Pigeon Drop

One of the more lucrative cons in the swindle hierarchy is what’s called the Pigeon Drop or sometimes Fiddle Game. It’s when two con artists appear to be in competing positions when they are really in cahoots. Usually this involves the ‘Pigeon’ or mark, buying an in reality useless item from one con man at a ridiculously inflated price in hopes to sell it to the second con man, who’ll he’ll never find.
On a national stage a Pigeon Drop can get kind of interesting.
Take the TheTruth.com Organization. You’ve seen their anti-smoking adds, just rubbing our faces in how bad tobacco is to your health and how much the tobacco industry are dicks. (Activate sarcasm mode… now) “Wow, big surprise, tobacco is deadly and corporations are evil, I would have never have known this if it wasn’t for oh mighty TheTruth.com, thank you.” Please. If by now there is anyone left out there who has not heard the government propaganda against smoking and how smoking in the first, second or third hand is bad for you, then that person deserves cancer. There I said it. By now whoever is out there smoking is doing so by their own their free choice, knowing the full risks involved, so leave the smokers alone already.
Anyway my point is the TheTruth.com Organization is in truth (hahaha) funded by the ‘evil’ Tobacco Industry themselves after a federal ruling forced them to give money to advertising that would help “vilify” smoking and smokers. So next time you see one of those anti-smoking commercials, with their bastardize gorilla theatre, be aware, Truth is full of it.
As for larger issues. Have you ever gotten the impression the Republicrates and Democans kind of look alike? You shut your ears and all you see is a bunch of rich, old, fat, white men who are scared of change. The same big corporations across the board fund/lobby/bribe all candidates indiscriminately with all the giveaways, hookers, and campaign financing our politicians can take. Bernie included. The Democratic candidates plan for the Iraq War differs not one iota from Bush’s. Not one of the front-runners has any intention of withdrawal, or if they do, it’s only a partial withdrawal of combat unit leaving around a permanent occupational force. This isn’t a two party system, it’s a hydra with two fat heads… system. Yeah.