RATIONAL SLEEPER CELLS

Sometimes I like to ponce around looking like I know what everything is all about. Nothing says that better than smoking a pipe filled with a fine Virginia tobacco by Charles Rattray. Which doesn't actually exist anymore. That is to say, Rattray's farmed out manufacture of their products to McConnell ages ago, the entire McConnell portfolio of tobaccos ended up with Kohlhase & Kopp (founded by Michael Kohlhase in 1976, Berndt Kopp joined in 1979) in Germany (1989 or thereabouts, when McConnell closed), who have it made for them in Denmark by a different company.

[Note: Charles Rattray founded his tobacco Company in 1911. Upon his death in 1964 his son Charles Rattray took over. That gentleman retired in 1980, passed away in 1984. His daughters inherited the whole shebang.
Unfortunately I haven't a clue what happened to them or further descendants.]

Happiness and expertise all around, and I look supremely knowledgeable.
Which shows that desirable results can indeed be achieved.
A modicum of effort, almost no pretence.


Our present government can't even manage that. The justifications for the war against Iran change by the hour, and are shot down by the facts so often that it's kaleidoscopic. We have no end game, no actual plans beyond the moment, and despite the fascination of watching a sewage flinging fest in real time with stained and bedraggled officials and spokes-trolls, it has sofar failed to distract the United States and the world from the Epstein situation.

Marvelously, I look more like I know what everyting is all about than ever before.
As does every other rational person on the planet.
Especially non-officials

In the last two days everything the right-wing dingbats in the back room at work said about the war has been proven off the mark, several times, in different ways, quite staggeringly. One of them even proposed parachuting the pretender to the Pahlavi throne with a CIA escort and a film crew in to the Alborz Mountains. Which I think is a splendid idea.
He'll be welcomed with open arms, it will make for great reality teevee.

Some of it will have to be bleeped, of course.
Because of the little children.


Most of the Iranian exiles in the United States should also be dropped in. Parachutes will be provided. At cost. This will solve several problems and clear the air nicely.


The fine sandblasted pipe above really does look like an expert who knows what it's all about should be smoking it on a news show. How sad it is that none of the teevee talking heads or current United States government spokes models smoke a pipe!



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