Reports are coming in from Egypt and Libya about attacks against Americans.  One diplomat is dead, another is wounded.  The consulate in Benghazi has been burned, and the embassy in Cairo was stormed, and our flag was ripped down from the pole, torn to shreds, and replaced with the black flag of Islamic terror.  This was all apparently done because of outrage over a movie trailer that’s been shown online and that isn’t exactly complimentary to Islam.

The words you’re looking for are ‘Act of War’.

Where is the joint session of Congress?  Where is the image of the President addressing the country on my TV?  Where are the pictures of Marine guards shooting to defend American soil and the lives of diplomats?

Why in the world are we not leveling portions of both countries as we speak?

My guess as to the reason that significant sections of Cairo and Benghazi aren’t burning brightly enough to be seen from the moon is that our current ‘leader’ doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude necessary to flick these fleas into the fire.  I really shouldn’t be surprised that nothing is happening and that nothing is going to happen.  Obama has made a career out of only being aggressive toward people who didn’t agree with him and who didn’t have the foresight to punch back.  Heaven forfend that he execute one of the duties that is actually spelled out in the Constitution.

I’m sure over the next couple of days we’ll see some “harsh” language from the White House, followed by official condemnation of an American who expressed his God-given right to be an ass, then some bowing and scraping before we’re distracted by the next bright and shining lie.

I’m not looking for another long, drawn out war that acts as a magnet for every psycho with a couple of pounds of dynamite, a box of finishing nails, and a wild look in his eye.  I’m talking about going over there, killing people, breaking stuff, and then bringing Johnny and Janet home  for tea and medals.  Let the Muslim world clean up the mess.  Their inability to bring the man on the street up past the mid 13th century when it comes to manners caused this bloody problem in the first place.

I believe my history professor would have called this “making a desert and calling it peace”.  If they won’t love us for our friendship, let them fear us for our wrath.   Personally, I’ve run out of cheeks to turn.

• From the “Classy” Department – A Las Vegas woman is starting a new small business.  She is making dioramas of murders, which she is calling “die-o-ramas”.  Because there’s nothing a suffering family wants to know than that the moment a part of their life was destroyed has been memorialized by a twit with a hot glue gun.  For those of you keeping count, this is reason 2,123,988,121 that I don’t like humans much.
• From the “Dieter’s Disco” Department – Three people in India were recently arrested after it was discovered that one of them was trying to fly to Delhi with a monkey in his underwear.  For his sake, I’m hoping that the monkey was one of the more gentle varieties.  I also hope that he isn’t put into general population when he goes to prison, because no prisoner wants to be known as the guy with a monkey in his pants.
• From the “Front Toward Enemy” Department – A family in California is fuming after contractors for Wells Fargo broke into their childhood home not once, but twice.  You see, Moe, Larry, and Curly mistook the house, which has never had a mortgage, for a foreclosed property which they were being paid to clean out.  Apparently they didn’t fix the damage they did to the door, since the article says that the property is now littered with beer bottles and bongs from people using the property as a hangout.  If I were this family, I would be investing in punji sticks and a lawyer with a taste for raw meat.
• From the “Doing the Right Thing” Department – I usually have little good to say about the government, especially when it comes to how it spends my tax dollars.  But today I have to pay respect to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which has announced that it recognizes a link between exposure to the dust and smoke of Ground Zero and cancer.  Those who have become ill since working at the rescue, recovery, and cleanup efforts in New York can now apply for aid from a fund set up a few years ago.  It’s not often that the government does the right thing the first time around.
• From the “My Senator, Tiberius Gracchus Paul” Department – Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has announced that he plans to make it hard for the Senate to get work done until his bill to stop foreign aid to Pakistan is voted on.  Senator Paul points to the way which Pakistan is treating the physician who aided the United States in finding Osama bin Laden as his motivation.  I guess my only quibble with Senator Paul on this one is that we shouldn’t need an excuse to cut off Pakistan.