Superstition ain't the way
I’d heard that John McCain is superstitious, but I had no idea it was this important to him.
Don’t try to pass a salt shaker to John McCain. He won’t take it from your hand because it’s bad luck.
The Arizona senator also won’t throw a hat on a bed — it means death will soon visit the household — but he regularly carries 31 cents in lucky change in his pocket. […]
Mr. McCain has dozens of superstitions and rituals, many stemming from his days as a Navy fighter pilot, a notoriously superstitious bunch. He carries a lucky feather, a lucky compass and a lucky penny — not to mention a lucky nickel and a lucky quarter.
He almost picked up a lucky dime in January. As he was preparing for a debate at the Reagan presidential library, he noticed a shiny dime on the stage floor. He stopped to pick it up, but quickly walked away — because if a coin isn’t heads up, he considers it unlucky.
McCain even has a laminated four-leaf clover that he carries in his wallet.
“Am I superstitious? I’m that,” McCain said. “But I don’t think I’m alone there.”
No, I suppose not. I have a reflexive aversion to superstition, but I realize most people pick up certain habits and routines they consider to be “good luck.” Maybe it’s a lucky tie or lucky numbers, but I get the sense that the vast majority have at least some kind of superstition in their life.
But doesn’t McCain sound a little nutty about it?
There was also this Dana Milbank item in the WaPo way back in February 2000.
If John McCain wins today’s South Carolina primary, some will credit his tax plan, while others will point to his war record. Those in the know, however, will attribute victory to the Spring Hill Lizard.
The reptile, believed to have mysterious powers, is the property of one Lanny Wiles, McCain’s trip director. Wiles used it to help Texas A&M beat Nebraska, and to force a golfing opponent to miss a $100 putt. He employs the lizard (which isn’t a lizard at all but a certain spell cast by wiggling the right pinkie) only on rare occasions, such as today. “We use it only if we’re at Def Con One,” says John Weaver, McCain’s political director and occasional witch doctor.
This isn’t the first campaign to honor strange superstitions. During Bill Clinton’s 1992 run, James Carville was known to wear the same underwear for days at a time when things were going well. But this time, there’s a new twist: The candidate himself is the leading shaman. He keeps on his person a lucky compass, a lucky feather, a lucky penny and, at times, a lucky rock. He assigns Weaver to carry his lucky pen — a Zebra Jimnie Gel Rollerball (medium, blue) — at all times. For added luck, he wears his magical L.L. Bean rubber-soled dress shoes.
“I’m wearing my lucky shoes from today till Sunday,” McCain says from his bus on Wednesday. At the moment, his pockets contain the compass, feather (from a tribal leader) and penny (flattened, in his wallet). When McCain once misplaced his feather, there was momentary panic in the campaign, until his wife found it in one of his suits. When the compass went missing once, McCain assigned his political director to hunt it down. Weaver found it, and it remains safe, knock wood.
I have no sense of how the typical person is going to perceive this, but I find it kind of odd.
Sadly, most people DO have superstition in their life. It's called religion.
Fucking great.
I smell "higher power" again.
Tom @ 1:
I was about to post the same comment. I guess we think alike Tom.
(is that lucky? ...snark)
I consider it creepy. In an age when science, particularly the possible results of nuclear science can result in the elimination of mankind, I want someone in the Presidency talented with a high capacity for reasoning. I don't care whether they can bowl, drink boilermakers, or carry "lucky feathers". There are thousands of dead heroes throughout history who also carried their "lucky" charms. Give me logic and reason any day.
He crashed several planes in the service. Each time he was wearing his uniform. I'm amazed that a superstitious person like him never picked up on that connection.
It doesn't matter....this is the kind of folksy, regular-joe distraction that will take plenty of air time away from his major flaws.
My only good luck ritual is stop burning oil before the ice caps permanently melt. After that, I will worry about feathers and lucky dimes.
Hmmm...well, in addition to whatever else ails him, it sounds like ol' McInsane has a touch of OCD as well.
I wouldn't touch it politically though. His 29%er base lives, breathes, and craps superstition as their worldview, and even the garden-variety soccer moms will probably find it endearing.
I just find it another reason to be frightened of him.
Maybe Hillary or Obama should take a black cat with them if they should debate McCain. I am sure a cat flung in his direction with claws extended would certainly rattle his superstitious cage. If not it would certainly be entertaining to see him battle with a cat instead of that de-clawed cougar he swings with.
It's a neo-con trick, to throw a thousand turds on the wall, to see which ones will stick.
I think you're reaching.
biff diggerence @ 2:
I think thats Cindy McCains feet.
I'm surprised the religious right hasn't noticed McCain's lack of faith and practice of black magic... Maybe somebody should notify them. Those with true faith in God would never turn to charms, idolatry, and God-forbid, magical spells for protection. No, I think it's clear that McCain is a pagan practitioner of Satanic rites, a servant of the Devil, a warlock, a wizard, a magician and a flip-flopping hypocrite whose wife is financing his campaign.
I think the Religous Right needs to split with the Republican Party and run their own ticket this fall. Huckabee/Romney, anyone?
Hey, did you hear that McCain is going green?
- He's switching to cloth diapers.
THIS is newsworthy?
Why not discuss how superstition and belief in barefooted hippies in the sky rule Mr. Obama's life? Isn't that pretty scary as well? Or is being a "christian" less creepy?
The only people who should laugh at this McCain oddity are those who have evolved enough to know that there is no GAWD or LAWD or "Spirit" dangling from the clouds.
no....he's not alone there....99% of his cabinet will likely have the same issues. they'll all be too busy avoiding cracks in the sidewalk and picking up lucky pennies to do your business, America...that's a comfort...maybe they'll be too busy with that to push any buttons...if you know what i mean.
Someone in my family was a fighter pilot in the USAF. To hear him tell it, there wasn't a superstitious Air Force pilot in the bunch. In the Air Force, it was the mission plus and "what the hell have they got us doing this time, Sir" attitude. Air Force pilots always joked about the Navy never washing their aircraft and you could always know where a Navy plane had been parked by the puddle of leaked hydraulic fluid left on the tarmac. Also, something about if Navy aircraft couldn't be fixed, the aircraft would be offered to the National Guard or thrown overboard, which ever was the most expedient.
I personally don't know about Navy pilots' superstitions, but I suppose it's a sailor thing. You know, sea monsters and mermaids.
Well, I guess if I believed in "lucky" things I might not see much to this. However any human being who needs that many things on his or her person at all times to feel secure, I think has some serious problems.
Luck? That's what you claim when you feel you have no control over a given situation, so you attribute the outcome to "good luck" or "bad luck". It would seem to me that McCain feels he has no control over a lot, if not all, daily situations. That's not a good sign.
In a time of crisis, is a president McCain going to sit idle until he can find his lucky feather?
Every time he sees a bad idea, he picks it up, too.
ok, #1. Do you need to look this hard to see that McCain is a wack-a-doodle? and, #2. I would make it a point to hire someone to be placing coins and other objects in his path until he snaps in public.
I thought it was just a form of OCD.
It seems back in the olden daze superstition was used as an excuse for one of many odd behavioral traits.
Who knows?
Superstition is a burden on the Superstitious. It defies all logic and common sense......and yet here it is once again about to be imposed upon the American People as it has for the last 7+ years.
Several years ago I stopped being superstitious when I stopped believing that a higher authority controlled every thought or deed or action that I performed in the course of a day,week,month.......etc.
Superstition causes seemingly normal people to make catastrophic decisions based on false logic.
If anyone here is superstitious check this link:
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/logicalfallacies.asp
And if you are John McCain, you will find #6 enlightening.
It isn't the fact that McCain is superstitious that concerns me. Its the fact that his whole life seems to revolve around it. I mean, just look at how many superstitions he subscribes to. He has many and to me that sounds like something you might find with a compulsive gambler. Because of this, McCain will be more than likely to gamble with American lives in my opinion simply because he has his lucky rabbits foot or a coin was found sitting a certain way.
sundog @ 16:
It's much simpler than that. There's about a hair's width difference between the Navy and pirates. Navies have a long and glorious tradition of shanghaing civilians to be their unwilling crews, and general drunkenness and whoremongering. That's my gang, I'm ex-Navy. We do tend to be a more disreputable lot, it's true.
The Air Force, (or Chair Force, as my Marine son says they are now known as), is the newest force and tended to derive from a more elite, well educated group. Daredevils and hot-shot pilots, yes, but drunken whoremongers? Not if they want to keep flying.
Think about it, there is no Air Force equivelant to the song, "What shall we do with a drunken sailor?" If you want to party, we're your gang. If you want to land safely, find an Air Force pilot.
Joe O. @ 22:
Great point and comment!
"...doesn’t McCain sound a little nutty about it?"
He sounds like he has obsessive/compulsive disorder. Just what we need: another disfunctional President.
I can just picture him after losing the election, breaking his teeth trying to bite his coins in half.
Hitler was also very superstitious.
roooth @ 23:
As a former squid myself, I almost totally agree. Tailhook really changed the face and feel of the Navy. You wouldn't even recognize WestPac anymore. In many ways, that's a good thing but in some ways, it's really sad. I never even got to flog a wog. Those days ended shortly after I crossed the line. And now, the kids have to be off the streets by midnight.
But, it's nice to see another Sailor onboard C&L. Ahoy shipmate.
Colbert had some fun with this last week.
They're after me Lucky Charms!
medication, and this guy does not need to lead
"Mr. McCain has dozens of superstitions and rituals, many stemming from his days as a Navy fighter pilot, a notoriously superstitious bunch."
So, how'd that all work out for him...?
Joe O. @ 22:
Obama carries around his superstitious article as well. It's equally ridiculous and based on folklore and suspension of belief in reality. It's caused wars. And it rules HIS world as well.
It's called the bible.
It sounds more like an OCD to me, and very familiar to the things I used to do before I was able to control myself.
Mayhap it came from his time in captivity.
Superstition ain’t the way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9GKtmeDybI
#13 Ohio Proud - I'm roflamao!!! Love that comment!
Does McCain also carry around a "magic wand" to make all his problems disappear? Hmm, probably not, Cindy is still hanging around.
Seriously, one little rabbit's foot or something like that, I could see, but numerous talismans (talismen?) is creepy and ignorant.
I've known some deeply superstitious people. Eventually, they become so annoying that you just want to slam them around. Dude... don't make me shove this salt shaker up your ass!
Quite personally, I find the idea of someone picking up coins less weird than someone believing a cracker has transsubstantiated into human flesh - then eating it.
I do like the idea of putting coins on the ground (heads up, mainly) and having salt shakers passed to Mr. McCain, ladders leaned against walls and black cats walking around when he is on camera.
Check this out!
Looks as if Leno was caught by surprise on this one.........priceless!
http://www.jibjab.com/view/195281
Is it nutty?
Nope... obviously you haven't been around very many baseball players (high school, college and up). Those guys take superstitions to a whole new level.
I like to rub my penis for luck.
weird than someone believing a cracker has transsubstantiated into human flesh - then eating it.
I thought us white guys were already made of flesh.
Too bad he dosn't carry a "lucky" Brain or Conscience..... He could sure use them!
Well, I guess it's okay if stuff like that keeps you out of the Hanoi Hilton, oh, wait just a second...
Great, he's fucking Nikolai Tesla.
Laure @ 38:
You can't overlook the blood into wine transformation.
Even as a symbolic metaphor that stuff is way out there.
I guess I'm not superstitious. Several times, I've found bills stuck to the hot pavement in parking lots, covered in black dirt from being run over by cars and sweepers.
I didn't care if they were heads or tails, I peeled them up and kept them.
miss skeptic @ 36:
If he does have a magic wand... Bush needs it. He keeps looking for one.
You can’t overlook the blood into wine transformation.
Even as a symbolic metaphor that stuff is way out there.
If it transsubstantiates it's not even metaphorical, it is literally blood or flesh. It's more odd to me than a four leaf clover. Right up there with a rabbit's foot - if people ate the rabbit's foot in a weekly religious ceremony.
So, Obama's a Christian again this week? Not a secret Muslim? Or is he both? AND an elitist?
Well, I guess it's a good thing McSame isn't a Christian. (Don't tell Pastor Hagee.)
Good heavens, this superstition thing seems to be spreading. Even to the Anointed One.
Obama's Election Day Basketball Ritual
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: It’s turned into an unofficial ritual and, perhaps, superstition of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.: playing basketball on Election Day.
He played basketball the day of the Iowa caucus, and South Carolina primary, and won both contests.
He did not play the day of the New Hampshire primary, and Nevada caucus, and lost.
He recently said on “60 Minutes” that playing basketball is an Election Day “rule” now.
Of course, no typical person would find that 'kind of odd'.
Via Perezhilton.com no less!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich.html?em&ex=1210046400&e...
I'd be willing to cut Mr Cranky a bit of slack if any of this actually worked for him. Most athletes have superstitions and routines they stick to, but only if they produce the desired outcome.
Like Bush, McCain's "success" as an adult is not due to luck or skill, but to his family name. In the Navy, he graduated near the bottom of his class(894 of 899); and was at best an average pilot. Prior to his "bad luck" at getting shot down, he crashed 3 planes and he was at the epicenter of the Forrestal disaster, which killed 134 personnel.
His frequent gaffes are covered up by a fawning media, and whenever he does get asked a real question, he's started invoking his time as a POW the same way Guliani kept invoking 9-11. Rather than play the victim, I'd like to hear him appreciate the fact that he *did* make it back alive. That's an outcome that thousands of other personnel were not "lucky" enough to achieve.
I don't honestly know whether it's admiration or pity or what, but McCain has been given a pass his entire adult life. It's not luck.
dennis @ 51:
And if he wins, he will attribute the win to confirmation bias.
Oh great, someone who might have his finger on the button thinking he is lucky because he found a heads up dime on the ground.
I wonder how lucky he felt when that sam missile hit his plane?
Radically Moderate @ 46:
The term is transubstantiation, and it's a form of ancient cereal and wine deity rites practiced world-wide, but in ancient Greece was called omophagia, "eating into the belly," one's god to share in their substance. The term originally meant the raw flesh of sacrifices to Dionyseus, but later the became bread and wine in the mystery rites of Eleuseus sacred to both Demeter and Dionyseus, as established by the legendary Triptolemus.
Wow, more people than I thought have superstitions. Voting for a President these days is getting very difficult.
SUPERSTITIOUS POLITICIANS
President Clinton, January 2000: "You know, as President, I'm superstitious..."
President Clinton, January 2000: "I'm a little superstitious about things..."
President Clinton, June 2005: "Well, first of all, I'm superstitious."
President Clinton, January 2008: "I’m wildly superstitious about not looking past the next election.”.....
And Hillary Clinton, January 2008: “I can’t think that far ahead, because it’s bad luck. I’m very superstitious.”
Hillary Clinton, September 2007: "You know, I'm sort of superstitious so I don't talk about what I might do."
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But maybe it's just that Obama's and Hillary's superstitions are being taken out of context. Only McCain's should be of concern to the voting public.
Screw the chAir Force. Why are more Naval aviators chosen to pilot the Space Shuttle? Which military branch did Neil Armstrong represent? Clue: it wasn't the chair force.
McCain is a fluke whose only luck was his birth to Naval brass.
That away dennis, this thread is about McCrazy and you deflect with the Clinton Obama stuff. One track mind you got there.
Where does he keep his lucky colostomy bag? LOL!
I think Tom@1 hit the nail on the head.
ysbaddaden @ 56:
Cannibalism by proxy. Gotcha.
Maybe McFriendy is obsessive compulsive. Does he turn the light off three times every time he leaves a room? Of course, if he does anything three times it's probably because he forgot he already did it twice. Nevermind.....
diamondmc @ 59:
One thing in common with the Clinton quotes is he could also say it's his custom or even sense of modesty to not go too far in predicting outcomes. He just chose the word superstition.
It's not like he puts his boxer shorts on backwards for luck,
Unless Hillary's about to catch him in the act.
58 sea dog
Actually, I'm an Air Force vet.
The intelligence of a baseball player, you know, the folks that stop studying because they don't have a college program? Juiced up on superstition is pretty strange for an adult. Like religion, it just doesn't stand up when you first learn the lesson of "proof". This is a sign of someone deranged with the inability to accept reality. Figures.
I think McCain had better find other lucky charms. Since he crashed five planes in the Viet Nam war and got captured and held as a pow for five years, I'd say his weird superstitions didn't work, no? On the other hand, he is VERY lucky that for some strange reason people equate his graduating at the bottom of his military class, crashing five planes, and getting caputured as somehow being a "hero". Never understood that one.
I worry about someone like McCain who is obsessive about silly superstitions and is seemingly in a perpetual state of confusion having his hand on the button. Or maybe America will have a 50/50 chance of staying out of more wars if he decides to flip a coin.
Who are the bigger nutcases?
The "Loose Change" conspiracy theorists? Or the Loose Screws reThugnican?
McCrazy's lucky charms didn't help him in 'nam, now did they?!
Dr. Acula @ 68:
Well, he survived, didn't he, Doc?
And now he's got a decent chance of being the next President of the United States.
So maybe there is something to this lucky charm thing.
As someone who has been practicing Wiccae since my Air Force years, superstition is under-rated. It's a method of psyching one-self out, affirmations are similar in nature.
"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"
It's when you panic because you forgot to psych yourself out, that you have problems with superstition.
Obsession: An innaporopriate or unrealistic ideation.
Compulsion: An act indended to fullfill or relieve the discomfort associated with the obsession.
Sorry, Inappropriate
I personally find any and all superstitions to be completely absurd. I regard people who seriously consider them in their lives as a sign that they are inclined to believe claims without evidence and be duped by bs in general. Just say'n.
I hope 300 million + Americans feel superstitious around November and that they believe it's bad luck to have a stupid old pandering fart as president.............
So does this mean than Iran is his "lucky country" to bomb?
This was addressed by Stephen Colbert on his show of 4/29/2008 show - the clip is available over at Comedy Central - freaking hilarious
73 Concerned citizen
They're not rational, but then humans only have a thin shell of rationality.
But you wouldn't go to a job interview with them in plain sight. That was mccain's mistake.
It's no wonder he doesn't know what's going on in the real world. His mind must be entirely occupied keeping tabs on all the bullshit superstitions that govern his life.
Most people have some little quirk that provides them with a sense of stability ... but McCain's is way overboard ... and considering that he wants to be considered a Christian.
I was taught that astrology and susperstition were violations of the first commandment..
True believers rely on the grace of their Deity to provide them with the strength and courage to be loving members of the world community... that is what I believe as a Christian .. that I can care about the poor and oppressed, I can do more than care ..I can work to eliminate that poverty and oppression because of the grace of God ... and the grace is freely given ...I don't have to perform any rituals to get it ...
I remember reading about Reagan and his fixation on the supernatural aspects of religion (he sure didn't seem to be to concerned with the commandment to love others as himself part ) ....he and his wife were really into the astrology crap but none of the religious right ever brought that up ...
Does he plan on consulting astrologists as well if he steals the presidency?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
Bushed! @ 76:
Apparently only if it is "heads up."
John McCain is a whore. Its really this simple. He has a sugar mommy who will help him become a paid tool for the elitist agenda- which is world domination. He keeps some loose change in his pockets because that is the limit of his own cash stash or possibly the only allowance his mommy will give him.
He is ridiculous and a world wide joke- the same as Bush- who also got in the whitehouse so it is entirely possible and why every American should be scared shitless, angry/rageful enough to whatever it takes to make certain the old boob doesn't get in and/or if he does slip by under radar to make certain his tenure lasts only for a few moments.
LibertyLover @ 81:
No, haruspicy.
Doesn't he know it's bad luck to be superstitious?
Of course he's insane. We've known that here for a long time. That is why he will NEVER be elected president.
LibertyLover @ 81:
He will arrive at decisions via a combination of feng shui,reiki, and phrenology.
A President suffering from Magical Thinking was BAD ENOUGH!
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/cohen_24_4.htm
Will he plan his schedule according to astrologers?
http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/05/19/back.time/
Will he relocate the Capital city in the middle of the night based on government astrologer's predictions?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/international/asia/14burma.html
Will he bring back the the Stargate Project ("one of several projects established by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate the reality, and potential military application, of psychic phenomena, particularly 'remote viewing'")?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
Just how deep does this go?
What a dumb ass, ... of course when you're as superstitious as they come you can be elected as top useful idiot (presdintZ) but if you are an athiest you get ventilated ...
I'd think after crashing the first couple of planes he'd start to question the value of his faith in magic.
Then again, maybe it was his faith in magic that enabled him to find a rich second wife (while still married to the first) who could afford to buy him a Senate seat.
Dennis, would you vote for ANYONE with an (R) next to his/her name?
Dr. Acula @ 91:
I recently voted for someone with a D next to his name, Doc. I may vote for him again or I may not. So far, at least recently, he's not impressing me. I can assure you this, though; my decision will not have anything to do with something as ridiculous as what superstitions he or she has.
This thread is embarrassing. I'm trying to help some of you here.
ysbaddaden @ 41:
Oh come on, now. If that were at all accurate, I'd have won the Powerball lottery about a dozen times.
dennis @ 92:
If McAint is the best the republicans have to offer, THAT is embarrassing.
I wonder which of McCain's lucky charms will protect him from his rising unfavorables. His "unfavorable" rating is up 6% in the last month alone, even with the invariably fawning media coverage he receives.
Not a good trend, Johnny boy.
dennis @ 70:
I appreciate your attempt at humor, dennis. There are serious questions about what he did to "survive" as a POW. I don't fault him for reaching his breaking point, but as with getting into the Navy, his family name served him pretty well once he was in captivity. Shortly after he broke, there was a marked increase in shoot-downs of US aircraft. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not.
I wouldn't put his chances at POTUS at "decent", but then I'm an optimist. The fact that he has *ANY* chance is due to blind party loyalty. He's got a pulse, and he's the GOP nominee, he'll get at least 30% of the vote. Combine that with another slice of the electorate that can't/won't vote for either a woman (especially a Clinton) or an African-American, and you get McCains's likely support.
McCain's been given a free pass for most of his adult life. He hasn't had to rely on luck very often. Besides, do you really want a president who seems to *RELY* on superstition? What if he looses his lucky feather during a crisis? Or worse, his lucky feather AND his lucky penny?
the more you learn about this guy the more he seems like a freak...
How'd following your superstitious ways work out for you on that flight you were shot down on John? While I have met and admire POW's for surviving their horrible ordeal, you cannot expect everyone to think of you as a war "hero" simply because you survived. You were shot down....mission not accomplished. You never commanded anything. Why does that make you any more fit to be Commander in Chief than me or the next person? Answer: It doesn't.
Ask Pat Tillman what it means to be decorated as a "hero" John. See what he says.
"but he regularly carries 31 cents in lucky change in his pocket. […]"
and untold millions in his wife's bank account.
classic repube b.s.
Gee, maybe if he'd remembered his lucky out-of-wedlock black child, he would have won South Carolina in 2000.
This is just silly. I'm no fan of McCain, but this is reaching.
Lots of people have some superstitions. Try quoting from "MacBeth" while in a theatre full of actors and you'll see them go nuts.
My father wouldn't light three cigarettes with the same match.
REM, one of my most favorite bands, keeps the same two plastic dinos in the studio with them when they record albums.
Much ado...
This is terrible!
*Everyone* knows it's bad luck to be superstitious!
E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
I wonder what kind of superstition super-delegates have?
slippy hussein toad @ 88:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IocHM0n75DI
Phillip @ 97:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDo4G2n7XB8&feature=related
A man's got to go with his strengths. When logic, reason, skills, talent, a team and well-researched data aren't available...then superstition's all that's left.
It's not so surprising is it for McCain to be like this? What would surprise me is if he articulated a well-reasoned, well-researched position...well, anything, and then stuck to it for...well, any amount of time. Now, THAT would be surprising.
Note to self: I need a couple dozen black cats, some salt, and a chainsaw.
I'll derail McCains election yet.
ronnyg @ 94:
Umm, you need to rub ysbaddaden's penis ronny :)
Szin @ 110:
Not unless you mean this ronny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ONH3hIjO3c
ronnyg @ 94:
I have Powerballs.
ysbaddaden @ 105:
He's gonna call Steely Dan? ;)
Anyway, That'll be some really interesting cabinet meetings... I wonder if they will do the all night seance trick of raising people with only the tips of their fingers.
Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
Thanks for the Superstition ear worm, C&L. :)
Very superstitious, writing's on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.
When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way
Very superstitious, wash your face and hands,
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong,
You don't wanna save me, sad is my song.
When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way, yeh, yeh.
Very superstitious, nothin' more to say,
Very superstitious, the devil's on his way,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass,
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past
When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way, no, no, no.
LibertyLover @ 113:
Reiki Don't Lose That Number...
this is one more indication that mcf#ckhead is NUTS.
people who have obsessive behaviors like this, a little
superstition is fine but he is overboard, tend NOT to make
rational decisions. remember the caesars of rome? mccarthy?
sure don't want an idiot like this to get that 3AM phone call and
he can't make a decision until he finds is lucky toothbrush or
some other item of no consequence.
Superstitons are a medieval mind set.
he also picks his lucky scabs and eats them.
Tom @ 1:
And like any superstition, it occupies vast tracts of land in your brain. A person that puts 31 cents in their pocket every morning isn't going to be focusing much on the decisions that need to be made for the day. :Is that .31 still in my pocket? Did a penny fall out when I sat down?:
I don't have any items that I consider lucky and I don't carry anything around with me as habit except my wallet and cards inside.
I also don't know anyone that does. Is this really that common a phenomena with people? I don't think so.
Superstition is delusion. Anyone professing superstitions should be excluded from public service on the grounds of mental illness.
Same goes for religion.
ysbaddaden @ 116:
Reiki Don't Lose That Number...
I got it, hon, very cute... but, I was being deliberately obtuse...
organmeat @ 121:
Well, I do carry a "Get out of Hell free" card, but it won't do me any good if I die, coz I don't have no stinkin' pockets in my soul.
I think they're horcruxes.
McSame also has an onion tied to his belt.
Tweakerbell @ 119:
Enough about Cindy McCain.
She called me sugar plum
I sewed her in my pocket
Cindy swore I was the prettiest thing that ever lived or died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPYCJlFfhW8&feature=related
kerplunk @ 126:
Because that was the fashion at the time.
LibertyLover @ 123:
I got it, hon, very cute... but, I was being deliberately obtuse...
That better than me, undeliberately obese.
Not a fair question. He sounds completely nutty about almost everything. How can I possibly discern a "little" nuttiness in one big jungle of insanity?
The only superstition I have, is if you vote GOP a war will ensue.
... wait a minute
And I thought my boy Dennis Kucinich had overstuffed pockets... Well, I'm sure this will be used by the media to portray McCain as crazy just like they did with Kucinich, especially since Dennis's stuff was at least somewhat useful. Yes, yes I am still a bit bitter over what happened to him.
It is sort of creepy, but poor McSame will need all the help he can get come November!!!
Holy cripes!!! Doesn't he realize that carrying a lucky nickel and a lucky feather simultaneously leads to a superpositional juju condensation of hyperfractional mojo in the gris gris? Do you realize what that means?
Here's one for him - "voting Republican will cause your Constitution and Bill of Rights to be tramppeled on, your military to be used as mercenaries, and your economy to be ravaged by robbery barons". This one must be real because I've never heard of it not being correct!
Good thing that McCain's not a liberal
Because, if he were a liberal, then the similarity to Hitler's belief in astrology and other superstitions would be compelling evidence that McCain is a fascist, and probably has a secret plan to finally eliminate world Jewry. But since he's a conservative, it's just a harmless coincidence.
This disappoints me.
What I like most about C&L is the way you stick to substance and not cheap shots.
I'm disillusioned about McCain but if carrying a few lucky charms were the worst thing he's done in the campaign, I'd be happy. You didn't take the piss out of Kucinich for carrying a teabag in his pocket? Why would you? What's the harm in that?
It cheapens the point to do cheap shots like this. Please stick to substance. That's coming from a loyal fan. Cheers!
tehghey @ 136:
Time to change the 'ol diaper again?
That's a face of OCD
Oh God...just think of the potential for sabotage this leaves open. Someone could sneak in and pocket one of his baubles before a big debate... He'd be freaking out so much that he wouldn't show up or would be losing it at the podium XD
Granted, I don't condone sinking to such underhanded tactics, it's amusing to consider.
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