All Hail Aqua Buddha!

[Iason Ouabache]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/stoner-kidnapping-101-aka-rand-paul-the-college-years.php

Remember your college years? The test cramming, the questionable decisions when it came to alcohol, the even more questionable decisions when it came to dating? And who can forget that classic college prank -- the one where you kidnap a girl from the swim team, blindfold her, and try to force her to take bong hits before making her kneel in a creek and pray to "Aqua Buddha"?

What's that you say? You never tried that one? Well you must not have attended college with Rand Paul.

From a new profile of Paul's college years published by GQ:

The strangest episode of Paul's time at Baylor occurred one afternoon in 1983 (although memories about all of these events are understandably a bit hazy, so the date might be slightly off), when he and a NoZe brother paid a visit to a female student who was one of Paul's teammates on the Baylor swim team. According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot." After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him," the woman recalls. "They blindfolded me and made me bow down to 'Aqua Buddha' in the creek. I had to say, 'I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.' At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no."

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Do Aqua Buddhists go to Nirvana or Aqua-Nirvana?

[Cramulus]

                           Thank you, anonymous clinical psychologist
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[Cain]

This actually makes me like Rand Paul more.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This actually makes me like Rand Paul more.

Well, maybe if you had a time machine...

[Cain]

Who needs a time machine?  Me and Rand, we're going to do it tomorrow.  And he's getting high whether he wants to or not (post Aqua-Buddha II press conference should be fun).

[Epimetheus]

These are clearly Aquaman worshippers.

Aqua-Nirvana?

Atlantis.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Who needs a time machine?  Me and Rand, we're going to do it tomorrow.  And he's getting high whether he wants to or not (post Aqua-Buddha II press conference should be fun).

Anyone involves with the Tea Party movement is automatically on my shit list, especially if they are conspiracy theorists.
Reason being they prevent me from watching the video for Babylon by The Tea Party on youtube.

I hate the movement. Love the band. Only good thing that came out of Canada.

[BabylonHoruv]

the sound quality on the youtube of that song that I found was really bad.  But it sounds like a good song underneath it.  I am exploring other options to get the song.  I like songs with my name in them.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

the sound quality on the youtube of that song that I found was really bad.  But it sounds like a good song underneath it.  I am exploring other options to get the song.  I like songs with my name in them.

It is a pretty awesome song. It's available on one of their DVDs (Illuminations) and the song itself is off their album Transmission. Most of the other videos from them seem to be of pretty decent sound quality.