united arab emirates

Does anyone remember the naysayers of missile defense during the 2000 Presidential campaign (aka Democrats) that did and said everything to inhibit this program.

Oh, my. The pearl clutching from our Media Elite over the resignation of Jim Johnson from the Obama campaign! It’s astounding!

I was terribly cruel and insensitive to the plight of what remains of the Burmese people earlier this week by intimating that Queen Laura should quit begging the Myanmar junta to steal our tax money intended for the poor and needy (as our voracious Imperialist Hegemonic Empire is wont to do).

In a medium-long article about the delayed but still arriving "Arab Spring," Abe Greenwald notes,

[T]he Vatican has confirmed that it’s in negotiations with Saudi Arabia to establish the first Catholic Church inside the Kingdom.

Well, zing!

America's example of democracy in Iraq

KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root) started as a subsidiary of Halliburton, is the biggest war profiteer in Iraq employing 21,000. They have received more than $16 Billion in government contracts, mostly no-bid contracts.

Literally cut: an undersea cable carrying internet traffic to the Middle East has apparently been cut somehow.

Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.

Hi-tech Dubai has