I’m back, empty-handed
Hey, I’m back from wherever the hell it is that I’ve been the past few days. I’m not at liberty to discuss the details of my mission, but I can report that conditions are still not ripe for a cease-fire in the Middle East. The ripeness factor, it’s just not quite there yet. I think we’re waiting for a nice mellow thumping sound.
In the meantime, you know what happens when you get drunk off your ass and a cop pulls you over? You start saying a bunch of crazy shit that you don’t really believe and have never even thought of before. Really.
10 Responses to “I’m back, empty-handed”
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liberata says:
Hey, I’m sure you tried your best. I’m sure you explained to all parties concerned why it’s in everyone’s best interest to let the US dictate to them.
If they won’t hear the gospel of PNAC, then just shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.
Some people just never learn. Especially Arab people.
Oh, BTW, are you going the Guantanamo open house today??? The new maximum-security wing with improved exercise facilities is being dedicated … to the proposition that if you can’t have your rights, at least you can have all the amenities.
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Victoria Marinelli says:
With all due respect (which is to say: tons… this isn’t the usual filler caveat text)…
Is it perhaps charitable to think Gibson didn’t mean it?
And sorry the negotiations were not as effective as we all might have hoped… I still think that an exemplary reclusive leftist such as yourself can probably do the most effective diplomacy stateside.
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Jimmy Ho says:
Not quite unrelatedly, the death of hellenist and historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, one of the French Jewish progressive intellectuals critical of Israel I mentioned a few days ago, has been announced yesterday. He was 76 years old. His last political action was to sign a petition asking for the stop of Israeli bombings on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. He supported us Greeks in the resistance against the Coronels’ Junta and was of course an outspoken opponent to torture (starting with his involvment in the pro-Algerian independance movement), as well as one of the best critics of revisionists/negationists of the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis and their allies against the European Jews and Roms.
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promenea says:
Is anyone really surprised after that movie?
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richard cherry says:
a godbag is a godbag is a godbag.
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richard cherry says:
so his godbag epic was anti-semitic. haven’t seen it so don’t know what they are objecting to, but if it was alleged jewish involvement in the death of one J Christ then I have heard unsubstantiated rumours that there were definitely some jews around when it happened. if I were them, I would use the defence that he isn’t dead and call the pope as a material witness. wouldn’t mind seeing ratboy wriggle on that thorny issue.
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Violet says:
I have no doubt Gibson’s a raving anti-semite. His father is a notorious Holocaust-denier, and the Passion movie was based on the mystical musings of Sister Anne Emmerich (1774-1824), a German nun who fantasized at length on the horrible cruelty of the devilish Jews who crucified Jesus.
The whole concept that “the Jews” killed Jesus dates from the post-Temple era when Christian communities were increasingly made up of gentiles outside Palestine; the very late Gospel of John talks about “the Jews” as a separate people, a clear sign that the audience is no longer Jesus’s original milieu. Saying “the Jews” killed Jesus is like saying “the Americans” killed Lincoln.
And anyway, he was crucified by the Romans.
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Victoria Marinelli says:
I figured you thought as much. As I may have mentioned earlier, I am a bit dense.
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Violet says:
Hardly dense! My opinion is just based on what I’ve read of Gibson’s background and on the way he chose to make that stupid movie.
The only thing that surprises me about this thing is just the weirdness of his going off on a big anti-Semitic rant apropos of nothing. You get pulled over by a cop, you start in on your theory of the world? He must have thought the cop looked Jewish.
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richard cherry says:
it was the actors killed lincoln – unemployed at the time I think (no surprise there then) so the thing the state needs to do to protect itself is create more work for actors.
err speaking as an actor/lincoln-murderer myself. and anyway it would stop them giving all that money to the well-poisoning, baby-stealing jews.
