Italy Comments On Government & Religion

Last week Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was assaulted and suffered a broken nose. Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI was knocked down while leading religious services in St. Peter' Basilica. Both assailants were off the street individuals. Nothing points to an organization or a conspiracy behind the two attackers. All this added to the events in Iran where the government is seriously disconnected from its people and it looks like developing trend.

What's this all mean? On its face it looks like two deranged people exercising an anarchistic attitude. If these violent incidents continue and also spread to more countries then something deeper is at work. I.E. a revulsion against extremes and caricatures of power who are bigoted or consumed with only self interest.

Jesus Talks To The Pope

Jesus:  Pope Benedict, this is your lord speaking.

Pope:  Did you get an appointment?

Jesus:  Since when did I need an appointment? Don't bother to answer the rhetorical question.

Pope:  Please cut to a short message. I'm on a recruiting mission in Africa and I'm tired.

Jesus:  I want to clarify my message and your mission. When I commisioned the original apostles to help the poor and sick I didn't say to PERPETUATE the poor and sick.

Pope:  Say what?

Jesus:  Condoms are the way to go. It's a humane way to mitigate the growth of the poor and sick.

Pope:  Well it's this way now. When you were last here there was only a few of your followers. Now the church has grown and we need more of poor and sick people to spread amongst the new gullable recruits. I.E. we need more of the poor and sick to open a yawning gap of people to make this church, which has become a quasi financial derivative incarnation of your teachings to survive. I want swarms of starving and sickly and mad people behind me who have nothing to lose so that I can march on the capitols of the world and reestablish a kind of new shoddy type of Roman Empire based on the base motivations of mankind.

Jesus:  Now I finally see what Satan was talking about.

Pope Reminds Of Neville Chamberlain

Pope Benedict XVI will visit Israel in the spring. He hopes to appease the Jewish elders who claim disrespectful treatment by newly reinstated Bishop Richard Williamson. Willaimson speculated publicly that only 600,000 Jews died in the Holocaust rather than the Jewish preferred and widely advertised number of 6,000,000.

Why quibble? Of course the greater number is plausible and probable when one considers that the Zionist met more than its equal in the German Nazi. Just look at the recent accomplishments of the Zionists. In their war of Palestinian genocide in Gaza the Israelis launched over 3,000 bombing raids, offshore shelling by the Israeli navy, artillery bombardment ,tanks and infantry raids against a largely unarmed civilian population. This resulted in 1300 Palestinian deaths , 5500 injured and untold infrastructure loss. This is all in addition to years of collective punishment and deprivation to 1.5 million Gazans in particular and 5 million dispossessed Palestinians in general.

The Pope should visit Gaza. The Palestinians are the ones who get no respect. The Pope acts more like Neville Chamberlain and Britain's "appeasement" of Hitler in the Munich Agreement of 1938. That agreement condoned the annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. Now the Pope seemingly ignores Israel's barbarism and the annexation of Palestinian land by the Zionists in the interest of being politically correct.

George The Vulgar

Simple, vulgar George Bush's foreign policy is "Kill, kill, kill" and his domestic policy is "Drill, drill, drill". Those are the two primary missions of our would be emperor and chimp-in-chief. The goals were pointed out by two of the most powerful lobbys in our country---the military- industrial- complex and the fossil fuel industry respectively. And chimpy is the perfect messanger. He doesn't ask questions because he doesn't know what questions to ask. And this trait dovetails perfectly with the requirement to continue policies inspite of their real world failures.

Chimpy just landed in Rome. He will be visting Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope is the heir to the what's left of the Roman Empire. Chimpys Air Force One mentally juxtaposed to Vatican City tells a tale. The Roman Empire is now an enclave and a would-be emporer's transportation is more a sore eyeful like some graffitti on an ancient architectural wonder. Whatever the excesses and problems with the Roman's were -and there were many- the Romans did have a rich culture and style. That's more than can be said about chimpy and the Pope.