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North Korean Wake Up Call

Word coming in that North Korea has 'joined the club'

I've tried 4 times in the past 30 minutes to write a post, only to have information coming in change what I was going to say. So for now, Im just watching and listening as posting seems silly with the speed of information coming in right now. ( quick someone find me a scientist that can calculate the energy necessary to create a 3.5 level quake...)

Just making a list:

A nation in a technical State of War that still exists with South Korea and the US ( and the UN for that matter)

Dictatorship of the highest order.

A world wide pariah nation, that the US and its allies have cut off from all trade over the past few months.

Has spent the summer firing intercontinental ballistic missiles at the US and Japan.

30,000 US Troops on the front lines of the Korean DMZ.

Japanese Prime Minister was scheduled to arrive in South Korea today, any change?

Any change from South Korean government who has been to date the largest enabler of the North Korean blackmail schemes?

Any word on US Armed Service Alert level?

Ok, Where are the Carriers? or The USS Shiloh?( Ballistic Missile Defense, funny how no one is against that sort of thing now that we really need it, right?)

Any movement of the Chinese or Russian Fleet or Army in the past 30 days?

Yeah, I can almost see the 'Alternate Universe' where Saddam managed to pull this off because after President Gore took office, the sanctions were removed from Iraq, and infrastructure poured in while petro dollars poured out to North Korea.

"...While America went about paddling around the worlds oceans looking for the perpetrators of 9/11 with enhanced law enforcement procedures hand in hand with the rest of the western world; the countries that the former Presidential Candidate George W. Bush once called the "Axis of Evil" formed a coalition of their own to oppose the United States. A coalition that tied middle eastern petro dollars to the technology of North Korea to create a malevoent force to threaten the peace of the world in opposition to the worlds one remaining superpower..."

President Gore. I can wake up to any reality tommmorow morning and deal with it, but I cant quite get that one to work.

Tick...Tick...Tick...

...Thank God I'm unburdened of thinking about and trying to post something new on the incredibly stupid Foley incidient. Today when I heard the headlines that "...a former congressional page came forward to say he had sex with Congressman Foley..." that my head was going to explode, then it was revealed in the paragraph level story that the "former page" was actually 21 at the time they, um, well, you know.

So I though to myself, its not much of a story then, is it? I mean Senator Hillary Clinton had sex with a former "Boys Nation" kid and no one got upset about that did they? I mean, Bill was a former "Boys Nation" kid, and she did have sex with him at least once - the proof being their daughter Chelsea. The fact that she had sex years with him after he legally stopped being " a kid" shouldnt enter into the discussion, should it? It's the seriousness of the charge after all.

Posted @ October 08, 2006 08:53 PM | Current Affairs

Posted by: Different River at October 8, 2006 11:03 PM