I saw a commercial where some gradeschool girls are playing soccer and two of them coming running up to the coach, all dehydrated and cute as bug's ears. "Drink up," the coach says, handing them a Gatorade-style energy drink, "you're losing water out there."
The blonde-headed soccer player wonders aloud: "If we're losing water, why aren't we drinking water?"
With that the coach questioned everything she ever had learned about hydration via television advertising and a bottle of NESTLES water appeared over her head like a lightbulb of an idea.
N E S T L E S....NESTLES MAKES THE VERY BEST>>>>WATER!
Well, the Nestles song wasn't part of the commercial but, back in the day when they were known for chocolate, Nestles wasn't known for water. It woulda been kinda dumb selling water, what with it coming of the faucets in peoples homes and all. You might also know water as the stuff that comes out of the sky (usually when you have outdoor, weekend plans) and is the main ingredient in our lakes, rivers and oceans (though oceans have a different flavor). Gatorade and it's siblings were created, beginning in the early 70's, and tasted crappy and were supposed to help you play sports better because they have *electrolytes*- something water evidently doesn't have but needed back then. Water has evolved now and doesn't need electrolytes. It just needs to be bottled, have "Spring" somewhere in it's title and not have any rat turds in it (according to the god-damn FDA!) The really important thing is that it be packaged in a plastic bottle that requires oil to make. This makes everybody happy. By everybody I mean eveybody from Nestles and the Oil Companies, on down to the guy at Nestles who turns on the faucet to fill the plastic bottles of natures own elixer.
So, what they are saying is, you still need Gatorade but you need water too! Cause it's Rocky Mountain SPRING Water which is just as good as our BAVARIAN Spring Water but, affordably priced....
Barack Obama will spend like a billion dollars trying to get re-elected and most of that will be spent on advertising. His republican opponent will likely spend as much. Ralph Nader will spend thousands. All this money is spent to repackage everything we already know about these guys but need to forget because, they've been new and improved!
If done right, advertising works. A republican candidate will spend millions to tell you that Omama is wasting millions on this, that, or the other thing and that he won't do that. I guess ya gotta spend money to not spend money. Rick Perry, the likely republican challenger, will do away with Social Security not because it's socialist like his rivals say (and socialism- to them equals *communist*) but because it's "criminal"! "A Ponzi Scheme!" Wow! That's some new and improved shit right there!
For a front-runner, ir seems like nieche marketing to me. All his cohorts pretty much want to end Social Security and give the money to their real friends on Wall Street because the stock markets just aren't the least fucking bit criminal or any kind of a scheme....
Sheesh. "Criminal"? THAT is criminal. If you fear that SS won't be there for folks in 20 years like he says, all you have to do is make certain that Congress can't get their grubby hands on it to go shopping or pay some bills. That's all you have to do to save SS. They won't let me look at the books but, my understanding is there is a 2 TRILLION in SS right now with more coming in every day as well as going out to the elderly and dis-abled. Without anybody fucking with it, it'll be fine. "Won't be there in 20 years!"?? Give it to Wall Street and it won't be there in 20 days!
Marketing. Politics. They are the same to me. And they'll stay the same until some whiz-kid Don Draper tells me they are different and makes me believe it.
Madison Avenue: Do not piss on my back and tell me it's raining. Neither should you rain on my parade and tell me someone else is pissing.
I already know that water is wet and, in conjunction with air, the best thing on our planet. Please don't figure out how to package air and sell it. You fuckers are smart enough to get us into that situation but nowhere near smart enough to get us out. Neither are the politicians.
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Ralph Nader will spend thousands... LOL.
I watched Obama's speech. I'm not quite sure I'm feeling any better about his plans. Maybe I just don't give a shit anymore. I'm just sick of it, and I don't buy bottled water.
They want a president who will support the wars, who won't take away the tax cuts for the rich and who will appeal to a small group of Democrats. They have that guy, his name is Barack Obama." ~ Jay Leno on republicans.
I don't watch JAY!
I found it in the threads.
It's one of those sad but true things though. The lunkheads in the threads who hate Obamas so and claim they are "conservative" have no clue how valuable he has been to the real republicans. I LOL A LOT!
hahahahahahaha
I totally buy bottled water, but it's for my kids lunchboxes, and the PTA collects the returnables as a fundraising effort.
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I've got to admit that Gary Johnson is looking pretty good to me, he seems a little more normal than the other guys.
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so here's my question to you friend; why are libertarians running on the republican side of the aisle? They seem to be just conservative liberals. am I missing something?
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and, have you seen this poster
http://www.topix.net/member/profile/inconvenienttruth
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he's a little slow. its fun.
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-Annie
I had to google Johnson. He's probably too nice to be a republican. I don't get the libertarians. Maybe they look at teapartiers as the new crazies on the block that need some guidance? I use an old Gatorade bottle to tote my water for work so you might wanna fool the kids with that. Just fill it from the tap when they're not looking. It's tons cheaper and as long as Exxon isn't fracking in your neighborhood, probably not flammable.
I'll keep an eye out for that truth guy.
I drink water from the tap. I think that that's also where bottled water comes from.
It would seem that socialism equates with communism in the US. I don't know why you can't have a health system which is free for those who can't afford private health insurance. Obviously all I know of your system is what I read, but vested interests seem to run pretty much everything from the government down. If I need treatment in a public hospital, for whatever, it is absolutely free. Should I choose to go to a private hospital or be treated as a private patient in a public hospital, then I pay. It's not rocket science. We pay a Medicare levy in our taxes and that pays for it. I watched Michael Moore's 'Sick' and was astounded that the health insurance boards could override treatments advised by doctors if they thought it too expensive. That he could get Americans treated for free in communist Cuba says it all.
Shareholders seem to run everything these days.
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