A heartfelt Plea

When you look at newspapers from a time that newspapers were paper tools for delivering news, the first thing that strikes you is even the front page contained just news.

Only the odd line drawing advertisement broke the page, even when the news was dramatic and relevant.

Photographs were reserved for either inside sections or, occasionally, a special added outer-sheet designed to be removed to get at the news sections.

I miss those times.

I usually read the news in the mornings when drinking coffee, eating breakfast (or both), on-line. Every story, every item I click on is accompanied by a photograph.

Sometimes (i.e. Mr Musk's latest rocket test results) that photograph is both useful and topical but 99.999999999% of the time the photograph is a headshot of a fucking politician, often one who is not even relevant to the story. Always a grinning, ugly, pathetic publicity-type shot, usually altered to look positive or negative depending on whether the editor agrees with that person's politics.

Mr Publisher, I know what Biden, Trump, the communist c*&t, the whinging Ginger, Luxon etc. look like. Reminding me simply spoils the coffee/breakfast - one of the very few pleasures in this old man's day.

Mr Newspaper Publisher, Mr Editor, instead of this visual obscenity fill the gap up with more news. I realise this will probably mean your content will need to extend beyond the communist propaganda you now present exclusively but it could well be worth it.

I might start buying your newspaper again.

USA President

 I'm picking President-elect Harris will formally become President Harris before November 2022.

My guess is that Biden will either be reported as having a major stroke or fatal disease blamed on Covid-19 prior to the November elections.

Vanishing Protest

 Yesterday, Sat, 26 Feb, 2022, thousands of protesters were reported entering the on-ramp of the Auckland Harbour bridge, closing the South-bound lane.

Then they vanished.

UFO activity? Messers Putin and Xi practicing? Mr Biden's handlers f@#!ing up while trying a new weapon aimed at Ukraine/Russia border?

Or could it be the dictatorship ordered the bought-and-paid-for media to stop reporting on anything they dislike?       

Afghanistan

 Two suicide bombers have killed 12 Seppos and a whole bunch of Afghanis at (or near) Kabul Airport.

I've seen, in overseas publications, warnings from various countries that this was likely to happen but in reality nothing is going to stop the poor, scared bastards trying to get the hell out (or, if you wish - get out of Hell).

Mr Biden has promised to hunt down the perpetrators.

The perpetrators were suicide bombers.

Is Biden going to wander around the carnage pointing out to his staff "There's a bit there, oh, and another bit over there ... and ....." until he can reassemble two scumbags from the bits?

The North-West Frontier Folly

 At the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009 I had the pleasure of a long chat with a USA pilot, still on active duty and at the time assigned to the USA Antarctic operation.

The timing is specific because it was the transitional time between G W Bush and Obama.

The pilot advised me that the USA was withdrawing from most activity in Iraq and shifting it's forces to Afghanistan - up until then the USA Afghanistan presence had been basically a search and destroy mission aimed at Al Qaeda and their allied Taliban

The intention had, quietly, already been conveyed to the USA Airforce, officially, by the incoming Obama Administration.

Obama had decided the USA would succeed where the Soviet Union had recently failed and militarily take over Afghanistan.

I write this because the slime, as usual, are attempting to re-write history so they can blame G W Bush (Republican) instead of the war-mongerer, Obama (Democrat) for the Afghanistan debacle.

Obama, of course, was part of a, slightly broken by Carter, line of seppos that also include Kennedy/Johnston and Clinton - warmongerers the lot of them.

You should add Bush for Iraq but not for Afghanistan and notably not add the peacemaker Trump.

These facts don't fit the Republican - bad, Democrat - saint-like narrative the slime are so keen to push and are therefore ignored.

As a New Venezuelan Zealander I, of course, have no say in this matter except, upon noting the current USA presidency, to be concerned whether the current racist, communist government of New Venezuela Zealand will destroy my country before the upcoming, Biden created USA-China war does.