Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen murdered four unarmed students at Kent State and wounded nine others, permanently paralysing one. (CHT Making Light for the reminder.)
The students’ crime? Protesting the invasion of Cambodia (or, in some cases, walking nearby while others were protesting it).
“That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
Okay, it’s a fundraising appeal. But it has pretty pictures!
Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi has been making news for his pathbreaking discovery that immodest women are the cause of earthquakes.
But I believe Rita Hayworth beat him to it.
A nice answer to the what-would-prevent-warlords-from-taking-over question.
Among our President Incarnate’s various witticisms at tonight’s White House Correspondents’ dinner was this gem:
The Jonas Brothers are here; they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans; but boys, don’t get any ideas. Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I’m joking?
I think jokes about murder would be in better taste if they weren’t coming from an actual murderer. But hey, if Pakistani children are fair game for Obama’s predator drones, why not the Jonas Brothers?
This is the same kind of moral imbecility that our previous president displayed when he mugged for cameras while pretending to search for WMDs in the Oval Office, thus making light of his fraudulent pretext for a war in which thousands of Iraqis and Americans have pointlessly died.
Well, I guess you can call that continuity of government ….
François Reisman, I mean Tremblay, has finally seen through our evil plans. Though Neverfox makes a valiant but futile effort to disguise our true perfidy, it’s all to no avail – we stand exposed as the pack of lying, thieving capitalists we are.