8/17/06 – DISASTER



Now that it looks like world war iv ™ will not start just yet what with Hezbollah and the IDF not shooting at each other (and you have to wonder how disappointed the rapture folks are with that – they were expecting Jesus to take them up any second for the last few weeks.) people will remember that there is another war, the one in Iraq that is an unqualified disaster. But it’s still not a civil war.

The main opinion out there seems to be that Israel badly underestimated Hezbollah and fought the war in the worst possible way. Hezbollah meantime has been strengthen politically and will no doubt make up the losses in material and manpower over time. Lebanon is the real loser here, hundreds killed, cities bombed, thousands driven from their homes – it’s god awful. And the intent of the bombing. Why god knows – the IDF ain’t covering themselves with glory here. Or even success. Not that Hezbollah are much better, they weren’t able kill as many civilians because their primary weapon – a rocket based on a soviet design from World War 2 was horribly inaccurate, if they had the weapons to do to Israel what Israel did to Lebanon they would have. Still I

In the time W was described as being unhappy or frustrated with the Iraqi people because they are not showing the American (i.e. his immature little ass) the proper love. This is the abusive partner “after all I’ve done for you” moment before they decide to really hurt you. The words Petulant jerk also come to mind.

For Iraq, He has no plan other than to not deal with this and hope that when the democratic party ends up back in power in 08 they are so busy trying to fix all the messes he left that behind that they won’t start the long process of tossing him and the rest of the gangsters in this mess they call an administration into club fed for a long stay.

I’m tempted to maybe look up the Hal Lindsay site to see what’s up with them since the rapture has been put off for a bit but since the human mind can only look at madness for so long. And those folks are batshit crazy. Hal’s got some guy doing cartoons that are well, only the Click tracks are utterly degranged. He has one, one of many, of the rapture, in the center is Jesus hugging someone as they enter heaven. It’s the expression on the prince of peace that gives me pause. The expression is more like he’s trying to either squeeze the man to death, or he is having the most painful bowel movement in history or he’s as crazy as a shithouse rat. None of these expressions are ones you link with the prince of peace. But that’s what you get.

Meantime today a federal judge has ruled that W’s little warrant less wire tapping project is unconstitutional and illegal should cease at once. This is bound to get bounced up to the Supreme Court. It won’t be fun but it will be interesting. I’d feel better if there were fewer autocrats on the bench but who knows.

On the Scarborough show a couple a days ago he ran with the story “Is Bush an Idiot?” The only proper answer to this is “duh”.

And the ever reliable wanker the holy joe Lieberman has a 51-41 or some such lead over Lamont in the CT Senate race with the official GOP candidate getting 5% in the polls. Not surprisingly most of Joe’s support is coming from republicans, so much so that W won’t say he endorses the GOP candidate and the RNC is officially not endorsing him, the only other time that happened was when David Duke got the GOP nod for a house seat, and that’s only cause David never learned to say “I was joking” right after he made a racist comment. Joe meantime continues to assault Lamont’s patriotism and has come oh so close to playing the race card by citing Sharpton’s endorsement of Lamont (an endorsement he tried to get before the primary). Sharpton may be an ambulance chaser but for Joe to start up standard GOP “beware teh black ™ “ racist cant (lets call it what it is children denial hurts all of use) is a new low, even for him.

Wanker.