Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Smoking Cigars in the Powder-Magazine of Europe

100 years ago today, a teenaged nationalistic imbecile named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the Archduke's wife, Sophie. Princip was one of several Serbian assassins who were in Sarajevo that day on a mission to kill the Archduke.

While it could be argued that a war would have started over some other bit of butthurt, Princip and his co-conspirators dropped a match onto the slow-fuse that ignited the Great War. In just over four years, tens of millions of people would die as a result. Millions more would die as a result of the geopolitical upheaval caused by the aftereffects of the war.

2 comments:

CenterPuke88 said...

And a statue of him has been erected...much to the joy of some and the anger of others. Europe, as of late, has resolved its differences a little better than in the past, but the human nature that makes the conflicts in Africa and the Middle East so "normal" is still firmly in place.

Old NFO said...

Still absolutely amazing set of circumstances that allowed Princip to even make the attempt...