Archives 01-11 November 2004 Thursday, 11 November 2004
Jesusland feeds Dubya's apocalyptic lust for World War III
 There is a lot of rage out there over Jesus W. Bush's second coup. There is also a lot of despair. I've got a feeling the despair is going to win out. But maybe I'm projecting.
It seems like only yesterday when we were living in the "modern world". The world that, while upholding the modern corporate/Christian values of conformity and intolerance of minorities, at least allowed the rest of us to shop at the Safeway without being blown to smithereens by a suicide bomber.
But that ended with the closing of the 20th century. From the end of the year 2000, Dubya's first coup, the world has been gradually thrust back to medieval times for an update of the crusades. More... |
Friday, 5 November 2004
Taking heart
Just as it was necessary for John Howard to command both houses once he had won the election, Anatole Kaletsky suggests that Bush's victory in the US will allow him and his party to take their excesses to a logical conclusion without interference. Both Howard and Bush and their respective parties will now have no one to blame for the damage they inflict. The difference is that while Howard will only bring Australia to ruin, Bush could severely damage the entire world. Still, if we all survive the next four years, there is a good chance the Republicans and the Australian Illiberals could go the way of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party. Into the disgraceful wilderness they deserve. --HHFor those of us who are disappointed, and even horrified, by George W. Bush's return to power, there is one major consolation. The previously unmentionable hope for the supporters of liberal politics in the US is that John Kerry has done the Democratic Party a favour of immense and historic proportions by losing to Bush.
Iraq is the mess that Bush created, and it is surely fitting he should be the one forced to clean it up. The same is true of the ballooning budget deficit, escalating oil prices and the growing threat of a crisis in the US balance of payments leading to an international run on the dollar.
If Bush suffered a serious military setback, either in Iraq or in a broader confrontation involving Iran, Israel and other Middle East countries -- not to mention North Korea or Taiwan -- the Republicans would lose their reputation as the "party of national security", just as the British Tories lost their reputation as the party of economic competence in 1992.
On the economic front, the Republicans risk disgrace if they raise taxes, or if, as is much more likely, the US suffers a financial and inflationary crisis because of its failure to bring the federal budget under control.
The electorate's decision to let Bush clear up his own mess does not just threaten the incumbent with poetic justice -- more importantly, it offers a reprieve from a potential death sentence for the Democrats.
If a newly elected President Kerry were to suffer a terrorist attack or a humiliation in Iraq or some kind of fiscal crisis, the political backlash against the Democrats would be far worse than the damage faced by Bush in similar circumstances.
In sum, the next four years could be a good time for the Democrats to let right-wing Republicans take their policies to their logical conclusion -- and beyond. Anatole Kaletsky: Blessing in disguise for Democrats |
Stunned world watches brainwashed Umeruhcans Heil Bush
Into the valley of the shadow of a mass death wish went the nation of Manchurian Candidates. Well and truly isolated now, they have remade themselves in the image of the monocle-eyed cretin whose low I.Q. matches theirs. Umeruhca is now the official world pariah. More... |
Wednesday, 3 November 2004
The Aliens Are Coming
The recent discovery on Flores Island in Indonesia of an entirely new species of human, the one metre high Homo floresiensis, has generated debate that other human species may actually still be living in some of that nation's more remote islands.
Up to now, we, the infamous Homo sapiens, have been thought to be the only species extant for some 30,000 years. Ever since, it is assumed, the Neanderthals died out.
Evidence shows that Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals co-existed for at least 10,000 years before the latter's disappearance.
But did they disappear? And if not, are we still co-existing with them?
Science tells us they're well and truly gone, but is there a heretofore unidentified gene or a chromosome that could determine Homo sapiens as not one unified species, but in fact two? Having said bye-bye to the Neanderthals, have we since been co-existing with another human species?
How else to explain why one human would support John Howard or George W. Bush and another be appalled at such a choice! More... |
Umeruhca: Mother Of All Terrorist States
A reader reminded me of this commentary, written last March. Besides revealing my true origins, it covers the subject better than anything I've written since. --HHAl Qaeda is but a subset to the threat posed by the Umeruhca of George W. Bush. It is he and his gun-toting nation of hive-minded psychopaths who have brought to fruition the hatred nurtured for decades by an imperialist foreign policy. That hatred is now at the doorstep of everyone on earth. More... |
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