Houthis are actually Zaidas

I recall hearing quite a bit about how the death toll from Puerto Rico was about ten times what they said it was.  Mostly this was on CNN and NPR,  I'd say both are covering Puerto Rico pretty well.  I'm not sure about the newspapers, when I go through them I skip a lot of stuff I know about already, or if it's a complicated issue I may read closely to catch details I missed when I saw it on tv or heard it on the radio.

I'm surprised the blowup about Roseanne didn't go on longer,  I thought sure Trump was going to jump in with a chance to champion one of his fans and bash the media,  He did jump in on that football thing.  I don't think his little Trump is the Flag rally was televised, but this photo looks like something you would see from one of those old-timey South American dictators. 

Trump's suits are his uniforms, and his hair is his visored hat, but where are his medals?  Why is he not bedecked in shiny metal and bright cloth?  I have to assume he has not yet thought of it.  

There is a strong vocal, opposition to Trump, and it's the democrats, and most of the liberal punditry, and some of the Republican punditry, and a few actual Republican pols who aren't running for anything in the next election, and curiously, John Kasich.  What passes for opposition in the rest of the party is applauding Trump vigorously rather than jumping up and down and slavering at the mouth.

As per my Crucible of Truth belief, I've played devil's advocate with myself by imagining what would happen if Trump had run as a dem,  Well I just can't see him running roughshod over the dems like he did the reps, but what if he was more of a leftist Trump, say like that guy in Venezuela or his successor.  I still don't think so.  Dems talk in longer sentences.

I didn't read all of that Old Dog article, but I scanned through it.  It seemed like his big issue was heath insurance and then there was a nod to broadband.  I've long heard that Europe has much better and cheaper internet than the US.  Lately the reps have tried to do to the internet what they are trying to do with schools where you have one form that rich people can pay for and is pretty good, and another that is free but crappy.  I think we just held them off the pass at that one, but they are sure to be back.

Speaking of health insurance I am thinking of a couple guys I know well, both about 40 and neither one with health insurance.  The one guy owns a carwash, has rental property, and invests in classic cars, has plenty of dough, but never had health insurance.  Then he had a stroke.  His bills are enormous, we taxpayers will probably pay much of them.  The other guy was barely scraping by, Obamacare was made for him, but when the time came he paid the fine rather than buy insurance because that was slightly cheaper and he is an idiot.  He hasn't got sick yet, but if he does, you know where the bill is going.

I think the author is mainly saying that Americans have an aversion to helping out their fellow man.  It used to be we were worried about poverty, oh those poor people what can we do about them?  But those days are long gone.  Republicans, the party that doesn't want socialized medicine and doesn't want to help people have insurance, doesn't mind if people can be slammed into poverty by a medical emergency, because once they are there they are just ground into dust and swept away.  

As Beagles says he didn't cause it and there is nothing he can do about it.  But of course he can get out there and vote down every bill that goes for schools or whatever those no-account  poor people want.

I don't have anything against wiki, I just didn't want to get bogged down in details when I wanted to just present a brief review of Yemen.  I did go back and check afterwards.  I think I did a pretty good job, although, of course, it turned out to be even more complicated that I thought.  Houthi is the name of the leaders of the movement and they are Zaidis, which is a form of Shia which is close to Sunni, probably why the Iranis are not as crazy about them as the Saudis claim they are.

Queen of Sheba though, that is crying out for more research.  Seems like a lot of different countries claim her, and there is speculation about the relationship between her and Solomon.

I hate political correctness, and I decry the tendency of my ilk to toss around charges of racism, but what the fuck is this?  

Sounds like a Muslim name to me.  And you say he's Canadian?  Apparently the US isn't the only country that's being over run by those people.