As we all know, Donald Trump is now posing as a pious man, instead of a grubby pervert. A man who now prefers to read the Bible instead of Hitler's speeches. But still, this tweet late yesterday seemed to come out of nowhere.
In one of my last posts I asked the following question: Is Donald Trump Now Too Mentally Disturbed To Remain In Office? And I concluded that he definitely was. So I'm glad to see that the Republican Senator Bob Corker sort of agrees with me. And that he not only believes that the White House has become an "adult daycare centre."
As we all know, Donald Trump is a threat to everything decent in America. From its women and girls, who he would grope like a beast, to its democracy he would defile and degrade. He would plunge the world into the greatest recession since the Great Depression. But the greatest threat he poses is to the planet itself.
I'm glad to see the Trudeau government has told Lockheed Martin to take its threat to blackmail us, and shove it. And that if it doesn't provide the jobs it promised, the company that wins the contract for new fighter jets, will provide them instead. But what I find so ridiculous about this whole F-35 fiasco, is that whatever plane Canada chooses is going to be obsolete in a matter of years. For this is the shape of aerial warfare to come...
You'd think Stephen Harper would know better than to visit Ukraine a few days after Crimea votes to separate, as it almost certainly will on Sunday. And the last thing the world needs is some foreign leader inflaming what will almost certainly be a dangerous situation. But no, he's going.
As we prepare to go to war for another four years, for no good reason, here's a reminder of the insanity it can trigger.
In a BBC radio interview last night, Blunt said: "I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there. I was the lead officer, with my troop of men behind us... The soldiers directly behind me were from the Parachute Regiment, so they're obviously game for the fight.
"Fortunately," Blunt recalled, "up on the radio came General Sir Mike Jackson [commander of the British forces], whose words were, 'I'm not going to have my soldiers start World War Three.'
And why decent people have an obligation to speak up.
"For me, if anyone wants to be labelled pro-war, they would be obscene," he said. "War is an absolutely terrible, ghastly thing."
So much for NATO. So much for those who would keep us in a war so easily.
Well at least now we know how historians will sum up the Imperial Presidency of George Bush. He ruled for eight years. He cheated, he lied, he tortured, he murdered hundreds of thousands of people, he tanked the economy, he made ignorance a virtue. And before leaving office he set the stage for the Collapse of the American Empire. A government report released Thursday paints an alarming picture of an unstable future for international relations defined by waning American influence, a fragmentation of political power and intensifying struggles for increasingly scarce natural resources.
Wow. I don't envy the nasty Chimp. A hundred years from now the survivors of The Great Darkness will still be dancing on his grave. Or gnawing on his bones to stave off starvation. Just like I don't envy poor Obama who has to try to save the world. Even though some say it's already too late. Ongoing turbulence will make it harder to focus on long-term changes. Recent weeks have seen much chatter about a second Bretton Woods, a gathering of states to rescue the world's economy from its woes. But what if we have not yet reached 1944? What if we're still in 1914, when the world's first period of globalisation was about to end to be replaced by 30 years of upheaval, depression and conflict? Yikes. That IS pretty depressing. First the grinding poverty. Then the bloody carnage. Then the cannibalism. And then the planet burns. But I'm an optimist so I suppose it could always be WORSE. Eh? With house prices going down the toilet....and homeowners debating whether to use some rooms for fire wood, and others for chicken coops...so they can keep warm, eat, and STILL pay the mortgage. Imagine how awful it would be. If you were Hitler's real estate agent...
People I warned you. Make sure you have a bunker....and lots of chickens. This is going to be really BAD...
When I first saw the video of Sarah Palin talking about Russia and Canada I was shaken to the core. What if she got the two countries mixed up and nuked us by mistake?
Watch CBS Videos Online But then I realized that the Republican operatives have got her so paranoid about what she does know and what she doesn't know, she's lost all her confidence. So now instead of the Attila from Wasilla, she's more like a moose in the headlights.
Or the tennis player who said "I can do that."
But couldn't....
Muahahahaha. Never mind the Anti-Christ. The match is still on. But Sarah Palin is OVER... ----------------------------------------------- h/t Andrew Sullivan
A while back I wrote a post where I wondered whether Sarah Palin's extraordinary ability to fascinate the American people ...dazzle and terrify them at the same time... was due to the fact she was The Anti-Christ.
Since then I've received quite a few e-mails from American readers asking me whether I REALLY think that The Barracuda is the Queen of Darkness. Like they do...
Now I admit that I have been too busy in the last few days tracking The Lard of Darkness Stephen Harper, to keep up with what's going on across the border. But from what I have seen the signs are OMINOUS. She's the biggest celebrity in America, but reporters can't ask her any questions... like she has a FORCE FIELD around her. A lot of women find her appealing.Even though she's a deranged Christianist who would ban abortion. Hypnosis or ... EXTRAORDINARY POWERS? Then there's the disturbing story about how The Chosen One treats her enemies. Is that DEMONIC or what? And finally there is the even MORE troubling video (VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED) of what happened to a poor guy who dared to cross her path...
Notice that she wasn't wearing her extremely popular glasses. The ones that make her look like a carpenter...from Mars. So now you know...when she takes them off...... DUCK or run for your life !!! Look I still don't know if Sarah Palin is the Anti-Christ. The one Americans have been waiting for FOREVER. But is that the sound of an Anti-Christ urinal flushing....or the sound of America going down the toilet?
Uh oh. Remember how last night I was wondering whether Sarah Palin was the Anti-Christ? Well BLOW me away. It turns out it's WORSE than that. How about the Happy Hallelujah Armageddon Warrior?
A hawkish and occasionally combative Sarah Palin warned last night she might commit US troops to a war against Russia in defence of Georgia and Ukraine in her first interview since John McCain chose her as his running mate.
Palin, who admitted last night she made her first trip outside North America last year, also said she was certain she was ready to step in for McCain as president
"I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can't blink. You have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can't blink...."
Which makes Palin even more dangerous than Chimp Bush and Dick Cheney. And forces me to offer my American friends some urgent advice.
If the worst happens, make sure that McCain gets ALL his organs replaced....with nice fresh young ones brought straight from Iraq.... BEFORE he becomes President.
Make sure Poppy is guarded day and night so the Christianist ninjas can't get to him. Especially when he's wandering around the White House late at night in his housecoat wondering why the North Vietnamese guards haven't come to put him to bed.
Or just drop Palin. As soon as you can...
I recommend that one. Eh? Because time is RUNNING OUT...
As the Great War on Terror grinds on with no end in sight. And three more young soldiers die.
And the conflict threatens to turn into the Pakistan-Afghanistan War. While the crisis in Georgia simmers, and Dick Cheney gets involved.
Simon Jenkins wonders whether we are tilting at windmills, as world war looms. The question is critical. Has the West misjudged the fault line of an impending conflict? Its global strategy under George Bush, Tony Blair and a ham-fisted Nato has declared the threat to world peace as coming from nonstate organisations, specifically Al-Qaeda, and the nations that give them either bases or tacit support. Western generals and securocrats have elevated these anarchist fanatics to the status of nuclear powers. Policing crime has become “waging war”, so as to justify soaring budgets and influence over policy, much as did America’s military-industrial complex during the cold war.
Might it be that a raging seven-year obsession with Osama Bin Laden and his tiny Al-Qaeda organisation has blinded strategists to the old verities? Wars are rarely “clashes of civilisation”, but rather clashes of interest. They are usually the result of careless policy, of misread signals and of mission creep closing options for peace. Terrorists, wherever located and trained, can certainly capture headlines and cause overnight mayhem, but they cannot project power. They cannot conquer countries or peoples, only manipulate democratic regimes into espousing illiberal policies, as in America and Britain. By grossly overstating the significance of terrorism, western leaders have distracted foreign policy from what should be its prime concern: securing world peace by holding a balance of interest - and pride - among the great powers.
Did the Great War on Terror blind us as well as drive us crazy? Blind us to the real threat to our survival. The impending clash of nuclear powers over the world's shrinking oil resources.
Was our memory so short we could forget this horror?
I've got some good news and bad news on the Abyss/Apocalypse front tonight. The bad news is that I have no idea when the Third World War is going to break out. Because anything could happen in this black hole. The US has strongly criticised Russian military action against Georgia, in the bitter conflict over South Ossetia.
In a telephone call to Georgia's leader Mikhail Saakashvili, the US Vice President, Dick Cheney, said Russian aggression "must not go unanswered". But now that the Dark Lord Dick Cheney is involved it could happen ANYTIME. The good news is that if by some miracle we dodge that missile we could get whacked by an even bigger black hole courtesy of this monster. But at least we know now when that could happen. September 10. So we can be ready. Oh sure. They say it's impossible. But who knows?
They've been wrong before. Which makes me wonder what would be the better Apocalypse....the better way to go. Watching the sky burn and muttering as I fry "South fucking Ossetia???? Who knew???AAARGH!!! " Or falling into a black hole shouting "We discovered the final secret of the Universe !!! WHOOPEE!!!" I'm leaning towards the latter. Even though the first one has a better video....
And you thought I was going to play Georgia on my Mind.
Hell or the Hole. What a choice.
Aren't we fortunate? ---------------------------------------------------- P.S. Do you think we could have the beginning of the Third World War coincide with the end of the closing fireworks show at the Olympics? That would be SPECIAL.....
A few questions on a fall afternoon... If we know where this bomb is going? The US Department of Defence has asked for an additional $88 million to modify B2 stealth bombers so that they can carry a 30,000lb bomb called the massive ordnance penetrator And George Bush...who looks crazier every day....warns about the Third World War. "if you're interested in avoiding World War III . . . you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon." But we KNOW he is the one who would start it. And might even welcome it because he believes that Armageddon in the Middle East will lead to the return of "The Messiah." Just like the equally crazy Ahmedinejad believes that Armageddon will bring back the "Hidden Imam."
Ahmadinejad has publicly declared that one of his missions is to hasten and prepare for the return of the Mahdi.The way to hasten Mahdi's return, Ahmadinejad believes, is to hasten Armageddon.
And meanwhile at the Vatican....a former Nazi Pope beatifies 498 priests who were killed during the Spanish Civil War. The Vatican staged its largest mass beatification ceremony ever yesterday, putting 498 victims of religious persecution before and during Spain's civil war on the path to possible sainthood.
Tens of thousands attended the ceremony, which drew criticism from some in Spain who saw it as implicit criticism of the Socialist government as it takes a critical look at the country's civil war past and the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
But doesn't apologize for the horror his fascist side caused. And here at home one of Bennie's beastly bishops bans James Loney from addressing a conference on social justice? Not because he is gay....but because he has a partner.
"I asked if it was because I was gay, and the answer was, 'No, it's because you are in a relationship with man...." And all over the world people attack others and blow themselves up to please their primitive bloodthirsty gods. Why are we celebrating ANY kind of religion? When its monstrous sicko craziness is threatening to destroy us all...
