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1. ricpic:

Launch now Israel, before the Arab’s in the White House.

Nov 19, 2008 - 9:40 am 2. David Thomson:

Barack Obama is not a real threat to Muslim extremists. He is a self hating American who believes we have crapped on the dark peoples of the world. Obama will therefore grovel to our enemies and beg their forgiveness. The newly elected president will most assuredly gut the war on terror.

Nov 19, 2008 - 11:03 am 3. Carl Gordon:

The typical Repug is the epitome of equal parts philosophy of the absurd and Thomas Pynchon: man’s futile search for meaning, dessert, and unity and clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God and eternal truths or values. Does this realization of the absurd require suicide or at the very least a B.S. in Business Administration? No. It requires revolt. And as revolting as Repugs are, it seems that at times they’re condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a mountain of bullshit, taking out the trash(McCain), or finding clarity and purpose in a house full of fellow hacks and pinheads, only to see their best intentions and needs cast off like so much dung, as it rolls down the hill of their degradation. Huh? The struggle itself is enough to fill a man’s heart, yet he dies of hunger.

How should these abused and tattered downy princes of York live in the rapidly approaching winter of their discontent? Clearly, no ethical rules apply, as they are all based on higher powers or on false justifications based on Bronze age fairy tales. They tell me that integrity has no need of rules. Everything is permitted. Certainly not an outburst of relief or of joy, but rather a bitter acknowledgment of a fact and dismal prospects whence facing the Fall T.V. schedule.

I sometimes picture them, unwitting servants in a cosmic play, serial seducers who lives the passionate life to the fullest but still can’t get it up. There is no noble love but that which recognizes itself to be both short-lived and exceptional. Actors, who depicts ephemeral lives for ephemeral fame, demonstrating to what degree appearing creates being. In this silly play on the SRO stage that’s their lives, they travel the whole course of the dead-end path that the observer in the audience takes a lifetime to cover, or just enough to be annoying. Or crazier yet, their role as absurd men take on the aura of the conqueror, the warrior who forgoes all promises of eternity to affect and engage fully in human history, choosing action over contemplation, aware of the fact that nothing can last and no victory is final.

Nov 19, 2008 - 12:16 pm 4. David Thomson:

“The typical Repug is the epitome of equal parts philosophy of the absurd and Thomas Pynchon”

The so-called typical Repug is not a postmodernist. They believe in logical argumentation. Do you have a specific complaint?

Nov 19, 2008 - 12:56 pm 5. tim maguire:

I think you sell Carl short David. I rather like his next line, “man’s futile search for meaning, [and] dessert.”

Describes my life. Except I manage the dessert a few times a week.

Nov 19, 2008 - 1:21 pm 6. California Dreamer:

Looks more like it was cut and pasted from some NPR transcript complaining about reduced public funding. A lot of sound and fury signifying………..

Nov 19, 2008 - 2:02 pm 7. gippergal:

I think voters thought that the perception of America around the globe would actually matter in terms of national security: if only our image changed, then hatred would dissipate; after all, we provoked those terrorists with our materialistic ways, right?

Racial slurs and epithets aimed at our new President-Elect are simply not surprising to me, given the source.

I hope that the liberal illuminati aren’t too disappointed when they realize that hero-worship in North America and Europe doesn’t translate to Islamic extremists.

Nov 19, 2008 - 8:03 pm 8. buddy larsen:

I sometimes picture Carl Gorden, frustrated and loose-toothed after having absent-mindedly bitten deep into his thesaurus while looking up a word in his peanut-butter sandwich, suddenly slapping his forehead in relief as he realizes he can explain himself as not a moron at all, but rather a merely-temporarily unfortunate overachiever whose accident (”Actually,” he startlingly loudly exclaims, “…anything BUT klutzlike!”) was the result of a fierce, perhaps even savage, will to accomplish simultaneously the if not contradictory then at least certainly semidictory dual duty to impress & insult local yokels reading Roger, while also satisfying that ever-routine, always banal, usually messy, concession to the fact of his own entrapment inside the snack-crazed body of a numbskull.

Nov 20, 2008 - 1:37 am 9. cfbleachers:

LOL. You know, Buddy…I thought I had a fairly substantial IQ when I tried to read what that guy wrote…and I still couldn’t make any sense of it.

It appears that this flamer comes here to simply find a way to insult people who don’t agree with his one lever, echo chamber, lockstep, goosestepping, pap.

It’s funny, these ayersholes go out of their way to show that they are three things at their core.

Cowardly, mendacious, treasonous.

Really, what kind of personality defect does it take to come to a site dominated by moderate thinkers, an array of traditional/classic paleo-liberals, libertarians, independents…and non-lockstep thinkers…and call them “repugs”.

The instant I see that attempted epithet, I automatically know we’re dealing with a buffoon of the lowest order. Panting little Soros chihuahuas alternately humping the legs of Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky and searching out serious discussions where they can soil the rug.

What kind of flaming ayershole personality does it take to go to a site simply to spit up bile all over their Bushhitler T-shirt? It takes all kinds to make a world, but cowards, traitors and pathological liars don’t make it a better place to live.

Nov 20, 2008 - 4:10 am 10. cfbleachers:

President-elect Obama has an interesting moment on his hands. Lapdog Chris Matthews was lamenting that the “wait” for the new President to “take over” was taking too long.

Well, be careful what you wish for. Here is an early defining moment. So far, …nothing.

Al Qaeda is positioning and framing the issues. They essentially are marginalizing the new administration, using their own preemptive strikes, using a complicit media to shape and distort how events are portrayed. They would make great leftist Democrats.

It is also interesting how they use the Baghdad Bob response to the situation in Iraq. The Obama campaign drumbeat on Iraq is being used to suggest that the rush to scurry away in fear and trepidation was caused by their mighty resistance.

And what is a video by them without the obligatory slam on Jewish people? They stick a thumb in President-elect Obama’s eye…by callling him “born of a Muslim father”…but show him at the wailing wall in a yarmulke.

Insulting him, calling him a provocative insult…is nothing that Harry Belafonte didn’t do, Jeremiah Wright didn’t do, virtually all of the leftist landscape didn’t do…to Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell (pre-conversion), or Clarence Thomas. (or frankly, what Ralph Nader and James Manning already said about Obama)

But, leftists have a tough time with gauging the appropriate reaction. Frankly, most of them agree with the sentiments of Al-Qaeda and are more closely aligned WITH the statements than against them….(except for the ad hominem insults against Obama, which they prefer would only come against non-leftists)

Painting President-elect Obama as “more of the same, only in a different face” is pretty much what the leftists did to McCain…who clearly was quite different in approach, policy and core ideology than was President Bush.

It was like watching leftists, ….get outmaneuvered in their own playbook.

What it does signal, is that every concession, every capitulation, every appeasement…will be used as a club to beat America over the head and give Al Qaeda and their ilk a chance to thump their chests and claim victory, recruit more zealots and encourage them to do more damage.

So, can we learn anything from all this? Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and all the rest will watch intently as we await the response. The “easy” road is to simply play to the world stage and take a world head count. There are only 16 million Jews…so, selling them out is an easy choice. What would Pontious Pilate do, if he were alive today? He’d wash his hands of the whole affair and let the UN do what they will with the Jews.

As a policy matter, Robert Malley and Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Jones, the ICG…all point in the same direction. The wholesale sellout of Israel’s interests, the defalcation of a morally bankrupt attempt to weasel out of a lifelong promise to stand by her side by those who tried to murder her in her infancy. The abandonment of Israel to the kangaroo court of the UN General Assembly.

On the bright side, as the terrorists are emboldened and claim with glee that we are cowards who were made to run away in tears at our bloodied noses…the brie munching crowd in Europe will toast us more often. That’s something, isn’t it?

Nov 20, 2008 - 5:05 am 11. buddy larsen:

cfbleachers –good reads, thanks –but, don’t you think Rahm Emanuel will mithridate the inner circle against the Carter Syndrome re Israel?

Nov 20, 2008 - 8:14 am 12. Carl Gordon:

Intersting. And with just enough “elitist” pseudo-intellectual rhetoric to satisfy all the rats scampering o’er the rails of your sinking ship in attempts to disassociate from your fellow losers. And of course the mis-directed animosity at me simply because you can’t stand both the finality of defeat and the repudiation of your hollow and defective “principles”. Could it be that you believe that the ‘reason’ and ‘logic’ of bourgeois capitalist society that has led people into war, has obviously failed like everything else, and with that failure, an explosive epiphany of reactive angst and ire has been directed at the very values foisted upon the unsuspecting and ignorant, in turn, cause you to depict all that is absurd and ultimately flawed, rejecting any even mere pretense of morals or ethical value. Or, as some would stipulate, an expressed rejection of that ideology in the form of a personal attack that appears to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality.

With these days consisting of mind-deadeningly 24-7 news cycles and instant microwavable breakfast tart with 11 different flavors of pink cheese flavored shit, it’s certainly refreshing to behold something comically fall apart under the weight of it’s own horseshit, the term “conservative” ultimately historically referred to as the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man. An insane spectacle of collective homicide, but with nice marketing potential. A perfect anathema to Thomas Kincade and his kaleidoscopic abortions. I would like to say in the future, when historians refer to your silly gibberish, a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the Bush economic and moral crisis, a monster, yet ironically a savior, which would lay waste to everything in its path. A systematic painter of destruction and demoralization…In the end nothing but a loving act of sacrilege.

Nov 20, 2008 - 1:13 pm 13. Rhod:

Jeez. Blinded. Cooper The last time I felt this numb was with that other Cooper’s “Afloat and Offshore”, the Fenimore one. For Christ’s sake, Carl, get a copy of Strunk/White.

Nov 20, 2008 - 4:07 pm 14. Rhod:

Oh yeah, Carl. Before you crawl up to your perch on the dunk tank again, Google the Gunning Fog Index.

Nov 20, 2008 - 4:23 pm 15. Carl Gordon:

Hey, thanks for the tip! I’m editing my novel right now and this will come in handy.

Things have taken a decidedly weird bent as I struggle against conceits and falsehoods foisted by the uninformed, and on top of that, and I can’t get anybody interested in thoroughbred racing at Hollywodd Park. Faced with a divorce of reality and ideas courtesy of FOX, Rush, Hannity, etc., I attempt to unify the two not only to make a convenient target, but to further understanding of the incomprehensible, I often use a variety of Hegel’s concepts in conjunction with a nearby convenient Louisville Slugger upside the cranium of obstinate dittoheads. I’ll let you know how successful I was after I post bail.

Nov 20, 2008 - 5:04 pm 16. buddy larsen:

Speaking of James Fenimore Cooper, i gotta rate the Michael Mann version of “Last of the Mohicans” among my top five or ten favorite all-time best films. Now I have to get back to editing my hovel.

Nov 20, 2008 - 8:31 pm 17. Rhod:

“Things (what things?) have taken (tense) a decidedly (unnecessary) weird bent (cliche, hackneyed expression) conceits and falsehoods (both?) foisted (sic) by the uninformed”.

Exceptional writing. The sentence must mean you’ve received lots of rejection letters. Try a vanity publisher.

Nov 21, 2008 - 2:56 am 18. Webrider:

Actually, Carl Gordon’s “writing” reminds me of nothing so much as the type of “literate views” of gushing art critics jumping on the bandwagon of the latest greatest ever artist and the “movement to a new genre that they are inspiring”, as they pump up the sales in their favorite gallery (who is probably paying them under the table, like all “progressive operations”, it’s dishonest). Nothing like a “progressive” to look at history and say “our way is better, even though it has NEVER WORKED, IT WILL THIS TIME, BECAUSE I AM HERE”. You may inset the rapture of a Chris Matthews for Obama in place of “because I am here”, but generally it’s just self-centered narcissism that drives these people to think they really understand the world, and conservative/libertarians do not.

Nov 21, 2008 - 7:55 am 19. Rhod:

Web, he’s composing dialogue for some fatuous, self-adoring public school toff, of the kind parodied by Monty Python.

Nov 21, 2008 - 11:14 am 20. Sunny Black:

Just so everyone knows much of what Carl Gordon wrote in his post, I found them on the wikipedia page for The Myth of Sisyphus (by Camus). Carl Gordon did not bother to credit his source or put quotations. Should we assume Carl Gordon is really Joe Biden (or Barack cum Bill Ayers?)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_myth_of_sisyphus)

Oct 15, 2009 - 7:05 am

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