I was Medieval Times last night ( google it if you don’t know what that is, there may be one near you ) and I must say, last nights charade / play / entertainment is STRIKINGLY similar to our times TODAY!!

CJ is right, we are surrounded by pompous a$$ess which consider themselves better, more important and whatever than others…

I am no one’s jester, clown nor noble… shoot, I was screaming ‘off with their heads’ all last night, and my fellow ‘serfs’ were cheering me on… too bad it was just a farce, like our political history.

We don’t have a king? Complete with nobility? Princes, princesses, dukes, earls,
lords (and ladies too of course), etc. With court jesters on a grand scale: CNN,
CNBC, MSNBC, Fox, New York Times, WSJ, Washington Post, Clear Channel, et
al.?

And with we the serfs. My workplace ain’t no stinkin’ democracy.

If America isn’t (neo-)Feudalist, what the hell is it?

But true, our aristocracy isn’t, apparently, so beneficent as the Saudi’s. Not that
we tend to pester ours a whole lot. Some of us even love and adore our own, a
lot of whom tend to speechifyin’ a lot of the time of this and that and the other
thing, of how “the American people” (code for themselves) are goin’ bust and
all, but not to worry because America is the greatest thing since the invention
of…anything, baby! Ya know?

Still, serfs are instructed to labor harder, etc., etc. Then told slave wages and
salaries will have to be cut: “austerity measures,” which in true Orwellian
fashion is the policy of so-called “(neo-)liberalism.” If that fails—so goes the
policy—make war, always a profitable venture for elites. Just ask Cheney, who
might or might not tell the truth about that.

At least the old kings fought alongside troops they owned before finally wising
up to the fact they didn’t need to risk their own lives. Suckas.

Our king is planning to spend a bil campaigning to remain king. If we could at
least admit the facts of life we could amend the sacred document to allow for doubling the term of kingdom
thereby saving a bil (along with billions more that will be spent by dukes, earls,
etc.) that might then be used to reduce the debt they’re all forever whining
about—right after having stingily created it. On the “people’s” behalf, naturally.

One thing is certain: Never was there so dimwitted an aristocracy as our very
own, though they’re clever enough, I suppose. But Stupidity and cleverness often appear
together. 

Now, how about some nice cake?

johnnyfarout, February 26 at 7:02 am Link to this comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pMQfuZf04

Thank you ever so much for this link to such beautiful music. As I sat and listened to this I couldn’t help but think how we are all linked by many commonalities. Politics, an artificial construct seems to keep us apart more than it does bring us together. Ironic, maybe.

It’s hard work to maintain an autocratic regime, when the autocrat remains seated for life.

Americans won’t revolt to get democracy for themselves because they won’t have 30 years of Obama.

Nothing more easily sustains a fascist state than frequent changes in its nominal leaders does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pMQfuZf04

This Saudi king & the rest of that so called royal Saudi family care mainly about staying in absolute power, control their subjects & the oil wealth/revenues. One would think that with all the $$$ billions of dollars that they have, Saudi Arabia would have booming industries that would attract jobs for their unemployed youth. The country has over 7 million low wage Asian workers who perform most of the menial jobs/work…etc…Just imagine if these Asian workers were to pack up and go home, Saudi Arabia will either get clogged up or they will have to do it themselves. NO… They’ll pay top $$$ to fix the problem.

The Saudi rulers are anxious…their youth are connected to the outside world via the internet, twitter, facebook, cell phones…etc…the echoes of freedom, equal rights, change are being exchanged.

The Saudis will be brutal if any large protests were to take place. They believe that money can keep their subject under their rule for a long time to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FX6stbbhUI
“all my life I watched until you were there.”
In the West are dogs barking at the moon; in the East, they howl.
How can we earthlings walk into the future when we limp on one foot and then the other?
Throw away from us the killers; breathe in all the new ideas that will be our futures!
NSA KBG CIA
Let us see all the stones of the old cities; world round; and judge them as we judge the future, with us in it…hopefully: unless we surrender to a pack of dogs

It is really tempting to move to Saudi Arabia, instead of Alaska it sounds like a better economic deal. Hell; I would even wear a berka if it would help, anyway I hate the snow.

But I have heard the Saudis treat foreigners like dirt sort of like how the Republicans treat women.

Anyway. I can stay here in the United States and be abused by Republicans with absolute certainty.

Note intimations of non-violence in Bahrain, also:

“The army’s attack on unarmed civilians shocked even the government’s supporters, and the military was withdrawn. The demonstrators poured back in, setting up a camp and a speaker’s podium and making it clear that they would not leave until their demands were met. The first demand, now, is the dissolution of the government and an agreement to create a constitutional monarchy.

“They are the ones who made the demands grow bigger,” said Mohammed al-Shakhouri, 51, as he watched a procession of thousands follow the coffin of Mr. Hassan to the cemetery for burial.

“The government seems to have accepted that violence will not silence the opposition and has shifted its strategy. It has set up a press center to get its message out and is working with a public relations firm.

“The opposition has stuck with its tactic of peaceful protest. On Tuesday, the Shiite political parties, chief among them Al Wefaq, called for the demonstration to start at the Bahrain mall and march into Pearl Square. Even the organizers were surprised as turnout swelled, packing the eastbound side of the highway from the mall to the square.”

Blackspeare:

” One question, how come young adults make up such a large percentage of the population in Arab countries?”

Because abortion is illegal, Arabs aren’t selfish, and they know the economic value of having lots of kids around.

The arabic symbols didn’t translate

TD’s platform doesn’t support them.

Go there and translate for yourself, it is pretty interesting.

We can tell the handlers off in many languages.

This is what it looks like:

?????? ?????? 

Go here to hear what that sounds like:

http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT#en|ar|Off with their heads

This will work in the short term, but not in the long term.  One question, how come young adults make up such a large percentage of the population in Arab countries?

YOU BETTER TRY AND BRIBE THOSE PEOPLE, you oil slicked king of sand.

But that fake fiat, which weakens daily, is NOT going to distract the people anymore.

Haven’t all people relinquished their pursuit until they’ve reached a certain income level? 

So he’s going to buffer their pain and agony with more debt notes to push material possessions around?

What a FOOL!

My, how those middle easterners are more politically aware and NOT afraid to stand up to tyranny…. they are NOT afraid like the Amerikans… whimps.

How can there be unemployment in Saudi Arabia? Why don’t they just put more folks to work with those giant palm fronds to fan, cool, and soothe our King?

Geez, we all better hope and pray that these munificent offers to their subjects by our proxy Kings in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are not going to be funded by a new US ‘Bail-Out Bill’. In our current economic morass, now that we’re stripping our poor, our handicapped, our children, and our ‘middle class’ and retired folks of their means of survival and livelihoods, the only way left to get the funds would be to reduce our foreign aid to Israel. And once AIPAC got wind of that, WWIII, the Big One, the Nuclear Nightmare, would commence and we’d all be DOOMED! Unless…well, we could consider a slight increase in taxes on the mega-rich and corporations and estates of over 1B$ to provide the funds and prevent nuclear war…Naw, that would never fly, not here in the good old ‘conservative’ US of A.

The caption under his picture should read:

Who’s your Daddy?

Isn’t the king doing exactly what progressives are demanding of our government? Maybe we do need a king to bypass all that messy debate and consent crap.

The difference between the Saudis and the US is that the Saudis can afford to hand out free money, but the US can’t.

No, kerryrose, he isnt. But the question remains whether his subjects are….

He’s not stupid.