The scum of America

"Listen," I say. "Isn't that great? The future ex-president of the United States is ordering National Guard units to Washington because he wants to 'take back his beautiful capital city'."  
No reaction.
"He wants to reduce the allegedly enormous crime rate and drive all the homeless people out of his city."
For a while, it seemed as if Tetrapilotamos, who is currently very busy proofreading his 1,669-page masterpiece ‘Pre-Assyrian Philately in a Nutshell,’ wasn't listening to me at all.
But then I hear him mutter: "Fact is, the illiteracy rate in Washington, D.C. is higher than in Cuba. Same goes for the crime rate.
The real scum of America these days is to be found in the White House, though, ... to tell the truth.”

Springsteen in dangerous times

 

Bruce Springsteen * 23 September 1949

 

P.S.: Thank you very much, SME. 

Swarming stupidity

Typing swarm intelligence after 0,13 seconds I got told there are 1,570.000 entries.

Afterwards, I hesitated to type swarm idiocy.

The peace of the night.

Hypatia

 

Hypatia (born c. 350–370; died in March 415 AD)

Alejandro Amenábar * 31 March 1972

Laughing Lhursday*

I hear that 90000 (in words: ninety thousand) earth-dwellers  – LGBTQIA plus  all those genders still to discover, and, believe it or not, even a few women and men) – from this and that continent and many an island swam and walked in a climate-neutral way to Dubai to act as world saviours.
And that's exactly what they did for 14 days in air-conditioned rooms and on full board. Acting.

So let's enjoy a climate of peace on earth, now and forever.

 

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

His rainbow-loving Highness

As I read the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
only very irregularly, I am very much indebted
to the Russian Embassy in Bern
for threatening the newspaper with legal action
for insulting the deeply religious President of the Russian Republic and vigorous defender of orthodox christianity.

Otherwise I might never had become aware
of this fine caricature of his rainbow-loving highness.

It's not about basketball

Steve Kerr * 27 September 1965

Beers & Books XLVII – today without beer

If This Is a Man (1958, r)
The Drowned and the Saved (1986, l)

Primo Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Auschwitz

On the Road ... whereto?

Fascism raises its right arm.
Franco would be very pleased
 with his successors' ruth- and shamelessness.

Oh, and by the way:

If I were a Catalan,
I had voted 'No'.
Nationalism is Fascism's little brother.

Xi the Pooh

Forbidden in China.
Censorship?
Yes.
The result of organised stupidity?
Yes.
First of all, though, this is the story of Xi the Pooh,
a President with very very little brains.
Read here and/or  here and/or here.

Evolution of Stupidity

Darwin’s theory of evolution has been excluded from the most recent draft of Turkey’s new national curriculum, which will be released following the Eid al-Fitr holiday, the head of the Education Ministry’s curriculum board, Alpaslan Durmuş, has said.

Durmuş told educators during an Ankara seminar on June 20 that the ministry had presented the draft to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has approved it.

More here.

Laughing Lhursday*

George Carlin


* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Hilarious Dimwits

This afternoon my friend Tetrapilotomos, looking up from proof-reading the 1,669 pages of his opus magnum 'Pre-Assyrian philately in a Nutshell', murmered: "I am not surprised. Apart from that Fethullah Gülen is a most sinister person, prosecutors by grace of Recep Taqīya ... eh: Tayyip Erdoğan seem to be hilarious dimwits." 

I hardly could believe my ears. "Ahem, isn't RTE the most intelligent person in this universe and all galaxies, yet to discover?"

Silence. Turning a page, Tetrapilotomos murmured: "Next you'll call the poor idiots who voted for him to become their president, Turkey's superbest educated  crème de la crème."

"Uff, do you think they are not?"

Instead of giving an answer, before turning another page, my friend passed me a note with a link and grumbled: "Read this." 

Turkish prosecutors have demanded 3,623 aggravated life sentences for the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, as a total of all cases filed against him.

In addition to the aggravated life terms, the prosecutors also sought 2,923 years in jail for Gülen, widely believed to have been behind the failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt, daily Yeni Şafak reported on May 8.

A judicial fine equivalent to 2.2 million days was also imposed on Gülen, who was named as the prime suspect in 22 cases filed across Turkey regarding the thwarted coup that left 249 people killed and 2,193 wounded.

Full article here.

Duck and Cover

Cihan's a clever horse

His name could well be

Josef Adolf Erdoğan.

Cihan* knew before.

* Cihan means World / Welt / mondo, mundo

Chosen People [?]

Requiem

"Seit 5 Uhr 45 wird jetzt zurückgeschossen! Und von jetzt ab wird Bombe mit Bombe vergolten!"

Friday is Skyday [112]

All my sarcasm
does not fit in a haiku.
The peace of the night.

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It's not about 'organised stupidity', but about organising stupidity.
 

In Times of Peace

They hardly could know
in summer nineteen-fourteen
what was to come, hm?