Loose Cannon

A Warlord becoming a Peace Envoy!

Tony may convert to Catholicism but that doesn't yet make him a good christian.

It's an insult to those thousands of innocent civilians in the Middle East, in Iraq and Palestine, who fell victim to Tony's warmongering. Can he ressurect them now?

It’s a very old strategy used by the Romans in occupied territories constituting their vast empire, used by White South Africans in keeping the overwhelming Black majority under control over centuries, and currently used by the Americans in their endeavour to dominate our world – provoking internal conflict between the natives.

It goes on shamelessly throughout the world like a ripple effect and it never dies out because once instigated, ethnic and nationalistic conflict will self-perpetuate to a spectacular BANG. Stirring up old grievances between peoples who are bound to live next door to each other is the best way of preventing peace in their land, destroying progress and undermining their culture. Thus we’ve had endless mass-scale wars in Europe culminating in two genocidal world wars, after which Europe said, BASTA!
But does it have the resolve to maintain that stance and say no to the Americans?

We now have our distant, across-the-ocean American friends stirring up pooh in Europe. They clearly don’t like our determinedly peaceful 60-year subsistence, which has enabled us to rise from ashes and rebuild wealth. It shouldn’t bother them really how well we’re doing because they’re sitting in their distant den and shouldn’t really meddle in our affairs, but we mustn’t forget they are all about what Pinky and the Brain, the two cartoon mice, were after – Taking Over the World, so that makes unhinging our peaceful existence their very business. Thus they get the full of bile and resentment Poles and Czechs to install the so called ‘shields’, which aren’t shields in the conventional sense but are… missiles. By definition they are there to detect, target and destroy nuclear missiles coming from Iran (????) and Korea (????) but in practice who is there to stop them from targeting and destroying Russian infrastructure, nuclear or otherwise? So quite justifiably, Russia is up in arms: metaphorically and literally. Poland and the Czech Republic feel smug that they can pay the Russians back for years of political blackmail and oppression, and the American’s congratulate themselves for stirring up old shit in good ole Europe which was becoming too tranquil and united for its own good.
The entire logic behind wagging a finger in the Russian bear’s face is as transparent as my daughter’s attempts at hiding food under the bed – I will see through her and I will chastise her for the principle sake. The same with Russia – like it or not, it will have to retaliate only to save face.
The Americans claim Russia is weak and now it’s time to deal it the final blow. With whose hands I ask? European hands, of course. But Napoleon claimed he could take Russia in weeks, so did Hitler. The human cost of such bragging was enormous! And now again we have a rift in Europe growing to the proportion of oceanic gulf. The only winners will be the Americans.

They are testing their strategy in Iraq as we speak – having armed Shias who formed the so called police and armed forces of the ‘democratic’ Iraq, the American are now giving guns to Shias’ mortal enemies, the Sunnis to supposedly fight … Al Qeada! Incidenctally, Al Quaeda has been thanking the Sunnis recently for their support to its cause! Giving weapons to the Sunnis to fight Al Qeada is equivalent to arming Poland and the Czech Republic with nuclear missiles in response to Iran and Korea nuclear ambitions. Both propositions are so ridiculously far fetched that even an idiot can see through them. The Americans are either politically infantile themselves that they cannot see the fatal flaws in their argumentation, or… they have grown so arrogant that they don’t care what rubbish they feed us with in justification of their belligerent actions worldwide. After all, we can’t stop them.

God would’ve spared
Sodom and Gomorrah
if He had found ten
righteous men.
God would’ve forgiven
sins of thousands for
the piety of a few.

Man takes revenge on millions
of the innocent
if he finds ten
sinners amongst them.
Man knows no boundaries to
his thirst for blood to quench
the crimes of a few.

When God created Man
in His own image
He was looking in a mirror.
Though he tries
Man is no God -
only God’s reflection
in the mirror.

Scientists have discovered that loneliness is a perfectly natural state of being. We shouldn’t despair when we feel lonely because it is quite all right. Nothing to worry about. There are legions of us loners. We are a force to be reckoned with!

Having read about that new discovery, I felt relieved. It brought back memories from my childhood when upon loosing my front milk tooth and looking in the mirror in terror I had been told that it was perfectly ok, it happened to everyone, another tooth would sprout out soon.

Someone should have thought about discovering this principal law of physics sooner, certainly before I’d started bouncing off the walls of my cage trying to detect and break through to another lonely soul to save them (and myself purely as an incidental) from the affliction of loneliness. That would have saved me buckets of grief and truckloads of false leads like taking social butterflies for lone moths, or encroaching on buzzing parties with my chicken soup of companionship. What an embarrassment!

Now I know and nothing should stop me from being happily lonely in my own right in the knowledge that nothing is wrong with me. Even God is lonely because He is only one, so I am in a good company. God created us lonely people in His own likeness. Loneliness is one of the side effects of Creation. So be it.

Now, enough talking to myself for one. I shall go to bed and dream self-absorbed dreams.

A very significant new law has been decreed and made it to the BBC news this morning, as well as to all national papers. No, it is not about voting into being the first written United Kindgom Constitution, but it is close enough… I would imagine.

It is about another prohibition. You’d think they have already prohibited all there was to prohibit in this lovely free country: smoking, drinking, black rubbish bags, gum chewing, noisy exhausts, open fireplaces… But there was something else left to forbid. I can’t imagine how this terrible, politically incorrect practice has passed unnoticed by our law makers for so long! A total lapse of Orwellian standards! But now it’s all sorted, thank God!

So from now on school children are prohibited from raising their hands if they know the answer to teacher’s question. Phew! In return the teachers are prohibited from asking children to raise their hands if they know the answer (which is only fair considering that the children wouldn’t be able to comply with such an unlawful order). The new practice is for teachers to pick a random child from a classroom full of perfectly immobile kids with their hands and eyes downcast, and make him (or her) answer the question whether or not he (or she) knows the answer because of course, he (or she) won’t be able to let the teacher know. It will be like playing Russian roulette in the classroom, which is a good thing considering that school should be all play!

This fantastic new law is qualified by a requirement for the teacher to take 30 seconds (precisely) between asking the question and picking a students in order to give the slower students sufficient time to ‘catch up’. Who with I wonder? But after 30 seconds of thinking about it, I still don’t know the answer to that so with a deep sense of defeat I shall remain silent. I admit – I am really slow on the uptake here and wouldn’t be raising my hand even if I could.

Another new legislation has been tabled with the Parliament. I heard of it yesterday while driving home through a romantic English countryside, admiring herds of cows who grazed tranquilly on both sides of the road. Little did they know! Apparently, they produce three time the amount of greenhouse gases than all the traffic of this world combined (my smoking car including) and therefore have to go. Yes, the cows (the gases with go with them of courses).

The proposal is to slaughter all farm animals and switch the nation to vegan diet so that the damn cows and sheep stop the deadly emission of greenhouses gases (a.k.a farting) thereby polluting our beautiful planet. The only question I have is this – if all the people switch from meat to grass, won’t they start emitting the same amount of greenhouses gases as those poor cows used to do? Catch 22 … or perhaps a new “Final Solution” Heil!