This Week Down.

If history has a way of repeating itself, this week was one for the books by the word coming full circle from years ago. In the 1990's Soviet Communism fell throughout eastern Europe. Last decade, Saddam Hussein died in Iraq and Cuba's Fidel Castro turned over power to his brother. This week, former President Mubarak of Egypt resigned. It feels good to say that: former president of Egypt. If you think I'm bad, that guy is downright foul! The people asked him to leave and the stubborn dude said he wouldn't seek reelection. The people started to protest, asking him to leave again. He said he'd turn over some power to his vice president but that he wouldn't leave office. The people began to riot, throwing their shoes like Mubarak's name was Dubya. President Obama even asked Mubarak to clarify what that meant. That's when he finally raised the white flag.
I hadn't seen this kinda country confusion since Russia. In summer 1991 Gorby's soviet strawberry birthmark was overthrown in a coup. He was replaced by Boris Yeltsin, the W.G. Fields of democratic Russia. By that December, the Soviet Union dissolved completely. That last incident made the head of Dubya's dad, former President George H.W. Bush, spin so bad that later he puked on the prime minister of Japan.

Just desserts. Dana Carvey as President George H.W. Bush on Santurday Night Live (1992.)

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Time will only tell what's going to happen next. My prediction is that something will happen, followed by something else that leads to a third thing. Break a leg that they're all productive things happening for the working class which give upper-mobile people a real goosing. It ain't right we suffer for working hard while the lazier than thou collect anywhere from 13 to 30 dollar an hour paychecks pretending to patient but with ulterior motives.
Best friends.
Fisher Stevens and Johnny 5 in Short Circuit 2 (1988.)

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