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24-9-02

Fuck Channel 10

John Edward locates his bowels

They've seen fit to premiere Crossing Over - the horrid show of that "psychic" fraud John Edward tonight. My favourite John Edward story is how he appeared on TV the night of Sep.10, 2001, and - surprise, surprise - picked up zero "vibes" about the event that would shake the world a few hours away. Strangely (not really), none of the other great psychics picked up anything either.

Sorry new agers, but when I rule the world these fuckers will be the first against the wall. We need to cleanse the gene pool of scum.

Fuck John Edward. Fuck James Van Cunt (or whatever his name is). Fuck Uri "bullshit is my life" Geller. Fuck Sylvia Browne. Fuck all you paranormalist liars and tricksters. Fuck all you scum who give them money. Fuck all you media dipshits who accept their lies for the sake of ratings. Fuck the lawyers who represent them. Fuck all you alien abduction and crop-circle dickheads. Fuck all you "repressed memory" liars. Fuck everyone who prints their books and articles. Fuck all you stupid brain-dead cunts who ever read Marlo Morgan's Mutant Message Down Under. Fuck all you "subliminal messages in rock songs" assholes. Fuck the companies who advertise during shows like Crossing Over. Fuck Deepak Chopra. Fuck the Raelian Movement. And last but not least, fuck Nostradamus.

If I've offended you, blow me.
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Grog-addled shambling commie reveals Dubya's secret linguistic terror

Whisky-drenched leftie mumbler Bob Ellis writes another tortured column in today's Sydney Morning Herald (where else?). It's the latest incarnation of his formulaic america-is-evil spiel, where brave, correct-thinking dissidents fight the democratic tyranny of America.

In my ever-lengthening anthology of American euphemisms for violence - incursion, engagement, relocation, insurgency, counter-insurgency, terminate with extreme prejudice, friendly fire, detention, pre-emption, pacification, peace-keeping - "regime change" is perhaps the subtlest.

Funny, I thought it meant what it said. You know: change the regime

Round Iraq this means the slaughter of 100,000 people, a war with Kurds from Iran and Turkey, burning oil wells all over the Arabian peninsula and a chemical attack on Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. "Regime change" suggests a milder, gentler process than that.

Well, only if you're very stupid.

But at least it has some distant relation to what it means: a process, however understated, of getting Saddam out. Other American phrases are more frightening.

Odd how the anti-USA crowd are obessed with america's language. Some might wonder if it would be worth spending time examining Castro's tyranny, or how the North Koreans are busy murdering their population, but what would they know?

When George Bush says, for instance, "I'm a patient man", he means, or it seems this week he means, "I'm an impatient man". When he says, "We must be strong, and secure the peace", he means - or I think he means - we must, whatever others tell us, now go to war.

Be patient folks, he's going to make his point soon I'm sure.

When he says, "What they hate us for is our freedom", he means they hate our Hollywood-hamburger-Playboy Bunny culture and we think they should be free to adopt it, if need be by force.

They hate hollywood & hamburgers do they? Funny how everyone around the world can't seem to get enough of them. Then their own lefties - seeing their dreams of Stalinist utopia evaporate under the weight of freedom of choice - whinge about American cultural invasions. So answer me this, GrogBob, give me one example of where a society has been forced to buy hamburgers and hollywood movies.

When he says, "Our quarrel is not with the Iraqi people", he means - or I think he means - we're going to bomb them to hell, real soon.

Well, actually dummy, he means he wants to get rid of Hussein and his psychotic, murderous junta. A bunch of guys - by the way - you never seem to write many articles about. Funny how your concern for evil governments only seems to apply to the world's most powerful democracy.

Words are what, among the great apes, make us the smartest. We must be careful not to use them in suicidal, genocidal or fratricidal ways. Words are either our friends or our destroyers; they cannot be fair-weather friends, they are one or the other.

Breathless linguistic philosophy. What a mighty contribution to the current geopolitical debate.

So if Saddam should be killed and the Middle East Balkanised and his oil grabbed by the US because they will manage it more benevolently than he does, we should probably say this. Plain language always helps, and euphemisms are hardly ever believed.

GrogBob is in a terminal state of confusion here - "euphemisms are hardly ever believed", yet he spends a whole article here waffling about the oh-so-sinister doublespeak about the satanic Uncle Sam. Well, which is it, you fuckwit?

And here's the required here's-where-Bob-goes-completely-bonkers paragraph.......

To say we're after him because he has "weapons of mass destruction" (like Israel) and "murders his own people" (like Israel, whose Palestinians parallel his Kurds) and "uses chemical weapons" (like the US napalming the naked little girl in Vietnam) and he's a "barbaric dictator" (like Marcos, Pinochet, Yeltsin, Noriega, Batista, Nasser, Stalin and other former friends of the US; and Adolf Hitler whose rise George Bush's grandfather funded), flaws can arise in one's argument and one can look a fool.

Talk about the brink of insanity. Well, let's take GrogBob's points one-by-one….

Weapons of mass destruction ("like Israel!!") - yes, and which of these countries has actually used their WMDs at every opportunity, hmmm? I guess to the idiot moral-equivalency-left, such things are irrelevant.

"murders his own people" (like Israel, whose Palestinians parallel his Kurds) - yep, you read it right. Bob (who - incidentally - never met a communist thug he felt worthy of criticism) is equating the only democratic country in the middle east to a psychotic, genocidal dictator. And as for the palestintians being in the same position as the Kurds in Iraq, well, I don't recall the kurds being able to vote or receving access to jewish-funded healthcare. Then again, comparisons are not GrogBob's strongpoint.

"uses chemical weapons" (like the US napalming the naked little girl in Vietnam) - Nice comparison, except, a) it was thirty years ago, b) it was widely condemned everywhere, including inside the evil USA where people have a democratic right to protest, c) it was a result of a heavy-handed strategy to win a stupid war, whereas Iraq does this to thousands of people just for fun.

The naughty dictators & friends of USA list. Lessee……..

Marcos - who was overthrown in a peaceful coup the USA applauded

Pinochet - yes, an evil bastard who the USA should never have supported. Though this would actually tend to undermine your point GrogBob - wouldn't this give the USA a greater obligation to remove Hussein and rid the world of one more evil dictator? Make your mind up dickhead: should the USA act against tyrants or not? The truth is, you and the idiot anti-USA left will condemn them no matter what course of action they take.

Yeltsin - ..er…um…what? He's was a democratically elected Russian President. I guess Bob is upset the Russians lost the Cold War and Yeltsin is the sinister poster-boy for evil democracy and economic reform. Lefty romanticists love playing principles with other people's lives.

Noriega - overthrown by the USA. So Bob - did they do the right thing here or not?

Batista - yes, another worthless prick. Then again, he was pretty small beer compared to the politically correct nutcase who replaced him (yet another humanitarian hero Bob never writes critiques about. Funny that. One might think Bob has an agenda other than concern for human lives)

Nasser - yes, another naughty man. So I ask again: do you want the USA to act against them or not?

Stalin - Stalin?????? The guy the Americans spent duelling with during the cold war?

and Adolf Hitler whose rise George Bush's grandfather funded - *blink*. You read it here first folks - GrogBob says Hitler was an American ally.

Only in the FairFax press could this wino get space to write this deranged screed.

The American Republican Right really hate plain words. This is why they say "liberating Iraq" when they mean seizing its oil and making a lot of money.

Except the cost of war might kinda outweigh any oil benefits, not to mention that the USA doesn't exactly depend on Iraqi oil.

This is why they now say "George Bush is a man of peace" when they mean he'll go to war at the drop of a hat for no good reason

Yeah, like all those unprovoked wars he's launched against…um…..

And when they say "regime change" they mean, or could mean, "Armageddon".

Or it could be you need to lay off the LSD for a while.

It would be nice to get words back where they should be, in bed, as it were, with their meanings, and I'm sure we'll get them there some day. I'm a patient man. And I believe that justice, will prevail; maybe after a regime change in Washington to a ruler who knows what words mean.

Bob votes for Chairman Mao. He's non-capitalist, non-American, and has a healthy regard for the extermination of politically incorrect thinkers.
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