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Last Updated: Aug 28, 2009 - 10:45:21 AM |
Let’s talk about all the positive events taking place on the world stage, as this is written.
Now, let’s talk about all the negative events. First, we have the ever-popular threat of nuclear war. Those fun-hating, crazy Iranians have all the fissionable material needed to produce an atomic bomb! Maybe even more than one! Israel – justifiably – takes that as a serious threat. Add to that the fact that Iran also has missile capability that will allow striking whatever Israeli targets it wants – including nuclear facilities – and the potential for Iran to bring about Armageddon is really up there! But, hey, the Iranians don’t have a lock on starting the next holocaust.
We can’t count out North Korea. North Korea not only has a huge standing army – 1.2 million troops, the fourth largest in the world -- but they’ve got missile technology, too! Japan is considering shooting down North Korea’s next launch. If North Korea attacks South Korea, the North Koreans will sweep across the DMZ and a lot of American GIs will feel the brunt of the attack. And, yes, the North Korean leadership is just as dangerous as the nutballs leading Iran.
Let’s not forget the new Pakistani regime, which has made arrangements with the Taliban – the same Taliban “moderates” Obama wants to chat up? – to run parts of the country under Sharia. This makes it legal to stone people to death, cut off their heads, administer beatings, etc. It also makes it easier for the Taliban guys to keep their women under control, because we all know that if you don’t have male genitalia you don’t deserve human rights. Sure. And, to sweeten the potential, the Taliban stiffs are tight with Al Qaeda. And, Pakistan has perhaps as many as a hundred nuclear weapons and delivery systems. What if the Taliban gain control of the Pakistani government and aren’t just content to start a nuclear war with India? They could do lots of other things with so many neat nukes!
How about Mexico? As I understand it, the Mexican Army has 130 thousand people under arms. The two largest drug cartels are planning on making an alliance which will give them 100 thousand people under arms and a defense budget substantially higher than that of the Mexican government. If the “banditos” go unchecked, seizing control of northern Mexico along the border, there could be a shooting war – more than there is already – involving the USA. But, I have a plan, there. We can’t send in the original “Magnificent Seven,” because only one of them still lives. However, all of the “Three Amigos” are – thankfully – alive and well. With the help of some villagers, they should be able to dig some trenches and sew some caballero costumes and dispatch those bad guys in under two hours. What can I say? I love a sequel.
Then, there’s the economy. Let’s see. Democrats pushed for sub-prime lending, which caused the housing crisis, which precipitated the stock market “fluctuations.” Then, the Democrats and the liberal media kept pushing the idea that the economy was going down the toilet, this to undermine confidence in the then-Republican administration in order to convince the electorate there was a problem, thus helping to elect a Democrat to the White House. The trouble is, they did too good a job of shouting fire in the crowded theater – especially considering they started the fire – and everybody is getting trampled because of it. But, as Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s resident whacko, suggested to Obama, the USA should move toward Socialism. Chavez needs to keep up with the times. We’re already doing that.
But, hey, let’s not forget the heightened storms on the surface of the sun coming up in the next two or three years, which could knock out the global power grid for a few months, but that few people even think about. The chaos that would ensue would make the aftermath of Katrina look like the good old days. And, February 27, a Friday, a previously unnoticed giant space rock was discovered. On the following Monday, the little visitor passed within one-seventh Lunar Distance of Earth, just 40 thousand miles distant. Had it hit Earth, the impact from the football-field-sized meteor would have been the equivalent of a 20 megaton nuclear weapon, leveling 500 square miles. Rest easy. It was drawn toward our gravitational field and will be coming back again and again. Who knows? Maybe next time that rock won’t miss!
The government doesn’t spend much money on watching for Near Earth Objects. Maybe, instead of the Democrats passing insanely high budgets filled with social programs designed to make people ever more dependent upon government, Congress should undertake to consider threat analysis. Shooting wars on the border, planet wide power outages and destructive Near Earth Objects are just some of the real problems that need addressing.
Am I just slamming on Democrats here? No, sadly. When Bobby Jindal did the televised Republican response to Obama’s first speech before a joint session of Congress, Mr. Jindal picked on volcano monitoring as being a waste of money. Wrongo, Governor. Ever hear of the Yellowstone caldera? Think of it as Katrina without water, but on steroids.
I shouldn’t worry, though, should I? After all, we’ve got a guy with no leadership experience at all at the helm of our ship of state. But, maybe we can change the country’s name from USA to HMS Titanic.
Do I want Obama to fail? Certainly not, because the price we as a nation would have to pay for his failure would be incalculable. What would be great would be if he’d stop appointing every leftist he can think of and stop running in the popularity contest. We don’t need to re-distribute wealth, change the fundamental nature of American society or anything like that. We need to get through these four years in one piece and work toward a better outcome for the off-year election in 2010 and the general election of 2012.
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