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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Flim Flam Man

(fr. True Fashionista Now!)

I have here in my pocket -

and thank heaven you can't see them -

lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this:

French postcards.

They were sold to me in front of your

own innocent high school

by a man with a black beard... a foreigner

--Elmer Gantry
(1960)

Alice
: One can't believe impossible things
Queen
: When I was younger,
I always did it for half an hour a day.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as

six impossible things before breakfast

--Alice in Wonderland
,
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

________________

Two incompatible headlines from yesterday's news:

"Obama's Task: Maintaining Support for U.S. War"

"Fed Holds Interest Rate as U.S. Recovery Limps"

It seems
mauvaise foi to argue for two contradictory things; it can't be both. Yet Mr. Obama continues to tout the resilient (not so) U.S. economy.

In keeping with our lead-in quotation, a third might be the headlines for Michelle Obama's current South African trip while the raging waters are soon to breach the dikes in North Dakota, a very uncool place for a new jet-setter like
Shelly O. (North Dakota Residents Flee as Historic Flood Waters Rise):

"Michelle Obama, Daughters Make Splash in South Africa"

She's unlikely to make a splash when the poor folks in Minot are inundated; the First Lady always manages to be on a junket when our nation faces a crisis. At least she was not shown frolicking poolside as during her trip a few months ago to South America. That would have been
tres unchic considering the floundering state of the nation she would pretend to represent.

{Note: Ashwin Madia, Iraq war vet and interim Chair of
VoteVets.org wrote a solid piece in HuffPo yesterday on the President's speech -- Time for Troops to Come Home. Madia accuses Obama of violating President Lincoln's dictum: "You can't please all of the people all of the time" by fronting a mish-mashed war policy in Iraq and Afghanistan.}

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9 Comments:

Blogger Underground Carpenter said...

Hi Lisa,

Amazing, isn't it, how little he gathers with the largest intelligence-gathering organization in the world.

Dave

Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 1:55:00 PM EST  
Blogger Ghost Dansing said...

confused i am. the way i walk by The Cramps. terror is not a crime.... it's just misunderstood... like Barack and Michelle.

Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 5:42:00 PM EST  
Blogger Ghost Dansing said...

root problem as always is promiscuous sailors...

Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 6:28:00 PM EST  
Blogger Ghost Dansing said...

politicians do have an occupational dilemma...

Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 6:43:00 PM EST  
Blogger Lisa said...

G.D. when I suggested it was he in the front row @ .38, he suggested that he might've been at this show instead :)

Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 8:03:00 PM EST  
Blogger Lisa said...

Dave,

Yes it is.

Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 8:03:00 PM EST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The reply I still get from folk who still support Obama for 2012 when they learn that I won't be supporting him next year is "The Republicans will be so much worse."

So lame, and I don't see that much difference between the doom and gloom scenarios and what's going on in the states now as I write this, and no coordinated push-back by the White House and Deomocratic leadership.

Instead we get cave-ins and cooperation with some very sick people.

You may recall a remark I made about seeing the last Harry Potter film coming up? I was referring to what some online have called your Governor Rick Scott . . . . Voldemort.

I understand the fellow has created so many jobs for lawyers, he's being sued.

bb

Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 9:08:00 PM EST  
Blogger Lisa said...

bb,

It is an interesting phenomena, the mediocrity which the many call a good. Like you, I wonder how much more doom and gloomy we could get with another. Obama strikes me as naught but a placeholder who could be easily re-slotted.

Ah, yes -- I can now see the similarity bet. Pink Slip Rick and Voldemort (I looked the latter up as I haven't read nor seen harry Potter; i think I'm one of the few Americans who hasn't.) He really is horrid, and I have my fellow Floridians to thank for him.

Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 10:06:00 PM EST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gees, wonder if the folk in Minot are going to rape, pillage & plunder like the folk in Katrina/Narleans,? Or, are they going to come cooperatively together,without waiting for the gunvernment...etc, etc etc....

Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 7:43:00 PM EST  

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