Jamaica is about to get blasted by the “most powerful storm in world” according to the BBC this morning. Nothing like an alarmist headline to scare people. They even went to the trouble of dragging on a gormless looking “professor” of meteorology with interesting teeth to tell us that it was all caused by you know what.
“Muh climate change done did it again” says the professor
The host, Lucy Hockings with a Kiwi accent, was having a back and forth with some dude called Desmond who looked like he was channeling Papa Doc. That was almost Halloween-like if you ask me. The BBC, they’re all over it this morning although the “hurricun”, as they keep calling it, hasn’t actually made landfall yet.
Dame Edna Everage meets Doctor François Duvalier
I found this item on the BBC website too, “A statue of a Confederate general that was torn down and set on fire (how do you set a statue on fire?) in 2020 during social justice protests in Washington has been reinstalled under orders from President Donald Trump. The National Park Service announced in August its plan to return the refurbished statue of General Albert Pike, after Trump signed an executive order called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. Democratic Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents the District of Columbia, called the restoration “offensive to members of the military who serve honorably”. Just shut the fuck up, seriously…
It’s fairly certain nobody will erect a statue of Eleanor Holmes Norton any time soon
I’d like to just quit now I’m so disgusted, but I will press on. Let’s go to Sudan where “after an 18-month siege, the city in western Darfur was seized in October by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group which Sudanese army troops have been fighting since April 2023.
African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf expressed “deep concern over the escalating violence and reported atrocities” in El-Fasher, said a statement on social media platform X, condemning “alleged war crimes and ethnically targeted killings of civilians”. Oh no, these are the same people who will be wanting to flee to Western Countries no doubt , and people wonder why they all start carving up each other with machetes when they get here. It’s probably our fault.
“Papa Doc cast his spell through the artful use of voodoo, which in effect is Haiti’s national religion. Duvalier affected the staring gaze, whispered speech and hyperslow movements recognized by Haitians as signs that a person is close to the voodoo spirits.” Kids, that Papa Doc, so very scary……. Fuck me, this journal has degenerated into mush this morning. It’s all over the fucking place. It’s a good job not many people read it or I’d be obligated to make it better.
Pike was an imposing figure; 6 feet tall and 300 pounds with hair that reached his shoulders and a long beard.
Since this is turning into a show and tell, let’s throw in a picture of the general. He wouldn’t be out of place in a boomer heavy metal band, let’s face it. This is a very small part of one of the first poems he wrote as a young man, “Hymns the the Gods – Hera. Mother of Gods! devoutly we incline Our willing knees before thy holy shrine, Where Imbrasus runs seaward, strong and swift, Through the green plains of Samos. Lo! we lift Gladly to thee our many-voiced strain.” Woah! Heavy stuff man. You can read the whole thing online if you’ve got a day to spare, for free at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/hymnstogodsother00pike/page/n5/mode/2up
Finally, Bill Gates tells us that the climate change isn’t as serious as we make it out to be….”Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries (of course!)—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.” Sheeeit!!!!
“You get up in the morning, saving for breakfast”….no, those are not the words..