Monday, August 24, 2009

Evil Marches On

Voters in Afghanistan are punished by the Taliban (translation: religious students) for having the temerity to participate in shaping their own destinies by casting a ballot in the Yakuza (translation: Japanese mafia) way and having their ink-stained fingers lopped off. A woman in Muslim Malaysia has her caning for drinking a beer "compassionately delayed" until after Ramadan. Iraq is rocked by a spate of sectarian bombings right out of the bad old pre-Petraeus surge days, and in the decadent West, a fellow famous for being famous, chops his glamour model wife like Jack the Ripper and leaves her in the luggage in San Diego. Aftonbladet, a paper in Sweden, makes some good, old blood libel charges against Israel, that Jews are abducting Palestinian men and boys to murder in an organ harvest fest-how did the Swedes know we only do that when Passover falls on a full moon in a Leap Year while we are listening to an upside down klezmer band playing Wagner conducted by a naked Daniel Barenboim-how did they ever catch us?
It is good to know that people the world over are so happy with Obama's ascension that they have packed up all their problems and are living the dream. As unemployment lines grow longer, we couldn't be any stronger in our conviction "Change" has won the day.

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