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AJD48 Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 08:59 AM
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War Profiteer Vampires
Edited on Mon Feb-15-10 09:08 AM by AJD48
Here’s a little article I wrote this morning just for fun. If I were a professional writer, I’d polish it more, and probably add more facts and make it more realistic. But I’m not, and this is good enough. You’ll get the point. And if anyone wants to improve it and elaborate upon it, fine. I’m putting it in the public domain so use it as you wish. I hope you enjoy it.

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War Profiteer Vampires

When the war profiteer vampires arrived in America is not known with certainty, but there is conclusive evidence they had arrived by the time of the Korean War. The people of America by that time had suffered through the “war to end all wars” (World War I), the Great Depression, and the Second World War, and wanted nothing more than peace and prosperity. But the vampires, already gorged with profits, wanted even more profits, incredibly. So yet another war was started, the Korean War. Mere people couldn’t understand why we were fighting yet again, but the vampires knew. It was just a small war, a kind of dessert after the huge meal of World War I and World War II.

When the Korean War ended, the vampires and their human flunkies vastly exaggerated the Soviet threat, so that more and more money could be diverted from projects that help people (education, hospitals, infrastructure) to projects that feed vampires. But vampires can go for only so long without war so they used their tool of choice, the C.I.A., to start the Viet Nam War. Many people opposed the Viet Nam War; some polls at the time put the proportion as high as 70%. Of the remaining 30%, there was a small percentage of people who genuinely believed in the war. And there were the “my country right or wrong” crowd, traditional allies and dupes of war profiteer vampires. The American people lost the Viet Nam War, but the vampires did not; they successfully fed throughout the years of that conflict and grew fatter still.

With Watergate the vampires lost one of their own, Nixon, and for a time lost control of the U.S. government. A weak but human president, Carter, was eventually elected but proved in 1980 unable to defeat the human/vampire team, faced by Reagan, a likeable film star, but led by Bush, former head of the C.I.A. Under the Reagan/Bush administration (actually the Bush/Reagan administration) convert wars were waged in various countries, notably Afghanistan. Again, vampires fed. Then in 1988, when Reagan had reached his two term limit, Bush decided to run for president and share the ticket with another vampire, Dan Quayle.

Vampires pretend to be human, as did the Bush/Quayle team, but not very well. Continuous statements like “What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is” eventually showed the American people that something was seriously wrong. Though the Bush/Quayle team won in 1988 they lost in 1992, to a human named Bill Clinton.

The year 1993 was a critical year for the vampires. A human was president and the Soviet Union was breaking up. Would people begin to demand a larger proportion of their own tax funds be spent on themselves, on human services? Would precious tax funds – the very life blood of the war profiteer vampires – be lost to infrastructure, to education, to health, and to other things of value to humans, but of no value to vampires? The vampire’s worst fears were confirmed when Clinton introduced a health care reform bill.

War profiteer vampires feed upon the wealth of a country. So they could not allow the diversion of the precious life blood of tax funds to health care. They fought desperately and somehow convinced a significant percentage of human beings that better health care was not in their own best interest. After the defeat of Clinton’s health care initiative, the vampires tried to neutralize Clinton as much as possible. They found his weak point in his own human lust and exploited it to rob him of political power. (Vampires are immune to human lust and love, aside from lust for money. They are immune to pity or concern for human beings.)

In 2000 another vampire team, Cheney/Bush Jr., took control of the U.S. government though a fraudulent election. The Cheney team used 9/11 (which many American believed they engineered) to feed their vampire friends, via no-bid contracts, funneling huge amounts of money to themselves and their kind. Again, people suspected something was wrong. Again, the two vampires in charge could pretend to be human but not very well. First there was the obviously non-human Cheney. Then there was Bush Jr., who appears somewhat human but regularly says things like, “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." Nonetheless, the vampires managed to hold power, though another fraudulent election in 2004.

Vampires prey off of human society. By 2008 they had fed and grown hugely fat, but in the process they had brought America to its knees. Parasites feed off of their host but feed too much and the host dies. Therefore the vampires decided to give control of the country back to a human being for a while. So they ran a laughable team – McCain and Palin – fully expecting to lose. With the country run by an intelligent human, they hoped it would regain some of its strength, so they could feed again in the future.

But if you pass this article on to fellow humans then maybe – just maybe – we can take back our country from the war profiteer vampires and use our tax dollars for own benefit. We have now a brief window, a brief opportunity to act.

Pass it on.

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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 09:11 AM
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1. Here's a picture for ya!


:hi:
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 09:20 AM
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2. Great writing.
k/r
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 09:37 AM
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3. Nice + There's a reason why MOST of what you see on tv is about blood and sadism .
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HillbillyBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 10:31 AM
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5. Yes, I have noted that the violence allowed as acceptable
in tv and movies, but sex is so taboo, especially male nudity or semi nude.
T&A seems more or less ok, but anything beyond that is taboo. We seem to have a hgher threshold for violence than for sexy.
I think we need more frankness and less titillation. Just my take.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 01:25 PM
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8. I like this very much "more frankness and less titillation" Precislely right! Titillation is a Lie.
"Here IT is!! Come and get it!!!" wink, wink . . . .

The Frustration and Confusion titillation produces are such a deeply abiding and dangerous problem for Women AND Men that . . . (not that it is meant as an explanation for everything that is going on, but . . .) sometimes I wonder why we wonder why Men and Women seem to be turning more to their own genders more for their needs.

Frankness? Yes!! I will second that motion.

P.S. And also "yes", the alusion to Sarah Palin above is seriously and sincerely intended. Though it shouldn't be, it IS a kind of wonder to me that such a person has risent to the position she occupies in media now, but I guess then, Truth is, by definition, Inevitable.
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HillbillyBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 10:20 AM
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4.  DuPont was founded in 1802 by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont,

using capital raised in France and gunpowder machinery imported from France.
snip
" began as a manufacturer of gunpowder, as du Pont had noticed that the industry in North America was lagging behind Europe and saw a market for it. The company grew quickly, and by the mid 19th century had become the largest supplier of gunpowder to the United States military, supplying as much as half of the powder used by the Union Army during the American Civil War. (The Eleutherian Mills site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966 and is now a museum covering this history that may be visited today.)"
more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 10:46 AM
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6. Go Back to the Civil War
and the rise of the Corporation. Before that, we were relatively safe.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 11:31 AM
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7. Great post! nt
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 09:49 PM
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9. You should consider making a movie script of this.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 09:54 PM
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10. Proof positive that it IS in fact Vampires:
Would people begin to demand a larger proportion of their own tax funds be spent on themselves, on human services? Would precious tax funds – the very life blood of the war profiteer vampires – be lost to infrastructure, to education, to health, and to other things of value to humans, but of no value to vampires? The vampire’s worst fears were confirmed when Clinton introduced a health care reform bill.

War profiteer vampires feed upon the wealth of a country. So they could not allow the diversion of the precious life blood of tax funds to health care. They fought desperately and somehow convinced a significant percentage of human beings that better health care was not in their own best interest...


They may not be biting people's necks (in every instance), but they feed no less, and perhaps even more deeply, on human essence.
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Tutankhamun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 11:36 PM
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11. That was hilarious! I love the vampire quotations
"...Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. " and of course, Bush's old saying, "...Fool me, can't get fooled again."
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:14 PM
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12. Excellent argument. Fine writing.
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