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AP:
In a bid to pre-empt popular uprisings from far-flung regions of the imploding empire over which he presides, President Barack Obama has fired his entire cabinet and promised not to run again for President in 2012.
Srsly!
In reality, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning President Care Bear has decided to test the Ghandi-an peace dividends of Egyptian blood-letting, in order to, as usual, preserve the status quo. Gomer Pyle was reported as saying, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” I suppose Cairo is the New Gaza Annex.
Fuck the U.S., Israeli, and Egyptian governments. May they get in their asses what they give. God bless the inevitability of history, and amen.
In related news, today’s quote of the day comes from monsieur IOZ:
Growing up Is Hard to Do
Obviously, Islam needs to make its peace with modernity and democracy.
-Robert Kagan, quoted by Maureen Dowd
This is a standard variant on a common observation in the West, that Islam is effectively unmodern, that it is mired in a sort of pre-Reformation dark age, as opposed to what used to be called Christendom, which through religious reformation paved the way for modern nations and Enlightenment and democracy and all that. Leaving aside the weirdness of this characterization of Islam, as a normative history of the Christian West, it is totally crackpot, an attention-deficient skipping stone leaping from the Henry’s first divorce to the Peace of Westphalia to Jean Monet and leaving out everything else in between. In this history, the wars of religion never occurred, there was no Terror, no Napoleon, no Somme, and no Holocaust. The modern western mind is mostly notable in civilizational history for its colossal contribution of violence and destruction. I mean, I guess it’s true that the occasional stoning-to-death of an adulterer is indicative of a somewhat atavistic mind, but by that light, the principal characteristic of modernity is its commitment to the slaughter of millions through the advent of mechanized warfare. Wait, oh, uh, whut? Hang on guys, there’s a transmission coming through. It’s a little fuzzy. You say . . . you say that is the principal characteristic of modernity. Oh, shit. Europe “made peace with democracy” by slaughtering two generations its youth.
Update
It’s time for Egyptians
2011 February 3
by Ian Welshto storm Mubarak’s mansion. It’s him, or them and he’s made it clear that he’d rather it was them. And if the protests fail, a lot of them, including the women, are going to spend a lot of time being tortured.
How many times do you need the future predicted for you?
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I’ve been reading yinz, not righting.
I’m intrigued by the port writers’ alliance. Not sure what it means, but let’s give it a go.
Vice President Mubarek, in what Al Jazeera referred to as “a Gerald Ford moment” during an appearance Wednesday night on DailyGosh.com, claimed that President Obama was not a dictator and should not step down.
Let me know when Slim Pickens hits the ground–
Six more years of Obie. Or a(nother) Republican. Talk about a Hobson’s choice.