The Last King of Persia
Ollie Bubba strikes again
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Welp, Israelusa have gone and stepped in it again. I picture a couple of kids stomping around in cow pies and wondering why they always smell like shit.
Suppose Evil Bastard A and Evil Bastard B started dropping bombs on the US on Christmas Day for no apparent reason, killing a bunch of schoolgirls and, oh I don’t know, Joel Osteen. Or suppose someone sneezed at the Wailing Wall during Hannukah giving some saintly rabbi (if such a thing exists) a head cold. Do you think the people would rise up and overthrow their governments?
Or would they rally ‘round the flag and sing Kumbaya?
The vile attack on a country that hasn’t done anything overtly violent since its war with Iraq in the 1980s—and even that was predicated on a full-scale invasion by Iraq—is reprehensible. It cannot be blamed on Hamas, which is a Sunni Muslim organization. Iran is overwhelmingly Shi’a.
That’s like attacking Moscow because you blame the Orthodox church for being anti-Vatican. Good grief.
One thing is immediately apparent in all this: the US CONgress is a redundant cowardly lapdog that long ago delegated its authorities and responsibilities, so that it’s little more than a champagne and cigar club with cushy gym. Come the fall, every incumbent up for election should be booted. But that will never happen.
Here’s a little metaphor: your house and family are surrounded by a blood-thirsty mob with pitchforks and torches, ready to attack you at any moment and raze your house to the ground, killing everyone inside. They demand that you throw out all your weapons, turn of the power and alarm system, unlock all your doors and windows, and destroy all your phones and computers. Oh, and you need to let a few of them move in to keep an eye on you. If you do that, they promise they will go away and leave you alone.
You look into the faces of your terrified children, kiss your weeping wife for good luck, and start doing exactly as the mob demands. Right?
I didn’t think so.
Here’s what’s really going on: Trump is trying to unseat China, the cornerstone of the NeoCon wish list since the 1990s. He wants to unwind the BRICS before his meeting with Xi Jinping at the end of March.
Trump has decapitated Venezuela, which was BRICS-aligned, mostly because he’s too chickenshit to go after Brazil, which is a founding member of BRICS. Now he is trying to decapitate Iran, which is a full member of the BRICS, while at the same time supporting a war in the Ukraine and hijacking oil tankers because Russia is a founding member of the BRICS. He’s also trying to lure India (founding member) away from Russia and China, all so he has a bit of leverage with Xi after severely hampering China’s energy supply.
That’s it. That’s why Trump is killing thousands and destroying a sovereign nation.
BeeBee Nuttyahoo is a different story. He just loves killing. Doesn’t matter who, doesn’t matter where, doesn’t matter why. As long as Israel is at war, he figures he won’t be tried for crimes against humanity and profound corruption in his administration(s).
Nuttyahoo is just a slimy bastard, not unlike Spain’s Franco in many respects. If he didn’t have Iran, Jordan and Lebanon to wipe off the map, I’d bet dimes to donuts he’d turn on his own people.
I live in a majority-Muslim country that recently became a full member of BRICS and sells coal to China. I have to wonder if the Marines will be at my door in the near future. If the Iran adventure fails, as it is likely to do, I imagine the odds are in favor of invasion here.
As I write, reports are coming out that Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed. Isn’t that wonderful? Trump and Nuttyahoo have slaughtered an 84-year-old cleric to appease their masters. Americans should be very proud.
Warped as I am, I get an image of a Monty Python skit of Khamenei being carried out of the ruins on a stretcher, his feeble voice pleading, “I’m not dead yet.”
Something that occurred to me some time back, and with Trump going hog wild with his army toys making impeachment and removal a real possibility (if CONgress finds its bollocks). Suppose the plan all along was for Trump to leave office after the mid-terms. According to the rules, JD Vance would have a shot at 10 years in office, since less than half a term would not constitutionally count against him (see LBJ).
I know, I know—CONgress will never find its bollocks, especially with all the Karens in there, and Trump will never leave office. Just a thought for a soggy monsoon afternoon.
Si mundus vult dicipi, ergo dicipitatur.
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Today’s cinematic tour du force is not only in my Top 10, it is one of the greatest films ever made: Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The story of T. E. Lawrence is the background to why the Middle East is in flames today. It all begins with World War I, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and meddling by the British and French. Beyond that, David Lean’s direction is astounding, with a real and epic sense of place and time. The ultra-long shot of Omar Sharif riding toward the camera is amazing. Every performance is the Craft at its finest on display, and the cast is a Dream Team of British talent.
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Iran’s strategy isn’t subtle. It’s the old bar room vow: if I go down, I’m taking the whole joint with me! They’ve got thousands of missiles pointed at the Strait of Hormuz and at Israel. Tehran’s message is simple: corner us and the lights flicker everywhere.
Then you’ve got Donald Trump: his instinct isn’t to tiptoe around the furniture. It’s to shove the table and see who’s still standing when the plates stop rattling.
It’s like deciding you’re tired of guessing what’s safe to wash, so you dump half the house into the machine and hit heavy cycle. When it’s done, you’ll know what’s durable; you’ll also be staring at a pile of cracked screens and swollen books. The gamble is that the clarity you gain is worth the wreckage... Im not convinced.
Put those two mindsets in the same room and the air gets thin. One side says, push me and I burn the place down; the other says, fine, let’s see what actually burns. And its a high-stakes game played over a shipping lane the whole world depends on.
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The Zionists are "God's chosen people". According to some, God promised the Hebrews the land from the Nile to the Euphrates, but there was a caveat. The covenant with God said that the Jews had to follow the Ten Commandments.
The Jews, who are just one wild hair being apes (Lewis Black joke. He is a Jew), broke the covenant with God. The prophets warned the Jews over and over, but no one listened. So the Assyrians/Babylonians destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem, and the Hebrews were carried off into slavery. Same thing when the Romans destroyed the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
The Zionists are nuts. So is Trump. It's all crazy.
After Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean wanted O'Toole to play Dr. Zhivago. O'Toole demurred. Two years in the desert was enough for him. Omar Shariff was surprised to get the role and happily accepted.
Years ago, O'Toole appeared on Letterman. He came onto the set riding a camel. O'Toole, cigarette with holder firmly in his mouth, slid off the camel's back.
O'Toole: Excuse me. My noble ride is in need of refreshment.
O'Toole then pulled out a tall boy of Heineken beer from his jacket. He opened the can and put it in the mouth of the camel, who drank it up.