Hawaii: In The Crosshairs Of Crazies
A friend recently told me of a great The Silence of the Lambs analogy involving Iran and North Korea: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the ever-so-slightly saner Hannibal Lecter (minus the intelligence), whereas Kim Jong-il is the full-on, eat-your-own-faeces crazy Buffalo Bill (plus funky shades).
[Which I guess would leave the United Nations as the guy whose liver Hannibal Ahmadinejad gleefully devoured.]
It was even funner coming, as it did, from a Democrat.
Buffalo Kim is again striving to prove that there is no floor to his infinite well of insanity. His latest world-busting ruse could be, according to the Japanese (via AP), to fire “its most advanced ballistic missile toward Hawaii around Independence Day.”
Hawaii has recently taken a pretty severe beating in my estimation, but I still don’t want to see it turned into a nuclear wasteland. For one thing, LOST hasn’t finished filming the concluding season yet and I’d be pis*sed if I’d watched it this long only to have the ending scuppered by all-out atomic warfare.
Oh, and lots of innocent lives would be lost, too.
President Obama has reigned for a mere four months and just about every member of the world gallery of tinpot dictators has already done something or another belligerent.
And it’ll continue to happen, with rapidly deteriorating outcomes each time, until Barry learns this important lesson (the last two lines of the linked-to post, just to be precise…).
UPDATE: Seeing as the North Koreans name their missiles “Dong”, regular reader and good friend Войска ПВО suggests an alternate title to the post:
“Big Dong Lands in Barry’s Back Yard.”
Just try telling me you didn’t laugh at that.
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June 18th, 2009 at 14:41
The sad part is barry will never learn
June 18th, 2009 at 15:30
These people make Commodus appear suitable for a Norman Rockwell sketch.
If there is any good news, it must be that The One feels right at home; he’s about three bubbles off plumb himself.
June 18th, 2009 at 17:09
Now there’s a news story to take my mind off the Muslims.
June 18th, 2009 at 17:12
lexcen,
Difficult to think of a less PC comment than yours.
And equally difficult to think of a more amusing one, too.
June 18th, 2009 at 20:06
Great analogy.
On LOST, they already set off an atomic bomb on the island so I don’t think a few more from NK will hurt the show’s ending.
And as Rick said, good old Barry will never learn.
June 18th, 2009 at 22:46
I tried watching “Lost” but frankly I was lost. I don’t understand the plot or the goal—reminds me of North Korea, they have a lot in common.
June 19th, 2009 at 11:20
The NORKS call their strategic missile Taepodong-2 or “The Dong” (for short?). Barry, the Alleged Hawaiian is concerned because, if it hits Honolulu, headlines will say, “Big Dong Lands in Barry’s Back Yard”.
Of course, there is also concern that Pajama Boy will launch another missle at San Francisco, causing great concern to everyone in that city except the denizens of The Castro District. Can’t you just picture them all prancining around in their ballerina slippers and tutus, shrieking, “The Big Dong is coming”?
June 19th, 2009 at 11:28
Войска ПВО,
Love it – how had I never made fun of the name “Dong” before?
Great headline too, “Big Dong Lands in Barry’s Back Yard”, will amend the post now…