Jaded Times

It’s never a good sign when you check the RSS feed for the BBC and it has those arrows, as in “there are too many recent headlines to fit on the screen”. There’s a lot to look at, but the two biggest things on my mind are, of course, Lebanon and the foiled terror attack (the word “foiled” always makes me think of a dude akin to the Hamburgler, wringing his hands and saying “curses!”). It’s hard to poke fun at these events, but that’s my job, so I’ll give it the old college try (or so I vaguely recall through the haze of pot, alcohol, and promiscuous sex that made up my college years).

So first up, President Bush used last night’s harrowing events in the UK to further cement his “we’re right, they’re wrong” policy on his linguistically inaccurate War on Terror, again pointing to “Islamic Fascists”. This is one of the sneakiest tools of the domesticated primate: propaganda. See, by continually adding “Islamic” to every reference to the terrorist organizations, it helps the American public associate terrorism with Islam. Which, in turn, helps to fuel further support for war in Iraq, Syria, and Iran, the monkey-man’s wet dream triumvirate. It also washes America’s hands of any responsibility for inspiring acts of terrorism, as if it’s their “crazy Oil God Religion”, not the previous five decades of western foreign policy, that has driven these people to such lengths.

Not that I sympathize with terrorism, of course. I just feel that the past fifteen or so years of media and political incompetence have led me to a point where saying something like that compels me to open the next paragraph with “Not that I sympathize with terrorism, of course”.

At any rate, the liquid bomb plot was foiled by some smart, hard-working people over in the UK, from the police all the way up to their intelligence agencies (are you watching this, Washington?), which Bush used as a photo op. From Wisconsin.

I was going to touch on Lebanon in this post, but it’s getting a bit long (and isn’t very funny–but hey, you want humor, check out the pic of Bush in the above link), so I’ll get to that in a later post.

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