Reflections From a Murky Pond

So many people think of Germans and bankers as being stodgy and stolid people, so German bankers would naturally be thought of as the epitome of sexless, stodgy, stolid people. Apparently, at least in some cases, nothing could be farther from the truth.

This new online video from Bontrust, a German Finance Company, stresses the importance of tapping into global markets in a very unique manner. 😉

Money Multiplying – A truly Twisted Commercial

The official title of this risque commercial for Bontrust is Geldvermehrung, which means, “increase in currency.” It was conceived of – pun very much intended – by Grabarz & Partner Werbeagentur GmbH and designed and developed by Optix Kreation.

I’m not sure how effective this ad will be in drawing clients to Bontrust, but it certainly highlights two basic truths in global economics: The US dollar is still a potent force and money knows no loyalty to any man or nation. 😉

In America it is a racial stereotype that Blacks love fried chicken – along with greens, BBQ ribs, and watermelon. It’s not an image that can be promulgated through the media however, not without being branded as a racist.

Well, the above holds true if you’re White, but not if you’re Oprah Winfrey.

I don’t know what, or if, Oprah Winfrey was thinking, but seeing her further a stereotype that Blacks claim is offensive is ironically funny to me.

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I’m not sure if that fact that the free lunch is a grilled chicken meal as opposed to a fried chicken meal makes this better or worse. Either way, a Black woman shilling for Kentucky Fried Chicken is hilariously funny – in a twisted and disturbing sort of way.

Leaving humor aside for a moment – if you remember, this image from the The Chaffey Community Republican Women Federated of San Bernardino County, CA was less than well-received by the Blacks.

I’m sort of wondering if there’ll be a backlash because of Oprah’s and KFC’s marketing scheme. Though, given the nature of American society, I don’t need to wonder at whom any backlash would be aimed; Oprah is protected by her race and her celebrity from any recriminations in this matter.

Still…I guess they love some chicken. I know I do. 😉

Al Gore’s Global Warming Cultists seem to have little room in their minds for any thought beyond reducing man-made C02 in Earth’s atmosphere. Normally this is only a threat to the prosperity and freedom of the nations of the Civilized World – which is bad  enough – but sometimes their monomaniacal fanaticism is a threat to the very world they claim they have to save.

WHEN British consumers are compelled to buy energy-efficient lightbulbs from 2012, they will save up to 5m tons of carbon dioxide a year from being pumped into the atmosphere. In China, however, a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of “green” lightbulbs in cost-cutting factories.

Large numbers of Chinese workers have been poisoned by mercury, which forms part of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs. A surge in foreign demand, set off by a European Union directive making these bulbs compulsory within three years, has also led to the reopening of mercury mines that have ruined the environment.

— Michael Sheridan
The Times Online, May 3, 2009

This is, of course, the logical result of passing legislation that the Warmists scream for. They scream and wail about Anthropogenic Global Warming – now rebranded as Climate Change – and bully politician into passing laws that further the Warmists’ agenda. Sadly for everyone these laws still do not change reality, no matter what fantasies are percolating through the minds of Gore’s cultists.

You can’t demand the rapid transition from incandescent lightbulbs to fluorescent lightbulbs without opening new murcury mines or reopening older, closed mines. You also can’t keep the prices of these items down to level that won’t inflict undue hardship on people, especially the poor, without utilizing 3rd-World nations like China who care little for the environment or the lives, health, and safety of its workers.

Someday, hopefully before irreparable harm is done to both the Civilized World and the planet, people will see the Warmists for what they are – monomaniacal, fanatic cultists. Green or Sustainable is lot more than just reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gasses, and reducing CO2 emissions at the cost of other lasting harm to planet is stupid.

US Presidents all have certain qualities in common; no man can become POTUS without them. They have, over the course of American history, shown that they have had varying priorities.

Picture, if you will, a sinking ship…

Three ex-Presidents, George Washington, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are aboard a passenger liner that is sinking.

As the boat sinks, George Washington heroically shouts, “Save the women!”

George W. Bush hysterically hollers, “Screw the women!”

Bill Clinton’s asks excitedly, “Do we have time?”

Of course, if Monica Lewinski had been aboard, she would have probably “gone down” with the ship. 😉

Perez Hilton aka Mario Lavandeira is the latest thuggish agendist to try to (mis)use US Copyright Laws to silence criticism of his actions and agenda. The queer “media personality” is attempting to get an embarrassing video removed from YouTube, falsely claiming that it violates his copyright of the material.

The video that Perez is bothered by was produced by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a group that rather virulently opposes gay marriage. As part of the one-minute video is a three-second clip of Hilton calling Miss California Carrie Prejean a “dumb bitch.”

Perez Hilton: Queer Copyright Thug

NOTE: I’m not sure how long this video will remain online. YouTube has a long history of bending over for homosexuals, Islamists, and other related groups who dislike Free Speech when it’s contrary to their respective agendas, so this video could be pulled at any time. I’ll try to find other sources for it if that happens.

Laviendra’s attorneys have issued a DMCA takedown notice over a TV ad posted to YouTube. YouTube, of course complied – but the video is viral enough that they’ve been, so far, unable to remove all copies of it from the site.

I guess that, since Lavandeira has decided to reinvent himself as a queer rights “activist,” he thinks that he has gained some form of entitlement. That’s abhorrent and pathetic since Lavandeira’s greatest claim to fame or celebrity – well, the greatest claim that can or should be mentioned in polite company at least; he might have others – was posting photos of celebrities – without permission from the copyright owners.

Lavandiera, of course, defended himself against the lawsuits that resulted by claiming that his defacement of the images with sophomorically crude scribbling of penises, cocaine, and semen on the subjects’ faces rendered his conduct Fair Use.

Does, in what passes for Perez Hilton’s deranged mind – AIDS Dementia Complex? – scrawling a few comments and/or crude and insulting graphics on an image is fair use, but including 3 seconds of video in a 30-second ad is copyright infringement? Most likely not.

Lavandeira/ Hilton is just another queer – though worse and more disgusting than most – who is more than willing to use any means available to damage and hopefully silence those who don’t “bend over” for the queer agenda in America.

I’m no great fan of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), and they’ve in the past also over-utilized copyright laws against their detractors, but I certainly hope they use any and all means at their disposal to defeat and break Perez Hilton over this.