I’m feeling a bit Zen today, and I don’t want to ruin that with a lot of political talk. You’re all welcome to come along for the ride.
In fact, here, this ought to get you started.
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Baracky Chavez has a prime time press conference to night to celebrate the revolution.
How many prime time blowjobs is the sycophantic press corp going to give Teh One?
Media whore Meghan’s president is an insubstantial and very vain and silly man what our dirty socialist media pimp and pimp. It’s embarrassing enough that he’s the president of our little country, but his evident and cowardly trepidation about taking off his media training wheels is particularly shameful I think. Weak weak weak.
Has it only been 100 days?
Seems like forever!
I can’t see the video. I’ll just pretend it’s Tool, ’cause that’s what I’m listening to and it’s mellowing me right out.
May I add one?
You all don’t know about Zen.
Cool, thanks, nawoods.
Wipe your chin, Fareed.
Tool isn’t Zen? Listening to ’em loud enough is just as good as meditation. And, “Rosetta Stoned” is about enlightenment.
Through drugs. But, whatever. Have it your way.
Yup. I’m zen today after Gelatinous Traitor-Tool made it official. In fact I’m even down with Zen and a bottle of Maddog 20/20 being invoked in the post, along with tasty folk guitar chords and a soft drawl baritone telling a story about life.
F&$K SPECTOR!!!!</b.
Oopppsy … slipped there … take another swig … aaaaaahhhhhh
I’m even zen about my thoroughly incompetent HTML skilz.
Michale Steele and John Cornyn need to man up and tell lympia and susie to eat it I think and then there will be much that is wrong with the world but less than there was.
You all don’t know about Zen.
Yeah, but I can maintain the hell out of my motorcycle!
Sometimes white chocolate tastes lemony and I don’t get why they would sell it like that. It’s not opposed to taste lemony.
Zen?
/audio quality sucks.
How is it that I recognized witin 100 days that Opie is a bitter,racist, neophyte, unhappy, untalented, Muslim, Marxist.
Yet Opie didn’t notice Rev.Wright in 20 years.
Discuss.
This is as Zen as I get.
I was talkin’ about the non-Zen political talk, Carin.
I don’t buy Trader Joe’s white chocolate anymore cause too often it tastes lemony and I’m disgusted that this hungarian muppet is our president, gus.
I figured that, Jeff. I was just kinda joking. Tool isn’t really very Zen – nothing less “Zen” than Prison Sex. Except that one Tool song I linked at #18. That shit is ZEN. I’m telling ya.
Buddhists are them ones what got taken overrun and culturally annihilated by hordes of godless Chinese, Mr. Goldstein. Baracky Chavez and his servile media are gearing up for another propaganda blitz and the sound of one hand clapping is these dirty socialist bastards patting themselves on the back I think.
No way I’m anywhere near zen given the celebration of the greatest president of all time first 100 days.
Did you even TRY listening to my Zen song, Happy? It may help.
We’re not ignoring the skeezy Teleprompter Jesus. Just not talking about him in this thread.
Perhaps JD will stop by and illuminate us as to the uber zen of white chocolate lattes.
Remember that, happyfeet?
Carin: Tool and butter creme icing would qualify as zen, I think. Oh, also wind chimes, especially really big, clangy ones.
Tres zen.
All that gets blocked here at work, Carin… I do remember the uber zen of the white chocolate lattes and JD’s struggle to take back his life. He was very brave but it was touch and go there for awhile.
I was contemplating the clap of one hand when suddenly it hit me . . .
I heard in tonights celebration Obama will allow Katie Couric, Chris Mathews, Keith Olberman, John Stewart, and Schultzberger on stage with him to see if they can all get a mouth on one of his balls.
Well, that explains it. Works isn’t Zen. You’re forgiven.
I’ve never had a white chocolate latte. Is this another thing I should avoid? Like the Red Velvet Cake thing?
Butter creme, yes. I can see that as Zen. But only while consuming it, because the minute I got done …
HOnestly, I don’t know how many minutes on the step machine it would take to undo that kind of damage.
My TV tells me that to call Obama a socialist is laughable or simply the bitter whinings of extremists. Well can anyone tell me what the difference would be if he was an out and out socialist? Chavez is one, he nationalized the oil industry. Obama nationalized our banking and car industries, and is starting to dip his toe into insurance industry as well. I do not see the difference other than one admitting it.
It was a White Chocolate Mocha, and it was divine, you self-loathing oppressor of brown people.
What is the sound of one cock slapping?
[/pw Zen
When I want some Zen I look up porn. Too bad I am at work.
a journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step machine
I am on day 8 of Chiantix and quitting soda, and just got back from a session with a personal trainer. I now have the temperment of a bitch rattlesnake during that time of the month.
“White chocolate mochas and whiskers in kittens…”
I miss caricature.
I am moving to PA so I can register as a Dem and vote for Arlen Specter, the great American Patriot, in the primary and the general elections.
How ya’ like me now, bitch ? ;-)
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Yeah me too. He really represents my issues and stuffs. He is a man of great principle who is standing up to his party to do what is right. All Republicans should follow his example. Red forever bitches! ROCK ON ARLEN!!!!!!!!
Meghan is quite attractive, from the shoulders up …
isolated overeating events are not significant contributors to weight gain
Ooops I misspelled my name sorry fellas I was in the middle of my Quiznos sub and my Twitter page.
I do not understand why you people hate on Meghan McCain. She has a sensational pair of eyes, I mean casaba melons, a beautiful smile, and is clearly the future of the conservative movement.
If I could find a guy with weed who looked just like Richard Brautigan, I’d hang with him.
Luckily, I’m in tight with Brautigan’s ghost, so I always have that as a fallback.
hah – now it’s all coming back, BJ…
JD – are you quitting the smoking?
But, the math is math, Happy. Say, I sat down and ate 1000 calories worth of Buttercreme. Those Calories are just there, until some other isolated other cake event. You have to somehow subtract them at some point, or they eventually find enough friends to form a pound.
And, I’m 41. It is unbelievable how more difficult it is to lose/maintain weight the older you get.
Non Zen? Wearing a 100lb short weight vest while doing push ups with your legs on an inflatable workout ball.
Welcome to my world.
the thing for me that made it easy was i did chantix for three months and never tried to quit – when I started the chantix I switched to ultra-lights menthol and then let chantix do its magic and automatically cut back with little effort – I also had the help of zyban (wellbutrin)… But the magic of Chantix is that it helps you quit smoking *while you smoke* … cause actually taking chantix and *not* smoking doesn’t make any sense I don’t think in terms of the *process* … after the third month of chantix was done then I quit for reals.
I am the future of the conservative movement. I also have a movement in my future after 2 hours in Old Country Buffet earlier today. Lolz :) Gotta run fellas I’m offs to hang with Bo in the White House lawn todays for a Vanity Fair photo shoot. Love yaz!!!!!!!!!
But Carin, no digestive process is 100% effective so that 1000 calories is something less than that and also cake is tasty and when you eat it you feel loved.
isn’t that right, meghan?
Jeff, a guy at the gym showed me two tricks for the balance ball. One, push-up with your hands on the ball- adds a core workout to the push up. The other – you squat on your knees on the ball and attempt to balance- all core.
I would say the Balance move is sorta Zen.
I gets my lovin from Tasty Cakes, Ho Ho’s, and saying that the Republican party is a thing of the past.
Zen was back when the my party the republicants were in the center during the regean years. George Bush moved us wayyyyyyyyy to the right and now we are no longer zen at all :(
Well, I’m just saying I gotta save those Buttercreme-love experiences. Special days. Can’t just do it on Wednesday ’cause I feel like it.
Also, I notice if I fall of the wagon, it takes me a couple of days to hop back on. One piece of cake leads to another …
Visits to my MIL are VERY VERY bad. After EAster it took me a week to get things back under control.
Ah, time to visit Zen Arcade again… been too long
Luckily, I’m in tight with Brautigan’s ghost
Could be worse. You could have that drunken Irish poet guy’s ghost hanging around, stumbling through the walls and puking ectoplasm all over the green shag carpets.
Trust me, it’s not pretty.
Musical Zen for me.
Physical Zen? I have to give the nod to getting a good shin across the liver. Are you ever really in the moment, in your body quite like that?
Ooommmm.
Thanks. I feel clarity coming on. It might be the espresso though.
We are all buttercreme extremists =xx
For me, the core workout mostly consists of bracing myself while my kids mercilessly hook me in the midsection.
Kris Kristofferson knows what I’m talking about.
In the era of Hope and Change, I gravitate between feeling optimistic and pessimistic about the future of the nation.
Most days I’d say I’m optimistic because a couple of years of unadulterated, unapologetic “progressivism” is going to show America what a prog-client state looks like and it’s not one they’re going to particularly enjoy. “It took a Carter to make a Reagan”….yadda yadda. We can be a principled classical liberal opposition and don’t have to sell ourselves out to a corrupt GOP.
Today, on a generally non-political blog I occasionally read, Obama came up and one self-proclaimed “moderate” (and since this was a non-political blog I have no reason to doubt it) claimed that even though he voted for McCain, he was so far happy with Obama since he was following a centrist, even “right-leaning” course.
Not one to pass up an opportunity to destroy a massive clusterfuck of ignorance, I asked him, for example, if he was even aware that welfare reform, passed on a bi-partisan basis and signed by a Democratic President in the 90s, was essentially undone in the “stimulus bill” to give just one example of how Obama is decidedly not even slightly in the realm of what could be considered “right-leaning”. The poster had no clue what I was talking about.
Today is one of the pessimistic days. Some people are just colossally ignorant in this country and sometimes I wonder if our little experiment in self-government is in fact over. Upside: At least the trains will run on time!! Right?? Voters do in fact get the government they deserve.
I think I’m going to join Jeff’s Zen for the day.
That’s a fine piece of music, Mr. Goldstein.
I got a song I lovs to listen to when I want to get pumped up. You know like on one of those dreary days whens you need a little extra to get worked up to go on the View or Keith Olberman to say how out of touch anyone with an R in front of their name is. They should alz just go away so people in the center like me can bring this party back to relevance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkq7HLBe178
SFW yall!!!!
Yes, happyfeet, I am giving up the smoking, and will forego the pungent acrid aroma I have grown to love. I also get to resume Krav Maga with my surgeon’s blessing tonite. I cannot wait to go hit something, hard. This whole post-surgical time has sucked. Gained almost 25 lbs and now that I have a green light from the Doc, I am going to work in over-drive to get back in shape. I know it will suck, so I figured that the suckitude would vary only by degree if I threw in quitting smoking and soda. I underestimated, greatly.
An empty bottle begins with a single drink.
That’s zen you can believe in.
Zen?
My little girl (age 3) has already mastered the all-important Donkey Punch. So there’s that.
Jeff – have you done the push-up and then a fast knee tuck on said ball? Fun. I’ve not done with a weight vest, but it definitely adds a little…something… to the exercise.
Carin – I sometimes balance on the ball on my knees, then just for fun move my hand as if I was holding a fencing weapon through different positions. My girlfriend’s sports med guy showed her that and we took it the next step.
Definitely zen. Otherwise, ouch.
“Smoke … it gets in your eyes .. it can make you CRIIIIII EYEEEEEE ..YEAEYEIIIIIII!”
White chocolate mochas are recommended for to help with the smoking quitting.
Is zen still zen if the zen has been called for and enforced from above?
It helps a lot that the stupid socialists raised the tax on cigarettes. It makes it a lot easy not to smoke. Socialists are gay and their taxes are gay and paying their taxes is gay I think.
How much zen could a sensei send if a sensei could send zen?
Sorry. Too much white zin.
I’m in favor of a stupidity tax. If someone does something obviously stupid, they should pay what the stupidity costs.
Hmmm………struggling for an example……..
Oh here: Say some moron wants to get some boss pictures of his plane next to the Statue of Liberty so he has it buzz Manhattan causing the poor gullible New Yawkas to run in the streets, each with a freshly minted turd in their respective grundies, that idiot should pay the 400k for the stupid flight, and $25 per Jockey 3-pak, for the fecally injured.
There’s always less of what is taxed.
If everyone quit smoking all at once, governments would collapse, nationwide.
Welcome to the Il Douche presidency.
(Shamelessly stolen from an AoS moron commenter.)
That was totally zen, al. You are the crickets of zen … on the tubes … or sumthin’
I must confess BJ, that is an excerpt from my best-selling free pamphlet Turd Musings
Carin – I sometimes balance on the ball on my knees, then just for fun move my hand as if I was holding a fencing weapon through different positions. My girlfriend’s sports med guy showed her that and we took it the next step.
I’m going to give it a try. The guy just told me about it on Monday and I haven’t had a chance to retrieve my ball from the old house. I could attempt it at the gym- they have ’em there. But, I usually prefer to look like a complete fool in the comfort of my own home. I imagine the learning curve on this little move is hilarious.
Scat Perambulations was taken, presumably? Too effete?
I dare ya to out-Zen this. Nothing will send you into a hypnotic state faster than Tim Story.
Scat Perambulations was taken, presumably? Too effete?
Small pamphlet
4 Degrees just came up on shuffle, which might make Carin happy. Or happier.
Coincidentally followed immediately by Leave Me (Like You Found Me) by Wilco.
“Carin – I sometimes balance on the ball on my knees, then just for fun move my hand as if I was holding a fencing weapon through different positions.”
I can’t visualize that at all. What position are you in, and where is your hand?
I mean, I can do exactly as you say, balancing the ball on my knees, and stick my hand out in the air and do the Inago Montoya thing, and nothing good could come out of that.
Stone Temple Pilots and old Pearl Jam on my way to punish my body some more.
I’m considering if I should forgive you, Slart.
Forgiven or not, Carin, I still worship you from afar.
I can’t listen to Mullins without thinking “She’s seen a lot of devils in that Angel town.”
Ok, like and admire. Worship sounded maybe a little stalkerish.
a little?
I was going for the understatement thing. Maybe alternating overstatement and understatement isn’t the best idea.
Slart – the temptation is for people make parries and attacks (“the Inago Montoya thing”) using their bodies instead of their hand/arm. Balancing on the ball shows you that moving your torso instead of separating the two parts (many of the actions are done while the legs are moving) makes you fall over.
Something like this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwk4AUmnARE
Slart stalking Carin stalking Pablo..
Who wins here?
PMSNBC poll on O!bama’s 100 days thing.
http://tinyurl.com/c6vbeh
I gave him an “F”.
“Who wins here?”
The private investigator?
Arlen Specter making friends and influencing people on the Democratic side? NOPE!
What if Specter is really a Republican mole sent in to cause havoc behind enemy lines?
BS of course, but it is nice to day dream.
Slart stalking Carin stalking Pablo..
It never seems to be the one who gets caught.
who wins, that is.
Did we ever get any linky love on Carin’s sugartits ;-)
Yeah, Carin, show us your zen koans.
a href=”http://patterico.com/2009/04/29/what-we-can-learn-from-specter-the-defector/”>Karl from Patterico has a prety good analysis of the Specter matter.
Karl from Patterico has a prety good analysis of the Specter matter.
Yeah I know it is from Patterico, but it’s Karl.
thank you I will go read what Karl has to say
Via de Rugby we find some nerd Zen, podcast discussions of Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Daniel Klein, from the podcasts linked above, is another of those confusing classical liberals. Ric Caric, take note, you will find him to be extremely confusing.
Mullins had the best ever description of the LA music scene, from the same song Monster notes above: “Seems everybody’s got a plan / it’s kinda like Nashville, with a tan.”
Here you go.
Punked by Obama.
May I tickle your bellies, pink two-penny piggies?
Punked!
And here’s a little bit of Kris K from Cisco Pike. That movie also had a great cameo from Doug Sahm.
Speaking of punks.
Speaking of forgotten pig slaps.
Man did I ever put the stang KK’s gassey ass.
Man did I ever put the stang on KK’s poofey ass.
Who let the oozing rectal fistula out of the cellar?
YIP! YIP!
YIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIP!
Still bullish on GM, yippy dog?
I know I can’t think of a better recipe for solvency than being 40% owned by the UAW and and 50% owned by the federal government.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
YIP! YIP! YIP!
YIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIP!
YIPYIP!
YIP!
Did thor wake up from his nap with a freshly soiled diaper? Call the nurse.
SPB reads like a pig struck chihuahua.
Maybe a well-hung Philosophy dept head has dazzled his panties off.
Outlaw! Zen: option a, option b.
Maybe a herbal enema to clear your head?
I’m insinuating you’re a big fat pussy bark, just so you know.
YIP! YIP! YIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIP!
Keep barking at the evil mailman while staying safely behind the plate glass of the living room window, yippy dog.
So, I should eliminate the…er…middleperson and stalk Pablo directly?
Well, there goes another thread…see ya all tommorrow.
Here’s a little discovery to keep your mojo working; apparently Parsnip is a retired teacher in Tucson. He sent a letter to the Arizona Daily Red Star this morning.
Somali pirate deserves better life
Re: the April 22 article “Somali pirate in a new world of trouble.”
I think it’s high time someone speaks up for Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse, the captured Somali pirate. Give the kid a break. It’s not his fault he was born into a poor family in an economically challenged country. Sure he waved around a rifle and maybe broke a few other laws, but that can happen when a disadvantaged kid falls in with the wrong crowd.
I pray he gets probation, a permanent green card, in-state tuition to a decent university and, ultimately, a new life for him and his extended family. Have a heart, America.
James R. Lewis
Retired teacher, Tucson
Jeff, Great “Cisco Pike” cut. That is one outlaw movie. I lived the dream in the early 70’s ,washing down reds and white crosses with Red Mountain wine in Venice. I could have been Billy Dee.
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Did thor wake up from his nap with a freshly soiled diaper? Call the nurse.”
Please ignore the dunghill denizen.
Thank you.
OK, my zen is weak today, Jeff and Monster, give it up. I find myself going through the lyrics of the song, but get stuck on the chorus, meaning I CAN’T REMEMBER THE TITLE! Help a brother out…aw hell, that’s racist.
I denounce myself for all of the above…
Vulcanrider, the youtube title said Lullaby.
Hey, off-topic, if possible in this thread, but has anyone here seen Santa Sangre recently? I remember loving it the first time but that was awhile ago. Also, are the other Alejandro Jodorowsky movies as good as you hear about?
A younger friend of mine has to write a paper on symbolism in a movie of his choice and I was going to recommend Santa Sangre to him.
I have Santa Sangre and El Topo on DVD, but they’re from another region, and my all-region player is down in the basement, where I don’t watch movies.
So the answer is no, I haven’t seen it recently. But I’d like to.
Vulcanrider — The song is Lullaby, linked in a comment above. Great tune.
bill — Cisco Pike is definitely and OUTLAW! film. Gene Hackman didn’t tell Friedkin he had just got done shooting it (he plays a cop, for those of you who haven’t seen it) because he didn’t want to ruin his chances of getting the role of Popeye Doyle in French Connection.
This cut of Breakdown is a bit different. Clip from Cisco Pike.
Worship sounded maybe a little stalkerish.
No, stalking is cool. “I” made it cool. Ask Pablo.
And, I never did link my sugar tits. Pablo never was able to produce that video from his surveillance camera either. I think he just has one of those fake cameras that doesn’t really work.
I tried the ball thing (balancing) at the gym- and I was hoping for a bit more. Honestly, it wasn’t easy to balance, but it didn’t really work the core as hard as I hoped.
i’m not sure if it’s zen exactly so much, which maybe means that it is? but still maybe not in the braughtiganian sense. i dunno. especially spelling. anyway, sorry to fangirl. i know it’s shameful. but this performance seemed to fit with this thread, somehow. and i don’t just lurve him for being so insanely pretty. tho he is, indeed. but that is just the vanilla (real from rendering the beans, with all the little brown seedy specks visible, not the artificial chemical juice gunk from a bottle) vanilla butter cream frosting topping the whole amazing confection. that pretty is. mostly i love stuff like this: the hypnotic soothing math boogie musical stuff.
it may not be OUTLAW!, exactly. but it is zen and mesmerizing and purdy, i think.
Anyone watch the baracky show tonight?
Blast, that was tonight?
i didn’t watch is it already over? Barack Obama is a dirty smoker did you know that? It’s true. Sad sad and trashy little nicotine troll, media whore Meghan’s president is.
oh. I thought those balls were mostly just for sex. No one tells me anything.
except about how they bought these giant balls what they use for when they have sex
More thought crimes legislation. Yeah, Jeff’s feeling Zen, but you if you can couch your responses in song lyrics, maybe it won’t be so grating.
That made me physically flinch.
Zen.
I don’t know how you folks have sex out in California … I never heard of that Happy.
thanks dan. for making me even cranker than usual. goddamitt….
louchette–
Where can I get that song?
I only remembered ’cause at the gym someone had tuned into CNN and another was tuned to Katie Couric and they were both going on and on about that 100 days troupe, and that reminded me.
crankier, even, and yeah denounce self yadda yadda… *sigh*
see you think I just make shit up but … I don’t. nope
OMG, Happy. Fitness sex?
I am trapped in a world I did not create Carin
That’s just not right.
dan for serious?
it’s on the ‘the seventh night’ G(od/ackt) rested… unplugged… concert cd and tour dvd both. the proper name of the song is ‘utakata no yume’ it should be available in various forms at cdjapan and similar venues what sell jpop and jrock. and laso most of his works are on i-tunes, international. or i can give you a sample. *cough* uploaded or whatevers. >_>
he really is an extraordinary, classically trained musician, beyond all his other charms *cough*. *_*
/fangirl
Sex on balls? It’s time to ask ourselves, WWJJD? And, Joan Jett says you have sex on motorcycles, barstools, and piles of leather jackets. Not balls.
From happyfeet’s link:
See if I had known about this I might have stopped smoking years ago.
oh. I missed that. Beats wind sprints I think.
I have Santa Sangre on Laser disc haven’t watched it in quite awhile. Disturbing film to say the least.
So.. When the UAW pretends to work can we pretend to pay them?
mr. feets, you are actually howard the duck? *___*
‘feets, but what do you do after awkard fitness ball sex instead of a cigarette? Wind sprints, that’s what.
geoffb, yeah, it was bit over the top but it’s also an offbeat choice for a symbolism paper I thought. You know every other kid in that class is going to hand in a paper titled “Rosebud, sled of remembrance past” or, worse, “Hobbits, those English midgets”.
Aren’t we all, louchette?
But not me, baby, I’m too precious: you’d better fuck off!
Well it is NC-17 so it’s got that going for it. Not to many others will pick from that rating. The paper would be interesting.
Dan, quit pretending. We know who you are.
Howard the Duck was a filthy smoker.
Not Howard.
trapped in a world I did not create
More or less.
i always liked the howard the duck comix, like back in high school, before all the movies and all that stuff got franchised. i liked ’em a lot. they actually were kinda funny. depending on your state of mind. anyway, ‘trapped in a world he never made,’ that sentiment and motto was what made me make that particular mental connection, HF.
and dan, yeah we are. all of us, howard in some mortifying way. ‘trapped in a world we never..’ yadda yadda…’ still i just wish… i dunno. something more better. call that whatever filthy thing you want to call it. =P
Howard the Duck made me think of Lea Thompson, which made me think of Red Dawn, which made me wonder what the hell Emilio Estevez is doing these days.
Cue Bluto grabbing the guitar and smashing it up against the stair rail…
Howard was genuinely a poignant and sad yet heroic duck. I like the Micronauts more better though cause like towards the end they had nudity.
I can see how you could work that ball thing to an advantage.
Howard the Duck made me think of Lea Thompson, which made me think of All The Right Moves. IYKWIMAITTYD.
Howard the Duck made me think of food, which made me think of bacon, which is going to make me go to the kitchen and cook some up, as I can now smell it in my mind, and if I do not eat, I will either have to have sex on a fitness ball by myself or smoke a cigarette, neither of which is a very appealling option right now. I am not having a good day.
Sometimes one leads to the other. Or so I’ve heard.
Baracks “town hall meetings” are like sex on a fitness ball. Totally consensual. Because let’s face it, it would be hard to force someone to have sex on a big wobbly fitness ball.
What a total fucking pussy. He calls it a “town hall” and then he checks for Dem ID at the door. How else would he be able to blatantly make fun of the tea parties without any fear of heckling? I cannot stress enough the fact that Barack Obama is a pussy.
Say it!
Barack is a pussy? How can you say that?
He’s the left-handed pitcher; the river that flows upstream; the slight fellow who fells the giant with a slingshot. And he never breaks a sweat. Kathleen Parker. From the pub.
Obama is a man of great intelligence and substance who seems to be working hard to accomplish actual results. Thank goodness he doesn’t waste time with self-aggrandizing stunts (“Mission Accomplished”, anyone?
So rich with tasty irony.
I don’t know Carin. The Parker quote just creates the image of a stage-mom dressing Barack up in a Doug Henning jumpsuit and having him do show tunes at the mall.
My pussy statement stands.
What is this Zen of which you speak? The closest I ever got was when I had a visit from Sokkagakkei (think the Jehova’s Witnesses of Buddhism.) They didn’t stay, because they didn’t speak English…
Or possibly reading “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” qualifies? The lesson there is not to over torque the nuts, lest they become permanently warped. That’s sage advice for some around here. I’m not naming names, you know who you are.
Oh, I found it. Hey, she’s got a point: Obama is a pragmatist, so if we don’t talk to him, we miss opportunities for him to pragmatically implement policies we approve of.
Seems pretty straightforward to me, and you don’t even have to like Obama to see the truth of it.
See, the way I see it, pragmatism isn’t an all-or-nothing thing; it occupies the entire swath of decision-making that’s anything other than 100% strict adherence to personal ideology. That one is pragmatic to some extent doesn’t, for instance, guarantee that one will commit absolutely any immorality in the aid of reaching a stated objective.
Dunno if I agree with her 100%, but I don’t see that she’s completely wrong about this, either.
Pragmatism is nothing more than a method for justifying the violation of your principles.
If you find that there is a ‘wide swath’ of decision making that falls outside of your principles you might want to re-evaluate your principles rather than merely accepting their routine violation.
Pragmatism is a means to an end. Opportunists can be pragmatic, as can socialists. Never letting a crisis go to waste is pragmatic, no?
A great question at last night’s fellatio conference would have been “Mr. President, your chief of staff said that you should never let a crisis go to waste. How are you going to use the swine flu pandemic to your advantage?”
I’d like an example of this pragmatism. To me, this is nothing but a buzzword they’re applying to the O.
There’s nearly an infinitely wide swath of decision-making that falls outside of anyone‘s principles, providing one knows what they are.
Think about it. Anything that’s not exactly the way you’d do it is counter to your principles, no? If only a little bit. I’m not saying that everything that’s not strictly in line with your principles has to be morally repugnant acts, here. There’s, as I said, a broad spectrum of things that fall under pragmatism, from not-exactly-the-way-I’d-do-it, to nuke-’em-all-and-let-God-sort-’em-out.
I think Obama is more of a Media Narrative than anything else.
The pragmatism. for Carin
From Sdferr’s link:
The problem is not partisanship, but a deceptive form of pragmatism, where pretending to be nonpartisan is a pragmatic strategy for imposing far-reaching progressive policies on an unwary public. This pragmatism is unpragmatic because it suppresses inconvenient consequences, and disrespectful of citizens because it obscures its governing principles and ultimate intentions.
Kinda supports my statement. We’ll all just keep yammering on about how pragmatic Obama is, when we all know it’s just another one of those words with flexible meanings.
my html is weak this morning. only the middle paragraph is a quote.
Followup, “Why your advantage?
Vulcanrider, the youtube title said Lullaby.
Thanks, blowhard, I suppose I should have mentioned that I can’t get the video at work. It finally came to me anyway. Knew the artist, knew the verse, but that darned chorus was off in LA somewhere…
By all means. Let’s petition the man who hates what our country was founded on for our trifles.
Fuck that.
I’m going back to my Zen.
No, I don’t think petition is necessarily the right word. I’m just saying that if it’s barely possible that Obama might be swayed by rhetoric, that it doesn’t make sense to just not talk to the guy.
I mean, there are degrees and degrees of opposition, no? Do you think that Republicans ought to, for instance, categorically oppose any and all cabinet appointments, just because they disagree with Obama? How about any and all legislation, even the stuff that makes sense?
I reject that the fellow who spent 20 years listening to Reverend Hate-Whitey is all that interested in listening to anyone who disagrees with him.
He might find someone new to agree with, if he’s that pliant.
True, absolutely. If it’s barely possible the obnoxious neighbor who insists on dumping his trash on my lawn might somehow be persuaded to stop, it doesn’t make sense to just not talk to the guy.
I won’t promise to be nice about it though.
Think about it. Anything that’s not exactly the way you’d do it is counter to your principles, no?
No. That is a definition of principle purposefully rendered so narrow as to be inoperable in an imperfect world. It is a sword made of glass – sharper than any steel yet totally useless.
Again, rethink your principles.
Either you’re operating within your principles, or you’re not. This is not so difficult to understand, I’d think. Compromise is a way of life, though, and you’re single and unemployed if you honestly believe otherwise.