Tension kills older people and we should not have to be exposed to so many things that cause us to tense up.  I am principally referring to our daily dose of the “news”.  Dorothy and I were out-of-town for a few days and spent those days doing something at night other than watching the television set.  Therefore we were not fully aware of the latest world crisis that has every news person fidgeting around like  person in a 40 person line at the stadium toilet bowl.

The Saudis killed an American citizen over in Turkey.  He was a reporter for some newspaper or news magazine.  Apparently this happened two weeks ago when the guy walked into the Saudi consulate and never came out.  The entire world is in a dither about the heinous act on the part of the Saudis.  It kinda pissed me off until I actually did some reading on the subject.

Here is a guy that has been poking a sharp stick in the eye of the Saudi power elite for 10 or 12 years.  He had written extensively about how bad the Saudi government is run and how the government was set up and how it needs to be changed.  This was not something the Saudis were all that fond of.  Then the nut, knowing full well that he is not a favorite , goes over to the consulate and , I guess, knocks on the front door and goes in.  Did he expect to be treated royally?  What he got instead of a royal interview was a royal ass kicking by the consulate “rogue” guards.

Anyone who knows me understands that I am not a big fan of the royals of Saudi Arabia.  They are for the most part a shiftless bunch of mega rich playboys who probably could not run a popcorn concession without help from their allies.  They hire all their manual work done so they can sit around in long white nightgowns and tally up their oil money.  I am all for oil money but you can’t let someone tell the world what to do just because they have a steady check coming in.  They need to be told, in no uncertain terms, that they need to back off doing things that they can’t back up.  If your army, navy and air force couldnt whip the Texas National Guard, you need not be provoking folks.

A little less of this kind of behavior would make less for the media to report on.  They would be about as idle as a bacon salesman in the capital of Saudi Arabia but that would not be all that bad.

Chuy the Statesman