R&R

Thinking about scout in Hawaii.

Okay, this is probably what I'd be doing in Hawaii.

It's 78F with a few clouds on Kahului, just after 1pm.







The squirrel pics are just more fun than winter in Canada.

Serious Saturday Morning Thoughts

Best toy for xmas?
Still the disgraced Congressman Mark Foley doll, blackberry included, keep it away from the male kiddies.


















Hottest babe in the GOP?
Still Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.
But I'm over her in a week already.
Something about her passion for big energy is so...Cheneyesque?

Don't know what I was thinking? Her lifetime membership to the NRA was kind of exciting...oh never mind.














Hottest feline hair style?
Very chic and it scares the bejesus out of the mousens.

Tiny Towns Far Away

The beautiful Highlands of North -West Scotland.





There is a small town on the coast of north west Scotland
With dream comfort memory to spare
And in my mind
I still need a small town to know
Where everyone shares the same last name,
Leave us
Celtic, Celtic , Celtic.




Anyway, a tribute to a wee place across from the Isle of Skye, Caol Loch Aillse.

An Inconvenient Goof

Bush -Saudi ties are well documented and established everywhere except with the American public. Otherwise wouldn't the public be storming the White House gates screaming treason?

The only two mid-east countries without any ties to 911 were Israel and Iraq. Iraq the scapegoat and whipping boy of the west. Iraq the diversion from Bin Laden and Iraq the greatest prize of big oil wet dreams.
Time is running out, but the goal of locking in constitutional control of Iraq's oil resources now and in the future for the big 4 oil companies is still the only goal, not how many die in Iraq, the diversionary war on terror.

So it shouldn't ruffle the nation too much if the Saudis are funding the other side?

Now or later?

A New Way Forward

The Iraqi insurgents must have had their own Iraq Study Group.

They've found a new way forward with Saudi financing and Iranian bomb technology to produce bigger more deadly roadside bombs that obliterate any amount of vehicle protection. After the attack there's time for a video then back home the insurgents are now blogging about their victories.

Now that we know the White House has been lying about the level of insurgent violence and can not possibly defeat the insurgency, we anxiously await the new strategy but, what's the rush, maybe in 2007? Sure, 'stay the new way forward ' sounds about right.

Best Art In the Worst Neighborhoods

Random graffiti on the walls of the poorest London England neighborhood, Shoreditch, the irony is that they also get the best free art show.

Sunday Reflections

When I saved this cartoon 2-3 years ago I thought it was very funny satire.

Today it's very ugly humor that incites different feelings because it's actually truth not satire.
Thousands are dead and Iraq is in ruins, all to steal their oil fraudulently in the name of 911.

Seemed unthinkable 4 years ago. It's unbelievable today that Bush is still in office with most Americans coming to this same realization.
It's humiliating to be conned. I guess that's why some 30% still support him?

Jesus the Mundane Jogger

Here's an odd web site. ( I know, there are a million of those). This fellow had a vision from God and was told to draw pictures of Jesus supporting people... but only in very ordinary activities.

Larry spent 3 years studying drawing to accomplish this nuttiness.

There's no crazy like religious crazy.

On the other hand if this is the way God operates in the world it does explain a lot. He's been so busy following joggers and truck drivers that he's been missing all of the bad shit going on out there.

Larry wants you to email him in Florida. Maybe he takes requests? I'd like a Jesus with Mark Foley messaging on the old blackberry and I need it before xmas.

I also want to know why Jesus looks so ...American?

AlQaeda Looks More Like Family Here?

A familiar scene of the last 4 years. It's been concluded that nothing more can be achieved militarily in Iraq, yet, the military is still there indefinitely and continuing to make strikes on 'suspected' insurgents or Al Qaeda.
The key word in every news story of killings in Iraq is 'suspected'. I guess tried and executed from a distance.
This is a strike Friday reported as Al Qaeda near Baghdad.
As always there are 2 versions to who has been killed. The truth likely lies somewhere between but the U.S. continues to have the weaker credibility which is appalling.

1) There are no U.S. troops visible in pics removing bodies from the scene. The townspeople are there. They look like they're removing neighbors to me, not Al Qaeda terrorists. They look to be grieving for people they know. Everyone from the mayor on down is angry at the U.S.
2) The U.S. says 20 were killed including 2 women who are now taking roles in the insurgency. Or, this is a half assed attempt to explain why women were killed at the scene at all?
3) The mayor, the police ,the townspeople all report that these were 2 extended families in 2 homes that were killed in the raid. They claim the dead include up to 10 children and 6 or more women. Why would they lie and all report the same scene.
4) Some of the wrapped bodies are clearly too small to be other than children.

If the townspeople are all shocked and angry by this slaughter, aren't they automatically part of the insurgency ? Shouldn't they all be killed? The mayor, the police the neighbors, every last one of them? Why differentiate when everyone in Iraq wants you dead or gone?

Why doesn't the military just admit that they can't kill the insurgents without killing their families and supporters?

Are we going to have 2 more years of these killings for nothing, because Bush can not accept that he's wrong to be there?

Feline Friday

No great new pics of my lazy assed Siamese kitty since last Friday, so I'm putting up some past favorites from the indispensable daily site cuteoverload.com .






The cute kitty in the red jacket is the new governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. A serious babe in the Tina Fey kind of style except......... and this vexes me, she's a gun toting, big energy lovin republican hottie. This might be a new GOP strategy, since everyone knows there are no good looking republicans? So tempting, yet so evil... ...

Snow Day in London

This is a picture from London today. The Abominable was the only one not shoveling. Lazy ass.

60-90cm of snow drifts everywhere.. Everything closed including the transit system for the first time in 3 decades.

Spent most of the day digging out Q manor. It'll all be gone in a day or two and we can put out our 'Holiday' lights finally.

A Terrible Year For Intolerance

How grand, Mary Cheney is expecting.
The grandparents are very excited too, I'm sure, that their newest grandchild will have two mommies.

Apparently the Christian right are excited as well, since this goes against everything they stand for, muahahahaha.



The right is certainly having, as Ross would say, the most worstest liverworcestershire terrrible bad year.

It's an annus horribilis as the Queen is want to say on years like this. Gays run amok in the GOP, oh my. Who will save us from this madness?
God save the Queen and who will save the institutions we hold so dear?

Apparently not the Cheneys.

Actually, considering the grandparents and mom, I bet he'll be a cute little devil.

A New Political Strategery from the Decider?

George's new friend, Abdul -Aziz al-Hakim. Head of the Shiite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Warm and fuzzy title. Did anyone at the White House read that title?
He's a puppet to Iran's Ali Khamenei and former head of the Badr Corps, a Shiite militia implicated in death squad killings of Sunnis. Impressive credentials George. So what's the point to this little meet and greet?

Is this the newest strategy, to take political sides in the civil war?
Very constructive talks say the White House/ Fox News team, al Hakim recommended that the U.S. hit Sunnis harder in Iraq. I don't think this strategy will have Sunnis rushing scared to the negotiating table.

This is the future of Bush's democracy in Iraq? Maliki is the mayor of only the green zone in Baghdad. Maliki's a puppet of Bush and Muqtada al- Sadr, who is also an enemy of Bush, in fact the U.S. was previously trying to track him down dead or alive. Militias we don't understand rule Iraq permanently now . Why does Bush shake hands with a puppet of Iran, the axis of evil people? Well actually, who else could Bush talk to in Iraq? Any Sunnis? The Sunnis want to kill all Americans in Iraq. The Shiite support the killing of Americans in Iraq but would prefer others take care of that for now.
Al Qaeda in Iraq are not likely to be talking to Bush. Interestingly, the current new leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq is reported to be a Canadian, Abu Abdul Rahman, whose skills and intelligence are causing new levels of trouble for the U.S. forces there.
Chalk one up for the Seneca college computer department.
When a Canadian takes over the insurgency in Iraq there's bound to be major trouble and it should be a signal to all to end the occupation now and let Iraq choose its future.

Someone's Gonna Punch Out Bush In '07

I'm liking this Jim Webb guy. First he beats Ku Klutz Macaca George Allen for Senator of Virginia, woohoo...

Then he comes close to punching out the lying chief, awol McAsshat, spoiled petulant asshole.

Bush meets this fellow and never asks him for his military opinion or advice about the monumental mess he's created in Iraq . Why ask a former navy secretary under Reagan, top of his class, decorated war hero and expert? Instead he smirked about Webb's son serving in Iraq and not wanting Webb's opinion on the conflict at all! Jesus, he should have punched his lights out. By the way, is Webb the only one on the hill to have a kid in Iraq? Seems that way?

Okay, speaking of military aged children, what are the Bush brats doing? While Webb's son is serving in Iraq, the Bush brats are being asked to leave Argentina after weeks of partying, running down hotel halls naked and causing security disturbances. Same old for those two. Jena had her purse stolen and their security guy got mugged. Yawn.
Webb should have asked Bush how his boozing good for nothing twins were doing while his brave son was risking his life for Bush lies and ego?
Or he could have smirked, if there's a draft, those two will be first in line at the Texas guard faster than you can say, is it like time for happy hour dudes?

Vandalism Meets Art

London inner city decay is art?

When asked if graffiti is art or vandalism, Bansky noted, "that word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all..."


haha...

Most of Bansky's work adorns English walls. The No More Heroes was a vandalistic foray in L.A. and the famous vandalism of the West Bank Wall in 2005, creating the label guerrilla art.

Cute Critter Friday

Yes, if animals can get along, what's our excuse?

Great pics from amazing animal photographer Tanja Askani.