OR...SO HELP ME, HANNAH (ARENDT)

That bitch at the lectern, announcing sanctions against Iran for doing nothing at all, with Treasury Secretary Paulson following to explain how they would be enforced...Where had we seen that face before? The horrible harridan with those monstrous teeth, the prim little nose pointing the air, the spyglass nostrils, the cheesy Ann Taylor get-up, the uncomprehending look as she read words whose meaning she couldn't make out on a bet?

Of oourse, it was "Dr." Rice. And the penny dropped as she turned the lectern over to Paulson. It was in the movie Shoah. "Dr." Rice reminded Kelso as nothing so much as one of the Polish women who during Claude Lanzmann's interview, with the same blank, brutal, uncomprehending stare, recalling fondly how happy they were when the Nazis came and took the Jews away. Especially, the women. The were soooo pretttyyy, you see. Better that they were gone.

What Kelso saw was, yes, indeed, the banality of evil. It was embodied perfectly in this absurd affirmative-action slash who was gleefully announcing the consignment of God knows how many Iranians to starvation. "Sanctions." We don't expect any sympathy for Iranians, because we know not even our little handful of readers gives a fuck. So, let's have a little look-see at what this whole "Sanctions" thing is all about. Near as Kelso can figure, no Iranian goverment entity or privately-owned business will be able to use any "U.S." entity to conduction financial transactions. "Sanctions" sounds like handful of parking tickets, but when you consider that crude oil is denomiated in U.S. dollars, this is a very, very bad thing "the Sovietologist" who turned in her dissertation which plaintively wailed about the Soviet Manace on the day the Berlin Wall came down, did. Velly, velly bad. Not that she even understood the words she was reading. She didn't. She just knows she doesn't like Iranians any more than she likes Venezuelans or Ecuadoreans or the French or people of any other place she's chosen to hector. And just asking here? Does it matter if the Iranian Jews suffer under the sanctions? Just asking...

What a shining example of the success of the classless American society! A bone-head like "Dr." Rice feels perfectly comfortable lecturing any head-of-state she's told to. Emphasis on the word classless. Maybe this is a sign of progress. American Blacks with a little power can be just as indifferent or blood-thirsty or just plain assholish as your iconic Old White Guy. Yeah, maybe it's not racial at all. Just national. Americans suck. But we have to stick the knife it a little, so, more race-baiting to follow.

Kelso's not going to bug you with crap about Iranian children. How about someone easier to identify with? Let's say you are the CEO and holder of a large equity interest in a Naples-based cement, concrete and aggregate company and most of your business involves supplying Portland cement to Iran. You are an Italian. You don't give a fuck one way or the other about George Bush's legacy or Israel or whatever "Dr." Rice feels is important. You've got forwards contracts to deliver Portland cement every month and forward contracts to exachange U.S. Dollars into Euros. Too bad for you those contracts are with Chase. They close you out and tell you to take your business elsewhere. OK, but those USD are now 20% lower than the forward price you had with Chase. Moreover, should you try to initiate forward USD/EEU exchange contracts with -- say -- a large bank in a different country that is a U.S. foreign-policy skeptic -- how about Banco De Bilbao or Banco De Santander -- and deliver the Portland cement as promised, collect the USD from Iran and exchange them for EEU, well you're shit out of luck. It seems "Dr." Rice has granted the military permission to prevent your cement from reaching Iran and Michael Chertoff and Rudy Giuliani have already figured out which one of your sons each wants to castrate personally, with the aid of Blackwater contractors, of course. Who will steal your cement just for grins.

Too bad, signore. Your 500mmEEU business and your 1000 employees are history. For, yes Pete Stark, George W. Bush's amusement. And you didn't want to "destabilize" the Middle-East. You probably had a few contracts with various Israeli companies anyway. You never wanted a piece of any of Bush's fantasy, you only wanted to sell Portland cement. You probably even voted for Berlusconi. And now, "Dr." Rice has bankrupted you. Or she's the blank "African-American" face which has announced how Dick Cheney is planning to bankrupt you.

Well, as in Eastern Europe in WWII, and BECAUSE "Dr." Rice is as sharp a Sovietologist today as she was when she got her rice paper doctorate from Stanford, it seems that Signore Portland Cement, and the rest of us will be saved by the Beast From The East. Russia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_summit

Go, get 'em, Vlad. Nancy Pelosi sure ain't.

Looking at today's post about "Dr." Rice and yesterday's about Barack "I Hate Queers" Obama, and a little ocmment we made over HELL'S TAB about Colin Powell, Bill Bennett and John DiIulio were absolutely right about a new breed of Black Superpredators coming to gitchya. They just got the costumes wrong. Not young guys in Champion or Starter gear with doo-rags. They never DID become SUPERPREDATORS, did they? Christ, Kelso'd run to those guys for help nowadays. No, your new Superpredators are the banally-evil or evilly-banal sociopaths in cheesy Robert Hall and Ann Taylor suits. "Dr." Rice, indeed. What institution of higher learning would bestow a doctorate on a "woman" like you? (Imagine the last line said in the voice of Dean Vernon Wormer of Animal House),

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