The More Precise Life of Julia
The Obama campaign has created a slideshow depicting how the government can help a woman named Julia throughout her life and how all of that would be ruined if Mitt Romney were elected instead. You may think a perfectly capable woman wouldn’t need constant government support, but you’re very, very wrong and stupid and lack foresight. That’s why Obama has unveiled his vision for the future, inspired by 1984, a most forward-thinking book which details the story of a man overcoming his right-wing, anti-government concerns and learning to embrace a progressive future where the government helps him plan his life. It’s a bold idea that will finally fulfill the dreams of our forefathers, who once packed up all their things and headed west seeking a new government that would provide for all their needs.
Of course, what Obama has published about Julia is only a rough draft of what he has planned. He has since sat down with futurists, science fiction authors, and hippy drug addicts to come up with even more precise details of what life will be like for Julia if America chooses to re-elect Obama versus the horror that awaits her if Mitt Romney is elected.
AGE 3
Under President Obama: Julia is enrolled in Obama’s new, heavily modified Head Start program. When it is determined that her parents are too inadequate and/or fundamentalist, she is adopted by the government. Her name is legally changed from Julia Smith to the more precise Julia Female B34Z5R79.
Under Mitt Romney: Julia gets no special Head Start program. Having no way to learn anything without government help, she eventually drinks a gallon of paint.
AGE 7
Under President Obama: Julia’s education is going well, and she receives a personalized form letter from president/father Obama that he is pleased with her progress. Knowing government loves and cares for her gives Julia the confidence she needs to succeed.
Under Mitt Romney: Julia goes to a crazed Christian school, thanks to vouchers funded by cutting NPR from the budget. Republicans run rampant and cut other necessary government programs, such as cowboy poetry festivals, and young Julia shudders as she feels society collapsing around her.
AGE 15
Under President Obama: Julia wonders whether to engage in sex. Her government lovingly provides her with free contraception and one dollar abortions.
Under Mitt Romney: Thanks to Republican weakening of government, society completely collapses. Julia is traded to a nearby warlord in exchange for a donkey.
AGE 18
Under President Obama: Julia enrolls in college, choosing a major that fits in with Obama’s plan for her. While there, she encounters neo-Tea Partiers who spread propaganda slandering the government. In her government-mandated earpiece, she hears the phrase “black lilacs” — the activation phrase taught to her in her Head Start program. She blacks out, and when she wakes up she is back in her dorm room and sees on the news that the neo-Tea Partiers were all brutally murdered.
Under Mitt Romney: The Koch brothers are now rival warlords, and Julia is caught in the middle of their conflict. Having no other source of food, she is forced to slaughter and eat her pet dog. It tastes great and is the highlight of her day! She feels awful that anyone ever made fun of a former president for once having eaten a dog himself.
– George Sand.
Women and men have been so dumbed down that the US will not produce a George Sand, not under this administration. See http://clarespark.com/2012/03/19/links-to-feminist-blogs/. I particularly recommend the blog on feminism in the docket, or feminism and its publicists. The lives of women are co-opted to support anti-imperialism, as they call it.
– film “Simone”.
Absolutely hilarious.
Thank you !
Chainsaw arm?
Groovy.
“…and when she wakes up she is back in her dorm room and sees on the news that the neo-Tea Partiers were all brutally murdered.” Sorry, citizen, but MiniTruth must needs correct your poorly-worded news report. Don’t worry, no one will ever know.
“…and when she wakes up she is back in her dorm room and sees on the news that the neo-Tea Partiers were all taken to a special Vacation Camp.”
A chainsaw arm sounds pretty sweet. No one would try to mess with me.
I’d hold out for a combo Sawz-All / M2 arm. You know, for distance work.
Try tying your shoes – or wiping your bottom – with that chainsaw arm and it won’t seem as sweet….
Ahhh…but when you have a chainsaw arm, you will have others to perform those mundane activities for you.
Hail to the King, baby!
mmmm….
wiping your bottom with a chainsaw arm…
quit teasing!
And the most frightening thing about that narrative is, you have Julia existing under “President Obama” from age 3 through 67.
Yikes!
67-3= 64. Let’s see: 8 years Obama, 8 years Michelle, 8 years for each of the kids, 8 years each for their husbands or partners and then 8 years for each of two the grand-kids. That is 64 years.
We know Obama’s megalomania is capable of trying it.
Y’all have forgotten that whole “immortal robot unicorn body” and “elected god-king” business. See? Government-rationed cybernetics will inevitably result in goofily wasteful robotics. Unless it’s this robotic unicorn, which is at least mildly cool.
Except Sasha and Malia won’t be old enough to run in 2024. You have to be 35.
So? TheOne and his merry band of sycophants haven’t paid any attention to the Constitution yet. What makes you think that will change?
You also have to be a natural born citizen, but that didn’t stop Barack. Why should any of the other rules matter?
Thank you for pointing that out.
That chilling detail is in the actual Obama Julia cartoon of which this is a parody.
I love it but writer needs to get it in front of the voters. NOW!
A robot dog? If it isn’t K-9, I’m not interested.
How can you say that a chainsaw arm is not awesome, after Evil Dead?
Age 0
Under President Obama, Julia is born into a suction bottle and disposed of as medical waste.
Under President Romney, Julia is born and is free to live her life.
You have it exactly.
I was waiting for this. Under Obama, Julia’s birth is recorded, but instead of the parents being presented with a birth certificate, Julia herself is presented with a congratulatory Certificate of Olympic Survival, having endured the gauntlet of formidable barriers set up specifically to prevent her conception and delivery even so far as late term abortion. This document is highly prized because it means at some point at least you were really really really wanted.
Julia is allowed to live because she is a female. It’s all the boys (all called Johns under the Naming Equallity Decree) are flushed down the john. The great and powerful Obama is a jealous god and will not tolerate any other male being present in his Kingdom.
Especially because he’s such a whiny gay wuss.
Zombie outbreaks are covered under Obamacare? I had no idea it had ANY redeeming features.
Only the fictional zombie outbreaks are covered.
But step outside your sealed-up house during one and get shot by Obama’s stormtroopers as they purge your neighborhood of dissenters (and witnesses to the purge), that’s not covered.
As they say on Usenet newsgroups, “hope this helps”.
Hilarious. This immediately went on my facebook page to share with friends all over the world. Ridicule works wonders.
Iowahawk’s take:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2012/05/julias-circle-of-life.html
Thank you, WELL DONE PARODY!! Unlike the writer of this article.
Spindok the link was a riot. Tks I needed that.
Under Obama’s all-knowing, all-seeing guidance and protection, Julia and her fellow school-mates will sing praises to Our Secular Father and be rewarded with candy and toys.
Under Romney’s evil, deranged, selfish, uncaring, capitalist, Mormon guidance, Julia and her fellow school-mates will enter school each day hungry, remain hungry throughout the day, and go to bed hungry, forced, at each step of the way, to worship a Mormon God.
Somewhere I was expecting her to star in her own show, Cooking with Julia, with emphasis on her most popular recipe: Fido Flambee, cooked French style (over a flaming car)
Or perhaps some nice roast Dog on rice, with Mung beans.
Certainly cooked over a Chevy Volt or, as we like to call it, an “Obama Oven.”
Under Obama, there will be no need for contraception since all heterosexual sex will cease due to concerns about rape. Therefore, it will cost nothing to provide contraception to women.
25 Under President Obama: Julia graduates college and looks for a job. No jobs are currently available, so she…remembers that she is 1/32 Native American and is offered tenure at Harvard.
What? No Daleks???
Talk about wasted time. This is the type of article that makes me look at other blogs.
You can run, but you’ll only see it linked there.
I rememeber when I was younger laughing at a horriffic life situation, someone said, why are you laughing? I could only reply that if I couldn’t laugh I would cry!
Lighten up, Francis!
So.. Is it a Stihl chainsaw arm that will run forever, or one of those made in China chainsaw arms that quits after a couple of months and can’t be repaired?
Whaddya mean, can’t be repaired? Just save the original packaging and send it to the manufacturer.
/sarc off
This is silly; if Obama picks Hillary as his vice president, he won’t live past Feb 2, 2015 (because then, she can run for two more terms instead of just one).
Frank:
Thanks. I’ve been horribly disappointed by other attempts by evil conservatives to mine the comedy gold in Julia’s story. You have restored my faith in meanness.
TMA
“Don’t do it to me! Do it to Julia!” – Winston Smith
You’re sick, Frank! Sick! I like that in a person.
Julia, now a member of the Outer Party & Anti Sex League, gets a job at the Ministry of Truth. She later gets assigned to a Death Panel until she turns 55 and becomes herself expendable.
Or Julia’s mom, being a lifelong liberal, doesn’t want to be burdened by a “mistake”, has an abortion. She is flushed down the sink.
It seems only fitting that the Obama campaign would produce an ad featuring a fake person. Consider the following.
Fake Obama birth certificate. The Arpaio investigative team’s analysis was fascinating.
Fake Obama childhood. His autobiographies include fake mentors and girlfriends.
Fake voters. Voter fraud investigations have occurred all across the nation and it looks like the DOJ is setting the stage for even more fraud in 2012.
Fake campaign donors. The Obama websites don’t require address verification so that people can make donations under fraudulent names. And they do.
Fake townhall meetings. Remember those events with carefully selected audiences and questions by party plants?
Fake news. Many Obama constituents actually trust Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central “news”!
Fake documentaries. Ditto Michael Moore’s films.
And now we have Julia.
OMG LMAO. Both views are terrible. Also, under Obama, the government fails because it cannot pay for it’s debt. Government sponsored programs fail. Julia has never been taught to think or do for herself…she dies.
I was almost peeing my pants when I got to Julia at age 15. The rest is hard to read when you can’t stop laughing. The sad thing is Obama has probably read it and thinks it sounds real good.
Julia’s communal garden is underneath windmills & the air churning causes the soil to dry rapidly. Dear leader imported a drought tolerant white-African millet strain that produces even though the EPA strictly controls all water use.
The windmill blades kill all the insect eating birds, so Julia can’t grow many vegetables. But she found that dandelion can be grown organically, all parts are edible & is OK with whatever the bugs leave.
The cost of energy necessarily skyrocketed to keep the climate from changing, so Julia can’t afford to cook much. Fortunately she learned in school the African technique of soaking her millet to ferment it & she doesn’t mind if a crucial nutrient leaches out.
Julia once grew drought tolerant castor bean to get the oil & leaves for home remedies, but got arrested.
The anti-bully czar denounced anything nicknamed “Palma de Cristi” as a phobia, so she was re-educated by the DEA in solitary for 5 days without food and water.
This is not reeducation, it’s attitude adjustment.
Funny. Here’s my take, with Julia forced to become a polygamous wife of President Mitt Romney: http://rworking.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/julia-an-alternative-life-8/
Funny. Here’s my take, with Julia forced to become a polygamous wife of President Mitt Romney: http://rworking.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/julia-an-alternative-life-8
I sound Iike a teenager, I know, but AWESOME!
I know that it’s either Romney or Obama that had a polygamist Dad, but I can’t remember which one.
Can anyone tell us whether it’s Romney or Obama who had a polygamist Dad?
Obama.
What if someone had made up an ad that advocated that a fictional Julia should be dependent on a man her whole life rather that the state? Have things changed so much that they are actually the same as they have always been? Has the state become Big Daddy, Big Brother, Big Husband and Big Boyfriend all rolled into one? Is this why the role of men in society over the last 50 years has been dismissed, disrespected and discarded because it was necessary to push them out of the way so the state could take their place? God help us all.
Yes. Remember the 0th Law of Robotics:
If men weren’t the better half of humanity, feminist women wouldn’t be trying to make themselves into men. So I sent R. Daneel Olivaw to have its positronic brain wiped.
What really interests me about this whole ‘Julia’ propaganda piece is how crude it was; how badly thought out; how transparent and mediocre. If you didn’t know better you would think it was a parody made by some Tea Party satirist.
One has to wonder who the intended audience was. ‘Julia’ is presented in a crude graphical format with ludicrous assertions. It seems geared towards someone with the logical perspective and deductive reasoning of a six-year-old but presents concepts that could only be comprehended by an adult. Is that the voter base that Obama desires?
Requires is the more apt word.
I don’t think the intended reader is expected to grasp adult concepts. I think they are expected to get one message only: Obama = free stuff.
If you look at the Obama campaign’s actual Julia cartoon and think in terms of adult concepts, it makes no sense whatsoever. She took out a student loan to become a web designer? Huh? You don’t even need a degree for that. Then at age 47 she starts a small business and needs an SBA loan? Huh? Why didn’t she get that loan in the first place, and become an entrepreneur right away? If she was going to wait all that time to start her business, why couldn’t she save enough to bootstrap it? Does anyone in the Obama administration have any private sector experience at all? The whole thing reads like it was written by Martians who just landed and don’t quite see how things fit together.
I’m 1/32 Martian on my mother’s side and I resent your speciesist remark!
Sarah, much more eloquently that I could have, you summarized my reaction. I read this elsewhere but it sums up Julia and the Left thinking, “as a member of this self perpetuating magic circle, you don’t have to learn from experience, consider the evidence, apply logic, or worry about the consequences.” Money, it just happens in the mailbox or auto in the checking acct.
Just remember, this all starts when Julia is 3 and has finally achieved personhood under the Oxford definition; and she is capable of attribting to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9113394/Killing-babies-no-different-from-abortion-experts-say.html
Julia needs to spend part of her life in total degradation showing her naked body to the world in complete shame and hopelessness. My husband wants to see her naked drinking beer.
Julia would have been inducted in soylent solyndra green when she dies to feed all the other Julia’s as the crops all dried up to save the smelt fish and this is the Only food Obama’s reign can come up with as the rest of the farmers are growing poppies and algae for energy to light up Obama’s tower to be able to be viewed from Andromeda. The Pelosi drones are flying around Queen bee Michelle as she visits the stars on vacation in the Russian cosmonaut capsule Obama gave up all US bombs for. Hell now he can smoke a cigarette in peace cuz Michelle will be gone for two months on her extended holiday!
I find this rhetoric to be the cause of more problems than it solves. The fact that there is not any dissenting opinions here is frightening for me. Nothing is more dangerous than an echo chamber for political view points.
Out of curiosity, who commenting here has actually watched the slide show? Does anyone commenting here spend time listening to the left or does everyone here close off their ears because the left represents socialism? I hope that everyone here understands this: balance between free market Capitalism and Socialism are the key to having a successful and useful government that works for everyone, including business. All of the first world countries today have some mix of socialism and capitalism, including China. I’m not saying it’s an easy balance, but it is a necessary one, and neither left nor right can tip the scales to their favor without dire consequences down the road.
There are things in this author’s opinion that I do agree with. Too much government power does indeed lead to the very same place Orwell described in his book “1984″. However, I don’t see Obama and the left heading in that direction. In fact it was Bush II that took some of our freedoms away from us; they were freedoms that as a nation we gave to them because we feared terror attacks on our shores. With the Patriot Act came “Big Brother is Watching” or at least listening and paying attention to social media.
I used to find humor in this kind of satire. I cannot in good conscience stand idly by and not be a voice of dissent on anyone’s site, especially since not only is government getting to big for it’s own pants, but big business as well. By that I mean that each of your mouse clicks is remembered by Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, and every website. You are being tracked by your iPhone, iPad, and Droid device. All of this is in the name of convenience to you, the user as the sites filter searches determined on where you’ve been in the past, which by default steers you away from new information or new and different opinions.
I challenge everyone who reads this to listen to opposition, get out of your echo chamber. Echo chambers are what breed the reality of “1984″. As long as you are a part of the unwashed masses, you might as well call yourself a Prole. Big Brother has been watching you for years already. Only he’s been watching from Google as well as from the NSA.
“Too much government power does indeed lead to the very same place Orwell described in his book ’1984′. However, I don’t see Obama and the left heading in that direction.”
Say what? “1984″ is Obama’s freaking blueprint! Then you are so unreflective as to complain about people not watching Obama’s slideshow or allegedly in an echo chamber and ~”not listening to the opposition”?
Spare us free individualists your self-delusions! Just who is it in America who even needs to watch Obama’s slideshow or who has escaped the oppostion’s 24/7, vulgar statements and malign intents and actions?
In other words, Gumby – since you yourself seem to be totally encapsulated within the monotonous pathology of “progressive” delusionalism – the dayly reality in America involving Obama’s destruction of Constitutional Capitalism and our Freedoms is already much worse than any mere slideshow!
Gumby, either wake up to the reality of Obama’s pre-Enlightenment Master-Slave mentality or simply admit to yourself that you and your fellow latte’ Commie throwbacks were born to be perfect Totalitarian fodder.
This is name calling and insulting. Thanks JPeden.
I have to admit that I don’t spend much time listening to the left, but that’s because I already know what they’re going to say, and what they say makes my stomach turn. Why put myself through that? I look into the left from time to time for the same reason I check my mirrors when I’m driving.
I also have to admit that I know far more about socialism than you do, Gumby, because I’ve studied and lived it. This is why I know that socialism can’t serve as a sustainable offset to capitalism or vice versa. Why? Two main reasons: (1) Capitalism can’t produce enough wealth for socialists to spend; and (2) socialist Utopianism knows no theoretical or practical limits other than violence and chaos.
To demonstrate, wouldn’t it be great if you could get a government job that pays 150% more than the private sector, provides free daycare and health care, 18 months of maternity/paternity leave, 6 weeks paid vacation per year, and retirement at age 50 with full health care coverage and 120% of your last salary? Boy, it sure would! Socialist Greece thought so too until it ran out of money and borrowed its GDP until its creditors cut it off. Today socialist Greece is an economic basket case rioting against “austerity”, which in capitalist parlance means “sanity”. The rest of socialist Europe, where the belief that socialism is an indispensable offset to capitalism prevails absolutely, is not far behind Greece.
America may get there first. To me, Julia is the Democrats’ way of promising voters that they won’t spend one less dime than they are now. If the Democrats retain power this November, America will get there first.
Facts and reason dictate that your belief is false, Gumby. I’ve stated the case accurately and logically, but I know that you won’t come to my conclusion because socialism is such a beautiful lie. To be a conservative, you have to be able to keep your head when a politician says, “Wouldn’t it be great if …” You also have to entertain questions such as, Is free birth control really free?, and, If the constitution gives Congress the power to command me to spend 20% of my paycheck on health insurance, what’s keeping Congress from commanding me how to spend 100% of my paycheck? Tough questions, I know, but we conservatives are up to them. Are you?
Good points all, Lavaux.
“Gumby” is easily manipulated.
(2) socialist Utopianism knows no theoretical or practical limits other than violence and chaos.
Utopia is not under the slightest obligation to produce results: its sole function is to allow its devotees to condemn what exists in the name of what does not.
~Jean-Francois Revel, Last Exit to Utopia
That the Left postures as though it is on the side of social justice,
but it is on the side of the greatest and most pernicious violators of
social justice. And its hands are drenched in human blood in terms of
the mass murdering ideologies and regimes it has supported and aided and
abetted.
~Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror
Julia’s entire life is a living, breathing hell, one that Barack and fellow socialists (“those who know better for you than you know for yourself”) would never imagine living themselves.
One thing I forgot to mention: Notice how socialists argue that any kind of economic turmoil or uncertainty is solely attributable to capitalism rather than the socialism-capitalism offset model that Gumby advocates. Nice trick, that. Of course socialist polices never cause market bubbles or failures or capital flight or regulatory risk aversion, just like pouring sugar in your car’s gas tank never causes its engine to seize up.
Perhaps the best way to sum up socialism is, Having your cake and eating it, too.
“Does anyone commenting here spend time listening to the left or does everyone here close off their ears because the left represents socialism? ”
Gumby, do you seriously believe that anyone on the Right is ignorant about the views of the Left? If so, you must be new here and when I say “here”, I don’t mean PJM, I mean the United States of America. Because those who have been here more than 5 minutes are very well aware of the views of the Left. That’s because we have the MSM (Main Stream Media) telling us 24/7. Whether we watch CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, or CNN we learn the Left’s point of view. Whether we read the New York Times, the Washington Post or the L.A. Times, we learn the Left’s point of view.
What we don’t get very much of in those outlets is the Right’s point of view. That’s why we use “new media” like PJM. Otherwise, we’d be in considerable doubt about whether any point of view OTHER THAN the Left even existed.
So thanks very much for your concern but we are not in any danger of forgetting the Left’s point of view on anything.
I spend a lot of time acquainting myself with the Left’s arguments. (You can’t fight what you don’t know about.)
Let me quote you what the Left has been saying about this subject:
“Most of the so-called ‘individualism’ of the right-wing is a sham individualism–merely the freedom of the individual to be at the mercy of unelected and democratically unaccountable private enterprises. I know conservatives will respond by saying, ‘Oh no, the private enterprises are democratically accountable; you vote with your dollars by using their services’. But with a government program, you don’t just vote with your dollars–you actually vote. You should ask yourself why you’ve lost so much faith in the democratic process. ”
“let me simply point out the reality that countries that have more extensive social welfare programs are much nicer places to live for most people than countries that don’t. If you had traveled at all, you would know that.”
“when they hit hard times, most self-respecting people would prefer aid from the government they participated in choosing and empowered with their tax dollars–THEIR government–to a handout at the soup kitchen or from another billionaire’s well-meaning foundation. ”
“most people crave stability which can’t be delivered in the modern world without the strong government participation, and which is more important for many than maximization of their consumption of goods.”
“There is much more autonomy from dealing with an impersonal bureaucracy to get life-enhancing benefits than there is dealing with family members. ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-party-of-julia.html
So tell me: How many of these comments from your fellow left-wingers do you agree with?
The problem with ALL of these statements is that they assume socialism can be sustained. It can’t. Europe is discovering this. They have had to bear very little military burden and STILL couldn’t make it work long-term.
Moreover, though people may feel more comfortable getting aid from a bureaucracy than their families or church, the fact is that the bureaucracies are much less efficient than the private charitible organizations. How many private charities send out “aid” to dead people? Yet we see reports of the gov’t sending checks to dead people all the time. Moreover, this “crowding out” of private charity has a moral hazard effect as well. The reason people prefer getting aid from a bureacracy is because there is no SHAME in it. People feel more guilty when there is a FACE to the aid. When you see that you are taking money from actual people to support YOU, you have a tendency to get off the dole more quickly — or at least show GRATITUDE.
Finally, I lived in a country with socialized medicine for 2 years. There is absolutely no way I would want to trade the lifestyle and quality of healthcare in the U.S. for what I experienced in Asia. People can say … “Oh, Europe is much better because of its social programs.” Really? I remember when Oprah went to Denmark and was absolutely STUNNED by how small their apartments were, and the fact they rode bicycles because they couldn’t afford cars. The high taxes erode people’s lifestyles in socialist countries. I doubt most Americans would trade the security of FREE STUFF for economic mobility and the allure of BIG DREAMS.
More Vonnegut than Orwell. Hilarious.
>former president for once having eaten a dog himself.
Where is the evidence that Obama only ate one dog?
Wonderful satire.
On a more serious note Julia may be part of a Rope A Dope strategy used against the Republicans. The idea is to take some hits and wait for the opponent to wear out or make mistakes. The slideshow tries to deflect away from issues that Republicans want to talk about, like the current state of the economy.
Even if the dems take hits over this they have already taken control of the buzz for a week. To win Republicans must take control of the social media campaign.
Satire like this is a wonderful counter. Rather than plunging into the quicksand of government paid contraception, self-depriciating humor makes it all vanish and Republicans can take control of the conversation.
Mr. Fleming: You are a seriously damaged individual. D__n funny, too! Thank you.
Well, Julia, Hope you enjoyed Head Start, and all the rest, because payback time is coming.
According to a US TREASURY website page, “HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC DEBT”, the public debt is $15,692,368,000, and your share and mine runs to $50,000 and change, and is growing by $5,000 a year.
See: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/pd_debtposactrpt_0412.pdf
Did you learn Algebra, Julia? No? Well I’ll run a regression curve for you on the growth of debt since 2006.. The debt-growth curve is looking perpendicular, dear, not so good.
Things are really out of control and it is all Bush’s fault! But wait, until 2006, when the Dems won both houses, public debt was $8 trillion. It is now $15 trillion. Good work, Dems!
Julia, the money the president spent on you was borrowed from China, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Right now we are able to pay them the interest, and they kindly roll over the principal.
However, things don’t look so good for 10 or 20 years out, when the Chinese and Japanese and Saudis may object to us stiffing them on interest or even principal. Who will be America’s best negotiators? Let’s send the crack Obama team that pummelled GM’s feckless secured creditors down to 10 cents on the dollar.
Let’s assume our negotiators fail. Our creditors want 100 cents on the dollar. What if our creditors force us into austerity? Think Greece and the EU troika. Could be unpleasant. Google: “Retired Greek pharmacist commits suicide”. for over a million hits. Mr. Dimitris Christoulas’ suicide note said he refused to root in a garbage dump for food.
Julia, since we elect grown-ups, we should give them a chance to prevent this mess from happening, But, just in case we run short on money to pay China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, what might they settle for instead of the cash? Property: We have Hawaii and Alaska, plus the military bases across the Pacific
In the PJMedia Olympic Competition Julia event, the Gold Medal goes to Winston. Excellent link to problem #1 The Looming Debt.
Here is the funniest take yet on Julia that I’ve seen.
http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2012/05/06/obamas_angels
“Apparently, I’m supposed to be more outraged by what Mitt Romney does with his money than by what Barack Obama does with mine.”
S-I-C-K or would mental degenerate be more appropriate.
None other than liberal Camille Paglia on why Obama’s coterie/cabal needs to go down in flames in November.
“Liberalism, like second-wave feminism, seems to have become a new
religion for those who profess contempt for religion. It has been
reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the
working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of
salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which
used to be liberal values, are being gradually subsumed to worship of
government power.”
“The problems on the American left were already manifest by the late
1960s, as college-educated liberals began to lose contact with the
working class for whom they claimed to speak. (A superb 1990
documentary, “Berkeley in the Sixties,” chronicles the arguments and
misjudgments about tactics that alienated the national electorate and
led to the election of Richard Nixon.) For the past 25 years, liberalism
has gradually sunk into a soft, soggy, white upper-middle-class style
that I often find preposterous and repellent.”
Link, please! If there’s more where that came from, I want it!
I took those paragraphs from a Paglia article (Salon.com ?) about 3 years ago.
Those observations didn’t accord with her usual positions, so were noteworthy.
Not to mention true.
I love it when liberals eat their own or when blacks observe that Obama is full of hoo ha.
Iowahawk joins in the merriment.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2012/05/julias-circle-of-life.html
Julia is never born. Well, actually, to our current way of thinking she is,
but she doesn’t count as a sentient entity which is aware of her own identity
until age five years, before which she is terminated by her mother in
compliance with the ethics guidelines of “health care,” within the “NO CAUSE”
guidelines.
Hah, that’s really funny. The even sadder part is that liberal’s quite literally employ doublethink on a regular basis. Apparently they see “1984,” not as a warning, but a blueprint. Without reality, success can become failure, failure success, blame be distributed on a agenda-based paradigm, and the Third World will take America into a bright new future. It’ll be full of corrugated tin roofs, shanty towns and one library per state but we can just say it’s bright. If you think about it, it saves a lot of trouble.
While the chainsaw-for-an-arm may seem really “kewl”…there’s no way it’s as pimped-out as having a chain-gun for a left-leg!
–signed,
Rose McGowan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Terror
That must have been the inspiration for The Scotsman’s gun-leg on Samurai Jack.
Dave Barry has a pulitzer and Frank J. Fleming does not. I blame Bush.
Julia is traded to a nearby warlord in exchange for a donkey.
The warlord lost big time on this deal.
Swen Swenson writes: So.. Is it a Stihl chainsaw arm that will run forever, or one of those made in China chainsaw arms that quits after a couple of months and can’t be repaired?
I digress, but the Homelite chainsaw I bought at Home Dept conked out after 5 brief uses. Thought it was US made…
Anyway, they want $35 just to diagnose the problem…although the saw was still under warrantee!
Be advised, if you need a chainsaw, Julia, buy another brand…and NOT from Home Depot!
Oh, and sorry, life planned and administered by cold, uncaring, un-responsiblie
incompetant bureaucrats ain’t for me!
You left out the first panel!
Age 0: Julia is born with no face. But due to Obama’s “No Faceless Baby Left Behind” initiative, Julia is provided throughout her life with a government-trained social worker who uses Julia’s hand signs to explains what her expression would be at all times if she, you know, had a face. At age three, she is provided with a second 24/7 worker who translates her signs into sign language. (It is never explained why she didn’t just use sign language herself.)
In Mitt’s world, the govenment just gives her a one-time tatoo on her featureless face: “Please Kill Me.”
And everybody KNOWS ya can’t have sex without a FACE, fer crissake! I doff my cervical cap to all those who think outside the “baracks!” (P.S. re: JULIA— Can’t Octomom figure into this torrid tale somehow?)