Inside the Grand Banana Republic: Here we see tons of freaks, probably with already deeply troubling credit card debt, climbing and worming their way over each other to buy cheap Chinese made goods. Here’s an article to go with your viewing pleasure. Yes the elite string pullers have, well, pulled the strings and unleashed the plastic crap buyers to hit the crap piles (stores) and prop up the economy for another couple of weeks.
Blackest Friday, resembling the movie 28 Weeks Later.
Get this, one time IRA terrorist supporter Representative Peter King says Wikileaks documents release is terror. What a freak this guy is. Here.
Related: There’s a good article over at Salon, reminding us that the really interesting surprise of the most recently released Wikileaks documents is the suddenly cozy group of “diverse” pols and media hipsters who have closed ranks against the Leak’s Julian Assaange. “…I don’t quite recall any entity producing as much bipartisan contempt across the American political spectrum,” quoting the article, “as WikiLeaks has: as usual, for authoritarian minds, those who expose secrets are far more hated than those in power who commit heinous acts using secrecy as their principal weapon… Here.
You’ve probably seen the leaked Wikileaks documents where Bob Gates said that “Russian democracy has disappeared and the government was an oligarchy run by the security services” (here). OK, you probably didn’t need a leaked document for an assessment that’s already well established. But Russia isn’t the only place where free speech is dead or withering. It’s happening in the West as well, including this country, where, among other reasons, the intoxication of trying to incorporate Islamzation into its multiculturally fabricated society is creating a dictatorship of language that would do Orwell’s 1984 novel proud. Free speech is increasingly seen as hate speech, especially along religious lines where downright medieval apostasy law is gaining support. Unlike Winston from 1984, however, free speech advocates aren’t caving in. To get a good compendium of what governments are doing to limit speech, and of what individuals are doing to protest this infringement, check out The International Free Press Society site.
Above: the satire
Below: the reality:
(Besides thanking the TSA, let’s also thank Islam, the Immigration and Visa authority, the anti-profilers, the U.S government, etc., etc., etc…)
Related: When in danger profiling is rational.
Related: I may never return to Israel (airport security in Israel).
Related: Why Muslims should be profiled: Islamic education for the young (they’ll be boarding planes soon enough).
“…Whether anguishing over American military interventions abroad or delivering jabs at Wall Street tycoons, this Twain is strikingly contemporary. Though the autobiography also contains its share of homespun tales, some of its observations about American life are so acerbic — at one point Twain refers to American soldiers as “uniformed assassins” — that his heirs and editors, as well as the writer himself, feared they would damage his reputation if not withheld…” –From a review of the unexpurgated autobiography of Mark Twain. Here (NY Times).
Related: The unexpurgated new edition of the Autobiography selling very well indeed. In fact, to quote the article, it’s “flying off the shelves.” Here (NY Times)
God bless bikinis…”The cheerleaders at the beach volleyball might have proved a welcome distraction to spectators at the Asian Games – but not all the competitors are so thrilled. The Yemen [read Islamic] team’s Adeeb Mahfoudh has blamed the girls’ skimpy outfits for putting off her team during a defeat by a more focused Indonesia at the event in China. She said: ‘They had an effect on how we played. I think they had something to do with our losing the match.’ ” Here (Daily Mail)
Related: Another blast at religion (and another thank God): Will the Afghan Elvis Presley defeat the stone-faced Islamic Taliban? Errrrr, could be, doc. Here.
Girl showing off some cashmere sweaters to her excited daddy.
Lord Love a Duck (nothing to do with Howard the Duck). I first saw this excerpt the other night on Netflix streaming in a documentary called American Grindhouse. Yes, hilarious. (BTW, evidently cashmere has this strange effect on men–remember Ed Wood in Glen or Glenda.)
“Power has now hijacked truth and made it subservient to its own ends. The result is a world turned upside down.” Melanie Phillips, World Turned Upside Down (this is a new release, though there is of course a Kindle edition a paperback won’t be out for at least six months or so). Melanie Phillips is a columnist for London’s Daily Mail.
Another legal question concerning airport security (TSA): if during a crotch check an aroused man (hey it doesn’t take much) gets an erection could that then be considered a club, and hence a concealed weapon?
“You tryin’ to sneak this club aboard, pal?… Call for backup! “
OK, it’s not exactly Bach but…
If you’re tired of seeing 300 pound BigMac & fries chompers with green teeth and head lice, grotesquely over-cosmeticized bulimics walking around the malls in pajamas irradiating the air with warm whiffs of residual vomit breath, nose-ringed purple-lipped hairy foul-mouthed navel-condiment slingers in Huggs, or garishly tattooed biker chicks in black combat boots and exhaust-sooted thongs riding high up from ripped low hanger jeans then head out to the Finland Station and recharge your libido. Did you know that Finland is the number one producer of natural blondes? I bet you thought it was Sweden or Norway. Yeah, that’s how much you know.
While that most ridiculous of fake days is approaching, so-called Thanksgiving (I know, it’s a joke), it can nevertheless give us a temporal reference point for introspection for its symbolism. OK, you’ve taken all of one second for your inner thoughts on This Day. So its’ true, nothing more emphasis that symbolism as the turkey–the big turkey, that big rancid buttery dead bird stuffed with cheap sodium crap and preservatives. Mix in a few colorful autumn leaves on the table for old times sake, add some dollar-a-bottle purple wine sap or yellow piss beer and there you have it– perfect symbolism.
This story’s being covered here (Big Peace); also see new Youtube channel, SAFE Border TV
"How dare you!!!!"
“Last Thursday I was flying to LA on the Midnight flight. I went through security my usual sour stuff. I beeped, and was shuttle to the ‘toss-em’ line. A security guy came over. I assumed the position. I had a button up shirt on that was untucked. He reached around while he was behind me and grabbed around my front pocket. I guess h was going for my flashlight but the area could have loosly been called ‘crotch.’ I said, ‘You have to ask me before you touch me or it’s assault.’ He said, ‘Once you cross that line, I can do wahtever I want.’ ” Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) gets riled up over frisky hands. Here……Shhhhhh, Penn, here’s a hint for next time. All you have to do is dress as a Muslim woman, replete with veil and head covering and you’ll be ushered right through……FLASH HOLD EVERYTHING STRIKE THAT LAST SARCASTIC SENTENCE…coming in off the wires: TSA says it will NOT make exemptions based on religious beliefs…Islamic organizations up in arms (really mad, smoldering, hot under the burka, brimming with outrage…………………..Here’s a direct quote from a Somali terrorist just back from a religious training camp in Yemen, Why should we be subject to the same patdowns and body scans as infidels? Why? Tell us why.) Here. (Of course the big question is, will they stick to this policy. Well, we’ll see in a couple of weeks. But keep in mind, this is what happened in Canada.)
Britain’s blaring front page Daily Mail says it all: Americans starve as executive pay rockets: 50 million people go hungry while Wall St fatcats take home millions.
Related: No, no, China, please dont do it, turn back now, no…ooops too late: China buys more worthless Grand Banana Republic debt. I’ve figured it out. They want to prop us up so we can keep buying their toxic cheap crap in Wal-Mart.
Related: BTW, here’s how the super rich scumbags escape their share of taxation: NYC’s mayor Bloomberg in action.
Sorry for all caps but, well really, what else is there to do in this case: Yes, at first you may mistake it for an Onion piece of satire, or the straight-faced story board idea of MAD magazine’s Alfred E. Newman but no, herein we have the story of a lovely blind Muslim girl who, because her strict Islamic parents consider guide dogs unclean, must make her way through life–on the bus, in the school room, to the store– with a seeing-eye horse. No, you can’t make this stuff up; ah, and the proof is in the pictures. Here.
“The mysterious missile launch seen in Los Angeles on Monday and the loud booms felt and heard in Wilmington, North Carolina on Saturday were all part of nationwide training exercise conducted across the country over the past few weeks. According to a high level source in the FBI, some of the effects of the drill are being used by the Obama administration to test public reaction and monitor the Administration’s ability to control and manipulate news stories.” Here (Big Peace)
“…The process of settlement is a “Civilization Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions…(emphasis added.)…” Read article here (Big Peace).
Related: Sharia: the threat to America (pdf).
Related: How sharia encroachment works. It all has to do with the pusillanimousness of the host, as in, “Oh please,we’ll do anything you ask as long as you don’t call us Islamomophobic and racist and…and…..anything else horrible-sounding you can think of). Here (USA Today).
Pat introduces Keith in 1989 on the Pat Sajack show. Now there’s a feud. Pat S says he first (as in before anyone else) introduced Keith O to a national audience back when Keith had a cool mustache and darker hair, and before he “morphed into the bitter-sounding, hate-mongering name-caller” (here). Keith says Pat baby is full of you know what: Yeah, Keith O hates Pat S now (here). I know this much. Keith O will never be on Wheel of Fortune.
“…So if there is to be a fear of the increasing adoption of e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook and iPad, that is by far the scariest thing about it, because if you were to keep all your books on such a device, some villain really could come along one day and pretty much flip the switch and take all your books away—and not just yours but everyone’s, all at once…” Here (The AWL) BTW, speaking of fascists… ”Fascists in the federal government imposing their will on the people. A schism in Congress. Top-ranked generals taking sides. States declaring independence. Soon shots were fired in the street…” Lady Deadpool (comics)
I’ve noticed this. When immigrants write English, and when they write it well, they infuse the language with a vigor that oftentimes you don’t see in those that were born with the English ABCs in their mouth. The language usually avoids cliches; it’s given a precise and fascinating tilt towards the unexpected turn. Once again I’ve noticed this. So today’s episode of Out of the mouth of foreigners comes superb English: ”…This is a story about reluctantly thrusting your feet in the face of an older Korean woman when you are Korean and female yourself. And unmarried. And 30. Also, broke. I’m mortified not by ravaged nail beds or metatarsal smashed by hoofing about in fetching heels, but by an anxiety without a term, a spaghetti of issues I can never untangle…” –Mary H.K. Choi, from Going Korean (NY Times Opinionator piece)
“…You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality…The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana…” Here (NY Times)
Related: It’s in the numbers
China to overtake Grand Banana Republic in probably two years as biggest economy. So I think the answer to the question is–it’s both. Here (London Telegraph). But here’s some good news: Probably Zimbabwe or the Congo won’t overtake us at least for a few more years.
Related: The new controllers: Talking the talk: If you’ve ever wondered how exactly China owns us take a look at this example from (from a couple of years ago) the Midwest. See if you can tell who’s the boss. First: the time? Very recent. Exact place? That would be Wausau, Wisconsin. Quoting now: “a group of farmer…[gather] around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United States….’I don’t think you Americans get it,’ said the buyer [from China], dressed casually in designer brands and sporting a watch worth as much as the mud-splattered GM trucks in the parking lot outside. ‘We need quality. We demand quality. Top quality. If you work with me, we can win together. But if you don’t, there’s nothing I can do.’ ” Here.
Some of the main stream media, namely Newsweek, now sees the result of rampant multiculturalism: “ ‘ Tribal Ties – Race, Ethnicity, and Religion – Are Becoming More Important Than Borders.’ “The first page of the article, contains a color-coded map denoting new regions of the world not defined by contemporary governmental borders but those designated by region, race, and culture…” Read article here.
Even left wing cartoonists calling for the violent overthrow of the GBR (well at least as a last resort)
Not enough jobs for 4 out of 5 unemployed
1 in 4 struggle to put food on table
Millions of unemployed now live as paupers
Life-saving care at great risk
59 million lack health insurance
Woman on hunger strike to forestall foreclosure.
Goal of the Federal Reserve: to boost stock prices for corporate elites (hoping for some trickle down for the newly poor)
Holy gender apartheid, Batman. Yes, our lovely First Lady inadvertently shook the hand of a Muslim man. Didn’t her husband teach her the First Rule of multiculturalism? Do not shake the hand of a Muslim man if you are a mere woman. Muslim religion considers women to be dirty (as in unclean) and they don’t like, er, well, a “dirty hand” on their clean hand. Now no doubt he’ll have to do that fetish surgeon thing and wash for about twenty minutes. “This much of the most over-the-top, obsequious outreach effort[to Islamic gender apartheid] in memory didn’t quite go as planned: As James Thurber once observed: ‘You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.’ ” Here (Jihad Watch). Sounds about right.
Related: China downgrades entire Grand Banana Republic. Story here (China Daily)
Related: Probably the biggest obstacle to free speech today is the agenda of political Islam and their Grand Banana Republic administrative supporters: The AHA Foundation will be issuing a report soon “regarding the immense pressure of political Islam on the freedom of expression in the West; the report demonstrates how through means of actual physical violence, threats and intimidation, legal action, and political pressure, political Islamists are targeting freedom of expression.”
During the late forties, early fifties British actress Patricia Roc is quoted by her biographer on Reagan’s obsession with her: ‘‘I couldn’t turn around without falling over him. If I went to dinner with another man, he would tip the waiters to get a table next to mine, where he would sit alone and stare at me’. But alas, after a love affair with Reagan the beautiful actress and the someday-to-be prez finally broke it off. But evidently not without some could-have-been regrets: ‘… you know, I would have made rather a good First Lady, wouldn’t I?’ Here (Daily Mail)
Probably ever since WW 2 the President of the Grand Banana Republic was considered the most powerful man in the world. How times have changed. According to Forbes Magazine the new #1 is–Chinese president Hu Jintao. This must be a double whammy week for Obama; not only did he lose a good portion of Congress but now he’s reduced to number two status in the world as China pulls ahead into the future. Here (Daily Mail). This must be why the President is stroking his ego by visiting India with forty aircraft, thirty-four warships, tons upon tons of armored cars, and 500 security personnel in a two hundred million per day extravaganza party. His vist also includes booking the entire Taj Mahal Hotel. That’s not all: Military engineers will build a kilometer long bomb-proof over-ground tunnel so the president may walk through congested areas; in addition the tunnel “would be centrally air-conditioned, fitted with close-circuit television cameras, and will be heavily guarded at every point…” (here). Oh, and of course let’s not forget the coconuts being removed from trees in his path (here).
Good evening, President Hu Jintao, I, your humble servant from the Grand Banana Republic, bow to you, Most Glorious New Number One. (An aside heard from Pres. Jintao: “Bow lower, Numb 2, bow lower, brush off the dust from my shoes with those enormous ears…)
Assholes out/ assholes in (ahhh, so Twitter like…oh, and it reminds me of the navel* debate: innies VS outties).
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* Noun…a rounded knotty depression in the centre of a person’s belly caused by the detachment of the umbilical cord after birth; the umbilicus [and that's a direct quote].
There is a bulletin published here (Political Islam) about women living under Islamic threat; it covers stories from not only Muslim countries where you expect horror stories but in the West too, including the Grand Banana Republic. The bulletin covers the period from Aug 12 to Nov 2. Some examples…Egypt: “Egyptian cleric: If women are harassed even when wearing the niqab or hijab, it may be because they should not be outside the house at all.” USA [i.e., Grand Banana Repub]: Update on Muslim man who beheaded his wife (N.Y.)
Related: Islamics slaughter Christians attending church in Iraq (catuion: graphic)
You know I posted on this last year (I’m too lazy to find the post but I think it was from The Sun in Britain; in fact, I think this latest article uses some of the same photos). Deep in the flood tunnels under Vegas hundreds upon hundreds of people, about a thousand or so, have made their homes, living like human rats in constantly damp and wet conditions. Nevada newspapers evidently don’t like reporting this story, so we have to turn to the freer foreign press. A British commenter said it best, Civilized America”, the land of the free……to live like rats. It’s like this…”Deep beneath Vegas’s glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth inhabited by poisonous spiders and a man nicknamed The Troll who wields an iron bar. But astonishingly, the 200 miles of flood tunnels are also home to 1,000 people who eke out a living in the strip’s dark underbelly. Some, like Steven and his girlfriend Kathryn, have furnished their home with considerable care – their 400sq ft ‘bungalow’ boasts a double bed, a wardrobe and even a bookshelf…” Here (London Daily Mail). Let’s face it, what an ugly third world country this is…well, maybe when China takes over things will get a little better.
Note: For a lot more info than you can get from some newspaper articles you might want to read Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas, by Mathew O’Brien, published as part of the Travel Holiday Guides series. (Travel holiday guide? The title of the book doesn’t seem to fit in with a tourist series, does it?)
Today’s border war body count: Three Grand Banana Republic citizens bite the dust. (Er, make that four).
God’s kid had HIV–Even HE didn’t have a cure.
One very lucky Iranian woman: Instead of being stoned to death she will only be hanged (God bless the humanity of that Islamic republic).
“My face might fall off” (says singer Pete Burns) …well, from my POV that might be the best solution (no, I am not being cruel).
Islamic law banned in –where? Oklahoma, you say? In Oklahoma? Huh? (Isn’t that somewhere in the Grand Banana Republic?)
What’s that smell? The great unwashed, you say?
I’ve always liked Jon Stewart’s and Steven Colbert’s shows on The Comedy Channel but this so-called sanity gathering of theirs at the Washington Mall turns out not to have been so sane. I mean what was the radical Islamist Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam) doing there? Here’s a guy who has called for the murder of Salman Rushdie for criticizing Islam. What’s he doing at a sanity rally where supposedly the participants are praising the rational, non-hateful side of things ? Yusuf”s a medieval freak, probably not above burning witches or stoning adulterers. The original focus of this rally was, as I understand it, to mock Glenn Beck’s gathering at the Washington mall last month. Now, granted, Beck’s religion is probably as phony as any one of those Christian charlatans you see on sermons plastered on TV during the wee morning hours, but at least Beck has never condoned murder against a non-believer. Compared to the creepy Yusuf the guy’s merely annoying–and harmless. Here (Standpoint Mag).
“Since the Obama administration has barred US officials from referring to terrorists as terrorists and effectively barred US officials from acknowledging that Islamic terrorists are Muslims, Brennan simply referred to the Islamic terrorists in Yemen who tried to send bombs to synagogues in Chicago as ‘individuals.’ ” Here (Jerusalem Post).
