At the southeastern corner of Arizona, there is across the international border a small town called Naco, Sonora. As late as the first half of the 1970s, when I attended the university in Tucson, nasty scarring still marked adobe bricks in the south wall of an old hotel there. Some were likely bullet holes, some were divots the size of softballs, indications of shrapnel from pretty good-sized howitzer shells.
The foxes guarding our much-raided chickens have handed us a gamy egg in exchange for stealing the coop.
I guess I should be real impressed the Obama administration has drawn a line in the sand and told seven banks they couldn't pay their executives kings' ransoms out of the bailout kitty. It's an emotional issue, after all. Why should already-rich, overpaid crooks who got us in the meltdown jam profit with taxpayer money? As current affair, it's like episodic TV and freeway driving: There are good guys, bad guys, dumb folk and bang-up excitement. Maybe even a little blood and some broken glass.
Meanwhile, though, efforts to plug up the crumbling dike that is the derivatives market with safe-and-sane regulations are fading away slowly under cover of the bankers' salary smokescreen.
Interesting fallout from the newest spy case to affect if not actually involve our close, close, close Mideast ally: BradBlog notes this thoroughly unsurprising development seems to validate allegations made by a perennial neocon punching bag and FBI whistleblower:
This is, of course, the precise sort of thing which FBI linguist-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has been alleging concerning both Turkish and Israeli interests for some time. In her case, she has testified under oath to nearly-identical behavior by U.S. scientists, military personnel and academics at top-secret nuclear and military installations who are alleged to have done precisely what Stewart David Nozette has now been busted for...
One of the strangest schemes in our long, tired, sports-bar loudmouth of a foreign policy is the European Missile Shield, purportedly intended to protect the soft underbelly of the Mighty Continent against an Iranian missile attack.
Say... what?
And we can expect, perhaps, the next exceedingly bright idea down the 'pike an anti-gang task force for Martha's Vineyard?
Iran?
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