World Situation (or should I say world crisis)

Hmmm....all of these coming together at once can only mean one thing.

It is time for a ROAD TRIP!

Well as we know of it would be China/Russia/North Korea/Iran/Syria/Lebanon/Palestine/Lord knows how many other Middle eastern countries/?Paskistan? vs. US/Canada/Japan/?India?/Isreal

 Canada would be thrown into it for the simple fact OF the Bering Sea (Could you imagine a troop buildup in Alaska?).

There's no indication whatsoever that Europe's pacifistic nature would even get involved. We've saved them twice, but that doesn't mean squat now a days (especially with the Communist Socialist movement in Europe.

Pakistan and India is up in the air... I have no idea where that would land. They are clear enemies, and Pakistan is majority muslim...but in order for that to fall thorugh there would have to be a government overthrow in Pakistan (which is not unlikley).

Now the question is where would Iraq go?

Shiver....

The Brits would have our back, since W. and Blair are joined at the hip. And they'd drag the Frenchies in as well.

Maybe we should just recruit Zidane to go around and head butt the heads of state for each of these countries. 

Am I the only one using the sarcasm font with regularity anymore?

Hopefully the world can hold on until '08 when we can get someone in office to do something about foreign policy other than sh*t on everyone who isn't us.  If not, New Zealand seems like a cool place to live.

Oh dear lord....

I can hear the inflection in your voice as I read this.

You know, as soon as someone else is elected all of our problems will go away and we can fix everyone else's.  Didn't you know that Derek?

Yay.  Utopia!!

The two major parties in the US are far more alike than different unfortunately.

Wait, let me guess.  Foreign policy was bad prior to this administration right?  We were hated world wide prior to 2000 right?  US politics has had nothing to do with nor any influence on foreign affairs, right?  I don't recall anti american sentiment as bad as this after the first Gulf war.  I guess cause and effect is not applicable here.  Besides, democracy in the middle east is worth all this....right? 

What worries me about this situation is that they are moving out of the Kashmir region and penetrating southern parts of India. The increasing growth of Muslims in India is going to cause harshness between Hindus and Muslims in all parts of India, not just Kashmir. I saw firsthand in India the animosity between the two. I knew it wouldn't be long before this happened. It's so unfortunate.

Wow, you sure got a lot out of a few words.

My reaction was both to the fact that you implied that things would be magically fixed with a new party in power and the tired "threats" of moving to another country if that doesn't happen.

Remember, everything that's bad in the world started in 2001.  It was a virtual paradise prior to that, right?

Not a paradise, but better than things are now.  IMHO, the decline can be traced to recent decisions over the past 6-8 years.  Others may see it differently.  Perhaps a different political party may not "fix" things, but they may not make the same stupid mistakes and can stop the bleeding.

Again, if you think the two political parties are all that different, I've got a bunch of beachfront property in Nebraska to sell you.

How's the open-water swimming?

Angels on the sideline,
Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused.

Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys
Where there's one you're bound to divide it
Right in two

Angels on the sideline,
Baffled and confused.
Father blessed them all with reason,
And this is what they choose?

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they forge a blade
And where there's one they're bound to divide it
Right in two

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they make a club,
And beat their brother down.
How they survive so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability,
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.

[Cutting it all right in two
/ Cut it all right in two]
/ Cutting our love right in two]

Fight over the clouds, over wind, over sky
Fight over your lie, over blood, over anything
Fight over love, over sun, over nothing
Fight till they die,
(Ahhh!) over what? for their ending

-TOOL

I don't get why everybody is so against a president who is PRO U.S.  Has he been the best president, NO.  But he sure as heck hasn't been the worst.  I like a president who is pro US.  F*^$ those other countries.

Ahh, this reminds me of those Fridays back in March when everyone was getting stir crazy and race season was not in full swing yet.

Party on boys, this is entertaining.