Frank Conniff
Obama mixed up Star Wars & Star Trek, upsetting all Americans afflicted with the disability of not having a fucking life.

... behavior or thinking!

Now I'm going to get a life.

Mr. Sulu sez:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755822/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/#51014253



I liked his interpretation.

He wasn't in that episode! (Spectre Of The Gun)

So he never got to see just what a Vulcan Mind Meld can do (besides being used to read another person's thoughts).

Now, don't get me wrong. I love George Takei!

But on this one, he just doesn't have all the facts.

this is all just too much for my poor brain. I don't remember all the precise details of trek-dom and stars-wars-ness!! It was soooo long ago and I'm so glued to the political disintegration of our democracy...

In a galaxy far far away?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

.... on this period in American history ... and it will seem like science fiction.

I keep thinking of the end of The Planet Of The Apes when Taylor cries out, "You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up!"

That's what the Rethugs are doing to America right now.

And let me just say, "God damn them all to hell!"

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-force-mind-meld-star-wars-star-trek2012-3

The president did not err.

Now will the rest of the world -- and other planets too -- let it go!

(I hear Eric Cantor is already talking impeachment.)

but I figured the President did.

Thanks napkinz for the vindication info.

Spock convinces a guard posted outside that all of them have escaped the room, the guard then opens the door and is jumped. Its one of the funner episodes in my humble opinion.

Of course this whole argument over Obama's reference is kind of silly but I'm bored.

Oh, yes, and of course Obama was right. That multidimensional chess thing Spock used to play with the computer, IIRC. Didn't know how that meme got attached to Obama in the first place but maybe it was from Star Trek. Yes, Obama rocks:

above: Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan

He called it a Jedi mind meld.

This is confusing the "Jedi mind trick" with the "Vulcan mind meld". The fact that a Vulcan mind meld can be used to influence the behavior of others means nothing.


If he had called it a "Vulcan mind trick" then you might have a point, maybe. As it is you are off base.


Not that it matters.

the wrong end of a Vulcan baseball bat.
They are the priests in the temple of corporate. They serve only their owners.

Caught me off-guard with that!

we're dealing with the equivelent of the Pakled here:

"Our government is broken, elect us to make it go"



"We protect your guns so you are strong!"

"Beneath The Planet Of The Apes"

Republicans' skulls are just too thick!

see reply http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022450522#post24

However, from another post in this thread, he's clean:

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-force-mind-meld-star-wars-star-trek2012-3

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes


Trying it on the Republicans is like trying it on the gorillas.

If you recall, the mutants found the gorillas they captured were too stupid to penetrate their minds.






If only the president could get Boner & Cantor to do this to each other:

Now that is true nerdom. Maybe that is the problem. He wasn't ENOUGH of a nerd. Not like (I am sure) Chris Hayes or Ezra Klein. They scream nerd, in a good way of course.

Arguments about semantics revolving around a TV show I bet there is an earthquake going on all along the East Coast, as our Founding Fathers rapidly spin in their graves.

to ensure that belief in the utter infallibility and perfection of a political hero is maintained.

We've argued over petty semantics involving tv shows for years. It's the business about the infallibity of a mere mortal politician that's fairly new in American discourse. We defend our own at the expense of the truth constantly, but seldom has it required defending our own at the expense of the truth over truly petty, picayune and meaningless details.

Some of the responses up-thread are almost scary, along the lines of, "Ah, I knew President Obama couldnt' be wrong, even over something as insignificant as this. I'm relieved to hear the truth that shows he is right and so vicariously I am also right."

This is not an ISSUE.

Just trying to find some light in a weary world. (to paraphrase the great Willy Wonka!)

and by far most importantly, the BANKS have forced upon America.

Greece part 2.

Now let's not bring movie musicals into this!

Come on, stick with sci-fi!

Who or what exactly enables "austerity", or "sequestration"?

Or, "many signs the government does what the banks and wall street and billionaires want".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022445620


Having seen that the US government are nothing but bank lackeys handing them our money and doing their bidding, know what their further plans for the US resemble: Greece.

Goldman Sachs timeline, conquests:

2010:

Voila! Greek Gov't Appoints Ex-Goldman Exec As New Debt Chief

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/02/19/838682/-Voila-Greek-Gov-t-Appoints-Ex-Goldman-Exec-As-New-Debt-Chief#


2011:

Arrest the Criminals at Goldman Sachs and in the Greek Government (video: Greg Palast)

http://www.v2load.com/videos/aQp22WN0cpg/


Also Italy's Prime Minister; the former attorney general of Ireland during the bailout; the head of the European Central Bank; and more:

http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/what-price-the-new-democracy-goldman-sachs-conquers-europe-acampadabcn-takethesquare-acampadasol-15m-occupy/


And why not America?

Citi Offered Jack Lew A Big Bonus To Secure A 'High-Level' Government Position
http://www.businessinsider.com/citis-government-job-bonus-for-jack-lew-2013-2#ixzz2Lz2XMamr

"It's not uncommon for a U.S. Treasury Secretary to have served on Wall Street, but what's interesting about this next one is that his bank gave him a pretty significant financial incentive make the leap."

Also, Goldman Sachs lackey Rahm Emmanuel has mentioned intending to run for president.

The billionaire Koch brothers helped create and fund the "tea party" which is a mechanism to install policies and politicians who will do their bidding.

Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022446064


And what about the people of this country?

12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022446153


Scattered, further analysis:

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-leaked-2006-citigroup-plutonomy-memo.html

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