The Crow's Eye: Ron Paul Hates Israel

"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red

"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done

"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ

Sep 9, 2011

Ron Paul Hates Israel

This is probably not true. But, since we're wasting bits and bytes on "meme" experiments...

He probably has a Jesusy love affair with the notion of "biblical Israel." I'm sure he's fine with this sentiment, all things being equal:

"...An east wind from the LORD will come,
   blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
   and his well dry up.
His storehouse will be plundered
   of all its treasures.
The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,
   because they have rebelled against their God.
They will fall by the sword;
   their little ones will be dashed to the ground,
   their pregnant women ripped open."

(Hosea 13:15-16, New International Version, Zondervan)

6 comments:

Landru said...: It took me some accidental research and a shameful period of subconscious reflection before I realized that, while not without substance, this and the preceding post are essentially part of your search engine optimization test project.

I'm a tool.; September 9, 2011 at 4:59 PM
Landru said...: Even after you explicitly stated as much in the previous post.

I am hopeful that one day, I will again have two brain cells to rub together.; September 9, 2011 at 5:00 PM
Jack Crow said...: No worries, Landru. It took me wading through HighClearing, Corrente and your BFF before it occurred to me that this was something more than a "meme" cluster.; September 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM
BDR said...: We're all McKay.; September 9, 2011 at 8:15 PM
Anatole David said...: I have studied Chaldean numerology and am aghast to relate the name Ron Paul has the numerical value of 666. He is the Texan Neo-Nero. Riding a bus fueled by the black blood of demons--Oil.

Excellent meme baiting!!!!; September 10, 2011 at 7:54 AM
zencomix said...: Jack, try the Ron Paul/Ken Mehlman Totally Nude Gay Sex Tape hit generator. Never fails.

Bonus Word Verification: boyahst; September 10, 2011 at 6:20 PM

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This one took a while to put into words.

I don't kid myself that I've stumbled upon a unique insight and I have little doubt that someone has already written or said this better than I. Five minutes after I hit the "publish" button, I'll probably regret the choice of words more than I already do now - because it's difficult to get my head outside of English language usage, to comment on a problem with that usage, whilst using the English language to do so.

In the interest of not making more of an ass of myself than necessary, I've pared a very long thesis down to a paragraph:

I find it troubling that, using English, I have very limited choice in expressing how I relate to people with whom I have ongoing interaction. If I want to reference the nature of my relations with the woman who has challenged me to grow in ways I never imagined possible, the woman who howled with a primal, gorgeous, earth shattering, mother bear of a refrain, transcending pain and pleasure in act of creation to which I will never be immediate party, who has with her defiant and proud womanhood still intact forged a family out of disparate parts - I have to write "my wife." I have to reduce her to property. That really pisses me off. I don't own her. I don't fucking want the title or the claim. I don't want to express possession, simply to refer to her (without writing a discursive dissertation). I don't like one bit that the short hand for "association" in English is expressed in the possessive. I don't own my wife or my children. They're not mine.

So, fuck you Latin and Germanic branches of the Indo-European language group.

That is all.