{"id":2179,"date":"2004-01-27T04:50:44","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/27\/one-cookie-10-billion\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:27:43","slug":"one-cookie-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/27\/one-cookie-10-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"One cookie = $10 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11887,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/action.truemajority.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160602170446\\\/http:\\\/\\\/action.truemajority.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 12:20:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 12:20:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11888,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ww11.e-tractions.com\\\/truemajority\\\/oreo\\\/landing&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11889,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2004_01_01_archive.html#107521337792201958&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110710150229\\\/http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2004_01_01_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:24:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 12:20:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 12:20:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action.truemajority.org\/\" title=\"TrueMajority.org\">TrueMajority.org<\/a> has a nicely effective flash animation posted using Oreo cookies to demonstrate how easy it really could be to fund social needs <em>and<\/em> keep our military budget at a resonable level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww11.e-tractions.com\/truemajority\/oreo\/landing\/\" title=\"TrueMajority.org: Oreo Movie\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oreobudget.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/01\/graphics\/oreobudget.jpg\" width=\"366\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This is one of the most effective pieces of political advocacy I&#8217;ve ever seen. Ben Cohen, the Ben of Ben and Jerry&#8217;s Ice Cream, narrates a short Flash movie for TrueMajority.org, in which he explains &#8212; using <em>Oreo cookies<\/em> &#8212; the way that the federal budget is currently apportioned, and how little rearrangement would be necessary to renew all of America&#8217;s social programs. The examples are vivid and charming, and the logic is compelling.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2004_01_01_archive.html#107521337792201958\" title=\"Stunning political advocacy Flash.\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TrueMajority.org has a nicely effective flash animation posted using Oreo cookies to demonstrate how easy it really could be to fund social needs and keep our military budget at a resonable level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}