16.12.2008 - 4:09 p.m.

Now that settling has been made and images returned to their rightful place, i'm once again up'n'running, which is good as it gives me something to do with the slack time previously mentioned.

This has all come about by my companies desire to consolidate the customer services back to head office in central europe, as i was customer services in the UK, my job was going bye-bye. The initial letters to the customers said that this was to achieve "improved customer service" which stank of corporate bullshit right off the letter, given that the customer service we provided in the UK was several orders of magnitude above any other country in the group. The actual and real reason that was not given (for obvious reasons) is that they want to parcel up the extended group of companies so that it's easier to sell them as going concerns should the board decide that their bonuses were getting too small in the near future (how they're expected to survive on half a million bonus is just ridiculous, i mean, most of them only get upwards of 1.1 million a year anyway)

Having been ejected from my comfy position, i took a role elsewhere in the company and still on the same site with slightly more pay, less oversight and less work. For this reason i resurrected the D-land account to give my brian a stretch, rather than just staring at the internet all day, because let's face it, the internet ain't all that.

In the intervening period between my last online and this batch of online, all sorts of mad shit has gone, quite lidderally mate, down. In the time honoured manner, i'm now going to release the pressure on my whinge tank, this may run to several pages over the course of many many days....

Starting with the obvious, that mad-ass creche of the unbelievable that we call the US of motherfucking A, has finally come to its senses and kicked out the the most obviously self-serving, fake, lying knob-rash of a president since the last one, he's not going to go quietly but no-one really thought he would, and in his place we have another president who'll make no major changes and will support the shadowy things he's told to support by the same people who told Bush to support them, same shit, different colour. If there's no major changes in the social ways and washington two-step at the end of his third year then he's just as guilty as Bush, and probably more so for crying change all the way into office.

But at least we got to see the extended hallucinatory fuck-up that was the Reptilian bid for presidentiality, never before have people so obviously put forward as a joke been put forward in all seriousness, it's like the whole thing is being masterminded by some hidden chancellor playing both sides of the game, except the blue side is populated solely by cretins with the express intention of proving their cretinousness to the world in general.

One of the best bits for me were the roving cameras moving up and down lines of republicans going to vote, and the quotes, sound bites and venomous hatred they were spewing were simply astounding and proves that the worst part of Amerikkka is the majority of white people in the middle, and the interesting part was that they were repeating parrot fashion, all the things they'd been primed to say by shameless propaganda from reptilian party headquarters all centered on the following words

(insert foreign name) = unamerican = muslim = terrorist = enemy of the state = enemy of the people

It's still clear to anyone outside of the USA and the few normal people still residing inside the borders that having a foreign name does not make you a terrorist (as long as they're cleaning your pool or trimming the hedges), just has having an english name does not make you an Anglican vicar, Bush has an anglicised name but he's the biggest terrorist on the planet by a long margin. The racist majority inside the US rarely travel to the edges of that country for fear of all the foreigners just the other side of the borders, and this includes canadians, who by any normal standards are the most inoffensive ex-europeans anywhere on the planet, but "The Fear" has been so thoroughly instilled that anyone who ain't yer cousin is just here to steal yer sister/aunt.

Which brings me nicely to Mrs Sarah Palin, she of the limited mind and redness of neck, it was strange enough that the primary candidate was a nearly-dead misogynist cancer survivor who was only one more heart attack away from a state funeral, but that his stand-in for POTUS was someone of such limited experience as to be little more than a sock-puppet dancing in the hands of Rove / Cheney and mouthing words she'd learnt from a list was clearly a move right on the genius/insane fine line. Whoever the puppet masters were, they obviously had no idea about modern politics (unless the hidden chancellor was playing the blues to lose in which case it makes perfect sense)

"d'you know the surest fire way to win this presidential race ?"
"no, pray tell"
"we got to make sure that one of the two socks we're promoting taps into the protestant far right, i tells ya, that's an oil-field of resources just there, with a few well placed slogans about immigration and abortion we can mobilise every single right thinking christian to vote for us"
"but we got to find someone completely malleable with absolutely no thoughts of their own who will do and say exactly what we tell them, who would we choose ? Tancredo's already shot himself in the foot with the bomb Mecca quote and Huckabee's already lost, and we also got to tap into the ex-Clinton whore vote, so we need an idiot woman who is also a govenor of some kind"
"right, get out the capitol hill phone book, looks like we're going to have to pull an all-nighter"
"sweet, i'll order the pizza and beer"
"put it on the office tab"

Miss Tina Fey, come on dowwwwn. You'd have thought with all the pork money sloshing around alaska, they could have got a blue background that fits the width of the state shaped wall-hanging. I never noticed that the eastern part encroaching into canada looks like a cock.

Amazing, simply amazing, and then quite a bit later during the proceedings she starts to believe the hype and thinks that she actually deserves the job she's been parachuted into and starts getting all uppity and diva-ish with her handlers (they actually call them that) and then when the handsome black dude gets the job because he's just so much more polished and presidential, the whole reptilian camp collapses to their natural strata of name-calling, blame and counter-blame and just 'getting the fuck outta sight until it all blows over'

Leopards

Spots

It don't get any clearer than that.