James Jesus Rimbaud

2005-05-26T19:57:00.000-07:00

Today President Bush made great theater out of giving the Palestineans 50 million dollars. Let's not quibble out of the 20:1 ratio of aid to the Israelis vs aid to the Palestineans. Used strategically, the money can be put to very good use. The Palestinean Authority can now probably meet the net worth requirements to open a few Mr. Pita franchises and a Krispy Kreme and have enough left over for an Outback Steakhouse. This is a faith based iniative at its best...and it will probably be very well received in the Synagogues. We are all Abraham's sons, but its best to be the ones with the Blackhawks.

2005-05-01T18:21:00.000-07:00

In the early stages of the Reformation...ie, when it started getting away from Luther...the Peasants' rage was fed by a symbiosis between Reform and the debasing of local currencies. By our ignorant lights "peasant" conjures up images of yokels with tined farm implements - but in truth in the 16th century it would have included what passes for the middle class. Currency debasement results in inflation...the profligate debtor hopes to decrease the value of the currency in which his debt is denominated in order to make his debt burden more manageable.
In the Lord's prayer Catholics ask for the forgiveness of trespasses...not debt. Is not "debt" part of the legerdemain of Mammon....something that can be bought and sold? Debt forgiveness also results in a tax liability... the act of forgiveness triggers a rendering unto the Caesar of the day...

2005-04-18T17:25:00.000-07:00

Hard to believe....first post of April...death in the family etc.

Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel....hope when it turns white it isn't a Petrus Romanus or however the fuck you spell it in Latin.

When you have someone cremated, they give the ashes to you in a cardboard box. No shit.

The American consumer is cowering...I'll be writing some more about this....America: Deadbeat Nation.

The Chinese have learned a lesson from Israel. They've restored the rape of Nanking to their cultural memory as their very own Holocaust. Watch the Japanese dance...all that repressed anger...groping women on the subway.

2005-03-29T17:54:00.000-08:00

LITTLE BOYS IN BROWN SHIRTS

A high ranking official at the Boy Scouts of America has been charged with receiving and distributing child pornography. I quickly tried to find a link with his picture...the one I saw was a registration site and JJR doesn't do those(at least conciously). This guy even looks like Pete Townsend. Maybe he was doing research into a new merit badge - Buggery Avoidance. Beware seniors in brown shirts lording it up over boys and enlist that sixty odd year- old Brownshirt in the Sexual Humiliation brigade of the U.S. Army and Reserves. Surely he can be of some use in Iraq.

I've noticed some dead links and mispellings in previous posts. My craft suffers...shoddy workmanship etc...which is to say I'm too lazy to repost with corrections.

Jerry Falwell in the hospital.
Johnny Cochrane dead.
Somehow these go together...I just haven't figured out how yet.

If you know how these go together, please post a comment.

I checked on the Poll for the first time in a month. Somehow Harry Reems lost a lot of votes. Thats okay though....it was a "leading" poll. I wanted Harry to win(lose?). Those other guys suck.

2005-03-27T18:15:00.000-08:00

What the hell happened to this guy. Tom Sizemore is one of my favorite actors. He's about my age, from Detroit, and we both have the same hairstyle. He looks like somebody hauled off from a truck-stop and thrown up on screen, but man, he can act. Living in a garage...prosthetic penis...this guy was as graceless in his fall as Leon Spinks. He's saying that he has "rediscovered Christianity"....but at this point, that seems dubious:

"I may have been a wayward Christian - I was with nine gals - but I was a happy Christian."

Nope. Its seems the seeds have fallen in rocky soil. The next rain will wash it all away.

Tom is right...somebody really does want to bring him to his knees.

2005-03-25T19:40:00.000-08:00

AHHHHH WAAAAA

From the Miame Herald we have news that in their court motion the family claims Terri spoke to them and offered she that she might want to live:

"She managed to articulate the first two vowel syllables, first articulating 'AHHHHH', and then virtually screaming, 'WAAAAA'. She became very agitated but could not complete the vocalization attempted."

Hmmm. It is doubtful that Terri on her cross would utter any such thing. Most likely, she was attempting the Aramaic for "My Bush, My Bush...why have you forsaken me?"

Cut to the scene of Pilate, er, I mean Jeb Bush, ceremonially washing his hands, actually dribbling water over them with one of his daughter's coke spoons, then wiping them on his pants. Later in the day he will cancel his appearance at an outdoor service wherein he was required to read the Fifth Station of the Cross. Poor bastard.

I defer to the J-Man and Michael Hoffman for a more serious diagnosis of American Christianity's pathology. I'm just too plum tired and disgusted for anything more than scathing ridicule. When she goes may Terri Shiavo rest in peace. The rest of the rotten bastards deserve a new circle in Dante's Hell.

The next time you want to have a media orgy outside a hospice be sure to cover you nose with that duct tape too. Fucking Morons.

2005-03-21T18:43:00.000-08:00

A CONFEDERACY OF RETARDS

Across the Republic American retards wait with baited breath for a decision in the Shiavo case.
It is fitting the last days of the empire for the citizenry to be looking for signs in the head lolling and facial tics of the brain dead. George W. Bush and his gang see a Lazarus they can raise from the dead...even if only metaphorically...this apostolic pretender, latter day Simon Magus, with his cheap tricks. The Romans eat this shit up. They stop consuming for one night and wonder for whom the bell tolls? If this grinning idiot can't be saved what chance have they? The bell tolls for thee, Romans....and when it is finished you can invert it and put a crack in it. An American paten to catch your dying spittle, so that damnable specie never touches the earth.

2005-03-20T19:03:00.000-08:00

DELAY THE WHORE

Tom Delay for all intents and purposes has usurped the legislative branch of government for making unfounded accusations against private citizens. Thus, he accuses Michael Schiavo of murder even while in his own state there exists a futile care law that provided cover to "killing" a six month old baby this Thursday past. This law was signed to effect in 1999 by none other than George W. Bush. Where is Delay the whore's outrage? Thus, while Delay is willing to trash a veral agreement between Michael Shiavo and his wife he fully upholds the murder of a six-month old on sole consideration of the penniless mother's ability to pay? What kind of intellectual and moral whoredom is this? Satan cannot cast out Satan. James Jesus Rimbaud is not sure what ethical position should be taken in either of these cases....but he is certain that the FUCK Tom Delay has no moral ground to stand on in passing judgement on Michael Shiavo or, ironically, the Republican Southern Baptist judge whose ruling he cannot accept.

2005-03-19T15:18:00.000-08:00

TERRY SCHIAVO: HUMAN OR ANTIC PUPPET?

If James Jesus were granted the ability to go in back time - an Angel of Mercy sent by the Lord - and deny Ronald and Nancy Reagan their allotted four score and too many years in their preferred Hollywood, Sacramento, and Washington DC milieus (The loci of their most hideous damages) and instead consigned them to a trailer park outside Bakersfield where both would enjoy careers as intinerant farm laborers...is there any question, I insist, that upon being called that the local Medical Examiner would find more than incidental amounts of pillow feathers in Ronnies trachea?

2005-03-18T19:34:00.000-08:00

The McCartney sisters - Bush-Blair dupes?

2005-03-17T18:42:00.000-08:00

Blogger just lost my post on Robert Blake. I'm too tired to do it again. This shit takes psychic energy. Pissed off.

Shit on the McCartney sisters..."heros" - don't make me laugh...not so much as a sideways glance if it was a Protestant getting knifed shot or semtexed in Northland Ireland.

One of the McCartney sisters said that it was obvious that Dubya knew more about the "situation" than they did...give them citizenship papers...they fit the FOX demographic perfectly.

Mark McGwire cried today. Priceless. I imagine he had the same hurt look as Mike Piazza when Clemens threw the bat-shard at him in dismissal. Look at me, I date models...why doesn't Roger Clemens like me?

Curt Shilling....what you can you say...the man who would blow the President.

These reprobates actually make Jose Canseco likeable...albeit by simple debased contrast.....

Paul Wolfowitz...lice eater....head of World Bank now...yeah, maybe he'll institute microlending in the Palestinean Refugee Camps...ha ha ha...he can put to rest all rock star conjecture and tour Ramallah with Gene Simmons...

I ordered The Great Mortality: An intimate History of the Black Death, the most Devastating Plague of All-Time from Amazon tonight. I need something to cheer me up.

2005-03-15T18:57:00.000-08:00

What does Saudi Arabia get for being the US shoeshine boy on oil production quotas? 500,000 extra barrels a day has got to be worth something. Say, maybe a hear no evil see no evil out of the Chimpanzee in Chief? That ought to teach the American piggies something...artificially stimulate even more consumption when it already is bumping up against production limits. Americans can continue their love affair with SUV's....the men humping the gas tank and the women rubbing off on the stick shifts...Ah yes...I've seen their little heads popping up above the steering wheel...effortless orgasms and invincible too.

But cooler heads will prevail. Americans will have to masturbate themselves the old fashioned way...in cramped little fuel efficient vehicles....the Saudi whores can pump extra if they want but it won't matter, the era of cheap oil is over.

Tomorrow I predict that OPEC won't raise production and Saudi Arabia will anounce its attention to "cheat" on quotas...a wink wink nod nod to the markets. The price of oil may dip on the news, but no more than a dollar or two...the long term trend is entrenched. We need $80-100 dollar bbl oil to encourage America to reign in the libido of its surrogate sexuality. It can't get a hardon anymore unless 3500 pounds of metal surrounds it. Mrs. Bobbinghead is gonna have to give up her Hummer. I'd like to see her try that nasty business on the shifter of a Honda Civic...

2005-03-14T18:57:00.000-08:00

I gave up on baseball years ago. The muscleheads with their pharma'd bodies turned me off...Sosa, McGwire, Bonds, Canseco...all of them. Now all this talk of congressional hearings on steroid abuse in baseball....who gives a shit! The damage has already been done. If one of these congressman can get Bonds et al up there and publicly humiliate themselves maybe I'll take a peek. These morons aren't fit to carry Hank Aaron's jockstrap...or Willie Mays...or Roberto Clemente's, or even Spongebob Kaline. Denny McClain and Pete Rose were less of an embarrassment to the game What a bunch of precious fags. Their hall of fame busts, should they get them, will hopefully reflect the tits these guys are gonna grow when their playing days are done.

2005-03-13T17:28:00.000-08:00

No posts the last two days. I've been busy on a work of fiction. Most troubling - you can spend all that time on a work of fiction and decide it is shit at the very end...toss it away. At least on blogosphere your commentary is out there, warts and all, for all to see. In my story the barman/musician Ernest Cabaner will play a thematic part. This Cabaner taught Rimbaud musical chromatism - this is where the sonnet "Vowels" comes from(English Translation of course). Anyways, I think the title is gonna be called "Cabaner's Milk" after an incident in which Cabaner left a glass of milk unattended and our hero Rimbaud repaid his small kindnesses by jerking off into it. I hit a dead spot which is why I'm here tonight.

2005-03-10T18:56:00.000-08:00

The Bush Administration is saying the IRA ought to disband. Tony Blair, poodle that he is, apparently lacks the balls to tell them himself. I sympathize with the McCartney sisters....but they delude themselves if they think Bush can deliver "justice". Does Spain ask for Bush justice with the ETA? After all, they see themselves as "brothers", these Basque seperatists and Irish Provos. No, we must conclude that Tony Blair is a pussy. The British lack all moral authority in this matter and have deferred to a monster with less. Ah, the barbarity...the IRA offered to shoot the transgressors, though this could have meant anything from killing them to a "knee-capping" - wouldn't such a solution have deprived the British and the Northern loyalists of their preferred justice....imprisonment and sexual and religious humiliation? What sort of dwarves are these that can't bring a common murderer to trial without appealing to the anti-Christ? An Irish Catholic solution to an Irish Catholic crime.

2005-03-09T18:41:00.000-08:00

Well it just seems like I was posting of Chocolate the hamsters demise. My wife bought two "replacement" hamsters...dwarf hamsters as opposed to traditional fatassed hamsters...just three days ago. To make a long story short...someone left a door open that they shouldn't of and Smoky the cat got up on the dresser and knocked the cage off of it. One dwarf hamster found...well half of it anyways, between the bars of the cage, and the other approximately twenty feet away...also in pieces. My grief stricken daughter remembers to hate the sin, not the sinner....she walks around with transgressor cat in her arms... I cannot help but feel some jealousy...to be a murderer and to be so....loved!

2005-03-07T20:27:00.000-08:00

WHY TREASURY SECRETARY JOHN SNOW IS AN ASSHOLE

On ABC's This Week John Snow professed admiration for U2 frontman Bono and would not rule out that he could be chosen to head the World Bank. The wires picked up the story and ran with it. Bono replaces Wolfenshon...yes, it smells good....Bono is as capable as anyone for such a position...But the lumpen forget that Snow's predecessor, John O'Neill, was given the heave ho in large part because a certain chimp and his doughboy handler did not like him traisping about Africa with Bono while the American consumer was doing bloody battle with Al Queda on the homefront. Bono is also on the short list for the Nobel Peace Prize...something he deserves for discerning some sort of humanity in Jesse Helms...God knows I could have never tried...
The fact is that the US gets to choose the World Bank chief. Europe gets to pick the IMF chief. This is all a smokescreen to show what sort of hipsters populate the administration....If Bono is picked against all odds, you can bet your ass there will be some sort of quid pro quo, like Europe naming Toby Keith to head the IMF...

2005-03-06T14:30:00.000-08:00

IN OPEN COUNTRY

On Thursay St. James Davis suffered a brutal attack at the hands and teeth of two chimpanzees. Davis and his wife LaDonna were visiting their 39 year old chimp who'd been consigned to the wildlife refuge for its own acts of violence. Their chimp, Moe, remained locked in his cage and was not involved in the attack on them - at least on the surface of things. The brutality of the attack - St. James Davis had his face and testicles chewed off - led many to wonder what could prompt such carnage.

From the Bakersfield Californian:
Chimps don't throw themselves into a savage attack for no reason, said Deborah Fouts, director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute of Central Washington University.
Moe moved to the compound about five months ago, and Fouts wondered if past tensions between the apes were spilling out in Thursday's attack:
"Was it directed at Moe? Had Moe perhaps not been a good neighbor?" she said.
The Davises were visiting Moe with a birthday cake, and Fout's said the other chimps may have been jealous if they weren't getting treats.
But Fouts dismissed the notion that dessert envy alone provoked the mauling.
"It just seems like such a vicious attack for not getting a birthday cake," she said.

Fouts underestimates the power of jealousy. Was it not for this very sin that Cain fell upon Abel in open country? Maybe it wasn't the cake alone....for we find that this chimp Moe was a celebrity of sorts...From the Who?Won website(St. James and LaDonna were involved in NASCAR...sort of figures):

It was the ability to drive that brought Moe to the attention of the Los Angeles based media. Every weekday St. James would drive Moe home from the studio were he was working at and stop at a local gas station near his home. He would put some gas in the two-seat roadster he was driving at the time and then let Moe drive the remaining few blocks home.

It didn't take long for the word to get out about the car driving monkey and every afternnoon spectators would gather the sidewalk, between the gas station and the Davis home, to wave at Moe as he drove by. While it was natural that a car driving monkey would attract a lot of attention, it was also natural that somenone was going to have a problem with it.

It is possible that the chimps in the adjoining cage got sick of Moe bragging about his car driving exploits. Or not. Abel did not rub God's preference of his offering in Cain's face, and Cain slew him anyways. Paul and Clement were troubled by the behavior of the Corinthians, calling to account those reprobates decades apart. The chimps probably never had the gospel preached to them...and one of them wants to be the ape with the most cake...I love it so much it just turns to hate...

2005-03-05T19:15:00.000-08:00

I've always maintained that the recluse, Saddam Hussein, in cultivating his avuncular persona, projected his faux sense of good will onto his American nemesis. The poor fool never thought that the Chimp would actually invade...the American's know I actually have no WMD...it's just posturing for my neighbors etc. The wink wink quid pro quo of the dysfunctional Arab-American relationship would continue apace...To show how deluded this man was, we need only recall his fondness for human shields...his naive assumption that somehow Americans wouldn't attack with ''innocents" placed strategically about the "targets". An Italian Intelligence Agent was killed by Americans while acting as a human shied for a recently released journalist. One has to question the Italian intellect as they give voice to their outrage. For kicks one of the vampiric US Air Force fighters buzzed an Italian ski lift a few years back...severing a cable and sending skiers to their death...The Italian Prime Minister summons the US Ambassador demanding a response for this latest incident. Make no mistake, he doesn't want for an accountability, but rather for a perfumed whitewashing that will allow him to keep his nose firmly up Bush's asscrack.

2005-03-04T20:22:00.000-08:00

The moral question posed by usury: When is it not a sin? The simple act of buying a US Savings Bond for your kids college education is, strictly speaking an act of usury...you pay 25 bucks for a 50 dollar bond, in effect...you lend money to the US Government today, 25 dollars, and they pay you back in 50 dollars in 20 years. Not a particularly good deal....works out to 3.53% interest a year...and with inflation running at 3.2%, well your real return is one third of a percent per year...For this meager return you've financed America's adventures in barbarity...wouldn't it be better to be usurious with extreme predjudice in this case? If everybody turned US debt vigilante, ie, refused to buy US debt unless it offered as much of a return as the Shylock down at the Payday Loan Center is getting - then the Leviathan that is America would choke on its excessess. Sure, the sheeple would get hurt too, but they were complicit....they erected monuments to Mammon....deified Greenspan...sold their souls for some silver like Judas, and don't even attempt the drama of tossing it back at the temple leaders feet....

2005-03-03T18:48:00.000-08:00

Nothing new under the sun today. Read "Ecclesiastes" three times, including once on the toilet, to purge myself of all freakish "novelties".

American citizens, unable to discern the obvious, need a Supreme Court ruling to legislate their astounding ignorance...Law and Order: The Mosaic Transgressors Unit...

Dennis Rader has better odds of being saved than Alan Greenspan.

My daughters hamster, Chocolate, died yesterday. He has better odds of being saved than Alan Greenspan. Chocolate had survived an abscess that left half his jawbone exposed...a gruesome sight that most parents would have put an end to with a quick flush while the daughter was in absentia...But my daughter loved the little monster....death's head grimace and all - who were we to judge? We kept Chocolate out of sight and fed him Orange Creme Yoplait Custard Style Yogurt. In Hamster years he was virtual Soviet Georgian. Chocolate never bit anyone, and never shit in anyone's hand....Where it so that I and Thou on the last day can stand before the Lord and squeal the same...

2005-03-02T17:50:00.000-08:00

BY THEIR PHARMA

On Monday the Irish drug company Elan Corporation announced that it was pulling its Tysabri drug, which was being tested on multiple sclerosis patients, due to one death and one illness associated with the drug. For Elan, unlike a lot of other pharmas, Tysabri was the only drug in town...its future depends on it. Predictably, the stock lost 70% of its value on Monday and another percent or so yesterday and today. Immediately James Jesus swung into action. Such massacres have been rare since the heady days of 2000-01, but I know where to look for the tales of woe and pleas to God that follow such financial armegeddon. The Yahoo Finance message boards. Typing in the ticker symbol, ELN, then clicking on "messages" in the sidebar, will yield hours of edifying financial horror stories...ALL OF THEM SELF-INFLICTED
Like this.
And this...
There were many people who were wiped out. Its laughable. They ask for prayers. They pray to God. Wiped out....its not fair...they're not just worried about themselves but the poor MS patients who can no longer use Tysabri and so on. What will they tell the wife....can't retire now...kid's college fund wiped out...can happen to anyone. Well no, theres a lot of people it can't happen to, because they don't have 250k or 750k or more to throw at a drug that uses MS patients as guinea pigs. These people got bitch-slapped by their true God Mammon and now they seek comfort and redress in the Lord...absolutely sickening....

2005-03-01T17:38:00.000-08:00

THE BIGGEST PIKER ON THE PLANET

"Below the favourable surface (of the economy), there are as dangerous and intractable circumstances as I can remember...Nothing in our experienced is comparable...But no one is willing to understand(this) and do anything about it...We are consuming...about six per cent more than we are producing. What holds the world together is a massive flow of capital from abroad...it's what feeds our consumption...the United States economy is growing on the savings of the poor...a big adjustment will inevitably become necessary, long before the soical security surplusses dissappear and the deficit explodes...We are skating on increasingly thin ice."
Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volcker

Volcker gave way to Greenspan almost twenty years ago and the Federal Reserve has been without a Chairman since. The six percent Mr. Volcker refers to is the trade deficit only....throw in the budget deficit and its even more frightening. America the Piker, swindler and cheat of widow and orphans...sucking up the national savings of smaller, poorer, nations that buy our debt on "full faith and creditworthiness". The world is gagging on the US dollar....and Greenspan and the administration can only repond with printing more...You can ask an American to send his kid off on a trumped up war campaign, but never ask him if you can raise the rate on the his Adjustable Rate Mortgage...the serial refinancers will go crazy. Of course this is precisely what needs to be done. American excess must be choked off at its source - Greenspan's "cheap" money. To cure you they must kill you...

2005-02-28T17:49:00.000-08:00

American's life expectancies are the "best ever" says one newspaper headline. Something must be done about this...its nothing to be proud of...most lives are like novels - you write one that says in a 1000 pages what could of been said in 400, well, you call it a waste. A waste of paper and a waste of time - your time and the readers. American's can't even fill up their own lives...watch television reality shows and play video games etc. When real life happens, like, say two airplanes flying into the World Trade Center...they get scared and go shopping. American's aren't afraid of shopping. Its how they do battle. They feel proud of themselves...BMW's in discount Warehouse parking lots...how savvy we are...all this shit we don't need for half off - courtesy of the Chinese. If you stop spending the terrorists win etc. The only thing we have to fear is a closed out credit account and so on. Supersized portions for supersized people...including length of life. Note to IRS and Treasury actuaries: Shrink the actuary tables and you shrink the deficits - no more septugenarians in golf carts with an oxygen tank riding shotgun...pawing over vitamin supplements and erectile dysfunction potions while sucking on a giant hot dog at Costco. There aren't enough dead to bury the dead.

2005-02-27T11:59:00.000-08:00

It is sappy stuff like this that endears JPII to me. I ferverently hope John will see the little Iraqi girl...though the sight of this crumbling white man might frighten her more than her father supposes...what is that compared to surviving an American bomb and not being able to walk...

2005-02-26T15:36:00.000-08:00

WICHITA LINEMAN

Yes, James Jesus watched the "press conference" announcing the arrest of BTK suspect Dennis Rader. It was a laughable event...full of police agency puffery. This Rader, he gave tacit approval, whether he realizes or not, for the police agencies to catch him. Highly improbable the keystone cops catch him without Raders own media driven frenzy.

And I need you more than want you
And I want you all the time
And the Wichita lineman
is still on the line.

The cultural "taste" memory is too short for a man who was at the height of his notoriety twenty years ago. It's not nice to be forgotten. It must have been an insult for him to have at least two murders he is alleged to have authored go unattributed to him. Kind of like Stephen King changing his name to Bachman and watching the sales plummet. This Rader neglected his brand, and market share was taken away from him. He tried to get it back in an advertising blitz that started in March of last year...and now we have a bunch of cops doing a televised circle jerk over the stunned relatives of the vicitims. A primary tenet of American consumerism is to never kill the brand - whether through malignant intent or neglect, the end result will always be the same.

A curious byproduct of Rader's "brand" neglect is its effect in cross-contaminating another brand...the Lutheran Church in the form of its franchisee, Christ Lutheran Church of Wichita Kansas. Oh, I feel empathy for Pastor Michael C. Clark. As a Catholic, I know that what pederasts can do to a brand is not at all dissimiliar to having a serial killer in the fold. Poor Pastor Mike, already busy at work scrubbing all trace of Rader's presence from the church's website...

2005-02-24T19:27:00.000-08:00

Maybe I shouldn't have railed against Russell Simmons the other day....chickens following suit with monkeys, cows, and civet cats in taking their revenge on the human race...

Canada tells US it doesn't want in on Space Wars...on the same day as another successful US launch of the newest anti-ballistic missile...Note to Al Queda: We can shoot down your ICBM's - you'll have to try something stupid like flying airplanes into buildings. Maybe these Canucks see no reason to live now that the US has appropriated its' national pastime and destroyed it. Or maybe it was MLB moving the Expos out of Montreal...Or maybe they just don't like pissing their Loonies away.

2005-02-23T17:37:00.000-08:00

The J-Man says "euGene Scott....had to wrestle for a lifetime, contending for the faith which was delivered unto the saints."

In Chapter 1 of the Rule St. Benedicts characterizes different sorts of monks. It is the "third" kind he finds most troubling:

Third, there are the sarabaites, the most detestable kind of monks, who, with no experience to guide them, no rule to try them as gold is tried in a furnace, have a character as soft as lead. Still loyal to the world by their actions, they clearly lie to God by their tonsure. Two or three together, or even alone, without a shepherd, they pen themselves up in their own sheepfolds, not the Lord's. Their law is what they like to do, whatever strikes their fancy. Anything they believe in and choose, they call holy; anything they dislike, they consider forbidden.

There is nothing more honorable than to wage a public war with the sarabaite within. This detestable monk is within all of us. Christianity becomes perverted when we get too comfortable in the sarabaite's skin. Eugene Scott recognized it in himself and made time to do battle. When what passes for the American Church - in all its perverted denominations - submits itself to the refiner's fire, what could be pulled out except some flakes and peels of gilt paint? This gold. real gold, contends with fire and does not submit. Pyrite souls across the Republic ought to tremble.

2005-02-23T17:27:00.000-08:00

The J-Man has written a fine eulogy for Gene Scott. Highly recommended.

2005-02-22T19:04:00.000-08:00

Ouch. A little grumbling in the financial markets today...South Korea is thinking that maybe they don't want to be caught holding so many US dollars....Oil up three bucks a barrel. Keep on rocking in the free world...you got fuel to burn and roads to drive...

India cutting pipeline deals with Iran.

For the currencies rising against the dollar, oil is actually getting cheaper....

Keep on buying those SUV's piggies...

2005-02-22T18:43:00.000-08:00

BECAUSE OF WALMART

Jim Jesus has to laugh....his daughter wants to see the movie "Because of Winn-Dixie" - opened last Friday, starring Jeff Daniels and some other old people. Dave Matthews is in it as well...fitting - this guy and his band are even more shameless about shitting in public than the dog...Don't get me wrong, she'll get to see the movie - and I won't even spoil it for her by telling her that the dog's name should be Walmart. She's to young to care that the 80 yr old grocery chain that the dog is named for filed for bankruptcy today. Winn-Dixie blamed Walmart...says they couldn't compete with that unholy Babel crazed chain...So they'll reorganize and get their debt restrutctured and try again.

2005-02-21T18:59:00.000-08:00

PRIDE GOETH BEFORE THE FALL
US DOLLAR, WORLD FIAT CURRENCY VIOLATES NOAH's COVENANT

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

56 After the unity of the human race was shattered by sin God at once sought to save humanity part by part. The covenant with Noah after the flood gives expression to the principle of the divine economy toward the "nations", in other words, toward men grouped "in their lands, each with (its) own language, by their families, in their nations."

57 This state of division into many nations is at once cosmic, social, and religious. It is intended to limit the pride of fallen humanity, united only in its perverse ambition to forge its own unity as at Babel. But, because of sin, both polytheism and the idolatry of the nation and of its rulers constantly threaten this provisional economy with the perversion of paganism.

This provisional economy struggles to become a global one, day by day reaching its goal. The "perversion of paganism" is the naked worship of Mammon. This nation calls him 'dollar', that one 'Yen', another 'Yuan', and the 'Euro'. They all seek their revenges against their master, the world reserve currency know as the US DOLLAR - yet they are all different names for the same beast. The day will come when their jousting on FOREX and the machinations of Central Bankers spill over onto the earth itself, where their clashes will no longer be electronic and bloodless...

2005-02-21T12:46:00.000-08:00

Poor Doug Wead...never intended for the public to hear the tapes he secretly recorded of the Chimp. It's hard to reconcile that intention with him asking the New York Times to listen to them....but these Texas evangelicals...not too bright. Dubya as pot smoker and defender of gays....he won't "kick them"...hmmm. Jeff Gannon/Guckert obviously has a friend here. Wead says of Bush:

"In a 10-year period, he became a millionaire, the governor of Texas, and the President of the United States."

What a boot-strap fellow. I'd always thought those three results were obtained through an admixture of public and corporate welfare....I'd always thought that Georgie was something "his mommy wouldn't wear." But its Laura, Jesus, and Mommy that he credits with his turnaround.
Yes, the mother...Barbara Bush...would she have remained dead to him how much better would the world be today? This Doug Wead...if only he'd the courage to tell George to let the dead bury the dead...

2005-02-21T11:57:00.000-08:00

If this moron would have timed it better, California might have been spared the Gubernator and God's wrath.

2005-02-20T17:37:00.000-08:00

RUSSIA TO BUSH, "GO BUGGER YOURSELF"

Yevgenia Albats has the story in the Moscow Times. Ha ha. Says the most Bush can hope to accomplish is to "beg" Russia not to send missiles to Syria. These fellows figured out Bush and Rice far quicker than the American sheeple, and they're not particularly geniuses either.

The upcoming meeting in Bratislava on Thursday between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush will perhaps be the most useless summit in the history of U.S. - Russia interactions since the collapse of the Soviet Union. One side, Russia, no longer cares what the other has to say, while the other, the United States, has lost whatever leverage it once had in Russian politics, both domestic and international.

Gasp. This can't be...didn't the Bushifer look into Putins eyes and see his soul? Did he not see the purity of his intent?

2005-02-19T16:16:00.000-08:00

AMERICAN CAPITALISM , THE LAST MENTAL ILLNESS

Daniel Gross wrote this article in Slate. Americans are so proud of their Democratic system and its economy....we pat ourselves on the back and evangelize both to the rest of the world. It's a joke. The etiology of the American mental illness is little different than that of the Roman empire. Of course, it didn't have to be like that. It wasn't like that. But we confused our geographic advantage-the ability to organically grow without being disturbed by barbarians at the gate - with a sense of inevitability. Once you have the sense of inevitability, a sense of entitlement is not going to be far behind. We are entitled to be rich(even though the balance of trade and the budget deficit belie this). The rest of the world will do the grungy stuff...build cars, airplanes, everything while we lord it up with our service economy....selling insurance, stocks and bonds to one another, all increasingly worthless. Selling and providing healthcare to one another to keep ourselves alive at all costs...as if the world needed our dottering and drooling selves. For what? To keep a few cruise lines afloat and Las Vegas teeming with walking dead people? Everyday the world moves closer to realizing what a deadbeat America is. They will turn up their noses at the stink. Don't confuse the occaissonal solicitiousness you see now and then(China...Russia...) with their good will - theirs is the solicitiousness of a nurse in an insane asylum...calm and soothing as she injects you with a tranquilizer. When you wake up you will be lobotomized, not capable of any more "risky behavior". And what if you did have some of your wits left? What could you do...except nurture the secret hope that someone will smother you to death with a pilow.

2005-02-18T19:38:00.000-08:00

Oops. Every once in a while, James Jesus is just flat out wrong. I still think its funny as hell. Anyways, Mr. NSA monitor, Sinn Fein is legal and all I got was a t-shirt. The Martin McGuinness thing was a form letter. Go bugger yourself.

2005-02-18T18:27:00.000-08:00

A COMICAL HERETIC

By chance a Google search of the writer Guido Ceronetti led me the 'prophet' and dog fancier Marcello Ciai. I read most of his prophecies, but as the J-Man opined to me in private correspondence, they were "one size fits all". Maybe something was lost in the translation... Nevertheless, this Ciai was a sufficient oxgoad to the Catholic heirarchy that I lost part of an afternoon chuckling over his small vengeances and puffery. He proudly displays a condemnation from the Bishop of Assisi on his website...and a snippet of a Ceronetti quote about him from La Stampa(could be taken out of context for all I know)....here the Bishop gives notice:

Bishop's Notification

A) This group, notwithstanding the remarkable efforts to bring it back in the bosom of the church, is heretic. They believe in fact to have the spirit of the prophet Ezekiel, present above all in the person of Marcello Ciai.
B) It has changed residence and name. Denominated itself "Oriente Fumante"to remember the covenant God had stipulated with Abraham, which the group through the spirit of Ezekiel, intended to restore in its primitive situation. Then they called themselves "Comunita dei Centoniani" for the fact that its members had to wear cloths made of 100 patches or wear sackcloths and go around barefooted to manifest the necessity that the church has to be purified. Hence they assumed the name of "Famiglie di Betlemme" and now that of International Christian Association of Christian Activity.
C) The group various times distinguished itself for public offenses against the ecclesial heirarchy and institutions.

Ah, were it so in America that Bishops only had to worry about fools in motley. Here they have to worry whether they negligently vetted a pederast ...or maybe the public stance on abortion of certain politicians....This Bishop Goretti is obviously annoyed. These candy coloured clowns present themselves to the point of exasperation...like a Jehovah's Witness or saffron robed Hare Krishna's. But Ciai betrays his sincerity and stick-to-it-ness when he condemns himself in his own words: "But the members of the community did again change name and in obedience to the Bishop of Assisi who had thought them to be "odd", they took of their Centoni." Yes folks, this latter day Ezekiel took off his clown outfit because the Bishop of Assisi made fun of him. He gets his revenge of sorts, in his flowering 'prophetic' verse:

"You abjure, You abjure!
the Bishop shouted.
We did abjure mortified.
On the streets and on the squares
wearing sackcloth and with shave heads
we did cry overwhelmed.
In a flat field I did go
of Foligno the diocese I did tread upon.
But the smell of dung did irritate
and the eviction in a hurry did reach me.
They even cursed at us.
This time we took the luggage
and for the Rocca we left.
The blasphemy stopped and
the luggage remained empty."

Ciai abjures to Jesus' command that the Apostles shake the dust off their feet and move on where they were not welcomed. It is was the only appeal to dignity the man had left...though he still had the big busted wife and a show dog or two.

2005-02-17T17:59:00.000-08:00

AS I LAY DYING
or
MY HILLBILLY WIFE NEEDS SOME NEW TEETH

I got a two week old Washington Post Weekly Edition earlier this week. Thats how WaPo operates...get nothing for three weeks and all of a sudden there are three weekly issues....news in a timely fashion. Anyways, there is an article in it called 'A Contractor's Rough Road' by Jackie Spinner - looks like its gonna be a tear jerker - the kind of stuff my wife likes to cry too in the Chicken Soup for the Soul books...but no, what we have here is black comedy. Alan Petty, Texas truck driver, goes to work for KBR, a Hallibuton subsidiary(already I'm saying shit on him, this moron gets what he deserves) in order to give his wife Sylvia and her children a better life:

Her husband went to Iraq with hopes of earning money for a house, but Sylvia had smaller dreams. She wanted her refrigerator to be full, her girls to have blankets on their beds, her rotting teeth to be fixed. She wanted to be able to take 2-year old Lydia to the doctor for a persistent ear infection. She wanted to look nice for her husband.

After four months in Iraq Petty had enough. "I talked to God, and he told me it was time to come home." There was some sort of miscommunication though...Petty had talked to God, but his hillbilly wife hadn't:

Sylvia says the children were initially excited when they heard their father was coming home. But soon, she says, the meaning of it sank in.

"The kids are just so heartbroken," Sylvia says. "Naomi, she is really-supersmart. Over breakfast, when she found out, she said, 'It's over, isn't it? We're not going to get our house. What are we doing wrong?'"

Someone please send this cretin a braille version of the Book of Job...My guess is that the children were really excited about daddy coming home until mommy coached them back into the world of consumerism...Not the meaning of it all sinking in as in "My husband or my father is coming back alive" but, "the fucking bum is coming back already and we get squat..." Pardon James Jesus' outrage. There were easier ways to accomplish their goals...they could of taken a term life policy out on him at very low monthy premiums and let him work on his car in a closed garage...probably would have had a much more cheerful look on his face...

2005-02-16T18:52:00.000-08:00

SAM'S CLUB CONFIDENTIAL

There is a photo of Derek V. Smith in the Washington Post Weekly Edition dated January 31-February 6, 2005. Just a couple of weeks ago. This dorky looking fellow has the quotation beneath his photo: "The stakes have escalated since 2001." This Smith dork is the Chief Executive of ChoicePoint. The stakes have indeed risen, but Mr. Smith should have stayed at the kiddie table, where they play for matchsticks or pennies. Preliminary reports suggest that ChoicePoint fell victim to that nemesis of American geniuses across the Republic - a Nigerian(s) hellbent on getting something for nothing. ChoicePoint and its customers compromised position would not be so hilarious if it weren't for the hubris:

Now the lttle-known information industry giant is transforming itself into a private intelligence service for national security and law enforcement tasks. It is snapping up a host of companies that produce sophisticated computer tools for analyzing and sharing records in ChoicePoint's immense storehouses. In financial papers, the company itself says it provides "actionable intelligence." Washington Post, Robert O'Harrow Jr.

Yes, they provided actionable intelligence for Nigerian mall hoppers. Bravo, job well done. Of course, a private Big Brother wannabe is really no laughing matter - unless their credit reports show that 35,000 California residents tried to purchase yellowcake from a man dead these last ten years. That would be funny, I think...but not as funny as Viet Dinh - "a former assistant attorney general and primary author of the USA Patriot Act" - being hired as one of ChoicePoint's 'homeland security' advisors in late 2003. You see none of these festering ironies being reported in the press....ChoicePoint is sloughed off as just another credit bureau...

2005-02-15T15:29:00.000-08:00

PROPHET AND ANTI-SEMITE

Poor Eric Alterman, reduced to trotting out his Jewish bona-fides for the Boston Globe, which is owned by the New York Times Co. Alterman, a self described pro-Zionist Jew, Bar Mitvah, educated in Israel, Shubbat candle lighter, and Forward contributor had the chutzpah to say the following on his blog:

Anyway, I'm sure what I'm saying will be twisted beyond recognition, and so I suppose that makes it stupid to do, but I'm sorry. The Palestineans have also suffered because of the Holocaust. They lost their homeland as the world - in the form of the United Nations -reacted to European crimes by awarding half of Palestine to the Zionists. They call this the "Nakba" or the "Catastrophe." To ask Arabs to participate in a ceremony that does not recognize their own suffering but implicitly endorses the view that caused their catastrophe is morally idiotic..."

Morally idiotic and untenable from a practical point of view. Forget recognizing right of return...apparently right to recognition of suffering is off the table for the Palestineans too. The Jews had no friend in 1943 Palestine, but neither did they in Switzerland or Ireland...maybe the British should have given them the seven northern counties for De Valera leaving the lights on in Dublin....ha ha ha...Yasser McMullen and the Belfast Liberation Organization...you get the drift...

If it is so effortless for a 'liberal' newspaper to smear a left leaning, pro-Zionist Jew as an anti-Semite, what hope is there for the rest of us?

2005-02-14T18:44:00.000-08:00

For some reason I found this funny:

(Russell)Simmons called slaughter practices used by the fast-food chain(KFC) suppliers 'grossly inhumane' and has filmed a commercial "showing some of the very worst abuses chickens undergo" before they are served to the customer....

Russell Simmons, purveyor of metaphorical chicken choking is upset about KFC. Nothing about young blacks being killed in Iraq, or on the streets to his soundtracks...I say send this Simmons to China where they like their Chicken a lot....peddle his message there, violent beats and gnashing of teeth for the chickens...The Chinese think the world of their chickens...But rap?

2005-02-14T18:01:00.000-08:00

There has been some confusion and recriminations in off blog interactions regarding my blogger id. The 'Jesus' in James Jesus Rimbaud refers to the middle name of James Jesus Angleton, former CIA counterintelligence chief, wannabe poet, orchid grower, chain smoker and Catholic. From the book, and a rather bad one at that, Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter:

By the time of his final admission to the hospital a few days before his death, the sixty-nine year old Angleton was in pain. Somewhere deep inside an alter-ego stirred and rose to join him on his last journey. He already told Cicely that he wanted "to go into the woods on my own like an Indian and deal with the end of my life, like an Apache." In some fashion he was granted this wish. Very near the end, Angleton suddenly sat up in bed, bolt upright, with his eyes closed, and began intoning an American Indian death chant, uttering incomprehensible words with an Apache inflection. When he had finished, he lay back on his bed without a word of explanation.

"He was an Apache to the end," Cicely Angleton observes. "He never complained. He took his punishments without a murmur."

He had already stressed to Cicely that he wanted no priest or minister to give him last rites or hear his confession. Nor did he want his family to pray for him. "I have my own religion," he told her.

Either Jim was a drama queen or Cicely fed this hagiography to the gullible British writer. Remember, this was 1987, I don't think Dances With Wolves was even out yet. It was more likely that Angleton was chanting in Hebrew than Apache, since he had been in charge of the Israeli desk at the CIA. "I have my own religion" he tells his wife. Uh, yeah.

2005-02-13T16:39:00.000-08:00

Let James Jesus be among the first bloody assholed "Democrats" to congratulate the Bush administration on its newly installed Islamist regime in Iraq. I am sure that it will all go much better than the secular fascism it replaces. Long live the Ayatollahs, even if they are a pale imitation of the originals. And as Allawi 'secularists' turn off their cell-phones and melt into the Green Zone, let us reach out to these folks that bought into the fascio-Democratic dream:

Hussein al-Sadr, a candidate on Allawi's list, sounded bitter when asked about the Alliance's progress.

"Those who voted for the Allawi list are the intellectual and educated people," he said. "The majority of the naive and simple people voted for UIA because they were under influence of clerics."

Get over it Mr. al-Sadr. The NASCAR circuit is coming your way. Instead of whining you need to offer solutions...like what to do about defending marriage from homosexuals. There are Shiites Mr. al-Sadr, and there are Shiites. When the people decided they'd rather be ass-raped by Sistaniites they were really voting against leering and lascivious Uncle Sam looking over the Allawi lists' shoulder. In the end the Sunnis will not be so discriminating against either.

2005-02-12T20:34:00.000-08:00

With North Korea jumping up and down shouting that they're an axis of evil Iran has had the spotlight taken off it a bit. Just a few days ago SS State Rice basically called the Europeans(yes, even the British) pussies for not stepping up the pressure on Iran, the way say, China promises to do on North Korea(wink, wink). This interested me in something that folks seem to have forgotten - the possible Iranian reaction to a preemptive strike. Such is American arrogance that we seem to discount any reaction as not worthy of mention.

A Center for NonProliferation Studies research report by Sammy Salama and Karen Ruster pretty adequately lays out what responses Iran is capable of - and it ain't pretty. What I found more interesting is a preemptive attack's effect on Iranian domestic policy. James Jesus can't resist putting his own parenthetical thoughts interspersed throughout the following excerpt:

An attack on Iran's nuclear facilities(Read: World Trade Center) that are viewed by most Iranians(Read: Americans) as a symbol of national pride and technological progress would provide the Iranian mullahs(Read: American mullahs) the necessary justification to intensify their crackdown on dissidents and moderates(Read: Anybody with a fucking conscience) who the hawks(Read: Cowards who pervert their respective religions) are likely to brand as agents of foreign powers(Read: Francophiles and traitors). It is equally plausible that, fearing such a backlash, domestic opposition (Read: Democrats with bloody assholes) forces in Iran(America) would band together with Iran's(America's) new hawkish majority in parliament and abandon their calls and protests for reform(This is how the assholes got bloody in the first place).

2005-02-11T21:00:00.000-08:00

AVIAN EMAIL VIRUS

This Gerald Krien, unemployed and still cohabitating with his parents, found the emptiness of his life could only be filled by the corpses of others like him. He engineers an email suicide pact with a reported 32 people, a lot of them women, including one who thinks about taking her children along for the ride. The cynic in James Jesus sees a good synopsis for the next Will Farrell movie...this Krien kind of looks like him. A light hearted black comedy....Sleepless in Eugene...You've Got Bird Flu. This Krien is depressed, no girlfriend, no job, probably viewing the former as contingent upon the latter - and in America it probably is. He looks at the calendar...February 14th, Valentine's Day, fast approaching...This Klien can make it through Thanksgiving and Christmas but this last, this Hallmark Holliday, is just too much.

From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origins in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, ie half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair.

Early martyrologies list three Valentines, two of whom where martyred in Rome. The other was martyred in Africa. Its doubtful any of them had access to Godiva chocolates or were preoccupied with getting laid. If Krien had paused to watch the coupling birds, he might wonder in these days whether they are passing viruses on to one another...

2005-02-10T17:10:00.000-08:00

You wound me with these Focolares, Cletus. I detest the ecumaniacal, it is the pathway to fascism. With the "personal prelature" of Opus Dei it is already there. These NeoCathechumenates seem to operate on a similiar plane...and yet...I can't but help feel a little love for this Pollack. He will be dead soon enough...and I think the Vatican is more resilient than you might suspect to the imprimatur of any one Pope. It is my fervent hope that when a new Pope is elected, American Bishops and Cardinals will find themselves so marginalized that they will drop all pretense and take jobs at the Moody Bible Institute and Bob Jones University.

2005-02-09T18:31:00.000-08:00

DUCT TAPE THERAPY

I have this wart on the back of my right hand...had the thing for years...lack the vanity and rather save the office visit deductible for something more serious...This wart, it's been with me awhile. I heard on the radio that you can get rid of the damn things with duct-tape. Just keep the bugger covered for I forget how many days and it goes away. I remember something about maybe having to sandpaper it down to get everything plumb.

This damn duct tape...the J-Man informs me that he's seen it used to combat incontinence in idiot children. Tom Ridge famously recommends it when the terra's come for you. John Ashcroft uses it to keep the demons from flying out of his asshole. I had a friend who used it to winterproof his holey K-Mart special tennis shoes...though this was done out of deliberate cheapness rather than any real economic need.

The former Jew and now Catholic Robert Novak, famous outer of CIA agents, appeared on TV today with an ashen cross on his frankenforehead. I see another good use here. Duct tape cruciformed over his nose and mouth....Keep the bugger covered for X many days and the benign malignancy goes away. Rolls and rolls of duct tape to silence the transgressors and their gaudy parrots.

2005-02-08T17:16:00.000-08:00

John Paul II disappointed a lot of people. The novelty of a papal election has been a long time coming...folks are upset. A couple of minutes away from death...but he pulled out of it...ruined it for the media...African Bishop or back to the Italians? Conservative or Vatican II lover? It gets boring watching somebody die...pretty soon you just want them to resign. Ah yes, now, will the Pope resign...He'd never....it his choice....etc. People are embarassed by public expiration...its how far we've come, when death can't even be sacramental for the Bishop of Rome. They want him hid away like Reagan, mercifully tended by some vacuous Mommy. No drooling or shat trousers , no raspy disembodied voices. Christ come down from that cross, you're making us uncomfortable here.

From today's Newsweek:

"You and I, we have both suffered in trying to spread religion around the world. I hope you regain your health in the near future." Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot the pope in 1981, wishing him a speedy recovery in a letter from his Istanbul jail.

This Muslim Agca represents himself better than most of Western Christianity.

When the anti-Christ Bush last visited the Vatican he whined that he didn't have all the American Bishops with him...O the hubris of the JUST WAR DOCTRINE violator...and the shame and the damnation upon the Catholic Bishops that were with him. The monkey Bush has ecumaniacal appeal. He and the deviant Rove kissed Catholic ass during the campaign - no Bobby Ray Jones University this time...They insinuate themselves to the point where they believe all the Bishops are on the table. Maybe the Bishops are just tired of little parish churches dotting the countryside...maybe they want those big ecclesiaplexes with cool soundsystems and a 'house' band. Maybe they feel they should be the ones on TV.

I piss on all Catholics who voted for the anti-Christ Bush.

2005-02-07T19:26:00.000-08:00

CAT WOMAN

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's motorcade drove past Yasser Arafat's glass enclosed tomb Monday, one more snub to the late Palestinean leader who had been largely ignored by the Bush Administration.

In the movie Halle Berry will play Rice. Hollywood license will allow her to scramble out of the moving motorcade and scamper up the glass tomb, where she will assume a feline squat and piss all over it. This is the secret heart of 'benign' neglect. In the movie this scene is not central - it could end up on the cutting room floor - a small role for a small woman.

2005-02-06T20:55:00.000-08:00

And in my fever I saw the further vision of Charlie Daniels playing dozens against the devil with his fiddle. How many times can this fucker reprise this? I'd thought him dead ....obviously a walking myocardial infarction...Everything was held in by that giant belt buckle.

2005-02-06T14:31:00.000-08:00

Jimmy Jesus has been under the weather today...drifting in and out of consciousness. Imagine his surprise when he awakes and in a moment of lucidity sees Paul McCartney and Terry Bradshaw yukking it up on the Fox pregame show. I waited for Terry to cry, but it didn't happen. No wardrobe 'malfunctions' this year. No lip-synching. Just an irrelevant 60 year old who hasn't written a decent song in a generation croaking his way through something. What an imbecile. Swindled by Michael Jackson, his ouevre a soundtrack for tennis shoes, this amputee fetishist finds himself chosen to wash away the bad taste of Janet Jackson's frivolous boob. One boob replacing another, both sagging and only invoking prurience the way a bad car accident will.

2005-02-05T21:33:00.000-08:00

RICE PUDDING

Condi Rice is traipsing about the Continent, evangelizing Old Europe on the new fascio-Democracy and slinging mud, even if its a very girlish toss, at the Russians. She needn't waste the time and effort. One quick call from the Oval Office would remind her that the President had looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul. Presumably, it went deeper than a boyish crush and Bush saw in Putin a mirror of all that he loved in himself.

The United States wants to see Russia support "democratic processes elsewhere," including in its own backyard, Rice said. She said it is encouraging that after a rough start, Russia has reached out to a newly elected Ukranian president and has improved ties with Georgia.

Ha Ha. Chechnya, apparently, is undeserving of "democratic processes". But back to Georgia and the Ukraine.

In Georgia, longtime leader Eduard Shevardnadze was forced from power by popular protests in late 2003, led in part by Zurab Zhania, who became prime minister. After he was found dead Thursday following an apparent gas leak from a heater, the State Department said in a statement that he was "a catalyst for democratic change in Georgia, a dynamic leader and a friend."

Yes, brothers and sisters, Russia has reached out alright. Dioxin poisoning and a gas leak? At least this Zhvania left a better looking corpse than Yushchenko would have had the poisoning succeeded. God bless him. There's nothing wrong with him that an American reality show wouldn't fix.

For every adventure in Tblisi and Kiev there is a Baghdad and Kabul. The quid pro quos of the democratic- communist relationship continue apace.

2005-02-04T19:37:00.000-08:00

HUTTON GIBSON AND MR. MAGOO

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee met earlier this week and raised the Federal Funds Rate one quarter of a percentage point....

In the run-up to the release of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" it was fair sport to attack the film's director by proxy. Hutton Gibson was the target because the son wasn't talking. The New York Times and a radio interviewer rather disengenously exploited the old man's generousity of discourse. Much has been said of the content of those interviews. Mel himself purportedly doesn't agree with the Holocaust diminutives, if not outright denials. Further, Hutton said that somebody ought to lynch Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. As we move from the general class to the specific it becomes far easier for me to sympathize with Mr. Hutton Gibson. This Chairman Greenspan is no less a guarantor of iniquity than Chairman Mao. His Jewishness has nothing to do with it:

A swinging I must go, I must go
A swinging I must go, I must go
A swinging I must go
While you critters down below
Shout out 'Al I told you so!"
Well damn your eyes!

This Greenspan - Ayn Rand butt sniffer, former goldbug turned fiat lover, life partner to NBC reporter-administration shill Andrea Mitchell - has committed traitorous acts against the Republic. He has sold out the American public at every turn. In 1996 he tells us that America is in the grip of irrational exuberance(he was right). Then he decides that though irrational exuberance is a monster, he'd rather feed it than kill it. He chooses not to exercise his responsibilities and use the monetary policy tools at his disposal(Fed Fund and Margin Requirement hikes). Why? In 1999 he uses the Y2K urban legend to cut rates and add more fuel to the fire. Why? As the millenium turned he starts a regime of rate hikes that will pop the stock market bubble he first originally observed in 1996. This market decline will accelerate through the 2000 election season. In 2003 he will tell a crowd in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that you can't say there is actually a stock market bubble until after it pops. This Greenspan reinvents his own mind at every turn. He is against the tax cuts until he is for them, that is, until George W. Bush is elected. If you unravel the combover Magoo's hair looks like a cur's tail.
It is this combover that wagged the Bush Dog on Social Security. The unholy guarantor of iniquity prepared the ground for every Bush economic policy that beggars an overwhelming majority of Americans. After 911 he began his current regime, in cahoots with the Treasury Department, of debasing the dollar. Thus he creates the illusion of wealth even as he parses out America and its future to Chinamen, Japanese, and now, apparently, the European Union. America deserves this, for it coveted the economic aphrodisiac that the Serpentine Magoo proferred. So many willing to be poor for a long time just to say that they were rich for a little while.

2005-02-03T19:48:00.000-08:00

GERRY ADAMS LAUGHING

From the NY Times today:

"We are clear that the I.R.A. has the capacity, it has the capability," said Hugh Orde, Northern Ireland's Chief constable. "But I don't think they have the intent to go back to war or armed struggle. We continue to monitor that daily."

This Hugh Orde monkey, wants to ingratiate himself now. A month ago he is howling that the I.R.A. is behind the $50 million bank heist. He says they threaten the peace process. This stupid British monkey thought he was holding all the cards. Ha ha. The I.R.A. withdraws its offer to disarm and this bugger starts to comport himself in respectful tones. What's this...go back to war or armed conflict, he says. Notice he doesn't say "go back to terrorism or armed robberies". This Orde legitimizes the I.R.A. even as he insults them. Sinn Fein is telling the truth. They and their outlawed military wing aren't responsible for the bank heist. Ex-provisional soldiers are. Like any soldier they are entitled to some pension and healthcare. Better a bloodless $50 million dollar bank robbery than a C-4 party.

2005-02-02T17:42:00.000-08:00

MISTAH KURTZ REDUX

Pesek has more on Gates and Buffett betting against the dollar in today's Bloomberg:

Yet it's Chinese officials further down the political food chain that seem to sympathize most with Gates and Buffett. "The U.S. should take the lead in putting its own house in order," said Chinese central bank adviser Yu Yongding.

It's breathtaking, really, to see the U.S. being chastized by Chinese policy makers. Perhaps its payback for all the lecturing Treasury secretaries from Robert Rubin in the 1990's to John Snow today have done here in Asia.

Perhaps? Perhaps the Chinese will Fed-ex our economy back to us when it absolutely, positively, has to be there in a million pieces - like our spy plane they grounded at the beginning of the Chimp's first term. Perhaps they are watching TV tonight, watching a monkey add billions more to the debt via his Social Security privatization scheme. Perhaps if you've been sitting at the poker table long enough and still can't figure out who the sucker is then its almost certain that the sucker is you, us, U.S. This John Snow - he purports to tell the Chinese how to manage their currency even the while his cohort over at the Federal Reserve debases the dollar? Even as General Motors and Ford tell their suppliers that they have to match "the Chinese price"? As General Motors goes so does the American economy and where its going is to Beijing. You can prepare your kiddies with Mandarin lessons at the Sylvan Learning Centers and adopt nifty Chinese customs which you will now find quaint. How much easier it will be to roll over the poor remnant Americans with actual tanks when you've already done it with financial ones.

2005-02-01T18:26:00.000-08:00

ALBERTO GONZALES IS SMILING

At Camp Bucca in southern Iraq US soldiers killed 4 detainees and wounded six others to quell a prison riot. From the Independent:

The US authorities said the soldiers used 'lethal force' on the inmates, corralled into compounds, surrounded by razorwire, at Camp Bucca after failing to quell the rioting. They also admitted that no American soldiers had been seriously injured by stones thrown by the inmates and the distrubanced had lasted 45 minutes before the decision was taken to open fire.

Poor Iraqis...a 45 minute disturbance is lunch time in an American prison...hell, we have worse 'riots' at suburban high schools. That this occured on election day ought to further legitimize the Iraqi government in hiding - er - I mean 'waiting'. Even the Israelis only bother shooting stone throwers out on the street - consoling themselves with the fact that it's 'only' rubber bullets. The British, who are ostensibly in control of the area, say that they were in no position to intervene - leaving one to wonder just why all those stones were laying about in the prison yard to begin with? Reports mention no incidents of buggerous designs by our Coalition of the Shilling partner, but if ever a sovereign nation needed to register as a sex offender the Brits are it.

2005-02-01T17:09:00.000-08:00

Yesterday's post referred to zinc pennies though, of course, many people know them as 'steel' pennies(in fact they contain both metals). They were issued in 1943 to conserve copper for the war effort. My Grandad gave me one was I was a child, along with tales of the Great Depression and following war...getting paid in 'script', and the tangible steel penny - his bemusement - like he couldn't believe that a white man could fall to such a low estate.

2005-01-31T18:27:00.000-08:00

AMERICAN EXCESS - DON'T LEAVE HOME
WITHOUT IT

Bloomberg reported on a Commerce Department Report today. Their headline read:

US DECEMBER PERSONAL SPENDING RISES 0.8%
INCOMES JUMP 3.7%

Ah yes, the American consumer can feel good about himself again. Right? Oops, what's this?

Income surged 3.7 percent as Microsoft payment was magnified 12 fold by the government calculations. Excluding the payout, incomes rose 0.6 percent, the government said.

Okay, so what they really meant to say was that if you owned Microsoft stock on Dec.2, the payout day, your income rose 3.7 percent on average. Lots of people own Microsoft stock and don't even know it. Could be in your defined benefit pension plan, or in one of the mutual funds in your 401k etc. You don't really know, or probably even care, because that money is slated for your retirement years down the line. It is not disposable income to you now. Oh, there are a few souls, I'm sure, who benefited immensely from the payout - namely Mr. Gates and a whole host of Microsoft millionaires. It's meaningless, though, to the average Joe. So we exclude the payout and Americans are spending at a 25% higher rate than their incomes are rising. Behold the cruciform Visa card and the sheeple on their knees(a nod to the J-Man for that image). Surely we rival Tom Brokaw's 'Greatest Generation' for sacrifices made during time of 'war' They had to use zinc pennies and ration gas - we are forced to drive SUV's and buy electronics from Japan and China . This life we've rented from the rest of the world is something we must congratulate ourselves for, a curious inversion where the creditor exists at the consent of the debtor. Never has our moral and financial bankruptcy come into greater synchronicity as these last years. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department are on intimate terms with the descriptor hedonics deflator. It is a game they play when compiling the Consumer Price Index - a measure of inflation. It allows them to understate inflation and screw anybody on a fixed income. Hedonics deflator...sounds like something invented by a frenchman...Les Fleurs du Mal...a drunken boat maybe. Spend for your very lives.

2005-01-30T16:35:00.000-08:00

BUSH DECLARES VICTORY
HANGING CHADS IN SUNNI DISTRICTS
NOT TO BE COUNTED

The Chimp is preening in a gross display of male peacockery. Iraq is democraticized. Healthy portions are on the way. Take the proffered cup, Iraqis, and run with it.

Sept. 3,1967 National elections are held in South Vietnam. With 80% of eligible voters participating, Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president with Nguyen Cao Ky as his vice-president, the pair winning just 35% of the vote.

This Nguyen Van Thieu, he had the same eight year run that our own president's are limited to ...of course, the fall of Saigon may have had more to do with that than any constitutional stricture. Yes, the South had well participated elections and still managed to crumble like Michael Jackson's face. A paper tiger...this form of democracy. But the people like a good story, and story looks compelling until you introduce a Tet offensive, an intensified air campaign, and finally, a dignified way to say goodbye without letting the door hit you in the ass.

From The Christian Science Monitor:

"The Americans have set this up in such a way that a lot is at stake after this election," says Juan Cole, a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan,.

"If the Sunni's are grossly underrepresented in this constitution constituent assembly, it will be set up for a guerilla war that lasts for decades," he says.

But not today. Condoleeza Rice is tapdancing for the president...some of that old-timey music. Iraqis are dancing and singing(no, it doesn't matter that this is a reprise of the same showmanship they showed when we first rolled into Baghdad - they really mean it this time). And what is Juan Cole's considered opinion on Iraq compared to Soviet expert and tapdancer Condi Rice? That she is an expert in something that has ceased to exist makes her the perfect spokeswoman for democracy.

2005-01-29T16:34:00.000-08:00

MISTAH KURTZ, HE DEAD

Bill Gates, the world's richest person with a net worth of &46.6 billion, is betting against the U.S. dollar.

"I'm short the dollar," Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corp. told Charlie Rose in an interview yesterday, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "The dollar, it's gonna go down."(Today's Bloomberg)

The number two man on the worlds richest list, Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has a multi-billion dollar bet against the dollar. Gates is on Buffett's board of directors.

Two U.S. citizens....two richest men on earth...and they are short the almighty dollar. These men are like Meyer Lansky...they only make bets they know they're gonna win. High probability events. When the sheeple ask how the rich get richer they never stop and consider that these two men, at least, don't eat from the same polyanna bowl of Bush beans as the rest of their brethren....Gates gives away billions, Buffett too, and he told the Bushies that people like himself weren't taxed enough. But the sheeple won't listen. It said on the can of Bush beans that the Pthyagorean maxim would not apply, but a tailwind has brought the stink of sulphur into the sheeples nostrils. In the dark days ahead they will villify Gates and Buffett, call them anti-American and finance based traitors to their country. There is an old saying among financial market sharps: Money always return to its rightful owners. Gates and Buffett, via their foundations, will return the money to its rightful owners in Asia and Africa. And the American sheeple? In the last two years Buffett has become a big player in the mobile home building and financing industry. He's always a couple of steps ahead. Waiting.

2005-01-28T18:02:00.000-08:00

I keep an eye on the Brothers at the New Melleray Abbey in Iowa. Monkish vocations have taken a hit - much like the priesthood. Many monasteries have no more than a couple dozen monks. To keep things going they have to have a niche; something to sell to the public to augment their subsistence from retreat donations etc. At the Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky(where Merton was cloistered) they do bourbon soaked fudge and fruitcake. The Cistercians at New Melleray do coffins.

It's not that I have a macabre fascination with death. Rather, I subscribe to a Rilkean notion of death as a seed sown in us at birth. It can grow like a watermelon in Michigan soil(I, at least, have had shitty luck with watermelons), small and stunted, or it can grown like purple loosestrife(I have a giant weed for a backyard). I nurture my death the way my neighbor drowns her Beefsteak tomatoes with Miracle Gro. I've lovingly applied nicotine and tar, caffeine, bacon fat, and Snickers bars. It would be criminal to go to such lengths to grow your death and not have a proper presentation when it was finished.

Sometimes I worry that the Brothers at New Melleray will go the way of Cloisters across France; that the Abbey will fall truly silent - that I will superannuate the Brothers coffin crafting enterprise. It is this fear that keeps me going back to the Brother's casket showroom. I've had my eye on the number 2, the Premium Casket in black walnut. The cross is optional, we're assured...a nod towards political correctness? No, the cross is not optional. It tricks out at $1595 dollars. Anyone with experience in these things knows that isn't such a bad price. Okay, maybe I'm appealing to my own vantiy. I will settle for the number 3, the Simple Shaped Casket, pine, for $795. I would like to get it now, to see if it will fit my death, but the house is small...money tight...the wife won't go for it despite my assurances that we could use it for a coffee table in the meanwhile.

2005-01-28T17:08:00.000-08:00

It would be remiss of me not to point out that Cletus and his Points of Departure blog has displaced Josh Marshall on my links list. Cletus is more disciplined than I, and writes coherent pieces that do not degenerate into name calling(I can't help myself). Josh wrote coherent pieces too....but they were all about the same thing, Social Security. Yes, I know the President is very bad man Josh, but how could it be otherwise? If the sheeple seek the wolf's lair its' because it's in their victimology. They are fascinated by lycanthropy, and offer themselves freely.

2005-01-27T19:09:00.000-08:00

A knowledge with no clear idea of Evil as universe and principle, a knowledge that pays no mind to the evil that man is and was and for which he is forced to atone, is a knowledge with a view to Evil, in favor of Evil, and probably suggested by Evil.
Guido Ceronetti, aphorism in The Silence of the Body

I once got in an argument with a guy on a message board over childhood fairybook fears. I forget what his was, but mine was an abiding terror of flying monkeys - specifically the flying monkeys as portrayed in the Wizard of Oz. Those flying monkeys scared the shit out of me. The guy on the side of flying monkeys argued that my fear was silly...even for a child...for anyone could see, even a child, how obviously fake those monkeys were: The guywires...the lack of articulation...phony as Bela Lugosi's bat. He taunted me by sending me an email link to some west coast auction house that had one of the original monkeys up for sale. This monkey looked like a mummified lawn jockey, chipped, worn, - like he'd been out all night drinking Crazy Horse.

What I couldn't get that dyslexic bastard to understand was that my fear wasn't physiological.
I kind of like monkeys. Putting wings on them is another matter. No, my dyslexic friend, the fear had its origin in the metaphysical. Without the death sentence the serpent brought to the Garden, I'm sure not so many folks would be afraid of snakes. These flying monkeys, well, they're gargoyles made antic. What could be the Scopesian antithesis to the angels that attended Christ after the temptation? These flying monkeys...yes, an archetype I'm sure Jung missed.

2005-01-26T18:39:00.000-08:00

I'm laughing as I write this. Bush wants $80 billion more dollars for Iraq and Afghanistan. The budget deficit for 2005 will come in around $472 Billion. Throw in the Trade deficit and America relies on external financing to the tune of almost $3 Billion a day. We depend on the kindness of strangers - the ones we like to make fun of - to keep the lipstick on the pig. If America's sovereignity was attacked by military means all the chimpanzees would be beating their breasts and throwing their caca...but America loses its sovereignity every time it walks by the old fart at the Wal-Mart greeting station...then America doesn't care. After all, it got a TV/DVD combo real cheap and hell, they even cash your paycheck for you. America won't care until it is locked in after closing, forced to clean the boogers and handprints off the windows.

2005-01-25T17:28:00.000-08:00

KUDLOW'S CONFESSOR

Alright...I stomped on the Korean Monkey last night. Tonight, out of a sense of fair play, I turn my righteous anger toward members of my own faith. I'm speaking of course, of the Bishop and Silas...oops...I mean Opus Dei and Father John McCloskey. This Father John bastard, well, an article by Charles B. Pierce in the Boston Globe gives you and idea of what he's all about:

Since returning to Washington to run the Catholic Information Center for Opus Dei, McCloskey has taken his mission onto Meet the Press and to CNN. He's preached it in USA Today and in the New York Times. More famously, he brought into Catholicism several members of the conservative elite. McCloskey personally baptized Judge Robert Bork, politcal pundits Robert Novak and Larry Kudlow, publisher Alfred Regnery, financier Lewis Lehrman, and US Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas; whose baptismal sponsor was another Senator, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. In 2000, McCloskey baptized Mark Belnick, the embattled top lawyer at Tyco International, who responded by donating $2 million to a Catholic college and to an antiabortion group.

Pierce says that one of Father John's mea culpas is that the gospel was more "successfully" preached to the middle and upper classes rather than the poor(I guess that shoots the Beatitudes to shit)during the first century. Its amazing that he'd even consider baptizing this Alfred Regnery...how positively French that moniker sounds! We'll give him Lynde/Kudlow - what Priest could resist converting a Jewish/monied/drunkard/crackhead/stand-up comedian - political pundit and onetime economist? As for Robert Novak, well the Opus Dei brand of Catholocism does have precedent for outing CIA agents....

Before he became a priest, Father John sold his booty on Wall Street. Explains a lot. Worshiper of Mammon, despiser of those Mammon has not graced. He is an intellectual and moral whore, perhaps even more immediately dangerous to the Republic than the deranged Reverend Moon.

Some unknown Apostolic father wrote in the Didache, under The Way of Death chapter:

They turn away the needy and oppress the afflicted; they aid and abet the rich but arbitrarily
condemn the poor; they are utterly and altogether sunk in iniquity. Flee, my children, from all this!

2005-01-24T19:04:00.000-08:00

Dave Gorenfeld has a wonderful Moonie blog.

2005-01-24T17:52:00.000-08:00

BLASPHEMER, HERETIC, and 43 ARCHETYPE

Every once in a while, when some rightwing dick in a boiler suit tells me that such and such administration shill has a "good" column in the Washington Times, I dust off my spiel about the rag being nothing more than a front for the Moonies. Some believe me, some don't. Some think I exaggerate. Doesn't really matter. I always end by imploring them to visit the Moonie homepage...its always good for a laugh. I hadn't had a look in well over a year, and well, just look at what I missed:

From: DECLARING THE ERA OF THE PEACE KINGDOM(address to the United States Congress, March 23rd,2004

The five great saints and many other leaders in the spirit world, including even Communist leaders such as Hitler and Stalin, have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons. Emperors, kings and presidents who enjoyed opulence and power on earth, and even journalists who had worldwide fame have now placed themselves at the forefront of the column of the true love revolution. Together they have sent to earth a resolution expressing their determination in the light of my teaching of the true family ideal. They have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Saviour, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent. This resolution has been announced on every corner of the globe.

I have no idea whether this Monkey really gave this speech before congress, but it is the least of his claims. That Hitler can be lumped into the same Communist garbage bag as Stalin explains a lot. By dismissing Fascism's greatest practitioner as "Communist" it pretty much eliminates the category. If Hitler can't be a fascist, then neither can Bush 43, 41, or any other Republican this wanker seeks legitimacy from. His fifth column of "journalists who had worldwide fame" are none other than the lackey's who work at the Washington Times, and kind of half-way house for Republican turds between administrations. The "resolution" never reached my fucking corner - the Russian Orthodox guy who lives there would have let me know about it.

Lynde/Kudlow writes for the Washington Times.
The Unification Church Owns the Washington Times.
The Washington Times is evil.
Moon couldn't parent one lone crack baby, let alone all of humanity.

2005-01-23T13:49:00.000-08:00

PRESIDENT DECLARES BIBLE UNCLOSED
ASHCROFT SONG ADDED TO BOOK OF PSALMS

From that bastion of liberalism, the Dow Jones Co, publisher of the Wall Street Journal and Barron's via Jim McTague's column in the latter:

GHASTLY ANTHEM

Guy Hovis, a singer from Tupelo, Miss, where Elvis was born, has a beautiful voice, and he nearly saved John Ashcroft's cliche-riddled "Let the Eagle Soar" at Bush's inaugural. No mean feat. Ashcroft's song may be the worst tune heard in Washington, D.C., since Dec. 6, 1950 - Margaret Truman's singing debut at Constitution Hall. It was Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's puckish idea to have someone from his state sing Ashcroft's dreadful homage to American Virtue.

McTague is something of an elitist. He calls the Crisco anointed one's song 'dreadful'. If he came down from his ivory tower he would realize that America eats this shit up. How else explain the Toby Keith phenomenon? A NASCAR baseball cap and a can of Mountain Dew...pretty soon Ashcroft would be sniffing every toilet seat in every Nashville Women's Restroom for trace of Shania Twain.

Let the Eagle Soar

Let the eagle soar, <--Who the fuck is stopping it?
Like she's never soared before
From rocky coast to golden shore, <--confused by the geography here
Let the mighty eagle soar.

Soar with healing in her wings,
As the land beneath her sings:
'Only God, no other kings." <--We got rid of the King 200 yrs ago
This country is far too young to die. <--He's whining...Rome faced the same shit

We've still got a lot of climbing to do, <--He's fallen & can't get up
And we can make it if we try. <--I think he cribbed from the Stones here
Built by toils and struggles <--...of the foreigners he don't cotton too
God has led us through.

2005-01-22T18:24:00.000-08:00

In Silwan, an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, archaeologists work to uncover the Pool of Siloam where Jesus healed a man born blind:

He answered and said , A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.

This Siloam was little more than a grand spa in it's day. The fat-assed Pharisees hogged the pool's edge like Eurotrash at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon while the cripples sat off at the side - wallflowers not invited to the dance. The waters could not heal the blind man without the active ingredient of Christ...

In the spurious Apocalypse of James Jesus Rimbaud, the pool of Siloam has become a place not for healing...In it are punishments for the willfully blind. A phantasmagoria of hellish images....Andrea Yates with pale frail hands throttling the neck of Britt Hume, his body hairless and infantile...Dick Cheney speaks out of the corner of his dropsical mouth, but Andrea will have nothing of it. Bubbles rise to the surface of pool, popping. "With"(pop) "or"(pop) "against"(pop)
"us"(pop). The President calls out for Rusty...

2005-01-21T19:49:00.000-08:00

THE OPRAH W. BUSH READING CLUB

Some of the establishment media still have some balls. Earlier these week Jonathan Alter wrote a scathing column for Newsweek on the cretinous President:

The president did not originally invade Iraq for idealistic reasons. Bush did it to show toughness against available Arab bad guys after 9/11, to take care of unfinished family business with Saddam and because his gut - in which he places the fate of the nation - wrongly told him that Iraq possessed WMDs that could be painlessly removed. (The search for such weapons ended last week.) Now Bush cleverly depicts the war as a noble struggle to bring freedom to the Middle East. He presses "The Case for Democracy," by Natan Sharansky, into the hands of visitors, even though Sharansky makes a point of writing that early elections in countries seeking a democratic future can be harmful.

This Sharansky - I've not read his book. The Chimp passes them out like they were pretzels. Number 16 a few minutes ago in the Amazon.com rankings. The chittering neo-cons are all clustered together in a tree like a bunch of crows getting ready to group-shit on an old AMC Gremlin. Purple. That's their democracy for you. Even the Paul Lynde/Larry Kudlow creature is in on the act, waxing orgasmic over the book and Bush. Funny how Americans need a former Israeli politician to teach them about democracy. Hilarious in fact. Sharansky spent about the same amount of time in the Soviet gulag as he did in Israeli polity. Surely the former informed the latter. Victim and victimizer. He probably knows all there is to know about fences and rabbit warrens.

The Inaugural Address might as well contain an asterisk that says: "Does not apply to Saudi Arabia or anywhere else in the region besides Iraq and the Palestinian Authority.

Beware the Sharanskyites.

2005-01-20T18:04:00.000-08:00

The J-Man has a new post up - an elegy for the damnable American soul. Read it now.

THE BUG

America fell for the Iraq war the way a bored housewife ends up with a carton full of Amway products. There she is, watching a bunch of her set get free boot on Oprah...the screams of delight, the Sapphic hugs...Suddlenly, a knock on the door. Everyman is at the door - your neighbor, your fellow churchgoer, the brush clearing-President etc.... It's really not important.
What's important is what he/she/it is carrying at her side...a decent sized polyethylene bag bulging with PRODUCT. Amway product, that is - shampoo, insecticides, furniture polish, and hopefully - deodorizers. This free sample device is called a BUG by the Amway cultists:

The confidential Amway Career Manual then instructs the salesperson to leave the BUG with the customer "for 24, 48, or 72 hours, at no cost or obligation to her. Just tell her you would like to try the products......That's a offer no one can refuse." Robert Cialdini, 'Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion'

Cialdini goes on:

Of course, by now you and I know that the customer who has accepted and used the BUG products has been trapped into facing the reciprocity rule. Many such customers yield to a sense of obligation to order those of the saleperson's products that they have tried and thereby partially consumed.

All multi-level marketing cults(this would include the Republican Party) use the reciprocity rule and so do, incidentally, vampires. They can't hurt you unless you invite them in folks.

In 2001 the Bushites came calling on your door with a polyethylene bag full of tax relief, a BUG...You tried it, liked it a little even. You invited the vampire in. When the time came for the hard sell he already owned you. What was the blood of innocents here and abroad when you got a little more disposable income? And those deordorizers...you find yourself actually using them a lot.

2005-01-19T18:17:00.000-08:00

OVER THERE

Fifteen months is a long time to contemplate life without a right leg. The prospect of being a one legged man drove Arthur Rimbaud to the heights of despair. He who had once cursed God, came at last in those final morphined days to the posture of supplicant - at least according to his sister.

Many words will be spoken this week about service and sacrifice, and the wounded soldiers will understand them at a visceral level.
(Scott Shane, today's NYT)

Staff Sgt. Josh Olson is recovering in Walter Reed Army Medical Center from the loss of his right leg in the Iraq war. Like Rimbaud, he appears to have worked out his salvation. The truth he has come to know is the doxology of the false prophet, George W. Bush:

Olson said, "As long as the fighting's done over there, my family's safe over here." If he happens to see the president on Thursday night, he said, "I'll tell him congratulations, thank you, and that he's doing a great job."
(Scott Shane, today's NYT)

Whatever gets you through the night, Sarge. Perhaps it would be cruel of me to suggest that you and yours, I'm willing to bet, slept soundly - with nary a worry about angry Shiites and raving Sunni's, or even a mad, head-lopping Jordanian who tries oh so hard to impress -right up to April 2003.

"As long as the fighting's done over there, my family's safe over here."

With this meticulously constructed and hermetically sealed tautology a leg is the least thing you can part with. Let's hope the bleeding stops there.

2005-01-18T18:12:00.000-08:00

PAUL LYNDE FAKED DEATH
WILL LARRY KUDLOW CONFESS?

Everybody knows the story:

One night in January 1982, Paul missed a dinner appointment with a group of long-time friends. Concerned, they rushed to his home on North Palm Drive in Beverly Hills. He was found naked and dead, surrounded by amyl-nitrate poppers, an inhalant used primarily by gay men to enhance sex.

It has long been J.J. Rimbaud's belief that Paul Lynde and Larry Kudlow are one and the same person. The hair line has receded somewhat, but the sarcasm caressed by a lilting lush's voice are the same. From the website of Mr. Kudlows' LLC consulting firm:

Mr. Kudlow was educated at the University of Rochester and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is a member of the Union League Club, the Capitol Hill Club, and the NATIONAL WOMEN'S REPUBLICAN CLUB.

While Larry Kudlow is no more woman that Ann Coulter, he can pass for one in a pinch. He is never so precious as when seated next to the virile, manic Jim Cramer(think Lynde sitting just below Charles Nelson Riley on the 'Squares). What is the raison d'etre for this deception? Remember that in 1982 the budget deficit was becoming untenable and Paul Voelker was hacking away at inflation, using the Fed Funds rate as a bludgeon. Remember the retards that inhabited the White House? Reagan simply needed someone who could explain supply-side economics to Mommy. "Trickle down", which had a whole 'nother connotation in Lynde's life, simply became Kudlow's euphemism for that economic theory.

Flash forward 22 years and 10000 cocktail napkins later. The Lynde/Kudlow dream has gone mainstream again. Kudlow drops gimlets of supply-side sex enhancers the way his former Lynde self used to drop amyl-nitrate poppers.

Lynde/Kudlow has a blog now. Stop by to say hello.

2005-01-17T17:35:00.000-08:00

IRAQI RELIGIOUS FREEDOM or HOW AMERICA CREATED A FAILED STATE

This from ekklesia, though it is all over the news services:

Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped a Catholic archbishop and targeted security forces in a series of brazen assaults that have killed more than 20 people.

The incident took place in Mosul, where Archbishop Basile George Casmoussa, 66, of the Syrian Catholic Church, was seized by gunmen while walking in front of his church, a priest said on condition of anonymity.

America created a vacuum in Iraq and some bad folks rushed in to fill it. Thats okay, because things are better for the average Iraqi then they were before we got there.

Iraq is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, with an estimated 3% of the population identified as Christian.

Thats okay though. These Christians where pre-reformation Christians..they didn't belong to one of the 30,000 post-reformation denominations. They probably weren't really Christians.

Under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi church was protected from religious persecution. Since the invasion churches have lived under constant fear with a number of attacks recorded against Christians and church buildings, with a number of murders.

It is obvious that if Saddam Hussein protected Iraqi Catholics then John Paul ll must be "Saddam's Pope". A whole new vein to mine for the Religious Right.

2005-01-17T16:47:00.000-08:00

I see you Goadsters.

You are here because of the J-Man. He got up in your hair like the perfume of the woman you shouldn't have slept with last night. You wonder...

Not a few have said the J-Man looks like John Turturro. He speaks the truth. A Christological Celine....a Bukowski who sat the foot of Christ for the Beatitudes instead of at the bar...

2005-01-17T13:17:00.000-08:00

HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE

India Must Catch Up With China on Energy, Singh Says

Jan.16(Bloomberg)--Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says India needs to catch up with neighboring China in securing energy supplies, suggesting competition between the world's two most populous nations for oil and gas fields may intensify.

Thats right. Fuel up those Hummers babies. China and India use a fraction of our energy consumption and have multiples the people. It will all be okay. America always finds a way, don't we? But whats this? Oh my....

Bond Markets Brace for Possible GM Downgrade(The Financial Times)

Corporate Bond investors are bracing themselves for a possible downgrade for General Motors, one of the largest borrowers in the world, and fear its effect on the wider market.

The troubled US vehicle maker, which has $291 bn of debt outstanding, is teetering on the edge of a fall to junk rating status, a move with serious repercussions for many fund managers only allowed to hold investment grade debt.

Oh, but this is too rich. Americans keep extracting equity from their overvalued homes and buy gas guzzlers with the money. GM needs to pull rebates out of their asses to move this shit with interest rates at two generational lows. The dollar falls, oil and interest rates rise, and the American consumer and GM are both put out of their misery. Render unto the Chinese Premeire what is the Chinese Premeire's, and unto God what is God's.

2005-01-16T17:12:00.000-08:00

A fine addendum to the Caveman's cautionary example.

2005-01-16T13:20:00.000-08:00

A COUPLE DEGREES OF CAVEMAN LEE

"On the undercard, undefeated super-middleweight prospect Chad Dawson pounded on 40-year old journeyman Brett Lally for 12 minutes before Lally threw in the towel after the fourth round of an eight rounder. In his second fight since 1994, Lally spent much of the fight pinned against the ropes. Dawson, who improved his record to 13-0, with nine knockouts, bloodied Lally's nose and opened a cut over his left eye during the carnage."

I'm hoping this was Brett's last fight. Back around in 1980-81 Jimmy Jesus had aspirations to be a boxer. He forged his mama's name to a permission slip that would relieve the Livonia Boxing Club of any liability should he be pounded into a brain hemmorage. After some weeks of the heavy bag, shadow boxing, speed bag, graceless rope jumping and three mile runs, Jimmy Jesus was ready for the ring .

I was a graceless man-boy... almost 6'3 and weighing 210 lbs(Jimmy Jesus, 24 yrs later,weighs 20 lbs less than that). I was slow afoot with a pretty good jab and a ponderous right cross that would probably hurt someone if I ever mustered the courage to throw it. At this time there were a few prospects at the LBC that actually had a chance of going anywhere. Steve Darnell, Craig Payne, and Brett Lally - with Lally and Payne faraway the head of the pack. Payne was a super-heavyweight(by amateur definition) and I was the only body in the place that could take a beating from him. I think it was the only reason they didn't kick me out. He lost to Tyrell Biggs in the 1984 Olympic trials, made a half-assed attempt at going pro, and got fat, I think. Out of the bunch, only Brett Lally made any kind of name for himself - briefly holding one of the alphabet soup titles(for about 7 months) in the super-middleweight division.

I was sparred with Lally several times. I had 70 lbs and eight inches on him and he could hit me with a two three-punch combinations before I could even think of flicking out a jab at the short bastard. The funny thing was they felt like getting beat up by your girlfriend. Didn't hurt at all. Now you know why even champion boxers have bodyguards.

Well, pretty soon it became obvious that Brett and Craig needed someone who could fight back. The 6'3 kid was on the fast track to becoming Tex Cobb. Human punching bags tend to bring on existential crisis in everyone who happens to be in the orbit of said punching bag, excepting of course, the punching bag himself.

The solution to everybody's problems was to bring in some Kronk fighters. This was the heyday of Kronk -though we only sparred the amateurs. I drew light-heavyweight Keith Vining, who I think may have been a contender briefly - but fought a mostly undistinguished pro career. We traded nothing more than jabs for a round. No harms, no fouls. In the second sparring round he finally dropped a right hand after the jab that left me out on my feet.

"Had enough?" I heard the trainer say. It was telling that Vining never even followed up the right. He had dismissed me.

"Yeah," I said. I had enough at the moment, and as it would turn out, forever.

Caveman Lee is eligible for parole in 2006. Like Brett, he was a middleweight contender. I'm thinking him and Brett might have sparred later on, but I'm not sure. Caveman went back for two more armed robberies after the first one in which expoding ink did him in. I'm hoping Brett's exploding ink was that cut Chad Dawson opened over his eye.

2005-01-16T10:14:00.000-08:00

IRAQ VERSION 2.0 or HOW TO TILT AT ANOTHER WINDMILL

The administration continues its Quixotic path - taking American morons along as unwitting Sancho Panzas.

I see the link is not working properly. You want the "Is There Really a Crisis?"story. Bush's plan is calculated to destroy Social Security, not save it. In the meanwhile it is a stream of guaranteed income for the whores at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets. The Bushites abhor any vestiges of the New Deal and Great Society. However you feel about those social programs, you must concede that the CHIMP is LYING.

2005-01-15T16:28:00.000-08:00

FIRST CAUSES?

This from the Times of India article by Rashmee Z. Ahmed:

It would be churlish to deny Holocaust survivors and people of good sense everywhere the right to be offended by Harry's costume, but what of the themed party he attended? Should we, whose fathers and forefathers were coolies of yesterday's Empire, be offended this Prince of multi-cultural, post-imperial Britain attended a party themed around "Natives and Colonials"?

Indeed. I feel like a fool for missing this, but then again the full article touches upon how a lot of Asians in Britain missed this. Maybe the implication is that certain ladies were protesting too much. Natives and Colonials...the lost dream in the black heart of the British empire -now lower case and only vicariously obtained through licking America's boots.

2005-01-14T21:07:00.000-08:00

WOULD POLYCARP READ THE DA VINCI CODE?

From EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS, translated and edited by Staniforth and Louth:

Polycarp was no great thinker: both his letter to the Philippians and Irenaeus's account of him suggest the picture of a man who treasured the youthful memory of what he had heard from the Apostles, and repeated it, and was appalled at the (gnostic) heretics he encountered in his old age. "O good God! For what times hast thou kept me that I should endure such things!' he would cry out as he heard the teaching of the Gnostics, and he would tell how once at Ephesus the Apostle John went to the baths and, finding the early Gnostic Cerinthus there, rushed out, saying, 'Let us flee, lest even the bath-house fall in, for within is Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth.' On his visit to Rome Polycarp met the heretic Marcion, who called upon Polycarp to recognize him, to which Polycarp replied, 'I recognize, I recognize, the first-born son of Satan.'"

2005-01-14T19:04:00.000-08:00

BONNY PRINCE HARRY
ENGLISH ROSES SMELL LIKE ALMONDS?

Early indications are that Prince Harry's punishment will be a field trip to a Holocaust memorial. This is surely the greatest public penance done by English royalty since Henry ll was obliged to be scourged by monks at the Canterbury Cathedral for offing Thomas Beckett. Henry said: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest!" It was really a rhetorical question that four knuckleheaded knights took for an executive order. Little Harry costumed himself in his birthright, the secret heart of the British Empire...the ozone hole never settles over the Falkland Islands for long. Like 'ol Henry deuce, Harry pissed off some folks who could make a show out of penance. Then again, there really be blood on the Kings hands, and Harry...? Well lets just say that Harry is a cautionary tale for the welfare state...perhaps the last beneficiary of Aid for Dependent Mothers/Crown Tax. He had every disadvantage - absentee daddy/butler buggerer, a disaffected gold-digging mom, and a smattering of Appalachian style inbreeding. This penance will be bloodless and a time and place to be determined by the museum board of directors. Admittance: Five Pounds.

2005-01-12T19:55:00.000-08:00

US TRADE DEFICIT HITS ALL TIME HIGH
DOLLAR FALLS
US MORONS BID UP STOCKS AND BONDS

Today the trade deficit hit 60 Billion dollars for the month November. Thats an annual run rate of 720 Billion dollars. Throw in the budget deficit and you're soaring past a trillion dollars. A falling dollar, the Bushites say, was supposed to help ease deficit...YET IT EXPLODED in November. American morons repsond by bidding up stock and bond prices. Profligacy is a good thing, apparently. The Japanese and Chinese must still be buying our Treasury bills and notes, suckering us in deeper. Buy Gold and go to Everbank.com and open a Chinese Renminbi/Yuan account. The American dollar is confetti, not even fit to wipe your ass with because it probably has a bunch of germs on it. The Chinese peg their currency to the dollar. Once that peg is removed(and they'll do it when we STOP badgering them) it will soar relative to the dollar.

2005-01-11T18:06:00.000-08:00

RED STATE PIKERS

Jimmy Jesus did an impromptu survey regarding Red State Hillbillies and their proclivity for unfounded hysterias. First, we proceed under the general assumption that they voted the Shrub in because they feared for their very lives. Next, we must concede that these folks are bootstrap, salt of the earth sorts who resent the lazy effortless sods on the dreamcoasts and the uppermidwest who are guilty of all sorts leftist urges and funny ideas regarding the distribution of wealth.
First, lets lay out the fact that all 9-11 victims died on BLUE soil(NY,DC,PA). It really has nothing to do with our argument.
Next, we find that the 19 Blue states and DC sent 611 boys out of a total tally of 1357 to their death(yeah, we can be as fucking stupid as the Red States sometimes). That leaves 746 dead for the 31 red states. Everybody knows how fucking Red the country is - all those rural boys dying for flag, country, and a new carburator. Turns out though that New Jersey sent twice as many boys to their death as Iowa. California waltzed all over its nearest Red rival, Texas. Yes my babies, we're carrying these bitches.
You'd think with all this death and destruction going on, folks would be battening down the hatches, maybe a little self-imposed austerity to support the "war on terras"? Nope. I'm here to tell you that those RED STATE PIKERS have been living it up at our Blue-assed expense.
The latest figures, of course, are for 2003, and they are VERY unlikely to have changed in '04, as the general trends are almost immutable(once a RED STATE PIKER always a RED STATE PIKER). 12 out of 19 Blue States rec'd less than one dollar of Fed Funding for every Federal Tax Dollar collected, 26 out of 31 Red States rec'd MORE than one dollar of Federal funding for every FTD collected. The sad truth is that most of the folks on welfare are white, wear enamel American flag pins on their lapels or NASCAR hats, and drive SUV's with magnets exhorting us to support the troops. Insidious lttle bitches.

2005-01-10T19:49:00.000-08:00

WARNING

Never hit the "Next Blog" button at the top of the page. Invariably you will get the excrutiating minutiae of some housefrau describing her banal day. Lady, just because you can don't mean you should.

2005-01-10T18:51:00.000-08:00

IRAQI PRISONERS & TEXAS CHEERLEADERS?
THERE'S A REASON YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THEM TOGETHER IN THE SAME PLACE

From todays London Telegraph:
The lawyer for Charles Graner, the alleged ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, yesterday compared heaping naked Iraqi prisoners in a pyramid to choreographed displays by high school cheerleaders.

Its safe to assume that the Iraqi prisoners were also date-raped and treated to the midnight drive-thru window at Taco Bell. Afterwards, they pretended to laugh while the football heroes ran the Fertile crescent/Texas range in search of sleeping cows to tip over.

2005-01-10T17:36:00.000-08:00

GM ANNOUNCES MORE JOB CUTS

8000 more turkeys will lay their heads on the chopping block this year. First you got greedy, then you sold your brothers out. 25 bucks an hour to make a Pontiac Aztec, the ugliest vehicle on the road today. The real Aztecs were destroyed by Cortez - and your Cortez is a hundreds of thousands of Chinamen who'll do your work for 50 cents an hour. Ah, I know what you're thinking, Bush has trashed the dollar via exploding twin deficits and a falling dollar will make our exports competitive. The dollar is going to have to fall a long way to bring equilibrium to global wages. America's standard of living must decline. IT MUST. It is not just economic law, it is MORAL law. Everybody knows a factory rat that lives in a 500k Toll Brothers McMansion. They got theirs, went Republican, and now want their putrid little 25 dollars an hour job protected from the Chinaman. Guess what babies, the Chinamen is a better capitalist you - he makes things that people want and can afford and sells them in international markets. He makes so much off of you that he uses his trade surplus to buy notes from our Treasury thereby keeping interest rates low to sucker you deeper and deeper into debt. Behind that inscrutable facade is a man thinking to himself, "What a bunch of fucking morons."

2005-01-09T15:34:00.000-08:00

PENSION FUNDING - A NEW TWIST

The results won't be known until an actuary has a look at the numbers, but it appears that the IRA now has a fully funded pension "kitty" thanks to the crack twenty man operation pulled off just before Christmas in which they netted 50 US million.

"Just give me what I want and no one gets hurt."

If true, and if they get away with it, the plan is truly genious. Most of the Provisional volunteers are 30 to 50 years old and are quite settled in their ways. The kitty would allow them to indeed lay down the arms and allow them to pursue a pensioner's life. A visit to Basque country in Spain perhaps, a tour of Catholic Shrines...Lourdes....Rome...etc - the Holy Land even.

2005-01-03T17:51:00.001-08:00

The stock market began its first day of trading in '05 with a down day. A dire portent of things to come. Thats okay though - the weekly wages of a Manhattan financial services worker approach 6k per week - up twenty-odd percent over '03. You are being fleeced my little sheeps.

My 401k plan sponsor has decided to switch providers this year. We have fewer choices, but are assured our costs are lower. A quick look at the Prospecti(?) reveal that American Funds in their grand munificence have deigned to manage our money, along with a smattering of Lord Abbett and Oppenheimer. Wonders of wonders if'n these aren't the same Mutual Fund families that were revealed as recently as 6 days ago to have revenue sharing agreements with Edward Jones, who were pushing their funds on their clients. What's a poor worker to do? Solution: Put the money in a money market fund. Short rates are so low that fund families have to eat some of the operating costs to keep the nominal returns from being negative. Real returns ARE negative, but thangs just get that way sometimes.

2005-01-03T17:51:00.000-08:00

The post-election depression is over. Jimmy Jesus is back.

2004-06-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

Anonymous comes out with his book Imperial Hubris on August 1st. Must read.

It appears that according to a Newsweek article, Big Dick Cheney took it all upon himself to order the downing of hijacked aircraft on 9/11. This is what I was talking about when I refered to the motherfucker inserting himself into history. Anybody remember the humble beginnings of the Imperial Cheney Presidency? It began with Cheney heading the Bush VP search team, segued into the Machiavellian "what the fuck, it might as well be me" self-insertion into the ticket. Oh yeah, Bush was allowed to think the decision was his, the way student pilots are allowed to think they are actually flying the plane on their introductory flight. It ends with Valerie Plame having her cover blown, an ill-advised war in Iraq, the Chalabi doublecross et al. Hundreds dead and thousands wounded.

2004-06-18T20:27:00.000-07:00

Andrew Sullivan goes on again about how you need to see the Paul Johnson beheading photos to understand what we are up against. I wrote Andrew a nasty e-mail but I bet the gutless turd doesn't print it. Andrew is Catholic and as such it is rather surprising that he requires the proof of actually viewing these obscenely graphic photos as a prerequisite for understanding "what we are up against." All across the Republic millions of folks were furtively viewing these photos at work and home, fearful of discovery by their bosses, spouses, children...like so many fucking purveyors of pornography. Andy, this is the only time I'm gonna hold your homosexuality against you ....if you had children you'd fucking understand.

2004-06-16T20:03:00.000-07:00

The 9/11 Commission finds no link between Saddam Hussein and Al Queda. Big fucking surprise. So why is Dick Cheney out still hawking that idea? The motherfuckers have no shame. They know there is half a nation of dumb fucks out there tuned into Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity that will buy anything that is force fed to them. Degenerate weak minded simps. People who know me know I vacillate between wanting Bush and out and hoping he wins re-election. After all, Americans get the government they deserve. Right now, in this moment, I'm so disgusted with my fellow citizens(morons) that I'm thinking they need another four years of ass raping by this administration. If you don't believe me just look at the television shows these cretins watch. Why do they hate America so much?

2004-06-14T19:08:00.000-07:00

THE POPE KNOWS AN ANTI-CHRIST WHEN HE SEES ONE

This is from an April 23rd,2003 article by Wayne Madsen in Counterpunch, titled "Bush's Christian Blood Cult":

Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs, and his constant references to "evil doers," in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations - the Anti-Chirst. People close to the Pope claim that amid these concerns, the Pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations.

No shit. It's that bad.

2004-06-07T18:16:00.000-07:00

WAS HE ALL THAT?

Okay, the coverage is getting a little too overbearing. So I'll throw in my own little monkey wrench here. Anybody remember October 23, 1983? Heres a hint: It involves a Mercedes truck filled with 2600 hundred pounds of explosives, a bivouac of Marines at the Beirut International Airport, and until 9/11 was the biggest terrorist attack on US personel, whether civilian or military. Yep, the day America lost 241 Marines to a truck-bomb in Lebanon. Reagan was President - was in fact about to announce his re-election bid. Anybody remember the policy response to that attack? Okay, I'll help. Tough guy Ronnie pulled us out of there. I'm not saying it was a bad move, it was folly to get between the islamists and the Druze Christians who nominally ran the country. But the fact is that Reagan's pullout sent a message to the terrorists - bet big and the Americans will muck their cards. I like to stick this one in the fucking eyes of Republicans everywhere, since they were such breast beaters about the Blackhawk incident in Somalia. You see, those Marines in Beirut didn't get a movie with a groovy Dave Matthews tune on the soundtrack. Oh yeah, they died in their sleep too - hard to make a movie out of that. So how come Reagan doesn't get remembered as the father of terrorist appeasement?

2004-06-05T20:51:00.000-07:00

REAGAN DEAD

I'm going to go relatively easy here. The man has suffered for the last decade. My only caveat is that I'm glad Ronnie wasn't a Catholic, otherwise the right would be pushing for canonization. His spirit lives on however...you can see it in the duplicity of the current administration, even with some of the same bad actors.

Cheney lawyering up for the Plame affair. Has the Vice President's office ever in our history so boldly inserted itself into history? There is the stink of sulphur and creosote coming from that place.

2004-06-03T20:32:00.000-07:00

The Pope meets with the anti-christ tommorrow. Here's hoping that John Paul ll gives the chimp a noogie with the Fisherman's Ring. Failing that, I'd settle for a good sound-byte decrying US unilateralism. Maybe remind the Chimp that parsing a verse from the Gospel of Matthew doesn't necessarily get you a ticket in that Rapture thing the supermarket Christians are so fond of. C'mon Papa, throw down on that schismatic motherfucker.

2004-06-03T19:46:00.000-07:00

George Tenet resigned today. He went like a good soldier, taking it up the ass for the boss. So within two days we got the President seeking counsel for the Plame grand jury and Tenet waving buh-bye. Lie detector tests are being given in the Chalabi affair. Backdoor draft for those in our "volunteer" service whose tours are due to run out soon. Yeah, its all going well for the Texas monkey.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Abu Gharaib opens tomorrow. Gary Oldham plays a Bedouin
shaman who is picked up by U.S. Forces on charges of casting Koranic spells(he thinks his God is stronger than ours). Harry Potter, by now pubescent and making a good living as a contractor for the CIA, is brought in to whack quiditch balls with his magic stick.

Its breaking down my babies.

2004-06-02T18:38:00.000-07:00

Another good day for the chimp. He lawyers up for the Plame affair grand jury - I expected to hear that coming out of Cheney's office first. He compares the war on terror to World War Two- what a fucking joke. I wonder if Roosevelt ever gave up an OSS agent for not coming up with supportive intel for invading Greece, as opposed to Japan, Germany, or Italy - you know, the real enemy. Oh yeah, he also lied about Chalabi today.
But lets go back to the World War Two comp that asshole was making. In that war, if you remember, there was a homefront that shared in the sacrifice. Rosie the riveters, gasoline rationing, Zinc fucking pennies, a draft, volunteerism - you know, real sacrifice. Contrast that with the decadent slobs we are now. Its best summed up as consumerism = patriotism. Buy those fucking SUV's, 3800 square foot Toll Brothers Mcmansions. Forget about the draft, we have a POVERTY draft, oops, I mean volunteer army. Spend and pretend babies. Of course, you can disregard my above criticisms if you believe, as I do, that the War on Terror is a police and intel ongoing action that was compromised by an ill-advised war(on Iraq).