Brief Queefs

I don’t know about you, but looking back at the week’s headlines across the world is more than a tad disconcerting. In the States, God and Mother Nature joined hands to smash the Midwest into smithereens with astounding tornadoes, hail as large as baseballs, leaving so much destruction behind that days later people continue to seek survivors and the deceased in the rubble.

In Iceland, a volcano has been erupting, disrupting air traffic and freaking me out a bit. Last weekend I made several changes to the slideshow at the top of the blog. In the area where pictures of natural disasters are placed, there had always been a smoldering vision of a volcano to set the scene. When editing, I decided to remove it because despite all of the havoc of the year, a major volcanic incident had not occurred.

Within hours of the pic’s removal, Iceland became hot-land. Now, of course, I have a creepy feeling that if I remove the Fukushima nuclear reactor picture another nuclear plant will begin a meltdown somewhere. That’s a joke, of course, but I'm not going to flirt with a fickle God and a cranky Mother Nature – just to be safe, if there is such a thing anywhere these days.

I’ve already listed the rolling heads of countries and the final exits of media icons in another post, thus I’ll skip over all of that madness to comment on how American presidents, no matter how savvy, manage to fail miserably with Royal protocol whenever Queen Elizabeth deigns to meet with them.

This time it was President Obama’s turn to prove once more how ignorant U.S. leaders can be on stuffy details by daring to touch the toasting glass before the Queen touched hers at the state dinner, then speaking while the UK National Anthem was playing. Of all of our presidents, I thought he would know better.

I mean, c’mon, Barack! The lady gave you a 41-gun salute and you couldn’t wait for her to make the first move at the dining table? And then you continued to talk over the music? Tut-tut! Thank heavens the Queen has been through these silly blunders in the past to simply point her “You have been a bad boy” steely eyes into his for him to know he did something velly-velly impolite!

But then, we should forgive Obama for the blunder. He has a great deal on his mental plate, whereas the Queen simply has to keep her family in line and Prince Philip from falling asleep at ceremonies.

Well, I could write more but it’s Friday here in the USA and most are readying for a holiday weekend full of BBQ’s, sports or other activities, and I for one have errands to run.

See you again tomorrow!