"The Bitter Buddha" (comedy)

Wisdom Quarterly, Eddie Pepitone (The Bitter Buddha) via David Feldman (PLAY SHOW)

Fat happy Budai (speakinggod)

"The Bitter Buddha" is coming to theaters and on-demand in late 2012. Screenings and news can be found at TheBitterBuddha (Facebook) and TheBitterBuddha.com. This documentary is an unfiltered look at Eddie Pepitone, a real "comic's comic." His life is on full display in this comedic portrait of creativity, enlightenment, and rage. 

  

A film by Steven Feinartz. Animated segment: audio courtesy of WTF with the Marc Maron podcast. Original animation by Allen Mezquida.
 
"The Bitter Buddha" takes an unconventional journey through the life of one of America's most original comedic voices.

 

"Want to feel like you've discovered something new? That you're watching a comedian poised to hit critical mass? This is your movie."

- The Chicago Tribune

 

Featuring comedians: Eddie Pepitone, Patton Oswalt, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Paul Provenza, Sean Conroy, Dana Gould, Todd Barry, Todd Glass, Andy Kindler, BJ Novak, James Adomian, Paul Gilmartin, Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Daly, Jen Kirkman, Jim Earl, Leo Allen, Matt Oswalt, Paul F. Tompkins, Rob Huebel, Scott Aukerman, Todd Barry, and more.

  

LISTEN Fridays or archived for 90 days at KPFK.org

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Sexy Jewish support for the Democrat (video)

Sarah Silverman (sarahsilvermanonline.com); The Young Turks (Posted July 18, 2012)

"I'm listening."

Following The Great Schlep during the last election cycle, comedienne Sarah Silverman gets very racy and even stoops to soliciting to steer Jewish money toward the Democratic candidate. She propositions multi-billionaire, Israel-booster, and gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson:

 

  

"If you give that $100 million to Obama instead of Romney, I will -- well, I won't have sex with you because we're not married and I'm a nice girl," Silverman explains seductively in the video before naming a sex act that includes keeping her clothes on. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss Silverman's indecent proposal to Romney-backer Adelson.
 

But Obama is worse than Bush!

Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Green Party 2012 nominee Dr. Jill Stein (Laura-Chase McGehee/AP)

  
Yes, that's true. Barry Soetoro Obama has put through most of the Bush Dynasty's illegal proposals, much to the surprise of his cousin Dick Cheney.
   
Even Karl Rove is surprised. But the fact is he is a lot less offensive than G.W. Bush, so that his current abuses do not seem so bad by comparison.
  
At least Obama is a great orator like former presidents Clinton and Lincoln. So the question is, "Who's worse, Obama or Romney?" We're not sure.
  
"The devil you know is better than the devil you don't," politicos like to remind us. And rigged American politics (video: Princeton Univ.) are all about picking the "lesser of two evils." Could the Whitehouse made the choice any easier? Willard "Mittens" Romney is a deplorable liar, but at least he's not believable.
  
B.S. Obama is a deplorable liar, yet so many of us believe him. Who's the greater danger?
   
Give us the Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, give us the Comeback Kid Kucinich, give us Ron Paul, we'll even settle for Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson. Better yet, let's undo the farce that we live in a Republic with "democratic" elections and call it by its true names. Blank, blank, and fill-in-the-blank.

Why We Occupy #4 (occucards.com)

We're with Dougie the Dog on this one: We'd rather scissor Sheldon than engage in the futile federal ritual of voting for either Tweedledee or Tweedledum(b) only to be ignored by the military-industrial complex and its actual decision makers. The MIC does not need an official presidency, or the Kenyan they installed, to do what it wants in the name of the US and its partner police states.

• SIGN THE PETITION
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• "Actifresh" is Carefree's way of saying we care
• VIDEO: 10 Questions for Silverman
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• Los Angeles' street walking problem 
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Judaism: Happy New Year!

S. Mendelson and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
Family Guy's Seth Macfarlane wows national "SNL" audience

It's not easy being Jewish, feeling a lot of animosity because of everything the New Israel does and the residual racism outside of cosmopolitan areas in the country. It's just a cultural identity, not so much a religion for most younger Jews. When we want spirituality, Buddhism looks the most attractive Why would that be?

One supposes that there's something in the genetic memory or implicit cultural awareness of there being Jews in Himalayan India where Jesus and other Jewish travelers went due to there being a large trading settlement there (see Holger Kersten). The similarities between Mahayana Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity are stunning -- a messiah (Maitreya), one GOD (impersonal Brahman) that encompasses all the gods (personal heavenly/space visitors) who get worshipped separately as if they were One but with different names and attributes. 

What is there to say about Rosh Hashanah? Nothing other than to point out how far the Gentiles have taken Jewish lore and practice and made it completely other in the name of one mushroom figure. Happy New Year.

• THE SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS

Pro-Israel and pro-peace, is it possible? J Street thinks so.

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Israel jonesing for war with Iran

BBC News (BBC.co.uk; Wisdom Quarterly (ironically) Q: Why do wars happen?

"Rahm was right. You look cute when you cooperate." - "Hey, you're not so bad yourself."

  

"Bibi, I can back you better than Barry can."

Israel's outgoing home front defense minister says an attack on Iran would likely [only] trigger a month-long conflict that would leave [only] 500 Israelis dead.
  
[This would, of course, be in addition to countless civilian casualties, mere "collateral damage," and thousands of evil jihadi Islamist Iranian terrorists intent on threatening Israeli rule in the geopolitical Middle East. Happy reports like this leave Israel/US jonesing for war and more war].

  

Matan Vilnai told the Maariv newspaper that the fighting would be "on several fronts," with hundreds of missiles fired at Israeli towns and cities [in a desperate attempt to engage in asymmetrical warfare with a nuclear armed aggressor, Israel, and its superpower ally, the USA].

  

Israel was prepared, he said, though strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities had to be co-ordinated with the US [of course. Israel does nothing without orders or tacit approval from the USA/CIA/MIC].

   

Israeli-Palestinian peace dove (Avi Katz)

Meanwhile, a US blogger has published what he says are Israel's attack plans: Richard Silverstein (Tikun Olam blog) told the BBC he had been given an internal briefing memo for Israel's eight-member security cabinet, which outlined what the Israeli military would do to prevent Iran developing nuclear weapons.

  

Tehran insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful [But they can show the evidence to Saddam Hussein in Hades for all the international courts have in terms of an ability or eagerness to intervene]. More

  

"Oh, great god of Kolob, you know my heart. This is for the greater glory of our faith."

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• Leaked memo: propaganda or war plan?
• West sabotages peace talks with Iran
• Painkiller abuse can lead to heroin addiction
  

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Nepal, My Nepal

Arun Shrivastava, South Asia Correspondent (Salem-News.com)

(Hscindia) The Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC) is a great example of one person's vision: Ven. Sanghasena established the MIMC in 1986 to offer both spiritual instructions as well as desperately needed humanitarian services to impoverished people in the remote Buddhist land of Ladakh, India, which neighbors Nepal in the Himalayas. A dedicated team of social workers, teachers, doctors, monks, nuns, community leaders, and care-providers have created an integrated community at Devachan, Ladakh. More

Nepal Privatized and Sororized

...The Communists, led by two closet-Christians, Prachanda and Bhattrai, perhaps supported by the Catholic Queen in Delhi, declared that Nepal is a "secular state." The Vatican declared its secular credentials too, long ago, so long as one was Christian and paid rent to the Pope.

  

The Mafia is slightly different: they guarantee respectable jobs; modern day Marxists and the Vatican do not, not even to their diehard slaves. Nepal’s so called NGO brigade should learn this unpalatable truth.

During the ten year long armed rebellion against the monarchy (1996-2006), the majority of the rural population and many in urban areas supported the Maoists. However, when the Maoists captured nearly 40% of the 602-member Constituent Assembly, they wanted democratic centralism akin to the former Soviet Union. 

  

The other 60% opposed it for all sorts of reasons. The State Restructuring Commission came up with two options. But they seem to be unacceptable to various ethnic groups for various reasons... 

  

The Maoists received foreign support, funds as well as arms such as M56 assault rifles and Heckler and Koch G3. Rebels were caught by the army and released again. The legitimate government’s forces received M249 light machine-guns, widely used by US armed forces. The death toll from the peaceniks’ arms was 4,500 [government side] and 8,200 [rebel side]. This was much less than the relatively young Madeleine Albright’s “price-worth-it” 500,000 Iraqi infants, and later 1.5 million Iraqi dead, and over 100,000 Libyans killed.

Nepalese civil society

Who cares that civil society is out there to defend people’s rights when the price is always worth it? Dead folks do not complain. NGOs, modern-day vultures, complain only when their folks are dead or done in, in every sense -- culturally, socially, economically, politically.

During classical imperialist forays mercenaries went in to kill. But after WW II, empire was built by economic hit men (EHM). Post-1990 has been the golden period of sociocultural hit men (SHM) spearheaded by cash-rich INGOs and floor-sweeper local NGOs and Christian fundamentalists.

  

These are ably supported by the insidious, drug peddling, racist, “indoctrination centers [of] the Chabad cult that teaches children that the Chabad Rebbe is the Moshiach and that they have to do what the Rebbe tells them to do.” [4] Young Israelis are as much ensnared into cocaine snorting as the young Nepalese. That’s modern-day civil society. Hard drugs, sex, cult following, music, and democratic free-thinking are the opiates of the masses.

  

Behind this façade lies the globalist-corporatist agenda of enslavement and that is beyond the comprehension of the civil society morons. Nepal’s youth is done in. More

• Are Jewish "Chabad" schools funded by drug money?

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