Green Eagle

Here's one hell of a weird guitar: Nothing else to say about that, I guess.

And guess which one it is.  Here's a hint, from Fareed Zakaria on CNN, that bastion of the liberal press: “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States” last night" And here, I thought he became President when he cheated his way into enough electoral votes, or when he was sworn in on January 20th, or most recently when he managed to read a speech to Congress, in between episodes of making an ass out of himself.    But no, I guess it took the meaningless bombing of an air field in some country filled with brown people, after arranging with two vicious dictators that it would do no real damage, for Trump to become President for real. I'm not going to waste my time this weekend citing all of the other examples of the mainstream press falling all over itself to portray this tantrum as statesmanship; I just can't be bothered.  We all know this is nothing but an attempt to stop Trump's slide into imminent oblivion, and give his fellow Republicans a...

Three or four times I have republished things which I wrote in the past.  I think this is a good opportunity to do that again.  The following is a post I wrote in October, 2015, briefly outlining the long history of the place that is now called Syria.  I believed then, and still believe, that the history of Syria presents an almost unbroken tale of violence, war, invasion, rebellion and brutality that is extremely hard for most Americans to really appreciate.  It is against this background that the current events in Syria must be understood, I think.  Anyway, here it is: Syria I think it is fair to say that, at the present time there is no such country as Syria any more.  I thought it would be interesting to look back at a very long history and see where this country came from, and how much of a country it ever was.  It's hard to even give a sense of this in a blog post, but I was so interested in Syria's five thousand year record of violence...

Well, I have had 24 hours or so to think about the thirty million dollars of missiles that our President sent careening through the air toward a Syrian air base that, curiously, seems to have been abandoned several hours before the attack.  You'd think that this would be plenty long enough to get to the essence of the thought process (if you can call it that) that led to this decision, but remember that it was undoubtedly Vladimir Putin's decision, not Trump's, so the thinking may be slightly above the third grade bully level we have come to expect from our noble leader.  Well, never too soon for Green Eagle to shoot his beak mouth off about any grave threat to world order, so here is what I suspect at this point. Let's start with Vlad's thinking, because as we all know, Trump never gets out of Vlad's string pulling range. As I have mentioned before, Russia has a vital, possibly mortal interest in what happens in Syria.  The whole Southern part of Russia is p...

TRUMP GETS TO HAVE HIS TANTRUM! AND MAYBE POSTPONE THE ABRUPT END OF HIS HORRID PRESIDENCY! And why is Green Eagle saying hooray about all of this?  Because this means that he won't be going to war this month against North Korea, which is prepared to respond by killing several hundred thousand people who are not even white people, so who would care in the end, anyway? So, of course, attacking Assad means risking going to war against Russia, but on the other hand attacking North Korea risks going to war against China!  The two other most powerful military powers on Earth!  So why not just flip a coin, right?  Go for the gasser or for the fat boy.  What fun. Even the senile Ronald Reagan had the sense, when the country had turned against him, to go to war against Grenada, which he could have wiped off the face of the earth without anyone important giving a damn; but no, Trump has to pick a fight that could cause a nuclear war.  What a leader!

From Karoli Kuns at  Crooks and Liars this morning: "Bannon Goes After Kushner, Calls Him 'Cuck' Man, let the smackdown begin! I mean, is there any possible way for these guys to be any more infantile?  How do you even rationally deal with something like this? Karoli continues: "The conflict appears to arise out of the fact that Bannon and Kushner are not on the same page when it comes to policy." Why, doesn't policy disagreement in the White House always result in the people involved spewing disgusting sexual insults at each other? God, we're fucked, people.

The Republicans today succeeded in their year-long effort to force a hard right wing corrupt fascist onto the Supreme Court, in their effort to see to it that the Court represents nothing but rich sociopaths.  This campaign was a grotesque abuse of their authority, and is a major step toward their ultimate goal, which as I have been explaining for two or three decades, is to reduce the United States to a slave state. Is there a single Democrat who will do the right thing and immediately introduce a resolution to impeach this anti-American criminal?  Of course, it will go nowhere in a Congress controlled by corrupt Republicans, but at least let his tenure be clouded over by the public declaration that a majority of Americans know that he has no place in our government.