Author: R J Adams

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

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