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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Turkey, Daesh, Isilanity, Erdogan, Putin


THE ABSURD TIMES







The Emperor and the Holy Man
Latuff

Scorecard
by
Arthur Schopenhauer


A well-know American expression is that you "can't tell the players without a scorecard," an expression going back to pre-portable radio days of baseball, still applies today when trying to follow the Mid-East.  This is a modest attempt to provide one.  Everything here follows from my indisputable treatise on life called "The World and Will and Idea," or  Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, if I remember accurately.  In other words, everybody is defining reality they way they want to.



Turkey just shot down a Russian fighter jet.  That much is objective reality.  After that, everything become a matter of interpretation.



Erdogan wants to be an Emperor.  Ever since his party gained a majority, he feels invincible and all-powerful.  He says that he shot down the Russian jet as an act of "self-defense" as the jet was in Turkey's airspace for over 30 seconds, yet was warned 10 times.  Fast talkers, these Turks.



Daesh, is pretty indefinable other than to say it is sort of a religion, best called Isilanity.  It is derived from Wahabism, a form is Islam invented in the 18th Century by a nut called Wahabbi, a guy whose father and brother said to him, to translate freely, "You're nuts!"  It is also the practiced religion of Saudi Arabia and other gulf states that call it Islam.  It includes such ideas that a thousand lashes and a fine is appropriate as a reaction to a blogger who says things you don't like.  Isilanity is similar, but more idiotic.



Erdogan supplies Daesh with money in exchange for safety and cheap oil.  In this respect, Daesh is similar to the Mafia, but lacking the moral compass.



Putin is the leader of Russia and does not like his country's interests or people to be harmed.  If any entity does that, he will inflict pain on them, but in his own way so as to deter them from further activities in that direction.  No western country has shot down a Russian plane since the 50s, so now, about 60 years later, it is time for Russia to make sure that it does not become a habit.  One should also realize that the last would-be Emperor to attack Russia was Napoleon, and he was not successful, far from it.  Putin will not attack Turkey with bombs -- yet.  But Turkey will be the worse for this action.



Daesh attacked a Russian passenger plane over Egypt, and the next day almost 200 Daesh targets were hit.  Daesh then claimed responsibility for the bombing and another 200 targets were hit.



The United States thinks that Assad needs to leave, but Putin disagrees.  Some call Assad the "lesser of two evils," but such a notion has not relevance here.  Without Assad, Daesh takes over. 



Since most of our readers are in Europe, there is some confusion about the Republican candidates.  Donald Trump claims he had a vision and predicted 9/11 and also saw people cheering as the towers went down.  Objectively, this never happened, especially in New Jersey (still noted as the place that took the Orson Welles' Broadcast of the War of the Worlds as real), but that did not happen.  It does not matter, if Trump says it happened, people believe it did.



The black guy running is named Ben Carson, no relation to Johnny Carson.  There is no truth to the rumor that he had to retire from medicine as a result of dementia (at least so far as we know).  He also saw the "film", but that was a video clip that was ten years old at the time.



There is no point to any further explanation right now.  The entire thing is absurd beyond words.  We only need to close by saying that the only refugees that posed a significant danger in North America came over on the Mayflower and gave the indigenous population small-pox, a disease lethal to them and that is what is being celebrated here in the U.S. this holiday.








Sunday, November 08, 2015

BROKEN NEWS: U.S. Primary, Carson, Trump, Russia, Tolstoy


THE ABSURD TIMES





Illustration: It seems that France does not see fit to tolerate support for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against dear Israel. Israel, of course, recently pointed out that it was not Hitler, but a Palestinian Cleric, that thought of sending Jews to gas chambers. Angela Merkel set him straight immediately, threatening copyright infringement.



BROKEN NEWS

BY

MERLIN





Welcome to the U.S. Political scene, everyone. Some may have a bit of trouble figuring it out, and we are not about to make sense of it. We report, you, well, that's your problem.



Ben Carson leads the pack this time. Joseph, yes, of Joseph and Mary, I suppose, built the pyramids in order to store grain. He probably did this to keep his mind off things while Mary was pregnant and not talking to him. A guy's gotta keep busy.

He is the first candidate to cite as a qualification for his candidacy that he stabbed a friend, tried to hit his mother over the head with a hammer, and threw bricks and swung baseball bats at people. Of course, the anti-Carson media snapped into action and said "No he didn't," thus reducing his credibility and increasing his popularity in the process. That's the way politics works here.


Donald Trump comes next. That's funny enough all by itself, but he was attacked as having asked the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson for campaign money. The trouble with this theory is that the Koch Brothers finance would-be witches and tea party types, people to the right of Mussolini, and Adelson usually finances people who want to adopt Israel and also put manned moon stations upwithin 8 years.



The most recent International activity came as a Russian Passenger jet was blown up over Egypt. At the time, Russia said there was no indication that ISIS was involved, but within 2 hours, almost 200 ISIS targets were hit in Syria in five to seven areas. By now, "Experts" are saying that it is 99.9% certain that it was a terrorist bomb, but then those are the same odds that President JFK would be assassinated in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. (He was in office for 1,000 days.) At any rate, one does not understand the Russian temperament if one thinks they turn the other cheeck.



It rather reminds me of Tolstoy's dying word (or at least some of them) when his friends tried to reconcile him with the Russian Orthodox Church to find his "Peace with God". He said "Even in the valley of death, two plus two does not equal six." Stubborn guy, that Tolstoy.



It reminds me of some of the more idiotic things said, or written, to me recently, namely, "The truth is the truth. If the facts don't support it, change the facts." I replied "Your idiocy is most creatively blatant," and the quickly blocked the offender. One need not put up of nonsense if one has the good sense not to listen to it.



In older news, our George Bush I attacked Rummy and Cheney for leading Bush II astray. In response, one can only say that George II did have his own abilities, dodging shoes thrown at him being among the most obvious.