Good news and questionable news...

So two things have occurred this week that, on the face of them, should have a positive aspect. For one, the last of the serving American troops made a 'tactical road march' out of Iraq. They now sit at Camp Adder in Kuwait as they prepare to finally come home. Home for the Holidays… It sounds cliché I know, but I'm very happy for them. They are finally out of there and won't be around when the other shoe finally drops. And drop it will…



Iraq is standing on the verge of an immense bloodbath that once started, nobody will be able to stop. Let's face it… whenever you have Sunni and Shia populations living together, there is no way around it. It's all they know. Mankind simply does not have enough years left in our time here on Earth, as a species, for these people to evolve beyond that. We're talking about ancient civilizations that have been around much longer than us North Americans, with equally ancient blood feuds between them. It's the same type of blinkered, stone-aged, pig-ignorance that brings you such trappings as Islam and Sharia Law… or the Taliban. For anyone to say at this juncture: "Hey… you're bashing Islam! You must be an 'Islamophobe'!", let me tell you something. I bash EVERY religion. I do so because they are ALL founded on bullshit and fairy tales and are invented solely (by man, NOT GOD, because there are no GODs but those that we choose to invent…), to exert control over large sections of humanity. The term 'phobe' comes from the Greek work 'phobia', which in turns implies an unreasonable fear. I don't fear religions, I loathe them. So there...

So yes, for as much as American troops leaving Iraq is a good and positive thing, for them and other fellow Americans, it bodes absolutely nothing well for the Iraqis themselves…

Second ray of sunshine in the news this week, the croaking of North Korea's 'Dear Leader', Kim Jung Il. I hate to appear insensitive here, but I could not repress a fit of braying laughter as I read about a teary-eyed North Korean TV anchor, informing the masses that their dear leader had apparently died of 'overwork'. More like a lifetime of excessive debauchery finally caught up with him. Just like his old man, who actually managed to live longer than his ill-fated son. Though to be fair to his father, North Koreans did not die of starvation in the hundreds of thousands under his rule.

"His heart has stopped beating but his face and his deeds will be remembered forever…", slobbered the TV talking head. Yeah, right… Just like a certain German dictator's face and deeds have been forever etched into the collective minds of humanity. Funny how most civilized people won't even name theior dog Hitler, to this very day. The mass hysterical grieving 'show' being displayed by the country he left behind…? To be kind, one can only describe it as 'Pavlovian'. There is no genuine remorse in any of it… Certainly not if North Korea as a nation can ever be saved… For anyone genuinely sorry that Kim Jung Il died, why don’t't you lean out into the strike zone and take one for the team… your type should never be a contributing element to any society.

So again, it's the glass half-empty or half-full scenario. Sure, it's good that Kim bought the farm, but that's only until we find out what kind of fuckiong loon is going to be taking over the reins of power in that tinderbox of a region. His son Kim Jong Un is by all accounts, his pre-selected successor. We'll have to wait and see how he makes out…

Questionable news indeed...