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BaNZai7 PReSeNTS: DeBT CeiLiNG SUMO WReSTLiNG
Sumo appears in the earliest histories of Japan, the Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki, and in early Shinto.
By the end of the Heian period (794-1185), it was established as a court ritual for some three hundred years. In the later feudal periods, it was occasionally used as a method of resolving political disputes by sending forth sumo wrestlers to decide the issue; rather similar to the feudalistic European practice of using Eurotcrats to decide the right of an issue in a trial by morons.
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It's a Ponzi throw down. They will miraculessly come to a Fiat solution which of course is no solution and worse there will be no outline for reaching one.
If the money is debt (which it is), created out of thin air, at interest, where does the money come from to pay the interest? That's right; more fiat money must be created and default is built into the system. It is by design a classic PONZI scheme.
"Money is loaned into existence and defaulted out of existence." – James Howard Kunstler
So, so you think you can tellHeaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain... Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghost?...
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war,
For a lead role in a cage?...
- Wish You Were Here: Pink Floyd
See: THE FOUNDING FATHERS: MYTH ASIDE, THIS IS A VISION GONE WRONG! - Part Two
Visit: Inflection Point
Ugh...I think I saw his filibuster.
Tireless and Bold. Go where no man has gone before.
Did I mention tireless?
I would love to have Gold Panner Ben on a coffee mug with the "gold is not money" statement that is going to live in infamy.
Your wish has been posted:
http://www.zazzle.com/bernanke_gold_is_not_money_mug-168233959499143790
ok, in process
very nice. first japanese reference without fukushima. and funny!
bonzai!
You didn't see my Seppuku post last fall...
If only those guys were that flexible.
Lots of great new items in the shop folks.
Just remember, this is the only place on the internet where you get Debt Brother from Planet 0 and Boner fighting in a Sumo match while Geither is about to get eaten by a shark and Bernank's face is covered with angry bees. ;-)
make custom gifts at Zazzle
Is it wrong to look the pic under this perspective? (first few seconds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGqw2gu1zX8
Which brings the debt ceiling metaphor full circle ;-)------- sharp observation
LOL!
It took me a minute to figure out what in the hell I was looking at. Then I proceeded to throw up :)
As I get older my spatial awareness and mental agility is diminishing. So I downloaded the picture, then rotated it 180 degrees to get a good look at the faces on the two sumo wrestlers.
Then I threw up.
Better late than never I always say.
I had to rotate myself onto the ceiling to do it.
What you do with your Geisha is your own business Banzai7. All I want are the pictures.
<long Chinese basket f**k>
Boehner-san has some cellulite.
But in real life his tan is as good as Obama-san's.
i see the Japanese girls beat the US in soccer. (How did I know that was going to happen? The psychic elephant picked Japan? Elephant? hmmm?)
if the debt ceiling farce has a silver lining, (silver, hmmm?) its that we get to see the differences between the two parties acted out in the media.
the GOP will try to extract the greatest spending cuts, on the shortest amount of time. That is if they win new spending cuts I feel it is likely they will propose lots of new spending, (on their pet projects) so they can hit the debt limit again, and cut spending again, (on social services).
this is like the penalty kick phase of a soccer game, or watching Phil Mickleson miss a one foot putt, after he completely reinvented his game to compete in the conditions over in Scotland. Then he misses a one foot putt. (debt ceiling? putt?, hmmm?)
Fukushima carry great powers.
The People are strong.
Even when we know its fixed, we can't help but watch.
Which brings the debt ceiling metaphor full circle ;-)
- two Sumo words to remember: tatamae means "the surface of things," and honne means "real truth". (Freakonomics has a great piece on Sumo)
If you have ever watched Sumo, it is periods of intense boredom followed by intense action. Sometimes the wrestllers grab each other bt their belts and have what looks like a stalemate. But sooner or later someone gets thrown out of the ringl
Say what you want about ancient rituals and romantic notions of honor and courage. I think the Japanese, like so many other cultures, just like to watch fat people fall down and see the shock waves run through their fat bodies. And the ground shaking reminds them of earthquakes at 2 AM.
Just sayin' :)
This is what heppens to men when you castrate them, they get fat very fat
And it's probably an analogy to society in total
No wonder America is the most obese country in the world, you lost your balls
Excuse me, but I resemble that.
I have not lost my balls. I carry them in my pocketbook wherever I go. The only time they leave my possession is when I show them to my masters.
Take it back. Now! You take it back or I'll tell my bankster on you.
FYI, I think you just committed the equivalent of calling Chuck Norris a sissy!
Thank God for ZH anonymity.
"You talking to me?"
First good chuckle of the week!
Talk about bloated!
Where's the beef? Oh, there it is.
BTW Banzai7, while I always enjoy your perspective on the present day insanity, this isn't exactly what I was looking for.
BTW2 the best part of this image is looking at the faces in the crowd. Don't they remind you of all the mindless Americans calmly watching our world come apart in between reruns of the A-Team O-Team sumo match? Present company excluded of course. Like any self respecting red blooded American, I've already started to panic.