Friday 13 January 2017

NEWS REVIEW. SEND IN THE CLOWNS.

                                              

My fellow motherfuckers...


SEND IN THE CLOWNS

 

Such is the covenant of democracies - and the fate of that democracy lies both in the hands of the people and of the President. And now it is President Trump’s move.

                

                                      John Meacham, Time Magazine, December 7, 2016.


… for all our outward differences, we in fact all share the same proud type, the most important office in a democracy; citizen.

So, you see, that’s what our democracy demands. It needs you.

                       

                       Outgoing US President, Barack Obama, 
Chicago, January 2017
 
Eight years ago, we described Obama as the best speechifier of his generation. How quickly his rhetoric soured, how quickly we realised that he was no orator, that without his polished, autocued soundbites he was just a tongue-tied oaf, resorting inevitably to the inane burblings of a late-night TV chat show host, a Letterman or Leno, trading meaningless cant, a clown for all seasons.


Last Tuesday night’s performance,
 before an adoring audience, was vintage Obama, seemingly principled and lyrical but on closer examination mere self-serving tripe, a ghastly, inaccurate, exaggerated, selective, contradictory and misleading psalm to himself.
     A modest man would have blushed but Obama is a shameless hyperbolist;

 there is no red line which cannot be undrawn, no claim which cannot be unclaimed, no truth which cannot be untruthed. He has ended torture, he says, and worked on closing Gitmo.  He hasn’t ended torture and he hasn’t closed Gitmo; he has, in fact, legalised the summary and unconstitutional murder abroad of US citizens (and others) but he makes these pious Gitmo claims quickly, amongst a catalogue of other bogus achievements, and the hand-picked crowd goes wild in an ecstasy of righteous, ethical masturbation. Hacks in the UK, the same vermin who rejoiced at the burning of the wheelchairs and the closing of the libraries, claimed to have wept at Obama’s speechifying. Luvvies, too, are sobbing into their TwitterThings. 
MommieDearest Mia Farrow has issued a proclamation to the effect that Barry and Shell have created the real Camelot, there, in Washington DC. Well, spouse to both Mafia wife-beater Frankie Sinatra and the dwarf beast, Woody Allen, Mad Mia should know a good Camelot when she starry-eyes one.
 
I have yet to learn Mr Bruce Beardsteen’s view on this glorious tragical-comical-historical event but no doubt light entertainer Bruce,  a man who considers himself not so much a pop singer as a Movement, will have profound thoughts to share with us, about his baby, and being in his car, and about his president. (No doubt he’ll share them soon at a concert near you, at a hundred pounds a ticket. Can’t get more blue-collar rock‘n’roll than that. An insufferable cunt, Springsteen; where is punk 2.0 when you need it?)

A man in retarded adolescence and his hero. Take your pick.
That post-election issue of Time, from which Obama seems to have taken inspiration, illustrated the ishmaelite truth that they - the hacks and the luvvies and the legislators - are all just talking to themselves, whistling in the dark, pissing in the wind. Hillary and Spunky Bill Clinton’s defeat at the hands of the Trumpsters is described exhaustively, in Time, as a glass-ceiling issue, the failure of an electorate poorly connected to feminism; the dreadful old bitch is portrayed as an American Moses, an imperfect prophet, leading women to the edge of the Promised Land. Now it’s up to another woman to enter it, for America, according to Time, must have a woman president. Now, given that only the truly rotten can ever come within a mile of nomination for that office, what Time would appear to say is that the system must be influenced, as it was in Clinton’s case, in order that a rotten woman, instead of a rotten man, be elected.
The voters must be educated, alerted to the fact that for Ruin to prosper it must appear to be a pestilence truly committed to equality of opportunity, right? Isn’t that what it means? For surely to God no one in their right mind would find Virtue or Competence in Hillary Clinton.
Hillary, though, claims Time, couldn’t do right for doing wrong; she was too smart, too experienced, too well-briefed for dumb, sexist voters, and that’s why she lost to a redneck fat-head.  What a shame that sexist America isn’t more like Pakistan or India, where women members of political dynasties were a shoo-in to pre-sidencies and prime ministerships; why can’t American political dynasties similarly flourish, bleated the Clinton camp mourners, like good democrats. We want our own royal families, people better than us, just because, well, because they stole more, and because they say so. Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you a King. Or a presidential candidate.
In the entire post-election issue of Time there was no mention of voters being suspicious of a marriage which may have existed for no other reason than to neutralise Spunky Bill’s sexual predations, to homogenise sexual abuse into a palatable mix of a good-if-naughty-ole-boy, stood-by, loved and forgiven by his family, 
 
even though the whole nightmare nuptial trip apparently survived only to secure Hillary’s political career. 
There was no mention of vast sums of money being funnelled into both the Clintons’ Foundation and their election fund. Hillary didn’t lose, according to Time, because of her extraordinary and illegal personal IT server and her disappearing of thirty thousand e-mails (Richard Nixon, we must remember, was indicted over a missing seventeen and a half minutes of recorded tape.) Hillary didn’t lose because of her mishandling of Libya or the preventable murder of the US ambassador, nor because of her bizarre relationship with the wife of serial sex offender, Anthony Weiner, and definitely not because of her watertight and highly lucrative connections to Wall Street.                                                       
No, to the ordinary voters, none of this stuff was important enough to make them vote for Trump instead of Clinton; the nasty voters only did it and she only lost because she is a woman. That’s what the faithful were saying to each other on election night and they are still saying it. Worse, they are all still hoping to see Hillary and Spunky Bill in the White House.
Unseating Trump would not be enough; his VeeP, Pence, would have to go as well. Nothing would do, short of the Clintons retrospectively being awarded the White House by default.
Speaking to a partisan audience at a stage-managed event in his home town, Obama perfectly articulated the American Nightmare. Always a bogus illusion foisted by elites upon greedy, gullible morons, the US political system has yet to produce a president of any merit and it never will, now; crooks and cheats and worse, most of them, and if one shows a hint of Decency, say, Jimmy Carter, he is rubbished by his colleagues, knee-capped by the press and a proper dummy installed, in that case the fuckwit, Reagan, and his star-gazing Mummy-Wife, Nancy.
Imagine, Jimmy Carter in the White House when Manhattan sky-scrapers fall inexplicably to the ground in their own footprints, and there’s a ban on US air travel, apart from Saudi Arabians fleeing homeward; imagine that relatives of the dead are beaten by lawnforcement for disputing the facts; imagine that the very steel from the most blatantly deceptive building collapse is immediately shipped to India for re-cycling; imagine that the Constitution is ripped up and the state empowered to read your every written word, to listen to your every conversation; imagine that Torture and Sadism are sanctified at home and abroad by the White House; they’d have ripped poor Jimmy’s guts out.
George Dubya Chimp, however, stupid and compliant as a penniless, drunken whore, was licensed to commit kleptomaniacal genocide and nobody said Boo!
It is this failure properly to control and orchestrate the illusion of democracy which Trump personifies; it was the personification, in millions, of the Can’t-Fool-All-Of-The-People-All-Of-The-Time dictum which saw him elected, and which sees so many attempts  to unseat him before he gets into the saddle.
Obama’s not very subtle plea for people to stand up and participate was a sneaky call to civil unrest, one which, under his stewardship, would have seen its author under arrest. (Obama, interestingly, has never, to my knowledge, since being elected, voiced a whisper of criticism of George Dubya, a man as rotten as can be, yet whilst loyal to the Presidential Fellowship of Thieves Obama unprecedentedly, and, we must presume, with the permission of his masters, used the office of President to join enthusiastically in the partisan campaign for his successor.) To those watching, bemused, Obama’s audience 

appeared either to be on Happy Pills or comprising the very best of CyberCorp’s SynthCitizen range, cheering and stomping at every successive dishonesty.
I confess to never having completed George Orwell’s 1984 but  it seemed that Obama has developed a NewSpeak of his own, deploying blatant lies as Truths, totally inverting disgusting reality into cheerworthy platitude; that he has accomplished this on the back of his notional blackness shows all the more vividly the stupid, voluntary complicity of an audience reared on Hollywood’s presentation of a mythical America.

 I dunno about you - just to digress for a minute -  but if I was on an aircraft hijacked by a handful of screeching, hysterical Muslim nancyboys, armed only with tiny little blades, I'd fucking kill the bastards.  Even if they held Kalashnikovs,
 I would stab the fuckers in the eye with anything that came to hand - pen, spoon, rolled-up magazine, anything; you can make a sharp, eye-penetrating splinter from a plastic coffee cup - I'd grab them by the bollocks and twist as hard as I could,  that'd make them cry-out and pray to Allah in their hour of need, alright, peace and blessings be upon His name, as we should now all say, lest we offend those who want to kill us, out of respect; I'd kick them, punch them, strangle them, I'd bite their fucking faces off. But no, even though they outnumbered the unarmed arabs by ten or twenty or thirty to one, September 11's Americans sat still, doing as they were told, probably expecting Superman to fly alongside, or Bruce Willis to emerge, bloody and in his vest, from the baggage hold; tossers, too stupid even to fight for their lives, too cowed; too fucking special; American exceptionalism, another chorus from the  Obama songbook of criminal fraud.

The great confection of Americanism to which Obama repeatedly alluded the other night was not Nobility. There was nothing noble about drunken Paddy bastards dressed up like cavalry and mutilating native continental indigents at Wounded Knee; nothing noble about refugee Scotsmen founding the Ku Klux Klan and burning negroes alive; nothing noble about Haliburton mercenaries and psychobastard crew-cut MommasBoy GIs looting and gang-raping their way through Iraq and Afghanistan, and there is definitely nothing noble or self-sacrificial about militarised lawnforcement goons shooting black people like clay pigeons. What - in relation to Americanism - Obama was actually referring to was the cruel utility of overwhelming might and technology, to the plantation’s whip-wielding overseer, to the Gatling gun and the atom bomb, to napalm and Agent Orange, to that towering American virtue;  vicious technology applied to defenceless populations. 

    

  Indeed, every matter to which he had turned his attention had been improved by his thoughtful consideration…


My fellow motherfuckers. When I assumed my great office I speechified like a demented sonofabitch that the authors of the financial crisis would be hunted down and punished.

Now, after eight years, I am happy to report that up to and as many as precisely no bankers or financiers or mortgage carpetbaggers have been arrested, prosecuted or jailed. As many as precisely none. Not one. That aint the way to keep folks working. And I’m proud that my administration helped keep so many, well, all the bankers and financiers and mortgage carpet-baggers in work. And as a matter of fact, as a part of moving forward, I have managed to employ as many members of Goldman Sachs in the White House as they have told me to. Yessir, n’deed I have.

Same as the professional torturers. 
I remember, right here, in mr ishmael’s commentaries, vowing to track down them torturing folks and punish them. But instead I chose to be more progressive, make torture part of our arsenal against bad folks and keep them torturers hard at work, in jobs, and payin taxes. How many torturers did we prosecute and punish? That’s right, up to and including and as many as precisely none. 

The economy is cured, fixed, sorted, even though America is indebted to a degree almost unimaginable, a sum which can never, ever, ever be paid off, but only written off, by a war or some other act of selfless virtue; jobs are abundant, even though voters in America’s industrial heartland think differently (and they ought to know) so differently in fact that they voted for anyone bar the Democrats whom they’d supported for generations, a bit like what happened  to Labour in Scotland; a parliamentary party grown fat on the strife of the poor had its arse kicked, and one hopes that the contusions prove fatal.
The US now has an NHS, even though it doesn’t; Peace reigns, even though it doesn’t; Obama has reined in the military-industrial complex, even though it is stronger now, and more costly, than it was under George Dubya Chimp; Uncle Sam still has eight hundred military bases abroad and is spreading to places from which it has long been absent, armies posted to Australia and the Baltic states, fleets cruising in the South China Sea; US fleets and forces intimidate almost everyone in the world, they provoke and perpetuate tensions; her drones assassinate illegally and at will, and her recent Secretary of State seemed to provoke conflicts at the whim of her Arab paymasters.
To Obama and his handlers, War truly is Peace.

Thanks to capitalist US adventurism, shambolic millions of mig-rants are besieging European nation states, making chaos of national public services budgets and among their ranks are many made sui/homicidal by Uncle Sam slaughtering their infants. 

 

The world, in short, and the US particularly, are in a better place, thanks to himself. You have to laugh, because if you cried, you know you’d fill a lake with tears.

One of the things I have accomplished with your help is the end of war. And that is why the American arms industry grows almost exponentially, year on year. The US can proudly say that it is the world’s biggest arms producer. And that its Commander-in-Chief, myself, has brokered more arms sales - and to more degenerate, criminal regimes - than any other president in history.

My stewardship of world peace has resulted in forty billion dollars’ worth of weapons sales in 2016 alone. And it just doesn’t get more peaceful than that.

Even that great American institution, ForkHead DeathCorp, is on record as saying that thanks to your Commander-in-Chief, the Middle East is seen, more and more, as what its sales teams call an area of outstanding growth. And that’s not all. These sales are led by those good folks at the Pentagon. Those great patriots. Who will, there is no doubt, in future, take up responsible positions in that same arms industry. And who, on behalf of those client states - say, Saudi Arabia and Iraq - decide exactly what arms they need to buy, going forward. We tellem what they need in order to kill or torture folks, which folks they need to kill or torture, and then they pay us for it.

 Was business ever any better than that?
And to those great ISIS libertarians and Al-Kay remnants, fighting Russian tyranny in Syria, we sellem arms, too. Y’know, we can’t expect our allies in ISIS to make progress just by chopping folks’ heads off, or burning them alive in cages. We will sell the instrumentation of Death to anyone. Just so long as they got money. And if they aint got any money we givem credit.

Juss like we did with the Limeys. When they were fighting Hitler and what they called fascism. Loaned’em three, nearly four billion, to buy shit from us with. Okay, it meant that after the war they had a decade or so of Austerity. But that’s just how business is. You have’ta fuck everybody up the ass. 

 And do it hard. 

Even if without them - the Limeys - we might all be speaking Kraut, now, in America. And my folks’d definitely be in the gas ovens. Betcha sweet ass. Schwarzers, Hermann didn’t like schwarzers. Worse’n Jews, is what they thought. But that’s no reason them Limeys deserve special treatment. Just for standing up to bad shit. When everyone else just bent over for Hermann’s racist dick. Is it? I don’t see what’s so special about that.

 They paid it all off, though, the Limeys, a hundred billion bucks in today’s money. Done it in 2006. That guy, Snotty, the one from off the Northern Reservation, he did it. And that’s why we call it a special relationship. We bled Britain dry while giving shitloads’a dollars to the post-war Hermanns. And that’s why, when they wanna disobey us, I, as your Commander-in-Chief, had to kick their asses to the back of the line. Save the world from tyranny or not.
                                                     
My fellow motherfuckers. That great experiment in democracy. Which we call Guantanamo Bay. Is. Thanks to the efforts of my administration. Still in business. Mistreating nigger folks. Now, they may or may not be guilty of something. They was, after all - most of em, anyway - just pulled off the streets of Islamabad or some shithole like that. And sold by the kilo to the brave men and women of the CIA. Fifty thousand dollars for a terrorist is a lotta money to some nigger in a dress and I guess they just grabbed some other nigger, anyone who took their fancy and said, Hey, way to go, this one’s a terrorist, and this one, and this one over here. That’ll be a hundred and fifty thousand bucks please, CIA effendi.

 
And so, my fellow motherfuckers. It only seems right. That we torture their asses, these people that we bought fair‘n’square, just like our ancestors bought the slaves offa their neighbours. An find out if they are guilty of something.
 
My National Security advisers tell me that if you torture folks long enough, they’ll confess to almost anything. That they’ll even make shit up. Shit that nobody ever done, never mind them doin it. Shit that never even happened. And confess to it. So, as part of my legacy, to you, the American people. Part of my legacy is, well, I don’t much like to refer to them Limey sonsabitches these days. Not after they disobeyed Uncle Sam, like that. Over Europe. But there was this Limey poet. And if I can paraphrase his ass, as part of my legacy, 

I will remind you that, if I should die, think only this of me : that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever Torture.
And when people say they don’t want no more immigrants, they should remember, as I do, that without the Poles and the Krauts and the Wops and the Paddies coming over here we wooden’a bin able to kill most of the indigenous people, burn their villages, baby-rape them and herd the survivors into concentration camps, where, my fellow motherfuckers, they remain to this day, dejected and dispirited, just like we’d ethnic-cleansed them or something, just to make way for greedy immigrants, too fucked-up to make a go of things back in they own countries. Swat made America great. Exceptional.

And just lemme speak to my record on lawnorder, jurisprudence and due process and why we murderered Osama bin Laden - or some nigger, anyways, and his family - in cold blood, and dumped the bodies in the sea when we could’ve easily captured him and brought him back here to stand trial. Well, folks, that’s a simple one. See, when a great crime is committed against America - say, when a president is assassinated or some buildings get blown up - then what you gotta do is find a patsy and killim, quick, just in case, at his trial, he says things about folks who benefited from the crime, things that nobody oughta hear about. And so, in the finest trad-itions of American justice, the man we said was responsible for 9/11, or a man, at least, was shot dead and silenced.

Job done, as the Limeys say. Case closed. It really was a proper example of American justice working just fine. No need to thank me. I was just doing my job, murdering anyone I felt like and perverting the course of justice.


My fellow motherfuckers, you would expect nothing less from me.

Just as I never finished 1984, I actually know bugger-all about Pavlov and his poor dogs, except that they were tortured into responding in certain ways to certain stimuli, 
 
like Obama’s stooges, though the Chicagoans do it to much greater effect. The Pavlov dogs remained dogs, illustrative of nothing more than their programmability. Anybody can train a dog - well, anybody but meI tend to have arguments, discussions, really, with Harris, in which I articulate his points of view and which, even so, he more often than not wins.
he more often than not wins.


 Obama’s dogs, however, screened around the world, were, as laughter-tracks prompt otherwise undeserved laughter, intended to prove the universal truth of his remarks; they would have cheered had he been speaking out of his arse literally as well as figuratively; they were responding to a kind of psychic cattle-prod, a crowd-taser. They only had to hear the words America or Michelle or Chicago or Liberty or Freedom or EllGeeBeeTee and they would erupt, cheering and clapping and crying as Tee-Vee anchors and hacks all around the world rejoiced, insisting to viewers that the few thousands in the Chicago hall cheered for and on behalf of the whole wide world a-watching. How could we betray such Goodness, by electing such Evil? It’s not too late; we can stay in Europe and we can overthrow Trump.

 

But my fellow motherfuckers, no matter how hard we’ve all worked together for the bankers, we should ree-dooce the influence of money in politics. I mean, it was fine when me and my fellow presidents were all on the make, sellin our asses to Mammon but now that the president-elect shits golden hundred dollar turds, we gotta review our priorities; leastways until we get rid of him.
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Don’t let me be misunderstood. That small fortune that President and Mrs Bill accrued after leaving office (and in her case perhaps while she was still very much in office, as it doesn’t say in the thirty thousand emails which she didn’t destroy and even if they did say that, what does it matter?) that was good, decent, grafted money, correctly given and received, in fair exchange for legal actions in and out of office, and it is perfectly proper and constitutional that once they had taken out what they needed for themselves, they spent some of that money on buying the White House on behalf of all the foreign folks who had given them the money in the first place. I mean, no good American patriot thinks that you can be poor and get into the White House, do they? That aint what the American Dream is all about. It’s all about money; stealin it or takin it as a bribe; protection money or political donation, paid to gangster or politician, aint no difference.

But for the President-elect to have money from none of those fine sources is just one more reason for you to take the law into your own hands, I mean to engage with politics like you never have before, during those years you have been betrayed by proper crooks, like me.

It just remains for me to congratulate myself on my wife 

 

and the children, as politicians always do;

their children and wives being so wonderful, 




 
how can the politician, himself, be anything less than equally wonderful?

That was President Obama there, in Chicago. Yes, I know, viewers, fucking awful. And now briefly to Jayne Tits, who’s there for us, in the hall, talking to a tearful Obama supporter…

 Tell me, MaryJo, was that speech wonderful for you?

 Yes, it sure was wonderful.

 

And why was it so wonderful?

 

Because it just was. It was just so wonderful.  

 

Yes, he truly is wonderful, President Obama.

 

Yes Ma’am, he sure is. He sure is just, I dunno, wonderful?

 

And President-elect Trump, I don’t suppose you think he’s very wonderful at all, do you?


No Ma’am, I sure don’t think he’s wonderful at all. I surely don’t




It went on like that for about ten fucking minutes, look you, isn't it, make your fucking toes curl it would. I said to them, I said I wasn't gonna be in any news show that broadcast crap like that, look you, isn't it. I mean, there is a fucking limit, even for me, and I've played the piano for Tom Fucking Jones, look you.  Not too many newscasters can say that, not at the PBC. Least he's not a paedo, Jonesy, pity he can't sing, though, just yellin' and fuckin' bawling, 'swhat he does, shame he couldn't lower his voice to a scream, if you ask me.
So, anyway, in a break with PBC tradition we thought we'd bring you this, from my colleague at ChannelFour's News and Indignation Show, Mr Jon Sox. Jon, what's your take on all this, isn't it, look you, this Obama business, you're a bit broken-hearted, I understand.........? Back on the wacky baccy, isn't it/? Don't mind a toke, myself, got to have something to get me through all this bollocks I have to read out. I'll pop round to your studio, then, eh?

Yeah, man, like whatever.
  One newscaster for all and all newscasters for one newscaster. 
If it's cool with you, it's cool with me.
I'm just so fucked-up, man, with Trump winning and Obama going, man; it's too much heavy shit.


CHANNEL FOUR NEWS AND INDIGNATION.


noun: learned helplessness
a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR  DAILY ALLEPO.

Good evening, this is Channel Four News and Indignation, with me, Jon Sox,


 the caring, caring face of madeupnewsandfilth4caring people. 
 And tonight we report, as we do every night, in terms of helpless, ballsaching despair, from Aleppo, where the ceasefire, when there is one, is rubbish; where the non-ceasefire is rubbish, too; 
where John NewFace,  


US Seckaterry of State,  



and all other decent, modest  people, 
 
like me,  
say that whatever they do the Russians are bastards, 
they're bastards and war criminals.
 And lessfaceit, attacking ISIL and al Ki-wossaname, is just not what we are supposed to be doing is it?  
What we should be doing is something which nobody knows what it is. 
Just that we should be doing it. 
Y'know, as that ishmael bloke says, at the top of the page:  intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do.


Except that we don't.


Quite frankly, we in the West have been shamed, haven't we, by Mrs Merkel, who has shown us the true meaning of the word Humanity,

 

 unless, that is, you happen to be a homeless person, being immolated by some needy refugee children or out  doing a bit of Christmas shopping and you get seasonally mashed-up by a forty-ton lorry



 - did I say Christmas shopping?  
I meant Mid-Winter Festival shopping, because, lessfaceit, there's no exclusive and discriminatory religious, monotheistic aspect to Christmas, is there;  it's not as though Christians own Christmas or anything;


 I mean,  Christmas, 
for it to mean anything at all, has to be Muslim, doesn't it,  Mohamed came first, didn't he, you do the math, and Jesus just happened to be born on Christmas Day, didn't he;  yes, and whilst it may well be a family event, family, these days, takes many shapes and forms, so Christmas, if we must have it,  must be one which clearly reflects and signposts every step on the gender highway, representing the journeys which we all are making;  we, all of us, after all, are born lesbian or gay or pre- or post- or having-changed-our-minds-back-again- transgender or queer and we  are finding our own way out of the heterosexual or homonormativity straightjacket which has so sullied our civilisation.......

Any chance, Jon, we might cut to the fucking chase, pardon my fucking French, boyo, I mean, I brought the PBC viewers here to hear about about Obama, what with you and your connections, look you, isn't it, your connections, in Washington, and all we've heard is gay fucking rights, again....

Yes, Huw, but this is sophisticated news, for sophisticated indignant people, unlike some I could mention it's not all sport and showbiz, all in due course, Hughie, all in due course.

 Yes, now, where was I, yes,  we should be inviting members of the truck-crashing-into-shoppers diaspora 


to come and live in our spare rooms, well, not mine, obviously, but yours, our caring viewers' spare rooms. 
People like Gilly, whom mr ishmael wrote about, people who want to do something.



I mean, 
for all the good these cease-fires are doing the Russians may as well be bayonetting babies, which, we are reliably informed, is what the typical Russian soldier - or to give him his proper name, the typical Russian war criminal  

 
- likes to do anyway. 

Overthrowing the tyranny of Basher Assad,
Aleppo freedom fighters,
 are freedom fighting in the streets,
like this

and maintaining the rule of law,
like this

in the face of Russian brutality.
And we should jolly well get behind them.


Yes, yes, I know they lost twenty million in the Hitler war, the Russians,  but that's no reason for them disobeying Mrs Merkel now, is it;  and anyway, twenty million, what's twenty million;  it doesn't compare to the six million Jews who were killed,  I mean, you do the math, the numbers don't add-up; yes, and as well as the gipsies and homosexuals there were anarchists and  troublemakers, and talking about trade unionists, when you look at how certain British trade unions are currently behaving, inconveniencing people, well, you can't help but think that maybe there were aspects of Herr Hitler's strategy to which we could  all sign-up. Not with regard to the Jews, obviously, who lost so many more than the Russians, but the Russians themselves. And the trade unionists.  I mean, why should people be allowed to withdraw their labour, merely to protect their working conditions? 

 
I mean, 
striking's all very well, just as long as it doesn't interfere wth anything, like the bosses, who, let's face it, have enough to cope with, after the Brexit mistake, or the public, who might shout at the bosses, or the govament, when they should be shouting at the strikers, who are just ordinary people, like themselves.


 I mean, 
let's face it, apart from schools and hospitals and state pensions and equal pay for women,  and a minimum wage and health and safety and holiday pay and sick pay and maternity leave what have the unions ever done for anyone?

But Kelvin McFilth, 

who is perhaps Fleet Street's greatest editor emeritus,
 will be joining us to explain why striking workers should be shot.
Hack their fucking 'phones 'swhat I say; 
slags, that's what they are.
Shoot the cunts.
And if they got any teenage daughters,
 make 'em get their fuckin' tits out on page free.
An' their arses.
That's proper fucking journalism. 


Indeed it is, Kelvin, indeed it is.
Always got a platform on the PBC and a few license-payer quid for my old Murdoch mate.  
Those were the days eh, Kelvin, 
me at the Sunday Times, you at the Sun, 
trashing, between us,  everything decent. 
Did I tell you I went to grammar school and then to Glasgow university?
 
Yeah, right, Andrew, 
and then straight into the sewer, eh?


 
Well I'm not like Andrew Neil. 
On my show it definitely isn't all about me; well, not entirely.
Later in the show Cathy will be looking at how Brexit has deepened the plight of those suffering in Syria from Russian occupation and shameless Russian attacks on Islamic State freedom fighters and how we, as a nation, should be ashamed of ourselves. 
I mean beating ISIL in Iraq is one thing, isn't it, but beating them in Syria, where we are arming them in order to overthrow Basher Assad, that's a different thing altogether.


And to explain that apparent contradiction - that we are now working with our own worst enemy -  we are joined by War Seckaterry, Sergeant Mad Mick Fallon. 

So the thing is, you fly the plane 
and I drop the naplam on the children, right?
And watch them run around, ablaze?

 
Mad Mick Fallon, how do we explain to people why on the one hand ISIL are our deadly enemies and we have to listen-in to everyone's phone calls and read their emails in case they are terrorists working for ISIL while on the other hand we are funding and arming ISIL in order that they might overthrow Basher Assad? 


Yes, Field Marshal Ali Baba, and which part of ISIL do you represent?  
Are your wages coming on time?  
Plenty of guns and bombs and things like that?


Well, quite frankly, Jon, 
I think that your viewers have enough on their minds, just now, what with Rick Parfitt, George Michael and now Princess Wotsit, Leah, is it, all being murdered by 2016 - because,  make no mistake, Jon, that's what's happened, unless, of course you are one of those people who believe that great artists just die, just like that, y'know, because of illness or old age - for them to be bothered about us, in govament,  spending billions on arming the people we say are our greatest enemies.


Yes but minister, 
how do we know which are the good ISIL-ites, and which the bad? I mean, we cheer and applaud when we drive them from Iraqi towns but it's a crime against humanity when Basher and Mr Putin drive them from Syrian ones, in fact we don't even call them terrorists, which they are, we call them rebels, which they're not, they're just foreign fighters paid for by us and Uncle Sam to overthrow the majority in Syria.  That is what's happening, minister, isn't it?


That's a very good question, Jon,  
but you'll appreciate that if I were to answer that I might be endangering the lives of our very brave servicemen and women, not to mention the share price of the arms industry, upon whose profits your pension and mine depend. Mine more than yours, obviously, because I work for them and you don't, not directly, anyway.  
And it's just exactly what it says at the top of mr ishmael's commentary, which we are all appearing in - the News, and you, especially, Jon,  peddle Learned Helplessness, and it does so  by broadcasting, day after day after fucking day, miserable, shitty, tragic, horrifying  events which no-one here can influence or change and you leave them utterly washed-out and therefore  unable to influence or effect those things upon which they can act, by, just  for instance, sacking cunts like me; you are as much to blame  for cunts like me, Jon, as cunts like me are, you are part of the Learned Helplessness business, you teach it.  Earthquakes and floods, Jon, in places no-one ever heard of, much less cared about, and you sit here, all indignant, that nobody's doing enough, either to remedy that day's particular tragedy, or to stop tragedy ever happening again, feigning an innate, all-encompasing and inexhaustible Goodness you make people feel bad.  Feeding on death, Jon, you're like a nightmare, sermonising carrion crow; 'swhat you are, Jon, what you have always been, one of Death's long-distance parasites. In your own way, you are much worse than me and my kind. Death's Seckaterries, they only serve a  handful of years, you, his Broadcaster and Praise Singer, you are his life-long liegeman.  Nightly, you gorge on those maimed, murdered, drowned, buried alive, imprisoned, starving, freezing, leprous, thirsting, trafficked, abused by their fellows, swept aside by Nature, you, Jon Sox, you are the ultimate pornographer, your show is a state-sanctioned snuff movie; squalid, repulsive and probably insane, you are a cancer in the public discourse.
But the main thing, anyway, Jon, regarding your question,  is that I, 
as HM War Seckaterry, know exactly what is going on and that's all that matters, isn't it? Unless you want to give the people another referendum? 
Oh, and apart from that,  as well as being an obnoxious bully, I am, like yourself, stark, raving mad. Now, should we have another referendum, about  war or anything?


Fuck me, no, minister, 
certainly not, 
not after the last one which they got so wrong. 


Yes, Jon, very good, glad you're co-operating with govament. 
It's rather like the aircraft carriers, them not having any aircraft to carry, unless Mme le Pen lends us some, which she won't.
That's strictly on a need-to-know basis. 
And I don't need you to know.


Gosh, that was Michael Fallon, there, for us.
Here's Cathy Stilletos. 
The token feminist harpy.


Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Eeeeek-eeeeek-eeeek-eeeek-eeeek-eeeek-eeeeek-eeeek.
Hiss-hiss-hiss-hiss-hiss-hiss-hiss.

It's not too late, y'know, viewers,  to pull back from the brink and  reject Nigel Farage and all his works.  I mean, clearly, the numbers show that we sensible Remainers won the vote and have been cheated.  Just do the math, the figures don't add up, seventeen million is actually, in the real world,  far fewer than fifteen million.
And anyway, I mean, it's not all about  numbers, is it, voting?

And Krish will be reporting from Mexico City, where Donald Trump, having stolen the US election, has caused the spontaneous combustion of  millions of pesos' worth  of fireworks, killing a couple of dozen wetbacks.  It is believed that Mr Trump's threat to build a wall between the Greasers and decent white Americans has, rather like the inexcusable Brexit, destabilised the entire hemisphere. I'll be joined in the studio by prominent columnists and pollsters, like this cunt, here
Not this one, the one below him.

CELEBRITY MASTERMINDS R US
PBC, December 2016.
John Young-Parent Humphrys:



David Snuffler's-Beard Aaronovitch,  you work as a journalist, pundit, commentator, forecaster and all-round know-it-all.
You didn't see the Great Tits-Up coming,  you didn't see the Cameron majority coming, you didn't see Corbyn coming and staying, you didn't see Brexit coming, you didn't see Trump  coming;  let's see how you do with general knowledge:
 Which US President was distinguished from his presidential father by the use of their middle-name initials?

Dave Brains Aaronovitch.
 Was it Quincy Adams? 


It was actually President George Dubya Chimp, whose father was President George Herbert Walker (Dubya) Chimp.
And at the end of that round, Dave Aaronowitch, you've made a cunt of yourself, as usual.
Not that you care about that.
How could you, after all this time?

 to discuss how, in the interests of democracy,  President Obama might be persuaded  to stay in the White House for another four-year term. Or until President Trousers is duly declared the winner of the election which she bought so hard to win. 


New faces for old. 


I mean the election she fought so hard to win.  
No, no, I don't, I mean bought.
You'd think, wouldn't you, that losing two US presidential elections'd make any sane old lady retire, look-after her syphilitic pretend-husband and her retarded daughter and any retarded grandchildren which may come along. Either that or set-up a not very idyllic SapphoStudiesCentre, with the former Mrs Wiener, somewhere in upstate New York. I mean just do the maths, two out of two is almost a hundred per cent, so the numbers just don't add-up, do they? 
And now she's talking about running again, in 2020, when she'll be, what, seventy fucking three?  Nothing whatsoever wrong with old men - like me - clinging-on to jobs which we are incapable of doing, but old women doing it, well, that'd just be tokenism, wouldn't it?
  I know that that's what we do here at C4's SnowNews, pretend that we really value people like Krish and wotsername, that gobby Asian woman, Zainad Badawe, is that her? No, no, I'm hearing in my earpiece that she left thirty years ago - doesn't time fly when you have a job for life, as I do - and that we now have another brown bimbo, no, dunno her name.

 Anyway, Huw.......

 
Fuck me, Snowy, bach, I was just gonna put me feet up and get some kip, thought you were gonna rant-on for fucking hours, look you, isn't it, with that arsewipe, Fallon, he's truly insane, you know, isn't it, mad as a fucking hatter, think's he's Napoleon. I wouldn't have him on my show. Are we gonna talk about Obama, now, is it ?


Yes, Huw, and we are joined now from Washington

 by my American friend and colleague,
 Mr Joe Klein, of America's Time magazine. 



Joe, like me, you are a professional journalist of great integrity
 and you, therefore, worship the ground on which President Barack Obama walks.
 It must be a hard time for you, seeing him leave office, with the whole world either laughing at him or ignoring him, rather like our own Mrs Askey, I mean, I don't know if you saw the pictures of her in Europe the other day, 

everybody looking at her like she was a whore at a hockey match.
I couldn't help but feel a little indignant about that, but it doesn't take very much, people denying tnat we are all gay, for instance, that really gets me going. But anyway,
I mean - and I dunno what you think, Joe -  but maybe if she'd worn the leather trousers,

and maybe a pair of spikey boots, and given the Europeans  a good, stern Yes Miss, No Miss talking-to....

 I dunno, whaddayouthink, Joe, 
would it work for you, 
would you talk to an old lady 
dressed-up in bondage gear?


Run a fucking mile, me, JonBoy;
 what is it you Limeys say?
  Like shit off of a shovel, is that it? 
 Her husband, he's a comedian, right? 


Does stand-up, in flea-pit thee-ayters and on the radio, right? 
Ya still call it the wireless, here, in Limeyland?


Can't somebody have a word in his ear, 
the comedian, get him to kinda rein-in the old bitch.
I mean, you know as well as I do that thee-ayter folks are all stone mad, cock-wavin' perverts, exhibitionists, drug addicts  and child molester, an' that they dress-up in each others clothes and all kindsa shit, beat each other on the ass with sticks'n'belts'n'whips'n'barbed fuckin' wire, an' even, when they cain't get no-one else to fuck-about with, they string 'emselves up in a fucking noose like Clint Eastwood done to them bad guys  in Hang 'Em High - no, mebbe it was in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, mebbe it was in  both of 'em, it's a kind of a signature note for America, isn't it, hanging folks, shooting 'em, gassing 'em, poisoning them and electrocuting them, just one of the great things about this great nation of ours - an' then they balance themselves on a chair an'  jerk 'emselves off while they're nearly choking - auto-erotic asphyxiation, that, I believe, is the latin name for it, JonBoy.  Unless those guys from MI5 bust in and kick the fuckin' chair away and phone for Filthy Kelvin McKenzie to send some slags around to photograph the body 'n'print the story. 


I'm tellin' ya, JonBoy, 
I hate to think what goes on in that Downing Street dive come night-time.

 Nah, give me the fuckin' heebie jeebies, you Brits do, with all yer mad vices, an' the prime minister, floozyin' about, like a fuckin' old-age pensioner dominatrix wet-dream nightmare;  well, you know, once upon a time that stuff'd just stay behind closed doors, more or less; nowadays, though, within  a heartbeat, everybody in the world can see that the UK prime minister has some serious fetish issues on her mind. 
 Bondage trousers? 
On the sofa? 
In Ten Downing Street? 
What with Brexit and everything? 
The rest of the world'll think you've all gone insane. 

 
And don't start me, neither, JonBoy, on what'll happen if these heavy colds that the Queen'n' Phil  have got turn into pneu-fuckin'-monia and the pair of 'em croak.  
Fuck me Jesus, the whole fuckin' place'll turn into the Land of Perpetual FlashMourning.

But Jon, thanks for having me on the show, 
it means a lot. 
Y'know, we're very much alike, you and I, old buddy, we both get things as wrong as it's possible to get them - Eye-rack, Brexit, Trump, the Great Banking Tits-Up -  you name it, whatever it is, even though we're the experts, with the inside knowledge and the contacts, we still always get things wrong, not just wrong, we get them ass-backwards, nine times outa ten, Jon, we get things completely shit-faced, half-wit, dumb-ass motherfucker wrong.
An' that must be why, Jon, old buddy, they give ya alla them medals and cups and shit, don't it?  


I mean, that must be right, they must be givin' ya all that stuff for being more fuckin'  useless than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest, mussen they? Right?

 But one thing we ain't wrong about, old buddy,
 is our adoration of President Obama. 
I mean, you've told me privately, more'n once, old buddy,  that you'd use Mr Obama's shit fer toothpatse, aincha? 
An' I tellya somethin', JonnyBoy, you'd plumb haveta wrestle them little beauty-turds outa my hands and shove 'em straight in yer kisser, know what I'm sayin', buster, 'fore I'd part with one a them there fee-cal dee-lights.

An' I tellya sump'n else, old buddy, 
that President Spunky Bill, 


his turds, they ain't half bad, considering, that is, that he ain't a nigger, and that even though the true copraphiliac cognoscenti would always prefer the flavour an' the texcha of that sweet brown stuff, comin' from a sweet brown asshole, 
 why, JonBoy, 

no-one in the journalistic fraternity's ever gonna turn their nose up at cleaning their teeth with a Spunky Bill Sphincter Special. 
That's me, standin' in line, Jon, right there, ready to be his toilet.. 
Yeah, I guess he was askin' her if she liked a nice cee-gar from time to time.
Well, I'd heard, Joe, on this side of the pond,
 as it were, that there were worms in it....
Worms?  
The Hell you say? 
What, worms in ole Spunky Bill's shit?  
An' we journalists're still falling over  ourselves to lick his asshole clean, like he was still president? 
How'd he get worms in his doo-doos?
 Them critters crawl up his asshole, or what? 



No, Joe, 
it's widely rumoured that he has some horrible disease,


 and that he, 
well, he just sort of manufactures the worms,


 inside of himself.


Inside of himself? 
 Just like that? 
What? 
Like he was a walkin'-talkin' wormery?  
Some kinda two-legged compost heap?
And what, they eatin' his ass up, from inside? 
That's some heavy shit, that. 
It's like somethin' from the Old fuckin' Testament. 
 Is it all down to his lifetime of fornicating with every woman he meets, 'n'every girl, too, from what I hear?
  Is that what it is? 
 Like syphillis, some shit like that? 
I betcha that's what it is. 
Worms eatin' ya up from inside, an' you ain't even dead yet. 
That's fuckin' mediaeval, that, Jonboy. 
Just as well he ain't President no more, 
or even First Gennulman. 
Imagine that shit.
 

Imagine President Trousers, in her mad, scarlet pants suit and her brain-tumour faintin' fits, needing to be held-up by a secret service man and her plastic surgery bruises hidin' under her dark glasses, looking like she's escaped from some old lady funny farm and First Genullman Spunky Bill, all whey-faced, like he was having a heart attack, and them both gibberin an' fuckin' droolin' as they're welcoming some foreign fuckin' dig-nit-erry to the White House and a bucket of fucking worms comes cascading down outa his trouser legs an' starts wrigglin' and writhin' all over the fuckin' carpet.
Hundreds of the slimy bastards, 
all glistening with former presidential shit an' blood
an'  that oitment, wossitcalled,  Anusol, is that it, the stuff they give folks with piles?
 You're bound to have piles, aincha, passing hundreds of fucking worms every half hour? 
If you don't get piles in a poxed-up asshole infested with an unlimited supply of worms, when the more worms you shit, the more worms you grow inside of you, then you ain't never gonna have piles, not ever.
That's some heavy shit.
Ya cooden make that shit up, Jon.
Not even in Time magazine. 
I tell ya what, boy, you'n'me, we better think twice,
'fore we eat any more PROTUS doo-doo,
ain't that the trooth, boy?

And, pardon me, isn't it, look you, for intruding; I know this isn't my bulletin, but just a thought, 

thinking out-loud, as it were, isn't it,
but it wouldn't do Wall Street and the Stock Exchange much good, would it? The First Gentleman being worm-incontinent, as the broadsheets would put it, or Spunky Bill Shits Worms in White House! as some of Mr Kelvin McFilth's colleagues might headline it. 
I should think the dollar would hit an all time low, probably never come back up again,
I shouldn't wonder; 
 
  be a bit of a laughing stock, look you, America, wouldn't it, having elected a pair of gibbering, geriatric, poxed-up, worm-shitting lunatics to the highest office in the world, eh, isn't it?

But I had hoped that you might, Joe, if I may call you Joe, that you might tell us of the rumours that Michelle Obama, child of a Chicago drugs boss,  is really Michael Obama;  that her physique, her musculature and skeleton, are incontrovertibly male, in shape and proportionality, that there are many photographs which show an extraordinary, penile shape in her groin; that there is no offical record, anywhere, of the birth of the two girls and that they were said to be delivered, purely coincidentally, by one of her closest friends;  that there are no pictures of either of the two girls below the ages of three and that they are, therefore, adopted and that Barry and Michael, longtime supporters of gay marriage are having what we call a laff, that they are, in fact, a gay couple, Michael having had only the hormone and cosmetic surgery and not the removal of the meat and potatoes as it were. 
Whaddayathink, Joe?


Well, Huw, Joan Rivers  said that was the case. But then she died within a few days of saying so, so I don't think I wanna get into that.

And what about the fact that a young gay man testified to a Senate Committee that he had oral sex and crack cocaine with Senator Obama? It's there, to be seen, on youtube, Did he die, too?

No, not as far as I know. But Obama's assistant, who had been doing the liaison with the young gay man, on behalf of Obama, he died, mysteriously. And so, again, I don't wanna get into this.

That's fine. Rumour casts its wild spell and some events, like the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, are so mired in deceit and obfuscation that the truth may never emerge. 
I am not convinced that Michelle is a man, nor am I convinced that it is any of my business if she is but there is a wealth of persuasive argument in cyberspace. But I would just like to say, for the record, that the accusations about the Obamas' sexuality and about his narcotic use have far more substance to them than do the current rumours about Donald Trump and yet they have not prompted any offical fears of malfeasance, lewdness or blackmailability; unsurpising, given that, just the other night, with the help of MediaMinster,  Obama self-sanctified, and saints, we know, are immune to Earthly prosecution.

Here's what happens when Decorum prohibits an autocue. The tongue-tied bum can always do a bit of song and dance and have it described, by Time magazine's grateful Joe Klein, as Elegance.

Mr Bojangles, the showbiz president.








It all falls a bit flat, this amazing grace gospel turns graceless, when the young and clearly disturbed perpetrator of the multiple church killings 

is sentenced to death, and Obama's fellow congregants applaud the sentence, 

one of the bereaved saying that it proves what Love can achieve - Execution.
Grace Americanised, Grace made Murder.
Apposite, then, and truly representative of America's sickening, brutalising hypocrisy, 
at home, abroad and in its outgoing president.




And in other news, Lady Sir Elton John is said to be deeply traumatised by the death, at only 72, of former football manager, Graham Turnip, as he was unaffectionately known by Kelvin McFilth and his colleagues, down in the sewers.


McFilth's Sun,
 raising the level of national discourse



Does everyone have to die, wailed the distraught, elderly light entertainer and young parent. The football chap was so very, so terribly important to me. I just don't know if I'll be able to carry on. But I must do, for the sake of the children, 


little wotsaname, and the other one.

Graham was secretly a great fan of myself and all my good works, 

selfishly undertaken on behalf of poor, stupid people who didn't go to Oxford and join the PBC, for life, revealed charity queen and   beastfucker, 

Dame Esther Crow. 
( motto: see no evil, not about rich celebrities, anyway)
Like most red-blooded males, Graham kept his attraction to me secret, so's not to offend his wife, but I know that he not only had the hots for my extensive good-doing but for my taut, hot, mature body. They all do.

Wull, it were Graham, bonny lad,  who got me on't road to bein' rich and I'll allus respect 'im fer that, 

stuttered former England captain and cheat, Alan Gob.

Elsewhere, millions of George Michael fans and David Bowie  nutters said their thanks to the dead footballer. Honestly, we were kinda running on empty, as regards mourning fuel, until this chap, Wotsisname, passed away and put, well, he put a tiger in our tanks, a dead one, like, and got us mourning again at full speed. we didn't know him, like, but then we never knew George or David, either, but who gives a fuck about that? It's the mourning that counts, the AreEyePeeing, respect, that's worritsallabout, I mean, this bloke, he was really big in the world of root vegetables, wasn't he? 

 

And that's it for now. 
Kirsty'll be on Newsnight, later, by which time we hope some more celebrities will have died and we can bring the news to you. 
It's why I became a journalist, to obituarise nobodies.
Here's Jayne Tits for you, with the weather, again.

68 comments:

Anonymous said...

*golf clap*

Happy New Year Mr Ish, and please accept a little present
from SJW Santa. Feel free to use it in case your abode is ever visited by the ghosts of encyclopedia salesmen.
Me thinks we should take another long, hard look at those so-called 'witch trials'in Salem. Maybe, just maybe, things were not exactly as modern history wants us to believe.

callmeishmael said...

Thank you, mr anonymous, and a good new year to yourself, also. The idea of an Integration Minister has a flavour of Blind Boy Blunkett, the sightless, cock-waving fascist, crook, liar and Murdoch stooge. At least, though, these people were permitted to protest. Were they to try that in London, the self-styled cradle of modern parliamentary democracy, they would find themselves kettled, assaulted and maybe killed by Mayor Khan's goons, may Allah bless his empty head.

Anonymous said...

You missed out my favourite bit from yesterday's shower of shite - the Judgement of Paris, which has led to Murdoch putting his heel on the throat of Sky Arts' schedule and choking out the one-off sitcom they have apparently made with Brian Cox as Brando and Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson. Young Paris is incredibly offended and honestly wants to vomit.

Well, if Whacko Junior wants to throw up, I think we should all get right behind her...out of range of the spray. Beyond that, where do you fucking start?

Nice job on the O'bamalama BS. I must be getting old - had no idea his missus is meant to be packing meat.

cheers

v.//

Sam Keith said...

Splendid stuff Mr I. The best skewering I've read this year. I look forward to many more.
And Spunky Bill's worm shitstorm brought tears of laughter…as well as some mental images I'll have a job wiping away.

Mike said...

Its natural to be cynical about Trump, and assume its the same old. But if he holds a grudge, and I'm sure he does, then the next short while will be interesting.

Happy New Year, and a splendid read Mr I.

Bungalow Bill said...

One of your best and much required. I think you have indeed photographed Spunky's damned soul.

callmeishmael said...

Cyber Street, mr verge, is rich in Michelle/ Michael, shaved her legs and then he was a she stuff, some of it alarmingly persuasive and apparently scientifically correct, hand propertions, skull to shoulder width and so on, she really is built like brick shithouse and very carefully coiffed and dressed in order to camouflage her striking manliness, it is well worth a look.

callmeishmael said...

With most people, mr sam, I treat ageing and decline with some, well, not sympathy, compassion maybe but I shudder with contempt for people like the Clintons and Tony'n'Imelda Blair and fervently wish upon them a dribbling, shitstorming, frightening descent, of which they are fully aware, additionally, I loathe them for making me feel like that, for making me seek such a cruel catharsis. I am fervently, in my bones, appalled by caital punishment, yet believe that it is too good for these people. Let them shit worms.

callmeishmael said...

I don't believe he is home and dry quite yet, mr mike. It is clever and disarming, how he has appointed people who, during confirmation, contradict his stated positions, thus apparently mitigating the perceived threat which he represents; he is skilfully playing the Fool, and if he withstands the current attacks then I, too, am sure that once in his Manhattan White House he will wreak a furious revenge. Knowing what he did to harmless but obstructive Aberdonian smallholders, one can only guess at his vengeance on the Clinton Circus; jail would probably be the least of it. As I said, his Confederation of Thieves comprises only him, there is neither need for nor purpose in conventional, presidential mutual back-scratching, no wonder they are so desperate to off him.

Happy New Trump; it is bound to be fascinating.

callmeishmael said...

Thank you, mr bungalow bill, it came swiftly, a heady mixture of rage, contempt and steadfast realisation that the emerging text, rather than mere rant, was a commentary as real as pain. I checked as I went, and cross-checked, slip-sliding through one line, nimble as Nijinsky the next. These people, the great and the good, are almost unimaginably rotten, the keepers of Filth's flame; an unlikely Nemesis, Trump may accidentally piss all over and extinguish it, may spark an unintended revolution.

Mike said...

Mr I: I too watched the confirmation hearings. I'm a tragic, I know, but I found it compelling.

Its all theatre. The 2 4-star generals are as tough as they come, but they came accross like sunday school teachers. Jeff Sessions gave glimpses of his inner-steel. When he said he would 'recuse' (is this an Americanism) himself from the Clinton investigation, he all but confirmed there will be an investigation, and it will be a special prosecutor. Mr Trey Gowdy would be my choice. Incidentally, I read that each appointee had gone through hours' of rehersals before the real thing.

The most interesting appointee is Gen Mike Flynn (National Security Advisor) - ; he's held several top military intelligence positions and was recently forced into early retirement after 35 years in the Army because he wanted to radically overhaul intellegence services. So, he has an axe to grind, and knows all the inside shit. And you can bet there are lots of loyal types leaking to him. So there is nothing that Trump won't know.

I'm expecting fireworks soon. They have gone all in now on Trump with the latest dodgy dossier and he is still on top; the only choice now is to kill him.

Bungalow Bill said...

The making of things, the right selection, and how sometimes the fit is given.

walter said...

Evening mr ish ,Your comments on moochelle, well here is a book by J philippe rushton

Race, Evolution Behaviour.... Available has a download, It describes the difference between races,
and there are some.. might not fit your narrative , but its an interesting read

callmeishmael said...

Well, mr mike, everybody watching will be expecting there to be, as a last resort, an attempt on Trump's life, and that, in a way, is his insurance; if he was killed there would be an immediate violent uprising, worse than the First Civil War
Many in the States have been tooled-up, big time, just waiting to kick-off, against the Man, to avenge Waco and Omaha, to settle Vets' scores, to tackle an effete, coastal, fag intelligentsia -and it isn't just civilians, farmers and mountain men but as you have mentioned, no-one knows how lawnforcement, National Guard and military would react if that same intelligentsia deposed their incoming C-in-C.

Recuse, it is an Anglo term, judges recuse themselves when there is a perceived conflict of interest, I believe, also, without checking, that a recusant was one who absented himself, in Reformation times, from whichever was the state-approved religion de jour.

There is nothing tragic about watching this stuff, it is high drama, much better than watching playactors, lamely doing the WestWing Shuffle. Trey Gowdy is absolutely compelling. mrs ishmael can do that stuff, I once saw her dismantle a QC ,kick him around the tribunal court, win the case for her client and, as a bonus, end the glittering career of a vile sexual predator, a very senior person in the criminal justice system. I can't do that stuff, I have won lost-cause court cases it but only by winging it, to be done properly, it needs a mind confident in itself but turbo-charged by a righteous conviction, a mind like Gowry's, or, on that occasion, mrs ishmael's.

Sometimes, as mr bungalow says, the fit is given to the purpose.

If it is ever screened Down Under, the proceedings of the Ulster Assembly are dramatic, some of the participants steeped in murders and torturings unpunished, yet acting for all the world, as lawmakers.

callmeishmael said...

Thank you, mr walter, I will take a look, it sounds familiar.

mongoose said...

Febrile, isn't that the BBC word of choice? They are all surely wetting themselves in horror at what is about to befall them all come Friday next. If I was in the US Intelligence Community, I would keep my trap shut and my powder dry because the blood will soon flow down the corridors of Langley and wherever the FBI hangs out. Survivor pickings will be the order of the day.

The Trumpster's continuing media bypass-by-Twitter is starting to get through to them though - poor Mr Acosta thrown under the hurtling bus this last week. It was a bit like those early scenes in "Zulu" when the old guys on the hill send the young braves out against the redcoats just so that they can count the guns. Poor, gullible lad, but so stupid a bastard.

Here too we have had to build an extension on the soft-hard Brexit house. So unafraid are the deplorable voters that we now have "off the cliff edge Brexit". Not a single silly media luvvie yet understanding that that is what 16 million at least of the 17 voted for. "Bring it on", they all cry. Mistress May, I think, feels the chill wind of Maggiesque "There is no alternative" leadership blowing and she will, I think, be a good schoolma'am and deliver the prize.

And that will surely screw the Comrades for another decade of 1983-like absurdity and irrelevance. Until Nicola goes to her reward and the tribesmen get back to their Buckie teat. Though Labour are so little in need of further mischief that ti brings a tear to one's eye to contemplate the wreckage. So it does. What's in a name, eh? Poor Jezza but when a rat called Tristram jumps from the Labour ship to run the V&A, you are probably on the right track for all your troubles. And we surely have no further need of satire if these things are actually happening in the real world.

I had not heard the rumours that Michelle is packing. What larks that probably isn't! If she was there that non-night in Moscow I would not be a bit surprised either. The whole circus has lost its power to amaze. Every day a more ludicrous chapter, a more ingenious feat of abomination.

Ho hum. It feels warm to me. Are the Orcadian daffs poking their heads up yet?

mongoose said...

Aside from all that, I saw on TV this morning the soon-to-be ghost of Kneecaps McGuinness. The Reaper clearly impatient at his side. A day soon to be celebrated and marked as an annual raise-a-glass holiday.

callmeishmael said...

Aye, he looks and sounds like Death warmed-up, a grand sight, may his passing bring him pain and terror.

The isthmus location, which you previously queried, is due to the fact that the buildings serve the location, a sacred place, and not the other way around, Stenness sits in an amphitheatre within which Maes Howe, the Ring of Brodgar, the other two stones and the vast, new dig are aligned with the stars and are laid-out to some other, indefinite ceremonial purpose, and all by people knowing neither lens nor wheel and who believed the world flat. It is an odd concept, that which they call the Neolithic.

Yes, now is a moment unique in my measuring of these occasions - things may actually change, sorry, things may continue to change, for they have already morphed and warped far beyond the circumstances of any previous presidential election; a complete outsider, a rank political stranger has confounded the cast-iron knavish tricks of every political commentator in the Western world, every political commentator save ourselves, gathered here, leaning on the windowsill, watching the river flow. This wealthy newbie is no slick and slender, dusky homo-erotic shyster, jive-talking his phoney ethics at naive children and embittered lesbians, nor is he half of a thieving,
trashy couple, joined together in holy deadlock, estranged from anything other than vain and venal self-interest, Donald Trump, in fact, does not remotely resemble any US president of my lifetime. He has already pulled down the Temple and, like you, mr mongoose, I am dying to see who crawls from the wreckage, knowing only that it will be none of the usual suspects, some of whom, as we Limeys say, may soon have their collars felt. Yippee ki-ay, motherfuckers.

callmeishmael said...

I find myself indifferent to the Labour doings, Liz Kendall, Caroline Flint, Tom Watson, Hilary Benn - who could give a fuck about them? I dunno quite what Corbyn might have done differently with a shipful of mutineers but he might have had more impact outside MediaMinster if he had effervesced a bit, lolled out loud, told a joke or two, a bit of self-mockery, instead of this unendurable, ghastly, beardy tedium, month after month. Why doesn't he just join in the celebrations around Brexit, instead of tut-tutting like a Mother Superior at a gangbang. As you know, I'm a Zen Presbyterian Marxist, I want to like Corbyn but he's like an undertaker preparing his own funeral. And McConnell, he looks like a fucking Bingo caller done-up in his best suit. The party's over, it will never again see Power's bright morning. zit is down to Blsir, of course, Straw, Snotty, Mandelstein, Blunkett, Prescott, all now loaded and the Labour movement a gaudy memory of banners and galas. And it's all down to the last Opposition, more committed to what they called Austerity than were the fucking Toried. Stupid Ed Balls, trying to Tango his way back to parliament, to glory and to fiddled expenses. Nah, fuck 'emnot worth thinking about, never mind writing about. Only one appropriate destination for the PLP, up against the wall, motherfuckers.

Snow permitting I will photograph the daffodils tomorrow. For now it's a fitful lie-down in Tramadol's jerky, muddled embrace.

yardarm said...

I hadn`t heard that about Obama woman being a chick with a dick but the more I think about it..... Now I`m entirely convinced Ole Spunky is an Aidsie. There`s even talk about Michelle running in `20, the Democrats having learned nothing about over entitled harridans, whether of the Sapphic or transgender persuasion.

The Great Urinater is an entirely wild card, the nearest thing we`ve seen to an independent President we`ve seen and its the Republicans who`ll be his biggest enemies, eyeing the job for one of their own in `20. With this maybe not so ex MI6 bloke and the file on Trump being handed to McCain, I think Trump might come to regret that jibe he made about him.

Glad to see you in fine form, Mr Ishmael: you bin writing letters to Private Eye ?
If not someone`s nicked your monicker.

the noblest prospect said...

I think I need a wee lie down after that. I bet you did too. Magnificent. Happy New Year, Mr Smith.

callmeishmael said...

There is something a bit unsavoury about Codger McCain, mr yardarm, sitting in Congress like a sour old Queen Bee, playing the hero, milking his captivity for all its worth, whilst so many other non-Senatorial veterans are neglected, just as they are here, he's a repulsive old million dollars a year fraud, him and Eskimo Nell, looks like she's been dropped, too; Codger McCain and Sarah Palin, Christ, what a ticket, that was, the hero and the soccer mom. Fuck him. Never written to the Eye, before; it's just a little test I set myself, getting into the letters editor's head, like doing a crossword over coffee, there's hundreds of them, all the broadsheets, all the tabloids, mags, periodicals, you know how people bag the Monroes, want to climb all the Scottish hills, I want a letter published everywhere.

I still howl at moose-shooting Eskimo Nell, declaring that if God hadna wanted us to eat animals He woodena made them out of meat.

Happy New Year, my man.

callmeishmael said...

Thanks, mr tnp, and happy new year. It is a form of lying down, writing rage; levels my head and eases my mind.

call me ishmael said...

Yes, mr walter, it was the controversy I remembered and thinking then that the idea of different, let us say, racialities, is not the promulgation of what we understand as racist-ism, something of which the author is widely accused. I remember first researching what was then known as Human T-cell Leukemia Virus 1 in the 1980s and learning that the virus was first identified in sub Saharan Africa populations, practicing hetero anal sex as a form of contraception and was imported to the States by gay aircrew, pilots and such, initiating the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome pandemic. Such neutral scientific observatiins were quickly damned as both racist and sexist and the levers of reverse djscrimination have now been tugged so sharply that we now pay for the post-dangerous-intercourse medicines demanded by gay rights groups. Shame the poor darlings couldn't wear a condom and the post-casual-buggery drug money be spent on giving tne brown children a drink of clean water.

walter said...

Afternoon, Mr Ish, I am told that heterosexual anal is de rigeur amongst the young.well it is according to my stepson a la cream pie! I read many years ago that baby gravy had an immune suppressant in it , or else how would a body except foreign cells,, my drift on the Race malarky was more about Fecundity,musculature, hormone levels, nurture intelligence, lets face it intelligence is nature not nurture
your iq is probably twice mine, but i have a practical and i can problem solve easily
I,ll have to comment about dogs one day i promise i,ll be controversial!

Mike said...

Mr I: something may be brewing. The respected and long-serving head of the National Guard in DC in charge of security for the inauguration has been abruptly fired. Maj Gen Schwartz - he's a black, can you believe it! Its an Obama decision.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-13/dc-national-guard-chief-fired-days-trump-inauguration-timing-extremely-unusual

Mike said...

PS: Later news says its a Trump decision. He's fired the moment Trump says 'I do', as its a presidential appointment

Something going on.

In some of Trump's rallies, I detected him wearing body armour. He may need more than that.

call me ishmael said...

Certainly the human rights movement is marching against democracy, mr mike, perhaps singing We shall overcome the democratic result. I think that no-one in their right mind would venture outdoors in the States without body armour. Things could get bloody, a strabge, inverse racism at play, Obama and the Clintons slaughtered and jailed blacks and are praised to the sliee while Trump who is currently no more than a clumsy rhetorician is denied even a patient inauguration. A land of retarded adolesence, America. Maybe it'll burn itself down.

Tdg said...

I am glad you never finished 1984: all it is good for is as a negative test of a mature literary sensibility.

Bill Clinton has rosacea. No more sinister an illness is needed to explain his admittedly disturbing physical appearance. It is odd that it is not treated better than it appears to be, but perhaps he is just not that vain about his face. Who knows. Anyway, he won't have AIDS, as even if he were HIV positive he would would be on full treatment and his immune system would be perfectly fine.

Perhaps those of us who see these illnesses in a wider diversity of social contexts would not so naturally take them as the mark of Cain.

call me ishmael said...

But I want to take them as the mark of Cain. Clinton is a monster and I would suggest that he is one of the vainest men alive. I much prefer the idea of him being eaten by worms from the inside out and I am sure that in some sense he is. It is true that since the identification of HTLV 1 that vast sums have been spent by PharmaCorp and governments in order to render formerly fatal sexually transmitted disease treatable, why should people be restrained by prophylactics and. precautionary common sense? There is an element of Puritanism in my remark - in all of them, perhaps - but while I can understand compulsive eating, drinking and smoking, I also think that the sole purpose of an erection is to destroy itself and that fisting and random, rough, anal sex with multiple strangers are risky and over-complicated practices, which ought to educated against, as well as medicated. That is by the by; people have always conferred syphilis and pox on their rulers and monarchs and Sounky Bill Clinton deserves no less, and in my judgement a good deal more; slander and libel are small beer, mr tdg, compared with the Clintons' rap sheet..

Just another overpraised public schoolboy, wasn't he, Orwell?

Tdg said...

Curiously, were it not for HIV (and perhaps HPV, which may be behind the recent rise in mouth cancer), sex would probably be the healthiest addiction to have. Even as it is, many fewer die of STDs than of overeating, overdrinking, oversmoking, or taking drugs. In societies far more creative than this one, fucking all and sundry, most casually slaves, was a feature of everyday existence; I am still not sure why sex still has this heavy moral penumbra, having been for so long decoupled from the procreation that could plausibly justify it. It is the deepest, most important piece of biology in us, I suppose, the court of genetic diversification.

Yes, that is all to be said about Orwell. Perhaps one should just add he was a portent of a cultural disaster now in full bloom: the substitution of ideology for created life.

call me ishmael said...

The notion of the taboo, the forbidden, in food as well as in sex, is as old as Genesis and while I know little about Hindu mores I do believe that theirs is a belief system celebrating diverse and extravagant sexualities, as were those of the ancient Greeks. The Abrahamicists, currently particularly so with the Taliban and its divergent successors, but generally true, until recently, of Jews, Anglican and Catholic Christians have been punitively repressive in respect of heterosexual variations and flatly opposed to homo-bi- or polysexuality. I think that we have been culturally narrow-minded.

It is curious, however, that notwithstanding the cultural upheavals of our lifetime some of those once considered sexually non-conformist now demand a simulacrum of the formalised pair-bonding and nuclear family structure from which they have excluded - decoupled - themselves, that substitute being gay marriage and farmed children. I guess that given time, such artificially created families will develop their own taboos, free speech being one of them, an inversion of Sacred is the Norm, into Sacred is the Mutant. I think Professor Greer has already felt the mutant lash, universities now being Safe Spaces for cruel and stupid polysexual bigotry.

mrs narcolept said...

There is an alternative explanation of that unfortunate bulge, mr ishmael, which a wiser choice of product might have avoided. The enormous feet stuffed into unsuitable shoes might just be a fashion crime. The stylists did the best they could in the circumstances.

We watched the election night coverage on NBC. It was like a collection of French aristos watching the approach of the mob with a mixture of horror and disgust. Separately, someone asked The Donald something about the failings of rich men like him and Mitt Romney. He simply replied that Romney wasn't rich.

mongoose said...

Thanks for the palaeo-Orcadian researches, mr ishmael. It is cetainly a more seemly avenue of enquiry than the esoteric contents of Michelle's undies. There is much on TV being made currently of the spread of stone circles from the north to the south - as if it wasn't perfectly fucking obvious given ten seconds thought that this was likely the case - unfortunately that straggly haired eejit talks over much of it but we will soldier through even him.

The forthcoming 12:01 retirement of the DC national guard commander had not escaped me. That is very, fcking odd indeed, and highly unprofessional of someone regardless of political flavour and leaning. We may yet live in even more interesting times than 2016.

call me ishmael said...

It isn't just the bulge, mrs n, nor the feet, but finger length and head-to-shoulder ratio and hip width and, as you say, all manner of stylistic tranny/drag interventions. And just have a peep at Joan Rivers in the subject of A Gay President? Those promoting this outlandish prospect really do build a case, and I really do want it to be true; does that make me a bad person?

That's like something from Eskimo Nell's BabyReality Handbook, that Trumpism, I love it.

call me ishmael said...

It certainly does seem to be crazy, Stateside, mr mongoose, prominent citizens, formerly law-abiding, calling for anarchy; you might be right, we may not yet have seen the New Year fireworks.

Oliver is intolerable, as mrs woar said, the show is dreadfully over-presentered (sic) a right cast of chumps and gabshites, the engineer-bint, and the archaeological adventurer, where the fuck did they find them, and why?

Mike said...

Its not just Michael/Michelle. Barry is a fake. The birth certificate is a proven forgery; he and Michael have somebody else's Social Security numbers (a felony BTW), and the 2 kids don't legally exist. And chalky isn't even a black. The whole thing is a leftist wet dream.

call me ishmael said...

He certainly never has acted with any sympathy towards the unfairly treated black population. I remember his first speech on the sub-prime scandal in which he said that those folks who had bern responsible would be punished -which they haven't - but that thise folks who had borrowed money knowing they couldn't pay it back - generally poor blacks and white trash charmed by snake oil sales men - would get no help from him, they, of course, have lost what little bit of money they had been conned out of as wll as the homes they had been assured were theirs. The man's an utter cunt, mr mike, a Hollywoid confection, as you say. Obama, the bankers' teaboy.

mongoose said...

It is the tyranny of the entitled. The illiberal elite of California and NY are entitled they feel to the melting-pot, nice-to-be-nice government they want. Just as the moiling hipsters of Clerkenwell and BBC-land are entitled to keep the EU in their fair trade satchels if they want to. Their poor heads have exploded at the unfairness of it all. Not since mummy said no to that ice lolly have their little cheeks burned so. Such injustice brings a tear to the eye.

It is though unravelling a little. One or two US grown-ups are coming close to recognising sedition when they hear it. Michael Moore, who is a 24-carat pig of the highest class, it has turned out, could be in chains at Gitmo next week, and how we'd laugh. Dicaprio private-jetted to the next cell, we can only hope. And even St Theresa has stiffened her undercarriage and this week might dump the single market into the dustbin of history.

It all starts to look nicely co-ordinated. Fucking conservatives, eh? Ruthless bastards. Only a careless DC moment at 12:02 Friday can stop the juggernaut now.

Doug Shoulders said...

FFS Mr Ishmael. I’m at my lunch here and you’ve put up that picture of Ranztid again.
A superb rant indeed.

call me ishmael said...

I have all the Moore books here, if anyone wants them, and when I saw him singing Hillary's praises I really thought he was spoofing, the fat fuck, but he wasn't. It is astonishing how many complete arseholes have made a career from this Caring schtick, it's a refinement of Lenny Bruce's Religions Incorporated, Geldof, the Clintons, Moore et al the new prelates, grown fat on roasted nigger children in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, anywhere Uncle Sam's conventional politicians have stuck their greedy paws. If any of this riff-rhff were cultured I'd echo Hermann Goering's call to arms but they're not cultured, just playactors, popsingers and hacks, Ruin's Chorus. I think a good lesson for showoffs everywhere would be the hanging of every last preening degenerate and whoremonger attending the next Oscars, Streep whinhg about Trump's boorish and stupid verbal cruelty, while her heroes, the Clinton's, fried a disabled Arkansas black boy in order to celebrate their inauguration, like they were the Ku Klux Klan, is a stupid, stupid cunt.

call me ishmael said...

She's like Jamie Oliver, mr doug, and Kelvin McFilth, emblematic of Ruin's stranglehold on the public discourse. May we all live long enough to piss on her noncing grave.

Woman on a Raft said...

Happy New Year, Mr Ishmael. I forgot to keep up with the Orkney programmes. Partly it is annoyance; the archaeologists working on the site deserve the camera time since they are the ones who have put the years in. Having meejah types swoop down as if they had dashed in to solve the decades-long puzzle is very irritating. Even worse is he misuse of Oliver Fringe; he has his place as he is genuinely interested in the subjects he tackles, but he is no Attenborough. Sticking him on like a plaster "He's Scottish, he has long hair" is no way to treat the subject or a presenter.

Also, I get confused. If it is not Mr Fringe striding about asking 'How did it come to be that a man with with a quiff was elected President?" then it is Tinsel Tits demanding to know how Brexit caused the dissappearance of Doggerland. The same air of unreality permeates both; as if the uncomprehending void between the ears of the presenter precluded there being any explanation.

Hollywood confection, aye. In particular, blame John Waters for 'Hairspray' Excepting for the fact that they managed to pick the only one who could not dance, there seemed to be a belief that they had elected Seaweed J Stubbs instead of Tracey Turnblad. Very hurtful to Hillary, that, since hetero-normative Seaweed is a relatively minor character, distinguished only because Penny Pingleton has the hots for him. And that, it turns out, is what the relevant voting public had.

Waters was writing a romcom and never concerned himself as to whether Penny had obstinately hitched up with Seaweed not because of this wonderful personality, but merely because it would annoy the hell out of her mum, Prudy Pingleton. And that Mrs Pingleton might have had a point; Penny has no idea what she is getting in to.

Prudy Pingleton just made her electoral preferences known, and she is receiving a kicking for daring to suggest that those who do the hard work of mothering, teaching and guarding might have an informed view. What infuriates the analysts is knowing tht Trump has been given permission to speak on her behalf by Prudy Pingleton.

call me ishmael said...

And to you, mrs woar, a bug and an IT failure prevented my joining the original Talkin' Orkney Blues Festival. You are right it is annoying and unfair that thus bunch of tossers shoulder aside the proper diggers. Most days, in the summertime, the head of the dig gives a talk to visitors which could easily have been filmed but that would have made the showbiz contingent redundant. Oliver's modestly stated ambition is to become a broadcasting millionaire, so let no stone remain unturned, in the pursuit of that glorious aim. Haveta run, the noo, back this evening.

Doug Shoulders said...

The That’s life shower. I was at a tender age when that was shown and, even then, the spectacle of adults being amused by the misfortunes of other adults was sickening.
That was the BBC then as it is now…rotten.
Unlikely, but theirs, and the MSM’s treatment Trump may yet have repercussions. One can but hope the Don has a list.
May is playing her cards right re the Single market.
Something she does seem to have grasped is the figures. More folk want out than want in. She could be hedging that Trump can bring the MSM to heel like some Orange avenger, whereupon the silent majority…you know the uneducated ones from up north, the ones that gain nothing from being either in or out but want to be heard anyway….are heard.

henry said...

Stolen from mr longrider... Public information Announcment


Turns out some leaves are more oily than others and can make the wheels slip.

The leaves do two things – they form a slippery mulch that causes loss of traction and approaching a red signal with the anti-lock kicking in, the speedo showing zero and you are still travelling at line-speed is unnerving to say the least. Trains have sand ejectors to help, but even so traction is still a problem with modern lightweight sprinter units. Older trains were heavier and less affected as a consequence.

The other problem is that the mulch, once compressed, forms an electrically insulated layer on the top of the track. Where we use track circuits for the signalling systems, the train disappears from the system and the signal behind will clear to green – giving us the potential for two trains in a signalling section and a subsequent collision.

Axle counters resolves the latter problem as they don’t use track circuits, but we are still left with the first one.

The press like to make light of it and talk about leaves on the line as if it is some sort of joke. It ain’t. They are ill-informed cretins, which is why no one should take anything they say seriously.

Mike said...

Mr Henry: 40 or so year's ago I remember the Christmas lectures on BBC (Royal Institution?) given by Professor Eric Laithwaite an engineer from Imperial College. He was explaining to kids the theory and practice of electrical induction and how it could generate motion with no moving parts. Fascinating. The forerunner of Maglev.

I concluded it would get nowhere in Britain because: first, he had a northern accent; and second, because it required Government support. I was cynical even at a younger age. I was right on both counts, and I can imagine Laithwaite died a very unfulfilled man, but would be pleasedee what the Japs and Chinks have achieved with his invention.

call me ishmael said...

It was kind of anthropology-porn, That's Life, sneering wankers jerking off over the lower orders, AnthroPorn, starring Rantzen and Prenderville and that repulsive old slag, Fletcher; was ShitMouth Brandreth there, too? It's like Sodom and Gomorrah, the PBC. Maybe Rantzen's scabby arse will fall out, as a memento of her affair with Nicky the Beast Fairbairn. ChildLine, the sickest comedy of our days. Worse than Pope Nazi and his blessed predecessor Pope Cover-Up, worse than Dr Barnardo's Noncing Federation. Dame Esther, they really do know, mr doug, how to shit in our faces.

call me ishmael said...

Ill informed cretins is the least of it, mr henry. I am always annoyed at Private Eye bewailing the loss of MSM journo jobs; who gives a fuck about some useless lazy drunk getting his cards?

call me ishmael said...

Yes, they can't all be redneck, Klansmen and women, can they, mrs woar, the Trump voters. What is more farcical about the whole business is that Bernie Sanders, or, indeed, almost anyone else would have beaten Trump, a man who is indebted mainly to Hillary's vileness for his victory, the luvvies simply cannot see this, can they?

SG said...

Nice deconstruction of Obama Mr I. Just finished watching Panorama "Trump: The Kremlin Candidate?". Fuck - where to begin? Speculation presented as 'evidence', leading questions, 'experts' drawn from a cadre of the most anti-Russian folks you could find e.g. Anne Applebaum (married to ex Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski - to be fair many Poles hate Russia and with good reason, but these affiliations should be disclosed to the viewer as these people are not, indeed cannot be, objective even if they wanted to be...). Trump is on to something - Fake News! Naked propaganda... The thing that worries me most is who the fuck are the BBC working for? At least, when you watch the likes of RT, you know whose hand is behind it. But what is happening here? So many people still consume their news through this channel and have their opinions shaped by it - and a compulsory state levy to pay for it to boot. I don't think they represent the views of HMG either - very sinister... I have my reservations about Trump and, yeah, Putin's a bad guy but come on!...

call me ishmael said...

Happy New Year, mr sg. I simply cannot watch PBC current affairs; sometimes it's just on, but if I ever tune-in to it I find it sinister in an absurdist sort of way. It is aping RT in a way - having its totty presenters staggering about on high heels and in skin-tight pants but at least with RT there is little pretence to gravity and probity, as there is with the PBC.

I always return to the fact that the very best TeeVee is also produced by the corporation - in arts and science and maybe in sport, I dunno about that stuff - but I do not think that the Proms is worth an ongoing coup d'etat degeneratif orchestrated by the likes of Tony Hall and Alan Yentob.

I expect that as with the Dead Tree Press the PBC will just wither and die, our masters talking to themselves on the Today show, the rest of us getting our info-fix from new sources. The Filth-O-Graph, I see, in long decline under the Bizarro Twins is nbow for sale to anyone who wants it - maybe some Russian super-criminal or some Chink tortute wallah.

Applebum is a joke, isn't she, always was, there are a few of her kind still hanging around but not for long and I am sure that only a handful gives a fuck about her rantings. It's as mr mongoose says, they are just talking to themselves

Alphons said...

In your excellent analysis of the American shambles one can see parallel images of all the worlds "leaders". They are all basically out of the same womb. The womb of self gratification at the expense of others. It does not stop at leaders it runs right down the chain from president/prime minister/caliph/sheik/chancellor down to the lowliest back bencher trying to climb the ladder.
Their every move is take power and use it in their own interest and stuff the populace we will feed them lies wrapped up as caramels.

I am hoping that this lasts American muffin can at least blow the lid off the can with such force that all "the believers" are confronted with something tangible.

callmeishmael said...

I don't know, m alphons, why everyone doesn't see the contradiction between public service and career, yet it remains the case that many still believe that those growing richer within legislatures are doing so on behalf of those growing poorer without. At least the pig, Trump and his gang are already rich and may not, therefore, degrade themselves in office after the style of, say, Mr and Mrs Blair, Mr and Mrs Thatcher and notably, Mr and Mrs Balls and Mr and Mrs Prescott.

mongoose said...

To be fair to Denis T, he was already a multimillionaire by the time the Blessed Margaret even stood for Parliament, and would I am sure have seen her income as beer money.

What a slaughter that was today. I wouldn't have said that Theresa had it in her but she did have. The poor bloody German wheeled out to yatter was on yesterday's page and could not quite process that she had volunteered to leave the single market. Staying in which thing is, of course, the same as staying in the Eu itself, to almost all intents and practical purposes. (Why, I could have said that myself.)

Corbyn and his crew fucked up their response, I see. Why am I not surprised? And if Trump mentions the UK on Friday, and he might, it'll be a thousand year kitten-pumped Reich.

Mike said...

I listened to Mrs Askeys speech, twice, and it was a good one, historic as some have said. No going back now, and after stripping off the boilerplate phrases to appease various interests, its clear that they have a negotiating position, and an extremely strong hand, recently reinforced by Trump (with thanks to Farage). They have finally reached Sid's position - no deal is a good outcome, and the EU loose if they don't join the party.

Actually, I think the EU is now irrelevant. There is more to gain for the UK aligning with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, China, etc. And yes Russia. And a massive win to be had with the US. If I were May I would stonewall the EU. Make the trade deals elsewhere, lower taxes and regulation, and watch European companies come flocking into the UK to benefit from the global deals.

I'd love to be on the negotiating team with the EU.

callmeishmael said...

Yes, she played Europe and the Remainers at their own game and did well: many a slip, though, twixt here and then, for Brexit and for Trump. I am looking forward to Friday.

This commutation of Bradley Walsh's sentence, it is nauseatingly regal, isn't it, the King pardoning the pauper as a last act of benevolence. If the sentence was wrong, which it was, it was wrong from the start and should not need a retiring presidential edict for remedy; they really are fucking barbarians, the Yanks, they deserve Trump. They need Trump.mMaybe, on release and with a book deal, Manning will sort his head out and regrow his balls, having been abused for seven years by Uncle Sam's finest.

The Thatchers were thieving fucking bastards, mr mongoose, especially the young Viscount and especially Mumsy, post retirement. Just look at her involvement with Conrad Black and Henry K. A dreadful shower.

I really do atruggle with the idea of trade deals being arranged by governments, mr mike, it seems such a contradiction, deals should be between businesses and customers, shouldn't they? I mean, what the fuck is Prince Andrew to do with business, or Liam Fox?

callmeishmael said...


Mrs Askey would do well, sooner, rather than later, to mention the Hard Border Inevitability which would attend a successful IndyRef, put wee Ms Angry back in her box, that would. She is another media contrivance, the First Minister and her threats, like Hillary Clinton, anyone I speak to just raises their eyes at the mention of her name. And by the by, the Orkney Islands Council was in closed session, yesterday, to discuss its own Independence from Scotland; a bunch of fiddling, impertinent bastards, like all councils, but further from scrutiny than most, OIC. neds a searchlight turning on it. Having co-operated with the SNP's ridiculous freeze of council tax it is now belatedly alarmed that Gnasher will abolish it altogether and centralise power to Holyrood, perhaps if she bribes them at an appropriate rate they'll go for it. Meantime
they can whistle in the dark about independence, and a return to the Stone Age.

mongoose said...

All that, mr ishmael, but not Denis. I would not trust the Thatcher offspring for isntance to be able to piss straight.

As you say many a slip... The notion has dawned I think that the single market is an anti-competitive club - a closed shop for established interests. I am, for my sins, and those of my fathers apparently, trying to fund a new business and a very big number is set aside - from what is otehrwise investment for doing stuff - and is pointed merely at getting bits of european paper so that one is even allowed to try to trade there. That is what the single market is. That is why any trade deal with a third party takes so many years to negotiate. Line by line, the regs are applied or relaxed, palms greased, backs scratched. BTW the absurdly high cost of living in Europe is maintained partly by this conspiracy against the people.

Fuck it all, I say. Do a deal down the pub with the Orange-haired Hero and scrawl it on a bar menu. "Take this to Theresa, Nige, will you, and tell her that my word is my bond. She has a month to countersign and come over here to shake hands on it. We'll be ready to go the day after the European Communities Act is repealed."

The fly in border ointments is Ireland. Any provision for a soft Irish border sets a precedent for the Jocks, and maybe even the red-trousered ones, look you. The Irish are said to be considering setting UK border controls back to the whole island. Treaty ports, we called them long ago - although then more for military purposes. Geez, they may as well let the grenadiers in to guard them again. It would be like old times. Where goes Gnasher from there, eh? Her kilted shortbread heroes lined up across Hadrian's Wall as the lorries stream by. Was it all for this?

The threat in May's speech about new taxation rates and economic models was aimed fairly and squarely between the eyes of the Germans. If you want all that crap, Angela, you will have to pay for it all forever. It was a thinly veiled threat to help burn it all down if they play silly buggers. The Germans could bring everyone else to heel this week if they wanted to but 2017 is looking very ugly for the EU already.

Farron, eh? What a cunt the man is. Balls of brass though to try that bullshit on. They dug up Vince Cable for the radio this morning and he was prattling about early elections as if he and they were relevant again. My poor Liberal Party, dear God, what a shower they have become.

callmeishmael said...

When I was in business the people I dealt with trusted me and I trusted them, there were no handshakes, no words of honour, no contracts - the only time I had a problem, a big one, was when dealing with a multi-national; the bank, also, of course, was a criminal enterprise. In passing and a propos, that PPI business, it's right, I have received thousands and thousands of pounds in restitution from deals done too quickly, under pressure, from people who are properly described as criminals, whilst being prominent on the Number Ten Christmas Card list, there will be more of them, now that Mr Askey is Firsf Gentleman, and wasn't Tracey a banker, too?

As you know, I fly, regularly, with two LibDem grandees and they really are, close-up, just a coupla Wise Guys, still on the make. If you look at Huhne and his former doxy, all over the telly and the Guardian, five minutes after being jailed for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, to say nothing of institutionalsed Liberal beasting then surely, it must be a very long time since they were your beloved party, early twentieth century, perhaps? And talking of beloved parties, could there be anyone more uninspiring, more lacklustre, more insipid and depressing than Jeremy Corbyn? If this desultory performance is the price of keeping New Labour together then he would do greater public service by tearing it apart. You can see he has always been cosseted by the public sector, never had to imagine, create, add value or inspire, never had to Sell, fuck no, how vulgar. The only thing he has ever crafted, engineered or manufactured is soundbites, and he's not much good at that, used to have miners and boilermakers, the Labour party, now it has bent lawyers, like Starmer and worthless, braying nobodies, like Jess - All Brummie Men Are Rapists - Tits. Maybe UKIP can field and see elected to MediaMinster, some ordinary people, who can do things.

Woman on a Raft said...

Ms Sturgeon looks like Elton John - and as he is now, not even as he was then. Time's revenge.

Do not look - it is not much fun. The link is only to prove the comment.

cahllmeishmael said...

Yes, I did notice the resemblance, mrs woar, during her latest Very Last and Final Warning To The World, yesterday, the mad bastard. Perhaps, when the hurly-burly's done, she and Pete, will ask Reg and Dave to put them in touch with their baby farmer, so they can order-up a pair of angry wee tribesmen for themselves. I do so wish that Mrs Askey would just say to Gnasher: Go on then, bitch, I dare you, or maybe even ape Trump, and say, Yes, and there'll be a border. And you'll pay for it. With no hope of joining Europe alone she is threatening to withdraw from the United Kingdom, Scotland wouldn't vote for that and she must know it, no wonder she's resembling the emotional ree-tard, Lady Sir Elton.

Woman on a Raft said...

The BBC is currently interviewing Christine Le Crook as if she were of good character. OTOH, as it is like being interviewed by Hello! magazine, it has the curious effect of exposing her grandiose self-regard in a way that a proper interview might not. The sleek old cat has all but raised her leg and licked her own arse in front of us.

call me ishmael said...

I had my back to it but heard it and thought exactly that. The nerve of some people, who do they think they are? C'mon Mme le Pen!

Dick the Prick said...

Has the Labour Party died? I think it might have.

call me ishmael said...

A long time ago, mr dick, killed by Blair and Prescott and the gang; uit's just that the mooted resurrection, under Corbyn, lies breathless, no sign of life, time to switch-off life support. There're only UKIP and the Tories.

Dick the Prick said...

You can feel the economic butthurt. Christine LeGardde started babling about trees on our avenues - it was dire. After about a minute I realised she was a politician not an economist. This Davos bullshit is ersatz Bretton Woods and it looks a bit airport, Travel Lodge, bump into Lenny Henry crap evening. They're snowed in - at least when there's a conference in a city you can toddle off but in Davos? What's to see? I think Sky's Ed Conway may be having a nervous breakdown and i'm not the slightest bit concerned; it's about time.

Have you chaps got Trump parties going on? Draw the line at hot dogs. Some Del Boy was supposedly flogging 40 Euro hot dogs - it's a practical impossibility. Sausage in a bap can't be gourmet.

Trump's inauguration concert could be fantastic! The who?

I put it to youz that there is a little bit of art going on here and this is gonna be so comedically prescient that it becomes a dose of Americana we've not heard since Alastair Cooke popped his cloggs. This is Nixon and Clinton's souls fighting back. Never again will the Office of the President be traduced by such lowly procedure?

Be funny if Paul Simon turned up

callmeishmael said...

'He's a real live pig, Trump, he won't be eating his own species. We might have a bottle of champagne, just celebrate the dismay of all those bad folks, as Bams would call them, if they weren't all on his side.

I have Alastair Cooke's America, if you want it, it's better than the talks, although he was no Lewis Lapham.

It may just all kick-off, Civil War on Inauguration Day. Oh, such fun. I see Jon Sox is there, ready to deliver his lamentations; so we'll get a good, unbiased view from him of the Satanic Swearing-In, prejudice, bigotry and dire warnings, as only Soxy can deliver. I hope somebody gets him stoned and he makes an even bigger cunt of himself than usual, a bit of hash in his breakfast yoghurt. I guess Emily Muscles'll be there, maybe done-up in chaps with her arse hanging out, like on Newsnight, in solidarity with LGBTQ Obamaland.

I saw a sadly aged Isabel Hilton on Newsnight, with the dope, Evan, the other night and was reminded that the PBC has had thoughtful and authoritative female journos, before Kirsty Crow and the slatternly Maitless held sway; Francine Stock was another one, smart, sharp and pleasant. Nothing wrong with Hilton ageing, it was just a shock, shame she was axed in her prime and that the oldest playboy in the world,the repulsive and useless Neil is deemed essential, permanent unto death.
Is it true that they are creating a PBC Channel Portillo, in which all day long Mick will front car shows, property shows, food shows, quiz shows and tat shows, all with his customary pink jacketed cack-handedness?

Anyway, fuck America, I hope it burns down, I'm going to tick all the images with shop fronts and then I'm going to bed.