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Guys like this. And then you get to learn more about their ideas for homeland security:

He obsessively references his reading, spouting off his take on philosophers such as Nietzsche and religion and motivational authors like Anthony Robbins and Robert Greene.

“You can talk to me about any topic in the world, especially philosophy and theology. I can break down Buddhism, Taoism and Shintoism, any religion there is, and explain how it literally all means one thing,” he said.

Since deciding to run for mayor of New York City, Burck started watching Fox News for hours on end and reading such books as Bill O’Reilly’s “Culture Warrior” and “A Documentary History of the United States” by Richard Heffner.

. . .

After his daily reading, Burke, who lives in his girlfriend’s town house in a pleasant gated community with her three children, straightens up the house, dusts, vacuums, takes out the garbage and, time permitting, touches up the white paint on the walls with a tiny brush.

“If you have an environment that looks chaotic and s- – -, it changes who you are,” he said.

He is so into cleanliness that he will pick up other messes he comes across.

“If I go to the gas-station bathroom, I clean the toilet if it’s a mess,” Burck said.

. . .

He routinely runs 10 miles a day. When he is on the elliptical exercise machine, he reads his six-page list of 30 affirmations, a rambling, cosmic wish list.

No. 5: “I have the No. 1 reality show in the world!!!”

No. 21: “I go the distance for the populations of the world.”

No. 27: “My NYC penthouse has glass ceilings and walls!”

Despite his Spartan lifestyle, his goals center on making billions and becoming a revered world figure. He says he wants to be bigger than the pope or Michael Jackson in the 1980s.

Posted: July 27th, 2009 | Filed under: Things That Make You Go "Oy"
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