Looks like everybody is blaming everybody for the rape of Ukraine these days.
At the New York Post it's the Russians who are the rapists.
Once you deploy the "rape" metaphor in your political analyses, you leave yourself wide open (no pun intended) to the infinite proliferation of that metaphor and its derivatives...
Yes, maybe US or Russia is fucking Ukraine, but it is not "rape," it is consensual relationship. They consent to be raped and we consent to donate ten billions, fifteen or twenty billions, depending on where you read the story... and once again we are up against the competing narratives.
Seems that the only point of agreement is that Ukraine is getting fucked.
Monday, February 2, 2015
From bad to worse for Noluck Jonathan
With less than two weeks to go before the general election, President Goodluck Jonathan's election rallies are being stalked by exploding suicide bombers.
This phenomenon can only assist Mr. "Law and Order" Buhari, not only in the north but in the rest of the country as well.
What many Nigerians readily acknowledge but few Western media outlets will report, is that Nigeria has long been a "failed state" by any conventional definitions of the words "failed" and "state."
Instead, what we in the West get is the happy-time story of the Nigerian economy mysteriously being elevated to the biggest and most robust in all of Africa! You have to wonder if we're just getting that message due to the efficacies of Goodluck's hundred thousand dollar a month retainer at Levick, one of the most influential PR concerns in Washington.
The reason everybody knows it and our media fails to report it is because Goodluck is down with our "War on Terror."
Buhari, on the other hand, is a Muslim.
This phenomenon can only assist Mr. "Law and Order" Buhari, not only in the north but in the rest of the country as well.
What many Nigerians readily acknowledge but few Western media outlets will report, is that Nigeria has long been a "failed state" by any conventional definitions of the words "failed" and "state."
Instead, what we in the West get is the happy-time story of the Nigerian economy mysteriously being elevated to the biggest and most robust in all of Africa! You have to wonder if we're just getting that message due to the efficacies of Goodluck's hundred thousand dollar a month retainer at Levick, one of the most influential PR concerns in Washington.
The reason everybody knows it and our media fails to report it is because Goodluck is down with our "War on Terror."
Buhari, on the other hand, is a Muslim.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Globe and Mail reports Fahmy to be released imminently
That's nothing; we reported that Fahmy's release was imminent two weeks ago.
Five million dollars goes a long way in Egypt!
Five million dollars goes a long way in Egypt!
Jesus guides New England to Super Bowl
Jesus hasn't been this busy since he guided that Wallenda dude over the Niagara Falls!
Tonight it's Malcolm Butler and Jesus. Obviously, only supernatural forces could account for this finish.
When you're talking about the greatest spectacle on the American cultural calendar, it would be blasphemous if you forgot to bring Jesus into the mix...
Well, thank God that's over!...
Back to those 90 million working-age Americans mysteriously absent from the work-force...
The multi-trillion dollar national debt...
The multiple wars America is pursuing all over the Islamic world...
Hey, at least we got three glorious hours without any hard questions...
Tonight it's Malcolm Butler and Jesus. Obviously, only supernatural forces could account for this finish.
When you're talking about the greatest spectacle on the American cultural calendar, it would be blasphemous if you forgot to bring Jesus into the mix...
Well, thank God that's over!...
Back to those 90 million working-age Americans mysteriously absent from the work-force...
The multi-trillion dollar national debt...
The multiple wars America is pursuing all over the Islamic world...
Hey, at least we got three glorious hours without any hard questions...
Where's an American Sniper when you need one?
I'm watching Katy Perry flying around the Super Bowl half-time show on a spark-shittin' hang-glider, and all I can think is, where the hell is a sniper when you need one?
You gotta admit, though, that nobody does schlock like America does schlock!
Schlock, spectacle... spectacular schlock!
Can't touch this, Putin!
Don't even bother tryin'...
You gotta admit, though, that nobody does schlock like America does schlock!
Schlock, spectacle... spectacular schlock!
Can't touch this, Putin!
Don't even bother tryin'...
Hillbilly blogger gets serious cred upgrade
They don't make stuff like they used to. When we bought our Kenmore washer-dryer combo not five years ago or so, we figured it would be the last time that appliance purchase would have to be made. I mean really, a washer or dryer is good for twenty years easy, ain't it? By then I'll be sitting in a puddle of drool in the corner of the nursing home, waiting for somebody to change my diaper.
So last week the washer unit of our stacking combo goes for a shit. Hardly five years old. What the hell is that all about?
Damned right they don't make shit like they used to... now they just make shit!
The Farm Manager got right cranky about this turn of events. She was back at Sears with a bad case of appliance rage. I felt sorry for the sales folks... they were ducking for cover. Hey, let's not blame them. It wasn't some "sales associate" at your local department store that invented planned obsolescence.
But if you try to keep a positive outlook, you can find a silver lining even in a unmitigated piss-off such as this. As Junior and I were wrestling the defunct washing machine onto the front porch, I suddenly realized something...
I have now got, right as of today, on the front porch here at Falling Downs, a broke-down washing machine!
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to make it into the hillbilly elite!
So last week the washer unit of our stacking combo goes for a shit. Hardly five years old. What the hell is that all about?
Damned right they don't make shit like they used to... now they just make shit!
The Farm Manager got right cranky about this turn of events. She was back at Sears with a bad case of appliance rage. I felt sorry for the sales folks... they were ducking for cover. Hey, let's not blame them. It wasn't some "sales associate" at your local department store that invented planned obsolescence.
But if you try to keep a positive outlook, you can find a silver lining even in a unmitigated piss-off such as this. As Junior and I were wrestling the defunct washing machine onto the front porch, I suddenly realized something...
I have now got, right as of today, on the front porch here at Falling Downs, a broke-down washing machine!
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to make it into the hillbilly elite!
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