We've been forced to eat crap and pretend to enjoy it for over 100 years.

[BigBearJohn]

The fat cats serve us a bowl of chicken shit and try to convince us it's really chicken soup.

They bottle it, package it, exploit it, but no matter how they doctor it, it still tastes like shit.
They have the most elite advertising agencies devising devious ways of getting us to enjoy the taste.

It's crap. Plain and simple. Celebrities push it. Cable news stations push how good it is for you.
While nobody's looking, the big boys import drugs into America so the citizens will be so stoned they
won't care or know they're eating shit.

If you try to tell your friends the big boys are trying to serve you shit, they tell everybody you're
a conspiracy theorist and should be wearing a tinfoil hat.

Or, if you grimace and spit it out, they shake their heads and call you a "commie" or better yet, a "socialist."
"Everyone knows you're a liberal if you don't like the taste of shit. Liberals don't know what's good for them."
The best trick yet is to associate it with God and religion. "You'll eat shit and like it."

You are unpatriotic if you don't like the taste of shit.

Other "chicken shit" ideas:

• Letting gays have their moment in the sun will destroy our families.
  
• Global warming is a "natural" earth cycle. (Move along now.)
  
• We can't live without oil
  
• Less government is good for America (no one to prosecute criminals)
  
• NAFTA is good for America
  
• Trickle down economics really work great for America
  
• We need the military industrial complex to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future
  
• Torture is vital and necessary to save America (from bad guys we created)
  
• Politicians want what is good for America
  
  and the best one: "We can't prosecute the Bush administration without destroying our nation."
  
  If you don't like the taste of shit, then you are a negative person, a "whiner" who just wants to bring everybody else down.
  
  Oh, come on now, shit won't taste so bad if you serve it with garlic toast and a nice merlot.
  
  Now people, don't complain, the shit doesn't taste as bad as it did ten years ago.
  
  After all, you can't compare the shit of today with the shit of yesterday.
  
  If you happen to say the soup tastes like shit, you're politicizing the issue.
  
  
  It's been so long since we've heard the real truth, most of us would not recognize it if it hit us in the face.
  
  
  Remember people:

  No matter how creative you are or how hard you try,
  

  THERE IS **NO WAY** TO MAKE CHICKEN SOUP OUT OF CHICKEN SHIT!!
  
  To conclude:
  

  
  KEEP THAT SHIT AWAY FROM ME --
  NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, I WILL NOT EAT IT. PERIOD.
  

[Mnemosyne]

1. I won't eat it either, John! Great rant!

And happy to send it to the Greatest! :applause:

Hope all is well with you. :hug:

[BigBearJohn]

14. back at you, dear.

:hug:

[patrice]

2. We MUST figure out how to take care of ourselves without the aristocracy or

with as little as possible from them.

We have to start our OWN economic units.

[handmade34]

6. so..let's do it!!!!

[Greyhound]

16. We already do take care of ourselves, and we do it very well.

The parasite class is nothing but a drain.

They cannot survive without us. We are far better off without them. The idea of a significant number of people realizing this simple fact is the only thing that terrifies them.

[glitch]

54. K this post.

I already R'd the thread, otherwise I'd R it for this post as well.

[Greyhound]

69. Thank you.That deserves another kick.

:kick:

[winyanstaz]

43. Excellent suggestion....

[Grinchie]

59. I agree with Patrice. The less we depend on these usurers, the less they take from us

My partner and I were directly affected by Enron and the DotCom bubble. It transferred our wealth to someone else, auctioned our retirement away, and eventually left us with a nominal pile of cash to rebuild our lives.

With what little we had left, we started all over again, and strove to cut costs in every way imaginable. This led to a phase of rediscovery of the roots of our country, and the slef sufficiency and skill that we have lost in only about two generations.

When one has to deal with the basic infrastructure that we take for granted today i.e. Running, Potable Water, either hot or cold, refrigeration, The means to cook food, a safe way to dispose of our wastes, one can be a bit overwhelmed at first. In time, one gains a great deal of respect for our relationship to nature and the bounty it gives us everyday. We have the good fortune of being able to collect rainwater in water catchment, but in reality, we are at the mercy of the tons of industrial pollutants that contaminate our environment every day. Then one must guard what you have caught from contamination from insects, birds, dust, molluscs and other things that like water too. Ten their is a matter of treatment, be it either chemical disinfecting and filtration or distillation. All of this costs a great deal in time and vigilance to maintain a water supply that doesn't have the possibility of making one very ill.

When one has to deal with ones own water, you quickly realize that our "Flush and Forget" lifestyle is totally unsustainable, but it is the only way that urban ares can survive without being buried under mountains of shit. The incredible waste of water which we use to mix with our own shit has got to be to most onerous crimes against nature that man has ever comitted, especially since it is unnecessary. Initially, the waste stream was adificult problem for us. I just dug holes and buried it, but even with only two people, you will quickly run out of land, and most like contaminate a large area of land. It was observed that if I inadvertantly dug a hole in a previous spot, weeks later, there was hardly any change. It was almost as live as the day it was produced. Obviously, that system was a failure, so I looked to the old ways to the outhouse.

I don't know wbout others, but all the outhouses I have seen have been odiferous, noxious enclosures where one endures a few minutes while we evacuate. They always appeared to have "Live" waste present, no matter how infrequently it was used. The porta potties today are even worse, as they simply mask the shit with "Blue Sanitary Chemicals?". It still smells like shit, but with a hint of bubble gum or wintergreen.

Then I read a book called Humanure. It offered a simple solution of a 1 meter by 1 meter by 1 meter deep hole. Dump shit in hole. Watch it disappear. It was too simple, but I tried it. To my amazement, this open air pit, only slighty shaded from the sun by it's own depth in the earth, was able to consume the waste of 2 people for one year and 6 months! Rain or shine, this simple open air pit would process our human waste with little to no odor. At one point, large flies began to visit the pit, but they were not swarming and not a problem. Eventually, we got some chickens, and I didn't want them falling in , so I laid a sheet of scrap 1/4" hardware cloth over the pit. This had an interesting side effect. It acted like a fly trap, since flies can only fly while upright. They can't fly while upside down, so when they attempted to take off, they would bounce on the hardware cloth and be trapped due to their limited ability to fly. The few flies that actually were able to rationally crawl through the mesh (Which is how they got into the pit in the first place) where almost non-existant.

I visited the pit late last year and noted that it was actually deeper than 1 meter after one year of disuse. The foliage was extremely vigorous and healthy as well, so I am fully convinced that "Flush and Forget" is unsustainable, wasteful, a designed to be a costly solution to an ongoing problem. Not to mention the fact that incredibly large amounts of nutrients are being wasted by growing bacteria soup instead of feeding plants and other soil microbes that love this stuff. Instead, we use chemical fertilizers as inputs, which depend on oil for production...

Then there is the food issue.

I love food. I love plants. I love chickens, and pigs because they love food and plants. When one has to provide food for oneself, it takes a huge change in mindset, especially if you are off the grid and rely of Ice for cooling. Ice was one thing I could not do without, and it turned out to be expensive. After running the numbers on a years worth of ice, it broke down to about the same cost as a refrigerator plus electricity.

Pondering what people did without refrigeration is quite an exercise. Grains are a good example of a storable foodstuff, but people forget that many fruits and vegetables store quite well -- In the groud while they are growing. Variety and diversity are the key to a good food supply. In the tropics for example, there are almost 200 varieties of Breadfruit, and they produce fruit at various times of the year, providing food all year, and not for one bonanza month annually like we promote in industrial agriculture. Our agricultural system is mechanized beyond belief, and food is more like a widget than nourishment.

The recent power grab of Monsanto and the other Biotech corporations is truly frightening when one considers that they fund our universities and coerce them into teaching Agriculture according to Monsanto's Best Practices, and not that of the subsistence farmer. Our universities ignore traditional crop systems that sustained cultures for thousands of years before the advent of Industrialized Agriculture. We have seen our plant varieties discarded because they don't transport well, or because they may not look perfect. We have farmers believing that they need to polish each fruit in orpder to sell it. We genetically modify food in order to adapt it to industrial processing. It doesn't work that way. Food is really easy to grow, unless you have been trained from birth to ignore natural processes of life.

Most people are nothing more than cattle being fed by the Morlocks. The food appears while they toil away at a job that is far removed from nature and life. These are the people that are in for a great shock if the Corporations decided to wield their enormous power of witholding basic nescesities.

If we all became more aware of the amount of work and skill it takes to supply oneseleves with the basic necessities, the better off we will be when the time comes to discard the values thrust upon us by the Corporations and Goverment, and say "Enough is Enough", and "We aren't going to process your mail, or toil in your factories anymore until you listen up". We are not going to buy your prefab houses, where we can't grow chickens, or hang our laundry out in the sun. We aren't going to buy your smelly, chemical laced Laundry detergents that pollute the air during the dryer cycle. We aren't going to buy your cars that are inefficient, rehashed versions of the same automobile that Henry Ford called the Model T.

We aren't going to build your Nuclear Power plants, nor feed your military machine. In short, the only way to be heard is through a complete boycott of the offending mechanisms, and those mechanisms are everywhere, which is why it is important to be self sufficient, educated and informed.

[elshiva]

3. THANK YOU!

[babylonsister]

4. Let me guess. You don't like to cook.

Heh. I do, and don't have the opportunity to do it enough. But it's fun!

[BigBearJohn]

5. hehehehehe

edited to add:

(actually, I am a gourmet cook and love to prepare food for friends and family -- thus the name "big bear" --
however, try I as I may, I can't figure out how to make chicken soup out of chicken shit and make it palatable)

[babylonsister]

7. Chicken shit? You're shopping in the wrong place, my friend.

:D :fistbump:

[BigBearJohn]

8. hahahaha

you crack me up.

[conscious evolution]

19. Lots of MSG and HFCS

But then again,thats how they got us to eat the shit soup in the first place.That and the trickle thing that they pretend is like a fine wine.

[Vidar]

9. Highly recommended rant. Thank you.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

10. Bingo! Bingo! Ding!! Ding!! Ding!!!!!

That was great! And you are right on! J.C.Cooper, a congressman, from Ohio wrote a book in 1803 about all the corruption, vote stealing, and trouble from the "Trusts"... It was called "Handwriting on the Wall, or REVOLUTION in 1907". (Didn't happen like he thought it would. and we still haven't woken up to the political conspiracy we live within as a Nation.)

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. Now that's more fucking like it!!

If only we had more posts like this around here and less apologists for Monsatan and Goldmine Sucks.

[Octafish]

12. KEEP THAT SHIT AWAY FROM ME -- NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, I WILL NOT EAT IT. PERIOD.

All I would add is the shit they're pulling off with the rapid transfer of the Middle Class' wealth to the Wall Street Banksters.

Thank you, BigBearJohn. Very well said and very much appreciated.

[flvegan]

13. As a vegan, I'm happy to say I shun this shit regularly.

:rofl:

[Dr.Phool]

33. You're shittin' me!

[spiritual_gunfighter]

52. Me too

I don't understand why more people dont go vegan or at the very least vegetarian, I am truly amazed at the shit people put in their bodies, we complain about global warming and pollution but people continue to pollute themselves with the shit they put in their bodies everyday.

[leftstreet]

15. K&R

:thumbsup:

[formercia]

17. "Submit!!"

I went to a wedding about a year ago, at a Dominionist-evangelical church. During his sermon, the preacher used the word "submit" at least a dozen times.

These sheeple just go along with the program, thinking that's the only safe place to be when the World as we know it, comes to an end.

[IDemo]

18. -

[Soylent Brice]

24. excellent!

[Tim01]

20. "Less government is good for America"

You prefer more government?

[wolfgangmo]

30. More intelligent government

That is based on "of the people, by the people and for the people" yes. Examples are medical insurance, economic oversight, etc.

More military industrial complex and other corporate welfare crap. No.

[BigBearJohn]

39. no, that's not it.. It's just that those who complain about

government are often those who have the most reason to be afraid of it.

[femrap]

21. K and R

I really enjoyed that. I won't eat it either.

[pansypoo53219]

22. 100 hundred years?

guess you forgot eons serf.

for more recent, 'let them eat shit cake'.

[yodoobo]

66. ah shucks you beat me to it

I wrote essentially the same thing below before I saw your post.

[Soylent Brice]

23. HOLY SHIT, BIG ASS K&R.

:yourock: :applause:

[Mari333]

25. this makes me feel better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuDJmVkPYpw

[keepCAblue]

26. More shit: "Single-payer Universal healthcare is anti-American" n/t

[SalviaBlue]

27. K&R

[wizstars]

28. BUSH'S LAW:

"A politician will be successful in direct proportion to his ability to convince a majority of voters that the bullshit he's feeding them is actually whipped cream."


I attributed this law to Daddy Bush, since Junior is only smart enough to hear it and say, "And Howdy!"

[hfojvt]

29. nobody could possibly read this and think you are a negative person

You seem to have found DU's favorite recipe though. One heaping serving of "everything is sh*t". Not only is everything sh*t right now, but it has been for the last 100 years. That goes back to 1909, which means that it has nothing to do with the Bush administration. It includes Democrats like Clinton, Carter, Johnson, JFK, Truman, FDR, and Wilson.

I guess things were great back in the 1890s before the invention of the automobile and the tractor and the telephone. Were things also great in the 1850s?

[BeFree]

34. Heh

So, you are the only one who thinks it is really great shit?

[hfojvt]

36. the OP or life in the US?

because one is sh*t and the other is not that bad.

[Initech]

31. Excellent point!

What I hate is that our chicken shit media repeats these talking points ad nauseum and anyone who dares voice their own opinions gets shot down.

[JFN1]

32. What is this, diarrhea soup?

"No, it's tomato bisque."

[wizstars]

35. self-deleted--Dupe

[Just-plain-Kathy]

37. Great rant BigBearJohn. K&R ...n/t

[Willo]

38. If a bear...

... nevermind :yoiks:

K&R

[change_notfinetuning]

40. May you have the audacity to drink the Kool Aid that will give you

the hope to swallow the chicken shit supreme light.

I never imagined that listening to the other side would mean listening to people like ME (I'm not on their side??????). And then, to not even get a seat at the table to be heard! WTF?!?

[Raksha]

41. K & R - GREAT rant!!!

One of the best I've seen on DU...and that's saying a lot!

[Mayor McCheez]

42. You must have been

reading my mind. K&R Well played sir.

[Kaleko]

44. There are several threads on DU dealing with the same theme today.

So, how many Americans are finally waking up to smell the shit we've been fed for decades?

Enough people to make a lasting shift in our general news-consumer consciousness?


Two quotes to back up your OP, BBJ:


"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."

~ William Colby, CIA Director from Sept. 1973 to Jan. 1976 under Presidents Nixon and Ford.
Colby was replaced by future President George H.W. Bush on January 30, 1976.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________


"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

~ William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987.

(Quote from internal staff meeting notes 1981)

Casey headed up the successful presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and served on the transition team following the election. After Reagan took office, he named Casey to the post of Director of the CIA.

According to a 600-page report by the CIA inspector general, Frederick Hintz, the CIA under Casey was complicit in the Contras' massive narco-trafficking operation which resulted in the crack epidemic.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

[saorsa]

45. Sources if available

great info, it is so good to know that somewhere someone can still access our hidden history, before it is buried forever in the mists of time. can you give the sources?

thanks !

[Kaleko]

60. The 2 links I used to have stopped working long ago.

If somebody else here has links to reputable sources for these famous quotes, would you please post them here?

Thanks in advance.

[BigBearJohn]

57. Those are great! Thanks!

:toast:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

46. A 100 years?

Pretty generous.

[saorsa]

47. Thank you

Can't say how much I appreciate this post, brilliant !
thanks
:applause:

[BigBearJohn]

58. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[datasuspect]

48. The ruling elites ensure that we remain deluded and confused.

Not so much that we can't perform various tasks that enrich them further, but dumb enough not to question or pay attention to the nebulous vague doubt that forms the basis for our collective psyche.

They'd love more than anything to put as many of us as possible in prison, in the military, or dead. They generate revenue from multiple channels that presuppose our implied consent without question.

The ratfuck criminal political gangster class in Washington D.C. is well compensated to make sure the interests of the ruling elites are enshrined, codified, and honored.

[Kansas Wyatt]

49. Funny thing about that white speck on top of chicken shit....

It's chicken shit too.

Sorry, I just had to use that line.

[Christa]

50. K & Highly rec'd nt

[OxQQme]

51. But, but, Dijon mustard

makes it more palatable.:puke:

[tclambert]

53. Shhhh! Massa might hear you!

[santamargarita]

55. Way to go!

:patriot:

[Mike 03]

56. Not forced. We make our own choices. It's not that hard to do the right thing and

inform ourselves. It is too lazy to blame "culture" or society for our own failures.

No celebrity has ever convinced me to take something or eat something, or to change my mind about something I have a conviction about. That makes no sense, that someone could be that weak. Also, I seriously doubt the folks here at DU, who are for the most part highly intelligent, would feel "forced" or otherwise manipulated to do stupid things. We all know how to do research, read labels and take care of ourselves. Health is not a secret.

Just my opinion.

[BigBearJohn]

61. Well, you and most people on DU are the exception. Don't forget who elected Bush.

That's the point when I removed my Pollyanna hat.

[Land Shark]

62. If we irradiate food, they literally want to make it safe to eat shit (e.coli's source)

Imagine the "incentives" corporate agribusiness will have to keep food clean if they know it will all be irradiated and therefore sterilized and made safe?

Eating shit is not just a metaphor, when it comes to corporate america's agenda, which is, in a phrase: "Eat shit, but don't die" {at least not quite *yet,* at least until they're finished making money off of you then further medical care will be prohibited by your insurance company or some regulation jammed through by health corporations' lobbyists...}

[BigBearJohn]

63. great point! funny and sad at the same time.

[Vattel]

64. No wonder I'm full of shit.

[yodoobo]

65. 100 years?

Try a couple thousand years.

Nothing has changed really.

We are just peasants serving the feudal lords.

Only difference is that we have more trinkets now.

[livefreest]

67. K&R

[scrinmaster]

68. Make your own soup then.

Problem solved.

[leftofthedial]

70. if anything sucks more than crap,

it's stale crap.


:thumbsup:

[voc]

71. Excellent rant

I can now remove my tin hat. I wondered what that smell was.