Mea Culpa Again?

A number of the members of the United Antiquities meet at Hanaan's Diner, kvetch and klatsch I call it. The place is called Coffee Clutch and that name is reminescent of klatsch, but unfortunately brings to mind an image of someone undergoing an infarction, which, considering the nature of the food available, might be truly what the name's original signification was. The owners of the convenience store across from Hanaan's were being deported by the US government for irregularities in their method of entry into our fair country. They were Albanians. They were Roman Catholic Albanians and hard workers. Albanians are tough. The Albanian RC Church is the only church I know that has had a shooting in the parking lot. Habeeb told us this bit of news from Homeland Security. We called him Habeeb even though his name was Boutros. Habeeb is "boyfriend" and when we call him this, we actually say "Habeeb" and look at Hanaan and wink lasciviously, thus from afar implying a love that dare not speak its name or address or phone number. O.K. So instead of playing Long Story, Short Story...or Good Cop, Bad Cop, I shall get right down to it. Jacobowski was upset that I said our leaders were the scum of the Earth. He had a point. Perhaps I had been over the top. However, I remember it was about Kosovo. (Kosovo and Albanians...and more Albanians are Muslim than RC. I used to live a few blocks away from an Albanian Mosque. They were a quiet group that unfortunately used everted truck tires for decorative planters, but their presence certainly kept any trouble out of the neighborhood.) And our government recognized its independence with the same type of haste it usually reserves for bombing Muslims. ( there...I am not really going to say that I'm sorry...you may sense it already.) In fact, I do not think Geroge W. Bush has evidenced an equal rush to judgement since he was the Governor of Texas and actively weighing whether clemency should be extended to convicts about to be executed. (Don't worry. It was not extended. Clemency Stayed Home.) So I brought up Kosovo, saying "Why Kosovo?" What was there about Kosovo that merits such attention while everything else around us is climbing into the proverbial wicker hand basket and buying a one way to Hell? Saudi Arabia was what the combined mental powers of the Greybeards came up with, assisted by Hanaan's Knife. She has a way of drawing her meat cutting knife from left to right in front of her when she mentions the Malika Zaiteeya, or Oily Kingdom. It is fairly daunting to view this. I mean, Hanaan gives one the impression that she has a number of scores to settle with Life, starting with that nose business she was dealt, and the knife of Hanaan in action not directly related to cutting meat, but in a more generalized threat of slaughter, gives one pause. Pointing to the newspaper she had been saving, she pointed to an article about how Saudi Arabia was giving money to open schools in Alabanian Kosovo. At this point, it might be well to recall that Albanians are mostly Muslim in the area. So...Saudi financed schools...why does that ring a bell? George W. Bush stumbled over himself in a "Rush to Recognition" as a favor to his old pals, Saudi Arabia. No apology from here. I do believe we are owed one by Bush/Cheney. We shall wait for it: APOLOGY BUSH/CHENEY 2034 !

The Notorious V.I.P. ( Vice Imperial President )