Just a bit overwhelmed with Spring duties on the farm. Not Spring where you are? It is here in the Southland... or nearly so.
More on the homestead later.
Events in the MENA are careening where they will, with no shortage of propaganda being planted in the MSM (remember Jeffers Media Theory: No story makes its way into America's media bottleneck that has not been paid for and planted by a very powerful special interest group). Since Al Queda has been impotent for nigh on a decade (and it only cost us a couple HUNDRED BILLION $ per year), and they are being swept aside by the tides of history, those that benefit from America's humungous war machine needs a new Boogey Man ("BM", perhaps for bowel movement), and we seem to have found our BM, at least for now, in Iran. Aside from Iran's attempt at a nuclear threat, which is very real and must be addressed (even a pacifist like me sees a problem with that bunch of loonies having a bomb lying around) I have absolutely no fear of Iran's Revolutionary Guards taking the beach near my Florida home. Not even a little bit.
Like it or not, democracy is spreading to the MENA AND China. Its coming to a city near you. The U.S. doesn't have to lift a finger (although it will, but that will likely do more harm than good). Problem is, it DOES mean the end of 2 figure Oil. The PEOPLE (remember THEM?) of the MENA know that they have not benefitted whatsoever as these regimes squandered their precious resources to keep the ROW happy (and the bribes and tributes coming).
Of course, some of these nations will go through some terrible stuff to get where they are going. Believe you me, not a single person in the Special Interest Groups gives a good fart about the suffering of The People of the MENA... anything they have to say is a manipulative effort to further their own interests. But say it they will. This will needs be sorted out by The People, and I completely reject the idea of Americans shedding any blood in the process (or helping anybody else shed theirs).
The tidal wave builds, and nothing can stop it. The regimes in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Nigeria, et al, have all got a laser gunsight covering them. They will not survive for long.
(Speaking of Saudi Arabia.... an unidentified source said they flipped a switch and made up for the 1 million BPD in Libyan light Sweet! LMAO!! ROFL!! LOL!! Oh, my goodness... get a grip. IF, and its a big IF, KSA has that kind of shut in (and boy are we about to find out the TRUTH about all such claims) that they can flip a switch on it most certainly is not light and sweet, and it most certainly has not made its way to the markets. Please think of the shipping logistics. I am getting peptic just writing this... the level of unhanded disinformation is just outrageous.)
We here in the U.S., and the rest of Oil importing West, are back on borrowed time. The Mother of ALL oil shocks is on its way, as the Mother of ALL political shocks is coming to Saudi Arabia.