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celticoil on September 28, 2008 - 9:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Free-market-magic believers have learned that the simplest message repeated endlessly will be believed, whereas a more complicated one just befuddles the masses. So if you repeat "drill" over and over (that's why the chant comes in groups of threes), you'll be believed. Consequently, someone needs to find a way to fit hurricanspipelinesdistributionbottlenecksrefineryshortagessogetreal into a chant, or maybe a neat little jingle!

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losthorizon on September 28, 2008 - 11:36pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

There's a brand new word for such adamantly 'positive' believers:

It's called Wishery.

It's Reality the Way We Wish It Would Be.

I hear Jiminy Cricket loves it. He might even dump the 'when you wish upon a star' soundbite for it.

It's a word Bush would gravitate to.

Don't ever misunderestimate the power of positive thought.

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