Another Reason why America's Credit is Great

Lest we forget

The Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy assures Niger citizens of their safety. Nigerians are well armed and probably don't care.

The reason why America's credit is great

Niger is an oil rich country, and this recent coup puts foreign investors like America and China in an interesting situation. Niger has always suffered from chronic corruption. The question is. Will a new regime bring about greater stability in a region with huge profit potential? If so whoever can make inroads with a Nigeria that has the potential for a huge boom, stands to make a killing. This economic carrot alone will encourage heated competition between world powers seeking for influence, but adding the fact that Nigeria is an important oil asset from a national defense standpoint makes it even more likely that proxy battles between powers will flare up and continue to keep Nigeria unstable. Which is a shame. Because if the powers cooperated together, they could invest in an Africa with vast material riches, and turn those unused assets into currency.


Multi-national oil corporations like Exxon and Royal Dutch shell are looking on anxiously as the coup plays out, no matter who wins they are going to get their money. The question is, are Americans going to get their money as well. As ceasar once said, the die is being cast in oil hotspots around the world. Our economy is closely tied to many of these hotspots and without them our economy would be subject to foriegn manipulation and might even grind to a halt.

Who cares about Thailand anyway

Ask an average American about Thailand and about the only thing he'll be able to identify about it is sunny beaches and child rape. But even though most Americans don't care about this depraved, politically troubled nation, it is much more important than they realize. It's proximity to, and hostility towards China makes it a vital ally to american policy interests in the region, not to mention it is both economically and militarily important.

That's why it's nice to see that this turbulent country is starting to level out. Prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is forging ahead despite constant challenges to government authority from non-elected sources. Kavi Chongkittavorn gives Vejjajiva high marks in this opinion column from the nation. He's still traveling a dangerous road though, the police, the royal family and the army could band together at any second to throw him out of power, and disgraced former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is still skulking around trying to foment revolution as well. This country's political history, both current and historically reads like a soap opera. I think it's an interesting read anyway, you should check out Chongkittavor's piece.

Nuclear Fusion close?

I won't hold my breath.

Nebraska basketball?

I thought I might add some men's basketball posts to see if I could stimulate a little readership. No surprises in the article. We suck and Texas rolled us. Never the less, I've still got faith in ya even though your team sucks Doc, roll on buddy!!

Frmr. Vice Pres. Cheney declines to back Palin

Cheney refuses to support Palin despite 95% support from Mentally handicaped community. Sources close to Palin's potential 2112 campaign say that Cheney smells like poop.

And the apocalypse cometh

More activity from the Russian military-industrial complex today Russia is selling anti-aircraft missiles to Iran so they can shoot Israeli aircraft out of the sky if they try to take out Iran's nuclear program. This should actually prove to be entertaining in the long run. Eventually the long running enmity between Iran and Israel will probably come to fruition. And, when it does, it will pit a much larger re-armed nuclear Iran against against tiny little Israel with all of its state of the art weaponry and nukes. Iran is sitting on some of the most coveted real estate in the world and it knows it. I disagree with nuclear proliferation, and think it's a shame that other world powers are facilitating it for selfish political objectives. But that's Politics. The U.S.'s objectives are no less selfish.

No matter which side of the debate one is on, I think this statement, while inflammatory is true. The re-emergence of Russia as a major military industrial power bodes very ill for US interests abroad. It seems likely that it will re-ignite a long cold war with nuclear war being one of many unpalatable consequences.

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Watch out kiddles! Google buzz can sting you but good

Google launched it's own social networking program called Buzz a couple of days ago and it really is pretty cool. Think facebook sans all the annoying crap. It offers status updates, pictures, links and videos as well as updates from Flickr, Picasa, Google Reader and Twitter. There's a dirty little caviat to this delightful new program though. Buzz automatically shows who you e-mail to the most, it makes all of your posts public by default and with its handy dandy little geolocation fuction people can find you where ever you post from, awesome.

May I just say, as a committed veteran stalker I have been waiting for something like Google Buzz. Now whenever I want to terrorize some frightened young woman, so long as she's on Buzz I can find her with the click of a mouse. How fun!

Like I said before, buzz is cool, but users really have to be cautious. If you use Gmail and don't want to use buzz you're going to have to disable it or you'll be automatically opted in, and crazed stalkers like myself will find you and peep in your windows. Here's how to disable the program.

America to experience another bout of chronic VD

Valentine's day in America. The day when men bribe the women in their lives with gifts so that they won't leave them. See also, best chance of the year for sex. See also, that time of the year when couples rub their feigned happiness into the faces of their single friends.

I'm not bitter or anything, just saying. Mabye in some places Valentine's day is a day for the lucky few who have found love to rejoice in their good fortune. But in America Valentine's Day is strictly commerical. It's about selling food, diamonds, chocolate, movie tickets and god knows what else ... probably sex toys and date rape drugs. Oh and don't forget about all of the sacarine, vomit inducing ballads Americans will be forced to listen to for the next 3 days.


Luckily for those in Saudi Arabia, their austere American backed government has taken away the freedom of couples to needlessly waste a bunch of money and make single people feel like crap. Kudos to the crazy religious zelots on this one.

I think we can draw a lesson from the American support of this oppressive regime. There's enough phonyness around this stupid holiday to make JD Salinger's Holden Caulfield kill himself on the spot. Are the Saudis giving us moral support in our struggle with this insidious holiday? If so I stand in solidarity with them. They have inspired me. Obesity is a problem in America and Kim Jong Il has taken a passionate stand against that in North Korea. Perhaps it's time we threw our political backing behind him too. If we did, I'm sure I could find the strength to give up cheeseburgers and fettechini alfredo.


So, in conclusion, if you are in a relationship go enjoy yourself. But do me a favor and don't flaunt it. It's fucking annoying and Tim Duey might just have to choke a bitch if it gets too flagrant. And if you know some poor sap that nobody likes, like Joe Bremer, give him a call. Let him know, that even though nobody likes him. At least you don't hate him. :D

Obama to China, Fuck off

China's lobotomized media is in an uproar. After a year in which the Chinese government belittled President Barrack Obama at a major summit and opposed him at every opportunity, Obama has finally returned a volley in the form of an arms deal with Taiwan. The arms deal includes black hawk helicopters, mine ships and patriot missels. It sends a very clear message, specifically, "oh, you can make life hard for us can you? Well that's good, why don't you deal with this country you think of as a rebellious province while we arm them the latest in military technology."

Now, everybody knows that The USA and China can accomplish a lot more working together than they can fighting with each other, but, I for one applaud this action which seemingly heralds some far off Armageddon. International relations needs to be based on respect, and when China is blocking every UN resolution backed by America, and doing every thing they can to make our lives hard, it's about time we hit back. Let us pray we can sort our differences out, until then I'll be damned if you're going keep disrespecting me and my country without consequences.

Hopefully the apocalypse is not quite upon us, though it is no doubt near ... This is not the first and certainly will not be the last American Arms deal with Taiwan. The only question is, is this the first time we'll see serious Chinese sanctions placed on America. The odds are that China can't afford to do that. But it appears that the stage is gradually being set for some distant polar shift where China becomes just as powerful a player as America, and a more belligerent one.