union soon.

And the DFL was so scared of the black people in Kahn’s district that they made caucus attendees show their IDs in order to participate!
Scott Hughes

November 12, 2014

“And the DFL was so scared of the black people in Kahn’s district that they made caucus attendees show their IDs in order to participate!”

And these are the same folks against voter ID.
Bill C

November 12, 2014

They’re only against voter ID when it might cost THEM votes.
Seflores

November 12, 2014

Admittedly, if I came upon two people in the wood; with one playing the bag pipes and the other on a climate criminal stake out, I’d be more likely to hector the bag pipe player. While both are wind bags, the climate criminal cop is less likely to cause me or at least my ears, harm. Of course only Merg! knows what Mr/Ms Liberelle sounds like so I could be wrong.
I love when my Lib-Prog friends cite the stock market as a marker for an improved economy. Talk about what most benefits the ‘banksters’ and 1%’ers! It’s like these people have no f’n idea what they are talking about.
And as for black ‘folk’, I don’t know how any Lib-Prog can look on any big city school system, run by Lib-Progs at the board and teacher level, with pride. You had people of color citing Brown V. Board of Education in the lawsuit against the LA school system that noted a Lib-Prog board & union conspiracy to send the worst teachers to the worst schools.
And “Slap & Tickle” Bill Clinton is a ‘Rock Star’ in the Democrat party.
Brunt is one of the dumbest Canadians ever. He should stick to eating his Poutine` watching the CBC in colour, cashing cheques and criticizing US defence spending and leave us the hell alone*.
*Last sentence for JPA.
Powhatan Mingo

November 12, 2014

Seflores, you might ask your lib-prog friends why the Dow is growing faster than GDP. Guaranteed to get an amusing response!
Also, you might remind them of the high praise that Bill Clinton gave the repeal of Glass-Steagall when he signed it in ’99:

Today I am pleased to sign into law S. 900, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. This historic legislation will modernize our financial services laws, stimulating greater innovation and competition in the financial services industry. America’s consumers, our communities, and the economy will reap the benefits of this Act.

Beginning with the introduction of an Administration-sponsored bill in 1997, my Administration has worked vigorously to produce financial services legislation that would not only spur greater competition, but also protect the rights of consumers and guarantee that expanded financial services firms would meet the needs of America’s underserved communities. Passage of this legislation by an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of the Congress suggests that we have met that goal.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act makes the most important legislative changes to the structure of the U.S. financial system since the 1930s. Financial services firms will be authorized to conduct a wide range of financial activities, allowing them freedom to innovate in the new economy. The Act repeals provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act that, since the Great Depression, have restricted affiliations between banks and securities firms. It also amends the Bank Holding Company Act to remove restrictions on affiliations between banks and insurance companies. It grants banks significant new authority to conduct most newly authorized activities through financial subsidiaries.

Removal of barriers to competition will enhance the stability of our financial services system. Financial services firms will be able to diversify their product offerings and thus their sources of revenue. They will also be better equipped to compete in global financial markets.

Although the Act grants financial services firms greater latitude to innovate, it also contains important safety and soundness protections. While the Act allows common ownership of banking, securities, and insurance firms, it still requires those activities to be conducted separately within an organization, subject to functional regulation and funding limitations.

And there is much, much more where that came from.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=56922
Brad

November 13, 2014

Mitch – You need not fear a dumb planet, for it arrived many years ago. You are usually much more perceptive than this 🙂
justplainangry

November 13, 2014

sef… appreciate the nod… real Canadians hang around CFP and do not eat Poutine.