Wow Don, I find you to usually be a quite enjoyable poster, even when I strongly disagree with you, but like, wow... These two topics you just opened are kind of disturbing.

1 - Obama has to respect the tradition, whether it is with the Queen of Britain (England?) or with the King of Saudi Arabia. Remember the outrage in UK when Obama's wife touched the Queen? I'm pretty sure the POTUS doesn't want to cause something like that in the arab world.

2 - The pirate thingy. Well, do you like plan to blow up Somalia? These people are pirating because they don't have anything else to do. I'm not saying you should not defend your sailors, as you obviously should, but behaving like the pirates are flesh-eating barbarians isn't going to lead you anywhere.

3 - Are you assimilating transexuals to sexual predators?