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Knowflake Posts: 470
From: Nov. 11 2005
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posted January 13, 2010 10:27 AM
 
This is satire folks- and it tickles me: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/01/06/notes010610.DTL teaser lines... But what of the pain and suffering? The agony of existence? Oh my sweet Allah with steaming pork sandwich, what an egotistical species you are! Millennia of war and death and pain and fighting over tiny scraps of land, little dusty strips of nothing, thinking God bestowed it upon you! Let me tell you something: the divine has no agenda whatsoever except to know itself in myriad form. God is a life energy. I am a death energy. Creator/destroyer. Light/dark. Inhale/exhale. Shiva/Shakti. Spit/swallow. Both vital. Both omnipotent. Both essential. You have to choose to see it. You feel me? I think I do.  IP: Logged |
koiflower
Knowflake Posts: 1581
From: Australia
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 13, 2010 09:13 PM
I've been teased......... To quote:I'll toss out some names and current events, and you tell me the first thing that comes to your mind. All right? Bring it. Barack Obama Ha! Dude ****** me off. Can't seem to rile him. Thinks he understands things. Actually does. Know what I hate more than anything, and that includes laughter and singing in the shower and multiple orgasms? Wisdom. Calm, assured wisdom in the face of all the whining and screeching I can muster from my minions. Such gall. Makes my soul pimple. Rush Limbaugh I have hangnails more interesting. IP: Logged |
Dervish
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posted January 14, 2010 02:08 AM
I personally saw it as the Devil humoring him, fanning the guy's tribal instincts, and inspiring him to do more of the Devil's work (as portrayed in this piece).Think about it: Obama is quick to war & using spin phrases to hide that he's not bringing troops home (even surging troops), has put special interests in charge of the Pentagon, has ransacked the People on behalf of the banking industry alone, has kept up most of Bush's policies, is arguably making the interrogation of SUSPECTED terrorists even more ghastly while also intervening to dismiss investigation into Bush & his cabinet over lying to the American people and other practices, look as if is messing up health care reform (from the PoV that says Canada & Scandinavia has a good system), and has said in one of his books that he doesn't believe in gay marriage because he's a Christian (he'll accept "civil unions," like many Republicans will, but that's a farce, and a stand for inequality). So by saying what he did, exploiting the writer's prejudices, the Devil gets the interviewer to continue the Devil's work under Bush by support of Obama. Quite brilliant actually. Makes me wonder if there's more truth to his interviewing the Devil than even the author thought.  IP: Logged |
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Knowflake Posts: 470
From: Nov. 11 2005
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 14, 2010 09:19 AM
D- the comments at the bottom of the link expressed similar sentiments. I have a puerile sense of humor. Just typing the word puerile makes me smile, and smell banana peels. 
^*and it is interesting that the Devil has a soul, and it can pimple.
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shura
Knowflake Posts: 200
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posted January 23, 2010 11:17 PM
This is hysterical.  and ditto what dervish said. its funny as ... I was going to say funny as hell ... but there's a lot of subtle truth in there. That devil is one crafty ole son of a biitch. IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted January 24, 2010 02:00 PM
dervish you haven't noticed that the money the bush regime started pumping into the banks etc (in the process taking a large percentage of ownership) is going to be returned by obama who said, yes they need help but NOT WITHOUT OVERSIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITY...in other words, bush GAVE them billions, obama LOANED them more but he is going to insist the loan is paid off.a candidate does not know the whole story till he is IN OFFICE and briefed. then he has to decide to play along/enjoy the ride/ APPEAR to play along till he;s in position to turn things round...or...? IP: Logged |
Dervish
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posted January 25, 2010 12:22 AM
I've noticed Obama SAID pretty words, but I haven't seen the oversight & responsibility you speak of. In fact, I recall people getting upset when the banks and big biz continued to use that money just as irresponsibly as ever, in some cases even using it to move jobs overseas and/or give their guys at the top huge bonuses.There's more I could easily add, too. IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted January 25, 2010 01:07 PM
well this is off topic really, but can't resist pointing out that a bonus carries a minimum 50% tax with it, ie a 4bill bonus is 2 billion back to the govt...and they are hashing out some kind of extra tax to attach to that. of course you could say, so the govt gets it but that helps reduce the deficit and put some money into things that DO come to us little people...but like i say, its kind of off topic here. i the eternal optimist am witholding judging this administration yet. there is a lot we don't know about the pitfalls of working washington, and with the corporations now given free rein to fund or not the candidates who make them happy, trickier than ever. a minefield for anyone who actually wants to get anything done in our govt. some just go along, others keep their winning cards hidden until its safe to use them... IP: Logged |
Dervish
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posted January 26, 2010 07:50 PM
Taxes don't matter. They tend to go to big biz anyway:
http://reason.com/archives/2004/03/01/confessions-of-a-welfare-queen Also, the Democrats celebrated by their own looting the people, which I expect any taxes from the so-called "bail outs" helped with. One example:
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/622522.html IOW, I don't see taxes as going to us "little people." Actually, a quote is coming to mind now... "They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage." --attributed to Captain Bellamy explaining the difference between pirates & politicians by Defoe Speaking of which, another comes to mind: "I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of a half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of Racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international house of the Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras 'right' for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard went its way unmolested . . . Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents." --another classic from Smedley Butler, who also referred to himself as a Racketeer for Capitalism, in an interview to Common Sense magazine, 1935 Your tax dollars at work. There are other moral & ethical reasons I see for not paying taxes, too, even if you ignore the "taxation is theft" angle. IP: Logged | |
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