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Democrats and Board Games

Not content with just being known to history as "defeated for 7 years by the powerhouse political strongman George W. Bush",Democrats have now decided to attack a man who owns the airwaves for three hours a day.

Apparently he said something about 'phony soldiers' and they didnt want him cutting in on their act because they consider the "false accusations about the military" their street corner and they arent going to give it up without a fight.

What was once said about "not starting an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel" can also be said about someone who's voice can be found in every populated area of the western hemisphere for at least 3 straight hours every day.

3 hours a day, 5 days a week, repeated on Saturday and Sunday, with newsletter and website and podcast for a low,low monthly subscription. Democrats seem to have collectively decided in their "moment of triumph" with a whopping 24% approval rating to wander into the idealogical bull ring, not dressed as a matador, but wearing a red union suit, clown shoes and a big red nose, and then bend over while facing the other way and waving at the kids in the front row of the stands.

Right in the path of the charging enraged bull.

And now we know why it was that a Democrat managed to get us into a land war in Asia (not once ,but twice - Korea and Vietnam - Truman and Johnson ) a complete lack of understanding of the fundamentals of strategy.

It was once said that the wars of england were won on the "playing fields of Eton". In America, your grasp of strategy comes down to the board games you played as a kid.

Remember when you were a kid and there was always this other "snot nosed kid" who considered himself above playing kid games like Risk, Stratego or god forbid a little 'penny ante' Poker, three of the four foundations for a really good fundamental understanding of strategy**. Well that kid probably grew up to be a Democrat. Always true to his high principals and 'impossible to impress' standards, but completely deviod of the common sense that only comes from knowing why Australia is only continent on the game board worth holding on to.

Picking a fight with Limbaugh.... Can they be bigger idiots? Whats his downside? hmmmm,nothing really. I get material for lifetime of shows and a dozen book deals, so bring it on!. Whats theirs? oh, gosh lets see, an invigorated right wing electorate who already hates you and sees you with nothing but suspicion. Sure, that works, lets go pull the lions tail Gumby, that will great be fun!

What else can the Democrats do thats in the realm of common sense things that even children know better than to do? Perhaps pulling on Supermans cape, spitting into the wind? pulling the mask off the Lone Ranger? or dare I say it, by messing around with Jim?

Does their complete lack of fundamental economic sense also come from their idealogical rejection of the game "Monopoly"? Did inner city communist parents even allow the game of "Monopoly" in the house? Is this why they can't understand why owning the hotel is much better than renting, even on Baltic Avenue?

You and I get this basic fundamental ecomonic fact before we are out of elementary school, but ask your average leftist if owning is better than renting and they rub their chin and go off into a debate about the real question being "is renting really greener than owning?"

Is this why leftism has always failed?, because its core ideas cant be condensed to work in game theory and little bitty charms that you use a random throw of the dice to move across the board? Milton Pennybags, icon of ruthless capitalism!, but where is the little "mini-fidelito" working his way through the world of guerilla warfare?

Will there ever be a "CHE! - By Milton Bradley, batteries not included"? Of course not, because who wants to play a game where the object is that everyone loses and you blame your inability to win on the people who live in the house next door.

Democrats. The Poindexter Party.

**(Chess being the 4th, but I'm too much of a nerd to admit it)

Posted @ October 01, 2007 02:56 PM | Current Affairs

Comments

It's a good thing you and I did not sit at the same table when we were kids. You would have me 'blowing my chocolate milk out of my nose' with every funny statement you made. That's very distracting to the other kids. Keep it up, I love it.

Posted by: Blogengeezer at October 2, 2007 04:14 AM

Did inner city communist parents even allow the game of "Monopoly" in the house?

Uh, Frank, are you unaware of the real history of the game? That was PRECISELY its original purpose, to show how "unfair" property ownership was to the impoverished tenants...

Posted by: Vittle at October 2, 2007 09:12 PM

Wiki:

History of the board game

Posted by: Vittle at October 2, 2007 09:15 PM

(continued)

I quote:

"In 1903, the Georgist (as in the economist Henry George*) Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord's Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants. She knew that some people would find it hard to understand the logic behind the idea, and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution to it were put into the concrete form of a game, it might be easier to demonstrate. She was granted the patent for the game in January 1904. The Landlord's Game became one of the first board games to use a "continuous path," without clearly defined start and end spaces on its board."

Posted by: Vittle at October 2, 2007 09:16 PM

(continued)

-- The "Charles Darrow" history of the game is a myth.

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*Henry George: Wiki: Georgism
"... a philosophy and economic ideology that follows from the belief that everyone owns what they create, but everything supplied by nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity."

Posted by: Vittle at October 2, 2007 09:17 PM

my first trip to a blog and where do I wind up...Rick Moran/verifrank...cheeees!!!! I'll take the "chocolate milk out the nose" anyday over the double speak of whom ever that person was. Comon, get a life!

Posted by: doat at October 3, 2007 06:59 AM

"I didn't play all those years of D&D without learning a thing or two about courage"

Posted by: TBinSTL at October 7, 2007 03:10 PM

It seems to me that If the Inepr Leaders of the House and Senate have only the ability to pass "non binding resolutions" ( something akin to taking a shower with a raincoat on).. Passing for the THIRD time an resolution to tick Turkey into really starting a war against the Kurds in Iraq, and Pissing off NASCAR attendeers... well these morons need to be Swept back to their respective Asylums since somehow that have escaped....HELP the Inmates are loose in the halls of Congress....

Posted by: redhawk at October 15, 2007 01:58 PM