The Initial Reaction, of the McCain Campaign to the Biden Pick, Has Been Quite Negative.
August 23, 2008 --- Hey, You! Stay Awake. At
today's rally for Joe Biden, all campaign workers will be put to work.
They'll be handing out free packages of No-Doz.
The " Goldelse " in Berlin : The Obama Angle.
August 22, 2008 --- Paradise in the Gutter ( The Race So Far ). We already knew that John McCain dumped his first wife to marry Ms. Money Bags. We already knew that Barack Obama took cash from a Chicago Slum Lord. For those of you who did not, Congratulations!!! Watching American Idol on a loop has rotted out your brain and destroyed the nation. Thanks!
August 22, 2008 --- The Bleeding Obvious, Part 463. One would think, at this very late date, that one's government would not be so cavalier about wasting one's money. Well, your thinking would be all wrong, not say in the furtherance of madness, seriously screwed, blued, and tattooed. The US State Dept. released a tear sheet a few days ago, saying that it is suspending its Priority Three ( P3 ) program of testing African " refugees, " who seek admittance into the United States. P3 is a costly DNA testing program that whipsaws the American taxpayer thousands of dollars, at each go, for the administration of a DNA assay. The object of a P3 test is to match the DNA of an African " refugee, " already resident in the United States, with a family member stuck in Africa, patiently waiting for admission into the US. Here's where the US taxpayer gets screwed, blued, and tattooed. Thinking that your average, present day, potential, African immigrant would be as honest as, say, your average Norwegian immigrant, circa 1900, the State Dept. geniuses spent thousands, at a pop, to run the P3 DNA test. No surprises! According to the State Dept. about 80% of the Africans who took the P3 DNA test turned out to be the most dreadful liars, these future George Washingtons possessing no DNA or blood-tie whatsoever to the " refugees " already resident in the US. Congress has allotted 16,000 slots for " refugee " immigrants from Africa for this fiscal year, but, because of the costly collapse of the P3 program, only 7,000 of these places have been filled so far. The fiscal year ends on September 30th, and, of course, these slots will be filled --- even if it takes Mr. Hook & Mr. Crook to do it!
August 21, 2008 --- Maintaining His Pay Grade. Overheard by the water cooler, sometime in the late Winter of 1985 : " You know that Colored Guy, Barry. ( Yeah ). He has great personal and inter-personal skills. He told me that the White Girls in Bananarama are just pale imitations of Black Girls, using pretentious musical arrangements and teased hair as psychological shields. " Back then, it was strictly a joke. What must they be saying by the selfsame water cooler, concerning St. O, right about now?
August 20, 2008 --- Say It Loud. He's Open Borders & He's Proud! Say what you will, the cack-handed ability of Barack Obama to piss away a sure thing is truly astonishing. According to the Reuters/Zogby poll, Obama has lost 12 points in the last 30 days, giving John McCain a temporary 5 point lead among Likely Voters! Since Narcissus in a three-piece suit went to Berlin and declared himself " Citizen of the World, " his campaign appears to have entered into a permanent Death Spiral. On Sunday, Obama was in San Francisco where he raked in 7.2 million dollars from a group consisting of mostly Indian immigrants. The excitement of all that cash was overpowering; it started Barry to a-blabbing in the most psychopathic way imaginable. " I'm a Desi --- I'm a Homeboy!, " Barry shouted in orgiastic delight ( a Desi is a slang word for an immigrant from the Indian Subcontinent ). Barry also went on to extol, in his customary manner of platitudes and shop-worn nostrums, the virtues of increasing rates of immigration and throwing open the borders of the US to other World Citizens like Himself ( just think of all that beaucoup, cool campaign money! ). Citizens of the United States, born before the Immigration Act of 1965, are pardoned for thinking that they have wandered into an Open-Air Lunatic Asylum! But McCain's 5 point lead can't last. He'll just get jealous. The McCain plan for a teeming Calcutta or two in every one of the 57 states --- by Barry's Count --- is sure to emerge in very short order!
August 20, 2008 --- Oh, Those Naughty Speculators! Positions in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to unwind. Yesterday the common shares of Fannie closed at $6.01 and Freddie at $4.17. Both mortgage giants have lost approximately 85% of the valuation of their unretired common since December. Last month, the drab prostitutes at the US Treasury Dept. proclaimed that, at most, only 25 Billion or so in Taxpayer Cheese would be needed in any Fannie or Freddie bailout. Now the talk from the same whores goes that they were misunderstood! They meant 25 Billion smackeroos each!!! Whatever the true amount of the final Fannie & Freddie Butcher's Bill turns out to be, all but the mentally-challenged certainly have realized by now is that Treasury is waiting for Fannie & Freddie common to go down to practically nothing before US Taxpayer money can be used to prop up Fannie & Freddie bonds, which are, in large measure, held by foreign investors. These foreign investors, being foreign, never fully appreciated what an Affirmative Action, Dog's Breakfast, the American Mortgage Market had become. Both the Clinton & Bush, Jr. regimes deployed Fannie and Freddie as a means by which to get NAMs into real estate. The no-money-down, Teaser Rate ( and in some cases : cold, hard, cash was doled out as " bridge money " ) mortgage simply became an extension of Great Society largess that would have done LBJ proud. Does anybody seriously expect Washington to supervise the dispossession of millions of NAMs from properties which they now occupy as your standard, garden-variety, non-paying squatter??? The six-bedroom house is just the latest example of a federal welfare program that will be a poison pill on the Market for many years to come.
August 18, 2008 --- Just Like Tony Soprano Would Have Done. Two Undertakers were arrested for Murder last week in Erlangen, Germany. The events that led up to the killing are plain enough. After the sale of his Funeral Home in 2005, the seller agreed to wait until after the buyer took full possession of the establishment to receive a final payment. But that last payment never seemed to be forthcoming. Only then did the anxious, selling Undertaker call upon the services of a friend, in the Spring of 2007, who turned out to be another Undertaker. Both went to visit the Funeral Home in question to renegotiate terms of final payment. After these discussions fell through, the indebted Undertaker disappeared from view. Erlangen Police now state they believe that the body of the non-paying Undertaker was placed in a coffin which was already occupied. The culprits proceeded to place the over-loaded coffin in a hearse, which they drove to a private crematorium where they presented a Death Certificate for only one set of worldly remains. The Erlangen Police are, at present, diligently combing the records of said crematorium in hopes of fixing the precise date on which two bodies were nefariously burned together.
August 17, 2008 --- The Surge Goes In One Ear & Out the Other. The claim, by the US Secretary of State, that the World has left August, 1968, behind --- namely that the Russians can no longer invade a sovereign state ( Czechoslovakia ) and get away with it completely unscathed --- was easily the most fatheaded Bush Administration statement of the Week, the Bush Administration being the most fatheaded contraption in existence. Once again, the Bushies seem to possess a limitless talent for rubbing their own noses in it; the crystal moment being the September 11th Bombings in DC & Manhattan. A group of foreign nationals, most of them visa overstayers, hijack planes and fly them into buildings ( WTC Building No. 7 collapses on its own accord, no explanation given ). For the next eighteen months the Bush Administration thumps the tub for war with Iraq with the powerful and essential aid of the Corporate Media. Without the Corporate Media, the thin tissue of everlasting lies would have been hooted off the stage. After the US Invasion of Iraq, the lies just go on : " Turning the corner, " " Final throes, " etc. And in 2007, Bush springs THE SURGE upon us all, as if one, last desperate attempt to save face were a tactical Master Stroke. With brains so addled from living in a world of inverted fantasy, up is down and black is white, Condi Rice casts her muddled mind back 40 years and recalls Soviet depredations. No wonder the Russians are now taking their own sweet time in Georgia. Bush couldn't lead a parade of 8 yr. olds to an Ice Cream Truck without being accused of attempted poisoning.
August 14, 2008 --- The Latest, Hot, Internet Rumor. During the last, few days a mischievous rumor has gained currency on the Internet --- namely, that the US Birth Certificate of Barack Obama cannot be found ( see what happens when you go to a foreign country and announce that you are a " Citizen of the World " )! By all accounts Barack Obama, the son of Barack Obama, Sr., a Bigamist & Kenyan National and Ann Dunham, a US National ( as well as a US American, according to Miss Doe Doe Bird of 2007 ) was born within the precincts of Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. The Obama Campaign must have a copy of Barry's Birth Certificate, but they dare not release it now because at least 30% of the country will go out & tell their friends that it is a laughable forgery, so distrusted is the Chosen One by certain segments of the population. Remember a few years back, when a Birth Certificate of Beyoncé's showed up on the Internet stating that she really was 36 years old and not 25, as she was truly, at time? Some people have never heard of PhotoShop®, that's all. No Barry is not some deep, secret agent of an African country who wishes to do the US harm. No African country is capable of such farseeing organization.
DESTINY'S CHILD : Decrepid Night Nurses, Working for the VA, Who Sort of Branched Out in Order to Rule the World?
August 14, 2008 --- ATTENTION
: KEEP HANDS AWAY FROM CAGE !!! Winston Churchill : I cannot forecast to you the actions of
the Russian Bear. He is a Riddle, wrapped in a Mystery, inside an
Enigma.
August 12, 2008 --- NATO Takes One to the Balls. In June of 1948 the Red Army blocked Berlin's main road, which ran through their sector, effectively choking land access to the US, UK, & French sectors in the city. No only was this a blatantly hostile act, that if let pass would force the residents of West Berlin to seek coal and food from the surrounding Soviet-controlled territory of East Germany, it proved to be a colossal ideological blunder that turned out to be the one single act which midwifed NATO in 1949. Supplied by mostly huge American cargo planes and light English props ( France could spare little in the way of aircraft, being in the midst of a post-war economic depression ), the Allied sector of Berlin was finally freed from the Blockade, in May of 1949, after the Soviets realized that they had handed the West an immense political gift. The Blockade had been proof of Soviet hostility but was also the principal means by which the Allies had learned to work together against Soviet treachery. When the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, the raison d'etre for NATO fell too, but bureaucrats can't conceive of looking for new jobs or cashing in their pensions. NATO was used as the framework to bomb Serbia in 1999 and is being used nowadays as the framework to occupy Afghanistan. What would have happened if a nuclear-armed Russia had kicked Georgia in the pants after that snotty runt of an insignificant little country had been made a full-fledged member of NATO? Hydrogen Bombs over South Ossetia? George W. Bush is a Titanic embarrassment to duped front men and old graduates of Yale University everywhere. Rumors that one of our two major parties may nominate a Tailor's Dummy for President in 2012 may not be exaggerations. The 2008 crop, that is to say : two morons in search of a brain --- can surely do better than Bush has done. Right???
August 11, 2008 --- The Surge Wasn't Designed to Work. If a nation takes on the responsibilities of empire, it is supreme policy to avoid having madmen and juveniles in charge of its management. It was said of Benjamin Disraeli that if he read of news of a typhoon going up the Kowloon Peninsula ( Hong Kong ), he would immediately send a runner over to the Colonial Office with a note inquiring into the health of the cane crop in Trinidad. The best thing to do, you see, if you are serious, about this empire business, is to think both locally and globally at the same time. There is at present no Disraeli running the American Empire, just mischievous brats and raving lunatics. In 2006, the Democrats were the Party of the Pull-Out. They promised, in two years, to entirely withdraw American forces from Iraq if the voters gave them control of Congress, which, one should remember, the voters duly did. George W. Bush knew better. The last time Congress showed any evidence of a spine was during the Hoover Administration ( Congress roused itself for a brief period called " Watergate " and promptly went back to sleep ). Last year and this, the Dem. Congress has handed Bush blank check after blank check to fund the debacle in Iraq. The Surge??? --- Don't make me laugh! The making of Baghdad into an exclusively Shi'ia city and the sending of bucketful upon bucketful of bribery to the outlying Sunni provinces bespeaks failure. It is simply a means to kick the can down the road to 2009 and the next administration. But, oh, those global consequences! Last week Georgia, an America client state, decided to put a stick in the eye of the caged Bear living in South Ossetia, and the Bear came roaring back, all teeth and claws. GW had to be content to slap the back of a bikini-clad Volleyball player and sit on his geo-political hands, his dreams of NATO membership for Georgia up in smoke and right up the chimney! Disraeli would have been appalled.
August 23, 2008 --- Pooder for Veep. He's older,
he's whiter, he's balder, but he's not wiser, and he has been in the US
Senate for more than thirty-five years, he is Joe Biden, the new Dem.
candidate for the bottom of the ticket. It is as if the old, mangy cat
in the corner had been drafted into political service. Under the
circumstances, Biden is the natural choice, because at this particular
moment in the campaign, he is the
safest choice. It seems like an eternity ago, before THE ONE
fixed his eyes on the teleprompter in Berlin on July 24, 2008 --- it's
been only thirty days! --- and declared himself " Citizen of the World,
" that the campaign of the Barack Obama went into vertiginous free
fall. The Berlin " Citizen of the World " speech, at the Goldelse ( " Golden Lizzy " ), is
now widely mocked, but it contained at least one memorable line : With an eye toward the future, with
resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our
destiny, and remake the world once again! The Berlin speech,
however, was cursed by miserable timing, and timing is just as
important in politics, as in life, if not more so. The time was once
ripe, the time was once right, for a challenger to Hillary Clinton. At
the beginning of 2008 there was a universal desire to see the defeat of
Hillary Clinton. The very thought of Bush ( 1988 ), Clinton ( 1992 ),
Clinton ( 1996 ), Bush ( 2000 ), Bush ( 2004 ), and the Hillda Beast (
2008 and beyond ) was like a depressive, comprehensive, fog upon the
land. Oh, where was our knight to slay this hideous monster? With
superb timing, Barack Obama stepped into the role and it was sheer
heaven to watch him skewer the filthy dragon upon the tip of his
avenging lance. That Job done, Obama has yet to close the deal for Roi du Pays. His timing has been
most decidedly off; he is running for President of the United States,
not Citizen of the World! The voters want to be romanced. They do not
want to be told they that are a mob of scurvy Racists, who must keep
the borders open and accommodate the Third World in order to atone for
their darkest sins. There is still time left on the running clock, but
is our once shining, now bedraggled, knight up to the task?
The " Goldelse " in Berlin : The Obama Angle.
August 22, 2008 --- Paradise in the Gutter ( The Race So Far ). We already knew that John McCain dumped his first wife to marry Ms. Money Bags. We already knew that Barack Obama took cash from a Chicago Slum Lord. For those of you who did not, Congratulations!!! Watching American Idol on a loop has rotted out your brain and destroyed the nation. Thanks!
August 22, 2008 --- The Bleeding Obvious, Part 463. One would think, at this very late date, that one's government would not be so cavalier about wasting one's money. Well, your thinking would be all wrong, not say in the furtherance of madness, seriously screwed, blued, and tattooed. The US State Dept. released a tear sheet a few days ago, saying that it is suspending its Priority Three ( P3 ) program of testing African " refugees, " who seek admittance into the United States. P3 is a costly DNA testing program that whipsaws the American taxpayer thousands of dollars, at each go, for the administration of a DNA assay. The object of a P3 test is to match the DNA of an African " refugee, " already resident in the United States, with a family member stuck in Africa, patiently waiting for admission into the US. Here's where the US taxpayer gets screwed, blued, and tattooed. Thinking that your average, present day, potential, African immigrant would be as honest as, say, your average Norwegian immigrant, circa 1900, the State Dept. geniuses spent thousands, at a pop, to run the P3 DNA test. No surprises! According to the State Dept. about 80% of the Africans who took the P3 DNA test turned out to be the most dreadful liars, these future George Washingtons possessing no DNA or blood-tie whatsoever to the " refugees " already resident in the US. Congress has allotted 16,000 slots for " refugee " immigrants from Africa for this fiscal year, but, because of the costly collapse of the P3 program, only 7,000 of these places have been filled so far. The fiscal year ends on September 30th, and, of course, these slots will be filled --- even if it takes Mr. Hook & Mr. Crook to do it!
August 21, 2008 --- Maintaining His Pay Grade. Overheard by the water cooler, sometime in the late Winter of 1985 : " You know that Colored Guy, Barry. ( Yeah ). He has great personal and inter-personal skills. He told me that the White Girls in Bananarama are just pale imitations of Black Girls, using pretentious musical arrangements and teased hair as psychological shields. " Back then, it was strictly a joke. What must they be saying by the selfsame water cooler, concerning St. O, right about now?
August 20, 2008 --- Say It Loud. He's Open Borders & He's Proud! Say what you will, the cack-handed ability of Barack Obama to piss away a sure thing is truly astonishing. According to the Reuters/Zogby poll, Obama has lost 12 points in the last 30 days, giving John McCain a temporary 5 point lead among Likely Voters! Since Narcissus in a three-piece suit went to Berlin and declared himself " Citizen of the World, " his campaign appears to have entered into a permanent Death Spiral. On Sunday, Obama was in San Francisco where he raked in 7.2 million dollars from a group consisting of mostly Indian immigrants. The excitement of all that cash was overpowering; it started Barry to a-blabbing in the most psychopathic way imaginable. " I'm a Desi --- I'm a Homeboy!, " Barry shouted in orgiastic delight ( a Desi is a slang word for an immigrant from the Indian Subcontinent ). Barry also went on to extol, in his customary manner of platitudes and shop-worn nostrums, the virtues of increasing rates of immigration and throwing open the borders of the US to other World Citizens like Himself ( just think of all that beaucoup, cool campaign money! ). Citizens of the United States, born before the Immigration Act of 1965, are pardoned for thinking that they have wandered into an Open-Air Lunatic Asylum! But McCain's 5 point lead can't last. He'll just get jealous. The McCain plan for a teeming Calcutta or two in every one of the 57 states --- by Barry's Count --- is sure to emerge in very short order!
August 20, 2008 --- Oh, Those Naughty Speculators! Positions in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to unwind. Yesterday the common shares of Fannie closed at $6.01 and Freddie at $4.17. Both mortgage giants have lost approximately 85% of the valuation of their unretired common since December. Last month, the drab prostitutes at the US Treasury Dept. proclaimed that, at most, only 25 Billion or so in Taxpayer Cheese would be needed in any Fannie or Freddie bailout. Now the talk from the same whores goes that they were misunderstood! They meant 25 Billion smackeroos each!!! Whatever the true amount of the final Fannie & Freddie Butcher's Bill turns out to be, all but the mentally-challenged certainly have realized by now is that Treasury is waiting for Fannie & Freddie common to go down to practically nothing before US Taxpayer money can be used to prop up Fannie & Freddie bonds, which are, in large measure, held by foreign investors. These foreign investors, being foreign, never fully appreciated what an Affirmative Action, Dog's Breakfast, the American Mortgage Market had become. Both the Clinton & Bush, Jr. regimes deployed Fannie and Freddie as a means by which to get NAMs into real estate. The no-money-down, Teaser Rate ( and in some cases : cold, hard, cash was doled out as " bridge money " ) mortgage simply became an extension of Great Society largess that would have done LBJ proud. Does anybody seriously expect Washington to supervise the dispossession of millions of NAMs from properties which they now occupy as your standard, garden-variety, non-paying squatter??? The six-bedroom house is just the latest example of a federal welfare program that will be a poison pill on the Market for many years to come.
August 18, 2008 --- Just Like Tony Soprano Would Have Done. Two Undertakers were arrested for Murder last week in Erlangen, Germany. The events that led up to the killing are plain enough. After the sale of his Funeral Home in 2005, the seller agreed to wait until after the buyer took full possession of the establishment to receive a final payment. But that last payment never seemed to be forthcoming. Only then did the anxious, selling Undertaker call upon the services of a friend, in the Spring of 2007, who turned out to be another Undertaker. Both went to visit the Funeral Home in question to renegotiate terms of final payment. After these discussions fell through, the indebted Undertaker disappeared from view. Erlangen Police now state they believe that the body of the non-paying Undertaker was placed in a coffin which was already occupied. The culprits proceeded to place the over-loaded coffin in a hearse, which they drove to a private crematorium where they presented a Death Certificate for only one set of worldly remains. The Erlangen Police are, at present, diligently combing the records of said crematorium in hopes of fixing the precise date on which two bodies were nefariously burned together.
August 17, 2008 --- The Surge Goes In One Ear & Out the Other. The claim, by the US Secretary of State, that the World has left August, 1968, behind --- namely that the Russians can no longer invade a sovereign state ( Czechoslovakia ) and get away with it completely unscathed --- was easily the most fatheaded Bush Administration statement of the Week, the Bush Administration being the most fatheaded contraption in existence. Once again, the Bushies seem to possess a limitless talent for rubbing their own noses in it; the crystal moment being the September 11th Bombings in DC & Manhattan. A group of foreign nationals, most of them visa overstayers, hijack planes and fly them into buildings ( WTC Building No. 7 collapses on its own accord, no explanation given ). For the next eighteen months the Bush Administration thumps the tub for war with Iraq with the powerful and essential aid of the Corporate Media. Without the Corporate Media, the thin tissue of everlasting lies would have been hooted off the stage. After the US Invasion of Iraq, the lies just go on : " Turning the corner, " " Final throes, " etc. And in 2007, Bush springs THE SURGE upon us all, as if one, last desperate attempt to save face were a tactical Master Stroke. With brains so addled from living in a world of inverted fantasy, up is down and black is white, Condi Rice casts her muddled mind back 40 years and recalls Soviet depredations. No wonder the Russians are now taking their own sweet time in Georgia. Bush couldn't lead a parade of 8 yr. olds to an Ice Cream Truck without being accused of attempted poisoning.
August 15, 2008 --- Euro Jitters. Since
August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon cut the last links of the
US Dollar to Gold ( Happy Birthday, Worthless Piece of Paper! ),
economic weather can sure be changeable. Wasn't it just yesterday that
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac were Nationalized by the Fed because
mortgages granted to NAMs and Illegal Aliens were flopping around like
gasping mackerels in a leaky rubber dinghy? Wasn't Gold headed to
$1,ooo a few weeks ago? Wasn't Silver about to crest $20.00 during a
makeshift performance of A Midsummer
Night's Dream in
a Brooklyn schoolyard? This morning the Pound sank to $1.86 after
resting comfortably at $2.00, just 30 days ago, and the Euro has sunk
suddenly to $1.47 quicker than a heavy cruiser coming into
radius-contact with an electro-magnetically triggered harbor mine after
riding at a steady level of $1.60 for months. What gives? It's Russia,
that's what! Last week Georgia decided to flush out some annoying
Russian passport holders, with guns and bad attitudes, in the small
enclave of South Ossetia. The Bear came back in the true comic book
fashion of Sgt. Rock, smoking a cigar and chugging an AK-47, while
jumping up and down on the turret of a tank, completely wiping out
the fleeing enemy army by the turn of page 8. It's just like the old
days
that now only the janitor of the DC Headquarters of the Fed remembers.
The Politburo orders an invasion of Afghanistan, the West German Mark
drops against the rising Bulgarian Shish-Kabob and the Pound is
suddenly shaved by a Groat in its relationship to the US Greenback.
Imagine what would happen if America pulled out of Afghanistan???
Strong Dollar Policy Here We Come!!!
August 14, 2008 --- The Latest, Hot, Internet Rumor. During the last, few days a mischievous rumor has gained currency on the Internet --- namely, that the US Birth Certificate of Barack Obama cannot be found ( see what happens when you go to a foreign country and announce that you are a " Citizen of the World " )! By all accounts Barack Obama, the son of Barack Obama, Sr., a Bigamist & Kenyan National and Ann Dunham, a US National ( as well as a US American, according to Miss Doe Doe Bird of 2007 ) was born within the precincts of Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. The Obama Campaign must have a copy of Barry's Birth Certificate, but they dare not release it now because at least 30% of the country will go out & tell their friends that it is a laughable forgery, so distrusted is the Chosen One by certain segments of the population. Remember a few years back, when a Birth Certificate of Beyoncé's showed up on the Internet stating that she really was 36 years old and not 25, as she was truly, at time? Some people have never heard of PhotoShop®, that's all. No Barry is not some deep, secret agent of an African country who wishes to do the US harm. No African country is capable of such farseeing organization.
DESTINY'S CHILD : Decrepid Night Nurses, Working for the VA, Who Sort of Branched Out in Order to Rule the World?
August 12, 2008 --- NATO Takes One to the Balls. In June of 1948 the Red Army blocked Berlin's main road, which ran through their sector, effectively choking land access to the US, UK, & French sectors in the city. No only was this a blatantly hostile act, that if let pass would force the residents of West Berlin to seek coal and food from the surrounding Soviet-controlled territory of East Germany, it proved to be a colossal ideological blunder that turned out to be the one single act which midwifed NATO in 1949. Supplied by mostly huge American cargo planes and light English props ( France could spare little in the way of aircraft, being in the midst of a post-war economic depression ), the Allied sector of Berlin was finally freed from the Blockade, in May of 1949, after the Soviets realized that they had handed the West an immense political gift. The Blockade had been proof of Soviet hostility but was also the principal means by which the Allies had learned to work together against Soviet treachery. When the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, the raison d'etre for NATO fell too, but bureaucrats can't conceive of looking for new jobs or cashing in their pensions. NATO was used as the framework to bomb Serbia in 1999 and is being used nowadays as the framework to occupy Afghanistan. What would have happened if a nuclear-armed Russia had kicked Georgia in the pants after that snotty runt of an insignificant little country had been made a full-fledged member of NATO? Hydrogen Bombs over South Ossetia? George W. Bush is a Titanic embarrassment to duped front men and old graduates of Yale University everywhere. Rumors that one of our two major parties may nominate a Tailor's Dummy for President in 2012 may not be exaggerations. The 2008 crop, that is to say : two morons in search of a brain --- can surely do better than Bush has done. Right???
August 11, 2008 --- The Surge Wasn't Designed to Work. If a nation takes on the responsibilities of empire, it is supreme policy to avoid having madmen and juveniles in charge of its management. It was said of Benjamin Disraeli that if he read of news of a typhoon going up the Kowloon Peninsula ( Hong Kong ), he would immediately send a runner over to the Colonial Office with a note inquiring into the health of the cane crop in Trinidad. The best thing to do, you see, if you are serious, about this empire business, is to think both locally and globally at the same time. There is at present no Disraeli running the American Empire, just mischievous brats and raving lunatics. In 2006, the Democrats were the Party of the Pull-Out. They promised, in two years, to entirely withdraw American forces from Iraq if the voters gave them control of Congress, which, one should remember, the voters duly did. George W. Bush knew better. The last time Congress showed any evidence of a spine was during the Hoover Administration ( Congress roused itself for a brief period called " Watergate " and promptly went back to sleep ). Last year and this, the Dem. Congress has handed Bush blank check after blank check to fund the debacle in Iraq. The Surge??? --- Don't make me laugh! The making of Baghdad into an exclusively Shi'ia city and the sending of bucketful upon bucketful of bribery to the outlying Sunni provinces bespeaks failure. It is simply a means to kick the can down the road to 2009 and the next administration. But, oh, those global consequences! Last week Georgia, an America client state, decided to put a stick in the eye of the caged Bear living in South Ossetia, and the Bear came roaring back, all teeth and claws. GW had to be content to slap the back of a bikini-clad Volleyball player and sit on his geo-political hands, his dreams of NATO membership for Georgia up in smoke and right up the chimney! Disraeli would have been appalled.
