The Middle East etc

Damnit Peter Cetera.

Anyways, I was planning a post about all the crazy riots/uprisings/revolutions occurring across North Africa and Southwest Asia, and then, well, Libya happened, which just had to show up all the other ones.

Pro-, anti-govt supporters clash at Tehran funeral - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - Iran - msnbc.com
Libya awaits 'day of rage' rallies after rare clashes - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com 
Protests spread across Yemen, demonstrator dies - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com

Obviously this was all post-Egypt.

But yeah, things got really crazy over the weekend.

Report: Libya fighter jets attack protesters - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com

Yeah, shit is gonna get real serious in Libya real soon.

Fun fact, Gaddafi has been in power since like 1969 or something.

As there are clearly two+ sides to every story, I found it particularly amusing that NBC News ran a story about how all the trouble in the middle east was raising gas prices, and that is why everyone should settle down.
A) It really only postpones any issues that are going on there.  All of this stuff has to be resolved, and be resolved fully.
B)Gas price stories are such fluff pieces.  They don't even mean anything anymore.
C)The price of crude oil only makes up like half of what we pay at the pump.
D)Is big oil supporting both NBC and the dictatorships in the Muslim sphere?
E)That's something I'd expect more of Foxnews, but I don't watch a lot of that.
F)I should stop listing things in this letter format.
G)Seriously, I think I'm done here.

Seriously

-- Knuttel