Of time and chance

By Johnny D. Symon

I watched the final of The Eurovision Song Contest last Saturday night, not because I was looking for entertainment, for if that was the case I would have wasted my time, I watched the show to determine if the annual vote-for-one's-neighbors formula still held, and indeed it did. The organizers insisted that those who voted should not vote for their own country, but chances are that most of them did. The Spanish vote placed Rumania high on the list, as it has for several years. Russian satellites chose the Russian trio of the Stradivarius player, gold medalist ice skater, and screech and squawk the tonsil tickler, Dima Bilan.

And as Eurovision songs go, this winning number was not too bad, I was more interested in the theatrics; Why use a Strad? And why should we see a skater prancing around and around the singer? Was this grounded in metaphysics, or was it grounded in anything? Did the Strad player represent old traditional Russia, and the singer it's modern go-getting counterpart? And if this were so, what did the skater represent? Well I guess that if he represented anything at all, he might as well represent one of Poot's fully laden nuclear bombers that's buzzing round and around the coast of Guam each and every day, and many other places besides, the only difference being that the skater leaves tracks in the ice, whereas the bomber leaves tracks in the sky, either one I guess is simply a flight of fancy ... or prancy.

The Irish contestant failed to reach the final, and this was not because the song was a turkey, it's because the singer was a turkey (puppet that is.) The Spanish performer looked like Roy Orbison without the shades, but he didn't sing like him, which rendered him at the end of the night in 16th place. My own personal favorite was "Mor ve Ötesi," a rock band from Turkey, and not a turkey from Ireland. I thought they were excellent, and they came close to victory in the final.

The Republic of San Marino failed to reach the top, but still rates as the oldest independent State in Europe, so old that not even the KGB's Romano Prodi was around when it was established (way back in 301 A.D. to be exact.)

The United Kingdom's offering was pretty good, I thought, yet it came joint last. Germany was nowhere, nor was France, and that's where there's a developing pattern. As Europe grows, taking in many nations from the East, even Russia, the once powerful and world-class ruling States head down to the bottom of the pile. Positive discrimination for failed nations leads to a rebalancing of world power.

Another major element behind the fall and fall of once powerful world-class nations, is the UN's Decolonization Program. Zimbabwe was once called Rhodesia, and back in 'desia days the British ruled. It's economy was powerful and stable and it was a net exporter of goods, but when the Brits handed it back everything went wrong, and today Zimbabwe can rightfully take it's place as one of the world's worst run nations. The disaster is on such a great scale that it adversely affects most of the surrounding nations, including South Africa, which also used to be a colony that, when handed over, soon began on a downward trend; unemployment is well over 40 percent, inflation is on the up and up, and violent crime is arguably the highest in the world.

But watch out, it ain't cool to reveal all the bad stuff going on in those countries because it's only cool if those countries are run by white folks, otherwise it's not newsworthy. But the problem with this philosophy is that if we ignore the antics of bad leadership, just because they're black, we may in part be to blame for all the suffering of the common people there. There's a tendency in some to brand others as racist, while ignoring the fact that some of us attack on a greater scale Big Whitey.

I seem to spend more time hitting out at bad Whities, and you know something? It's more fun. I stuck pins into Gordon Brown last week, and GW, together with Tony Blair, and earlier on in this week's scribblings I'm having some fun on Romano Prodi, yet none of them are black. In fact Romano Prodi is neither black nor white ... he's Red. And over the past few years I reckon that 95 percent of my hits were Whiteward, which leaves me in an awkward position because had I been black, I could have been branded racist, but since I'm white, the tag don't apply.

But the evils most Africans face, who find themselves governed by inept and wildly corrupt leadership, cannot be explained away with the racist argument. It's simply due to despotic loons hell-bent on feathering their own nests, and building their own kingdoms, who care little about their people's welfare, and much about their own.

Sharon Stone caused a stir at the Cannes Film Festival this week when she remarked that China's disastrous earthquakes were a form of retribution for the treatment China's dealt out to Tibet. I understand where Sharon's coming from here, and it's standard fare. Maybe some poor Africans are left wondering what they did wrong to deserve the hell dished out by Robert Mugabe, and many good folks living in line of fire in hurricane alley might be wondering the same. Or maybe those who lived through the great quake in San Francisco, or those who were headed down to a watery grave in the Titanic. And possibly some in the Twin Towers, on point of death, would have tried to find that little something in their life's conduct that led them to this terrible end. And when good folks in New Orleans began to float, maybe some of that floating time was devoted to try and figure where they went wrong.

Millions of men, women, and children perished at the hands of Nazi Germany, and I feel sure that few of them deserved it.

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race
is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to
men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill;
but time and chance happeneth to them all.
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes
that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that
are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men
snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly
upon them."
— Ecclesiastes 9:11,12

And I reckon that the answer to all troubles highlighted above, can be explained in the above verses, "time and chance happeneth to them all." The wrong place at the wrong time, and we've all been there. Pearl Harbor, the London blitz, the Munich Olympics, and many more are part of mankind's time and chance synchronicity.

But time and chance works the other way round also. For those who engineered WW1 were permitted at war's end to retire happily ever after. Germany did not have to foot the bill for all that death and devastation, which left it free and easy to plan and build for it's next world takeover attempt 20 years later. Then at war's end, 1945, Germany began yet again to rebuild it's economy, and head on out to the 21st Century. But something is sore lacking in Germany's history, from 1914 to the present day, and that is the concept of Divine retribution in action! For if China's earthquakes and floods can be attributed to it's treatment of Tibet and it's peoples, how much more should Germany expect a Divine hand slap. And why, therefore, is it still waiting?

Well, I reckon time and chance kept Germany off the Divine hook, and time and chance, together with a highly evil and greedy nature, has elevated our present-day contingent of evil despots to remain on cloud 9 for so long. And the fact is that history's full of accounts of bad guys living rich and long lives, lives that left a trail of death and destruction behind them, and Divine retribution their sole and remaining portion.

"To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn
I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn."
To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,
'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first."
— Orm Pludge

Our scant few years of entry into the 21st Century displays a wide and varied world leadership, hell-bent on fiddling when all else is burning. China's leadership did not fall beneath the rubble, though many of their people did, and the Chinese government's treatment of Tibet rates low in comparison to the evils they exact on their own people. Child slave labor is wide and prevalent. It's treatment of female babies is most notable and historic. Sadly, we have to remind ourselves that many find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, though seldom do evil perpetrators fall by their own sword. Their time and chance, no doubt, is reserved for the hereafter. The world's common people can never grasp the helm, they all were born of time and chance, whereas globalist-minded leaders have full control of the listing ship. They know what's right, but they always choose Left.

From the madness behind the League of Nations concept, right through to the United Notions, the fools on the hill try to avert the synchronicity of time and chance, and yet many of those leaders claim to be Christian, yet stand in defiance of their own Lord who said:

"And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars,
be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be;
but the end shall not be yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes
in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles:
these are the beginnings of sorrows."
— Mark 13:7,8

"For such things must needs be," can be rendered "all those things are necessary," so why fight it?

I guess the moral of the story is this. There's no real justice in this world, and most of the evil falling upon it falls on the innocent, from the still-born or aborted child, to the 8-year old dying of cancer, on and up to earthquake and flood victims, and victims of terrorism. It's all through time and chance, and seldom has it been earned.

Needless to say, this year's Caligulam Vitae Award, yet again, goes to Vladimir Putin. He gets it for the second year in a row because, simply put, no one else came close to qualifying for it, and the reasons are simple. To receive the Caligulam you must first be super intelligent, and evil on a world-wide scale. Robert Mugabe's evil efforts are merely regional, and his IQ is lower than a gnats. Thabo Mbeki of South Africa is more stupid than evil, yet his people still suffer, many of them are old enough to remember and savor the grand old days of yore, in spite of their racial low points. And Hugo "Bozo bottled" Chavez is no more than Poot's Western puppet, especially in respect of the price and availability of crude oil.

The Poot does indeed stand alone as the world's most evil dictator, and though he's stepped down from the top job, he's still at the Russian helm. Last year he planted a Russian flag on the seabed in the Arctic Circle, then ordered a restart to the cold war nuclear bomber flights over our very own territory, and last year also more journalists bit the dust. His ability to fool all of the world's leadership all of the time will go down in history books as "that's all she wrote."

© Johnny D. Symon