{"id":7205,"date":"2015-04-25T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-clowns\/"},"modified":"2015-04-25T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:17:37","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0823cd34970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bozo and George\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0823cd34970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0823cd34970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Bozo and George\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Being hung up on the &#39;60s, there is and will be only one clown for me, <em>Bozo the Clown<\/em>.&#0160; After Bozo I had no truck with clowns.&#0160; I&#39;m a serious man.&#0160; But I can relate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=esJl7MZoVww\" target=\"_self\">this segment<\/a> from the <em>Seinfeld<\/em> episode, &quot;The Fire.&quot;&#0160; It is one of the funniest in the whole series.&#0160; But I suppose you had to be there.&#0160; In the &#39;60s I mean.&#0160; With Bozo.&#0160; <em>The<\/em> Clown.&#0160; Now some songs featuring clowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Roy Orbison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HysrQgMOTRo\" target=\"_self\">In Dreams<\/a>. Nice surreal video. &quot;A candy-colored clown they call the sandman . . . .&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">James Darren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vQN-zWELWg\" target=\"_self\">Goodbye Cruel World<\/a>.&#0160; &quot;I&#39;m off to join the circus, gonna be a broken-hearted clown.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Frank Sinatra, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K1fVQGESUTo\" target=\"_self\">Send in the Clowns<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A couple of clowns in high places:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb082477d0970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Obama Clown\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb082477d0970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb082477d0970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Obama Clown\" \/><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2015\/02\/obama_the_clown.html\" target=\"_self\">Obama the Clown<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<h3>&#0160;<\/h3>\n<h3>The Pope is a Buffoon When it Comes to Economics<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c019b02749b42970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope buffoon\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c019b02749b42970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Pope buffoon\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is too much buffoonery in high places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It would be nice to be able to expect from popes and presidents a bit of <em>gravitas<\/em>, a modicum of seriousness, when they are instantiating their institutional roles.&#0160; What they do after hours is not our business.&#0160; So Pope Francis&#39; clowning around does not inspire respect, any more than President Clinton&#39;s answering the question about his underwear.&#0160; Remember that one?&#0160; Boxers or briefs?&#0160; He answered the question!&#0160; All he had to do was calmly state, without mounting a high horse, &quot;That is not a question that one asks the president of the United States.&quot;&#0160;&#0160; And now we have the Orwellian Prevaricator himself in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/video\/george-will-its-amusing-that-obama-is-blaming-big-government-for-obamacare-failures-n1759897\" target=\"_self\">latest Orwellian idiocy <\/a>is that Big Government is the problem, not him, even though he is the the poster boy, the standard bearer, like unto no one before him in U. S. history, of Big Government!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/12\/the-pope-is-a-buffoon-when-it-comes-to-economics.html\" target=\"_self\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I&#0160; forgot the disgusting Biden the Clown:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d10adf8f970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Biden the clown\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d10adf8f970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d10adf8f970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Biden the clown\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansfortheconstitution.com\/2012\/10\/12\/joe-biden-the-clown\/\" target=\"_self\">Joe Biden the Clown<\/a>.&#0160; This article will recall for you Biden&#39;s clownish antics in his fall 2012 &#39;debate&#39; with Paul Ryan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being hung up on the &#39;60s, there is and will be only one clown for me, Bozo the Clown.&#0160; After Bozo I had no truck with clowns.&#0160; I&#39;m a serious man.&#0160; But I can relate to this segment from the Seinfeld episode, &quot;The Fire.&quot;&#0160; It is one of the funniest in the whole series.&#0160; But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-clowns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Clowns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}