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Excuse Michael Gerson While He Whips This OutCharles P. Pierce
Esquire
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"And there you have it. We are going to kill people in Syria out of pure imperial dick-waving. These people will have fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and fifth-cousins-once-removed, and every one of those people will hate us until the day we die, and they will teach their children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and fifth-cousins-once-removed to hate us, too, forever. This is not 'therapeutic. This is Vietnam, 1962. And to set such things in motion just to prove we still have sufficient national penis to do it is the dumbest reason for making war since the last one devised by anyone who worked for George W. Bush, the ungelded fool."
The article: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/A_Bad_Reason_Is_Stated_Badly
jsr
(7,712 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Picture perfect.
bigtree
(85,998 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023609972
jsr
(7,712 posts)Obama, Putin penis painting confiscated
September 5 2013 at 07:56am
Moscow - Russian police have raided an erotica museum in St Petersburg and confiscated a painting showing a naked Vladimir Putin with an erect penis squaring off at his equally naked US counterpart Barack Obama, a curator said on Wednesday.
The raid on the museum, which describes itself as one of the largest erotica museums in Europe, took place on Tuesday night ahead of Obama's expected arrival in Russia's second city to take part in the G20 summit later this week.
The museum's curator, Alexander Donskoi, said the museum was temporarily shut down, suggesting that the gesture was political.
I do not understand why it's necessary to mix arts and politics, he told AFP.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)He's a failure at art history, no doubt. But so willing to protect the poor little minds running the government in Russia from criticism.
Autumn
(45,109 posts)Arts and politics are a perfect mix.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and John Kerry is being the dick waver in chief by proxy.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)The inbred behaviors of our monkey ancestry often rears it's head in such dick waving episodes.
The behaviorists often label it as pride, but when a male of the species perceives himself as being rendered impudent these ill conceived incidents like this always pop up.
You can actually draw parallels to this story if you would consider that the pencil pushing geeks who consider themselves as spies would be out of a job if the will of the people was adhered to.
N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Remembering to tell Agent Mike
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)not 'impudent'. But maybe I'm wrong.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Occasionally i am a good listener, but the skill of being a writer of wit i have never possessed
G20 summit: Cameron passionate but impotent on Syria strikes
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/06/g20-cameron-passionate-impotent-syria
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Laochtine
(394 posts)Fear is just a byproduct
Whisp
(24,096 posts)who'd a thought!
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)"Imperial dick-waving" reminds me of probably-apocryphal but oft-repeated stories of the mighty LBJ pecker and how Ho Chi Minh was getting none of it.
We have a proud history of dick-waving in this country.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)of the exclusive club for white men don't know how to pull out once they're in. They have to be pulled apart like stuck dogs.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)There's a black man in that exclusive club right now. Just wanted to clarify that Obama is, in fact, waving his weeny as we speak. Making Congress wave their weenies with him, while Constitutionally correct, is still weenie waving.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)yet I think when you look globally, weenie waving is pretty universal
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Many leaders in Africa, for instance, weenie wave, but then they also wave machetes. Bad stuff all over this screwed up world.
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)I have been waiting for this analogy to surface!!
I have long called it "weeny-waving" and it applies to so many issues these days!
As soon as we can show these juvenile delinquents that we see it as weeny-waving and will act like adults in dealing with them, maybe we can make some progress in actual human interests.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)in people's face long enough, expect blowback
jsr
(7,712 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)"Why else do you think the rockets and missiles are shaped like dicks? It's called fucking with people!!!"
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 6, 2013, 02:44 PM - Edit history (1)
xocet
(3,871 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)then call it a day?
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Yeah, save a few thousand (or more) lives in the process.
BTW - That picture still gives me the creeps.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Maybe I should have put a graphic warning or disclaimer on it...
Unfortunately it makes a point the expense of going
My apologies
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)... I'll chip in if you promise to never show me that picture again!
TYY
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)McCain, probably yes. Lieberman, certainly.
Everybody is trying to pin this down but it
can't be done, in my opinion. Too many
facets, most of which are in a constant
state of change.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Not that impressive, really.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)so John Kerry will be able to look at the dead without getting images in his head.
Blue Owl
(50,429 posts)n/t