Scraping the bottom of the cannibal pot
When there's no money to feed (let alone pay) the army and the youth thugs who are propping up the government, you know the end is near. It's likely to be messy,with soldiers living off the land, to the extent that there's anything on the land to live on. But for the people of Zimbabwe, sooner will be better than later. It was Claire Wolfe Time there a long time ago.
Note: "cannibal pot" is a meme of Billy Beck. You're eating from it too. I have no intent to imply that some races are more inclined to anthrophagy than others, especially given that the man who brought cannibalism to its greatest refinement was a German economic theorist resident in London.
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Posted by: rightwingprof
Posted on: May 26, 2007 09:10 AM
In related news, Arthur Shawcroft apparently wants a fifth wife, though he didn't say it was because he was getting a craving again.
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: May 26, 2007 02:59 PM
You meant greatest theoretical refiniement. The greatest gastronomical refinement seems to have gone unrecorded in history (if you don't count Hannibal Lecther.)
Not quite offtopic, I'm reading The War of the World by Niall Ferguson, which is his hefty history of the first half of the 20th century, and beyond.
At the moment, he's describing Stalin in the 1930s. But the one he whips into most harshly is George Bernard Shaw, for being being a very idiotic useful idiot. But it's depressing to find out the person who originated the idea of Gulag as out and out slave labor was a Jew who emigrated TO Russia FROM Haifa.
And did you know that the "break some eggs to make an omelette line" was not Lenin's, but a New York Times reporter at the height of the anti-kulak famine (which he said didn't exist)--Shaw's equal in useful idiocy.
Depressing...
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: May 27, 2007 11:19 PM
Who? Walter Duranty? I hope he's in Hell reporting that damned souls aren't really being tortured. In Crowley's "Magick without Tears", there's a Russian famine story stolen from Duranty, which Crowley quotes as an example of how sentimentality blinds one to facts (footnote 2 in "Sore spots").
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: May 28, 2007 10:28 PM
That's the one. And the chapter on Hitler's Germany deals with the proNazi element in the UK, especially Dawson of the Times and the BBC. Although compared to what Manchester wrote about them in his bio of Churchill, Ferguson is pretty gentle.
You'll have to wade through some heavy economic stats--he originated in economic history (he wrote the family-authorized history of the Rothschild in two volumes and it that ever full of financial data!)--but it's quite worth it, so far.
Also, if you never read it, Manchester's bio, especially the second volume, which is probably his best book and the best bio of Churchill ever. Too bad he was too sick to write the final volume.
Posted by: bob
Posted on: June 5, 2007 10:58 PM
sieg hail, hitler was the coolest man id kill for him or kill eny one who dissed him man rock on nail jews to trees man. burn negro,s alive.
im white im the master race kiss my but all others.
i dont need to know what im talking about coz white is right and black is... is...is.. (what ryms with black man?).
well you know what i meen if you white coz black people not evolved enuff to understand the higher concepts n stuff ya know.