PROFITS, WAR AND THE SOUTH

My upcoming douchebag of the week column is going to be epic. There were a lot of stupid, stupid people this week and the week's not over yet.

Skank of America reported a two billion dollar profit for the fourth quarter of last year. Must be SO hard to get by on only two billion dollars profit. And you were still planning on charging people five dollars for the use of the own card because of hard times? Please, you guys suck.

Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly said, to the dismay of the US and his own cabinet, that Iran is seeking a nuclear device and Israel was not about to let that happen. They have good reason to fear such an occurrence as, contrary to what the peacenicks claim, Iran has threatened to wipe Israel from the map. Israel rightly feels that should Iran get a nuke, they might use it in downtown Tel Aviv. Jerusalem would be safe as their holy shrines would be affected in such a blast and even I don't think they are that heretical. The rest of Israel however would be open game to an enterprising terrorist. It is unlikely such an attack would come by missile but more likely by smuggling it into wherever they wanted to be. They could even do it across the country here and throughout Europe and then blackmail us into submission. What would you do if you knew nukes were all over every major city in the world? It would not be a pleasant scenario because with both options you would have squat for options.

I am not recommending or even condoning war. However, we must look at the worst case scenario and decide which is worse. I honestly feel, Iran getting a nuke is far worse. I also know that I trust the government to tell me the truth about anything as much as betting on the Cubs to win the World Series next year. But this time is different and an actual threat may be emerging, not the manufactured ones of the last fifty years. Are we prepared to fight a real war, one with real consequences not seen since WW2?

On a brief note, new "evidence" keeps coming up about FDR knowing about Pearl Harbor before it happened. Bunk. Now I'm not suggesting that this means I don't believe the new evidence is true: it might. But in no way was FDR involved. Why? It would be so alien to everything we know about the man as to almost suggest he was dangerously schitzophrenic. FDR fought hard for the common man and was notoriously anti-corporation. He once sent the national guard to arrest a CEO. Imagine Obama doing that today. You can't, because he would never do something like that. The reason we have SS and a better way of life is because of this man. Why would someone like that get us into a fake war to enrich people he hated, ones that tried to overthrow him in 1933. That flies in the face of reason. If the evidence is real, then maybe the powers that wanted him out withheld that information from the president forcing his hand to war. Which sounds more reasonable?

The South is proving their irrelevancy once more, along with the increasingly unstable religious right. Gingrich is on the rise again as Romney falters for, well being Mitt Romney. It's hard to put being a Mormon Billionaire to rest when that's all anybody sees when they look at you. Meanwhile, Gingrich's ex-wife has recorded a tell all interview to be aired tonight on Nightline. Hope it all comes down for him because I really, REALLY hate Newt. A lot. He's fake, unpleasant and so condescending. Yet the South loves him because he's a Christian (which is about as much as I am a Black Jew). Meanwhile Paul languishes, mostly because this conflict with Iran is making his isolationist stance very unpopular with republicans. Too bad, I like a lot of his ideas, just not so much his desire to get rid of things like SS. Rats.

Iran fisherman were rescued again today by the US military after their boat sank. If we leave like the Iranians want there are going to be thousands of dead fisherman at this rate.