Smiles & tears

To forget, forgot, forgotten.

Passengers are humans (well, mostly) and thus they forget. Sometimes they forget pretty important stuff. And the patterns of forgetting also evolves with time and with social changes.


Australian airline Quantas has a storeroom full of forgotten things. Interestingly, as times progress, recently Quantas pickes up lots of Ipads and Kindles. Under seat 35A or in the pouch of seat 56H. Less photo cameras these days because people probably use their cellphones and ipads more to take pictures. But there’s more. Plenty of hearing-aids (don’t the passengers feel their hearing is a bit strange to non-existent as they prepare themselves to disembark?); false teeth; X-rays of a cat;…


Human behavior can be forgetful.

So the fundamentalist freaks are at it again. This time it was an underwear bomb. A so-called upgrade from its 2009 garment attempt. The sequel underwear. The Al Qaeda nutters seem to like the balls-and-all department. Sexist frustrations? Maybe they should call it the Viagra bomb. Or “The Last Stiffer”. Or “The Last Stand”. Or…. “If I can’t use it I better blast it”.

Crazy. Luckily the CIA, NIA, FBI and all those seriously looking dudes (and some chicks too) with dark sunglasses were onto it. Spotted. Trailed. Caught.

Well in fact the next day it was revealed that the underwear-terrorist was one of the ‘good guys’. A spy. A James Bond type of hero. 008. An agent that had infiltrated the Al Qaeda Yemeni wing, gained the trust of the leaders, and said he was ready to become the next martyr. Knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door. Well played.

Well-done CIA and others. Now send out those jets, drones and stealths to blow those bombmakers and nutters to hell. In a million pieces.

So this 2012 boxer short version was the upgrade from the 2009 model that a Nigerian fool took on board a Delta flight enroute to Detroit. It luckily failed to set off. Maybe he peed over it out of fear of meeting his martyr-style virgins in nutter-heaven. Fear of having a hero status in martyrland and having to ‘perform’ in martyr-heaven.  

Human behavior can be a life changing experience.

Kick this. 2052 Looks like shit.

A bunch of scientists came together under the banner ‘Club Of Rome’ and looked at and to the future. A study of where this planet of ours is heading.

And the future aint what it used to be. 2052 Looks grim. More draughts. More floods. More insects.

So get your life insurance in order. Get some anti-bug spray. Fill the fridge. And if you live near a river or a sea or a lake or an ocean or a stream,…. start packing and search the property websites.

Sea levels will rise by 50cm. The Nordic ice will melt and melt. Agriculture will have to drastically change to survive the changing weather patterns. The earth will become warmer.

In 2040 there will be 8.1 billion people on this earth. It’s getting pretty crowded here. It’s tick tock.

Human behavior is killing its own future.

Asian body snatchers. For real!

Customs officials in South Korea have discovered thousands of pills containing powdered human flesh. For real! The pills were for “cure-all” remedies. Sickening. The body trade was run by a Chinese mafia. So called ‘natural’ medicine is a big market in China. Same why rhino horn is so popular. Chinese think it makes you a superhero in bed. Fools!

But it gets more sickening. The human flesh powder was mainly from babies. Aborted fetuses and still-borns were taken away by corrupt medical staff in hospitals and sold to the mafia. A trade in dead babies. How sick is that? And all for crap beliefs in crap cures. Over the edge of insanity.

When the mafia bought the baby bodies they put them in medical drying microwaves. This dries out the skin before it’s turned into powder. It’s a horror movie turned real.

Arrest. Charge. Sentence. Imprison. Throw away the key.

Human behavior is sickening beyond Stephen King’s imagination.

Obama is taking an enormous political risk with his pro-gay marriage stance. He must be applauded for sticking out his neck for his beliefs, especially in an election year. Although some might obviously say that it is politically suicidal. It certainly sets him further apart from the bible lovers in the Romney camp. And it has already lead Romney – a Mormon – to speak at a Reborn Christian university event. Obama’s stance is certainly pushing Romney more right and more conservative than he already is.

Still one should wonder, as always with politics, why this issue came up now and why Obama decided to go for it so publicly. The not so distant past in US politics has proven that moral issues are a very hot potato in a campaign year. Remember how Democrat Kerry lost out against Reborn freak Bush Jr because the abortion issue came to the surface near the end of the campaign and Kerry said he was pro. The Bush campaign team and the many many TV evangelists and radio preachers jumped on the occasion to put the final nail in Kerry’s political coffin. Kerry stayed in Massachusetts and Bush Jr moved to DC.

So Obama is playing a risky gamble and/or let his beliefs take the upperhand during a nasty, tricky election roller-coaster year. Time will tell. But it would be sad that a moral issue is the decisive factor in a vote between Republicans and Democrats while issues like jobs, banking system, terrorism, healthcare should be the issues really at stake.

Meanwhile back in the rest of the world. The ceasefire in Syria is a joke. A bloody joke. Destruction and killings are just going on daily without any hope for imminent peace or a solution to the crisis. Russia and China are still playing hardball and supporting the butcher in Damascus although their patience is running thin. But what else is possible? Arming the rebels? For sure the Annan-peaceplan is just ink on paper. The dangers of a deepening civil war are that chaos and strife are the perfect breeding ground for Al Qaeda freaks to slip in and recruit and operate. The imminent future in Syria doesn’t look bright. Probably best now is for the whole international community to squeeze has hard as they can. Sanctions. Freeze all money flows. Arms embargo. Trade freeze. Snatching up the foreign bank accounts and properties of the Damascus clique that surrounds the butcher president. Travel ban for the elite. Squeeze and squeeze and squeeze.

France had elections. Algeria had elections. Greece had elections.

Ah, what about this for the worst advertisement possible. Ever.

A new type of Russian plane is doing a promotional flight in Indonesia with executives and politicians and business people on board. Lots of champagne and public relations brochures and balloons and smiles.

Not for long. The publicity flight crashed into a mountain. No survivors. Smiles turned to tears.

Throw Out. This one’s a cracker! Fire & Ice are 4 lads from Virginia, USA and have just released their debut full length “Not Of This Earth”. A real groovy, hardhitting hardcore album produced by NY’s underground, guitar genius AJ Novello (from amongst others Leeway fame). A distinct sound that takes you on a rollercoaster ride.

C-Ya

Collateral – May 2012 rolls on