Showing posts with label Coptic Pope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coptic Pope. Show all posts

Sunday, December 15, 2013

60 Minutes presents... Christian Towelheads!

OK, there's your Coptic Pope...



IRAN BREW: Hassan Rouhani, showing Iranians a version of a gesture he learned in Glasgow.

And here's your top toweller.

And what's the difference, other than one's got the white rig and the other got the black rig?

It was a remarkably telling episode of 60 Minutes. Seems like they are trying to re-establish their bona fides after some of their recent mishaps.

The first two thirds of tonight's show was dedicated to singing the praises of the NSA. Yup, that Snowden chap was one bad dude. Hurt America something terrible. You know; that America of secret prisons and torture etc. Snowden almost wrecked it for those folks.

And those Copts, god love 'em, just because their Pope manned up to support the Army after the coup they are suddenly the victims of all sorts of religious persecution.

We gotta put a stop to that!

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Why waste billions on elections when you can just do this?

There was a number floating around today about the total cost of Tuesday's election.

Six billion dollars.

For that money, you'll either have corporate bum-boy Romney or corporate bum-boy lite Obama for President the next four years. Either way it'll be government by corporate bum-boy, for the benefit of the corporations and the 1%ers who own them.

Meanwhile, over in Egypt that country's eight million strong Coptic Christian community elected themselves a new pope today. A blindfolded kid picked a name out of a goldfish bowl.

Total cost? Well under five bucks for both the bowl and the blindfold.

I'm thinking that system would work just as well in US politics. Throw the names of the contenders in a hat, have a blindfolded kid pick the winner.

Done!

Six billions saved, which you can throw against the deficit right away.

Maybe do a reality series on how the kid gets selected. That could be a revenue generator too.

"President Picker."

By God that's got a ring to it. How about a spin-off; "President Picker's Apprentice."

I think we're onto something here folks! Wonder if I can interest Trump in putting up the seed capital...