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.