Morning Coffee (09)

Good Morning;

Had a tough time getting up this morning, but I guess Sleepy Time by Tylenol will do that to you sometimes. But here I am, like a machine. I will say, however, that this morning's coffee is good. One could argue that it cannot get much better than this, but I propose that it can.

Ho hum, another news day. Iranian President Ahmadinejad says (for the millionth time) that Israel's destruction is near. And some people think this man is all talk for the sake of rhetoric and that his country should have nuclear weapons, er…I mean a peaceful nuclear power program. I won't name who…but I know. I put forth that it matters not if it's mere rhetoric. You cannot be sure, thus you cannot allow this guy to have nuclear weapons. Do YOU want to be responsible for Tel Aviv becoming a smoking crater, all because you really thought that Ahmadinejad was saber-rattling? It doesn't matter. The risk is too great. Some pose that throwing money at these people is the best way to befriend them. Capitalism and money does not always cure everything. In fact, it rarely cures anything. Religious devotion, truly believing what you believe, can be dangerous. The short life that this guy leads in the material means little when eternal salvation is at stake. Others pose that he hasn't the means to deliver a weapon to the US, or that he wouldn't because it could be traced back to Iran. Well, those points are moot. Delivery systems needn't be in the form of ICBMs, and does it really matter if it can be traced? I think no.

That was a little longer of a rant than it was supposed to be. In other news, did you read about the Chinese sub that was shadowing the carrier USS Kitty Hawk? It supposedly stalked the ship and her escorts and came within firing distance without being detected, then surfaced to reveal herself. Brilliant, eh? And some people think that China is not a threat. I won't name him, but he might be an Admiral named Fallon. Then this person goes ahead and says we need better military to military relations so this doesn't happen again. Well, it's a brilliant idea given that we've had military exchanges with China before. They've been so successful that we've allowed the Chinese access to some of our most sensitive sites, and they've reciprocated. Wait…no, no they haven't. We've been given access to virtually nothing. They only want to be our friends, right? There's some serious optimism going on in our gov't sometimes. I will say it when no one else will: China is a threat. They want to be a threat. They want to challenge our hegemony. Period. Deal with it. This incident is an embarrassment, but necessary to wake people up. Hopefully they do.

Today's Morning Coffee sure does have a negatively sarcastic bent to it.

Word of the Day: Gauche (adjective): Lacking social polish; tactless; awkward; clumsy.
On This Day in History: Northern Alliance fighters take control of Kabul, Afghanistan from the Taliban (with a lot of US airpower assistance) (2001).

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds." - Robert Oppenheimer, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion, which he had a hand in creating. Can someone tell me from where this quote originates? No Google searching either you cheating bastards. Winner gets a by name mention in tomorrow's MC. I know my little contests are so popular - turnout is less than US election days.

Until tomorrow.