With the Iraq war going about as well as a French defensive maneuver, there were some wiseasses who remarked that it would be better just to put deposed dictator Saddam Hussein back into power. That ain't gonna happen, but here is the next best thing, I guess. It will be interesting to see how this one blows up in Turbo's face.
And while that bit of less than satisfying news is out, here is an indication that John "The Escalator" McCain is going to risk losing Afghanistan, where the actual 9/11 terrorists hid out, so that he can send 30,000 more troops to get bogged down in Operation Qwagmire. Osama Bin Laden must think that McCain is Bush's comedy writer or something because I'm sure he had a good chuckle over that one.
Not that funny, though, is that Bush, in what should probably be called Operation Save My Legacy, may decide to join McCain in suggesting more troops be dropped into Iraq. Talk about sociopathically selfish.
However, the rats are really deserting him as his poll numbers make mole-like and dig deeper holes.
The irony for me is that incoming Speaker of the House Nancy, "I need a visit from the clue patrol at committee nomination time" Pelosi is going to create a new intelligence oversight committee. Hmmm....Bush? Intelligence? Talk about no there there. Is it grounds for impeachment if they find no intelligence at Camp Clusterfuck? Or is it just for seeing that the non-existent intelligence is deployed where it can least hurt the republic?
Surely another sign of deficient intelligence is that we are now going to help motherfucking commie China with its nuclear reactor program. Chris Cox has his fingerprints on this somewhere. He has been the biggest Chinese collaborator since we tried to prop up the heinous Chang "Peanut" Kai-shek after WWII. The last super computer sale to that country was under Cox' auspices.
In Japan, being in the Jieitai, or Self Defence Force, is imbued with the coolness level that is associated in the U.S. with losers who spend their time playing Dungeons and Dragons. But now that the education system is about to get more outwardly patriotic, it will be interesting to see if that changes. It is hard to believe, though, that Japan will create a military establishment large enough to project any power because it is better economically to allow the U.S. to do it for them. That is not to mention that both China and the Koreas will shit their collective pants and thereby heighten diplomatic tensions in Asia.
Call the Tim Johnson situation "a stroke of ghoulishness."
Show of hands time: did any of you care about how long it took the state of Florida to dispatch a death row inmate this past week? Me neither.
And may Castro be in agony as he makes his way to that eternal farm.
Not scheduled for a trip to the boneyard but maybe just to get boned is Judith Regan, jet setting slut (well, maybe not, but one gets that impression from her appearances on Howard Stern's show) and O.J. Simpson ("murderers are the new black and he's even black," she must have thought) stenographer. She was told to take a hike by Rupert Murdoch, the Chinese Polituburo piss boy, and his Harper Collins outfit for, get this, embarrassing the company that pinched off the rightwing propaganda mill Faux Nooz. Maybe the Chinese didn't like her.
Your hydrochloric herald has about as much use for a record executive as he would a collection of Wayne Newton's best bowel movements, but an exception to that is Atlantic Records honcho Ahmet Ertegun, who passed away at 83 after, now check this out, falling off the stage at a Rolling Stones show. Yes, it was only rock and roll but he liked it.
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 16, 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Sunday Morning Bringdown
You may have noted that I blasted the recent U.S.-Indian nuclear deal because of the contradictory diplomatic signals it sends to our ally on the war on terrorism, Pakistan (where Osama is probably hiding out at the moment Howard Hughes-like). Secretary of State Tokenette Rice (or "Clueless Condi"), gushed about the pact as only she can. You may observe that the terms of the agreement weren't disclosed in this article. However, this piece asserts that it has been criticized as a threat to non-proliferation efforts. No shit Sherlock!
While India has been a democracy, it has often been on the brink of political chaos and there is a good deal of infighting between ethnic and religious groups. That isn't exactly a great security environment in which to help them with their nuke program.
A hardy "fuck you!" to Henry Hyde, who was the main culprit in making this come to pass and to the idiot Democrats who went along with it.
As if that werent' bad enough, the fuckin' morons in Louisiana voted William Jefferson back into office in a runoff election. What the bejesus does it take there to get voters attention? A hundred grand in the icebox ain't bizarre enough for y'all?
There was some grousing in the comments section of Americablog that the Republicans might have mobilized to return Jefferson to Washington in order to embarrass the incoming Democrat majority. I wouldn't put it past those motherfuckers (look at Lieberman's being permitted to darken the Senate for another term as an example), but it is also indicative of the crisis of morality in America's black communities. Maxine Waters, Marion Barry, and now Jefferson. I hope you enjoy all the negative attention black caucus!
I also want to know what the fuck the Clinton Administration was thinking when they bugged Princess Diana. Unless her main squeeze, the weedy Dodi Fayed, was associated with terrorism, this isn't exactly the greatest diplomatic thing a nation can do to an ally.
Yet, the reaction to this was curiously muted in the London Times, once one of the finest newspapers in the world but which has since become another in a line of Rupert Murdoch fishwraps. This report doesn't mention the U.S. spying at all and a columnist tells Britain to "get over it" in relation to Diana's death.
One wonders if Murdoch was playing up to PM Tony Blair by not having the country's newspaper of record make a stink about the bugging. It becomes weirder when you consider that the news of the bugging was on the NY Post's site, another Murdoch echo chamber, and London Times rival the Observer wrote about it.
However, the British-based Reuters News Service also skipped mentioning the bugging. In fact, it only offered a cursory bit about the drunken state of her driver and in a not very prominent way. The BBC, the government tv outlet, also omitted anything about the wiretapping. Make of that what you will.
As a side note, British pols are being urged to drop the phrase, "war on terror" because it makes people in the Muslim world angry. Boo fucking hoo. What pc bullshit that is.
Not every pc, though, is that Neil Bush and the Carlyle Group are very friendly with a sheik who is being accused by the U.S. of being a trader in child slaves. Not that anyone should be suprised.
On another "with friends like these" tip, is this. Try not to laugh too loudly.
On the other hand, the Saudis are now saying that the Middle East is about to explode into regional warfare at least partially thanks to Bush's incompetent handling Iraq. Call him The Firestarter. The next time you dumbasses decide to vote for one of your own take a look at the situation in the Middle East and how Boy George screwed it up even more than it already was. If you still pull the lever for a retard please blow your brains out afterward and get yourself out of the gene pool, okay? This is a guy who confuses the words "vision" and "delusion."
Remember back in Vietnam when the NLF (the bad guys) were basically able to amble into Saigon and buy weapons off of street corners and mosey back into the battlefield with them? Deja vu!
Meanwhile, Bush's economic magic is absolutely delighting travelers who take foreign vacations. Well, maybe not.
Adding to that is the Cambodianization of Central Africa.
I have stopped buying CD's. It has been three years now since my last purchase. Aside from the prices just being too damned high, the fact that they are now often loaded with code that prevents them from being played on my laptop or pc really hocked me off. This was before the Rootkit controversy, which further strengthened my resolve to forego buying recorded music. I now just listen to Live 365, which is an internet radio site with thousands of individual stations, tons of which are better than anything that terrestrial radio can offer, or utilize my already extant collection. But now it appears the record industry might finally be getting a clue regarding this matter. It's about fucking time.
Now for the idiotic lawsuit of the day award. How ghoulish is THAT? Their claim is not only specious, it is insulting to those who died. Now they are attempting to capitalize on the incident. What rat bastards.
If you're a sexual predator, Washington state's health care system is your paradise, as this pathetic reports informs us.
Hey, you think the Japanese are feeling pretty good about that report having to do with condoms produced to international size standards being too big for Indian pricks? The Japanese have a huge inferiority complex when it comes to the U.S., one of them centering on penis size. This, in fact, was parodied in an episode of South Park. So while India has some pretty damned fabulous food, it isn't a place you want to go if you're a woman or a gay male seeking a good bit of stuffing.
But you Americans celebrating your relative weenie wealth need to know this, too: many Japanese women complain that the members of U.S. males are often too funyafunya (soft and floppy) to be enjoyed internally, a contrast to their native land's gents, who may stick out a little less but do so with more firmness.
While India has been a democracy, it has often been on the brink of political chaos and there is a good deal of infighting between ethnic and religious groups. That isn't exactly a great security environment in which to help them with their nuke program.
A hardy "fuck you!" to Henry Hyde, who was the main culprit in making this come to pass and to the idiot Democrats who went along with it.
As if that werent' bad enough, the fuckin' morons in Louisiana voted William Jefferson back into office in a runoff election. What the bejesus does it take there to get voters attention? A hundred grand in the icebox ain't bizarre enough for y'all?
There was some grousing in the comments section of Americablog that the Republicans might have mobilized to return Jefferson to Washington in order to embarrass the incoming Democrat majority. I wouldn't put it past those motherfuckers (look at Lieberman's being permitted to darken the Senate for another term as an example), but it is also indicative of the crisis of morality in America's black communities. Maxine Waters, Marion Barry, and now Jefferson. I hope you enjoy all the negative attention black caucus!
I also want to know what the fuck the Clinton Administration was thinking when they bugged Princess Diana. Unless her main squeeze, the weedy Dodi Fayed, was associated with terrorism, this isn't exactly the greatest diplomatic thing a nation can do to an ally.
Yet, the reaction to this was curiously muted in the London Times, once one of the finest newspapers in the world but which has since become another in a line of Rupert Murdoch fishwraps. This report doesn't mention the U.S. spying at all and a columnist tells Britain to "get over it" in relation to Diana's death.
One wonders if Murdoch was playing up to PM Tony Blair by not having the country's newspaper of record make a stink about the bugging. It becomes weirder when you consider that the news of the bugging was on the NY Post's site, another Murdoch echo chamber, and London Times rival the Observer wrote about it.
However, the British-based Reuters News Service also skipped mentioning the bugging. In fact, it only offered a cursory bit about the drunken state of her driver and in a not very prominent way. The BBC, the government tv outlet, also omitted anything about the wiretapping. Make of that what you will.
As a side note, British pols are being urged to drop the phrase, "war on terror" because it makes people in the Muslim world angry. Boo fucking hoo. What pc bullshit that is.
Not every pc, though, is that Neil Bush and the Carlyle Group are very friendly with a sheik who is being accused by the U.S. of being a trader in child slaves. Not that anyone should be suprised.
On another "with friends like these" tip, is this. Try not to laugh too loudly.
On the other hand, the Saudis are now saying that the Middle East is about to explode into regional warfare at least partially thanks to Bush's incompetent handling Iraq. Call him The Firestarter. The next time you dumbasses decide to vote for one of your own take a look at the situation in the Middle East and how Boy George screwed it up even more than it already was. If you still pull the lever for a retard please blow your brains out afterward and get yourself out of the gene pool, okay? This is a guy who confuses the words "vision" and "delusion."
Remember back in Vietnam when the NLF (the bad guys) were basically able to amble into Saigon and buy weapons off of street corners and mosey back into the battlefield with them? Deja vu!
Meanwhile, Bush's economic magic is absolutely delighting travelers who take foreign vacations. Well, maybe not.
Adding to that is the Cambodianization of Central Africa.
I have stopped buying CD's. It has been three years now since my last purchase. Aside from the prices just being too damned high, the fact that they are now often loaded with code that prevents them from being played on my laptop or pc really hocked me off. This was before the Rootkit controversy, which further strengthened my resolve to forego buying recorded music. I now just listen to Live 365, which is an internet radio site with thousands of individual stations, tons of which are better than anything that terrestrial radio can offer, or utilize my already extant collection. But now it appears the record industry might finally be getting a clue regarding this matter. It's about fucking time.
Now for the idiotic lawsuit of the day award. How ghoulish is THAT? Their claim is not only specious, it is insulting to those who died. Now they are attempting to capitalize on the incident. What rat bastards.
If you're a sexual predator, Washington state's health care system is your paradise, as this pathetic reports informs us.
Hey, you think the Japanese are feeling pretty good about that report having to do with condoms produced to international size standards being too big for Indian pricks? The Japanese have a huge inferiority complex when it comes to the U.S., one of them centering on penis size. This, in fact, was parodied in an episode of South Park. So while India has some pretty damned fabulous food, it isn't a place you want to go if you're a woman or a gay male seeking a good bit of stuffing.
But you Americans celebrating your relative weenie wealth need to know this, too: many Japanese women complain that the members of U.S. males are often too funyafunya (soft and floppy) to be enjoyed internally, a contrast to their native land's gents, who may stick out a little less but do so with more firmness.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Random Thoughts
Hedge fund head's political connections insulating him from a subpoena in another case of Bush Administration corruption.
Amid rising deficits, an Iraq civil war, global warming, financially struggling schools and unresolved immigration issues, the Turbo will divert attention and monster amounts of money by taking us to the Moon. Look, I have always been a proponent of space exploration, but this is the wrong thing to do at this time.
To add to the fun, out of date computing technology is hampering the space shuttle Discovery.
And if that wasn't enough nonsense for you, the Pentagon is looking the other way when it comes to drug trafficking in Afghanistan.
And how do you like the idea of Rick Santorum as our next U.S. Ambassador? Nooooooooooooooooo!
How about the Bush Administration peering into your email inbox?
Well, here we go again. The bakamono (idiots) that be at JASRAC, the body that oversees music publishing in Japan, has sent another complaint to You Tube about copyrighted material fans are posting on that venerable website even though it provides a forum for wide exposure of JPop, JRock, etc, that the record companies in the Land of the Rising Sun wouldn't ordinarily have access to. They also want a message posted in Japanese that the fans, who are only trying to show off what they think is cool to interested parties, may be prosecuted for doing this. Yeah, that will win you favor among the young. Hey assholes, you fucks have no credibility with teens and young adults at all. They are much more willing to hear what their peers think about something than the bullshit asserted by your advertising departments. Just shut the fuck up and let fans do your work for you. I mean, as soon as you are hired by a major company do they fit you with blinders right at the outset? It appears so.
On a little more visionary note, you have this in Britain.
In a less sanitary development, Taco Bell's "run for the border" has become "head for the bathroom."
Others, though, head for the drug store to get high on cough medicine. Ugh! The first I heard that you could get a buzz off of cold remedies was more than 20 years ago, when a young coworker was doing it. But c'mon, cough medicine? Do they realize how lame and dorky THAT looks? Give me a break.
Also lame as hell is Vicente Padilla being given more than $11 million a year after not doing all that much during his career while Ted Lilly, who got into a fist fight with his skipper last season with Toronto when he was pulled after getting drilled by the opposition, is lining up a four year, $10 million per contract. What the fuck is THAT? Geez, mommas late your boys grow up to be journeyman pitchers.
On another athletics note, after getting beat by UCLA and having their national title hopes dashed last weekend, USC got creamed at College Bowl and then went to UCLA to enhance its rather suspect academic quality.
Financial and racial follies at the liberal L.A. City Council. Bernard Parks, the incompetent former police chief, is now a councilman? God help them all.
But then again, the California's Gropenfuhrer is going to do everything for his party that Bush did for Iraq, rip it asunder and create internecine warfare.
Those of you tired of airport screening lines might want to look at this.....
As the line of abusive Catholic priests lengthens.
And in L.A., Archbishop Roger "Phony" Mahoney is waxing Dick Cheney with regard to settlement of abuse claims.
California Democratic Assemblyman Merv "the scurv" Dymally has always been a little shady and, well, there he goes again.
Amid rising deficits, an Iraq civil war, global warming, financially struggling schools and unresolved immigration issues, the Turbo will divert attention and monster amounts of money by taking us to the Moon. Look, I have always been a proponent of space exploration, but this is the wrong thing to do at this time.
To add to the fun, out of date computing technology is hampering the space shuttle Discovery.
And if that wasn't enough nonsense for you, the Pentagon is looking the other way when it comes to drug trafficking in Afghanistan.
And how do you like the idea of Rick Santorum as our next U.S. Ambassador? Nooooooooooooooooo!
How about the Bush Administration peering into your email inbox?
Well, here we go again. The bakamono (idiots) that be at JASRAC, the body that oversees music publishing in Japan, has sent another complaint to You Tube about copyrighted material fans are posting on that venerable website even though it provides a forum for wide exposure of JPop, JRock, etc, that the record companies in the Land of the Rising Sun wouldn't ordinarily have access to. They also want a message posted in Japanese that the fans, who are only trying to show off what they think is cool to interested parties, may be prosecuted for doing this. Yeah, that will win you favor among the young. Hey assholes, you fucks have no credibility with teens and young adults at all. They are much more willing to hear what their peers think about something than the bullshit asserted by your advertising departments. Just shut the fuck up and let fans do your work for you. I mean, as soon as you are hired by a major company do they fit you with blinders right at the outset? It appears so.
On a little more visionary note, you have this in Britain.
In a less sanitary development, Taco Bell's "run for the border" has become "head for the bathroom."
Others, though, head for the drug store to get high on cough medicine. Ugh! The first I heard that you could get a buzz off of cold remedies was more than 20 years ago, when a young coworker was doing it. But c'mon, cough medicine? Do they realize how lame and dorky THAT looks? Give me a break.
Also lame as hell is Vicente Padilla being given more than $11 million a year after not doing all that much during his career while Ted Lilly, who got into a fist fight with his skipper last season with Toronto when he was pulled after getting drilled by the opposition, is lining up a four year, $10 million per contract. What the fuck is THAT? Geez, mommas late your boys grow up to be journeyman pitchers.
On another athletics note, after getting beat by UCLA and having their national title hopes dashed last weekend, USC got creamed at College Bowl and then went to UCLA to enhance its rather suspect academic quality.
Financial and racial follies at the liberal L.A. City Council. Bernard Parks, the incompetent former police chief, is now a councilman? God help them all.
But then again, the California's Gropenfuhrer is going to do everything for his party that Bush did for Iraq, rip it asunder and create internecine warfare.
Those of you tired of airport screening lines might want to look at this.....
As the line of abusive Catholic priests lengthens.
And in L.A., Archbishop Roger "Phony" Mahoney is waxing Dick Cheney with regard to settlement of abuse claims.
California Democratic Assemblyman Merv "the scurv" Dymally has always been a little shady and, well, there he goes again.
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