I have been a day off all week. ALL WEEK. And it’s very frustrating, because I’m a day ahead of myself and that means there’s one more day to deal with before the weekend.
Yeah, that’s because it’s not our plague: Israel has beaten back the locusts that came from Egypt. And because Jews are Jews, an Orthodox rabbi has issued a statement that no, locusts are not kosher, and may not be eaten, once again proving my statement that if only the Arabs would leave us alone, we would destroy ourselves from within–by arguing all the time. Meantime, over in the Gaza Strip, Hamas is telling its citizens not to worry, that the locusts are harmless.
“It represents no kind of danger or harms to people and plants, ” Bakheet said, adding that “the situation is under full control and protection of the ministry of agriculture.”
Farmers said that 10 locusts were founded in each dunum (1,000 square meters). Officials of the agriculture ministry said it would be dangerous if huge swarms of locust cover an area of 30 dunums (30,000 square meters).
The skies of southern Israel were blackened by locusts. But apparently, they skipped Gaza completely. Riiiiight.
Hope his cancer treatment turns out as well as Hugh Chavez’s: Chipmunk Cheeks Nasrallah is in Iran, getting cancer treatments–because his country has been ruled or infested by terrorists for so long that their healthcare sucks as bad as Venezuela’s–and while he’s there, he’s getting more marching orders from Iranian clerics. Hey, Nasrallah, may your lifespan match the plague of locusts in Israel!
Palestinians heart Chavez: Not just the PA. Also Bashar Assad and the rest of the neighborhood tyrants. That says it all.
But–but–Dennis Rodman said he doesn’t want war! North Korea’s latest lunatic-in-charge is threatening the U.S. with nuclear war again. Why? Because China and the U.S. are working on sanctions for NorK’s latest violation of UN resolutions–you know, the latest nuclear bomb test that had Iranians taking notes and salivating for their own test.
Sidenote: Every single time now–EVERY SINGLE TIME North Korea comes on my radar screen, I think of this:
Unfortunately, Timy Kim’s wife reputedly just brought forth another Kim. Another generation of Ronery tyrants-in-waiting has arrived. Lunacy appears to be hereditary in the family, so one cannot expect NorK’s new little bundle of joy to avoid it.
This mess goes to show what happens when you don’t finish a job right. It would have been expensive in lives to fight to the Yalu and reunify the Koreas in 1951, but it could have been done. Because it was not done, we are now potentially looking at a situation where North Korea soon will be able to intimidate the USA by nuclear threats. It will not need a large arsenal of nukes to do this. How many US cities nuked are worth stopping NorK from some mayhem it intends to commit? How much food aid to Tiny to get him to stop threatening nuclear war for a while (before he starts again). We have exiguous anti-missile defenses at present, and unless they are increased into a sophisticated, layered system, the US will be vulnerable to blackmail not only from Russia and China, but from NorK and Iran. For that matter, we’d be vulnerable to any actor, state or non-state, that can amass a fair number of nuke armed missiles within range of US targets. And if that seems far-fetched, well so did starving NorK having nuclear arms and delivery systems not long ago.
that if only the Arabs would leave us alone, we would destroy ourselves from within–by arguing all the time.
Between that and the thought that a “don’t eat that!” statement had to be released about the locusts, I’m getting my morning amusement. Thank you!