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Parkbandit
10-28-2009, 01:08 PM
" There is a new president and a new NEA. The president first. This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists."

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=13

:rofl:
AnticorRifling
10-28-2009, 01:14 PM
I hate reading shit like that. I got irritated at the mention of the father playing the violin in the symphony and it went downhill from there.
TheEschaton
10-28-2009, 01:54 PM
That's blatantly ridiculous.
4a6c1
10-28-2009, 01:56 PM
I think we were listening to the same radio show today. :)
Some Rogue
10-28-2009, 02:27 PM
Did you know Barak Obama stands 10 feet tall and weighs about 2 tons? And one time a drop of his sweat cured a blind kid? You know he jumped off the Empire State Building this one time and he only sprained his ankle? Did you know he could eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing?
ElvenFury
10-28-2009, 02:32 PM
If Barak Obama were here, he'd slaughter you all with fireballs from his eyes and lightning bolts out of his arse!

http://shellgames.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/mel-gibson-braveheart-photograph-c101019223.jpg

For Optimism!!!
Cephalopod
10-28-2009, 02:32 PM
Did Abraham Lincoln even WRITE any books?
Latrinsorm
10-28-2009, 02:39 PM
Did Abraham Lincoln even WRITE any books?It's not clear whether he wrote any books, but he was a prolific writer in other forms. There are hundreds of pages in collections made posthumously.
Tisket
10-28-2009, 02:42 PM
The real question is: did Julius Caesar write anything noteworthy? Other than a blow-by-blow account of his campaigns I mean.
NocturnalRob
10-28-2009, 02:48 PM
Other than a blow-by-blow account of his campaigns I mean.
De Bello Gallico. Dumb bitch.
Cephalopod
10-28-2009, 03:07 PM
It's not clear whether he wrote any books, but he was a prolific writer in other forms. There are hundreds of pages in collections made posthumously.

That's why I specifically said 'write books'. From Rocco Landesman's address:

"This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln."

To my knowledge, Lincoln never wrote his own book.

It makes me sad that someone chairing the NEA would write drivel like this. (Not just this bit, the whole rest of the article. Ugh.)
ElvenFury
10-28-2009, 03:12 PM
He does have a point though. Art does draw in gay people, who tend to turn rundown, crappy ghettos into faaaaabulous villages.
Sean of the Thread
10-28-2009, 03:17 PM
EF wins.


./Thread
AnticorRifling
10-28-2009, 04:16 PM
He does have a point though. Art does draw in gay people, who tend to turn rundown, crappy ghettos into faaaaabulous villages.

What the fuck is the word that describes going into a run down area, fixing it to the point the value increases and those that lived there can no longer afford it and are forced to move to another poor area?

For the life of me I can't remember the word Arrrggh.
Parkbandit
10-28-2009, 04:22 PM
Did Palin write her own book? Haven't heard one way or the other.

Right on queue, It.

"B-b-b-b-b-b-but the Republicans!"
Parkbandit
10-28-2009, 04:24 PM
I think we were listening to the same radio show today. :)

Me? Doubt it since I only listen to radio when I'm driving and I've been outside most of the day.

I picked it up off from Drudge. {Insert liberal screams here}

I take it Beck and/or Limbaugh made fun of it as well?
Some Rogue
10-28-2009, 04:24 PM
What the fuck is the word that describes going into a run down area, fixing it to the point the value increases and those that lived there can no longer afford it and are forced to move to another poor area?

For the life of me I can't remember the word Arrrggh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
Parkbandit
10-28-2009, 04:25 PM
He does have a point though. Art does draw in gay people, who tend to turn rundown, crappy ghettos into faaaaabulous villages.

Which displaces the people who were living there and forces them to dwell in even worse conditions.

Fucking gay people! THEY MAKE POOR PEOPLE POORER!!!
BriarFox
10-28-2009, 04:26 PM
As much as I love Obama's focus on art and literature, the logic in that paragraph the OP quoted is beyond questionable.
AnticorRifling
10-28-2009, 04:36 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

That's it! Thank you.
Jack
10-28-2009, 06:36 PM
I think we were listening to the same radio show today. :)

Walton and Johnson on 93.7?
Tisket
10-29-2009, 12:00 AM
De Bello Gallico. Dumb bitch.

Wouldn't that fall squarely under the heading of:


a blow-by-blow account of his campaigns

Stupid asshole.

<3
4a6c1
10-29-2009, 12:01 AM
Rush was talkin about it. He was makin me giggles.
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He does have a point though. Art does draw in gay people, who tend to turn rundown, crappy ghettos into faaaaabulous villages.

Relevant X-post.




http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n65/laughing_stoned/gay.gif
Tisket
10-29-2009, 12:06 AM
God those are some gay looking tattoos. Who the fuck posted that shit.
4a6c1
10-29-2009, 12:08 AM
rorz
Celephais
10-29-2009, 01:06 AM
Did you know Barak Obama stands 10 feet tall and weighs about 2 tons? And one time a drop of his sweat cured a blind kid? You know he jumped off the Empire State Building this one time and he only sprained his ankle? Did you know he could eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA
He's six foot twenty, fucking killing for fun.
Gan
10-29-2009, 07:02 AM
That was a serious question: I was just curious. Your joke doesn't really apply.. It'd only be a "b-b-b-but the Republicans!" comment if it was in defense of Obama not writing his own book (but, he did).

And the motivation for posting your comment about Palin in this thread (about Obama)?
Gan
10-29-2009, 07:03 AM
You know, I feel really at peace since Obama was elected President of the United States.

Someone should give him a prize.
EasternBrand
10-29-2009, 07:39 AM
You know, I feel really at peace since Obama was elected President of the United States.

Someone should give him a prize.

Truly friends, this is the Pax Obama.
Parkbandit
10-29-2009, 10:05 AM
Recent politicians books? Not a huge jump: Palin's recent book popped to mind, that's all. Just wondering if anyone had heard anything--I haven't, one way or another. It wasn't an "attack on Palin" or a "Oh, look! Obama wrote his own book, but Palin didn't!" Meh. Make of it what you will.

Sorry. I have nothing to do with you being full of shit. Deflection means nothing.
NocturnalRob
10-29-2009, 10:13 AM
Wouldn't that fall squarely under the heading of:

Other than a blow-by-blow account of his campaigns I mean.
that's why I quoted it. I was providing further detail to your general statement. Ungrateful bitch.
AnticorRifling
10-29-2009, 10:19 AM
That's what we love about you, all the bedside manners.
Parkbandit
10-29-2009, 10:40 AM
Maybe he was right?

http://tsfiles.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/barack-caesar-peter-lavigna.jpg
ElvenFury
10-29-2009, 10:43 AM
Maybe he was right?

http://tsfiles.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/barack-caesar-peter-lavigna.jpg

Haha. Nice use of sepia tones to resolve the "black guy's head on a white guy's body" photoshop problem. Kudos.
Parkbandit
10-29-2009, 10:45 AM
Haha. Nice use of sepia tones to resolve the "black guy's head on a white guy's body" photoshop problem. Kudos.

Thanks... but I just did a google search for "Obama is Ceasar" and that was the funniest one that came up. :)
Tisket
10-29-2009, 10:52 AM
that's why I quoted it. I was providing further detail to your general statement. Ungrateful bitch.

haha
Parkbandit
10-29-2009, 11:07 AM
Anddd your being a delusional/paranoid reactionary shows itself. Dumbass windbag.

:rofl:

That was actually a quote of yours, when I searched "B-b-b-but"

It was a dumb, delusional and paranoid reactionary type of response from a dumbass windbag.. which was my point, both then and now.

I can always count on you for my entertainment. Thanks!
Cephalopod
10-29-2009, 11:37 AM
Speaking of Pax Obama...

Amusing commentary from Philip Greenspun on why he refers to Obama as King. (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/28/is-it-fair-to-refer-to-barack-obama-as-king-obama/)

Couldn't bear to make a new thread about it, so I'll bump this one. :)
Drew
10-29-2009, 11:47 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA
He's six foot twenty, fucking killing for fun.

DAMN YOUS! I was looking to see if someone had already posted it.

"Saved the children, but not the British children."
NocturnalRob
10-29-2009, 12:33 PM
DAMN YOUS! I was looking to see if someone had already posted it.

"Saved the children, but not the British children."
hahaha..."he has a wig for his wig"

i haven't listened to that in so long
Sean of the Thread
10-29-2009, 01:00 PM
He fucks the shit out of his bears too.
Latrinsorm
10-29-2009, 02:38 PM
Speaking of Pax Obama...

Amusing commentary from Philip Greenspun on why he refers to Obama as King. (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/28/is-it-fair-to-refer-to-barack-obama-as-king-obama/)

Couldn't bear to make a new thread about it, so I'll bump this one. :)There's only one King in the United States. We are all witnesses.
Clove
10-29-2009, 03:43 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GentrificationWhat's a Nubian?
CrystalTears
10-29-2009, 03:53 PM
What's a Nubian?
Bitch, you almost made me laugh.