Meanwhile, Back to Our Show... As the World Burns

There was a story on the front-page of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about how people put pictures of their pets on their smart phones.   Big spread, full color picture.   I guess the editors know what America wants.  

Meanwhile, there's this story from the New York Times:

Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the most significant step yet in the religious movement’s rise since the start of the Arab Spring.

 

The party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, appeared to have taken about 40 percent of the vote, as expected. But a big surprise was the strong showing of ultraconservative Islamists, called Salafis, many of whom see most popular entertainment as sinful and reject women’s participation in voting or public life.

 

Analysts in the state-run news media said early returns indicated that Salafi groups could take as much as a quarter of the vote, giving the two groups of Islamists combined control of nearly 65 percent of the parliamentary seats.

That victory came at the expense of the liberal parties and youth activists who set off the revolution, affirming their fears that they would be unable to compete with Islamists who emerged from the Mubarak years organized and with an established following.

Remember the "Arab Spring"?   It's turning into the Islamist Winter.   And our Commander in Chief is playing golf while automatic cuts in defense spending are looming because of the failure of the Super Committee.