Kafranbel in Syria

I am not sure mixing a Jim Carrey inspired (from the Mask) face on Uncle Sam is going to win these Syrian free fighters any support. And what is KaFranbel anyway?

anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a caricature placard during a demonstration, at Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province, northern Syria,

Anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a kafranbel caricature placard during a demonstration, at Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province, northern Syria.

Are they saying American support is good or bad? I think they are critical of us, no?

A Sunni Gunman in Tripoli

American products pop in the darndest places. Like in the hands of anti-regimists fighting in the Middle East:

Sunni Gunman in Tripoli

Sunni gunman fires his weapon during a clashes, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sunday May 13, 2012. Gunfire broke out in the city Saturday and continued through the night primarily between a neighborhood populated by Sunni Muslims who hate Syrian President Bashar Assad and another area with many Assad backers from his Alawite sect. Lebanon’s national news agency NNA said one soldier was shot dead by a sniper in the city early Sunday. Another man was found dead on the side of a road while a third died after a shell landed in a residential neighborhood.

I just hope they remember who gifted them the weapons. Or not. . .

Chewbacca’s Second-Cousin Shawabka Pulls Gun on TV

Brace for shock Star Wars fans. Your favorite wooly mammoth, Chewbacca is havin’ family problems. I’m sure it is no surprise, Mohammed Shawabka, his second-cousin (once removed) is acting up again:

A Jordanian member of parliament pulled a gun on a political activist during a furious debate live on Jordanian TV on Friday.

The MP, named in a YouTube clip of the confrontation as Mohammed Shawabka, was debating a political activist named in the clip as Mansour Sayf al-Din Murad, discussing aspects of Jordanian politics including attitudes surrounding the uprising in Syria.

Click on the Mohammed Shawabka hyperlink. You will laugh, you will cry.