Blood. Wait. Download!

Thanks to Ilana Mercer's yesterday's great blog entry WORDLESS ABOUT THE WAR with, as always in her writing, amusing, striking, insightful formulations and comparisons like "Mess-opotamia" and "The Fedayeen Papers" ~~ and I am passing over some, for which we can be as grateful as for grated cheese on the right dish [sorry for the tasteful but tasteless comparison, I am not Ilana ;-)] and as happy about, I learned of something, a flash animation of 7893711 bytes exactly, that you must watch, at the risk of having to wait (during the long download, if you are not on broadband) and of weeping, as Ilana warns, suggests, recommends. I didn't (I was particularly well rested and strong this morning) or only on the sly, muted by the angry clear visions of my intellect.

The animation is extremely well done and builds up to a climax that will surprise you. Be concentrated on the many pictures, the larger ones and the very many small ones of identical size. I only wish that the number of the latter was not such a round one, 500, but exactly 522, so that this Prez and Cabinet Sauvage, instead of Cabernet Sauvignon would at long last taste blood and sand. Some more reckoning anyone? Well, isn't it striking that the Congress of the United States has 435 Representatives and 100 Senators? Add those up and you have 535 Responsibles (an expression from Theater) or Irresponsibles, whatever you prefer. Deduct the 22 above, already cared for. You now have 513. Take off Dr. Ron Paul and a few others and with a bit of luck you might come up with 13 Upright Ones (I know, that is a lot, more than the Upright Seven of Gottfried Keller, republican-minded master craftsmen united in their hate of aristocracy and clerics). That leaves us with exactly 500. Nice balance of cause and effect...

And here we go:

Do You Ever Wonder What 2000 Looks Like

http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.html

And that's four times 500 and still only a fraction of those, so hesitantly mentioned, numerous wounded ones who often might have preferred to be dead. In The Declaration of Independence the syllable In has since long been dropped, in the Pursuit of Happiness the word Pursuit has changed its meaning and Happiness has now become the Persecuted. Death replaces Life. And the deep sorrows of families and friends are ignored. They too often do not even dare to have them openly. The loss for us all and the future generations of all that human talent thrown away is unbearable. Blood for oil cannot bring about culture and civilization (only demockracy). Not here, where they are crumbling since a good while, not there, where, just for the sake of the fall of that one dictator, a former "friend" of one's own construction and with inbuilt obsolescence, they are being massively tumbled by the New Romans. While insane Nero is grinning on his balcony.

NB: Sauvignon is the wine most subject to inflationary climb, as fans, collectors, and the Nouveau Riche bid the supply ever upward. [Jim LaMar]