Great Satan's Airline, On Orlando Aftermath

Our new BFF's, our endearing old enemy, Iran, has a deal in the works to buy new passenger planes from Boeing aircraft. This is a deal worth billions of dollars, before the discount we give to countries that also buy munitions from  us... ohh grumpy old man, don't go there!

Of course, several anti-Iranian groups are against this deal, but then they also don't want Russia or France to win it, so they are left to say bad things about "the Obama administration" to the press. Airbus recently concluded a deal for 118 airplanes, and this deal is for about 100.

The president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, is up for election next year. If he can prove that successful interaction with the west is beneficial to the Iranian economy, then he might get re-elected, and his moderate policies validated. Just like in every country that used to have extreme right-wing cranks in charge, those Iranian right-wing cranks are just waiting for the tiniest of slip-ups before sending his ass into high security prison. How much more fun growing up in this kind of atmosphere and the psychological scars it leaves on its young citizens...

• An interesting note in the media coverage of the aftermath of the Orlando shooting. The Angry Arab reports that most official news outlets in the middle east have stopped referring to homosexuals as "sexual deviants," except for Turkey's presidential news outlet. Here in the US, we have been treated to sermons from preachers saying that it's too bad that all of the patrons weren't shot... Just think what the difference might have been if we had a system of counseling, so that conflicted individuals can go for counseling and learn to confront and accept the turmoil going on inside of them. I was going to apply that analogy to folks who make war, but you can't fix stupid...

• I'd like to see all of the clients of the Panama papers, and those who set up dummy and shell corporations outside of their respective countries, have their money confiscated and used to provide food and shelter for our poorer brethren and sisters. Most of that money came from ripping off those poor folks, so why not give it back and provide basic necessities? Lord knows, most of South America could use the help... Instead of billions donated anonymously to political PAC funds, have the Koch brothers and Sheldon Addelson help rebuild our ghettos...