Author: R J Adams

Since its inception, Sparrow Chat has not been kind to America, or life in the US generally. In fact, over the years it’s been utterly scathing of a land that simpers in its own fantasy reflection as “the greatest nation on earth”, while brashly ignoring the reality of its injustices; its underlying poverty; its indifference to the rest of humanity, and its sadly lacking infrastructure when compared to most other industrial nations.

Sparrow Chat owes America an apology. For nearly five years I have been unable to find one aspect of American life I found more appealing than elsewhere. This week, my search has born fruit. At last, I found something uniquely brilliant, hilariously amusing, and unsurpassed in my sixty year’s experience of life on this planet.

Surely, the legal case to determine where the late lamented Anna Nicole should be laid to rest has to be one of American TV’s greatest triumphs.

Judge Larry Seidlin was an actor – tell me he was an actor! This could not have been for real – except in America, of course.

Filed under: Stranger than fiction

Stalin had one; Lenin had one. There’s even a rumor Robert Mugabe has one. Mussolini had one. We all know Saddam Hussein once had one………and Hitler had a few.

Now, ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has one:

She’s finally joined that elite band of political ne’er-do-wells who were immortalized for posterity – or, at least until times change and the mob drags them over and beats hell out them with their shoes.

This particular icon to right wing monetarist conservatism is cast in bronze. That’s just as well, considering the last statue of Margaret Thatcher –

– was beheaded by an irate theater producer, Paul Kelleher, who attacked this earlier statue in July 2002 with a metal barrier, after his first blow with a concealed cricket bat failed to cause any damage.

When arrested by police, Kelleher said, “I think it looks better like that.”

There were many at the time who agreed with him.

This latest attempt to immortalize the “Iron Lady” should fare better. It is, after all, erected in the lobby of the British Parliament, though there is always the possibility of an undercover attack from the Lid-Dems, or the Greens.

Unveiling the creation yesterday, Thatcher said:

“I might have preferred iron – but bronze will do.”

Some of us agree with her. Iron would certainly have been more suitable – for at least, given time, it might rust away.

Filed under: Pinochet’s friend

Deep inside Iraq a young woman occasionally finds time to write a blog describing the real truth behind Bush and Blair’s war. It bears little relation to the sanctimonious claptrap issuing from the tainted mouths of those in America and Britain who purport to tell us the ‘truth” about events in Baghdad.

Riverbend, in her latest account, focuses on the story of Sabrine Al-Janabi.

She concludes with these words:

“Americans in America are still debating on the state of the war and occupation- are they winning or losing? Is it better or worse.

Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts: It’s worse. It’s over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost every sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib pictures came out and verified your atrocities behind prison walls as well as the ones we see in our streets. You lost when you brought murderers, looters, gangsters and militia heads to power and hailed them as Iraq’s first democratic government. You lost when a gruesome execution was dubbed your biggest accomplishment. You lost the respect and reputation you once had. You lost more than 3000 troops. That is what you lost America. I hope the oil, at least, made it worthwhile.

Read the tale of Sabrine Al-Janabi HERE – and weep. Weep for Sabrine Al-Janabi; weep for Iraq, but above all, weep for what your country has done.

Filed under: Simply Evil