Author: R J Adams

It was only a few weeks ago, on some mountain in America, that a number of climbers lost their lives because they were stupid enough to try ascending to the summit in appalling weather conditions. A whole bevy of rescue workers risked their lives for a week or more trying to save them.

Yesterday, another shower of idiots, out for a stroll on the higher slopes of Mount Hood in a blizzard, fell one hundred feet and had to be rescued by workers risking their own lives to get three of them, and a dog, off the mountain.

I feel it would have been quite in order to rescue the dog – who had no choice about being up there – but, for God’s sake! Come on! Leave the humans to their fate.

Do we really want such lunatics as these in our society? Leave then there! Let them die if they don’t have the sense not to go up in the first place; in the middle of winter; in a blizzard.

What really annoys me is that the rescuers never say a word about how idiotic they’ve been. How they’ve needlessly put others’ lives at risk. Oh no, it’s all macho-type strutting and, “We’ll get ’em down, don’t you worry….”

I’M NOT WORRIED! THEY CAN STAY UP THERE AND ROT FOR ALL I CARE!

Except for the poor old dog, of course. Now he deserves to be rescued.

“The most important part of this rescue is that they did everything right,” said Lt. Nick Watt of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.

Sure, they did everything right – EXCEPT GO UP THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE! They spent so much money on fancy GPS equipment they couldn’t afford a transistor radio to hear a weather forecast before setting off.

I’m not the only cold-hearted bastard around. “Not Your Mama” over at “Coyote Angry” agrees with me. Only, she’s a little less damning than I am.

Oh, and in case anyone thinks I don’t know what I’m talking about. I lived in the mountains for most of my life; walked, climbed, and never had to call for help. Why? Because I took the trouble to watch the weather, and never went up when there might be a need for someone else to risk their necks fetching me down.

Filed under: Fools rush in

Good God! They’re at it again. Poking their stupid fat noses into other people’s business, when they haven’t the commonsense or ability to sort out their own country’s problems.

Yes – I’m talking about America in general, and the US Congress in particular.

The United States Congress has recently passed a resolution calling on Japan to apologize for the country’s use of sex slaves during World War II. No American women were involved. They were mainly Chinese, Korean, Philippine and Indonesian captives.

Why doesn’t America learn to mind its own damn business?

Perhaps the rest of the world should pass a resolution calling on the United States to apologize for the war crimes committed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

BBC report HERE.

Filed under: Hypocrisy perfected

While NBC Nightly News was prattling on tonight about “new wars in Iraq” and how well Americans care for their aging parents – oh, and don’t forget the “significant new findings on heart attacks in women” that turned out to be just a rehash of factors already known and well publicized – they completely forgot to inform Americans that their government has now finalized battle plans for the attack on Iran.

Fortunately, the BBC was able to broadcast the details to the rest of the world half an hour before NBC Nightly News came on air.

A US assault on Iran could be triggered, the BBC has learned, by any perceived nuclear threat from Iran, or a major attack on US forces in Iraq that could be traced back to Tehran. Strikes would not be limited to the country’s nuclear facilities, but would include most of its military infrastructure.

There are already thirty US warships stationed in the Gulf region and a second carrier group is on its way.

According to the BBC report:

“The US insists it is not planning to attack, and is trying to persuade Tehran to stop uranium enrichment. The UN has urged Iran to stop the programme or face economic sanctions. But diplomatic sources have told the BBC that as a fallback plan, senior officials at Central Command in Florida have already selected their target sets inside Iran.”

All now required is for the President of the United States to give the word.

But, we all know peace-loving, caring, born-again Christian, George W Bush would never do that.

Don’t we?

Perhaps, after all, NBC just didn’t want Americans to know?

Read the BBC report and watch the video HERE.

As a postscript, the BBC reporter on the video is Frank Gardner, who was shot six times while reporting from a suburb of Riyadh, Saudia Arabia in 2004. His cameraman was killed in the attack. One of the bullets pierced Gardner’s spine rendering him paralyzed from the waist down.

Filed under: Cheering news