Commonly known as The Ivory Coast in West Africa, the former French colony has been embroiled in an unheralded and unreported battle for power ever since the country elected a democratic leader, Alassane Ouattara, last November; strongman Laurent Gbagbo has refused to step down despite United Nations sanctions. Fighters trying to topple Gbagbo had succeeded in taking nearly the entire countryside in just three days last week, but they faltered once they reached the country's largest city, where the presidential palace and residence are located. He’s now rumored to be holed up in a bunker and under siege.
COMMENTS:
I never knew there was a war going on there, either. I never knew they had a leadership struggle. I guess tidbits like this get easily lost in the more important news of the day, such as Obama’s reelection campaign. But, there are U.N and French forces on the ground there. Hmmm… I wonder if we are there, too?
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. Wow! The news on FOX yesterday that Southwest Airlines has its maintenance done in El Salvador is astonishing. (Clyde ~ Little Rock, AR)
A. Sometimes I think that I am the only one on the face of the earth, including FOX, who pays attention to the news. It was over the weekend when FOX had a guy on a morning show who said that Southwest has its maintenance done in El Salvador. Now, several days later and after another network carried it, FOX suddenly “discovers” this “astonishing” news. Yes, it’s another one of those situations where the unions got their pay and benefits up so high that the airlines, and Southwest is not the only one, have been forced to go offshore to get their maintenance done.
Q. Holder sure tore Congress and Military Tribunals a new asshole when he announced that the terrorist trials will be in GITMO after all. (Lanny ~ El Cajon, CA)
A. That would make you think he might sabotage the trials, wouldn’t it? He should be removed from office, immediately. We can’t trust him any more than we trust Obama.
Q. The Democrats are trying to blame the Republicans for the imminent shutdown of government over the budget. They had a meeting yesterday with the President and Boehner came out and said that the Republicans will NOT be pushed into caving in. What in the hell are the Demos trying to do, anyway? (Mary ~ Santa Fe, NM)
A. Instead of listening to the American people and the demand for reduced spending, they are playing politics with the issue. If they don’t come to the table in an honest effort to get a new and good budget for this year, and if they continue to play their politics over $61 billion in cuts, they are going to pay the price in 2012. The plain fact is that $61 billion is less than one tenth of one percent of the $14 trillion in debt we have; it’s not even chump change. This farce is just one more in a litany of examples of their intent to ignore the American will.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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