[Buddha-l] Re: What did Buddhists Have to Do With these?

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:59 -0400, Bshmr at aol.com wrote:

> Robert Fisk Refused Entry Into U.S. 

The story says his papers weren't in order. I assume this means the
White House does not order the Independent, the paper for which Fisk
usually writes. So taht raises the question, why doesn't the White House
order the Independent? I can only guess it's because that newspaper
doesn't have any comic strips.

But frankly, I think the more interesting story is the one that follows
the story on Fisk. The headline reads "Albino turkey vulture in NM."
While I admit that is a rude way of referring to the president, it's
probably about as much politeness as one can expect from a plain-spoken
New Mexican newspaper called The New Mexican

> USA President George Walker Bush may be ripe for conversion to
> Buddhism.

Look, if the USA can refuse Fisk, Buddhism can refuse Bush. Let's face
it, he would destroy Buddhism in no time flat. Just look at what he's
done to his country.

Within a week after converting to Buddhism, the four noble truths would
be revised to read something like this: 1. Not getting what one wants in
dukkha. 2. The cause of dukkha is not having enough money to get what
one wants, as when one is a billionaire and has to pay taxes. 3. There
is a way to eliminate dukkha. 4. The way to eliminate dukkha is to
follow the Noble One-fold Path: Right-wing tax cuts.

>  The National Inquirer reported that Christianity and family haven't
> kept him off the booze and on the fundie wagon.

Thanks for that story. As a card-carrying Buddhist epistemologist and
master logician, I invariably believe whatever is printed in the
National Inquirer. Like most Americans, I'm waiting with feverish
Buddhist patience to read in the NE about a pod of alien whales jumping
out of the eye of Hurricane Rita and swallowing Dick Cheney so that he
can learn directly from Jonah just what went wrong in providing relief
to New Orleans after Katrina. Sure, we already know the post-storm
debacle was all the fault of local Democrats, but we need divinely
inspired evidence right from the whale's belly, eh?

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico