Thorny Roses of Iran

There's something percolating in Iran. The Iranian people aren't going to roll over for this sham election anytime soon. This is a good thing, everyone with half a brain knows the elections there were a sham. The problem the people there have now -is gunplay. Seven people were killed overnight in Iran, The Iranian protesters were trying to enter a military facility and were met with hot lead. This happened while the opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi was leading a march through the streets of Iran, the protesters snaked through the streets for 5 miles, that's a insane amount of people.

The Obama Administration is playing it close to the vest, they don't want to be seen as stoking the fire against the ruling Iranian Government. They are also concerned that Iran will do something spectacular elsewhere, like set off a missile or drop a bomb someplace else in the Middle East to draw the attention of the media off of the story. That's something we would do. I'm sure the CIA is in full create -chaos-in-Iran-mode, to see if they can get the current mullah regime removed. It's interesting how all of this plays out.

Democracies are fragile- people. If you don't nip unrest in the bud, you could find yourself living in a hotel room in France or Somali. It would be a coop for the Obama Administration if they could get these crooks overthrown. This would quiet the Israeli's and the Republicans simultaneously, or until the next media created disaster happens.

Mir Hossein Moussavi wants a whole new elections in Iran, the mullah in charge don't agree they have said that they will do a partial recount. It all seems like smoke and mirrors to quiet the kids in the streets. Short of a new elections, I think what's going on in Iran is going to be going on for a while. President Obama will probably over the next couple of days make more and more provocative statements, calling for new elections and denouncing the current regime, as petty dictators.

The one good thing as come of this; the youth in Iran have made good use of the social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and Myspace to get the story out to the world. You can't hide anything anymore in this world, as long as a person has a phone he or she can go worldwide in minutes, if not seconds, it's a beautiful thing.

Spraying Roses over the next couple of days, I have to get out ahead of the Japanese Beatles. Terrible little bastard, can chew up a rose bush in the blink of an eye. I'm using something made the aspirin maker Bayer. Bayer is leader in pesticides for plants, who knew. I'm interested to see how it works. In the past I have used a product called Savin that worked just fine. This year I'm trying something new because of cost. I'll report how it works. Ciao