The following e-mail selections are opportunistic attempts by known rotten eggs to take over the OWS movement in the Bay Area.
If they succeed the original goals of the protests will have become irrelevant.
Decent people should resist this, as should their elected representatives.
What Barbara Lee does is her own affair, and quite beside the point.
ITEM NO. 1 - INTERNATIONAL ANSWER
QUOTE: ANSWER Stands in Full Solidarity with Occupy Oakland. Police have stepped up their attacks to crush the Occupy actions across the country. Police forces in a number of cities have conducted mass sweeps and arrests of peaceful protesters. From the mass false arrest of more than 700 on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1 to mass arrests in Chicago, Atlanta, Oakland, Denver, Nashville and beyond, the police forces have made clear their role as the servants of the 1 percent.
We must all stand together. Let's continue to organize, occupy and protest in the coming days and weeks. This is a global grassroots movement for justice and change. We won't be pushed back by police violence.
There will be several actions throughout the day on Wed. Nov. 2nd in solidarity with Occupy Oakland. We ask that our supporters join us for this important Day of Action.
Oscar Grant Plaza (formally Frank Ogawa Plaza) 9am and 12noon Rally, 5pm March 14th and Broadway 12th St. BART Station. End quote
ITEM NO. 2 - BAY AREA WOMEN IN BLACK
QUOTE: BAWiB supports the #Occupy Oakland Movement and the General Strike!
Please join our silent vigil at 5pm on 14th & Broadway on Wed., Nov. 2, at 5 pm. We will stand until the march to the Port of Oakland begins, and those who choose to march to shut down the port may do so. Transport for seniors and disabled people to the port has been planned by cuido. Please call 510 686-3139 for further information on transportation.
At last, Occupation We Can Believe In! Occupy Oakland, not Palestine!
Salaam/Shalom,
BAWiB Steering Committee.
End quote
ITEM NO. 3 - JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE
QUOTE: The Oakland-based staff of Jewish Voice for Peace and local JVP members are honoring the Oakland General Strike tomorrow, November 2.
Want to join us? Meet us tomorrow at the fountain on 16th and San Pablo Avenue at the Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza at 9 am, 12 noon, and 5 pm. We will also join progressive Jewish and interfaith contingents in the plaza at 10 am.
We will be rallying in support of Occupying Oakland, not Palestine, and plan to be part of the vibrant and visible community-wide Jews and allies contingent.
From Cairo, to Ramallah, to Tel Aviv, to Oakland: Jewish Voice for Peace supports the global movement for justice.
The similarities between Oakland and Palestine cannot be ignored.
Our aspirations overlap; our struggles converge. Our oppressors, whether greedy corporations or military occupations, are united in profiting from wars, pillage, environmental destruction, repression and impoverishment. We must unite in our common quest for freedoms, equal rights, social and economic justice, environmental sanity, and world peace. We can no longer afford to be splintered and divided; we can no longer ignore our obligations to join hands in the struggle against wars and corporate exploitation and for a human-friendly world community not a profit-maximizing jungle. (Palestinian BDS National Committeee) The Oakland Police Department and the Israeli army have deployed the same weapons-from the same American company-against unarmed demonstrators. In both places, an Oaklander was injured when a tear gas canister hit his head, causing a skull fracture: Tristan Anderson in: Tristan Anderson in Nil'in in 2009 and Scott Olsen in Oakland last week.
Join us tomorrow. Occupy Oakland, not Palestine!
End quote
ITEM NO. 4 - ANNE BALTZER
QUOTE: US Campaign National Organizer Anna Baltzer with #Occupy protesters Last Tuesday night at Oakland City Hall, barricades and riot police had replaced the hundreds of committed activists who had inhabited Oscar Grant Plaza since Occupy Oakland began. Helicopters swarmed above. The atmosphere was tense and thick with teargas. Earlier that day, Scott Olsen, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, had been shot in the head with a tear gas canister and hospitalized. Oakland native Tristan Anderson met a similar fate in 2009 when the Israeli military shot him in the head with a U.S.-made high-velocity tear gas canister while he nonviolently protested Israel's Apartheid Wall in the West Bank village of Ni'lin. Bassem Abu Rahmah was fatally wounded the following year when the Israeli army fired a tear gas canister at his chest as he protested the wall in the West Bank village of Bil'in. His sister Jawaher died in January after inhaling U.S.-made tear gas, which the Israeli military fired aggressively during a protest against the wall, which still annexes huge swaths of Bil'in's land. The connections between the struggles of Palestinians and the #Occupy movement are unmistakable: the spotlight on privilege and inequality, the mass imprisonment, the police repression, and the people's steadfastness. As the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) wrote in a statement of unity with the "global 99%": "Our aspirations overlap; our struggles converge. Our oppressors, whether greedy corporations or military occupations, are united in profiting from wars, pillage, environmental destruction, repression and impoverishment. We must unite in our common quest for freedoms, equal rights, social and economic justice, environmental sanity, and world peace."
End quote
NOTE:
Should the probably sincere and idealistic OWS activists allow the career-scumballs cited above to in any way influence the discourse, they will lose whatever appeal they may have had among rational people, and be naught more than just another mob of angry clueless a-holes.
International A.N.S.W.E.R. destroyed the anti-war movement by their take-over, and is known for supporting tyrants like Moammer El Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Mahmud Ahmedinejad, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and that cretin in North Korea.
Bay Area Women in Black consists of vicious old Presbyterian anti-Semites and some of the nastiest trolls in dresses this side of the underworld, as well as the two oldest living anarchists, and have supported every single destructive anti-Israel action ever held in the Bay Area.
Jewish Voice for Peace has proudly stood alongside Arab-Americans screaming for the death of Jews and the annihilation of Israel, of the United States, and of the entire civilized world.
Their ignorance and depravity are in perfect balance.
Because of a complete lack of any handicap, people like Anne Baltzer usually go far.
I've met her, and I detest her.
On a cautionary note, it is also extremely likely that the Anarchists and similar delusionary revolutionary wannabees will flock to Oakland, bent on creating as much chaos and mayhem as they possibly can.
Their success will be described as a victory.
Nevertheless, I shall show "solidarity" with the rowdy people of Oakland. Specifically, by refusing to purchase anything made there, and by not patronizing any of the businesses in that stinking hellhole till Wall Street falls.
There is no there there, and nothing that anyone would want anyway.
If the Oakland Police Department do not intend to use water cannons to clear the air, the entire town should burn down.
The less anyone has to do with that place, the better.
Oh, and by the way: the Raiders suck. Big time. So do their fans.
Unleash the teargas forthwith.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
DUTCH ELECTION RESULTS
Election results in the Netherlands show the VVD ('Vereniging voor Vrijheid en Democratie' - free market liberals) and the Party van de Arbeid (Labour) as receiving the most votes, both ending up with 31 seats each in parliament.
Geert Wilders ('Partij Voor de Vrijheid' - freedom party) advances to 23 seats, passing the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA - centrists) to become the third largest group.
The final count is not yet complete, and may not be known till tomorrow.
[Addition at 6:36 Pacific Time: Frequent update of votes and percentages here: http://www.telegraaf.nl/verkiezingen/tk2010/ Note also the figures by province.]
QUOTE:
"Het lijkt er wel op dat de PVV van Geert Wilders de derde partij van het land wordt, nog voor het CDA van Jan Peter Balkenende, dat nog slechter scoort dan verwacht. De christendemocraten verliezen bijna de helft van hun kiezers en komen op een historisch dieptepunt van 21 zetels. Wilders wint maar liefst veertien zetels ten opzichte van de Kamerverkiezingen in 2006 en scoort met 23 zetels ook veel meer dan in de jongste peilingen het geval was. "
[Translation: It indeed looks like the PVV of Geert Wilders will become the third party of the country, even outranking the CDA of Jan Peter Balkenende, which scored even worse than expected. The Christian Democrats lose almost half of their voters and end up at a historic low point of 21 seats. Wilders gains at least 14 seats since the parliamentary elections in 2006 and scores with 23 seats even more than in the most recent poll-estimate.]
Source:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/verkiezingen2010/6905240/__Nek-aan-nekrace_VVD_en_PvdA__.html?p=1,1
What is really good news, however, is that the far left (SP - Socialistische Partij) are in serious trouble.
QUOTE:
"De SP verliest tien zetels en komt op vijftien, GroenLinks wint er drie en komt op tien, D66 wint er acht en komt op elf, de ChristenUnie verliest een zetel en komt op vijf, de SGP staat stabiel op twee, de Partij voor de Dieren verliest een zetel en houdt er één over en Rita Verdonk verdwijnt uit de Kamer. "
[Translation: The SP loses ten seats and comes to 15, GreenLeft gains three and comes to 10, D66 wins eight and comes to 11, the Christian Union loses one seat and comes to five, the SGP stays stable at two, the Party for the Animals loses one and keeps only one seat, and Rita Verdonk disappears from the chamber.]
The irony is that the left, which was responsible for the collapse of the government several months ago, has effectively written themselves out of the new cabinet.
Neither the Labour Party (PvdA) nor the rebranded Stalinists (SP) have much appetite for a coalition that includes Geert Wilders - and, as the third party, the PVV cannot be ignored.
As it stands the next government might be an odd alliance of Liberals (VVD), Centrists (CDA), and "people with strong opinions" (PVV).
In order to increase stability, D66 should probably be included - the Democrats of 1966 have for a long time been a voice of sanity and intelligence in Dutch politics (which explains why they aren't a very large party).
Geert Wilders ('Partij Voor de Vrijheid' - freedom party) advances to 23 seats, passing the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA - centrists) to become the third largest group.
The final count is not yet complete, and may not be known till tomorrow.
[Addition at 6:36 Pacific Time: Frequent update of votes and percentages here: http://www.telegraaf.nl/verkiezingen/tk2010/ Note also the figures by province.]
QUOTE:
"Het lijkt er wel op dat de PVV van Geert Wilders de derde partij van het land wordt, nog voor het CDA van Jan Peter Balkenende, dat nog slechter scoort dan verwacht. De christendemocraten verliezen bijna de helft van hun kiezers en komen op een historisch dieptepunt van 21 zetels. Wilders wint maar liefst veertien zetels ten opzichte van de Kamerverkiezingen in 2006 en scoort met 23 zetels ook veel meer dan in de jongste peilingen het geval was. "
[Translation: It indeed looks like the PVV of Geert Wilders will become the third party of the country, even outranking the CDA of Jan Peter Balkenende, which scored even worse than expected. The Christian Democrats lose almost half of their voters and end up at a historic low point of 21 seats. Wilders gains at least 14 seats since the parliamentary elections in 2006 and scores with 23 seats even more than in the most recent poll-estimate.]
Source:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/verkiezingen2010/6905240/__Nek-aan-nekrace_VVD_en_PvdA__.html?p=1,1
What is really good news, however, is that the far left (SP - Socialistische Partij) are in serious trouble.
QUOTE:
"De SP verliest tien zetels en komt op vijftien, GroenLinks wint er drie en komt op tien, D66 wint er acht en komt op elf, de ChristenUnie verliest een zetel en komt op vijf, de SGP staat stabiel op twee, de Partij voor de Dieren verliest een zetel en houdt er één over en Rita Verdonk verdwijnt uit de Kamer. "
[Translation: The SP loses ten seats and comes to 15, GreenLeft gains three and comes to 10, D66 wins eight and comes to 11, the Christian Union loses one seat and comes to five, the SGP stays stable at two, the Party for the Animals loses one and keeps only one seat, and Rita Verdonk disappears from the chamber.]
The irony is that the left, which was responsible for the collapse of the government several months ago, has effectively written themselves out of the new cabinet.
Neither the Labour Party (PvdA) nor the rebranded Stalinists (SP) have much appetite for a coalition that includes Geert Wilders - and, as the third party, the PVV cannot be ignored.
As it stands the next government might be an odd alliance of Liberals (VVD), Centrists (CDA), and "people with strong opinions" (PVV).
In order to increase stability, D66 should probably be included - the Democrats of 1966 have for a long time been a voice of sanity and intelligence in Dutch politics (which explains why they aren't a very large party).
Friday, July 24, 2009
WESTERN EUROPEAN EXCELLENCE
Kudos! Bravo, guys, you make me proud. I always get a tear in my eye when Western Europeans demonstrate their high standards, and do something exemplary! Kol hakavod, all of y'all, kol hakavod!
[By which I mean utterly not.]
EXAMPLE ONE:
Anti-Semitic attacks in Britain at record high
Quote: "CST categorized the 2009 incidents as follows: 77 violent assaults; two cases of extreme violence, i.e. attacks that posed a risk to life or constitute grievous bodily harm; 63 incidents of damage and desecration to Jewish property; 34 direct anti-Semitic threats; 391 incidents of abusive behavior, including hate mail, verbal abuse and anti-Semitic graffiti on non-Jewish property; and 44 mass-mailings of anti-Semitic literature, in paper form or by email."
[SOURCE: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/24/1006782/anti-semitic-attacks-in-britain-at-record-high ]
EXAMPLE TWO:
Gay Pride organiser victim of gay-bashing
Quote: "One of the organisers of next weekend's Gay Pride parade and a friend were attacked in Amsterdam on Wednesday night, the Telegraaf reports on Friday.
Hugo Braakhuis and his friend were saying goodbye on the city's Rembrandtplein when a group of youths began shouting 'cancer gay' and other insults at them. Braakhuis's friend objected to the taunting and was punched to the ground. Braakhuis was also hit, the paper said."
[SOURCE: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/07/gay_pride_organiser_victim_of.php ]
BEEE-YOU-TEA-FALL!
Once more, guys, the world appreciates your sterling example. You all truly are models of civilized behaviour, and represent the finest values. Yes. No wonder the world looks on you with wonder and admiration, and listens to your every well-though-out word on matters of great import. I really do not know where we would be without the advances and blessings that you have so generously imparted.
I guess we're about ready for another world war now. Your glorious leadership started the last two, and they really improved matters. We await the word from Western Europe - where civilization started.
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NOTE:
The above may be taken literally by some. For which I am truly sorry. But it cannot be helped. The level of yutz is aza shreklich among some elements of the illiterati, especially in the boglands and pishgassen on the other side of the Atlantic, that a lack of broadmindedness and perspective must be assumed.
But what I really mean should be clear, docht zich. Gatsameinu.
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BRUTAL AFTERTHOUGHT
I know some of you will blame a certain problematic element for these things. It is them, not you, them. They are always making trouble. Yes? Hmmmm?
But no. Who you choose to blame is strictly an internal matter. It is your society that failed, they are your people. Do you really wish to deny ownership in your own country? The import of cheap labour - that same cheap labour from which all of you nice pale people benefitted - has entirely dis-invested you? Because of this you are no longer responsible for anything?
You know, and you know I know, that that is a load of codswallop.
Again, strictly an internal affair. From the point of view of the rest of the world, it is you, your society, your people, that are showing their "afterend" in public. Stelletje hufters.
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[By which I mean utterly not.]
EXAMPLE ONE:
Anti-Semitic attacks in Britain at record high
Quote: "CST categorized the 2009 incidents as follows: 77 violent assaults; two cases of extreme violence, i.e. attacks that posed a risk to life or constitute grievous bodily harm; 63 incidents of damage and desecration to Jewish property; 34 direct anti-Semitic threats; 391 incidents of abusive behavior, including hate mail, verbal abuse and anti-Semitic graffiti on non-Jewish property; and 44 mass-mailings of anti-Semitic literature, in paper form or by email."
[SOURCE: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/24/1006782/anti-semitic-attacks-in-britain-at-record-high ]
EXAMPLE TWO:
Gay Pride organiser victim of gay-bashing
Quote: "One of the organisers of next weekend's Gay Pride parade and a friend were attacked in Amsterdam on Wednesday night, the Telegraaf reports on Friday.
Hugo Braakhuis and his friend were saying goodbye on the city's Rembrandtplein when a group of youths began shouting 'cancer gay' and other insults at them. Braakhuis's friend objected to the taunting and was punched to the ground. Braakhuis was also hit, the paper said."
[SOURCE: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/07/gay_pride_organiser_victim_of.php ]
BEEE-YOU-TEA-FALL!
Once more, guys, the world appreciates your sterling example. You all truly are models of civilized behaviour, and represent the finest values. Yes. No wonder the world looks on you with wonder and admiration, and listens to your every well-though-out word on matters of great import. I really do not know where we would be without the advances and blessings that you have so generously imparted.
I guess we're about ready for another world war now. Your glorious leadership started the last two, and they really improved matters. We await the word from Western Europe - where civilization started.
====================================
NOTE:
The above may be taken literally by some. For which I am truly sorry. But it cannot be helped. The level of yutz is aza shreklich among some elements of the illiterati, especially in the boglands and pishgassen on the other side of the Atlantic, that a lack of broadmindedness and perspective must be assumed.
But what I really mean should be clear, docht zich. Gatsameinu.
====================================
BRUTAL AFTERTHOUGHT
I know some of you will blame a certain problematic element for these things. It is them, not you, them. They are always making trouble. Yes? Hmmmm?
But no. Who you choose to blame is strictly an internal matter. It is your society that failed, they are your people. Do you really wish to deny ownership in your own country? The import of cheap labour - that same cheap labour from which all of you nice pale people benefitted - has entirely dis-invested you? Because of this you are no longer responsible for anything?
You know, and you know I know, that that is a load of codswallop.
Again, strictly an internal affair. From the point of view of the rest of the world, it is you, your society, your people, that are showing their "afterend" in public. Stelletje hufters.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
FTP SITE CLEANING - A MUST READ!
A colleague has sent an e-mail to the entire company. She does this with great regularity, as what she has to tell us is of earth-shattering importance. And we should all put our feed back in. Or acknowledge the gravity and greatness inherent in the communication.
Quote:
All,
I¹m in the process of cleaning out old files from the FTP site.
Just a reminder to delete any old files on the FTP site that either you or a vendor placed there on your behalf.
The FTP site is not intended to be a "holding tank" for your files. As of next Monday, April 27th and moving forward any files left on the FTP site (that are over 1 month old) will be deleted.
If you need to leave any files on the FTP site please let me know so I don't delete them.
Thanks for your help!
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Well allrighty then.
Now I know how empty my life is. Lackaday, I have no clue whatsoever what the FTP site is, and now that you have let me know of its existence, I finally realize that there is this big hole in my life that only you can fill. But it may be too late!
I have not put ANY files on the FTP site! Ever!
I have missed the opportunity to assert the importance of my old files, whether "tank-held" or not.
Yes, ninety plus percent of the company probably also has no clue what the hell you are talking about either. That should NOT stand in the way of your inculcating a profound sense of loss in them over the cleaning out of old files (on the FTP site) that they never knew existed. They too need to realize how utterly, wrenchingly, agonizingly and appallingly EMPTY EMPTY EMPTY their lives are.
In contrast to yours, for you do know what the FTP site is, and you may decide which files are old.
And you feel obligated to tell us so.
Thank you.
Quote:
All,
I¹m in the process of cleaning out old files from the FTP site.
Just a reminder to delete any old files on the FTP site that either you or a vendor placed there on your behalf.
The FTP site is not intended to be a "holding tank" for your files. As of next Monday, April 27th and moving forward any files left on the FTP site (that are over 1 month old) will be deleted.
If you need to leave any files on the FTP site please let me know so I don't delete them.
Thanks for your help!
------------------------------
Well allrighty then.
Now I know how empty my life is. Lackaday, I have no clue whatsoever what the FTP site is, and now that you have let me know of its existence, I finally realize that there is this big hole in my life that only you can fill. But it may be too late!
I have not put ANY files on the FTP site! Ever!
I have missed the opportunity to assert the importance of my old files, whether "tank-held" or not.
Yes, ninety plus percent of the company probably also has no clue what the hell you are talking about either. That should NOT stand in the way of your inculcating a profound sense of loss in them over the cleaning out of old files (on the FTP site) that they never knew existed. They too need to realize how utterly, wrenchingly, agonizingly and appallingly EMPTY EMPTY EMPTY their lives are.
In contrast to yours, for you do know what the FTP site is, and you may decide which files are old.
And you feel obligated to tell us so.
Thank you.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
WITHERED AND HAIRLESS
"Nothing to see here, just move along."
In the first years that Savage Kitten and I were together, there must have been several strong indications that I was not the succesful Cantonese-American Dentist With Real-Estate Holdings that she had been programmed to marry.
One of those indications could have been the building in which I lived. And the other tenants.
Such as Rufus.
Rufus spent his days sitting on the Kearny Street Steps engaging passers-by. He would smile sweetly at you, and nod you over, and when you had ventured close enough he would spring one of his four patented phrases on you.
"Got a quarter?" "Buy me some ripple!" "Got a cigarette?" "Get me a burger!"
It wasn't certain that these conversational gambits were ever succesful, but as ice-breakers they were sure-fire, and along with that brilliant smile probably guaranteed him a rich social life.
Burgers, Ripple, smokes, and quarters - fit subjects for conversation, and one way to spend your declining years.
There is much charm to that retirement scheme.
One day Savage Kitten and I entered the building and discovered Rufus on the stairs ahead of us, having severe logistical problems with his pants. A failure to use a belt had proved his undoing, and the result presented a most educational view.
He smilingly motioned us to pass him and just go on ahead. Which, averting our eyes and stepping around him gingerly, we did.
Evenso, the image of elderly nekkid dangle-bits burned itself onto our retinas.
I think at that point Savage Kitten realized that while the Toad might not be introduceable to her kinfolk (not being Cantonese, or a dentist), his environs supplied an exciting quotient of 'theatre'. That has probably helped keep the relationship solid all these years. Some people are accident prone, the Toad is 'entertainment' prone.
I flatter myself that life with me is not boring.
Many things, but not boring.
[Don't worry, I shan't break into song now.]
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE WATTLEY PARTS OF OLD PEOPLE
I am glad that Rufus decided not to include a pants-disaster into his conversational rotation. Once was quite enough.
[Now, had it been a juicy fifteen-year old, it would have borne repeating.]
The wattley parts of old folks are the opposite of enchanting. We probably already knew that, as an abstract intellectual concept. It was good to have it made clear. Exemplarily demonstrated. But it requires no repeating.
There is no further need to exhibit such desiccated wreckage.
I am still traumatized. I understand now, and it is not something I really need to see again. Thank you.
So much.
Anyhow, she and I were watching television last night.
At some point in the show, an elderly Russian woman decided to undress in a police station.
Then pranced around, and tried to attract the attention of a policeman.
Which prompted one of the most cogent remarks I've ever heard Savage Kitten make:
"There's nothing sadder than old snatch"
I'm sure she's right. But I would much rather not think about it.
In the first years that Savage Kitten and I were together, there must have been several strong indications that I was not the succesful Cantonese-American Dentist With Real-Estate Holdings that she had been programmed to marry.
One of those indications could have been the building in which I lived. And the other tenants.
Such as Rufus.
Rufus spent his days sitting on the Kearny Street Steps engaging passers-by. He would smile sweetly at you, and nod you over, and when you had ventured close enough he would spring one of his four patented phrases on you.
"Got a quarter?" "Buy me some ripple!" "Got a cigarette?" "Get me a burger!"
It wasn't certain that these conversational gambits were ever succesful, but as ice-breakers they were sure-fire, and along with that brilliant smile probably guaranteed him a rich social life.
Burgers, Ripple, smokes, and quarters - fit subjects for conversation, and one way to spend your declining years.
There is much charm to that retirement scheme.
One day Savage Kitten and I entered the building and discovered Rufus on the stairs ahead of us, having severe logistical problems with his pants. A failure to use a belt had proved his undoing, and the result presented a most educational view.
He smilingly motioned us to pass him and just go on ahead. Which, averting our eyes and stepping around him gingerly, we did.
Evenso, the image of elderly nekkid dangle-bits burned itself onto our retinas.
I think at that point Savage Kitten realized that while the Toad might not be introduceable to her kinfolk (not being Cantonese, or a dentist), his environs supplied an exciting quotient of 'theatre'. That has probably helped keep the relationship solid all these years. Some people are accident prone, the Toad is 'entertainment' prone.
I flatter myself that life with me is not boring.
Many things, but not boring.
[Don't worry, I shan't break into song now.]
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE WATTLEY PARTS OF OLD PEOPLE
I am glad that Rufus decided not to include a pants-disaster into his conversational rotation. Once was quite enough.
[Now, had it been a juicy fifteen-year old, it would have borne repeating.]
The wattley parts of old folks are the opposite of enchanting. We probably already knew that, as an abstract intellectual concept. It was good to have it made clear. Exemplarily demonstrated. But it requires no repeating.
There is no further need to exhibit such desiccated wreckage.
I am still traumatized. I understand now, and it is not something I really need to see again. Thank you.
So much.
Anyhow, she and I were watching television last night.
At some point in the show, an elderly Russian woman decided to undress in a police station.
Then pranced around, and tried to attract the attention of a policeman.
Which prompted one of the most cogent remarks I've ever heard Savage Kitten make:
"There's nothing sadder than old snatch"
I'm sure she's right. But I would much rather not think about it.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, AND EXPANSIONISM - DOC'S TALK
There's an excellent post over at Doc's Talk, which I encourage you to study.
Quote:
"The Saudis fear both Iran's nuclear program and its expansionist agenda. [cut] The Iranian Revolution of 1979 launched a far-reaching competition between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia for control of Islam and the ummah, the worldwide community of Muslims. Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president, Iran has increased its expenditure of money, energy, and time on proselytizing populations, from Africa to the Gulf.
Saudi Arabia, more than any other Sunni country, feels threatened by this new wave of Shiite proselytizing."
Here:
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2009/03/gulf-scream_17.html
Another quote:
"Iran's expansionist strategy is not limited to religious affairs. Hundreds of Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters who got their military training in Iran have infiltrated the Gulf since last year in order to "militarize" the Shiite communities of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. "
Go over here to read all of it.
You will find a lot of other good stuff on Doc's Talk, and it is well worth reading frequently.
[Please note: sometimes his blog (http://docstalk.blogspot.com/) does not show-up, and you will get a dialogue box that informs you that the internet site cannot be opened or the webpage cannot be displayed. It is a problem, yes.]
Sometimes he's far too hardcore for my taste (just like some of my other favourite bloggers), at other times I might wonder whether he's gone all soft - in other words, his is a thoughtful and worthwhile voice.
And he's both intelligent and literate. These are rare qualities.
Quote:
"The Saudis fear both Iran's nuclear program and its expansionist agenda. [cut] The Iranian Revolution of 1979 launched a far-reaching competition between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia for control of Islam and the ummah, the worldwide community of Muslims. Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president, Iran has increased its expenditure of money, energy, and time on proselytizing populations, from Africa to the Gulf.
Saudi Arabia, more than any other Sunni country, feels threatened by this new wave of Shiite proselytizing."
Here:
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2009/03/gulf-scream_17.html
Another quote:
"Iran's expansionist strategy is not limited to religious affairs. Hundreds of Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters who got their military training in Iran have infiltrated the Gulf since last year in order to "militarize" the Shiite communities of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. "
Go over here to read all of it.
You will find a lot of other good stuff on Doc's Talk, and it is well worth reading frequently.
[Please note: sometimes his blog (http://docstalk.blogspot.com/) does not show-up, and you will get a dialogue box that informs you that the internet site cannot be opened or the webpage cannot be displayed. It is a problem, yes.]
Sometimes he's far too hardcore for my taste (just like some of my other favourite bloggers), at other times I might wonder whether he's gone all soft - in other words, his is a thoughtful and worthwhile voice.
And he's both intelligent and literate. These are rare qualities.
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