The greatest leader since Moses has done it again! Within hours of the revelation that police want Netanyahu charged with corruption, bribery, and fraud in relation to "Case 4000" (the other 3,999 corruption cases being held in abeyance for the moment), the IDF miraculously discovers a network of Hezbollah attack tunnels snaking under the northern border!
What are the odds?!
We know the drill, don't we?
Israel faces multiple existential threats.
Israel needs a seasoned strong-man at the top in these dangerous times. Not some untested youngster. Not some Russian nutter who makes Washington nervous...
No, a seasoned veteran who has triumphed over the foe again and again and again, not to mention he speaks proper American English and doesn't frighten people when he's on Fox and CNN.
Only one man has that CV... the Greatest Leader since Moses!
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Google knows me better than I do
I was doing a memory lane thing in the company of Jimmy Page and Slash and a bunch of the old stalwarts, and I needed a break from all that heavy metal virtuosity, so I asked YouTube for a nice mellow cello thing.
I got it. Something from the Brahms catalogue. When it was over, before I'd even made a decision about what's next, Google was loading a Glenn Gould piece for me.
And it was the perfect choice!
How did they know?
And what's really fucked up is that when Glenn was done, they teed up the Bach Harpsichord Concerto no. 1 in D minor without me even asking for it!
Ya, that was nice, but I'm feeling better now, and ready for a little rock and roll.
Gonna while away what's left of the evening with Sister Rosie.
'night.
I got it. Something from the Brahms catalogue. When it was over, before I'd even made a decision about what's next, Google was loading a Glenn Gould piece for me.
And it was the perfect choice!
How did they know?
And what's really fucked up is that when Glenn was done, they teed up the Bach Harpsichord Concerto no. 1 in D minor without me even asking for it!
Ya, that was nice, but I'm feeling better now, and ready for a little rock and roll.
Gonna while away what's left of the evening with Sister Rosie.
'night.
Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center
Time.
Time was, I knew Led Zeppelin was for me when my dear daddy told me he wouldn't have that music under his roof.
Dad could be a bit stiff in his ways at times. Like the time he dumped out the bar I kept in my bedroom closet. Had all the essentials in there. A bottle of bourbon, a bottle of scotch, and a bottle of top shelf Canadian rye.
Dumped it all out, apparently unaware that the liquor store would be happy enough to replenish my supply, even if I had to relocate my bar.
Which I did.
Wonder what Dad would say if he saw Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center?
But there is a larger question here, and it has nothing to do with my dear father...
When the anti-establishment rebels of yesterday are feted at the Kennedy Center, the center of the establishment universe, are they still anti-establishment?
Or is this just more evidence that I'm getting too old?
Time was, I knew Led Zeppelin was for me when my dear daddy told me he wouldn't have that music under his roof.
Dad could be a bit stiff in his ways at times. Like the time he dumped out the bar I kept in my bedroom closet. Had all the essentials in there. A bottle of bourbon, a bottle of scotch, and a bottle of top shelf Canadian rye.
Dumped it all out, apparently unaware that the liquor store would be happy enough to replenish my supply, even if I had to relocate my bar.
Which I did.
Wonder what Dad would say if he saw Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center?
But there is a larger question here, and it has nothing to do with my dear father...
When the anti-establishment rebels of yesterday are feted at the Kennedy Center, the center of the establishment universe, are they still anti-establishment?
Or is this just more evidence that I'm getting too old?
Royal Canadian Air Farce sends bomber fleet to Ukraine to repel Putin
http://theviewfromfallingdowns.blogspot.com/2014/03/canadian-air-force-sends-strategic.html
There'll always be an England, even after Brexit
The "Iron Lady" was the spearhead of the neoliberal revolution that overtook the Nations of Virtue from the 1980s on. She was Ronald Reagan's muse.
Fuck the workers. There is no God but Mammon.
Let the working classes drink themselves to death if they must; there is a brave new world in front of us. It is ours for the taking...
One of life's little ironies is that Maggie Thatcher has been rotting in the grave for some years now, while Arthur Scargill remains out and about.
Hey Scargill, how about you come back to the political stage?! You've got way more political capital than you realize!
You gotta love that Brixton Academy Pistols show.
All races, all creeds...
Now more than ever workers everywhere need to just say NO to the politicians who want to rule by turning us against one another.
Fuck the workers. There is no God but Mammon.
Let the working classes drink themselves to death if they must; there is a brave new world in front of us. It is ours for the taking...
One of life's little ironies is that Maggie Thatcher has been rotting in the grave for some years now, while Arthur Scargill remains out and about.
Hey Scargill, how about you come back to the political stage?! You've got way more political capital than you realize!
You gotta love that Brixton Academy Pistols show.
All races, all creeds...
Now more than ever workers everywhere need to just say NO to the politicians who want to rule by turning us against one another.
Dreams sometimes do come true
I can't tell you how many times I've walked in to Howell's for a piece of smoked whitefish only to be told they just sold out.
Dammit!
I've always told myself, don't worry, someday YOU will get the last piece of smoked whitefish...
Well, today was the day!
I'd been up to Lion's Head to see their Santa Claus parade, and, almost as an afterthought, I popped into Howell's on the way home. There in the glass display case were three pieces of smoked whitefish.
I took them all!
True, that was a little more fish than I had in mind, but no matter. I'm the guy who got the last smoked whitefish out of Howell's this week!
Life is not too bad after all!
Dammit!
I've always told myself, don't worry, someday YOU will get the last piece of smoked whitefish...
Well, today was the day!
I'd been up to Lion's Head to see their Santa Claus parade, and, almost as an afterthought, I popped into Howell's on the way home. There in the glass display case were three pieces of smoked whitefish.
I took them all!
True, that was a little more fish than I had in mind, but no matter. I'm the guy who got the last smoked whitefish out of Howell's this week!
Life is not too bad after all!
Putin against the world
Our corporate media had a good week of it moaning about Putin's latest aggression against the hapless Ukrainians, so anything I read in Doug Saunders me-too column in the Globe today I'd already read several times. I guess Doug is down to one weekend column due to his employer finding efficiencies. Don't sweat it, Doug, the new Amazon warehouse in Vaughn will be hiring soon!
You'll be fine.
Anyway, taking a break from sowing generic chaos and instability around the world, Putin has once again gone out of his way to pay special attention to the immediate threat on Russia's doorstep, Poroshenko's model democracy next door. That's because he's afraid that the Russian people will sooner or later realize that life is so much better there, and they too will demand a Nuland/Payette democratic transfer of power to someone more amenable to taking direction from Washington than the habitually recalcitrant Putin.
Then life will be good!
This line of reasoning, and it is certainly not original to Doug Saunders, as his contemporaries in other major media outlets have been beating this drum all week and Doug had to wait for his weekend slot, contains an inherent contradiction that the apologists for American exceptionalism tend to avoid addressing, which is this; if Putin is indeed "weak and isolated," as we are continuously led to believe, then how does he manage to sow all that global chaos and instability? And not only that, he manages to sow world-wide mayhem with a war chest not 10% of the USA military budget!
Clearly, the man is a genius!
Either that, or our mainstream pundits are full of shit.
The crux of Saunders' imaginary thesis is that Putin is at his most dangerous when cornered, as he is now. How do we know we've got Putin cornered? His approval rating is down to 60%.
Let's apply that logic to the cornered career criminals in the Nations of Virtue. Macron and Merkel are under 30%. The greatest leader since Moses is in the high 30s. Trump is in the low 40s. Our own PM Fluffy is barely over 50%.
But Putin is on the brink because he's only got a 60% approval rating?
You'll be fine.
Anyway, taking a break from sowing generic chaos and instability around the world, Putin has once again gone out of his way to pay special attention to the immediate threat on Russia's doorstep, Poroshenko's model democracy next door. That's because he's afraid that the Russian people will sooner or later realize that life is so much better there, and they too will demand a Nuland/Payette democratic transfer of power to someone more amenable to taking direction from Washington than the habitually recalcitrant Putin.
Then life will be good!
This line of reasoning, and it is certainly not original to Doug Saunders, as his contemporaries in other major media outlets have been beating this drum all week and Doug had to wait for his weekend slot, contains an inherent contradiction that the apologists for American exceptionalism tend to avoid addressing, which is this; if Putin is indeed "weak and isolated," as we are continuously led to believe, then how does he manage to sow all that global chaos and instability? And not only that, he manages to sow world-wide mayhem with a war chest not 10% of the USA military budget!
Clearly, the man is a genius!
Either that, or our mainstream pundits are full of shit.
The crux of Saunders' imaginary thesis is that Putin is at his most dangerous when cornered, as he is now. How do we know we've got Putin cornered? His approval rating is down to 60%.
Let's apply that logic to the cornered career criminals in the Nations of Virtue. Macron and Merkel are under 30%. The greatest leader since Moses is in the high 30s. Trump is in the low 40s. Our own PM Fluffy is barely over 50%.
But Putin is on the brink because he's only got a 60% approval rating?
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