How the world sees the USA and why

[Jim Strong]

> "Faustian proclivity"  Jerry Faust's tendencies?

Geez Bubba! Leave Jerry Faust out of it. He's just
trying to run a physics lab :
http://www.healthsci.tufts.edu/labs/JRFaust/
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No, this here Faust feller is the one ole J.W. Goethe
wrote about -
http://www.bartleby.com/19/1/
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He got finagled by that Mephistopheles guy over to Big
Crick ... sold his soul and all, but he kept a syin'
things aboult other folw what applied to him even
more.
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Check out the Mephistopheles dude:
(1) fancy dresser -
http://demons.monstrous.com/mephistopheles_2.htm
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(2) bad rap sheet -
http://dontyson.tripod.com/mephisto.html
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(3) gives web advice -
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/il128/nic/asknic.html
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> "Hubris"  Earlier form of semi-soft cheese?


Hugh don't sound like a Jewish name to me - what's he
havin' a bris for then?
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> "Algorithm"  Albanian means of birth control?


Did I leave the first "o" out of alogorithm in my
original message? Anyhow, I think that is Tipper and
Al's business, and we shouldn't pry.
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As for your head a hurtin', I suggest you check out
the Richard Nixon apochryphal bio - "Tie and Strop
Me."
I understand it is available (under the counter) at
certain Esso-teric leather shops.
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If that don't cure it, try spittin' some weenies on an
oleander branch. That should cure ALL that ails you.
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Billy Jim



--- Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com> wrote:
> Uh, Jim Bob, I am having problems with your latest
> blurb.
> 
> "Faustian proclivity"  Jerry Faust's tendencies?
> "Hubris"  Earlier form of semi-soft cheese?
> "Algorithm"  Albanian means of birth control?
> 
> These here thangs git my brain to hurtin'.
> 
> Bubba
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
> [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On
> Behalf Of Jim Strong
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:55 PM
> To: StepCher@aol.com; jonmfordster@hotmail.com;
> rcbaker@eden.infohwy.com;
> austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> Subject: Re: How the world sees the USA and why
> 
> What probably got us "here" is our Faustian
> proclivity
> to become what we originally may have rebelled
> against, and to engage in boundless hubris as we
> describe the "sins" and inadequacies of "others"
> when
> they apply to us as much as anybody - if not more
> so.
>
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> The correct alogorithm, to quote John Nash, needs to
> be found - one that will infuse a massive dose of
> zen
> and pataphysical perspective into politics.
> Politicians themselves just need to adopt the "Super
> Janitor Theory of Office Holding," which posits that
> the body electorate allows them to perform the basic
> custodial services needed to keep the HVAC working,
> the food and water available and a base level of
> societal needs met.
>
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> They are allowed to do this, of course, because they
> (to quote Lincoln) can't secure and hold other
> gainful
> means of employment, and somebody has to do it while
> the rest of us toil to pay the taxes that are
> supposed
> to provide for those basic needs and services to
> which
> we agree we all should be entitled.
>
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> I fear a much simpler paradigm applies. There are
> wolves, sheep and sheep dogs. The wolves we know by
> their deeds, the sheep by their vulnerability to be
> led along by the tinkling of a political "platform"
> bell or a comfortable herd mentality. The sheep dogs
> tend to hang out at places like the Ghetto and are a
> threat to the "natural" order.
>
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> Dubya, therefore, probably is the proof that wolves
> and sheep occasionally mate. And look at Rumsfeld -
> who better to play the wolf in Little Red Riding
> Hood?
> That wolf should only smile half as good...
>
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> Billy Jim
> -------------
> 
> --- StepCher@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 1/2/02 11:36:04 AM,
> > jonmfordster@hotmail.com writes:
> >
> > << What this country needs is a good PR agent, >>
> >
> > isn't that what got us here to begin with?
> >
> 
> 
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