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Saturday, April 5, 2008 03:58 AM

to be really on topic -

we really finally should put julieanne at peace - and tell her what's going on here and i think it is a little unfair of you guys to leave her for so long in "the dark"!

You see - Julie - this threat is a very unusual threat - not like the other ones - and i know WT or LWM only haven't explained it to you - because they don't won't to embarrass you in front of vereybody. But what we are doing here is working on a so called "Gesamtkunstwerk"

(a "total," "integrated," or "complete artwork") and if you are not familiar with this concept you might want to google it - But discard Richard Wagner who refered to an operatic performance encompassing music, theater, and the visual arts and try to see it more in the context of the ancient Greek tragedy, where nearly everything which "moves" us has been fused.

Very sadly at some point all of "these" important "things" (to make it simple for you) have drifted apart - as our thoughts - AND nearly all of the bloggers here can comprehend that (besides shooter) and they are doing a wonderful job in bringing the thoughts back together.

This "synthesis of the arts," which describes any integration of multiple art forms is for example also used in architecture to describe a building - where every part is designed to be part of a whole - and BANG - BOOM - there you got your crazy 9/11 conspiracy.

Or just for a moment think about "your" President - and a phrase like: "When we talk about war we talk about peace'!

Or in a much more intelligent way - read what LWM wrote when he dealt with an ignorant poster about the "Nanny state" or "Welfare queens" - he couldn't have been more "on topic, - because everybody of us gets the connection to a unlawful lawyer of the Bush administration.

I'm sorry that sometimes life is so hard to understand (to use o common "known") - and for sure you are not "stupid" - because it also took me a very very long time to finally get it -

love - jess

Saturday, April 5, 2008 12:56 PM

you mean -

they are not "real" reporters?!

Sunday, April 6, 2008 12:27 AM

it wasn't me -

who put - "can Stephen Colbert save America" - next to Glenns post and perhaps Salon did it (conscious- or unconsciously?) to remind us what "the media" is all about - and i better not smirk because you guys are always right too and we have reached a sad and sorrow state of affairs, if "serious" journalist have turned into mumbling clowns - while "serious clowns" have to do the hard work. I wouldn't go as far as Filthyharry, who on the other thread complimented Colbert's WH Press Correspondent's Dinner speech "as probably the bravest most profound public speaking done in America in his lifetime" - Harry might still be very young and probably didn't see how "profound" Jon Stewart explained the size of CNNs situation room. He put Wolf Blitzer next to a really big Granny Smith Apple and the apple was bigger. This picture always will be burned in my mind and each time CNN is turned on somewhere - i get this strange cravings for apples - and I have to think about someone else, who also likes Granny Smith and jokes around a lot - but underneath is quite a very serious person - He is so serious, that when "joking"- it is always hard to know, where the joke ends and the compliment begins ("on topic" was actually an honest compliment for LWM) -

and that's why i love you - dad! and why i like- Obama!

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