Let The LVII Hunger Games Begin

So, I see Rand Paul is Officially In. 
And you know what that means:

• Racist
• Sexist
• Kook
• Misogynist
• Opthalmagyst
• LGBTQQIAAPophobe
• Nut Job
• Philanderer
• Bossy
• Not A Team Player
• Out of Touch
• Wants to kill Grandma
• Weirdo
• Hates children and pets
• Hates aliens
• Was probed by Aliens
• Screwball
• Will destroy the economy
• Will make a laughingstock of The USA
• Crackpot
• Smokes pot
• ...

And I shudder to think of what the Democrats will say about him.

In other news of shame and betrayal, I happened t see the final episodes of The World At War the other night, a documentary that I remember watching with my Dad On PBS in the 70s. He'd untie his foot-wide tie, loosen his sans-a-belts and kick back in the Naugahyde Barcalounger while I assembled a Revell Messerschmidt 109 model on the floor in front of the TV, while Mom went out to the kitchen to make egg salad sammiches. Ah, sweet nostalgia.

Anyway, here's a part I'd forgotten, although I'm sure Sir Winston will mention it, if I ever get to the end of his mighty tome. After the war, as Britain was losing it's colonies to a global rush to independence, in order to keep the peace--weak and broke as they were-- they enlisted the defeated Japanese forces to police the colonies in Asia. Considering the atrocities the Japs (or Nips, if you prefer: that's more PC) committed during the war, I can barely imagine the outrage of the locals. Mountbatten must have been a Republican.