*Is all the pelvis and bum thrusting in music videos mean to distract us from the song? Once upon a time, if the song was shithouse at least the video was good.
*TV preachers claim that when we have thoughts of doing wrong it’s the Devil tempting us. But it’s hardly temptation if it’s unethical or immoral and clearly not on. Nah, I think it’s our amazing brain just doing its job, running through all the options.
*I would feel arrogant if I said there is/isn’t a God, or there are/aren’t space aliens. How would I know? Anyway, I’m too busy having fun.
*We aren’t saints, we can’t have kindness in our hearts all the time, but it doesn’t take much to at least be civil.
*It’s ironical the rat race seems to continue – even intensify – at holiday time. I guess people are trying to squeeze in as much as they can in the brief time they’ve got.
*A happiness fundamental is financial independence, or getting as close to it as possible, even if it means living on the smell of an oily rag. This is to avoid/minimise contact with dickheads, especially in the workplace. Let’s be frank, when you have to deal with dickheads you rarely click your heels and sing “Happy days are here again”.
*Most politicians come and go without a trace, except for bloodstains.
*Beauty and the beast. Queen Victoria looked at a painting by England’s greatest artist J.M.W. Turner and sneered “Vile, a dirty yellow mess”. I apologise, I wasn’t paying attention, but why do we still have “royalty”?
*Being semi-reclusive isn’t for everyone, but one plus is not hearing much small talk. Or as I call it – a Big Mac conversation.
*Seers and seer suckers. Because so many people are gullible it’s easy to claim psychic powers etc by cleverly using a language that’s essentially gibberish/ nonsense/ riddles.
*You won’t find a better example than this of how the media are the Propaganda Departments of military corporations. In late 2017 American “current affairs” TV show 60 Minutes did a story on U.S. steps to protect itself from North Korea’s nuclear threat. Not mentioned was the no.1 step of taking even more taxpayers’ money from health and education and giving it to the military corporations. You can only pull off a breathtaking brazen scam like this if you keep the public in constant fear. That’s why bogeymen like North Korea, Iran, Russia, China, terrorists etc keep getting recycled by the media.
*Macho mania. American Sport Inc. is obsessed with honouring military, police and fire personnel, even giving them free NFL, NBA and PGA tickets. Why aren’t lifesavers like doctors and nurses also honoured? Or teachers, caregivers, charity workers, and native Americans?
*Unfortunately for the human species sociopathic political and corporate leaders have no idea they are not as smart as they think they are, and of course no-one dares to whisper this fact in their ear.
*Trumplogic. I watched a televangelist claim that paralysed British scientist Stephen Hawking is an atheist – not because his decades of calculations suggest the Universe wasn’t created by a God – but because he’s so bitter about his motor neurone disease he’s become anti God.
*It’s official – human devolution is underway, and America’s loony-right is certifiably insane. Instead of doing the obvious to stop mass shootings in schools – duh, gun control laws – the U.S. Army has developed a computerised war simulator to supposedly help schools handle an armed maniac! After all, teachers have so much spare time. The simulator includes screams of students being murdered (imagine a “cuckoo” sound effect here).
*Opinion polls are like the 6pm TV news – a waste of time. People say they want action to stop Global Warming, but keep voting for right-wing parties. They say they want better quality television, but keep watching junk. Honestly, I’ll still love you in the morning.
*We wuz robbed, whine the 46% of people who voted for the right-wing New Zealand party that got kicked out of office despite finishing way ahead of the next party. Yes, but 54% of people did not vote for your party. It’s called democracy, not our-right-to-rule.
*I have a wonderful collection of comedy DVDs (including Britain’s The Office, Extras, Lead Balloon, Catherine Tate, Little Britain, Monty Python films, America’s Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mel Brooks films, Australia’s Frontline, Lano and Woodley, and Summer Heights High) and I’m currently watching Fawlty Towers yet again. If all you or I ever created was Basil Fawlty we’d be ecstatic, but John Cleese has done many other brilliant things in his career. He was offered a knighthood in 1996 and (like many other people) declined, bless him. He says knighthoods are silly.
*I’d love people like Donald Trump to listen to”What good am I?” and “Disease of conceit” on my favourite Bob Dylan album (1989’s “Oh mercy”) but even if they did, in my heart I know they wouldn’t hear them.
*Mass shootings in America are destined to continue for a long long time. Europeans eventually exhausted their bloodlust and stopped regularly slaughtering each other – but only after many centuries. The U.S. Civil War was just 150 years ago.
*Global Warming collateral damage. The greedies who’ve caused and worsened Global Warming will have democracy suspended so emergency laws can be used to stop civil unrest.
*As an old person you normally wish time would slow down. But with Donald Trump in the White House you wish time would speed up, before something truly awful happens. Oh hang on, something truly awful is happening – another 4 years of choosing billionaires over Mother Nature.
*Speaking of Trump and all the ghastly monuments to his ego, what is it with the super-rich and their compulsion for hideous edifices? It began 5,000 years ago when Egypt’s kings built their insane graves. Those pyramids would’ve had apartments, shops, and a casino if Trump had been around then. They still could.
*After only a few months in office Donald Trump was already being written off as the worst U.S. president ever. I disagree with that verdict. I’ve done some reasonable research on every U.S. president in my lifetime and goodness gracious me there’ve been some shockers, in one way or another. It’s be a toss of the coin to decide the biggest dud. This is what you get when you have user-pays democracy.
*Mean grandpa behaves badly. Cruelly plays the age card on angelic whippersnapper. I was having a good-natured verbal spar with my 10 year old grandson Isaac and realised he was getting on top when I kept repeating “Yes I can!”. In panic I resorted to that contemptible and illogical cliche “You should respect your elders”. I know, pathetic. But hey he stopped, with a beautiful smile. Although I’m pretty sure he was thinking “Ha ha I won”.
*Optimists believe there’s still time for a human species wake-up call to avoid self-destruction. I applaud optimism, but not delusion. The greed and materialism trend keeps growing (the Million Dollar Listing TV shows are excellent for observing nauseating dickheads). The infantile keeping-up-with-the-Jones mentality is so ingrained it’s hard to see the required dramatic change in human behaviour. I just can’t get the lemmings image out of my mind.
*Can warmongers and military corporations do even better this century? They had a spectacular record-breaking 20th century. An estimated 260 million people died in warfare. Yep, an average of 2.6 million every year. And great white sharks are called killing machines! It’s been a slow start to the 21st century but there’s still plenty of time.
*Can Mother Nature outdo the warmongers? If Global Warming keeps worsening, 7 billion people could be toast.
*You’d assume we are much more advanced than our Stone Age ancestors. But are we? Archaeologists and anthropologists believe prehistoric cultures were egalitarian, which sounds more advanced than our dog-eat-dog culture.
*U.S. president Grover Cleveland warned in 1888 that corporations were fast becoming the people’s masters. Many of us would say the conquest has been achieved. And not just of people, but of governments. Can the huge egos and tiny morals of corporate leaders be switched? Well, I have seen pigs fly. But it was in a cartoon.
*Mass Actuality Denial (MAD). Many people assume that political and corporate leaders are responsible citizens and will take care of major problems like Global Warming. (Sigh). It’s estimated the number of sociopaths in leadership positions is way above the general population average of 2-5%. And sociopaths couldn’t care less what happens in the future because they’ll be dead when the you-know-what hits the fan.
*The next time you can be bothered to carefully listen to a politician say something, I bet you’ll hear them effectively say nothing. The top priority for politicians is to ensure a trouble-free journey for the Good Ship Corporate Profits.
*Global Warming is bad enough without Donald Trump’s unstoppable jet-stream of hot air.
*The media make mountains out of molehills, and molehills out of mountains. Why not make mountains out of mountains, and molehills out of molehills?
*The only measure of success is making lots and lots of money, and there’s no point being successful if you don’t show everyone how rich you are. But seriously, this makes it easier to spot dickheads.
*Joining dots. Politicians boast about Globalisation (their joint project with corporations) but they don’t mention the 18,000 children who die EVERY DAY because of scandalous healthcare in Third World countries that are hopelessly in debt to the moneylenders (the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) who – surprise surprise – are in bed with corporations. Those 18,000 children EVERY DAY will never get the chance to celebrate the joys of “free trade” by washing down some KFC with a Coke, unlike the lucky kids who are “lifting themselves out of poverty” by working for pennies in sweat shops.
*Don’t give up on Globalisation, kids. You too can benefit if you can think of a scam that guarantees fat profits for the billionaires so they can count and stack even more money with their scaly hands.
*What would the super-rich do if they couldn’t flaunt their wealth – if there were no luxury hotels, apartments, cars, yachts, and jewellery? We can only hope but perhaps they’d hop aboard spaceships and go somewhere else.
*If only the cunning minds in the advertising industry would work for worthy causes, like Global Warming and children being sold for sex. You may’ve seen the ad for a credit card corporation that tugs heartstrings with “priceless memories” in the hope of tugging money out of our pockets with not-so-priceless interest rates.
*It’s heartbreaking that Vincent Van Gogh died not knowing his art would eventually be adored around the world. Painters, writers, musicians (all struggling artists) are inspired by this amazing man and his legacies, especially self-belief: whether or not people like what we create.
*Hoping for affirmation isn’t wise because it might lead to discouragement and bruise the passion.
*Some people leave a ripple, most of us just leave a glassy pond, but it’s still beautiful.
*How do you spot sociopathic political and corporate leaders? Goodness gracious me, that’s easy. To many people they seem charismatic, but to reasonably aware people they are glaringly creepy and fake.
*The U.S. Presidency and Congress used to be the government but are now just a front. These days politicians work for a de facto government run by corporations and private banks (including America’s Federal Reserve and the Bank of England), assisted by the discredited ratings agencies. It’s no surprise. U.S. president Grover Cleveland warned that corporations were fast becoming the people’s masters – 130 years ago!
*The Far Right can’t stand “intellectuals”. Actually, they can’t stand intelligent people, because they shred the Far Right’s many idiotic and self-interested viewpoints.
*The blueprint for the survival of the human species is in our history books. History shows we’ve kept making/repeating stupid mistakes for thousands of years. It’s no surprise that many people stupidly think history is boring.
*Could Barack Obama be tempted to reveal what he learnt as president about the rigged U.S. economy? It’s staggering that billionaires are even happy to shaft their own grandchildren by worsening Global Warming just to accumulate more money. Then again, if you read “Snakes in suits: when psychopaths go to work” it’s not staggering at all.
*Youth suicide is a heartbreaking issue everywhere, especially in so-called advanced countries. Much of it is blamed on bullying. Vile trash who can kill precious vulnerable kids says a lot about our moral standards. Of course, some will say the kids were weak. Callous attitudes like that also say a lot about our moral standards. Maybe the percentage of sociopaths is increasing.
*Watching televangelists trying to discredit science is like watching a toddler trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
*People who accept knighthoods and other ego-massaging awards from the British royal family are just pawns in perpetuating the “blue bloods” myth. Albert Einstein said he’s not sure if the universe is infinite, but the stupidity of humans is most certainly infinite.
*The Emmy Awards need a new category, to keep up with the boom in reality TV shows and their many superstars. My suggestion is “Biggest wanker”.
*It’s not easy being optimistic. John Fogerty’s “Fortunate son” is my favourite song about the unscrupulous hustlers who run governments. He wrote it in 1969. I’m fairly sure things haven’t improved since then!
*I was watching an NBA game on TV and was intrigued by the many cops “on duty”. And they were all Chubby Checkers with cheeseburger bellies. Maybe this is why so many American cops shoot people, because they can’t run after suspects.
*Trojan Horse sequel. There are 196 countries and more than 150 have American military personnel to, you know, keep an eye on local freedom and democracy. I’d love to see Donald Trump’s reaction if they all decided to kick out the Americans. Surely he wouldn’t threaten to nuke 150 countries!
*Having military personnel in more than 150 countries might seem insane but if America’s debt bubble bursts it’ll be beautifully positioned to tell those countries “We’re just going to borrow some of your money”.
*Trumplogic in a nutshell (literally): I have more money than you, therefore I’m smarter.
*Watching the NBA (the only one nation world championship), how does a game of only four 12 minute quarters drag on for 2 and a half hours? I guess they need lots of long time-outs so each player and team official can constantly high/low/medium five each other to, you know, stay pumped.
*This is BBC World News, brought to you by MI5.
This is NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN/Fox News, brought to you by the CIA.
We used to expect better of the BBC, but as for the others – well, let’s face it, they’ve always been members of the AWCS (the American Warmongers Cheer Squad).
*Imagine. Millions of people around the world finally deciding that’s it, we’ve had a gutsful, it’s time to stand up to dickhead billionaires, and lying corrupt political and corporate leaders. These bloodsuckers have shown time and again they are anything but leaders.
*Teeny fish in a teeny pond. In this week’s episode of The Real Housewives of New York, LuAnn’s son objects to her busy social schedule. Meanwhile Global Warming worsens. I wonder if the heat will melt plastic surgery.
*Anti the Axis of Evil (greedies, warmongers, and eco vandals) isn’t left-wing, it’s just anti right-wing. Anti any extremists is anti any-wing.
*Televangelists say the Bible details God’s rules for humans. But if God created the universe and its billions of galaxies, could there be other life forms also subject to God’s rules? After all, churches knew little about the cosmos until scientists made their discoveries, and even then they persecuted the scientists for a long time.
*It’s still not known if the eagerly-awaited George W. Bush book “My wit and wiseness” will ever be published but I’ve received what seems to be a world exclusive excerpt. In summary, Bush had a serious dental issue during his presidency. The dental surgeon said a wisdom tooth had to be removed and Bush was worried this would make him dumb. The surgeon reassured him no-one would notice any difference.
*Life’s mysteries are fascinating and wonderful, although one of them is gobsmackingly dumb. Why does the news media give publicity to people who clearly talk out of their arse? Top of the list are Global Warming pooh-poohers. Their lies – given oxygen by the media – are a crime against the human species. It’s double-standards because other crackpots are banned by the media.
*Incurable disease. There are high hopes for an eventual cure for cancer. (Mind you, lots of people are making lots of money from cancer in the meantime!). However, I’m 99.9% certain there’s no cure for another major human disease – greed. Soon after the salary for the boss of Qantas doubled in one year to $24 million he called for more corporate tax cuts (rich people don’t need public health and education). It’s what corporate and political leaders smirkingly call The Give and Take Principle: you give, we take. It’s heartbreaking that so many idiots have so much power.
*Trumplogic on Global Warming: any action that hurts corporate profits is anti-American, and anyway I’m old and won’t be around much longer so tell someone who cares. Of course, some of us might suggest to President Foghorn Leghorn that any action that helps ordinary people is pro-American. At least his predecessor pretended to care about his grandchildren’s future.
*Former American president, Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying in 1863 “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”. He should have added “And you can’t fool some of the people any of the time”. Yes, thank goodness for sceptics! Of course, devious politicians have only themselves to blame for the suspicions. It’s hilarious that right-wing media windbags vilify sceptics as “haters”. But that’s to be expected. People with a modest intellect often resort to irrational abuse rather than rational argument.