and then it gets bad again

So this will by my final political post before the trip to Bonfil, but I had to touch on this (and if I get news, and if this situation boils, I might take a moment. So now there are American Naval Vessels in the Red Sea to back up Israel in the coming week when the Iranian 'aid' ships come in.
This scares me, I wonder why these people want war? Why are Iran and Lebanon attempting to provoke Israel (and the US) into a war they will lose? Keep in mind that Israel is undefeated in its wars against the Arab states that would like to see the Jews returned to Germany and Poland.
If this boils over, it might get very ugly, very quickly, our President is very much in the market for a distraction from the debacle in the Gulf of Mexico.

Trip to Mexico

Heading to Bonfil, Mexico next week to finish a church that was started by the congregation of our church here in PA. The church also supports an orphanage so we will be spending time with the children, hopefully imparting a small sense of our lives while we grow and learn from them. The blessings we take for granted (just the ability to post political screeds on a blog) are things these children may never have and at the same time, the blessings we will be introduced to may open our eyes to a more enlightened life.

I will do my best to post at least every other day, if not every day, what I have seen, felt, and learned. Stop in and check it out.

Whew

Dodged a big one...

Nouraee said that the ships would sail without protective security because the Iranians “do not want to fight", however he emphasized that "we are willing to become martyred in this way.”

According to IRNA, a senior official of the the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, Deputy Commander Hossein Salami, has said that escorting the two cargo ships "was not on the guards agenda."

Some sense in the world. Of course, the martyr talk in the article might mean that the crew of the vessels will be armed, making boarding harder. These ships might have to be sunk from afar...what will that do to the region?

Okay, Iran is worse

Below I wrote that Iran scares me almost as much as North Korea...I should have stayed away from DebkaFile. This article, if it plays out, could mean very bad things.
For instance:

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured Turkish leaders whom he met in Istanbul Tuesday, Jan. 8 that the vessels due to enter the disputed waters within days will not shrink from a head-on clash with Israel's Navy and Air Force exclusion forces. "We'll breach the Gaza blockade," the Iranian president vowed. The Iranian Red Crescent vessels will carry "volunteer marines" of the Revolutionary Guards "who will teach the Israelis a lesson."

Not a good thing, then the nut goes on to say that this will be the beginning of the end of Israel. This is scheduled to go down next week, I can only hope that it is more posturing by an idiot.

I have seen this before

A few years ago, I think 4, I read "Countdown to Terror", an expose by then Congressman Curt Weldon. In it, Mr. Weldon (full disclosure, I have met and cooked for Curt, while discussing this book)insinuates that Osama Bin Laden is in Iran, has been for years. Now, DebkaFile says so too. I have no idea how valid the source is, however, it seems to be decent.

Iran scares me almost as much as the North Koreans.

This is pretty good...

Helen Thomas....

Look, we all know she's a left wing shill, she has been for years...the left was proud to own her all those years too, now, well, they are scrambling. Back to Germany and Poland? The left like to point out the racism at the tea party rallies, and so do I, that stuff sucks, but the left never admits that most pro-Palestinians are left wingers, and most of those are rabidly anti-Semitic. Now, before y'all freak out, I did not call most left wingers anti-Semitic (I'm not like a leftist that paints all republicans as racist), I said the majority of pro-Palestinian activists are anti-Semitic. The truth of the matter is that the is plenty of food in Gaza and the blockade would be lifted if the terrorists stopped lobbing missile and sending suicide bombers to kill civilians.

I have posted before about intellectual honesty, and I guess as long as left wingers continue to excuse this type of behavior I will have to keep pointing it out.