BS: Why Are These People Smiling?

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 12:09 PM

Dave, excellent point!

"The reptilian lifeform I was referring to has very basic drives. It seeks power and security. It is coldly pragmatic and amoral. It utters lies without even a quiver of concern, and usually ends up believing them. It seeks victory, dominance, and control...by any means that it can determine. It is not motivated by love but by sheer survival imperative."
Sounds a lot like Bill Clinton....

I would have said it sounds much more like Bush than Clinton, BBruce. Clinton was caught in a sex act--big deal. Bush has fucked the whole world. IMHO. (someone suggested on one of these threads that if I use "IMO" that it will make it sound more like my opinion and less than the "truth." As if they're different things. Ha!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 11:52 AM

Ooooh-- I like that one best. In the White House there IS a corridor gallery of "official" pres portraits (we paid for), right? So somewhere deep underground there must be the REAL gallery as DB describes! I'm drowning in images.... eeeeww!!!!!!!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 11:13 AM

Hasn't any one out there read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde ? - The vaults of the White House are probably full of hideous portraits of Bush and his team. Alternatively, the "Undead" don't usually age !

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Grab
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 08:00 PM

WYSIWYG, if you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, maybe another explanation would come to mind: they ain't doing much. So there's no hand on the wheel and it's all out of control... but GWB sleeps just fine.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 04:54 PM

Ignorance is bliss?

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 03:23 PM

There is a reptilian brain component that is strong when people are passionate or angry. I wonder if greed falls into this as well? Greed for power, control, and money certainly are the driving forces of Dubya's White House. Here is a google search on reptilian brains. (I'll leave it to you to sort through them--the links on the first page appear all to be commercial or from popular opinion publications in nature, diluting their general credibility without more research).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Teresa
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 02:49 PM

Reminds me of something of Kurt Vonnegut's I read once ... about dinosaurs having no worries, because their brains are the size of walnuts. I think it was _Galapagos_

T

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 02:41 PM

"The reptilian lifeform I was referring to has very basic drives. It seeks power and security. It is coldly pragmatic and amoral. It utters lies without even a quiver of concern, and usually ends up believing them. It seeks victory, dominance, and control...by any means that it can determine. It is not motivated by love but by sheer survival imperative."


Sounds a lot like Bill Clinton....

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 02:38 PM

Mack/Misophist - I agree wholeheartedly with your positive endorsement of lizards. They are lovely animals. I have always loved lizards and befriended them. However, I do not think they are really emotionally equipped to properly run a human society!

In any case, what I meant about the Bush team was not exactly that they were lizards (like I said, lovely animals). No, what I really meant was that they are a sort of reptilian lifeform that disguises itself as a human being. I used the word "lizard" in a misleading fashion, and I am glad you brought my attention to that. :-)

The reptilian lifeform I was referring to has very basic drives. It seeks power and security. It is coldly pragmatic and amoral. It utters lies without even a quiver of concern, and usually ends up believing them. It seeks victory, dominance, and control...by any means that it can determine. It is not motivated by love but by sheer survival imperative.

You could say all that about lizards too (except for the lies), but they are still likeable little things within their obvious limitations. I used to keep them as pets. As long as they are warm, comfortable, and have a ready supply of food, they are quite happy. And they're pretty looking too.

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 01:39 PM

"No brain, no effect!"? Or--- gasp--- could it be there just isn't that much that worries them?"

Yep. You've answered your own question, Susan.

Somewhere I read-or heard- that these days Bush is sleeping poorly and during the day is distracted and incommunicative. I was glad to hear it, because it would imply that this whole war thing is affecting him, that he does have an understanding of what he has created, at least to some extent. Then I hear - or read- that, No, he is sunny as ever.

I suspect that if Bush were to quote "War is Hell", he'd say it with a smile.

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 09:34 AM

Maybe they found a Size 38 Codpiece!

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 10:47 PM

So true. Words fail, but what is there to use (here) but words? Way beyond irony, so the irony emoticon is no use.... need an emoticon for fully ballistic.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 10:31 PM

Cranky doesn't begin to describe it.

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 10:24 PM

I'm also cranky, but I don't think that's all there is to it.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 04:50 PM

I'd noticed it myself, but I thought maybe I was just cranky. But if other people are noticing it too...

clint

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 04:47 PM

Well I meant it as unscathed, healthy, well-rested. As in, "Lookin' goooood, duuuude." Unworn, unaffected....

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 04:09 PM

Well, G. silver, I think in this case "good" doesn't mean "virtuous;" it means "cute."

clint

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 03:37 PM

Sometimes people look good because they are good, sometimes they look good because they are made to look good, sometimes they are just good and people cannot accept it because there are other implications to their own beliefs!.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Nerd
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 03:29 PM

I also think that Bush and his people make looking good a priority. This is a wise marketing strategy, and they're all about marketing. Other presidents, including Bush Sr., pay more attention to other stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 03:08 PM

For the most part, lizards are harmless creatures; filling an important ecological niche. Only one (four legged type) lizard is poisonous (not very). On the whole, lizards are good. I don't understand what LH has against them. Could he be an insect? They hate lizards.

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Mudlark
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 02:13 PM

Don't know about the lizard thing but the brain thing worked well for Reagan, the first pres. in my memory that came thru with the same gay smile and shoe polish black hair he went in with.

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 11:00 AM

I see.... then it's kibbles for them if they ever show up at MY place!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 10:19 AM

They're not human, they're lizard beings. Reptiles age much more gracefully than mammals. That's my theory. I mean, just look at Colin Powell and Condi Rice, for instance! Have you ever seen anything more Reptilian looking? Chech out Powell's hooded eyes! Rice has a neck like a cobra and an expression to match. There you have it. In Bush's case it's a little less obvious, but he does keep sticking his tongue in and out like a snake, and he resembles one of those Texas desert lizards, like a swift or a chuckwalla. His eyes shift nervously from side to side in a distinctly lizard-like fashion. Case closed.

Subject: BS: Why Are These People Smiling?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 06:24 AM

Especially for USers--

Remember how it used to be a given that anyone occupying the Oval Office would age much faster than ordinarily? Remember how succeeding presidents have looked so haggard as their terms wore on, and so did most of their administrations?

So is it just me, or do Bush and his people look pretty damn good?

And how come, if we are in such a crisis of terrorism, they look so unworried, relaxed, and happy???

Is it a case, as Bullwinkle the Moose famously said, of "No brain, no effect!"?

Or--- gasp--- could it be there just isn't that much that worries them?

~Susan