I've Got 269 Medals of Dishonor

Moammar Gadhafi, Arab bigshot, looking a lot more like somebody overdressing for a Halloween party.
I wonder if that uniform cost more to make than my yearly income.
Somebody should tap him on the frilly shoulder and tell him that it's not polite to point, too.

I saw the above pic when I logged onto my mailbox this morning.
I got a kick out of it because the guy looks so silly dressed like that.
That uniform looks like it weighs 50 pounds and his hat looks like it's squashing his eyebrows down.
It really seems like something out of a comedy movie.

Of course, the "news" story attached to the pic was about more protests, shootings, blood, violence, and uncontrolled upheaval by the grassroots people of those Arab countries that are supposedly "protesting for freedom", or some jazz like that.

To me, it's my gut feeling that it's probably more like sneaky insiders who want some kind of change inserting mouthy and violent people on the scene and stirring trouble up, then getting the troops out to mow some unneeded people down and set the tone that this is some kind of really big deal that suddenly popped up all on it's own, and finally get some new form of government regime in there to "solve the problem" and make things all nice.
Democracy, supposedly, although the end solution will just be a way of destroying the old way of living under whatever god those Arabs worship and to instead step up into the 21st century.
You know - getting world bankers involved that simply have to loan serious dough to this new regime to "improve" the country, dough that accrues serious compound interest that will get the Arabs into the mega debt like the USA is now in to those same international bankers.

And, of course, like the British did in the late 1800s to South Africa, these international bankers and their many cronies making mega-bucks a year will gain control (take over) all of those lovely natural resources like the oil fields, minerals, and whatever else is there in the ground that has value.
I mean, if those Arabs are just gonna' stir-up trouble like that and get the troops in there to settle things down, they can't be allowed to just let their resources be managed by the same unruly lot, right?

Sounds like a good time for all.
And all the while, the people in those countries getting taxed like they never had been before, will basically be told that there's no other way to do things.
Yeah, bring on that shit.
You can be sure this mess was hatched years ago in places like the UN.
Only brainy guys like them really know what's best for them.
Oops.
I mean the citizens.

-John