Flip’n Goofy Awards. aka – Cut thru the BULL
Before we get to the awards, I Challenge any Republican to a boxing match.
There’s an old saying, I heard it from Tommy Lynch back about high school. Maybe he got it from his Dad. His Dad was a down-to-earth smart guy. Worked with asbestos all his life, and paid the price.
“If you can’t Dazzle ‘em with Brilliance,
Baffle ‘em with BullS**t”
PackerBackerBob! sez
“You are a SMART person if you can tell when somebody’s Full of Bull….
There is the You Done-Good awards (UDa)and …..
The Flippin’ Goofy award (FGa)
The award given to ideas or people that are so off the wall, so ridiculous, so lacking in facts, that the only rational response is:
“Hey buddy, that’s a bunch of Bull poop.”
End of conversation. It’s that simple.
Snicker. Change the subject to anything more rational, like
” how ‘bout dem Cubbies. This is der year fer sure “
Under NO circumstances should you respond with a rational argument.
It only encourages them to keep Bullsh**ing you.
It’s just like trying to argue with a drunk.
It’s a waste of your frick’n time. I been there, done that.
Like Smokey the Bear used to say:
“Only YOU can prevent F’n Goofy ideas from spreading”
There is a place for sober disagreements. Reasonable ideas are based on simple things. You know - Logic & Facts.
The Flip ‘n Goofy List
Goofy # 10
“… our culture needs to stop relying on the government for hand outs and entitlement…” - Todd McPencow , DePaul Alumi LinkedIn discussion. In response to my call for a Federal Jobs program
Holy Sweet Jesus, how do people believe this crap? It’s super-large corporations that have ALWAYS been given gobs of money by the government. What money goes to the people is Chump change in comparison.
What did Harry Truman say, something like “the difference between a bank robber and Republicans is that Republicans make laws so they can steal our money legally?
And btw – the Blue states pay the most in taxes, and the RED states GET most of the “handouts”
Todd’s response to getting the award: “Bob I’d love to arrange an in-person meeting with you to discuss this issue and you putting my information out on your blog. Name the time and day buddy. I’m glad that you have the time to do dumb ass stuff like that instead of looking for a job–no wonder you want a hand out from the government.”
Goofy # 9
FDR’s job programs prolonged the Great Depression. -
No intelligent person agrees. And if you’d been living on the streets back then, you damn sure woulda taken one of those jobs.
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Goofy Description |
| 8 |
Those of us Activists & other Do-Gooder’s are elitist and out of touch with the Regular Guy and Gal
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| 7 |
It’s ok to justify doing bad stuff, or painful stuff, to people or the planet, because “it makes financial sense.”
This gets the maximum number of Goofy stars.
Like firing a good employee(s) because it will make you or someone more money. When you-your organization is already making a profit. (Randy and Ann, this Goofy’s for you)
That’s called breaking one of the Ten Commandments. I forget which one. “Thou Shalt Not Have False Gods Before Me.”
And that’s a Mortal sin. A super humongo black spot on your Soul. And If you die with a Mortal sin on your soul, you go to Hell.
Not that I believe in hell, by the way. But that Black Goop spot on your Karma/Soul has gotta get cleaned up. Better you should do it in this Lifetime. A solid whack upside your head wouldn’t hurt either.
It’s amazing how even relatively sane and good people don’t see the badness of using the “Financial Bottom Line” argument as their trump card.
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| 6 | Our current form of commerce requires us to destroy/damage people, or nature, or both, in order to make a living.
Who’s frick’n goofy idea was this???? And why did anyone of us buy into it? |
| 5 |
Big Government is B-A-A-D
Oh. But….. Big super-humongo Global Multi-national Corporations-that-castrate national governments are GO-O-D.
If you buy into this Goofy, I’ve gotta mountain cabin in Chicago for sale. Great view, nobody around for miles. For you, only $2,000 Go watch the 1976 movie “Network”
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| 4 | If only Government could be run like businesses.They know what they are doing.
This is totally LOL. Have you EVER been inside a corporation?
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| 3 | It’s ok that any of the core industries associated with Health Care is a For-Profit.
Hmmm. By this same logic, it would be ok if our Police and Fire Departments were For-Profit. Oh wait. This might contain financial incentives for them to INCREASE the amount of Crimes and Fire. Because it would be good for their financial bottom line.
Kinda like the incentives pharmaceutical companies have in keeping us sick, or making up diseases for their drugs.
Or how we’ve put our prisons in the hands of For-Profit companies. Lots of crime is GOOD for them.
Ok, the generic, high-level Frick’n Goofy here is Out-sourcing / privatizing Public Institutions Ya see, organizations that serve the public good need to be “Smart with Money.” Not “Make a Profit for Shareholders” (aka, Just “show me da money” |
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When we pay taxes, the government is taking OUR money. What a wacked statement. But gosh all mighty, it sounds so intuitive.
If you walk into a store and pick up an apple, do you owe anything? Nope. If, before you get up to the counter, you take a bite out of it, do you owe anything? Yep. How much? The price of the entire apple. But, but, but I only took a tensy weenie bite. Shouldn’t I just have to pay for just the part I ate?
Sorry Charlie. This is a Frick’n Goofy logic.
That’s the same way with taxes. The taxes you pay are just like having to pay for the entire apple
And, Even before you were born, you got the benefit of your parents taking a ‘bite’ out of the goods and services provided by the apple. No WAY! Way! Even simple things. Like, your parents didn’t die on account of eating some non-government inspected food.
Ok, I kinda broke my own rule here, about not providing the Goofy with a logical argument.
Also, I didn’t come up with the rebuttal. I heard it on Air America radio. I just embellished it a bit. .
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| 1 |
Renewable energy is not yet competitive with other forms of energy.
As the robot on that silly 60’s space show used to say “Danger Will Robinson, Danger.”
This gets a 3 star Goofy.
All the other energy industries are hugely subsided by the government. In fact, EVERY technology that has become popular has been subsided by the government. |
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Mark81150 said
Seriously? a boxing match against any republican?
uh huh,… you are the foaming at the mouth guy right?
I won’t try and debate you, I’ll not waste my time, I was just curious.. not so much now, you write like a squirrel on Red Bull and acid.
Not likely to win any converts when you insult half the country outright.
natcapclub said
About the drugs – I take it you speak from experience?
You’re full of SHIT pal.
You and your asshole buddies cry “I want my country back”.
Which simply means
“I want the nigga outa the White House! Alive or Dead”
Yer jest hiding under yer Momma’s skirt.
Your Daddy must feel read bad that he raised a Yellow-belly chump.