The USA is its own worst enemy.

I'm not going to mention recent events but anyone who watches the news has to concede that the United States of America is in a steep social decline.

Anyone who harbours ill will towards the USA need not waste their energy and resources attacking what is a brutishly powerful nation. Rather, they only need to wait as it destroys itself from within.

Right wing Christian fundamentalism combined with a colonial attitude towards the world and the toxic obsession with the misinterpreted constitutional right to bear arms is destroying a briefly great nation.  

The only real tragedy is that many far superior western nations have irreversibly entwined  their fate with that of the USA.

"Where do birds go to die?" now incorporating "Fuck Off Krispy Kreme"

Since the passing of my mate Angus Diesel Fumes (Adrian), and the fact that Krispy Kreme has all but "fucked off", at least from Australia, I thought I'd throw this and "Fuck Off Krispy Kreme" together to make it easier to be venemous and offensive in one spot.

I wanted to make sure that Angus' funny and intelligent rants stayed safe and easily accessible, but I also wanted to make sure I could ad my own to them when the feeling hits.

And stand back, I can feel something gurgling, I mean Ted Baillieu is Premier of Victoria, the Democrats and Obama are in trouble in the US, and Israel are still a pack of C*%ts.

Fuck off Krispy Kreme

It has been a long time since I have written anything here. Since Obama got in, and then Rudd, it has simply been a time to sit back and "wait and see".

I was jolted out of my reverie, not by miners stuck in a hole, not by the Greens finally getting the recognition and support they deserve, but by the fact that Krispy Kreme is going the way of Starbucks in Australia, as reported by the good old ABC today.

Krispy Kreme in voluntary receivership.

Although we (Oceania) are still saturated with this form of carcenogenic colonialism in the form of McDonalds, KFC, Hungry Jacks, Wendy's and all of the other fetit fat fryers, this is one step in the right direction.

Fuck off Krispy Kreme!

update

It's been a long time since we posted, and it's not because America has suddenly picked up it's game. On the contrary, I've been so engrossed in the pre-election circus over there, I've hardly had time to think about how insane the whole thing is and write it all down.

After all, since we lost John Howard, all we have is George Bush, and even he's been pretty quiet.

The parties over there sure put a lot of money, effort, bile etc into competing against their own people, then as soon as a winner is announced, it's all forgotten and the other party are the bad guys again.

Hopefully American's will pull their fingers out and put in a representative vote this time. Once the Democrats are in we can all go back to picking on TV Evangelists, paedophiles and fast food chains (not necessarily in that order).

Newsflash! George Bush got it wrong

How strange that the "democratically elected"leader of the so-called "free-world" has got it wrong yet again.

In the case of Iraq, Bush's own people told him that there were no WMDs. The ensuing invasion and occupation that occurred despite this information failed to uncover the fictitious stockpiles used as justification for the devastation of an entire region.

Now to Iran. Again Bush has banged on and on about the Iranian weapons program.

"A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb."

By no means is this a reason to breath a sigh of relief in the comfort that Bush won't decide to invade. After all, there is an election coming up, and Americans tend to vote for war mongers.

As long as Iran is enriching Uranium for civilian purposes, there is always enough doubt to justify a unilateral preemptive strike.

On the other hand, Americans could come to their senses and head Bush off, vote him out, get some Democrats in, and end the latest Western tyranny of our times, just like we did in Australia.

American Idiot

Does anyone think that George W Bush is an intellectual giant?

I love this poem - the author's pretty dead so I guess I can post it

It's about America, right?

THE HOLLOW MEN

T. S. Eliot (1925)

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer --

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.