Joseph & Ana

Jumping in here. To sum up:

Libs defend Abortion because "society" has decided a baby isn't really a baby.

But its wrong that society has decided that gays can't marry

Hypocrisy illustrated on a daily basis. goodnight

A terrorist is a terrorist.

*chirp* *chirp* *chirp* *chirp* *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*

I'm not trying to be argumentative but do you have more info about that? I do know people who like/d his work a lot, for the cozy aspect of it. The glow and all. I just question the reason you are saying, because of shielding themselves from modern art for it's secularism. I don't think that's the reason they picked it out to buy and put on their walls. Maybe it easily spread in the conservative Christian world because if they go to church, go to someone's house for dinner, see the paintings, ask about it, and then want one. Not some anti-secular art thing. So, where's the info?

MC never has more info about that.

$400k is a joke. At least pay the president a million. If some dumb #### athlete earns $25 million, surely the president of the country deserves at least $1 million.

What for? They're all already rich by the time they make it there anyhow.

H&R Block

Don't know how accurate it is but I heard $400k and wikianswers provides this:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_money_d..._President_earn

If wikianswers is right, the official compensation is $669k. But that still doesn't include a lot of the things I mentioned in my other post.

Wow. I remember learning about it in HS about the salary being $250,000. Thats some cost of living raise there!

Oh little guppy...

You must be a cross-dresser - its a female

They also love Coney Islands

Mainly because (at least around here) cops can always be found in Dunkin Donuts or Tim Hortons. I have no idea why they keep up with the cliche.

You make some good points but your facts are a little off. The average government salary is actually much higher than the average private sector salary.

And I think the president is a bad choice to try and make an example. His official salary is actually $400k.

Did they raise it ? I thought it was around $285,000, while congress was at $167,000

I sculpted a nice piece of feces for you Cleo. I made it into the figure of a squirrel. I shelaqued it, and its on its way. Would you consider it art?

You are calling dems socialist tax cheats, however, from my experience, it's repubs like yourself who cry murder regarding paying tax. The same tax that benefits the same country you apparently care so much about. Not to mention, pays for the same military you swear by.

There's a difference in decrying over-taxation and tax cheating. Especially cheating by the big tax and spenders.

Benefits ? Shall we go through the list of wasted trillions?

Yeah because naturally Republicans love paying tax that benefits their country and pays for the military they toss over daily..

And that has to do with what?

It was the National Socialist Party after all.

And that's not a childish comment?

I'm not an enormous Picasso fan, though I think Guernica is pretty fabulous, but more for the inspiration for the painting. When we go to the SAM here I am always appalled at what is often considered art, but to each his own.

No, its not childish. Its a joke about how offended the leader of the free world was when a journalist also joked about his ears. I didn't bring it up. Adults are allowed to joke around without risk of being considered childish. It is when one is serious about the idiotic things they are saying, such as Cleo and Pike and their superiority to everyone, that the sad truth of their small minds comes to fruition.

The difference is the "i'm better than you" childish attitude.

True, that's is an equally ignorant definition of art. Now you've got that out the way...it's perfectly ok for you not to like whatever it is you do not like and to like whatever it is you do want to like. I called you a proletarian for wishing that which you do not like to be destroyed because in your sorry opinion it's not art and suggested that you do not in fact understand what art is because you do not consider Picasso art, but #######. So far you have produced nothing to contradict these opinions, but, please, carry on trying.

Get off yourself seriously. You're too busy making out with yourself on these boards to actually give anything interesting to them.

And you're the "common man" are you Joe? Perhaps your problem is not that I think I'm better but because deep down you feel inferior for some reason that's specific to you.

It would explain your ever present hostility.

That goes for you too.

I'm pretty sure if we started a poll - you'd come out the more hostile one with the votes. Not that I care.

Nope.. They don't care as long as their savior Obama does it.

(not mentioning that there were no other players even in the realm of Halliburton who could do the things they do as far as nation-building etc..)

They'll extrapolate that because I dont like this, that i am an uneducated fool (not true) that despises all art unless its Thomas Kinkaid (which I don't get the connection). They always have some sort of score to settle and they'll use dishonesty to try and prove it.

Just the ticket.

I.e. The libs here, Cleo and Gallstone are implying that Kinkaid is not important (which he isn't) but he sure makes some nice paintings.

So no art ever does? Is that your argument?

No, i'm not saying that. Its not there in my post.

An uneducated person will define art as something that is aesthetically pleasing, the truly ignorant something that is aesthetically pleasing if they personally so determine.

No.. An ignoramus defines art as having some deeper meaning to history which is a load of ####### to make people feel important while critiquing art. People with no real purpose need those things to feed off of. Its all relative. Its my opinion that this piece is a piece of #######, and someone else may like it. To each their own. And yes, you are an elitist... you perceive yourself as smarter or more important than you really are. The very definition.

I saw the image on TV and didn't hear the story.

I thought it was another Obama inspired bit of artwork. Note the big ears.

Its a piece of ####### just like most other picassos

As I said, you got nothing.

I don't need to have anything. Adults are having a conversation here, go play outside in the street.

Ahh the visual aid club returns to illustrate what they're not really doing.