Fuck Cancer. Fuck Cancer So Hard It Dies.

You want to know why I will not quit work at a company that is involved in the manufacture of drugs which fight cancer?

I've lost a nephew to cancer.
I've lost a mother-in-law to cancer.
I've lost two work associates to cancer.
A sister-in-law is fighting cancer.
A work associate is fighting cancer.

I hope I never get cancer. Or anyone that I love.

Enough of it already!

Even if I'm only paying attention that the computers at our company don't screw up and cause harm to anyone, I'm playing a role. Small. But I'm playing one.

This drug we're working on will help a lot of people. This fucker kills cancer cells like not many other drugs. It's only one of a whole new class of oncology drugs.And it will be on the market soon. But still too late for many...

You're a brave lady. Keep fighting! Never fucking give up!!

Quick or Slow?

Should I be holding back until the court proceedings are done, or is it clear-cut enough? I think it is. He admitted the deed. I won't post a picture of the alleged perp, because I don't want to give him or his buddies another datapoint of appearances on the web. But the guy who did this to the people of Norway is in custody, he's being questioned, he's got a lawyer, and the state attorney will make damn sure there are no formal issues that might let the fucker off the hook.

Now, what's going to happen?

Chances are, he'll get a life sentence, possibly with added preventive custody (I don't know if Norwegian law knows preventive custody). A life sentence in many countries in Europe means somewhere around 20 to 25 years. With a good prognosis and good behavior, parole becomes a possibility after, say, 10 to 15 years. So, depending on proceedings and future developments, the guy may get released eventually. No, you say? Don't think it's possible? Think again. Remember the guy who bombed PanAm Flight 103? He's out, and he killed 259 people.

Chances are, during the prison term his followers and buddies will show up outside the prison, raising signs and their right arms, chanting his praise and requesting him to be set free. Don't think that will happen? Think again. Hitler's birthday is celebrated by idiots around the world every year, and the press is watching with morbid curiosity every time. This guy describes himself in his manifesto (1'500 pages!) as the worst monster since the end of World War II, as if he's proud of it. I'll bet he sees himself as the latest shining figure of fascism, helping to rid the world of the oh-so-evil liberal forces.

Chances are, he might write a book during his term. He's almost done that before his deed (see above), and with the sensationalist media hot for sensational material, the press would suck it up no questions asked. It might be published and make him rich even in prison. Who knows?

Chances are, he gets three warm meals a day for the rest of his life, bought and paid for by the taxes which the relatives of his victims continue to pay. Okay, he might also get something warm up his ass on a regular basis, since killers and molesters of children are not looked upon in a friendly way in prison hierarchies around the world. I hope Norway is no different.


Chances are, the press will give him a voice, and even though the majority of mankind will shake their heads at any ramblings he might produce, there'll be a group of people who will hang on every word he says. That is despite the fact that he's agreed on a psychological evaluation. Make no mistake: this guy is intelligent. Highly intelligent, I claim. He never showed up on the radar, he kept to himself, he planned the attacks meticulously, and he proceeded with calm and coldness. Think about this: he placed the bomb and left for the island where he killed all these youngsters during more than 90 minutes. That's one and a half hour of aiming, shooting, reloading. It was highly methodical.

So. Should he go to prison? Yes. But not for long.

My advice? Do it the Chinese way. A bullet costs a couple of cents. Shoot the fucker in the back of his head, ditch him in a dirt hole and let his corpse rot. Strike his name out of history, don't let him be remembered. Forget the scumbag.

Forever.

Control Freaks

When it's time to throw out your old CRT TV set and replace it with something slightly larger and more modern, there's a certain excitement associated with that. Then add a new DVD player and a decent home cinema, along with a change of your cable provider to round off the whole thing and you're quite ready for some new media experiences which make watching a movie slightly more interesting.

Until... well, until you need to switch it on. You've unwrapped all those remote controls, looked at them, put in the batteries and set them aside for the moment, but there comes a point in time when you need to deal with them. No way around it, because (except for the DVD player) none of the devices you acquired has any control buttons to speak of.

Alrighty, then! TV on with one remote, DVD on with the other, press Play on the DVD remote...

Oookay... nothing happens. Wait a few seconds. The TV goes doodle-dee-ding! Oh, cool! Start-up sounds on a TV, that's new. And now? Well? C'mon!

Ah. "No source signal" in beautifully colored and rendered letters on the new 60" 3D screen. Wait a sec! There was something about a loop through the home cinema system! Yes! Take the next remote, switch on the home cinema. Take the TV remote, change the source...

Now, which fucking port did I plug that cable into? Climb behind the TV, take off the glasses... can't read that... wait... need a flashlight!

Get the key-ring with the emergency mini flashlight. Climb behind the TV again... oh, okay. HDMI4. Climb back out, readjust the TV again, try not to throw over the potted plant next to the new equipment, also try not to step on the DVD player. Fiddly electronic devices don't like that too much.

Get the TV remote again and switch the source to HDMI4.

Wow! Cool! Now... where did I put the DVD remote again...? Here. Press Play...

WHOA!!! That's waaay too loud! Find the home cinema remote and lower the volume... there. That's better. Really fantastic image quality and sound. Enjoy the Blu Ray experience for a couple of minutes. Nice!

Alright, it's time to watch the news... find the TV remote, and switch the source to Cable. Find the DVD remote to switch it off, since there's still sound coming over the speakers. Oh, yes. Find the home cinema remote and switch it off, since the cable TV sound comes over the speakers of the TV.

No Signal!? What the fuck!?

Ah. Find the cable decoder box remote and switch it on. That should do the trick!

No signal again. Hm.

At that point you acquire a kind of blank stare, while in the background your little gray cells start digesting information and gears are grinding in your mind until...

Yes! Why didn't I think of that!? Of course the cable box provides HD TV as well, so you connected it to one of the myriad of HDMI ports. But which one?

Climbing exercise again. Oh, right. The flashlight. HDMI1.

Grab the TV remote, switch the source.

FUCK! That's LOUD again!

At that point, you instinctively grab the home cinema remote, and frantically try to lower the volume, but nothing happens. The neighbors must be slightly unnerved by now. Your eyes sweep the remains of the packaging and all the remotes, the gears start to grind again... TV remote! Quick! Hammer the Volume Down button like crazy, but nothing happens.

Wait! The decoder box remote! It has a volume button, too! This one finally does the trick.

Now, when your ears stop ringing, that's when you decide to switch the whole thing off for a moment. You put the four (4!) remote controls on the living room table, arrange them neatly, and then suspiciously eye them for a long time.

At least, that's my story. And it's my solid conviction that the people who engineer these things are fucking sadists! They have not a frigging clue about usability, interface engineering, standardization, and ergonomy. Instead, they're electronics engineers. Only. Nobody ever had a tighter focus or more anal fixation than these guys - and trust me, ladies, they must be men! I've seen women try to operate these things and going crazy. Haven't seen them since they went into therapy. And I've seen men grind their teeth in frustration (I'm one of them!) trying to come to terms with about 200 buttons, just trying to watch the fucking news! What's wrong with the them all!?

And no, don't tell me I'm too stupid to use them, because I'm not. I've learned how to control my set now, and I still find it a goddamn bloody nuisance to have to reach for different remotes to adjust channels, volume, settings... or to simply switch the damn thing on!

Forget about educating electronics engineers. That's pearls before swine. Tar and feather them all, or beat them to pulp with their own remote controls, that's what I say! They don't deserve better.

Get in line!

In today's Australian (online edition), the MCS(tm) steps up to join a number of outraged countries in their protest about the release of classified embassy cables by WikiLeaks. "The Vatican has hit back[...]" the article begins, and those few words alone made my keyboard duck behind the screen, because of the danger of coffee impact.

Hit back. Yeah, right. They condemn the fact that it was published that senior officials of the church obviously blabbed their dismay at the formation of the Murphy Commission, which was to investigate the sexual abuse by members of the MCS in Ireland. Of course, all the cables mentioning any involvement in the church's attempts to brush matters under the carpet, are "unreliable" and "not exact quotations of Vatican officials". These are not literal quotes, but this is what their statements claim.

Some of the statements are attributed to Tarcisio Bertone (picture), the 'Secretary of State' of MCS City. He was also the guy trying to get the Irish government (and the independent Murphy Commission) to talk to diplomatic channels instead of to other politicians or even - gasp! - the press! Perish the thought, the public might become involved, and there might be people deciding that they want to (finally) cancel their MCS(tm) membership because of that! (A good idea, by the way, highly recommended).

And now that the cat is out of the bag in so many more ways, the Catholic Church sees itself as being allowed the same measure of 'righteous' anger as other, real, countries...

Obviously, not a lot of working grey matter is left in the heads of the so-called 'officials' of MCS City. If I knew anything less about their moronic workings in past centuries, I'd say, now they've gone completely, utterly, totally fuck-nuts.

Alas, it's once again typical.

The pope expresses regret when he hears about another sex scandal, he voices concern when hundreds of people accuse the representatives (officials? Nah! Never!) of the church of molestation, beatings, and sexual abuse, and he promises to take steps so that it will not happen again. Keep in mind that it took a lot of public pressure until he came out with these wise-ass whinie stupid statements!

Hey, fuckers! How about actually taking action and punishing the bastard members of your MCS instead of just blowing out stale warm air?

Just as an example: imagine your 10 year old daughter (or son) gets raped and beaten up by the neighbor, and when presented with evidence, the rapist's family expresses regret and promises to ensure it won't happen again. And when you decide to go public with proof to disclose the vile crime, they express their outrage and call your statements unreliable (despite proof).

Unfortunately, the pope is so far up many (or most) of the world leader's asses, that they don't seem to see enough of him to actually prosecute. On the other hand, there is so much more that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have done wrong - yeah, let's prosecute that guy instead! That will detract the world from the content of the damning proof documents!

No fucking way!!! Let's not forget: even if Assange is in prison, more cables are released every day. I've taken to reading more of the cables, and less of the news coverage about his legal fight. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see the guy incarcerated (if he's innocent of rape!), but the important thing is the stuff he published!

That cat is definitely out of the bag! And it will continue roaming for a long time yet.

It might even shit on Razzi's and Bertone's lawn again. One can hope!

Yes! I knew it!

The Moronic Clusterfuck Society(tm) must really be having an 'Oh, crap!' moment now. Our self-declared Mr. "Tolerance and World Peace" caught red-handed, meddling in affairs he and his MCS should rather stay away from, because they know fuck-all about the real world.

He blabbed about not wanting Turkey in the EU because it was a Muslim state, and promptly someone wrote it down. (For the record: I don't want Turkey in the EU, either, simply on the grounds of it being a near-bankrupt state, and the EU already has enough of them...)

Now that wikileaks is getting in full swing to release more and more classified or secret or unclassified cables, I had the suspicion that sooner or later some juicy morsels about my favorite enemy would surface.

And boy, have I been proven right again! Ratzi's been trying for years to push the Catholic Church into a fundamental role for the EU, not taking into account that reformation took place in Europe hundreds of years ago and was quite successful. Apparently, part of this effort was to nudge politicians in the direction of refusing EU membership to Muslim countries on the grounds of their religious beliefs.

He obviously hasn't gotten it through his thick fucking skull yet that religion and politics should be further apart than Earth and the core of Andromeda!

Here's a quote from the acting Foreign Minister of the Vatican (from the above article): "One great fear is that Turkey could enter the EU without having made the necessary advances in religious freedom."

Oh yeah. Religious freedom. As in "if I want to keep my Muslim beliefs, I'm free to do so"? Or rather as in "You're free to believe in a Christian God. Whether you want it or not."

Would it be blasphemous, if an atheist like me says "I'm praying for more wikileaks cables on the MCS(tm)?"

Nah, just kidding. I'm not praying. But I'm hoping!

Quote Unquote

A quote from this lady, with respect to wikileaks:

"There is nothing laudable about endangering innocent people and there is nothing brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations between nations." (Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State).

I rest my fucking case!

Brainleaks

What could prompt me to write again, after two years of silence? It would take some considerable commotion around the world, or a particularly stupid feat of the MCS(tm) to break lose with another gust of cold vocal air.

Enter wikileaks.

To be honest, the leaks themselves wouldn't have warranted a post in this blog (although some of them are really funny!), but what really blew (and is continuing to blow) my top, is the reaction of those in power, the affected ones, or rather those, who want to make us believe they're among the victims.

Just imagine: you're a country, and every day, you receive dozens, maybe hundreds of reports from your embassies all over the world, and some of the reports are quite juicy, obviously written by ambassadors (or embassy personnel) with a sense of humour, others are merely interesting, yet others downright boring and inconsequential. You file all these reports away (For later use? For release, maybe? To document history? To cover your ass?), intending to keep them secret for the time being, and you store them in a big fat computer system, which is

• designed and protected by obvious dilettantes
• operated and used by disgruntled morons.

And now, for the $1'000'000 question: What is going to happen?

I'm not going to bore you with what the possible answers include, but it's quite clear that none of the idiots in charge picked the right answer. If you set up a disaster-waiting-to-happen, then eventually, a disaster is going to happen. Murphy's Law.

Suddenly, every one is running around like headless chickens: the German media is going bananas about what the cables call their chancellor and their foreign minister, the Italians have a laugh about the terms attributed to Berlusconi (all of them well-deserved), Sarkozy goes into his usual right-wing frenzy, Sweden issues red list notes to Interpol and asks for arrest (for more than dubious reasons), and so on and so on. It's only a question of time, until the Catholic Church has its say... Brace for that! Yuck!

If the European, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Canadian, and Australian officials (and most of the media) would only shut the fuck up, then the US government would be the only whining institution left. And rightly so, they should be.

Get this: the US government is the ONLY part of the world looking bad because of cablegate.

They're the morons who were unable to protect their seemingly sensitive data. Someone fucked up bad, left the security of that computer system to chance, and, hence, should be fired. Someone stole the readily available data, taking advantage of the gaping security hole (memory sticks and all outside connections were severed, but hey, why block a CD drive? CD-ROM = Read Only Memory, so this is safe, right? Duh!). This someone took his sweet time, too: it took months to copy all that data and to smuggle it outside.

If you want to blame someone, blame these two - the one who opened the barn door, and the one who drove the tractor through it!

Stop calling Assange a 'traitor' or a 'thief' or a 'killer', because he neither betrayed, nor stole from, nor killed anyone!

Lieberman, Clinton, Rice, and even Obama (him most of all!) should bite their tongues, turn around, fix what they did wrong, and fucking move on! It's not the end of the world, you know? It's not the end of diplomacy! It's not even the bloody end of diplomacy as we know it! It's going to continue exactly the same way! Does anyone really think this is going to change the way they work? Nope. The only difference now is that the public knows how they work, and they'll have to try even harder to convince us in the future that they're not lying to us. They'll succeed, mind you, but they'll have to work harder for it. (And they should be working bloody hard, for all the power and money they get!)

Summary? 'USG' is the only affected party. Current USG is not even to blame for 5% of the crappy cables, but they're now taking the stored-up heat of a couple of decades. Tough luck. Find the real culprits, and if you're so insistent on it, do something bad to them.

But leave the messenger alone.

Beg Your Pardon?

Okay, this is an old picture, probably found in hundreds of joke powerpoint presentations, e-mailed around the world a couple of times, and always around this time.

This is again the time when Bush pardons two turkeys, so they escape the axe, instead of landing on the thanksgiving tables of overweight Americans. I understand this is a tradition since Harry Truman, but I still find it quite idiotic, especially in the light of what the Bushman achieved during his presidency.

"I liberated Iraqis" he claims - fuck all he did!

He was not over there, he didn't liberate anyone. People in Iraq are as fucked up as they were before, the world is in turmoil with wars he started, he alienated just about every single other country, he totally screwed the economy, and threw the country into massive debt.

But he pardoned two turkeys.

Someone get me a seat on the next Space Shuttle - I'm on the wrong fucking planet!!

Yesterday...

Good old John... he must be laughing his ass off in heaven, don't you think? In December 1980, he was shot dead, and almost 28 years later, the church forgives him something he said in 1966 (that was 42 years ago!)

In case you missed it, he said (about The Beatles, of course) "We're more popular than Jesus now."

That might sound to most people like quite a daring statement, but I'm pretty certain that he wasn't too far off with his remark. What mood or situation it came from, I don't really care.

What I do care about, though, is that - once again! - the Moronic Clusterfuck Society (tm) thought that
a) they need to get their panties in a bunch about such a statement even back then, and
b) they need to dig up something like this more than four decades later, just because it makes them think they will appear magnanimous and benevolent! Well, for the record - they don't!

Who the fuck in MCS City (a.k.a. The Vatican) came up with this garbage? Has the lack of sex of this guy (can't have been a girl, right?) caused an overspill of semen into his dried-out cerebral whorls? Has he been looking too deep into the mass wine bottle for too long? Or was he simply bored out of his wits?

Whatever it was, it can't have been healthy. The pardon made the news, was all over the air and the papers, and, well, another uproar is born!

Just think about it - one of the largest churches in the world deems the (probably drug-induced) boast of a singer/song writer in the wildest years of his youth to be important enough, to publicly declare forgiveness.

He didn't insult anyone - not even Jesus (not that I'd give a damn if he did!) He just mentioned that his gang were currently more popular than this historical figure. And he was probably right. And all his fans were probably in agreement with him.

If the church hadn't made such a fuss about this, I wouldn't even have known that he (or anyone else, for that matter) ever made such a statement. Now, everyone is again acutely aware of it... And you know what, MCS? The reaction amongst the fans is probably the same as back then.

So, there!

"I forgot to remember to forget" would be an appropriate song for them to play in the liturgy, now.

The Palin Drone - Two Comedians

Who of you remembers Michael Palin? This guy used to be a "Python" - a Monty Python, to be exact, and he was one of the funniest guys I've ever seen. Smart, witty, and with that indestructible kind of Britsh humor. He still makes me laugh my ass off every time I watch "The Meaning of Life" or "A Fish Called Wanda".

Thank goodness, he's not related to his namesake, the current runner for American Vice President, Sarah Palin.

She may have bigger tits than Michael, but - strangely enough - she's just as funny! Unfortunately, she's not as smart, and her wit is largely unintentional. Or isn't it? Could she really have been serious when she called Russia a neighboring country of Alaska? "They're right across the border!" Nah, c'mon! I'm sure that was a joke. She can't fool me!

Or can she?

You know, dear non-existent reader, I'm afraid it wasn't a joke. I don't know (really, I lack the facts!) if Obama is any smarter than she is (or Biden, for that matter), but at least when he's interviewed, he comes across with the regular attributes of a politician. I've called them all rats before, and I'm not about to change my mind here. Stupidity is not necessarily an attribute of politicians. There are smart ones (albeit precious few), and I'm reasonably confident (though, as I said, I lack the facts) that Obama is on the positive side of the smartness median of politicians.

So, when I have the choice between a smart rat and a stupid rat with tits, I kinda know which I'm gonna go for. (This is beside the fact that McCain has bigger tits than Sarah Palin.)

And unlike with women, I'm not interested in rat tits.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Stock Market

Someone must've pushed this button...


Oh, well, yes, the US housing market has been in trouble for quite a while, and banks have been letting blood like crazy, writing off money they were hoping for and with which they worked - or tried to.


What has become of the old saying "Don't sell the eggs before the hen has laid them!"?

Because that's the whole bloody reason for the current "crisis" on the stock market!

For years, brokers were selling foul credits they'd bought from the banks, sold them people who were dumb enough to believe the claims of infinite prosperity, double and triple safeguards and massive wins "when the time has come!" It was only a question of time until the whole bubble would burst.

Haven't we seen this before? Wasn't there something called the DotCom Bubble? Don't people ever learn?

Nope.

Not a sausage. Fuck all.

With some quite distressing results. The whole stock market is in free fall - or rather, in a troublesome downhill tumble, because of

a) idiots who believed the banks that they'd never have to pay off their house
b) idiots who told the house owners that they'd never have to pay off their house
c) idiots who sold the foul credits to other idiots
d) idiots who bought them for the reasons mentioned above
e) idiots who sold them on when the shit started hitting the fan
f) I could continue this list for quite a while...



Companies which have never had anything to do with housing markets are now three miles up shit creek without a paddle, because of the crystal ball idiots I mentioned in an earlier post, a long while ago. Good, strong enterprises are losing value and money, even though they never even touched any of these "structured instruments" the brokers like to drone about.


And right now, everyone is panicking as if there's a leaking, ready-to-burst septic tank hanging over their airheads. They tell you they know everything about the stock market, all the subtle rules and tricks of the trade, but the one thing they should know, but seemingly don't, is that panic only makes it worse.

"Herd dynamics" one newspaper called it.

Herds are made up of stupid animals, like sheep, for example. Yup, that sounds about right.

When I was a student, I once had a summer job, herding cows, and the neighboring sheep herds would come over and eat the grass that was reserved for our cows. We tried to chase them away, but they wouldn't be chased. We took to hitting them on the foreheads with our walking sticks. You actually had to smack them in the face quite hard for them to get the idea that they were on the wrong pasture. When you hit them hard enough, they ran away a couple of meters, waited for 10 seconds, then they came back, so you could hit them in the face again (they actually seemed to enjoy it... somehow).

Repeat at nauseam.

Exactly what we're seeing now.

I, for one, will hold on to my shares (not that I own a lot), but selling them now would be the most stupid, sheep-like behavior imaginable. I'm in no hurry - and neither should be anyone owning stock of a good, solid company.


Give it 10 seconds. Think hard. If you still want to sell after that, then go back and let them smack you in the face.


Oh, and when you get there, tell them it was me who told you.

Emancipation Fucking Hurts!!!

I had a bad week so far. My discs have been giving me trouble (the ones in my back, not the ones in my computers...), my teeth needed their biannual scale removal, and a check-up at the doc led to what felt like 5 litres of blood being removed from my system.

This was accomplished by

- the physiotherapist lady
- the dental hygienist lady
- the medical secretary (who was a lady, as well)

Wow. Three women out to hurt me, and boy, were they successful!

Isn't it interesting that the more emancipated women became in the past 100 years, the more they also started working where the job description contains a requirement for a healthy dose of sadistic tendencies?

Women are now doctors, mechanics, CEOs, hell, they're fucking astronauts!! There are so many bloody jobs where you don't have to hurt people, and women have that reputation of being kind, gentle and many other positive attributes. Dominating hookers have been around forever, I guess, but now they have so many more possibilities, and all of them socially accepted. And they get bloody good money for it, too! (Not that the hookers don't...)

Do they want to hurt men? Is it some deep, atavistic desire that they can now satisfy by going into professions where it is not just necessary, but sometimes actually inevitable to inflict pain?

I guess only a woman could actually answer these questions (maybe, just maybe, a woman is reading this blog and could comment!?).

Oh, and did I mention that these three ladies actually seemed to enjoy hurting me?

Maybe it's just because it was me. Maybe they are reading this blog, and that would give them a reason to hate me. Oh well.

Playing Games

When I visited China the last time, one of my Chinese business associates attempted to drag me into a conversation about the situation in Tibet.
Trying to avoid any political problems I politely steered the topic into another direction, not wanting the get mixed up in this, especially because I felt that his views would clash with mine.

My view? You sure you're interested?

Alright - I think that it's an internal matter for China, and that the rest of the world would do better to clean up their own messes first before ranting about a country and a situation that they don't know.

I (purely personally, mind you!) don't agree with how the Chinese government treats the people in Tibet, even though I don't claim to know enough about it to really make an informed comment (so what I wrote is a fucking uninformed comment, alright?)

I don't know if and how the Chinese government violates human rights, what they do or don't do.

What I know is the following: the regular Jim Wong on the street is not the same guy who sits on the governing body, and this regular guy has a conscience and feelings, too.

A couple of days ago, walking past the TV, my attention got caught by a TV spot which was on - what caught me, was the aestethics of the spot, so I stood there watching it, until it ended with a guy being shot, and the self-righteous sentence "The Olympic Games in Bejing - With Human Rights", followed by "supportteamtibet.org".

I almost puked.

If you want, you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjIZ5nMTJBk

Alright - everyone has the right to have their say (even if most people are mostly talking crap). But as soon as it impinges on people's personal feelings, the speaking person should exercise some tact.

Especially if it hurts the collective feelings of a people of over one billion people who can influence shit about what their government does!

I mean, do the moron's at supportteamtibet.org even think that their government counterparts in China will a) watch the fucking thing if it's broadcast on a fucking German TV station, and b) give a flying rat's ass about it!?

The answer to both questions is probably a fat, resounding No!

But they take the arrogant stance of moral superiority, insult a huge population, and achieve - what? Diddly squat! Where were these idiots more than sixty years ago, when the Chinese entered Tibet for the umpteenth time? Where have they been in the meantime? There you go!

But they chose the moment of pride of the Chinese population to be hosting the most prestigious sporting event in the world to fucking give them hell about what their government (supposedly) does, and which they (the folks in the street) can't do anything about!

Does anyone else but me think that beating the hell out of these arrogant assholes would not constitute a human rights violoation?

The WIND of change

I've been way too lazy in this blog, and I've only just realized this today, when a colleague of mine sent me the blog of his daughter, and it was bloody up-to-date, interesting to read, and had a bit more clout than the blog of yours truly.

My clout is mainly missing because I don't have the fucking time to write all the fucking time. But that's another story...

Anyway, the cold wind should blow again, and for this time I've chosen the topic of the Beijing Olympics. Why? Because I'm sitting in the fucking airport lounge in Hong Kong, returning from a business trip from China to the not-fucking-Sweden neutral country I live in.

This is where I was (well, at least this is what I looked at at one point during my journey, and I happened to have my camera in my hand.) If you can guess the location, I'll give you a cookie.

Alright, there's a guy (actually there are many guys and girls), running around the world with a torch, and for the simple reason to "light a fire" somewhere else, during a frenetic opening ceremony which will probably show tons of people wearing ribbons around their wrists or other favorite body parts.

Why will they do that? Because they will be protesting the human rights violations that are happening in Tibet.

Righty-ho. I'm not disputing that such things are happening in Tibet. I'm not disputing the fact that the violation of human rights (unless it's me doing it) is condemnable and abominable. I'm not saying, we should all forget about Tibet, because it's got no oil anyway.

But here's a thought for all you protesters, all you whiners, whingers, and world-improvers:

• Don't buy computers from HP, and Dell! Don't eat burgers, steaks and fast food! They come from the US, and the US got fucking Gitmo, where they're violating human rights every day!
• Don't drink champagne, even if you're celebrating your petty little world-improvements, because France dropped atom bombs in the Mururoa atols!
• Don't eat Sushi, because the Japanese committed horrific war crimes during WW2!
• Don't play football, because (and they claim that, not me!) the Brits invented it, and they did horrible things to the blacks in Zimbawe (even before they started slashing their own wrists down there)!
• Don't eat pizza or pasta - the Italians were all Fascists in WW2!
• Stop smoking fucking Afghan weed - the Taliban wrecked that country!
• Stop driving your 2CVs or Ford Pintos! The fuel they use comes from bloody Saudi Arabia, Iran or - gasp! - Sweden! (So, stop screwing Swedish chicks, too!)
• Oh yeah - boycott the Olympics 2008 in Bejing. BUT: then also stop drinking tea, eating rice or quote fucking Confuzius!

Be fucking consistent, you would-be-Albert-Schweitzers!!!

If you want to help the Dalai Lama, spread his word, don't resort to violence! Oh, yes - and one more thing: do grow up and get a fucking life.

Our Chinese colleagues in this world are humans, too!