Thoughts Out Of Season

  For some apparent reason the United States appears hell bent on provoking Russia into invading Ukraine. The White House has been incessantly beating the war drums for more than a month now. True, Putin has amassed an incredible number of soldiers and artillery on 3 sides of Ukraine's border but this appears more of a head-fake by Putin to draw the United States and its NATO allies into a position "put up or shut up" when it comes to Ukrainian sovereignty. For some reason NATO and the US in particular have a pressing need for war to break out in the region, whether to draw attention away from our bumbling president or to garner more dinero for the huge military- industrial complex. As of right now my opinion is that whether there's war or not it is the United States, particularly its babbling President who will end up holding the dirty side of the stick as far as history is concerned

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now says that he is deeply "saddened" by his country's downing of a Russian fighter plane that entered Turkey's airspace, zipping around for 17 long seconds several days ago. This is in contrast to the statement he made approximately 17 hours ago warning Russia " not to play with fire" by interfering in Syria's civil war. According to unnamed insiders from the Turkish government Mr. Erdoban awoke just a few hours ago with a terrible hangover. Staff advised him of the comments he had made before passing out at a Hooka Bar in downtown Istanbul. Mr. Edrogen's response was "I SAID WHAT!!!!!" "Are you f--king kidding me!". Turkey's President then chased down the first journalist he could find and begged him to report of his "sadness" regarding the downed Russian plane. The reporter tried to explain to the President that he worked for the satirical newspaper The Onion. Erdoge...