Book Break

I'm taking a break from my little blog book.

The hot topics this week were Miley Cyrus and Syria. Miley's merely the next Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan, and deserves none of the attention she's getting.  MTV should be taken down for showing that trash. No, I didn't watch, and I am avoiding it on the web.  There's no point.

So let's tackle the more serious topic.  It was over a year ago that Obama announced his "red line".  Now that Assad has crossed it twice (or possibly more), our president is getting ready to retaliate.  Once again, it's not about national security.  It's not even about protecting Syrian citizens from their tyrannical dictator.  It's only about Obama, as is everything else he does.

The irony of this president doing with Syria exactly what he and his supporters so viciously accused George W. Bush of doing in Iraq is certainly not lost on me.  Although it sure is lost on all the media outlets.  Oh well, such is life in wacky America.

If the plan is to take out Assad, that might be worthwhile.  But they've already said it's not that.  If the plan is to take out all of their chemical weapons, that would be a positive objective.  But that ship's already sailed because the administration has announced their intentions.  All Assad needs to do is move his weapons somewhere else so we bomb empty buildings.

So it looks like Obama's going to have the military launch a bunch of cruise missles that most likely will destroy a bunch of empty buildings in Syria.  But at least he can say he took action!

Meanwhile there's a rally in Washington today memorializing Martin Luther King.  Republicans were neither invited nor welcome, so it was merely a Democratic Party Rally.

The congressman who claim to be Republicans and claim to oppose Obamacare are trashing their colleagues who are trying to lead an effort to leave funding for that horrible law out of the next funding bill.  There is no courage to be found among the Republican party leadership, which means the Democrats win.

Overall it's been a discouraging week.