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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:33 AM Sep 2013

Sufficient National Penis

Excuse Michael Gerson While He Whips This Out
Charles P. Pierce
Esquire

(snip)

"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

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Sufficient National Penis (Original Post) WilliamPitt Sep 2013 OP
Yep, Syria is the new dick-measuring contest jsr Sep 2013 #1
We cannot allow a penis length gap! phantom power Sep 2013 #2
LOL! Perfect! nt Xipe Totec Sep 2013 #4
ROFLMAO avaistheone1 Sep 2013 #22
Putin's bound to want to prove his is bigger bigtree Sep 2013 #3
Obama, Putin penis painting confiscated jsr Sep 2013 #5
EEK! need pic . . . n/t annabanana Sep 2013 #19
That last quote from the curator... he must have been appointed to the position. gtar100 Sep 2013 #20
I would say that Mr. Donskoi is a fucking idiot. Autumn Sep 2013 #31
say -that- 10 times fast. Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #38
"pure imperial dick waving". yep. cali Sep 2013 #6
Some people never get why they say 'the bigger man always walks away' nolabels Sep 2013 #7
I'm guessing you wanted to say 'rendered impotent' Bay Boy Sep 2013 #26
You are right! nolabels Sep 2013 #34
What good is a penis without a hole to jam it into?? Blue_Tires Sep 2013 #8
We sell war, so we can sell war so we can sell war Laochtine Sep 2013 #9
esquire obsessing about peni (is that plural or is that a pasta?) Whisp Sep 2013 #10
Anybody who can use "gossoons" in a sentence is my hero. lapislzi Sep 2013 #11
And these members felix_numinous Sep 2013 #12
This reply is going to be the first and probably only time I mention race tavalon Sep 2013 #40
I was referring to one tradition felix_numinous Sep 2013 #41
Yeah, you are right tavalon Sep 2013 #42
LOL!!! 2naSalit Sep 2013 #13
Why don't we just settle it with a ruler? badtoworse Sep 2013 #14
and when you wave your dick.. awoke_in_2003 Sep 2013 #15
or a Bobbitt jsr Sep 2013 #16
George Carlin once said "war is just a big prick waving dick fight." Initech Sep 2013 #18
Here Ya Go... WillyT Sep 2013 #21
As we speak there is already a jam band forming named "Sufficient National Penis" Initech Sep 2013 #17
Would "The Subway Kittens" open for "Sufficient National Penis"? n/t xocet Sep 2013 #27
That would make an awesome 6 hour jam fest. Initech Sep 2013 #30
Can't we all chip in and buy Obama a codpiece bigger than Bush's, avaistheone1 Sep 2013 #23
+1000 MissDeeds Sep 2013 #25
Me bad. avaistheone1 Sep 2013 #33
Ack... TeeYiYi Sep 2013 #37
I don't believe this is what it's about for Obama. Voice for Peace Sep 2013 #24
Oh, my! blkmusclmachine Sep 2013 #28
Here is our National Penis: MineralMan Sep 2013 #29
But bombs leave visible wounds and blood ... GeorgeGist Sep 2013 #32
Talk about a Weiner scandal... Blue Owl Sep 2013 #35
Don't forget that republicans are turned off by the size of Obama's package... madinmaryland Sep 2013 #36
Another awesome band name. Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #39

jsr

(7,712 posts)
5. Obama, Putin penis painting confiscated
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:46 AM
Sep 2013
http://www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/obama-putin-penis-painting-confiscated-1.1573170

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.

gtar100

(4,192 posts)
20. That last quote from the curator... he must have been appointed to the position.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:43 PM
Sep 2013

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.

nolabels

(13,133 posts)
7. Some people never get why they say 'the bigger man always walks away'
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:08 PM
Sep 2013

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

nolabels

(13,133 posts)
34. You are right!
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 04:19 PM
Sep 2013

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

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
11. Anybody who can use "gossoons" in a sentence is my hero.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:50 PM
Sep 2013

"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)
12. And these members
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:03 PM
Sep 2013

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)
40. This reply is going to be the first and probably only time I mention race
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 01:12 PM
Sep 2013

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.

tavalon

(27,985 posts)
42. Yeah, you are right
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 02:42 PM
Sep 2013

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)
13. LOL!!!
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:04 PM
Sep 2013

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.

Initech

(100,081 posts)
18. George Carlin once said "war is just a big prick waving dick fight."
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:22 PM
Sep 2013

"Why else do you think the rockets and missiles are shaped like dicks? It's called fucking with people!!!"

Initech

(100,081 posts)
17. As we speak there is already a jam band forming named "Sufficient National Penis"
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:19 PM
Sep 2013

Last edited Fri Sep 6, 2013, 02:44 PM - Edit history (1)

 

MissDeeds

(7,499 posts)
25. +1000
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 02:13 PM
Sep 2013

Yeah, save a few thousand (or more) lives in the process.

BTW - That picture still gives me the creeps.

 

avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)
33. Me bad.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 03:10 PM
Sep 2013

Maybe I should have put a graphic warning or disclaimer on it...

Unfortunately it makes a point the expense of going



My apologies

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
24. I don't believe this is what it's about for Obama.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 02:05 PM
Sep 2013

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.

GeorgeGist

(25,321 posts)
32. But bombs leave visible wounds and blood ...
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 03:05 PM
Sep 2013

so John Kerry will be able to look at the dead without getting images in his head.

As a father, I can’t get the image out of my head of a man who held up his dead child, wailing while chaos swirled around him, the images of entire families dead in their beds without a drop of blood or even a visible wound
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