Tuesday, November 8, 2016 — FUCKING AMERICAN MORONS!

FUCKING

AMERICAN

MORONS

I”m sad to say that I had a mis­guid­ed faith in the Amer­i­can peo­ple. It’s not just the mis­lead­ing polls that had me bam­boo­zled. From the time I lived in the Unit­ed States, I retained a deep feel­ing that the Amer­i­can peo­ple where at heart decent and patri­ot­ic, that they cher­ished free­dom, and that if push comes to shove they will do the right thing. That faith is now gone. The Amer­i­can peo­ple have destroyed that illu­sion. Mak­ing that ass­hole Pres­i­dent demon­strates clear­ly that the Unit­ed States is washed up, a nation of cow­ards and pathet­ic losers. If Amer­i­cans would rather be slaves than free human beings, it is up to Cana­da to take up the flag of free­dom. I will ded­i­cate my life to pro­tect­ing my beloved coun­try from the influ­ence of that mon­strous evil below the border.

Sunday, November 6, 2016 — Two Days

In two days we will final­ly find out what degree of pow­er the Racism, Rape and Trea­son Par­ty will exer­cise in the Unit­ed States for the next four years. It’s plain that they will not win the Pres­i­den­cy — patri­ot­ic Amer­i­cans have sensed an immi­nent threat to the coun­try, and are turn­ing out in record num­bers to defend it — but what real­ly mat­ters is whether or not the RR&T (Repub­li­can) Par­ty will retain con­trol of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. A gen­er­a­tion of sys­tem­at­ic vot­er sup­pres­sion and dis­trict ger­ry­man­der­ing has allowed the Repub­li­cans to con­trol the House, repeat­ed­ly hold­ing the Amer­i­can peo­ple to ran­som and obstruct­ing any kind of ratio­nal admin­is­tra­tion. If they retain this pow­er, there will be four years of relent­less obstruc­tion of the kind that Amer­i­cans have become accus­tomed to in the last eight years. Repub­li­cans have no claim to being patri­ots: the well-being of the Amer­i­can peo­ple will always be the last thing they are con­cerned with. They are dri­ven by a total­i­tar­i­an ide­ol­o­gy that has fused old­er ele­ments orig­i­nat­ing in Amer­i­ca with Com­mu­nism and Fas­cism import­ed from Europe. Those who delude them­selves into think­ing that Don­ald Trump is some sort of aber­ra­tion in his par­ty need to wake up. Trump is the nat­ur­al, log­i­cal and inevitable con­se­quence of Con­ser­v­a­tive ide­ol­o­gy in exact­ly the same way that Stal­in was the nat­ur­al, log­i­cal and inevitable con­se­quence of Marx­ist ide­ol­o­gy. Every­thing that Trump has done in this elec­tion is some­thing that the Repub­li­can Par­ty has done before, every slo­gan he shouts and every slimy tac­tic he employs are straight out of the long-term Repub­li­can play­book. Trump will prob­a­bly not suc­ceed in his dream of destroy­ing Amer­i­ca and turn­ing it into a sleazy, Putin-KGB style dic­ta­tor­ship, but the Repub­li­can Par­ty will not stop their ide­o­log­i­cal cru­sade with his fail­ure, and their ambi­tion is exact­ly the same as Trump’s. They will keep on try­ing. Amer­i­cans will not be safe from the specter of tyran­ny until the Repub­li­can Par­ty is com­plete­ly erased from their lives. Read more »

Image of the month: Abott and Costello Go to Mars

2016 NOV

FILMSOCTOBER 2016

(Hard­ing 2006) Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Ep.55 ― Cards on the Table
(Mar­can­tel 2001) The Simp­sons: Ep.261 ― Day of the Jackanapes
(Ross & Benedek 1963) The Out­er Lim­its: Ep.4 ― The Man With the Power
(Moore 2001) The Simp­sons: Ep.262 ― New Kids on the Blecch
(Kruse 2001) The Simp­sons: Ep.263 ― Hun­gry, Hun­gry Homer
(Pil­lai 2014) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.100 ― The Killings of Copenhagen
(Mills 1963) The Avengers: Ep.48 — The Man in the Mir­ror Read more »

First-time listening for October 2016

23854. (Rabih Abou-Khalil) Roots & Sprouts
23855. (Hen­ry Pur­cell) The Indi­an Queen [com­plete opera; d. Hog­wood; Kirk­by, Bott, Ainsley]
23856. (Last Shad­ow Pup­pets) Every­thing You’ve Come To Expect
23857. (Alessan­dro Scar­lat­ti) Telema­co [com­plete opera; d. Hen­gel­brock; Ham­vasi, Kulman]
Music of the Ancient Sume­ri­ans, Egyp­tians and Greeks:
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READINGOCTOBER 2016

23346. (Edgar Wal­lace) The Green Mam­ba [sto­ry]
23347. (Alexan­der Vovin, Edward Vaj­da & Éti­enne de la Vais­sière) Who Were the *Kjet and 
. . . . . What Lan­guage Did They Speak? [arti­cle]
23348. (Ruth Ren­dell) From Doon with Death
(Leonid E. Grinin, et al; –ed.) The Ear­ly State, Its Alter­na­tives and Analogues:
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Image of the month:

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FILMSSEPTEMBER 2016

(Dou­glas 1954) Them!
(Brooks 1968) The Producers
(Groen­ing & Muzquiz 2013) Futu­ra­ma: Ep.119 ― Assie Come Home
(Unwin 2003) Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Ep.50 ― Five Lit­tle Pigs
(Rear­don 2000) The Simp­sons: Ep.240 ― Alone Again, Natura-diddily
(Moore 2000) The Simp­sons: Ep.241 ― Mis­sion­ary: Impossible
(Alwyn 1963) The Avengers: Ep.41 — Inter­crime Read more »

First-time listening for September 2016

23787. (Skep­ta) Konnichiwa
23788. (Anon.) Hur­ri­an Hymn #6 [old­est known melody, c.1400 BC] [Michael Levy, lyre]
23789. (Anon.) Ancient Assyr­i­an Music of North­ern Iraq
23790. (Burn­ing Spear) The Best of Burn­ing Spear [Jus­tice Sound compilation]
23791. (Anon.) Old Iran­ic Luri Folk Music
23792. (Doo­bie Broth­ers) The Doo­bie Brothers
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READINGSEPTEMBER 2016

23327. (Jack Hicks & Gra­ham White) Made in Nunavut ― An Exper­i­ment in Decentralized 
. . . . . Government
23328. (Kather­ine A. Spiel­mann) Feast­ing, Craft Spe­cial­iza­tion, and the Rit­u­al Mode of 
. . . . . Pro­duc­tion in Small-Scale Soci­eties [arti­cle]
23329. (Ben­jamin Isakhan) Dis­cours­es of Democ­ra­cy [arti­cle]
23330. (Rus­sell Shorto) Ams­ter­dam ― A His­to­ry of the World’s Most Lib­er­al City
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