things i would love to do just once ere i die

 

Just once... just once I would love to send someone a lawyer's letter threatening them formally and legalistically with a good kick in the bawls if they do not desist from some activity I find irksome.

the blame game

 

Twenty years after the American liberation of Afghanistan, the departure of American troops from that country, means Afghanistan once more belongs to the Pakistani ISI secret service franchisee known as the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood franchisees styled Al Qaeda and Isis.

Commentators in America and Britain, the free world basically, are flailing a bit.

There's a good bit of lashing out and mutual recrimination.

We're all blaming each other.

I've just listened to the occasionally acuitive Mark Steyn and his Fox News proxy Tucker Carlson attacking South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

They're going at it with malicious glee.

I don't know what Senator Graham is supposed to have done on them. It's all a bit random. A bit tendentious. A bit sad.  Very emotional of course. But there is no credible justification for Steyn and Carlson to trash the reputation of Senator Graham as they've been trying to do for a few days now.

Also this evening Steyn has published an article targetting Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio for the purely notional crime of claiming on the internet that America is still a great country,

And last month Steyn nicknamed the Chairman of America's Joint Chiefs Of Staff, Mark Milley, 'Thouroughly Modern Milley.'

And oh he has also just announced in the midst of his other tirades that there are no longer any real poets.

That one's getting a bit personal.

Quaint again.

If I understand Mark Steyn correctly his analytical standpoint is now based on the principle that he and Tucker Carlson are the last two decent human beings on the planet.

I think this philosophy may be less portable than he expects.

I ask you.

Has Steyn gone whim ping ping ricochet rabbit insane?

I've always had much regard for Mark Steyn (particularly his prose writings) and at least some regard for Tucker Carlson but Senator Lindsay Graham and Representative Jim Jordan and to a lesser extent Thouroughly Modern Milley, actually work for a living. Steyn and Carlson talk.

Ho hum.

I've also just listened to the corporate fascist leftist atheistic abortionist contraceptivist, euthanasist, freemasonic communist BBC (I mean I don't want to go casting no aspoyshuns) warning of a backlash against current American President Joe Biden over his withdrawal of American troops and the consequent near instantaneous fall of Afghanistan into the hand of barbarians.

Needless to say barbarians is my word for the Muslim Taliban not the BBC's.

Quaint again.

Hearing the report, I instantly asked myself whether it might be more appropriate for the BBC to fear a little backlash against, er, the BBC.

I'm not the only one who thinks they're well past their sell by date.

I remember nearly two decades ago those British troops going to war in Iraq, risking their lives for all of us, and declaring that as far as they were concerned the BBC was the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation.

The Beeb had a profound hearts and minds problem even then.

Still, they were only soldiers, eh.

What do soldiers know.

They're good enough to die for us but not good enough to have any influence whatsoever over the television station they fund through compulsory taxation known in Britain as a licence fee.

Go figure.

In 2011 US President Barack Obama eventually (and prematurely in my vascillating assessment) pulled the troops out of Iraq. I say my assessment vascillates because President Obama had a good excuse for what I deem his wrong minded withdrawal, namely that elements of the Iraqi political class were insisting on the right to conduct trials of American soldiers and to execute them.

Naughty, naughty, very naughty.

And so on.

This week, with Afghanistan once more facing into the dark Islamic night of permanent impoverishment, intellectual enslavement and rapine, I've been inclined to cast a few aspersions myself not just upon the BBC.

Here goes.

After Nine Eleven, my own analysis was and remains that the Americans were fighting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that the rest of us (with the exception of Britain, Australia, Poland and some noteworthy honorable others) chickened out of.

Those of us who refused to stand with America when she fought for us in Afghanistan and Iraq have no right to expect America to ever stand for any of us anywhere again.

I believed from the start that we should support President George Bush and the American army in the decisive liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban and that we should similarly have supported President Bush and the American army's actions in ending Saddam Hussein's murderocracy in Iraq.

I thought we should take a dim view of opportunists of the political or media class or indeed any other class, attempting to cast aspersions on our war President or on the war effort itself.

I recommended at the beginning of the War On Terror, and do still, that we should all refuse to allow lesser politicians anxious to make a name for themselves in a new election cycle, to slander our war time President George Bush and war time British Prime Minister Tony Blair or to otherwise diminish the war effort in any way.

Such opportunism I contended confuses the Jihadis.

They start thinking they can win.

The attempts by ambitious lesser men to criminalise Mr Bush and Prime Minister Blair for their heroic liberations of two formerly enslaved countries, were always cheap and opportunistic and served simply to give succour to our enemies whether Jihadis, Chinese Communists, Vladdie The Pute or some enemy we don't know about.

Since my brilliant advice at the outset of the war thrilled its way through Western discourse (If Steyn can steal my jokes, why can't he steal my insights?) no less than three cosmically mediocre and congenitally fervourless United States Presidents (and three dud British Prime Ministers) have made their reputations and achieved high office by ignoring me completely and thoroughly and shamelessly slandering Mr Bush and the war effort, thereby inspiring  and revitalising our Jihadist enemies and their Pakistani secret service/Muslim Brotherhood sponsors, at every turn to keep fighting, to outwait us, and essentially to play the Vietnamisation game by which I mean, impugn the wartime President and while losing every set piece battle to our armies, break the popular will of the Free World on the home front to continue the struggle.

The flash over substance opportunists who became President of the USA by weakening our will to fight, slandering our war time President Mr Bush, and conveying a risibly defeatist notion that earliest withdrawal from Afghanistan was the only acceptable ongoing policy, were: two term President Barack Obama of the Democratic Party, one term President Donald Trump sort of of the Republican Party, and President Joe Biden most assuredly of the Democratic Party but who is just a few months into his Presidency and as things stand I think is somewhat unlikely to make it through one full term.

Those three all bear some responsibility for the current renewal of Muslim Jihadist suzerainty in Afghanistan.

As do professional showboaters Mart Steyn and Tucker Carlson whose initial posturing loyalty to the war effort has proved malleable in the extreme.

I would note that America preserved some semblance of stability in Western Europe after World War Two by garrisoning Germany, Italy and Japan for 76 years, that is to say from 1945 right up to the present day. No doubts were permitted among the defeated nations as to whether they had actually been defeated. No "insurgencies" were tolerated. Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's top SS commando came to my town of Kilcullen in Ireland after the war, hoping to start a Fourth Reich. He quickly thought better of it and contented himself  instead with setting up a devil worship/child abuse/drug dealing ring with the IRA which still bedevils Ireland (and my home town) to this day. But he didn't **** with the Americans and the Brits.

America garrisoned many other countries around the world from 1945 to 1991 in order to see off Russian Communism.

America even garrisoned South Korea after the end of the Korean war in 1953 for 68 years and counting, until the present day in order to prevent the Chinese Communists from snatching it after Stalin and Mao's proxy commie armies got creamed in the Korean war.

If in 1945, we'd had opportunistic quisling defeatists calling for an early return of troops from all battlefield theatres of operation while slandering Churchill or Eisenhower or whoever for going to war unnecessarily, quislings of the calibre of present day CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the BBC, ITV, RTE, the Irish Times, Independent Newspapers, the Times of London, Mark Steyn, Tucker Carlson, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, why then the Nazis would have come back in a few years and taken the lot, or failing that the Russians, or failing that Mao.

ubi caritas ibi deus est

 

(mass in westminster cathedral)

an indian girl

read from the bible

in an english accent

all other prayer

became rehearsal

for this moment

this catholic

universal

coming into of the kingdom

this heavenly

earthly

arrival of the traveller home

from london

by jerusalem

to rome

February 1992

caring for beginners

 

"Maisie Baines has an article on Brian Byrne's website."

"Well there's a match made in hell. The insufferable meets the unreadable."

"Did you read it?"

"I can't remember."

"It's about the importance of community values and human compassion. She says she loves her community, her family, her husband, her work and her dogs."

"I'd say at least one of those statements is true."

"You know she's just had a major operation."

"To remove her spleen, was it?"

"No, it was..."

"Oh I know. The doctors looked at her and said she'd got her head stuck so far up her own arse that there was nothing they could do."

"No. They've operated as I've just told you and you'll be happy to know she's going to be alright."

"We can't have everything."

"James what is going on?"

"I think her exact words when I mentioned a few years ago in passing that Kinneavey and the Maloney drug gang, and their Tinker accomplices in tandem with the clan gang operating out of the Alke Babish chipper and junkies from some of Kilcullen's more prominent failed families were inflicting some of their more severe harassment activities on me were... oh what was it she said... ah yes... 'I don't really know you James,' and then full of community values and compassion she added 'maybe if you hadn't written some of those things on your blog, more people would want to help you now.' And I thought: She's absolutely right. She doesn't know me. And ever since I've found it a most interesting moral struggle to care a whit whether or not she lives or dies."

advocacy for beginners

During a phone coversation, Byrno the artist asks a question. 

"James did you get the vaccine?"

"Byrno after all these years do you not know me?"

"I do know you. You did get it."

"I did not get it. And you clearly don't know me. It is not in this life possible that I would get it under any circumstances. I can't believe you got it Byrno. What's happened to you? You used to be a thinking man, a man of principle, tuned in to all this stuff, to all the issues."

"Oh come on. It's time for this to be over. Everybody's got to take the vaccine."

"Do you know what it's made of?"

"James I don't know and I don't want to know."

"Is this John Byrne speaking?"

"It is."

"Can this really be John Byrne talking? Is this the Byrno who knew more about dystopian sci fi movies of the seventies with bleak futuristic visions than the guys who made them? Is this the Byrno who shouted 'yeah man' when Bruce Dern blew up his own spaceship to save a rainforest in Silent Running? Is this the Byrno who mused about Logan's Run: 'That could happen. It's where we're headed with youth culture.' Is this the same Byrno who muttered along with Lee Van Cleef in Escape From New York: 'It's the future of the human race Plisskan. Something you don't give a shit about.' Is this the same John Byrne who was one of the only people in the known universe who knew exactly what I was raving on about when I said that John Carpenter's low budget Dark Star was a satire on 2001 A Space Odyssey but you didn't have to have seen 2001 because Dark Star worked on its own and that a ten minute segment of Dark Star had been ripped off by one of its cast members Dan O'Bannon as the entire plotline of the billion dollar smash hit Alien franchise and that Carpenter never made a billion dollar hit, and that he and O'Bannon fell out over the matter, and that O'Bannon successfully claimed in court that he had contributed elements of the Dark Star script while acting in the film and was therefore a scriptwriter as well as actor, and was perfectly entitled to rip off his own elements from his own scripts? Is this same Byrno who hawked his own bloodsoaked dystopian sci fi film script about heroic soldiers attacking an impregnable base and finally capturing it after a whole movie's worth of mayhem only to discover they've been fighting an automated computerised defence system for years and that every human being in the base was long since dead? Can this really be the same John  Byrne who now says he's going to be a good little boy and eat any essentially untested vaccine the government offers up on foot of an orchestrated flu virus panic and doesn't want to know what's in it when one of the members of the resistance offers to tell him?"

"Yes, it's the same John Byrne. I don't want to know what's in the vaccine. I don't care what's in it. Everyone should just get on with it and take it."

"You're not going to let me tell you what's in it."

"No. I've no interest."

"Okay."

"Right so."

"It's made out of unborn babies murdered by abortion."

"Ah James for ****'s sake."

"Soylent Green is people. It's the future of the human race Byrno. Something you don't give a shite about."