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Thread ID: 91018	2008-06-23 09:34:00	Carlin = Dead	Metla (12)	PC World Chat

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681535	2008-06-27 07:51:00	Dear me, I would have never thought not knowing about a 71 year old American comedian would be linked, in 2008, to Reagan getting to power in the 1980's when I wasn't even alive. You obviously knew about Carlin, you were around back there and apparently if you can blame us you can blame yourself: so how come Regan still got into power?	beeswax34 (63)
681536	2008-06-27 08:23:00	You Tube the man www.youtube.com He is brillant!	radium (8645)
681537	2008-06-27 11:34:00	Because for every smart person there is/are about 3 or 4 idiots, that's the way it's always been and it doesn't seem as if it will ever change because the human animal is statistically set up that way. If you want a definition of intelligence then the one I like is: "intelligence is the ability to understand"	zqwerty (97)
681538	2008-06-27 14:25:00	"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying * lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else." "But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting f...ed by a system that threw them overboard 30 f...ing years ago. "You know what they want? Obedient workers * people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh..tier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your f...ing retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this f...ing place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club." "This country is finished."	zqwerty (97)
681539	2008-06-27 14:57:00	And of course ZQUERTY you wrote all that yourself. I do not think so somehow. We do not have a senate or a congress in New Zealand. Well some people have congress in NZ but that is a different matter and it is rather a verb compared to a noun!	Sweep (90)
681540	2008-06-27 23:39:00	As much as I love Carlin's humour (despite the language), he did happen to be one of the bigger conspiracy theorists around... A group of people I don't normally have any time for...	johcar (6283)
681541	2008-06-28 00:24:00	You need to pay attention and try to keep up, Sweep, these are all quotes from Carlin because that's what the thread is about, his death, I didn't think I needed to make an attribution because it would be obvious to anyone compus mentos what was going on. Oh god help me (fat chance of that) I rest my case re: number of smart people vs others. Moderately funny comment on the verb vs noun thing though Sweep.	zqwerty (97)
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