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I have below pasted 528 words, the "oyster," from JJ Jackson's Time To Behead The Concubines. I found it at Linda S.o.Grady's. It appears to be a direct response to her previous post, How do we get rid of this guy?
"This guy" being GOP Chairman Michael Steele, a concubine if ever I saw
one. Read this. You'll giggle the giggle of one whose own
thoughts have been brilliantly expressed, and validated. Amen.
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One of the best, and I believe most fundamental, lessons of Sun Tzu is the story of the King’s concubines.
King Ho-lú wanted a demonstration of Sun Tzu’s theories in
action to see their effectiveness. So the King’s concubines, some 300
women, were summoned and divided into two companies. He placed one of
the King’s two favorite concubines in charge of each and gave the women
armor and weapons while explaining a set of drills he wished them to
perform.
After he had shown them what he wished to be done he then ordered the
King’s favorite concubines to lead their companies in performing the
maneuvers. This almost predictably led to laughs from the concubines
who did not believe him to be serious. They were, after all, not
warriors. Sun Tzu then repeated his orders but again the concubines
laughed and failed to heed.
This is when he uttered the quote at the beginning of this article,
summoned the executioner and had the King’s favorite concubines
beheaded. Perhaps Sun Tzu would have lost his own head as well due to
an angry King Ho-lú except for the predictable result that
ensued. Sun Tzu brought forth two more concubines, placed one in charge
of each company and then he again ordered the drill completed. This
time the remaining concubines performed the exercise flawlessly.
Sun Tzu’s orders were clear. The fault was with those that were
entrusted to carry out those commands. When that fault was remedied
everything worked like it was supposed to.
There is a modern day parallel that can be drawn from all this as well
and it has nothing to do with commanding a military. That is the beauty
of Sun Tzu. The “Art of War” that he codified is able to be adapted to
any situation with a goal.
Right now in America we have the Republican Party as it sadly exists; a
chattering mass of concubines who have come to believe that they are
favorites of some higher authority and they will have no harm ever come
to them. The problem is that we, the people, who are the real authority
behind the Party are not at all amused. We have given them power. We
have given them arms. We have even given them orders. But still they
sit there and giggle at us as though those orders are not at all
important.
We tell them to lower taxes and they giggle. We tell them to reduce the
size of government and they giggle some more. We tell them to stand up
for innocent human life no matter the age and they laugh out loud. We
tell them to return to within the boundaries set up for them by the
Constitution and they flip us the bird while mocking us openly. So the
answer is obvious to anyone that has ever read Sun Tzu. The axe needs
to be sharpened. The heads of the lead concubines must be lowered onto
the chopping block. And these fools need to be released from their
duties and obligations. It is time to behead those giddy concubines who
are in charge and who are not willing to carry out the clear orders
given to them.
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