Hi Joel, <<little blood stirring there Mr. Jay? <g>
i thought they did it cuz they hated the brits <vbg>
or was it about liberty, equality and fraternity and a good source of fresh produce >>
:0), but all of the above <vbg>
... and probably because they, at the time, for a short while, had the biggest of everything and the largest of everything else, and felt they had much to teach the world, until they learned a thing at Aboukir, and later, another thing about Waterloo.
On the controversy (yes, there was a demonstration even in Money Rock HK, making up the global democratic electorates) of the current impending war, my thoughts are ...
(a) The Husseins (I prefer not to address them by first names as Bushies and Blairs do) are bad news, someone ought to do the dirties on them;
(b) Rather than leaving the Israelis to the dirty task, the US tee-d up Iraq regime change, and if the US does not go through with the swing, much credibility will be lost, especially with the N.Koreans, who are so credible that all its neighbors believe them;
© If so, then an age of a bunch of small countries with N.Korean nukes tipped on Russian Sunburn ship-to-ship missiles will dawn, and the age of aircraft carriers will slip below the waves;
(d) Resulting in bad news for the existing world order, bringing us past TPonRr (pronounced T-Pon-Rrr), on to TeoTwawKi (Pronounced Te-O-Twaw-Ki), setting off much TwoAPuc (pronounced Two-A-Puc), but giving rise to plenty of NToeAwsB (pronounced N-Toe-Aws-Be)*;
(e) But if the US does do what should be left to the Israelis, without UN backing, spending a lot of money, pissing off plenty of folks, as in Chinese saying ‘catching other’s lice to put on one’s own head’, then much order will be lost, and mucho chaos released;
(f) If so, then bad news for the existing world order, bringing us past TPonRr (pronounced T-Pon-Rrr), on to TeoTwawKi (Pronounced Te-O-Twaw-Ki), setting off much TwoAPuc (pronounced Two-A-Puc), but giving rise to plenty of NToeAwsB (pronounced N-Toe-Aws-Be);
(g) Or, if the US does do what should be left to the Israelis, who pissed off so many already that a few more matters not, but with UN sanction, and thus French approval, then we are left with a messy cleanup, costing much turbulence, setting off a perpetual blood feud, built on the basis of already forever bad blood, and still have to deal with a N.Korea that will have learned much about preemptive strikes.
So, where is the good news? Only that, either way, much NToeAwsBe will uncover themselves.
Chugs, Jay
· definitions can be found here Message 18586475
TPonR, pronounced T-Pon-Rrr, short for 'the point of no return';
TeoTwawKi, pronounced te-o-twaw-ki, easier to remember than 'The End Of The World As We Know It'
TwoAPuc, pronounced Two-A-Puc, meaning 'the worst of all possible unintended outcomes';
NToeAwsB, pronounced N-Toe-Aws-Be, handy name for 'nature trade, obvious exchange, apparent wager and sure bet'.
… all inspired by Bill Bonnor, the funny man of dailyreckoning.com |
