Several countries are having food riots. Skyrocketing grain prices are threatening to cause starvation in many areas of the World irregardless of how the harvests in the Southern hemisphere turn out or the prospects for the Fall Harvest in the North. Even if grain is available, they're not going to be able to afford to buy it. Our Secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, warns these countries against establishing artificial price controls on grain. What the fuck does that mean? Several countries are in the process of destabilizing. They also face the prospect of starvation, ethnic cleansing and large scale, forced relocation of population.
We, here in the United States have embarked on a unilateral war of aggression in the Middle East, that has caused over a million deaths and the dislocation of huge populations across the countries of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and it's only just getting started. Percentage wise, virtually all the people killed and made homeless are non combatant civilians. We don't care, because they don't share our immediate ethnocentric, cultural or religious heritage. Fuckit, let'em starve.
Why the Fuck is the Pope coming here? Maybe he should go to the Philippines or Haiti and pass out condoms and food packages, give the people there a little hope. Maybe he should go to Iraq and show a little solidarity with the plight of the heathen masses. Even if he just stayed home at Chez Gandolfo, with Bernie Law, he'd save a little fuel. He's not even on speaking terms with George Bush, on the subject of the war. What's the point? He doesn't want to listen to what his congregants believe. He wants to tell them what to believe. Again. What's the point?
The World needs food and the peace to grow it in. Beat your spears into plowshares. Turn your Humvees and Popemobiles into tractors. Grow some grain, feed some children.
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