The 2014 GOLDEN BRIOCHE AWARD

and the WINNER is.....

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The Innocence of Doggies

We keep the dog's 20  pound bag of kibble in a cabinet under the kitchen counter.   The bag is torn open  at the top and, when it's  chow time,  I ....   [ continue ]

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An Hypothesis of Hope

Although it is somewhat late in falling through the chimney chute,  the chipsters had some thought's about the sorrow of Christmas....   [ read ]

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Update to: A Failure of Guardianship

Woodchip makes an update to its article on how judicial acquiescence gives rise to police impunity and brutality.  [ here ]

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Speaking Through Gags

It is time for King Felipe of Spain to step up to the plate and bat down a law which is constitutes a direct assault on civil society and freedom.  [ continue reading ]

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Reasonable Wrongness

Somewhat like a fire alarm going off in the smouldering remains of a fire, the Supreme Court’s decision in Heien v. North Carolina, upholding a search incident to a broken tail-light, has set off a flurry of public criticism.   [ continue reading ]  ....

The Tedium of a Country

Of Rome they said "she laughs and dies."   Of Murka they will say "she annoys and bores."  

Noah's Ark and Dogs in Heaven

A certain amount of news has been stirred up by the remarks of Pope Francis, made during a general audience, that  “paradise is open to all of God’s creatures”  '.....   [continue reading]

Mistaking Trees for Forests

We have watched, with a certain degree of schadenfreude, the rise of the National Front in France.   We have never shared Americans’ ill-informed fetish over fascism and we were pleased to see Marine Le Pen giving the European Establishment a discomforting run for its money.   [ continue reading ]

Getting a Grip on Torture

The former head of the CIA has volunteered some probing thoughts on torture.   [ read ]

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Credit and Shrugs Where Due

We Chipsters are glad that the Senate has finally released its “Torture Report” and, much as we are loathe to, we applaud Senator Feinstein  for shepherding the report from darkness into light.   Given the political realities of Washington D.C., that was no easy task.
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A Failure of Guardianship

The police beatings and killings which have ostentatiously thrust themselves into national consciousness demonstrate all too well that there is something rotten in America.  But the rot is not racism.   The rot is judicial.   [continue reading]

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Payback for Payback

It was reported last week that OPEC decided not to increase oil production thereby insuring that gasoline prices will continue to remain low or lower.   [ continue reading ]

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A Fat Man's Game

Several years ago, an erstwhile friend announced that he was going to practice gratitude by finding at least one thing a day to be thankful for.  I was instantly appalled.   ...   [ continue digesting ]

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What Ever Happened to the Elisor

Anyone who expected the Ferguson grand jury to return an indictment is living in a Jeffersonian fantasy world.    [ continue reading ]

Armistice Day

Chipsters republish what we have remarked before

In Remembrance of Armistice Day

External Locus of Danger -- Dipsomania as Policy

We Chipsters have never liked “Winnie” Churchill.  Not that it matters but we have always considered him to be nothing but a belligerent drunk; .....   [continue reading]

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The Erlkonig

During the day, California’s capital was an exercise, like California itself, in ersatz eclecticism.  There was something unreal,  ....   [continue reading]

The Fomes of Inequality

We recently came across a photograph that gave us a soupier pour temps perdus.   A time when travel was a festive occasion rather than a demeaning experience in prison security.   ....  [continue reading]

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Infections of the Times

The New York Times has published a slop-ed piece by Thomas Friedman entitled I.S.=Invasive Species.   ....  [ continue reading ]

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In Praise of Chicken Feed

Economist and Obama-critic, Paul Krugman, has come out with an article in praise of the president’s performance.    Although himself a frequent critic of Obama, Krugman argues .... [ continue reading ]

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Gullible's Travels

In the run-up to the New Crusade, there were numerous and graphic reports of atrocities alleged to have been committed by I.S.I.S (or I.S.L, as it is variously called).    ....   Woodchips  analyzes the video and photographic evidence to see if it trustworthy or whether it qualifies as mere atrocity propaganda. ....   [ continue reading ]

Dispersit Superbos

Interviewing on Sixty Minutes, this past Sunday, President Urbama I admitted that the United States had "underestimated" the emergence of ISIS in Syria  .....    [ continue reading ]

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0 and 1

It was reported earlier in the week, in a tittering sort of way, that Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, sometimes wondered if God were really there.   . . .   [continue reading]

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To Invoke & Pervert

Needless to say, Obama’s peroration before the General Assembly  was all that we expected it to be.  Predictably enough, after acknowledging the slight imperfections in our inherent goodness, he launched forward with Babies to the Fire,  . . .   [continue reading]

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The Globalization of Homeland Security

President Obama has announced that he will urge the U.N. security council to pass a sweeping new resolution that would impose global travel bans on fighters intent on enlisting in overseas wars.... [continue reading]

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Islamic State of Photoshop?

While you can  download execution-clips from Bonnie & Clyde on You Tube, the media has been less than forthcoming with posting videos of ISIS atrocities, which are alleged to be too graphic for sensitive and civilised eyes.   But at least some of the photos appear to us to be faked....   [ see & read]

Auld Lang Syne

One might very well begin a comment in the FRENCH manner, by observing, indirectly and tangentially that the article, wonderfully, begins . . .  [continue reading]

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Over There! Over Here

Obama gave a little speech the other day and, once again, little heed is paid to the fine print.   In his address to the nation on Wednesday night,   . . . [continue reading] 

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Woodchip Predicts

that  [....... ]

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Police Impunity & Judicial Depravity

Once again,  State Thugs,  beat the crap out of someone for no apparent reason other than that the victim of yet another CopAktion had the temerity to ask why he was being detained.   [ continue reading ]

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The Bright Side of Darkness

Chipsters were chatting among themselves the other day about our political leadership when someone remarked that, in his opinion,   ...  [ continue reading ]

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Washington Wonders

Washington Wonders never cease. The New York Times published today an article-cum-info graphic listing all the foreign governments, corporations and hinwis who contributed to or sponsored Washington policy think tanks ....  [ read ]

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Reaching the Forbidden End (Repost)

In this brief account Chipster explains how the Supreme Court eviscerated the Fourth Amendment.   [ continue reading ]

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Rot from the Sepulchre

Once again the American criminal justice system parades its wretched excrescences before the world.  It was reported today that DNA evidence cleared two black men of a rape and murder which they did not commit and for which they spent 30 years behind bars.   How did the “best justice system in the world” allow this to happen?  ....   [continue reading]

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The American Disconnect

The Sotloff family released a statement today in response to the brutal beheading of their son by ISIS warriors.   [continue reading]

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The Bowings of a Sociopath

Triggering a flurry of pro-forma criticism from Western governments, Israel has seized 1000 acres in the West Bank in order to build a settlement in Gush Etzion, ....    [continue reading]

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What's a Few Trillion in the Long Light of History?

One wonders if Obama’s teleprompter scrolls include exerpts from Edward Gibbon or any history of the interminable conflict in Asia Minor . . .   [continue reading]

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A Crying Need for Injustice

Thinking about the situation in the Middle East, it occurs to us that all the disasters there occurring are attributable to a deeply held sense of justice. ...    [ continue reading ]

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Astigmatism in High Places

Justice Ruth Bader Ginzburg gave an interview the other day in which she lamented the goings on in Ferguson, Missouri.  .....  [continue reading] 

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The Psychosis of Zionism - Conclusion

Woodchip  concludes its eight part examination of the nature of Zionism with some brief concluding remarks

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Part I,   (Rewinding History), questions the validity of Zionism’s persecutionist narrative.

Part II,  (Nosing After Blood), examines Zionism’s grounding in racialist pseudo-science and 19th century social Darwinism.

Part III, (Blood & Cant),  explains how Zionism combines racialist notions with a persecutionist narrative in order to create a false helix of Jewish identity.

Part IV, (An Article of Faith),  discusses theological spectacle and the role of the "Holocaust" in Zionist apologetics.

Part V, (A King Like Unto Other Nations),  discusses the idolatry of nationalism and how it is inimical to both the Prophetic and Christian traditions. 

Part VI, (The New Homeland),  examines  the anti-historical nature of Zionism.

Part VII, (Hammering Back to the Future), summarizes political implementation of Zionism, and the premises on which Israel has been founded vis a vis the aspirations of the Palestinians.

Part VIII, (To Be and Not to Be)  discusses the perverse role of “Israel’s Right To Exist” in Zionist apologetics.

Part IX,  (All of it for All of Us)  offers concluding thoughts in favor of a "One State" solution. 

The article in its entirety is found [ here ]

Let the Punishment Fit The Suspicion

In bombing news, The New York Daily News reported that ...   [ read ]

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Our One American Family

Once again, Obama proves from his own mouth what a dipshit he is. Speaking about the confrontations in Ferguson, Missouri, following another cop execution of another black man... [ continue  reading ]

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Operation Enduring Fiction

 Obama made a fool of himself today, except nobody in Washington noticed.  Speaking from his vacation garden....   [ continue reading ]

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Reconstruction

The Psychosis of Zionism

In this eight part series, Woodchip Gazette examines the nature of Zionism and sits distortion of public perceptions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Part I,   (Rewinding History), questions the validity of Zionism’s persecutionist narrative.

Part II,  (Nosing After Blood), examines Zionism’s grounding in racialist pseudo-science and 19th century social Darwinism.

Part III, (Blood & Cant),  explains how Zionism combines racialist notions with a persecutionist narrative in order to create a false helix of Jewish identity.

Part IV, (An Article of Faith),  discusses theological spectacle and the role of the "Holocaust" in Zionist apologetics.

Part V, (A King Like Unto Other Nations),  discusses the idolatry of nationalism and how it is inimical to both the Prophetic and Christian traditions. 

Part VI, (The New Homeland),  examines  the anti-historical nature of Zionism.

Part VII, (Hammering Back to the Future), summarizes political implementation of Zionism, and the premises on which Israel has been founded vis a vis the aspirations of the Palestinians.

Part VIII, (To Be and Not to Be)  discusses the perverse role of “Israel’s Right To Exist” in Zionist apologetics.

Part IX,  (All of it for All of Us)  offers concluding thoughts in favor of a "One State" solution. 

The article in its entirety is found [ here ]

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The Futility of Typewriters

Last year, in the wake of the the Snowden disclosures, Russia announced that it was reverting to typewriters for its most sensitive communications. [ continue reading ]

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Pollos Armados -- Part I, Sophistries as Fact

Last October a 13 year old boy was shot point blank while carrying a toy AK47 rifle on a Santa Rosa, California Street. The usual community outrage was met by the usual official evasions and assurances. This week, the District Attorney’s Office released its report .....   [ continue reading ]

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Rambo's Global Rampage

Germany has expelled the CIA bureau chief in Berlin after it was revealed that it had “turned” a second German security official into a U.S. spy.   [ continue reading ]

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Another Use for Milk Cartons

Like most guys who have a compulsion to fix and fiddle with things, i’ve put together my own handy-tool, gad about.   [ read ]

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Discovering Elephants in Mouseholes.

Predictably enough, with the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, (2014) 573 U. S. ____ , the dicta hit the fan.   ....  As I shall attempt to explain without writing a law review article, the majority’s opinion was a dishonest piece of work.  [continue reading]

She Fattens & Dies

Chipster rants at another self-promoting, issue-expert making money by peddling non-solutions to a real problem.  [ read rant ]

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Our Emblem Dear....

I admit to having a problem with our national logo... i like it and don't.   What to do?   [ continue reading ]

Pogo Redux

Reuters:  "The United States has increased its military presence in Iraq, ordering 300 more troops   ....."  

LOL LOL.  "We have engaged the enemy and we is  QUAGMIRED!"

Another Shoah Trial

This week once again, an aging, enfeebled octogenarian was hauled away in chains to stand trial in Germany for enabling the holocaust.   In a sealed indictment, Johann Breyer was indicted on 158 counts of “aiding and abetting in murder”  ....   [ continue reading ]

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Di Fi does Sunday Morning Game Show

Speaking on CNN this Sunday (22 June 2014) Senawhore Feinstein admitted that U.S. intelligence services did not see ISIS coming....  [ continue watching ]

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Our National Impotence & Inadequacy

It was barely over two weeks since Obama’s vaunted “re-set” of U.S. foreign policy before the neocons lashed out again, this time through a Cheney & Daughter Duo fighting “to restore American, strength, power and influence around the world.” [continue reading]

Clarity in these Times

A look at the day's headlines.  [ Here ]

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The Beast is Us

Unlike most people, we never liked horror movies or, for that matter, roller coasters.  The notion of scaring your own pants off always struck us as a non-starter.  ....   [continue reading]

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The Clown Act of U.S. Policy

Was it even a decent interval?  Two weeks after Obama’s vaunted “policy reset” in which he committed the United States to “partner with countries where terrorist networks seek a foothold,”   ...   [ continue reading ]

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Atavism & Freedom

In a sterling example of ethnic-fetishism, the New York Times has carried a front page story announcing that former (†) "Cardinal O’Connor’s Mother Was Jewish.”   .... [continue reading]

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Frustration...

"My biggest frustration so far is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage," Obama said.

Like the Pentagon?

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Two Creations & the Old Lie

Rather by chance, we came across Lully’s Marche Royale on Youtube which was gallantly pleasing as these marches go.   Far more impressive, though, were the accompanying video-stills taken from the Cathedral d’Albi, . . .   [continue reading ]

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A Place Rumored to Exist

We chipsters recently had occasion to watch a movie we had seen almost 15 years ago; and, seeing it again, thought we would jot down some thoughts about it.   Hombres Armados (1997), by John Sayles  ....  [ continue reading ]

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Delusions of Office

Is Obama truly as historically oblivious as he appears to be or is a more dangerous psycho-pathology at work?   [READ]

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The Resentful Spirit of Republicanism

No sooner than the ink was dry on Juan Carlos’ abdication than a noisy swarm of republicans swelled the streets of Spain demanding the abolition of the monarchy and, in what must certainly qualify as an act of useless, political nostalgia, chanting the anthems of the Second Republic ....  [continue reading]

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A Wolf Hiding under Tufts of Wool

Obama read a speech today which has been billed as a signaling a “shift” in foreign policy.  Nonsense.  As we have said before, “Empires do not go Swiss.”  [continue reading]

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Chanting on the Cheap

In an idling moment, we came across Vatican Television’s broadcast of the 2 Pope Canonization Duo, last Sunday. It certainly was impressive to see the millions filling and overflowing Vatican Square, .... [continue reading]

Resurrection in Review

Chipster is reading Resurrection by  Leo Tolstoy.  It is not a particularly good novel because Tolstoy uses his characters as vehicles for didactic points rather than developing them of their own accord.  But although the character development is flat, the novel is carried along -- toward Siberia -- on its story line, . . . .   [continue reading]

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The One Percent Holocaust

  

Silicon billionaire Thomas J. Perkins has criticized the "persecution" of the rich by the radical poor as a "Progressive Kristallnacht."   . . .  [READ]

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Obama's Silver Platter

    

Last week, President Barack Obama announced his reforms of national surveillance while simultaneously defending NSA phone snooping as necessary for national security.  [ READ ]

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Informationally Modified Awareness

The headline read: PURPLE TOMATOES HEADING FOR SHOPS.  According to the report,  "the new tomatoes could improve the nutritional value of everyday foods"   ....  [ READ ]

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Speaking for the People of the World

A new grass-roots organisation in Mexico is seeking to convoke a Popular Assembly.   The manifesto on its home page states, ...  [ READ ]

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Wizmography

WIZMOGRAPHY is the science of cluttering simplicity with useless functionalities poorly explained.     [READ more]

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