AROUND THE WORLD: Voting And Such Other Trivialities

Normally, if I were a real blogger, I would apologize for not updating any posts recently so that  my dear readers would not abandon me. But, because I am neither a real blogger nor a blog with actual readers, I'll just say hello to myself.  Hi, me.  Hey.  How are you? Meh, I'm ok.  K.  Great.  Anything in the news?  Oh yes, indeed:

AT HOME:

People are actively soliciting voter registrations from "disillusioned" groups... which in this case happens to mean dogs.  This dog, who has been dead for more than two (2) years, received a voter registration form, a legit one, in the mail.  Because voting is no big deal and the security of your civil rights is irrelevant.

Speculators are speculating about the United States' continued prominence (existence actually).  Predict possible Armageddon, moral decay, financial collapse, continued poor leadership, lack of responsibility... the usual.

Sensitive progressives really aren't very sensitive.  Mock Anne Romney's multiple sclerosis.

NASA-1977 is accomplishing a lot more than NASA-2012.  Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, after 35-ish years, are about to break out of our solar system (currently, they are 11.1 and 9.1 Billion miles from home, respectively, and still functioning).  NASA-2012 replied to NASA-1977, "Huh? What are these things you call 'science' and 'outer space'?  Teach us your ways of the flying object... and can we borrow some money.  We have no money."

ABROAD:

Crazy Ivan/Vlad the Putin has returned to prominence.  Is acting very scary as of late. 

Vlad, plus Iran, plus Syria, plus CHINA is a whole lot of crazy and even scarier.  Currently, planning war games.  Gee, I wonder who this is supposed to be a message to...

Egypt is destabilizing, threatening Israel (following its stabilization by ousting foreign interests i.e. American NGO's encouraging civil rights in the country... applied here to mean discouraging the murder of women for learning to read and going outside of the house).

CURRENT WORLD STATUS:  Ignorantly Chipper.

Here's the Awesome Scale as I imagine it.

(UTTERLY AWESOME) ------ (IGNORANTLY CHIPPER) ------ (IGNORANT IN GENERAL) ------ (FINANCIAL BAILOUT / T.A.R.P.) ----- (QUANTITATIVE EASING; QE2; QE3) ------ (EURO BAILOUT) ------ (PROGRESSIVE AGENDA SUCCESS) ------ (LOAD THE CAR & RUN)

Now, you might think that Utterly Awesome would be the "good" side of the scale but unfortunately you're wrong because this scale monitors world mood, not the actual state of existence.  So the closer we are to the Utterly Awesome side of things, the closer we are to impending destruction.  I like to think that this very-backward approach is a good representation of how quixotic things are.

New Jersey And Russia: Not Entirely Different

School administrators in New Jersey suspended four (4) students recently for "Tebowing" on campus. They said it created a "hazardous" situation. Riiiiiiight. Granted, I was not there and these kids could have generally been acting obnoxious but why suspend someone over something like this? How about a detention at most. It's very stupid and wafts of religious intolerance.

Over in Russia, our old drinking buddy, Vlad, is back in power after an election rigging scandal. He's also saying the U.S. was behind Gadaffi's death. The world perked its ears at the former news but shrugged at the later.

Exciting Times

...we live in.

So, IRAN is lying about quite a bit but someone has been blowing stuff up over there. In response, IRAN has promised additional silly antics and joke telling so they might coo their would-be enemies into sublime peace and friendship. Also, they plan on killing lots of people. Let me re-iterate. IRAN is CRAZY.

KUWAIT's government has collapsed. Further destabilizing the Middle East where reasonable heads otherwise prevail (sarcasm).

PAKISTAN is actively shooting at us now and admitting it... but with caveats.

And in Europe, devastation awaits as the Euro continues its collapse. It won't be long before the whole thing completely folds unless something considerable is done.

However, sound U.S. Financial Policy will save us all, RIGHT?? Meh. No. But knowledge is power so go prepare yourselves accordingly boys and girls...

(For The Record, This Is A Joke).

Russia Continues Its Crazy, Iran On Board With Russia

Russia is planning to further develop Iran's nuclear capacity. Ignorning the obvious enrichment issue, this has to be a good idea right? Iran needs power production capability.

Also, because Iran's nuclear prospects are completely peaceful, they're now hiding the enrichment centrifuges underground.

RUSSIA's Still Scary

A recent U.S. Intelligence Report apparently came to the conclusion that a Russian Intelligence Minister was responsible for bombing our embassy in Georgia (i.e. Ossetia Georgia not Peaches Georgia... ). If that's true, Russia has re-confirmed my belief in the "Crazy Ivan" stereotype.

Also, they plan on dropping the Int'l Space Station into the Ocean now that we don't have a space transportation system/orbiter (read Shuttle.)

******UPDATE: Seems Russia is purposefully breaking into U.S. Ambassador's homes to intimidate officials. There is also, evidently, a very nasty smear campaign in progress against U.S. diplomats in the country. Great. Things are looking very orderly in the world these days.