Hello!
Sorry for being late!
My finger still works but I will use the right one mainly over the next few days.
I have to start with a quote
from Mark Twain. «It is easier to fool the people than to get them to
admit that they have been fooled.»
How often every day does this adage prove to be true?
Answer: in every news report on anything, everywhere.
Let’s check…
Who
votes for the Orange Shit Gibbon?, you ask. Well, just about everyone in
the US. That doesn’t make them all stupid, just unwilling to admit that
they were taken in by someone who is actually stupid.
You will remember the Gulf war when the USA «coalition» moved into Irak,
deposed Saddam and replaced him with worse and allowed the «Imperial
Guard» of Saddam to go away and form the Daesh.
Anyway,
there was one genuinely funny moment for history amongst all the
bloodshed. The minister for publicity, sorry, information, under Saddam
was Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. Meanwhile, Saddam’s brother, Ali Hassan al-Majid, was the minister of defence who dropped lethal gases on the Kurds. For this he was nicknamed «Chemical Ali».
On
the day that the Information minister was standing on a platform in the
centre of Bagdad announcing to reporters from everywhere that the
Americans had been repulsed with great success at the border, several
American army vehicles drove over the cross-road directly behind him.
When the reporters, laughing with incredulity, tried to point this out to
him, he just got more animated and continued to shout that the imperial
pigs would never enter Irak He did not look over his shoulder.
For this reason, he was known from then on as Comical Ali.
Why do I mention this?
Well, Drumpf has been busy impersonating Comical Ali.
After
his latest great success/humiliation (delete as required) negociating
with Kimical Un of North Korea, he was told by a reporter during a press
conference that the Koreans were again building launch pads for more
nuclear missiles. There were even satelite pictures. He replied that Kim would not do that. He said «I
would be very, very disappointed in Chairman Kim, and I don’t think I
will be, but we’ll see what happens.» More Comical Ali than idiot? You
decide!
In any case, who would admit that they were wrong in voting for him?
I
watched another video of him being interviewed by two reporters from
the southern states at the start of his mandate as POTUS. The two men
were of the episcopalian religious right. They read the Bible and take
it literally.
What’s your favourite book? asked one of them.
Oh,
I would have to say the Bible, of course, anounced the Shit Gibbon to
loving religious applause from the loving religious audience.
Wonderful!, the two men cooed, and what is your preferred book in the Bible?
Panic
on the Shit Gibbon’s face as he looked to simultaneously dissimulate his complete
ignorance of the book in question, try to remember or even invent a possible plausible title
and, to find some excuse for not answering.
This was already excruciatingly embarrassing, but about to get worse.
After weakly and lengthily prevaricating, they changed tack and asked for his favourite passage from the Bible.
I
was already laughing out loud at this point because if he couldn’t
think of a book of the Bible, what hope had he of guessing a line?
I prefer not to say, he eventually replied, it is too personal. And repeated it like the terrible actor that he is.
And the two credulous fools asking the questions believed him.
Finally,
when the program time was running out and you could see the relief on
the Shit Gibbon’s face that the ordeal was just about over, they suddenly added in one last question just
before the credits rolled.
You could see he was having difficulty controlling his sphinctor at this stage.
«Are
you an Old Testament man or a New Testament man?», the interviewer
asked, with a big friendly and genuine smile on his stupid face.
Silence and panic.
Cringe-meter exploding..
Finally…
Oh, I’m 50 – 50 answered the Shit Gibbon with fake gravitas.
Roll credits!
So, tell me, is Mark Twain right? Would you admit to having been fooled by the fool-in-chief?
In
a week when the only plane stories were of the Boeing 737 Max 8
disaster, you might have missed another little tale of a woman who
should only be given soft toys. Her Malaysia-bound plane had to turn
back to Saudi Arabia after a she realised she had left her baby in the
terminal. I am not making this up.
The pilot had to request a turn around, something only allowed in life threatening emergency.
The
video of him calling air traffic control is worth a look if you can
find it. However, it disappeared from the source site some days ago.
“May
God be with us. Can we come back?” says the pilot. You could sense the
state of astonishment of the air traffic controller, wondering if this
was real or a joke. You can just about hear him conferring with
others around him about what to do. He says again, loudly,
“This flight
is requesting to come back. A passenger
forgot her baby in the waiting area, the poor thing.”
The flight turned back.
Felix, count your kids when you are next taking the plane!
That woman didn’t count. One…. One….. One…. Count them… One. How difficult is that?
France now and expansion…
The O’Tacos
phenomenon. This chain of shite «food», or just shite, is a French
thing. These fast food dumps are opening everywhere selling vomit in a
dough covering. The smell from the street causes me to cross the road
to avoid it.
Apparently the O’Tacos chain are expanding
fast and a lot. While journalists marvel at this great success, I wonder
at their job titles. I usually expect journalists to investigate.
So
far, all they have researched is that these shite fast foods hovels
started in Grenoble after «three school friends got together with an
idea».
This is where I started to get a bad feeling.
The
tacos joints started among the north African community as a front for
laundering drugs money. The cheapest of shite sold cheaply. There is no
way that they could have the financial turnover that they claim. They
don’t have 10000 customers par day.
Now, with the strong
rise in drug selling all over Europe (this is taking on unheard of
proportions according to a police friend of mine here) there is a need
for more and more money laundering outlets.
The kebab and taco shops.
A simple glance will tell you first. Then the vile smell will inform you of the «quality» of what is being sold.
Teenagers buy this shite because it is cheap and filling.
But then, so is cement.
And the drugs keep being sold.
Journalists?
My arse!
At best, inept… at worst, complicit.
Another example of fools who prefer to believe the nonsense rather than admit they got it wrong.
Still in France…
You think despairingly that Spain is far too interested in football?
A football-mad couple in south-west France have been barred from naming their son “Griezmann Mbappe”.
An
old French student of mine from my Guildford days married a family
judge, He sent this to me some weeks ago but I missed the email until
last week. They live and work in Brive-la-Gaillarde, a town so devoid
of normal life that you could make science fiction films there about a
hidden alien takeover of humanity by just filming in the street on any
given day. His wife just got famous for legally stripping the baby boy
of his two first names, nearly five months after his birth. The local
authorities referred the parents to prosecutors as they deemed their
choices of name were damaging for the child. Yes, it took that long.
His parents have now decided to call him Dany Noe instead.
Checking
this on-line on the official government site threw up some gems. The
most striking name of all to have been deemed illegal was “Jihad”.
I mean, who the fuck?
Political correctness gone mad again in the US.
Democratic
presidential contender Beto O’Rourke acknowledged making mistakes as a
teenager. But then, who hasn’t made mistakes in their teenage years?
During
a political podcast in Iowa (which makes Almendralejos seem positively
cosmopolitan) he addressed criticism of his campaign-trail joke that his
wife, Amy, has raised their three kids “sometimes with my help”.Okay, fun good humour on the campaign trail.Then all of a sudden he was fiercely criticised as being insensitive to the challenges faced by single parents raising children.Outrage! Outrage!! I want, nay, demand to be outraged.
And he apologised?
Meanwhile…
Three Michael Jackson fan groups are suing his alleged victims in France
for “sullying his memory” by taking part in the «Leaving Neverland»
documentary.
Okay, he was a chronic paedophile but you shouldn’t say bad things about him, right?
The
Michael Jackson Community – which claims to be the “official fan club
forum” – and the MJ Street and On The Line groups accuse the Robson Wade
and
James Safechuck (the two sexually abused by Jackson when children) of
“lynching” Jackson.
Their pay off money must have run out then.
Let’s move south…
Hundreds
of thousands of demonstrators have protested across Algeria for a
fourth consecutive Friday, as the country’s political elite began
distancing themselves from the «ailing 82-year-old president, Abdelaziz
Bouteflika».
He has decided to not run for the presidency, they announced as a result.
The thing is that he is, medically, a vegetable.
I
mean, he has no operating physical functions beyond the machine that
keeps him vaguely alive. Just like several USSR leaders in the past and
Michael Schumacher now.
The coterie of money men running the
country using him as a front, are now busy looking for a new popular and
highly complicit candidate.
Good luck with that in Algeria, boys!
Headline of the week from the Guardian yet again…
«I met my girlfriend’s parents – and realised I once slept with her father»
with the sub headline:
«She is everything to me and I was going to propose – but now he has told me to end it with her»
I first thought that it referred to a lesbian affair but I was wrong. It was a man talking. Who is this bloke?
In the US they are asking about weak
academic students with money who can get into top colleges easier than
poor students who are excellent academically.
The
British are asking, without a hint of self-awareness or irony if there
are any mediocre students getting into Oxford or Cambridge.
Given
that quite a significant number of the most idiotic ministers and
ex-ministers (all supporting Brexit, not at all surprisingly) in the
present UK government are graduates of both of these universities, the
question is answered.
And I, along with many others, ask: how did these eejits ever get through a university cursus?
Fooled by these people? I wouldn’t admit it either.
As
you no doubt know, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own sun,
at
around four light years away. It’s believed that Proxima Centauri has at
least one planet in its orbit that may have conditions close to those
of Earth. In four years time, the lucky
inhabitants of that planet will be picking up tv and radio signals from
the news/parliament channels of Brexit Britain, 2019. They are in for an
unparalleled comedy treat when they start to watch the ridiculous
carry-on over Brexit in the absurd UK House of Commons.
So, at that point, not only will Britain be an international laughing-stock, it’ll be an intergalactic
one, too.
My seriously too great intake of Guinness last night prevents me from further concentration.Blessings and ardour be heaped upon you allf