Right on schedule comes the false metaphor, in response to the truth.
From the anarcho-libertarian, metal-loving, government authority despisers over at the Brad Pitt fetishist ZeroHedge blog:
The premise of the idea is this: Although the Treasury, with the assistance of the Federal Reserve Bank, already just creates money out of thin air to pay its bills, there is a technicality in the law that says the Treasury has special discretion to can tunas of any denomination, and the thinking is that Tim Geithner could catch a record breaking giant tuna like the million dollar tuna caught just this past week, attach a price tag of one trillion dollars and walk it over to the Federal Reserve and deposit it in the Gold vault next to the Venezuelan bananas and German bratwursts.The post is literally psychotic with all sorts of false metaphor and disturbing imagery. (apologies MNE readers if you looked.... sorry!)
Anyway, we can again see a recurring pattern in the language. Morons are confronted with the truth, in this case some very simple and specific legal interpretation of our civil law concerning US Treasury authority to mint platinum coins, and instead of engaging in the legal analysis, they look for the dispensation of a false metaphor.
In this case ZH obliges with "the coin is a tuna", and many morons can remain so.
Witness this same pattern in the language in Mike's last appearance on the right-libertarian and metal-loving Glen Beck channel here, where when Mike confronts the host with the truth about US government monetary operations, the host literally asks Miller, who is on opposite Mike, for "help", and Miller delivers the metaphor and tells this host that "it is gobbledegook" and this host is then able to remain an idiot.
Aside on the chemical details wrt the platinum coin: It is interesting to note that many who are denying that the US civil government possesses the authority to mint platinum coins, do not exhibit such indignation to the concept of copper, silver or gold coins.
These 3 "Noble Metals" all are listed in column 11 of the periodic table of the elements, and all of these elements have "the d-bands of the electronic structure filled". Whereas platinum does NOT have all of it's d-bands filled, and appears in column 10.
So for some reason, your typical moron metal lover prefers filled d-bands in the metals that they adore.... so for them, any other metal apparently just doesn't measure up.... "too bad for you platinum!"
What do these idiots see in that d-band? Why, for them to love a metal, do they have to have the d-band full of electrons? This apparent concern for the type of electron structure in the metals they prefer does not even seem like minimally rational behavior for a human being. What a bunch of disgraced morons.
