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DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« on: September 09, 2013, 01:41:15 AM »
DUmmy WCGreen, top pick in many dead pools, starts a DUmp reflection on Greek mythology:
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Mon Sep 9, 2013, 01:16 AM
WCGreen (45,332 posts)

How cute....
We all thought that maybe this time, this president would be different.
 
Sisyphus comes to mind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023627328


Ugly DUmmy Warpy chimes in. Through a fog of painkiller addiction, she begs to differ:
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Mon Sep 9, 2013, 01:24 AM
Warpy (71,316 posts)

1. I think the story of Tantalus is more appropriate


The CalPig, mouth agape, is as expert on mythology as she is poetry:
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Mon Sep 9, 2013, 01:24 AM
CaliforniaPeggy (105,768 posts)

2. We thought he might be different...
I agree with your example of Sisyphus.
Damn.



And finally, an anonymous, faceless, unknown unterprimitiven weighs in:
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Mon Sep 9, 2013, 01:30 AM
Common Sense Party (13,328 posts)

3. Nope. It's Hercules cleaning the Augean stables. Joe Biden warned us.
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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2013, 03:08:45 AM »
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WCGreen (45,334 posts)

How cute....
 
We all thought that maybe this time, this president would be different.

Hope that this president would at least keep the interests of those who need it most and change that would at least take some measure of those who gain the most from this country to start to pay for what they keep...

Well, we can all gather, there truly is one continuum, one that we could stretch all the way back to those who came to this country. That continuum has, more and more, etched the reality that class mobility, once the American Dream, is a nothing more than myth.

Sisyphus comes to mind.

I have been at this game since I, a lad of 11, joined up with some Hippies to bring environmental issues to the good people of the Western suburbs of Cleveland.

When I was 13, I organized a five minute walk out from my Junior High to protest against the Vietnam War.

The more that things change, the more they stay the same...



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3. Nope. It's Hercules cleaning the Augean stables. Joe Biden warned us.

He said it would happen in the first 6 months--he meant first 6 years.

Gird up your loins.
A generated, international crisis to test Obama's mettle.
He's gonna need us.
Need our help.
To stand with him.
Initially, it won't be apparent that we're right.
Obama will clean the Augean stables.
We'll be asking 'why is this thing so tough?
Why are they down in the polls?'
They'll have to make the tough decisions.
"Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us."

Remember?

Prophetic?

Pathetic?

You decide.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/10/biden-to-suppor/
 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023627328
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2013, 05:09:50 AM »
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2013, 05:30:21 AM »
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How cute....
We all thought that maybe this time, this president would be different.
 
Sisyphus comes to mind.
Ah yes, Sisyphus. The Greek god of sissies.
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2013, 06:13:47 AM »
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3. Nope. It's Hercules cleaning the Augean stables. Joe Biden warned us.

Demi-god, son of Zeus, trying to accomplish an insurmountable task as penance for murdering his own sons in a mad frenzy?

Senseless DUmmy, what part of that fits the tale of King Hussein?

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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2013, 07:44:37 AM »
I copied the last line ..... "We have the ability to straighten it out. It’s gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us." .....OK, so when can we move in with the "P" and "VP"? I really would like to try some of that there wagyu steak.
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2013, 07:46:24 AM »
If Obama had a son..........he'd be cleaning stables.
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2013, 08:16:47 AM »
No comparison. Sisyphus had to roll the boulder up the hill himself. Dear Leader can talk the idiots who cast their vote his way to do it for him.

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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2013, 08:24:00 AM »
Quote from: USA4ME on September 09, 2013, 08:16:47 AM
No comparison. Sisyphus had to roll the boulder up the hill himself. Dear Leader can talk the idiots who cast their vote his way to do it for him.

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Yeah.  His speech Tuesday is essentially an exercise in trying to persuade everyone to roll the boulder for him.
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2013, 08:29:43 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 09, 2013, 08:24:00 AM
Yeah.  His speech Tuesday is essentially an exercise in trying to persuade everyone to roll the boulder for him.

Think I'll spend the day in the woods. If I stay home, it'll be wall to wall Obama all day.
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2013, 09:08:51 AM »
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3. Nope. It's Hercules cleaning the Augean stables. Joe Biden warned us.



Slo-Joe? Really?   :rofl:
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2013, 09:21:41 AM »
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How cute....
We all thought that maybe this time, this president would be different.
 
Sisyphus comes to mind.

More like Icarus, the kid who kept overreaching until all of his support melted away.
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2013, 12:54:32 PM »
Quote from: Big Dog on September 09, 2013, 06:13:47 AM
Demi-god, son of Zeus, trying to accomplish an insurmountable task as penance for murdering his own sons in a mad frenzy?

Senseless DUmmy, what part of that fits the tale of King Hussein?



It didn't. (S)he looked up Greek Mythology, saw Hercules, remembered "Augean stables" and thought (s)he would try and look smart.
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2013, 02:24:19 PM »
This president reminds me of the talking ass from the Bible.
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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2013, 02:40:07 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on September 09, 2013, 02:24:19 PM
This president reminds me of the talking ass from the Bible.

This president reminds me of an ostrich....his head is buried in the sand so he has to talk out his ass.
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"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

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Re: DUmmies Argue Mythology - They're So Intellectual!!
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2013, 02:42:19 PM »
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Demi-god,
She's that old lady who used to be married to Bruce Willis, then to the guy in the Canon commercials half her age.
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