David Pryce-Jones says, "There must be regime change across the Middle East."
What do you think, jelly bean? Could Islam be anything more than an anachronism? Do the Kurds have a chance?

In the September 28, 2002, issue of The Spectator magazine, printed in London somewhere near 56 Doughty Street, a W. Woodruff was among the winners of a 20 pound prize. For competition NO. 2257, he had followed the rules as directed, which is to say he supplied three clerihews about one person. The first was supposed to have been preposterous, the second to have cast unreasonable doubt on the first, and the third and last to reach a conclusion by trying to reconcile both previous views.

We did not get around2 reading the paper copy of the Spectator magazine which we had purchased until the end of April, 2003. But this cute little piece by W. Woodruff. coincidently describes the analogous situation in Iraq and was cute enough to be quoted here.

Richard started up from a discomforting nightmare in which he had been desperately isolated. For a moment he pitied himself. But as action can drive out thought, Richard was immediately immersed in plans for battle. He was relieved to find that all his promised supporters were ready and that there had been no more desertions. Only at the last moment had he learned that Lord Stanley, despite the threat to his son, had joined Henry of Richmond.

Richard fought like ten men, but his followers had no heart for the battle and no real love for the blood-soaked murderer of young Princes. Soon he was beset on all sides, his forces falling back before the enemy. His horse was slain under him and he fought on furiously on foot, screaming for someone to bring him a fresh mount so that he could rally his soldiers.

"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Richard cried. But all was lost and at the last moment he met death at the hands of Henry Tudor of Richmond. Lord Stanley took the dead man's crown and offered it to the victor, who held it reverently in his hand and made a sacred vow to unite the white rose and the red.

And so Henry, descendant of the Lancasters, married Elizabeth, daughter of the house of York. Under the shield of the House of Tudor, England entered upon a new phase in her history. It was a period of peace and prosperity which culminated in the glorious days of the great Queen Elizabeth, and of William Shakespeare.

Three questions:
Who besides ourselves reads The Spectator magazine?
Did someone give horses to Mr. Hussein and his sons?
Who absconded with the WMD?

Don't let the facts interfere with a good war on terrorism.
We read this article yesterday, April 30, 2003. For whose benefit was the article written? For those movers and shakers who may forget the greatest selling point for Machiavellianism perhaps? One may say that that is not very likely. Warren Buffet has said that the rich are different, has he not? The rich have a profound and unshakable contempt for the bourgeois. There is no reason to lose that contempt. Contemnible things warrant contempt.

And what would be the writer's point? Reality is put together with preposterously ridiculous, laughably transparent fiction? That fiction is far more useful that truth? A notion that middle class brainwashing is not ludicrous and deserving of contempt is not warranted by reality. Rather, a mental deficiency of one sort or another would be indicated. How does that work? A Buddhist monk that we knew some time ago, let fly with the truth unabashedly. He noted that Machiavellianism's greatest advantage is that it works. As human beings gain a higher and higher socio-economic position, contempt grows in direct proportion for the clueless, unquestioning lobotomatons of the middle class. There should be zero contempt for the prevarications of the social reality constructors by anyone who admires that which is efficacious. And there should be none from the rich who reap the benefit from all the preposterous nonsense.

The fellow who wrote this piece was accurately describing an aspect of a useful and enduring constant of reality. There is a social construction of reality. This writer was pointing out some clever semantic devices used to manufacture consent. When you stop and think about it someone may quite possibly forget who is who and what is what or how things work. The 225 richest individuals have more money than the poorest 3 billion human refuse. All the 225 richest individuals on the planet have read Major Barbara. They can clearly understand that two things, MONEY and GUNPOWDER are indispensible.

The "War On Terrorism" is a clever excuse for greater things. In this best of all possible worlds the clueless poor, the clueless middle class and the clueless rich who haven't seen or read, much less understood Major Barabara, steadfastly believe at least four important and necessary things:

The need has never been greater.

A spectator from California, aka "La-La-Land," ostensibly possessing a brilliant legal mind, having reportedly matriculated from a well known school of the Law in Berkeley, sent in some cavalier comments about VeeJay 32:

"Fun item. Ol' George is something else. Perhaps Buddycom credits him with too much in the way of a plan. Now as for others in his administration, that's another story. They were indeed pressing for an invasion of Iraq well before GW was elected, then got their man elected, and voila."

Nothing woud give us such a great sense of relief as to find out that the position of the world chess board is a mere coincidence and that His Imperial Majesty, King George, is asleep at the wheel. Could it be that he fails to see such an obvious mate in three? His Imperial Majesty has promised repeatedly to be relentless. If this weren't the best of all possible worlds, King George might prove be far more relentless than that indefatigable rodent, Kennie Star, the dependant counsel. Remember how Ole Kennie just kept on gnawing and gnawing and gnawing and gnawing and gnawing? His Imperial Majesty might fail in the end, as Kennie had ultimately failed to get an indictment. Are we holding our breath while waiting to find out? Nope. Why? Hint: If you need a hint, guess what jelly bean? You don't need a hint.

What is the purpose?

One may, of course, hope that we are wrong. We surely do, don't you? In the meantime here's a question.

Translation: How long will you abuse our patience? A famous question which Cicero addressed to Lucius Sergius Catilina and others in the Roman Senate who had conspired to plunder the Roman treasury and to eviscerate the Senate. We would enjoy seeing this question asked in the United States Senate. Even if it had no effect? Even if it had no effect.

More good stuff from Wild Bill:
Bush Plan Too Rich? William F. Buckley, Jun 16, 2003;
"The agony and fury of well-situated critics of the Bush tax program are worth pondering politically and psychologically. Is Paul Krugman of The New York Times a Cassandra, who prophesied what was to come but, revelation after revelation, was scorned and ignored, leaving to posterity not a Troy saved from demolition, but only the eponym?"

Paul Krugman is the most thoroughly revealing and meticulously correct of all the Bush critics. The gloating satisfaction Bill Buckley enjoys at seeing the US Treasury plundered, or to paraphase his words, demolished, leaving only the eponym, is worth pondering politically and psychologically. The fact that Paul Krugman is ignored should give Wild Bill added satisfaction. Well, Paul Krugman, you well-situated critic, the gauntlet has been thrown down. Wild Bill has named your name. What are you going to do about it? Although the last line is rather slick, this particular installment of Wild Bill's blather has so many holes in it that it more resembles a gift than an ad hominem attack. Wouldn't it be nice if our man from Princeton were to answer it point for point?

Horace, "Could you help laughing, friends?"

Red Herring. Red Herring. Red Herring.

We, meaning everyone in the entire world, we all heard the words Bush used again and again and again again and again and again again and again and again. We all heard what Bush and his consiglieri repeated again and again and again again and again and again again and again and again again and again and again again and again and again again and again and again again and again and again.
Now Americans watch His Majesty make a gesture reminiscent of an effeminate caesar-like wave of the hand. Bush wiped the slate clean with a brief asseverative prevarication. Move on? Americans swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. What else is there but to laugh and move on?

White House Welcomes Tenet Taking Blame
By John Solomon, AP, July 12, 2003.
President Bush said Saturday he had confidence in CIA Director George Tenet despite his agency's failure to warn Bush against making allegations about Iraq's nuclear weapons program later found false."
"Bush asserted in his State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought nuclear materials from Africa. Nearly six months later, the White House acknowledged the charge was false, and the tempest that followed has shadowed Bush on his five-country trip through Africa. 'The president considers the matter closed and wants to move on,' White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said. In a carefully scripted mea culpa, the White House on Friday blamed the CIA for its January misstep and Tenet finished the job hours later with a dramatic statement accepting responsibility. Bush had said that the CIA had reviewed his address and did not raise any alarms."
Foul article....

Americans watch this comical nonsense and do not raise any alarms. Bush is so good at attention attenuation.
There are rumors that Waxman is gathering evidence for impeachment based on this Red Herring. That's par for the farkin course, ain't it? Anybody remember Spiro T. Agnew? Impeached for racketeering. Spiro absconded with a few hundred thousand dollars. Bush, Cheney and the rest of the Bushie Kleptocrats have absconded with sums several factors of ten larger than that, hundreds of billions so far. You would need a log scale to plot it. But what were once vices are now customs. What were once criminal acts are so common that al King George has to do is wave his hand and squire Fleischer tells you to just, "move on." And you better do just that. The ingenious Patriot act makes it a Federal crime to investigate Bushie crimes.

These Good Ole Boys have some clever ideas. The Good Ole Boys are the New Praetorians. There are no moderate Praetorians. Praetorians are in command of courts, congress, media, pulpits and triggers.

Discussions of politics on Japanese television have recently touched upon Pat Robertson.

Bungling? Bungling? That is some pretty consistent bungling. Heck you could almost set your watch by it. We have read articles like this for the last forty plus years. Why is the world running out of gas? Because that fits the masterplan. PERFECTLY.
Bungling is as good an excuse as any to mask the real motivations. They write that more delays, i.e. bungling, can be expected. Delay, yes. Bungling, not really. Why more delays? The world is still not in the window of opportunity for optimal vulnerability with no alternative escape route.

Why America is Running Out of Gas
"Inflated oil prices and natural gas shortages are wiping out jobs and savings, thanks to three decades of bungled energy policy. Get ready for more bungling" by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, Time Magazine, july 21, 2003 issue
Conclusion:
"So it is that the U.S. is likely to be faced with recurring oil and natural-gas crises for some years to come. Their duration and severity remain to be seen. But volatile prices—as with gasoline during the Iraqi war, natural gas last winter and electricity in 2000—are all but guaranteed. The result is a hidden tax of tens of billions of dollars on American consumers. Just how many billions depends on a catalog of variables ranging from the harshness of the weather to unfolding events in the Middle East. More important, it depends on whether Congress and the White House, Democrats and Republicans, come up with a thoughtful energy policy that imposes tough conservation and efficiency measures, promotes research to develop one or two realistic alternative energy forms in commercial quantities and encourages production from a mix of existing energy sources. But none of this will be worth the effort unless the U.S. sticks with a plan long enough for it to pay off. "
With reporting by Laura Karmatz/New York and Eric Roston/Washington, with research by Joan Levinstein/New York From the Jul. 21, 2003 issue of TIME magazine
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Time for Regime Change in Nigeria?
By Andrew McKillop
"Nigeria has an almost unelected government and there are numerous regions of Nigeria where, since IX/XI (Sept 11, 2001) a very large percentage of all male babies born are given the name 'Osama'. Nigerian thugs prevented the Miss World beauty pageant from being carried out correctly, and all-white, Christian beauties had to be airfreighted out in humiliating circumstances. Nigeria is failing to increase oil production and, even worse, pipelines and installations delivering Cheap Oil for the free world's SUVs are periodically blown up, or deliberately damaged and petroleum products are stolen by persons who should not have access to this precious lifeblood of civilization. Conclusive evidence, found on a videocassette in a Lagos topless bar proves that Al Qaeda has many cells in the country. Taken together, it is high time for regime change in Nigeria. This country can become prosperous, after saturation bombing of its electric power plants (the few that exist), water supply and treatment works, ports, roads, bridges and urban insfrastructures. The New Nigeria can be reconstructed, on its oil export earnings, "within weeks" from the establishment of military administration by Coalition Forces, empowered to find WMDs and mass graves almost anyplace."
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Bernard Shaw on Drivel.
Major Barbara, Act lll
LADY BRITOMART
Charles: if you must drivel, drivel like a grown-up man and not like a schoolboy.
LOMAX
Well, drivel is drivel dont't you know, whatever a man's age.
LADY BRITOMART
In good society in England, Charles, men drivel at all ages by repeating silly formulas out of slang, like you. When they reach your age, and get political private secretaryships and things of that sort, they drop slang and get their formulas out of the Spectator or The Times. You will find that there is a certain amount of tosh about the Times; but at least its language is reputable.

Bernard Shaw on Character,
or was it, on Journalism?
Major Barbara, Act lll
UNDERSHAFT
And what does govern England, pray?
STEPHEN
Character, father, character.
UNDERSHAFT
Whose character? Yours or mine?
STEPHEN
Neither yours nor mine, father, but the best elements in the English national character.
UNDERSHAFT
Stephen: I've found your profession for you. You're a born journalist. I'll start you with a high-toned weekly review. There!