Random Thoughts on Various Subjects

1. North Korea rattled its sword, and I expect the rest of the world to give Kim Jong Il what he wants.

You probably won't get this explanation in the mainstream media, so I will give it here. Kim Jong Il's regime sits atop a powder keg of public unrest ready to explode and consume him in a firestorm much like they did in Romania under Ceaucescu. Mass starvation has a tendency to cause this. Kim Jong Il does a desperate balancing act of extracting as much as he can for his war machine while winning concessions from the West for foreign aid. That's right, folks. Kim Jong Il is propped up by the United States, the UN, China, South Korea, etc.

Why do they do this? The first reason is that South Korea and China don't want the refugee problem. They'd rather see North Koreans starve in their country than come to their own and cause unrest. The second reason is that the US doesn't want those nukes Kim Jong Il has to be sold on the black market to groups like al Qaeda. So, Kim Jong Il acts a bit nutty every so often and these countries open their pocketbooks to bail his tyrant ass out.

Without a doubt, North Korea is a threat to the United States. But it is the one country that would be easy to destabilize. The neighbors don't want this. This is why North Korea is such a problem. It is a boil on Asia's ass.

My take? Don't invade, but don't give Kim Jong Il a damn thing. His days are numbered. In the meantime, I would have forces in place with no other task except to secure those nukes when the inevitable fall comes.

2. I had to laugh when people were openly pissed that Ken Lay got off light with a massive heart attack and death. Damn, that is some serious hatred there.

3. Pepsi is being lauded for not buying a secret Coke formula from some corporate spies. But let's be real about this, folks. Pepsi already knows what is in Coke. The Coke formula is not a secret. Any decent lab can tell you what is in Coke. And you better believe that Coke knows what is in Pepsi.

Pepsi did the smart thing in this situation. They did what was in their self-interest, and they have reaped a reward. Hooray for capitalism and selfishness. What is so interesting is how the media and the public think Pepsi was being altruistic in all of this. Their feeble minds can't grasp the logic behind Pepsi's actions. If Pepsi had bought that formula, they would have been subject to blackmail, bad PR, and overpaying for information they probably already had by buying a bottle off the shelf and running a few chemistry tests on it. Hell, the ingredients are listed on the fucking can!!

4. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has heated up a lot since Hamas took over. What I find intriguing is how everyone else in the world has wised up and stayed out of that shit. It's like neighbors who have learned to ignore the wifebeating going on next door after learning that the wife fucks other men on the side and has a nasty crystal meth habit. If anything good comes out of this, I hope the term "peace process" has been retired once and for all. I say let them fight and kill each other.

5. My cable news channel of choice is CNN. MSNBC has a pretty good anchor in Keith Olberman, but the network is kinda sucky. Fox News is too much of a branch of White House Communications. So, that leaves CNN for me.

I'm cool with Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, and whoever else, but I really fucking hate Lou Dobbs. There isn't a day that goes by that he isn't harping about illegal immigration. Now, he supports raising the minimum wage and his Quixotic fight to save the American middle class as if what middle income Americans need is to form a special interest group the way geriatrics, gays, blacks, transexuals, and midgets have done. And who are the enemies of the middle class? Mexicans and corporations who corrupt the political process.

Lou Dobbs is simply an idiot. He was a respected newscaster until CNN let him open his mouth, viz. Bill O'Reilly. What Dobbs fails to see is that the number one enemy of the middle class is high taxation. Going after immigrants and corporate America isn't going to change this.

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