Here you go from AP via FAUXNews – Nov 20

Poor Economy Has Some Selling Blood For Cash

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — There are signs the nation’s economic woes are prompting some to sell their blood for extra cash.

College students and the down-and-out have long donated plasma for easy money. But in the current economic climate, the number of people extracting plasma for gas or grocery money is exploding.

An industry group said total donations may hit 16 million this year, up from 10 million donations just three years ago. At Talecris Plasma Resources in Waukegan, manager Rhonda Johnson says this fall is among the busiest seasons she’s observed, with more first-time donors joining the twice-a-week regulars.

Whatever their motivation, plasma donors are a valuable resource for an industry that has grown to nearly $10 billion a year. Patrick Robert of International Blood/Plasma News says whatever their motivation, plasma donors are a valuable resource for an industry that has grown to nearly $10 billion a year.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455111,00.html

No figure on the prices offered.

Maybe we’ll soon see kidneys on eBay or CraigsList.

Thousands pick up free vegetables on Colo. farm
Sunday, November 23, 2008

PLATTEVILLE, Colo. — A farm couple got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick up free vegetables left over after the harvest _ 40,000 people showed up.

Joe and Chris Miller’s fields were picked so clean Saturday that a second day of gleaning _ the ancient practice of picking up leftover food in farm fields _ was canceled Sunday.

“Overwhelmed is putting it mildly,” Chris Miller said. “People obviously need food.”

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Nov23/0,4670,FoodGiveaway,00.html

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I just watched part of a video lecture by Randy Pausch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0

In this at about 18:32 (of a very long hour) he speaks of Disneyland being built from start to finish in 366 days — which is used as an example of motivation and time management. The symbolic Disneyland represents the simplicity of focus versus the amount of fraud and corruption currently built into re-tooling the auto industry and re-tooling the financial engineering bullshit related to the pirate ship wall street.

America can be re-organized, but it will take a dream and then hard work — and most of the hard work will be to get rid of the crooks, then, the rest is easy!

Also See: Disneyland Opening Day – Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rHjoimz5XI

As such, this metaphor strongly hints at the mobility of pirates who bring the fight to where they want to be, versus the authorities taking the fight to the pirates.

The real essence of this metaphor is thus, that if society is to be free, if were are to live in a time of justice and have a better future, then authority has to take the good fight to where injustice is, e.g, our banking system which is run by Somalian pirates, is a very liquid form of terrorism which is not regulated or controlled, because our government has made the game of banking into a network of chaos which is collapsing under its own weight. Too many pirates have wrecked the kitchen and now Rome is burning.

This squirrel pirate represents a CEO raiding the cookie jar (yet again) only this time, the cookie jar has become a direct conduit of TARP tax payer revenues. The pirate doesn't even need to go out on hit and run attacks to steal or hint at ransom requests — because the loot is now being delivered as a direct deposit to the pirates Cayman bank accounts — which of course, are tax free and off the books.

Furthermore, this expansion of this metaphor between pirates, squirrels and CEOs can be built upon by adding in metaphorical dog associations (it's that friggn bad today):

Chocolate contains theobromine. A naturally occurring stimulant found in the cocoa bean, theobromine increases urination and affects the central nervous system as well as heart muscle. While amounts vary by type of chocolate, it's the theobromine that is poisonous to dogs.

If a 50-pound dog eats a teaspoonful of milk chocolate, it's not going to cause serious problems. However, if that same dog gorges himself on a two-layer chocolate cake, his stomach will feel more than upset and soon it's likely he'll be vomiting or experiencing diarrhea.

> So, here we are now with sweet thoughts of Somalian CEOs gorging themselves (to death) on compensation and XMAS bonuses, while the authorities have turned a blind and patched-over eye to the corruption and terrorism caused by these pirates. Meanwhile, society sits back with the vague notion thinking the cops are protecting us all from the nasty crooks — but, what an absurd notion, to not realize that the cops are on the take getting drunk with the pirates and playing an active part in the collusion that brought us all to the point of systemic collapse.

Maybe society should let these dogs and pirates gorge themselves until a point where they get either so fat or sick that they can't find the strength to get the lid off the cookie jar, and then after they stagger around in a mindless dizzy spell, maybe these rodents will fall off the ledge and cease to exist!

The sad reality is though, society is collectively impotent and unable to snap out of being in a state of denial, because the vast majority of people are searching for the means to join the pirate clubs and to live the good life, a life filled with riches beyond imagination.

Now, wash your filthy hands you fuc-ing pirates… and run the Jolly Roger up the pole for Obama …

Great catch on photo Yves!