The things is, a thing is, N. Korea does not regard their miserable little turd as we do our president, as subject for mockery.
One time I was watching video of a tour of reporters visiting N. Korea under the watchful supervision of minders. Deadly serious minders. One reporter stood next to a statue of the miserable little turd's father. Then mounted the base of the statue and then laid horizontally with his head up on his hand, amusingly, for the shot. A young rail-thin guard freaked out.
And not just regular-freaked out. Impressively massively freaked out as if he himself would be shot on sight for not preventing the effrontery to State, to religion, to sacred icon, to personal self, to humanity, to art! The guard's reaction amazed the whole group.
Kind of like Egypt in the old days, you just don't do that. Gaaaawl! Everybody knows that!
But then, oddly, it is a little bit like here. Hollywood makes a movie about assassinating Bush Jr., then falls all over itself piling on the awards for capturing the national zeitgeist and for being so brave and forward-thinking, applauding like trained seals, but would soil themselves publicly then display their soled garments, and write endless essays and excruciating exegesis about how that is so, so, so very wrong on earthly and spiritual levels.
Ha ha ha. La la la. #caring.
The music for the film, better than the original, I think by this brief sample, is out on CD, but who buys those anymore?
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A great day for terrorists.
Help me. I've got a 24 year old son who makes more than me and has most every electronic gizmo available.
Sentimental gifts, he's a very practical guy, and money won't really work. He lives in an apartment so that offers possibilities.
Oh, I left out that I'm looking for a deliverable Christmas present.
Sent this.
Very pleased with myself.
I think your son needs a concrete iguana.
Who else has one of those?
The concrete iguana. Sounds like the nickname of a very popular gay porn star.
Rabel, good pick. I viewed a YouTube recently wherein it was attempted to discover if one could become inebriated by consuming chocolate liqueurs. Short answer was, slightly, with a remnant of distaste for chocolate.
Yes, Chip, lots of nuances available for limited spaces. I've more space but it is desert. So either a huge water bill or reversion to cactus. I hate cactus, meaning I admire cactus for its ability to survive in such a harsh
environment , but then a flower every hundred years is rather anti-climatic.
I do wish I could post photos here though... I have several or more concrete or plaster figures sprinkled around that are different.
Yours was an excellent choice.
X-Ray, actually most cactuses flower every year, and they are awesome. Very beautiful sort of translucent bright flowers. They're wonderful. With good drainage, strong direct light, diluted fertilizer and, KAPOW, flowers all over the place, and they are long-lasting blooms too. They are a great idea for arid situations.
Yes, Chip, I know. I painted with too broad a brush. But it sounded good so I left it. :-)
Chip Ahoy said (in the post) ...
The things is, a thing is, N. Korea does not regard their miserable little turd as we do our president, as subject for mockery.
I mentioned this on the Pearl Harbor thread. However, among Koreans, north or south, they do make fun of their leadership (in the north very quietly), however within the power circles surrounding Little Kim, it is not tolerated...as I said earlier "ask his uncle"...a general IIRC who helped him consolidate power, probably gave some unwanted advice, then was killed and cut up and fed to some dogs.
One aspect of it is similar to the "N" word in the USA...okay for blacks to say it, but an affront if anyone else says it. In Little Kim's case, he's totally nuts (and capable of WMD reactions) and will take affront to any criticism, mockery or otherwise....I'd guess because he lives in a circle of toadies who tell him how grand he is daily.
When the NORKS mke aggressive gestures, such as the several literal attacks along the Northern Limit Line or in the Han Estuary that's Little Kim reminding the rest of us how we need to "respect" him. He's managed to fill a fair number of southerns in those aggressive feints....and got away with it mostly because we (under the guise of UN forces) have influenced the ROK's not to react in kind. At one time, long ago we used to joke that our main job, other than watching the north, was to keep the south from going north with a vengeance. The "sting" of the southern ROK forces being initially defeated by the northern invasion in the 1950's (not to mention the US forces being nearly pushed off the peninsula) still reverberates in many southern minds.
Long ago now, the then President of South Korea was assassinated by his own KCIA chief. It just cannot be said that Korans are not impulsive and take action if they feel denigrated by a leader who stays too long in power. Multiply that by 100 for any North Korean leader.
Dang it: "fill" = kill.
Correction: please delete that end of sentence: ... by a leader who stays too long in power.
My intent was to say denigration is enough...in Park Chung Yi's case, he'd insulted too many too often by not permitting others to join in governance. Good Lord, his wife was killed standing beside him, before they finally took him out directly. Park did serve his nation well, initially, but didn't take hints apparently, when others tried to step up.
I do wish I could post photos here though
You can. In a way. Here's how:
When you signed on to Blogger to make comments here you automatically became a blogger.
Go into your own account and make a post, the post being a simple photo upload. Boom. Photo uploaded. Link the address of the post here in comments.
Or on the page, now that you're blogging and master of your universe, tap "html" and copy the address of the photo.
You'll see scary gobbledegook. a portion end with ".jpg" and that is your picture. Use it to create a link here in comments and we will see the photo only and not the post on your blog where your photo exists.
*salaams deeply and elaborately, backs out of room*
Obviously this is terrible precedent but I'm having a very hard time caring about the self-censoring of our in-house censors.
Rabel - Apple store gift card? No matter how many gizmos you have they always need updates. Or Pottery Barn (or whatever) so he can get silverware that matches or something for the apartment?
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