So I caught a bit of the Rush Limbaugh show. I'm not sure what he was trying to do, but he was all over Obama for killing defenseless, teen aged, black Muslims. He may have been trying to speak to the liberals out there and raise their ire. If that was his plan, he has to figure out that most liberals don't listen to him, or believe him. It may have been satirical, and what's funnier than shooting pirates. Just ask Yosemite Sam.
I'm pretty sure the conservatives were really bummed that the rescue of Captain Phillips worked out so well. You know they were hoping for something to go wrong, so they could blame the Obama administration. The way they jumped on Clinton for Somalia (though HW put the troops there) or for Bosnia, but curiously not W for Iraq. Or the way they jumped on Carter for the failed hostage rescue.
Which got me wondering. If a gust of wind, or a large wave had occurred just as the Seals fired, Captain Phillips would be dead and the pirates would be alive. This surely would have pleased Rush, not that he truly cares about the teen aged black Muslims, but then he could go on for weeks about Obama's lack of military service, his incompetence, etc.
Then I wondered about the haboob in April of 1980. How things have might have been different if the wind had died down. A haboob is a desert sandstorm. The one I am referring to happened as the US military was attempting to rescue the hostages in Iran.
Had that mission been successful, Ted Kennedy doesn't run against Carter in the primaries, and a much stronger politically Carter defeats Ronald Reagan. The conservative movement no longer has its storied leader, and the whole world is completely different. Our deficit situation would no longer exist, and Rush Limbaugh would still be spinning disks in St. Louis, though by now he would have been replaced by the Ryan Seacrest show.
I don't know who is pulling the weather strings upstairs, but whoever it is has an odd sense of humor.
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