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aruzinsky
11-27-2017, 02:42 PM
like the one in Woody Allen's film, Bananas,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4N2dk0cMk

because of the insane dictates of its leadership. The latest was a $0.01/ounce tax on sweetened, including artificially sweetened, beverages. After being subjected to saturation advertising for this tax by Michael Bloomberg (the Democrat ex-mayor of NY city) that made me want to smash my television set, the tax was repealed as of 12/1/17. You can see photos of the dictators here:

Can the Tax (http://stopthecookcountytax.com/content.aspx?page=about)

Of the 17 Cook County Commissioners, only 4 are Republicans, the rest are Democrats. All 4 Republicans voted against the tax. As for the Democrat commissioners who voted against it, I bet that all of the Democrat commissioners had a secret meeting to decide which of them could least afford to lose voters to the tax, i.e., they were ALL in favor of the tax.

And, you would think they learned their lesson on 4/26/2006, when the Chicago City Council banned foie gras, the fatty livers created by force-feeding ducks and geese. (Cook County is just an extension of Chicago politics into the suburbs.)

I hate living in a Banana Republic.

scottu
11-27-2017, 08:22 PM
We all love bananas, not necessarily "Bananas" for sure we all are here to get away from banana republics and their ilk.
This is banana oz, no need to kill the buzz it's fleeting enough as is! Politicians of all types suck!!

beam2050
11-28-2017, 09:49 PM
that video reminds me of a dirty joke:

this warden of a very large jail line up the inmates and declares; I have good news and I have bad news; the good news is all yall get a change of underwear. after the cheering stopped he went on to say; you change with him, you change with him, you change with her............... thought I might have to put somethin in there for all yalls teenie weenie little DIRTY minds. . . . and you thought it was the underwear thing rite.

so I made you read it twice right. a joke within a joke within a joke. in one of my former lives I was an ancient greek philosopher named heisastupulous.

aruzinsky
11-29-2017, 10:49 AM
The dirty joke reminds me of two things:

1. The only Cook County service that I approve of is the prisons. I don't directly use any county services therefore I want Cook County government to shrink by, maybe, 75%.

2. In the movie, Human Centipede 3, every prisoner in a prison had his lips sewn to the anus of another prisoner so they formed a long line resembling a centipede. Recidivism was completely eliminated. It was a comedy. Human Centipede 1 was not a comedy. I haven't seen Human Centipede 2, yet. There is an episode of South Park titled, "HumancentiPad", which is the funniest thing I ever saw. I also saw a documentary of the making of the cartoon. Apparently, women don't get it. See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WberQSoM6Rs