Steve Breen for August 08, 2020

Which brings us back to yesterday’s Breen comic. That’s exactly why the US resembles Beirut so closely these days.

Texas City 2.0 – ammonium nitrate is NOT something to be handled with indifference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

Could have been in Texas just as easily, “we don’t need no stinking regulations”.

Could very well put U.S.A in place of Beiroot.

That tree will look nice in the Rose Garden. Just don’t water it. It’s going to be removed soon.

I’m really not sure the United States should criticize too much about another country’s incompetence and corruption. That old “people who live in glass houses” adage comes to mind.

In Lebanon’s defense.. probably hard to run a country when it is under continuous attack.. so corruption and incompetence probably go with the territory.. So.. what’s Americas excuse for its incompetence and corruption?

We should start to deal with our own corruption and incompetence by voting out Trump and his cult in November.

When I was a kid my family visited Lebanon on holiday. At that time it was the jewel of the Middle East and Beirut was a beautiful modern city governed by a secular system whereby religious freedom was available to all even though most were Christian. But then Jihad came to destroy this gem with forests of Cedar and Hell came with them. Very few cedars are left now and strife has ruled ever since. Despite my statement, I am not religious and do not hold any ill will towards those who are. These are simply the facts to illustrate how everything can come apart when religion becomes involved in politics as has happened with the Israelis’, Hezbollah and every other religious entity involved in Lebanon’s downfall. It is the prime reason our own forefathers strove to keep religion out of our government as they understood how people can be enslaved to it. We need to be vigilant to the encroachments being made by Radical Evangelicals and the Catholic Church into our own governments and keep our people free. After all you have seen what can happen as in my own State of Kansas back when they took control of our Dept. of Education and brought religion into our science classes. We’re still the laughingstock of the world for that one.

I think the flag represents the cedar tree of Lebanon. Lebanon, believe it or not, used to be heavily forested. However, the fleets of Phoenicia were made from the cedars of Lebanon, climate changed and the forests are essentially gone. In some political cartoons, the tree has been replaced by the “mushroom” cloud of the explosion. The horrible accident demonstrating, once again, (if the current U.S. hodge-podge pandemic policy is not proof enough) that you don’t need a war or evil people to ruin a country. Incompetence can be quite sufficient.

And that’s the road Trump and his enablers/handlers have put us on.

Sounds pretty much like the current American administration!

an extremely war torn, poor country, used as a pawn between the Russians, Iranians, and the West…that no one has tried to sincerely help since the 1960’s…and you choose to hit them now with your rhetoric… classless !

Do a google on Texas industrial disasters, they fill a book. Always an investigation, always nice words, always business as usual.

kind of like trump’s handling of Corvid 19

STUPIDITY brings its own rewards. The ORANGE TOAD and the Repulsican Crime Cult have been making a living from it.