It's already started. Obama appears somewhat frustrated by the inability of his cabinet to work at the same stratospheric level he himself operates at. To turn around US policy he going to need them to toughen up. Crom is hard, unforgiving. Reeds bend in the wind, not steel. Obama must remember this. Full report from the New York Times. Reprinted in the Onion:
Full article here - Robert E Howard said it best
Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To 'Savage Sword Of Conan' #24
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama expressed frustration Wednesday after members of his cabinet failed to recognize his allusion to the 24th issue of the comic series Savage Sword Of Conan during their first major meeting together.
Obama, whose upcoming challenges include organizing a massive effort to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, was reportedly unprepared for the confused silence he received upon suggesting that his cabinet "team up with Taurus of Nemedia" to secure the necessary funding from Congress.
"If my inner circle of advisers can't even communicate about the most basic issues, how are we going to tackle the massive problems our nation faces?" Obama said during a press conference. "When I tell my cabinet that getting bipartisan support is exactly like the time Conan got Taurus to help him steal Yara's jewel, they need to understand what I mean."
After receiving no reaction from the assembled reporters, Obama added, "Because a giant spider is protecting this chamber full of precious jewels, just like Congress is protecting its…. God, how are you people not seeing this?"
Full article here - Robert E Howard said it best
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That's the best thing I've heard in a long time:) It will be interesting to see a country underpinned by the "Gospel of Conan"
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha, this is like spotty-faced two cartoon collectors arguing over whether Spiderman would beat Batman in a fight.
ReplyDeleteYou dismiss Conan as a work of fiction, then in the next breath believe in a book that talks about invisible people with magic powers, unicorns, dragons, giants and humans that living till 969 years old!
Both are imaginative fictions and Obama has every right to quote them on level pegging.
Off for now.
Paul
So glad I could provide a forum for your misconceptions. By Crom, your own beliefs are somewhat fantastical.
ReplyDeleteUnicorns? I missed that bit, by Belenos.
ReplyDeleteAnd your wrong Paul: the Bible actually indicated humans are aevieternal. That is, they have a start date, but then live forever from then.
You choose not to accept that.
You dismiss Conan as a work of fiction
ReplyDeleteCare to point to anyone in the world that doesn't?
As pointless blog threads go, I don't see a need for you to establish that Conan is not a fictional work.
Your logic, "Conan is fictional, therefore whatever I say is also fictional" is somewhat strange.
You'll need a better argument than that.
“He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.”
ReplyDelete“His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
“So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died”
“I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and [to] the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles”
I agree, who needs naff Conan when you can let your imagination go with stuff like this.
Conan and his crumby sword & jewels doesn’t hold a candle to this watershed in ‘middle earth’ literature and my money is on Spiderman to beat-up on Batman (his web thingy will do the trick)
And most importantly The Bible is non-fiction.
Right?
See ya.
Paul
PS: After reading this stuff from The Bible strangely I’m fired-up for a game of Dungeons and Dragons. You?