"Jordan is on fire!"

There was a more innocent time when hearing that phrase meant Marv Albert was calling a Bulls game.

The "Egyptian Kohlmeni", Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, has arrived in Cairo. He's a fundamentalist of the first order. Helped to found the Muslim Brotherhood, still serves as their "spiritual leader." Espouses admiration for the Holocaust, has publicly prayed for Allah to grant him the strength to kill all the Jews ("from my wheelchair" - his words), and suggests men strike women as a means of marriage counseling. Nice guy, huh? He's also considered the 9th most influential man in Islam. He has an estimated following of 60 million people throughout the Muslim world, and 250,000 (& counting, as I write this) have gathered in the famed Tahir Square in Cairo to hear his big return speech/rally when he leads Friday prayers today. Hmmm. Who else has Friday afternoon rallies in that neighborhood?

I'm telling you, this looks, smells, walks, talks, and acts like the Iranian moment.

In addition, Baharain (where our 5th Fleet is stationed), Yemen, Lybia and Jordan are all on fire with protests, clashes with police, the military on the streets, etc. People dead, injured, arrested. And rumors of Saudi Arabia going next abound.

Simultaneously Wisconsin union protesters, in the tens of thousands, are swarming the state capitol. Their Democrat law makers are being hounded by State Troopers, bent on returning the fleeing legislators who took refuge, to avoid a roll call and vote on the cuts, in Illinois. The protests have spread to Ohio now. Each of these states with new governors elected on the promise of fiscal responsibility are seeing near riots. The US House today is voting to defund Obamacare and every last Obama Czar. What happens when these cuts, state and federal, are attempted in places like Oakland? Detroit? Atalanta? Las Vegas? Our new governor's proposed cuts make Winsconsin's 12% look like peanuts, I assure you (he's awesome!). Nearly every state in the union is on the edge of the fiscal abyss. And the cuts are coming because tax hikes (which wouldn't work anyway) are unthinkable in this quasi-recession, at least to politicians looking to get reelected (which encompasses all of them, save Joe Lieberman).

But I'm sure these groups taking to the streets virtually simultaneously - the activist "burn it all down, give us social justice, string up Clearence Thomas" Left, and the Islamist rioters is pure coincidence. They don't have a traditional common foe do they? I'm sure Israelis and capitalist-Westerners have nothing to fear in the fact that these groups seem to be "rising up" at the same time ...