The Price is Right

Hey Iran, C'mon down! Yer the next lucky contestant to be 'Democratized'.

Been musing and muttering, to myself as usual, what the "Oktoberfest" surprise might be. Foley, aka "Bootygate" ain't it. As oil prices sludge back to a more 'managable' $55-60/bbl, and everyone gets cozy 'round the fire/gas forced air heater or hot-tub, as is the preference around the skunqshack (Hey man, soak 'em if ya got 'em) it's been occuring to some that such 'managability' ie comfying of America, is the very cusion needed to help the US accept a war with Iran. A nice fluffy pillow of cheap gas to keep our collective butts from whining, so while hell on earth breaks loose in the Mid East, we can all just kick back in our SUVs, safe again in the knowledge that it won't hurt the pocket book so bad.

eesh. I hate being so cynical but it makes a bit of sense to my mind.

So while all things being equal - I don't believe the slide in prices was anything but market forces/production at work - the oppurtune oppurtunity to fire up the war machine for another big dig into the quagmire is just months, or weeks away - veritabley dangling in front of the war pigz noses. Perhaps October will be filled with nothing but the lovely distractions of Gnarly Old Pederasts chasing illicit young tail, and other GOP induced culture war distractions. But there are many reasons to believe another "Winter of the Long Hot Summer" is comin down the pike.
Strike, while the iron's hot - gas is cheap, and America comfortabley turns another blind eye to the "Perpetual War on Everything"

Update:
So N. Korea is prolly going down as the Oktoberfestival of Spooky Monsters to scare Mr. and Mrs. J Q Wonderbread back into scared supine dupes. Kimmy Jong farts, and everybody jumps out the windows. It sure wasn't an SBD WMD. What's that old saying?
"Who smelt it, dealt it... "