My baby's got a secret (Part 792)...

 Secret Saturdays

Today, in honor of Queen Elizabeth (RIP), we have Secrets And Royalty.

POLT

If I were a hero, I'd be Martin Luther (Part 2307)...

 Superhero Anydays

I was laying here on the sofa, before my fever broke, just kinda staring off into space, as you do, and I got to think about Queen Elizbeth passing.  And then, somehow, my mind when to comic books and all the royally named characters in the Legion of Super-Heroes.

The Good: 

(Actual Legion members)

Chemical King

Princess Projectra

(And member of the Legion Academy and later the Legion of Substitute Heroes)

Comet Queen

And the Bad: 

(member of the Fatal Five and Legion Of Super-Villains)

The Emerald Empress

(member of the Legion Of Super-Villains) 

Sun Emperor

(And he who is the leader of his own villainous super-team)

Prince Evillo

I also got to thinking about actual royalty in comic books.

Aquaman, King of Atlantis

Black Bolt, King of the Inhumans

Black Panther, King of Wakanda

County Vertigo, ruler of Vlatava

Queen Lilandra, of the alien race Shi'Ar

Wonder Woman, Princess of Themiscyra

Not really sure what this has to do with anything, really.  But hey, here it is.

POLT

 

 

The queen is dead, long live the king.

RIP QEII

POLT

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 3357)...

 Check This Out!

POLT

Get ready kids.

Just got this notification on my phone from The Washington Post: "tRump Adminstration announces sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil company to try to force President Maduro to step down."

This will not, in fact, get Presdient Maduro to step down.  What it WILL do is cause the Venezuelan oil company to retaliate....which if I were in charge of it, would be to cut off all oil shipments coming to the USA.  Less oil coming in means less oil out there and lack of supply means the greedy bastards in charge of the oil companies can jack the prices up.

And Venezuela is part of OPEC, so should the other OPEC companies decide to support their fellow member, that means even less oil coming in and even higher prices at the pump.  (unless of course tRump's nose being so far up Saudi Arabia's ass that he can see their tonsils might mean the Saudis don't go along with this. But certainly Iran has no reason NOT to join with them)  (and of course there's also the possibility the oil company execs don't want the American people to get any madder at tRump, so they may not raise them like they usually do).

The way to actually handle this situation would have been for the USA to join with our allies: Canada, Europe, Japan, etc, and have ALL of us impose sanctions.  That would seriously hurt Venezuela and may lead to a change in leadership.

But I'll also say, I don't believe for a SECOND tRump cares about Venezuela.  In fact I'm pretty certain he couldn't find it on a map (and I KNOW a majority of his supporters could not do so!).  But what tRump DOES care about is the arrest of Roger Stone and his humiliating cave to Nancy Pelosi over the shutdown.

And so, what better way to distract from all his problems here at home?  A war with Venezuela!  Sure!  That'll do it. Everyone will rally round the flag AND him, so he thinks, and they'll forget about Roger Stone and tRump cave.  Or at least that's what his supporters are telling him.

But who am I?  What do I know?  I've been wrong before.  

However I will add, if I hadn't just filled up my gas tank on Saturday for $2.25 a gallon, I'd definitely be  doing it today....before it reaches $3.25 a gallon again or higher.

POLT

Proclamation of defense, the outrage....

I've seen, through social media, how so many people are angry, enraged and disgusted at what going on in Baltimore.  And as well they should.  We all should be outraged at a group of people breaking windows and taking things that aren't theirs.

I just have to wonder, where is there outrage about another group of people breaking a human being's spine and taking his life as a result?  Especially when that group is supposed to protect and serve us.

I dont say this as a reason or excuse for the rioting.  I say it because it astounds me that there could be more outrage over broken windows, burned buildings and looting stores than over a broken spine, denial of medical care and death of a man in police custody.

One does not justify the other.  Unfortunately, I think one will only exacerbate the other. 

POLT