What's Going On In Egypt?

That's a question every one of us should be asking.

The riots in Egypt are threatening a government that has been pro-US for 30 years. While not exactly a democracy, Mubarak's government has been a stabilizing force in the Middle East. It is one of the primary reasons for continued peace between Isreal and its neighbors. The riots are supposedly driven by the heavy handed nature of the government, and rapidly rising food and fuel prices. That's just the kindling. The spark is coming from radical Islamists, based in Syria and Iran. Toppling the Egyptian government and replacing it with something more in line with their wishes would be a great victory for radical Islam - a defeat for the US and its policies, coupled with a natural, strong enemy againgst peace with Isreal.

The US has provided Egypt with a modern military. It is perhaps third in the region to Isreal, and Saudi Arabia. Allowing this firepower to end up in the hands of a radical Islamist state is unthinkable.

This effort, led by Iran, is spreading all over the place. The pro-western government of Lebanon fell months ago to Hezbollah ... a terrorist organization directed and funded by Syria and Iran. Protests are springing up in Jordan against the pro-western government there. Albania is seeing protests. Tunisia's pro-US government was toppled recenly, and replaced by one that is not pro-US. Iran's influence is even spreading to South America, with Hugo Chavez' assistance. Turkey, once one of our greatest allies, has backed away from us - that is another military we have armed with modern, lethal weapons systems.

This is some serious sh*t, folks. Some of our strongest supporters in the Middle East are under attack. If they fall, they will be replaced by puppets under the control of Iran. Isreal will be under a huge threat to its very existence - with the lunatic running Iran already having threatened to use nukes (which he says his country doesn't have) on Tel Aviv.

What is happening over there will have a direct impact upon us sooner or later. Stability in the region is a good thing. Radical Islam making further headway into taking over countries that have been out allies is definitely a very bad thing.

Update - The situation our government finds itself in in regards to what is happening in Egypt is a very difficult one. On one hand, we want the people of Egypt to have Democracy, and to be out from under the fist of what was essentially a dictator. On the other hand, the stability that dictator gave ot the region, and his pro-US stance over the past 3 decades have been immensely important to our security and interests.

Obama and his administration are walking a tightrope. Even though I don't care for him or his regime, I recognize the difficulty. However, they are making some very bad mistakes in their approach. His handpicked messenger to Mubarack has come out and publicly made statements contrary to Obama's public statements on what we wish to happen. HIllary has backtracked and restated her position several times. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has publicly come out and stated that we really don't know what is going on over there.

Obama has got to get control of his own people and keep a single, unified message coming out.

As far as the conflict itself, the longer it runs, the better the chance the government will wholly or in part be hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood, a 'political' organization that has publicly aligned itself with Iran. The pro-Democracy movement is very likely to become the vehicle by which another radical Islamic state comes into being - just like Iran did when the Shah was ousted by students protesting for Democracy and giving the country to religious hardliners.

The United States, indeed the world, cannot afford to have Egypt turn into another Iran.

Sarahcuda Agrees With Me!

You know, I'd like to claim that I came up with WTF, but no such luck. The earliest I remember hearing it was in Risky Business.

Leave it to the Sarahcuda to use my favorite phrase to shed light on Comrade Obama's State of the (Soviet) Union speech, and the incredible bullshit it contained.

Is Obama Turning Chinese?

During the few minutes I was able to stomach watching Obama's State of the Union speech, I noticed something. His skin was yellow. I turned from Fox, to CNN, to ABC, to CBS, to NBC. Every camera, every feed showed him with a decided yellow tinge to his skin color. By contrast, Biden and Boehner in the background looked normal, so it didn't appear to be a color problem with the cameras.

I don't mean this as a racist statement. It is merely an observation that our President looked a lot more Asian than black last night. On purpose?

I've noticed in most of the still photos posted on-line that the skin tones are more 'realistic'. Photoshopped - maybe? However, go look at some of the raw video feeds at the news sites, or youtube, and see what you think.

An Example of Why Our Jobs Go Overseas

A real world example of why so many of the jobs in this country have gone overseas - seen by me personally yesterday.

Two licensed electricians take 4 hours to run a 3 foot piece of conduit. Not the wiring, just the piece of pipe which will hold the wiring. The majority of their time was spent joking, talking about their golf game, answering text messages and calls. A good piece of time was spent figuring out how they can milk the job for a couple of more days and some overtime.

They left the job at 4:00pm, talking about how it was going to take at least another half a day to run that piece of conduit.

I am sure that these two fellows would be among the first to complain about jobs going to Mexico, or China, or India ...

MTV - Where Did It Go Wrong?

I actually am old enough to remember when MTV signed on. I remember watching it on that frirst day of programming, and for years afterwards. You had rock music videos, introduced by VeeJays, 24 hours a day.

Then MTV started branching out, and the music started dying off. Offshoot channels appeared, and they sucked just as much.

Now, we have MTV showing disgusting shock programs, designed to influence our kids. The new 'Skins' should be banned from television. Programs that glorify teen pregnancy, single parenting, sexual misconduct, promiscuity, drug and alchohol use, and rage against parents and persons in authority are all you ever see on that channel. If you haven't looked at it lately, go there - see what is being fed to our kids. See what is influencing them. You go to its offshoots, and all you see there are rappers and hoes hollering about their bling, their guns, their money, their cars, their bitches, etc.

In this age where liberals in and out of our government are screaming at the FCC to censor conservative media, this crap is touted as perfectly acceptable freedom of speech.

It is no wonder so many of our kids are so incredibly f**ked up.

What can't we go back to the days when MTV actually had music on it, and a few quality educational programs, such as this:




Update - I tried to watch an episode of 'Skins' on MTV, just to see what the outrage was about. Boy, do I understand now. From the few minutes I was able to stand it, here is what I saw. Child actors, representing younger high school students. They look like 14-15 year olds. Two kids emply a liter vodka bottle while riding a merry go round on the playground. One kid in the cafeteria so out of it on hard drugs (as defined by the kids around him) that he can't even hit his own mouth with a candy bar. One of the main girls, a self professed 'dyke', shouting out in school that "I screw girls ... so what?". Said dyke takes another underage girl home to sleep with her, in her family's house, and introduces her to her father on their way out. Said dyke experiments with a 'cool guy' in casual, unprotected sex. Most of the conversation between characters is about getting stoned, drunk, or laid. And these are supposed to be 14 and 15 year olds!

This program is disgusting. It is targeted at young teens, and is nothing but shock. The underlying messages are that it is not only acceptable to be drunk, stoned, gay, and/or promiscuous, it is very cool to do so.

It appears that this program is going to die a quick death. Advertisers are running away from it. If you are interested, watch an episode before it goes away. See what MTV feels is perfectly acceptable to force feed to our kids.

You Know He Wanted To Do It

Leave it to Jimmy Kimmel Live to read John Boenher's mind!

Jerry's Super Scam

Jerry Jones's infatuation with hosting the Super game in a couple of weeks is getting ridiculous. Those of you not in the DFW area may not have heard this.

Jones is bound and determined to have this Super game set records for attendance, and anything else he can get hold of. He wants it to be the biggest, to help justify Jerry World. Now, I understand that, but it is reaching a really stupid level now.

Tickets are going to be sold for $200 each. These tickets will allow you to stand in the parking lot outside of the stadium during the game. You won't get in. You won't get a seat. You won't even get a program.

Jerry's folks and the NFL are going to count these tickets as part of the official game attendance.

What a scam! Talk about a record that needs an asterick beside of it!

Notice I said Super game. The actual words S.B. are copyrighted by the NFL. If you don't pay to be the official something of the S.B., you risk prosecution for infringement if you use the words.

Update - A prayer, if I may ...

Oh Lord, please let Green Bay beat Chicago this weekend.

It's not that I care for the Packers.

I just don't want Obama to come here with the Bears.

Hey Japan ... STOP IT!

Have you bought a can of tuna lately? How pissed off were you at half of the can's contents being water filler? How good did you feel watching half of the can disappear down the drain when you let the water drain off? I remember days, not so long ago, when you opened an 8 ounce can of tuna and got 7.5 ounces of tuna out of it.

What happened? Well, several reasons, but first and foremost, I blame the Japanese.

I am in no way an expert on all things Japanese. Recognizing that, I will admit that these thoughts are based upon what I have seen on TV and internet news and programming specials I've seen over the past couple of decades.

The Japanese are causing overfishing of the world's oceans, to the point of threatening the existence of multiple species. They are not doing this because their people are starving and need the food source. More than enough seafood can be obtained from our oceans to feed their population without killing off whole species.

They are doing this because of cultural appetite. There are several types of seafood that are considered delicacies. Whale meat. Shark fin soup. Bluefin tuna. Herring roe. And others.

Whaling is governed by international treaties. Japan routinely flaunts the agreements, and captures/slaughters far more whales each year than they are 'legally' allowed. Why? Not because it is needed as a food source, it is because it is a delicacy, and brings in huge profits for those who supply it.

Shark fin soup. OK, I'm no fan of sharks. But to see one captured, have its fins cut off, and then the live shark is thrown back into the sea to drown is horrible. There is no nutritional need for this. It is driven solely by the demand for this delicacy, which is supposed to give Japanese men boners.

Bluefin tuna is prized as the top type of tuna for eating raw and in sushi - in Japan. I saw one large example of the fish go for over $150,000 - FOR ONE FISH! It is no more nutritious than any other speciies of tuna. The demand is simply because it is considered a delicacy in Japan, and brings very big monty to everyone in the supply chain. Fleets hunting bluefin are all over the world, and there is a very real danger of the type being hunted into extinction very soon.

Herring roe. Fish eggs. A particular type of egg, sought after for sushi and other purposes. Millions of fish being caught and cut open for their eggs. The vast majority of the rest of the fish is wasted. Fortunately, this type of 'crop' is closely monitored, and a set amount of catch is allowed - in American coastal waters.

None of these species should be endangered. There are (or at least were) plenty of them to support the nutritional needs of Japan and every other country on earth. The overfishing is strictly to satisfy the Japanese need to gain face by consuming something special. It's not the taste that is the issue for the vast majority of these people - it is the status you receive by overpaying for something seen as the best - to show you are better than your peers.

Now, what does that have to do with my can ot tuna? Well, if the canners can make more money selling fish to Japan, and can get away with stuffing our cans full of water instead of fish, why wouldn't they?

Handicap WTF?

A recent visit to the local Wally World produced 3 handicap WTFs in the space of just a few minutes ...


A lady, at least 400 pounds worth, draped over a mobility scooter. You can barely see that there is a scooter underneath. The back tires are flat from all the weight. She looks like she is in her pajamas/home tent. My problem is not her weight, or the offensive clothing ... it is the overpowering stench that keeps everyone at least 20 feet away from her. Really disgusting.


A handicapped young man, also in a mobility chair. A high performance mobility chair. This person has obvious mental issues as well as physical. There is a hand written sign hanging off the back of the seat reading 'I'm not speeding, I'm qualifying'. He is flying through the aisles, and clips my leg as he motors past me. I watch him, he's just speeding up and down the aisles, running people and shopping carts off into the proverbial ditch. He has a Wally World employee badge. While I applaud Wally World for employing the handicapped, this man is a menace, and is going to get them sued.


In the parking lot, a newer model Cadillac is sitting in a handicap spot. It has a temporary handicap tag hanging from the mirror. The person getting into it is tall, black, wearing a long blonde caucasian wig, skin tight jeans, heels that are at least 5 inches tall, and has a fully stuffed (with something) bra. The person is obviously male (or at least was) as indicated by the huge Adams apple protruding from the throat. My issue is not with the obvious, but with the handicap tag - if this person has a handicap, it is one of a mental nature. Walking on those heels with no problem tells me that there isn't a physical issue. I wonder if a police officer would have dared write this person a ticket for misuse of a handicap tag ...


There is just so much cheap entertainment you can get from walking into one of those stores!

Thanks a Lot, Nevada

I really want to thank the voters of Nevada for giving us another dose of Harry Reid. To all of you union thugs, illegal immigrants, and campaign operators who secured his victory, thanks a lot. To the Republicans, who chose one of the weakest candidates they could find to oppose him in what should have been a slam dunk defeat for Reid, thanks a lot.

Now, the Democrat leader of the Senate has called the Chinese Premier a 'dictator' in public, while the Chinese leader is in this country being hosted by Reid's boss - Obama. Now, even if he is a dictator, how stupid can you be? To insult this man, arguably the leader of the most powerful country on earth, while your buddy is schmoozing him is just catastrophic lunacy.

China holds our mortage. If they call it due, it may end this country - or at least drop it to second world status. We have become so dependent upon China that we cannot move away from them (by their design). China can run our country, if they wish to.

This might even top his 'This War is Lost' on the stupidest things said by a politician in the past decade list.

Welcome Back, Mr. Bond

It appears that reports of 007's demise on the big screen were premature. The 23rd Bond film is back on track, scheduled for release in the fall of 2012. Daniel Craig will be back as Bond, and the film will take up where Quantum of Solace ended.

An Open Letter to Michelle Obama

Dear Ms. Obama;

You have positioned yourself as a champion of children's causes, which is a noble position for this nation's First Lady. Your efforts, particularly in the area of nutrition, have made it clear that you believe you know what is best for our children - much more so than we, their parents.

In this capacity as Parent-in-Chief, I ask for your guidance in how to deal with the following situation:

The unbridled hatred that the left in this country views Conservatives with, in particular members of the so-called Tea Party, has led to your husband (and the top Democrat leaders in both houses of Congress, the head of the Democrat National Committee, numerous other Democrat elected officials, and too many left wing political pundits and 'news' people ot mention) to refer to these people as 'Tea Baggers".

Tea Bagger is a horrendlously offensive term. To refer to someone as a Tea Bagger is to hurl one of the most vulgar, vile insults at them. It is hate speech. Yet your husband, the President of the United States, has used this term in a televised interview and in discussions with Democrat lawmakers and members of his own staff. The term is thrown about on news programs and in print so often that is has become commonplace. People who have no idea what it means are picking it up and using it to describe members of the Tea Party - without knowing the awful, disgusting insult of which they are actually speaking.

My question to you is this ... when our children come to us, their generic parental units (since the Federal Government has officially determined that mother and father are no longer acceptable terms) and ask us what 'Tea Bagger' means, what do we tell them?

What is the official left wing controlled Federal Government definition of 'Tea Bagger'? What do we tell our children when they ask what your husband is talking about?

Sincerely,

A card carrying member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy