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Monday, August 27, 2012
Ramirez
The Chicago Weasels. Heh.
In other news... we shall be departing ABQ later on this morning. We're gonna take the long way home and won't be arriving back in P-Ville until sometime tomorrow. Blogging might could be light as a result.
I am getting very tired of politics this year. To the point where I want to read what I want and just - stay silent in every respect. Facebook has beaten me to death with it and I'm even bored blogging about it. We'll see...
Have a safe drive Buck. I'm guessing you are going to put the Tart thru her paces on the backroads and cornering department. Lucky bastard.
I'm tired of it too, Kris... only a few more months and it'll be over except for the shouting. My "long way home" plans were overcome by events yesterday. My dentist's office called about a half hour after I put this post up and said they needed to see me ASAP... so we went straight home. (sigh)
Buck, since we're talkin' 'bout Obama (via cartoon) did you see what that narcissistic bastard did in Commemorating Neil Armstrong's death. Oh, the verbeige was appropriate enough, but on his tumblr page where he commemorated Armstrong, instead of posting a picture of Armstrong, the egotistical SOB posted a picture of HIMSELF gazing at the mooninstead--which calls forth a story (natch)
The ONLY OTHER parson I have EVER known in my life as narcissistic as Obama was a Professor of Philosophy from Greece that I had at LSU. He was in his late 30-early 40s and a helluva tennis player and used to practice with us (the LSU team) I took a course under him and, inevitably he invited the class over to his home for "coffee" one evening rather than normal class (he actually just wanted to hustle the young damsels in class--he & his wife had an open marriage--she openly picked up/hit on young guys on campus, lol) ANYWAY...main point is that he had painted a Greek freize as a wall/ceiling border around the entire dining room with all the Greek Gods on Olympus in appropriate poses--except for the fact that HIS OWN HEAD was portrayed on each and every male figure!!! LOL!!!!
I thought at the time that it can't possibly get any more conceited than that! Little did I know--I hadn't reckoned with the likes of an Obama.. Obama's advantage is that he has the working aparatus of the entire govt bureaucracy and mainstream press to paint HIS God-like portraits--one helluva advantage--my Greek-born professor was a piker by comparison--HIS portraits were limited to his dining room, while Obama has the entire bureaucracy to insert himself into the biographies of former Presidents--as well as a syncophantic press as an enabler (halo magazine-cover pictures anyone?)Obama should keep a cottage-ndustry of psychologists busy for years--except most are lefties and don't give a damn about his sociopathic foibles..
You're right about Obama. I really, really, rilly dislike that asshat. Yer prof sounds like an interesting guy, though.
Sorry to hear about yer friend, Virgil, but we ARE "of an age" where that sorta thang happens much more frequently. As an elderly (?) acquaintance of mine used to say: "I go to a lot more funerals than weddings now."
PS: In recounting this story, I'm sadly reminded that I only recently learned that my first roommate in college and my doubles-partner on the tennis team (who was a personal friend of the professor and a psychology major) passed away this last January at age 68. Too damned young! And too damned close! Gives one a funny feeling--an all too ever-present reminder that life is short and uncertain..
You know I'm not particularly fond of either name-brand party, but I sure am rooting for the one without Obama. The economy sucks, but all of the divisiveness and pandering is even more sickening, to me.
I always try to keep my blogging "light", as in no heavy duty topics/rants/raves/etc.
ReplyDeleteThis would be an instance where the Nuke would say: "Ha ha ha, duh, very funny Dad. You are SO clever. Not!"
I am getting very tired of politics this year. To the point where I want to read what I want and just - stay silent in every respect. Facebook has beaten me to death with it and I'm even bored blogging about it. We'll see...
ReplyDeleteHave a safe drive Buck. I'm guessing you are going to put the Tart thru her paces on the backroads and cornering department. Lucky bastard.
I'm tired of it too, Kris... only a few more months and it'll be over except for the shouting. My "long way home" plans were overcome by events yesterday. My dentist's office called about a half hour after I put this post up and said they needed to see me ASAP... so we went straight home. (sigh)
DeleteBuck, since we're talkin' 'bout Obama (via cartoon) did you see what that narcissistic bastard did in Commemorating Neil Armstrong's death. Oh, the verbeige was appropriate enough, but on his tumblr page where he commemorated Armstrong, instead of posting a picture of Armstrong, the egotistical SOB posted a picture of HIMSELF gazing at the mooninstead--which calls forth a story (natch)
ReplyDeleteThe ONLY OTHER parson I have EVER known in my life as narcissistic as Obama was a Professor of Philosophy from Greece that I had at LSU. He was in his late 30-early 40s and a helluva tennis player and used to practice with us (the LSU team) I took a course under him and, inevitably he invited the class over to his home for "coffee" one evening rather than normal class (he actually just wanted to hustle the young damsels in class--he & his wife had an open marriage--she openly picked up/hit on young guys on campus, lol) ANYWAY...main point is that he had painted a Greek freize as a wall/ceiling border around the entire dining room with all the Greek Gods on Olympus in appropriate poses--except for the fact that HIS OWN HEAD was portrayed on each and every male figure!!! LOL!!!!
I thought at the time that it can't possibly get any more conceited than that! Little did I know--I hadn't reckoned with the likes of an Obama..
Obama's advantage is that he has the working aparatus of the entire govt bureaucracy and mainstream press to paint HIS God-like portraits--one helluva advantage--my Greek-born professor was a piker by comparison--HIS portraits were limited to his dining room, while Obama has the entire bureaucracy to insert himself into the biographies of former Presidents--as well as a syncophantic press as an enabler (halo magazine-cover pictures anyone?)Obama should keep a cottage-ndustry of psychologists busy for years--except most are lefties and don't give a damn about his sociopathic foibles..
You're right about Obama. I really, really, rilly dislike that asshat. Yer prof sounds like an interesting guy, though.
DeleteSorry to hear about yer friend, Virgil, but we ARE "of an age" where that sorta thang happens much more frequently. As an elderly (?) acquaintance of mine used to say: "I go to a lot more funerals than weddings now."
PS: In recounting this story, I'm sadly reminded that I only recently learned that my first roommate in college and my doubles-partner on the tennis team (who was a personal friend of the professor and a psychology major) passed away this last January at age 68. Too damned young! And too damned close! Gives one a funny feeling--an all too ever-present reminder that life is short and uncertain..
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I'm a resolute hedonist! LOL.
PPS: Iowahawk--as usual--has, in his own inimitable style, done me one FAR better on this subject! Go See!
ReplyDeleteYou know I'm not particularly fond of either name-brand party, but I sure am rooting for the one without Obama. The economy sucks, but all of the divisiveness and pandering is even more sickening, to me.
ReplyDeleteI sure am rooting for the one without Obama.
DeleteYou are NOT alone.