Socrates & Obama

[Bled Welder]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:

> I could not watch it.  I tried.  Because the person I was with was glued
> to it.  It was military.  There were a bunch of troops lining his path,
> forget about it.  Did he pray?  No I got really upset, started yelling,
> when some blind idiot in heavy shades and bobbing head all smiley was
> banging on a piano.
>
> The closest I get to religion is not our government, not Jesus, not
> Ishkur, but I have actually mated with Inanna, or I should say she mated me.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOi2nVB31GM
>
> We all reach pinnacles of our lives.  As a matter of logic this must be
> true, we don't just keep getting higher all the time.  When Floyd went into
> Pompeii, that was not only their moment, but it was rocks moment.  Nothing
> greater has been achieved since.  From minute 10 to 13.5, is the greatest
> jam in rock history.
>
> Pompeii is the closest I come to a religious experience.  Jesus didn't
> even exist.  But Mason, he's right fucking there....
>
> I've had hair down to my waist before, but of late I've been sporting the
> Pitt do from Fight Club, but you know what, I'm going to honor the immortal
> Roger Waters with the 70s do, long over the ears to the shoulders, but with
> bangs--I think Socrates had the same style....
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:17 AM, alice wellintown <
> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I do not like tv, but yesterday I did take in a good bit of the
>> Washington stuff, and, recently, took in a frontline on Obama, and got the
>> idea that dialogue is needed in our government, that is, the folks who
>> manage that part of our nation, mismanage, abuse power, and make wars even
>> citizens live in increasing poverty and declining standards, I got to
>> thinking a profile in cowardice may define this president who, of course,
>> came to us from audacity, promised hope and change, left us with bit change
>> in our piggy banks, hopeless in tents, foreclosed and forgotten, even as he
>> wrapped himself in the cloth of King, made a bluster of civil rights, even
>> as the center of our rights, and the power to exercise them, our economic
>> foundation, crumbles in an agonist if failure to dialectic.
>
>
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