tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post113062915019494520..comments2024-03-01T00:27:42.852-08:00Comments on Hammer Of The Blogs: Season's Beatings!Heywood J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-1130713470512367992005-10-30T15:04:00.000-08:002005-10-30T15:04:00.000-08:00Heywood--Just a quick note on your blogroll: Arthu...Heywood--<BR/><BR/>Just a quick note on your blogroll: Arthur Silber's "The Light of Reason" has gone offline. He now has a new blog, "Once Upon a Time", at<BR/><BR/>http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>--MariusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-1130634269896077662005-10-29T18:04:00.000-07:002005-10-29T18:04:00.000-07:00Heh, heh, I was wondering how busy our friend Heyw...Heh, heh, I was wondering how busy our friend Heywood is that he can't afford to swing his mighty hammer above the minuscule heads of the iniquitous these days. Had to seek my pleasant refuge at Craig's 'Crazy Years.' Not a bad place at all, I must add. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, on the Israel thing--just a modest addition. Note how very recently, chubby wacko Muqtada al-Sadr has announced that he was going to join the grand Shi'a coalition in the making in Iraq that's supposed to sweep to power in a landslide. But he threatened that, were they to even mention concluding a peace-treaty with Israel, he is going to take his toys and join the opposition. And we all know what political opposition means down there. Suffice it to say, it's not modelled on the British House of Lords. <BR/><BR/>So it seems to me that the timing of Ahmaddinejad's vicious remarks may not be accidental. Could it be that the Iranians are testing the strategic local waters, now that they see that the Empire has had to garrison withing Iraq to stay clear of IEDs and suicide bombers? Just taking the geopolitical temperature, as it were, to see how far the Americans are willing to go, militarily, if the show gets going? Is it possible that, in the process, they nudged their Shi'a cousins in Iraq to make similar noises, and see how the local imperial administrator reacts?<BR/><BR/>I dunno, maybe I'm just plainly mistaken. After all, Iran is still about a decade far from getting a real bomb (they do have the delivery mechanisms, though), and the Israelis alone would already be a huge headache for Crazyfuckijad, given their supermodern military and the 200-odd nasty surprises they keep stored at Dimona or wherever. <BR/><BR/>Note, however, how the American-Israeli team has fucked up again (well, there's a shocker, when it comes to Middle East realities!). According to some, one of the first things Viceroy Khalilzad asked from the newly elected Iraqi government was the conclusion of a peace treaty with Israel. It keeps boggling the mind how right-wingers think inextricable clusterfucks could be solved by the mere signing of a worthless piece of paper, ratified by a puppet government with no true representative character. The Israelis did it when they invaded Lebanon, hoisting up Amin Gemayel as a pathetic puppet that was supposed to bring "peace to Galilee," and all they've got was jack shit, plus an embarrassing withdrawal in 2000. Now the coterie of morons that surrounds the Imperial Quarterback has pushed for a similar measure, only to have the whole thing blow in their face, when al-Sadr called their bets. Trust a neocon to fuck up everything he touches. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I better stop before I become enraged. I have a party to attend. Heywood, have you considered using one of those spam filtering thingies that Blogger has--like, asking the commenter to type in a skewed word, or something?<BR/><BR/>Mais alors, ca va couper l'acces des belles jeunes filles de la France qui veulent toutes te parler, hein? ;-)<BR/><BR/>--MariusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com