Strong Tobacco

Went to the local Asia Shop to get my IndoMie noodles "Chicken Tikka taste". Last time I mentioned I had smoked Vietnamese "thuoc lao"once. Now today one of the personell - Nguyen - had a "dieu cai" bamboo water pipe ready, and I had to try. Of course everybody was watching, smoking "tuoc lao" is a very macho thing in Vietnam. Managed to hold my breath for a while, all dizzy from the incredibly nicotinous mixture. Then I caughed for a while, and the guys giggled for a while. Went home with a piece of bamboo and a little bag. Will have to practice before I take the next draw in public... And my Vietnamese is lousy.

When the pipe was finished - it's an easy to assemble construction - I felt like hearing a little bitter-sweet 70/80 Kinks music. So I checked uTube and chose "It's Living on a Thin Line". To find that this beautiful cynic ballad about the vanity of all leaders and powers is being used by Stupid White Men from the UK and US to lament the loss of "Rule Britannia"! Can't these people listen to a text? Nothing - well, almost nothing - but white power, hate speech, and stupid anti Islamic Mexican immigration stuff. These people sit at the bottom of the crater that their exploding fraud bank schemes produced, and hold Islamic infiltration and Mexican illegals responsible for their situation! Many followers of a certain M. Savage, ph.D. who, as I found out, is "persona non grata" in Great Britain. Not that he intends to leave the US... At first sight I thought he was a kind of Radio Clown for a hillbillie listenership, but apparently he's looked upon as a skillful political commentator. Some people seem to think that freedom of speech gives them (and only them) the right to call everybody else a faggot, and shut up. I made an ironic commentary (WRONG!), and was called a treehugger (whatever that may be?), a faggot, and a retard. As these people fall into the category of the "authoritarian personality disorder", all I had to do was pull military rank. I even got an excuse!

Of all people on earth, the Canadians did it! Yahoo News : the first conviction of a Rwandan war criminal is about to happen sometime in September. After 15 years, at least. Guy responsible for organizing the mass murder of Tutsi and moderate Hutu faces life imprisonment. Remember: that was the Fastest Genocide in history: 800,000 victims, hacked to pieces and bludgeoned to death in a few months, with UN troops watching wide eyed with their hands cuffed behind their backs - "no interference, Mr. Spock, only self-defence!" But finally, finally...well, ONE was found guilty.