Ordinary Stories of (Un)Ordinary Lives

Musings of the Day by gcpetrop79

So there it is.  The big day came and went.  Obama gave his speech, almost everyone cheered, and every channel in Africa was most certainly tuned into the event, cheering on the first black president of the US.  Not too shabby.  And, in my view, a nice turn of events with the speech not being too melodramatic or straining to become epochal or ‘epic.’  It was pretty clear what his goals were as well, and it was good to see that they were pretty much in line with… uh, the line that he’s been selling to the US electorate (and the rest of the world) thus far.  So we’ll see.  Certainly one thing that jumped to my mind, while thinking about all the ‘yes we cans’ and ‘our time is nows’ and all the rest of the circus, was a certain other promise which the Western world has made concerning the amount of expenditure every year on international aid.  This was envisioned to reach 0.7% a while back, but still isn’t there in most places.  I do hope that Obama and his new administration see an eventual increase in funding for development and emergencies as an integral part of working his new system of renewed international leadership.  The US government has a lot of very technically-minded individuals and a lot of very experienced people working in development.  With an increase in aid and care taken to make it work and provide some support and traction to poorer countries, I think there could be a huge chance for it to really have an exponential effect on the good name of the US in the world, while at the same time helping those who want to help themselves.  Perhaps the tons of money sent over to Iraq to provide 7-ply toilet paper for Halliburton private security guards could now actually be spent fighting cholera, malaria and malnutrition in other parts of the world, where instead of petroleum the only thing you get when you dig are termites.

 

Looking at the world, taking a step back, as once does (right?), it’s almost comical how pathetic other countries can be sometimes.  I won’t name names.  But it’s amazing what has happened since Obama won the election.  I consider it something close to what happens when you win the lottery.  You get lots of aunts and cousins calling you to tell you about their ‘chronic coposis’ syndrome, loser kids and drunk husbands, who would be SO much better if only you could just help them out a little bit.  Well, FUCK YOU grandma, kick your son’s ass, lose weight, and stop buying your jack-off husband moonshine, and watch your chronic coposis slowly go away you FUCKING REDNECK (and by FUCKING REDNECK I mean any country hanging off of Obama’s cock and balls, waiting for a handout).  All of a sudden, Obama is going to solve everything.  There’s about as much of a chance of him ‘helping everyone out’ in 4 years (that’s 1,460 days) as there is of Santa Claus giving every little shit a toy over Christmas.  Hmmm… 160 million dollars for the inauguration ceremony.  ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?  Wasn’t that how much it was?  Something like that anyway.

 

By the way, I thought thepoem read out was a good one.  Nice and contemporary.  No daffodils and shorn sheep.  Or whatever.

Special note to Bakoyianni, the Foreign Minister of Greece:

Please shut THE FUCK up.  No one respects you.  Just get back to work.  The capital and goodwill you inherited from your husband’s brains being made into fine red mist years ago by someone’s gun are GONE.  Stop asking the US to solve your little regional problems.  Actually I’m wrong, you’re so obtuse you aren’t even asking for solutions.  You’re asking for fucking ‘attention’ like someone’s ignored little redheaded stepchild.  There’s a WAR ON IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN so no one really cares about your special little problem with FYROM.  Greece spent millions and MILLIONS to get on the security council and pissed it all away playing with itself while embarrassing itself trying to send industrial waste to Sudan, a country it was also aiding in Darfur (only while it was on the SC of course) and fucking at the same time because some jackass in the UN thought the… (wait for it, wait for it!) GREEK delegation there could actually be in charge of the illegal arms embargo on Sudan! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA blow me.  Now Greece will be spending a few months anally raping Eastern Europe as the presidency of the OSCE.  Hmmm let’s see… Could the FYROM question be something to deal with there?  We always get special presents when Greece heads an institution as well, as, I guess ‘growing up’ gifts.  For the last presidency of the EU?  Why, the US invasion of Aye-Rak!  Thanks Dubyah, and go fuck yourself.  For the OSCE?  Hi Greece, welcome aboard the big boys.  Now please solve the Russian gas problem.  We should have just canned all the teargas from Athens in December, and sent that in liquid form over to Kiev, where the Ukrainians are busy playing with Europe like a child with an anthill and a magnifying glass.  I hope your dad comes spanks you, Europe.  Oh wait, dad happens to be… Greece… the presidency of the OSCE.  NICE.  Which reminds me, are we ever going to have a new EU foreign policy person?  This Solana guy has been busy either being irrelevant or ineffective for 15 fucking years.  Nice democratic processes Brussels, thanks.  I want my MEP taxes back assholes.

 

Special note to BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7840712.stm

 

If you read the above article, you will see that Paul Henley states that the Turkish army invaded Cyprus to protect its citizens.  What citizens?  Cyprus, for the 123359539^th time was NOT split between Turkey and Greece like a sandbox, but was its own country.  Even though Ankara and Athens wanted to believe it was a sandbox, it’s obvious that very few times were the Cypriots asked how they felt.  There were ethnic Turks and ethnic Greeks (as pure as anyone can be in this part of the world… say it with me:  We’re all Phoenician-Caucasian hybrids with some Egyptian thrown in) but how many citizens can there have been from Turkey?  Should Egypt have invaded as well?  I don’t get it.  If someone has any light, then let me know.  As I understand it, there are a hell of a lot more Turkish citizens since then since there have been a lot of immigrants to the Turkish northern Cyprus.  So that’s strange.  Mr.  Paul Henley, stop the crack.

 

And now, for your reading pleasure:  The most hilarious site I have ever seen:

www.fuckthesouth.com    Obviously this is a very, very upset person.  Dated, but NOT forgotten!

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