Tuesday, November 20, 2012

It's been a while...

It's been a wild and woolly couple of months...hence, the long gap 'tween the last time this blog published and today.

Well, wait no more. It's the return of The Bliss Index!

Let us begin...

More than two months later, and we still haven't heard the truth from the White House...


Meanwhile, in a place called the Middle East...

Remember when Ronald Reagan proposed a missile defense system and was roundly laughed at for his "crazy and unworkable Star Wars ideas?" Yeah, about that. Over in Israel, its "Iron Dome" anti-missile system is knocking out about 90 percent of all rockets fired at its civilian populations. Not too bad. Pretty, pretty, pretty good....  



I'm crossing that Porsche off my Christmas list. No, I want this baby -- below -- from Israel (which seems to be doing its job just fine)...


In case you were wondering: this is Gaza...

And elsewhere...


Our president, practicing more of that "smart diplomacy" he promised...


Picture this! -- Your tax dollars at work!

And finally, some great news to cheer you up: Apparently, 2013 is shaping up to look a lot like 1937. Why is that bad? "In this case, “1937” means a market drop similar to the one after the re-election of another Democratic president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936." So there's that to look forward to...

Bonus: the perfect wrap to any story or bit of blogging on the Middle East: the Clash's 1982 hit, "Rock The Casbah."



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