Holy fuck.  I can have Jesus ridin' a bull for only thirty bucks?!  Where's my wallet?

Last edited by Taint (2008-01-03 15:13:36)

This one was modeled after me.  That's not a rappelling harness...

I think I'm getting a reserrection!

pALEPHx wrote:

Of course Jesus can go free-climbing. Fall down, get resurrected, etc. This is the one that requires a bit of explanation for me:

http://www.xmere.com/forums/uploads/hig … beggar.jpg

I suppose we've given up on the whole 'teaching a man to fish' thing, eh? What's the point if there's an All-He-Can-Eat buffet place down the road? Besides, I thought Mr. Christ already had a trade.

Well after kicking ass fighting in wars, Jesus is now just another out-of-work veteran panhandling on the streets.

It is good we are boning up on our Jesus because the Republicans just nominated our first Pastor in Chief to head up the coming theocratic administration. If you thought you had Jesus's number all figured out you ain't seen nothing yet.

I guess he really did take the call.

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pALEPHx wrote:

While I wouldn't go so far as to say he won't even survive past NH, I fully expect him to plug along even after others in the party tell him to fuck off. Huckles can't beat Obama (or Dodd, for that matter), so it really isn't important that he considers himself "God's personal choice" for President.

It bears pointing out that nobody ever got rich by over-estimating the intelligence and rationality of the American populace.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

It bears pointing out that nobody ever got rich by over-estimating the intelligence and rationality of the American populace.

Ah, but they can be elected president for counting on the exact opposite, and that's clearly the way to become rich these days. After you leave office, and if you can avoid impeachment, that is. How often have you heard the excuse, "The American public doesn't want to get caught up with a lengthy trial, especially during an election year"? Yes, it's always best to avoid prosecution when it could be inconvenient. Or you already own many of the federal judges in the country. They may twirl, but we just keep sittin' an' spinnin'.

I need one of these just to answer the age old question:  WWJD?

pALEPHx wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

It bears pointing out that nobody ever got rich by over-estimating the intelligence and rationality of the American populace.

Some good ideas paid off. Whosasailorthen's personal computer project comes to mind.

The quote eluding you here is HL Mencken's regular refrain, no one ever LOST money underestimating the taste and sophistication of the American public, the great unwashed, the booboisie as he called us.

"No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

(H.L. Mencken. Notes on Journalism. The Chicago Sunday Tribune, September 19, 1926)

    Familiar enough, until you examine its context. Appearing in the last paragraph at the end of a reflective Sunday column, the quote concludes...

"The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable. The tabloids, seeking to force such things upon them, will inevitably alarm them and lose their trade. The journalism of the future--that is, the mob journalism--will move in the direction that I have indicated."

    Mencken was right, of course. It did. The tabloid press was still in its infancy, but he recognized its innovations -- a format that was easier to print, easier to distribute, easier to carry, easier to read in crowds and easier to digest -- were uniquely suited to a profitable mass market of the lowest order.

    Mencken might just as well have inserted Television for Tabloids, as he did later in other ways for radio and movies. If he were still alive, would he see the same dismal potential in computer networks?

    "What [plain people] are interested in is drama," Mencken counselled tabloid magnates. "The thing presented to them must take the form of combat, and it must be very simple combat, with one side clearly right and the other clearly wrong. They can no more imagine neutrality than they can imagine the fourth dimension. And when they see drama they want to see it moving."

    Or do you prefer your nilhist tonic Teutonic? Mencken was, after all, just first generation German-American. Shiller was the genuine article.

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

Against fools, even the gods fight in vain.

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