Ah the good old days, when nothing other than Isreal (is it real, you have to ask) and the planetariums were fighting over a big pile of mud and concrete walls dominated the news when it came to the Middle East, aside from that other “stuff” in Afghanistan and Iraq, but that’s yesterday’s news granddad.

Now we’re looking at the third of many countries all carrying on what started in Tunisia and Egypt, albeit now with ever increasing human cost.

Half-melted wicked witch Colonel Sanders, sorry Gaddafi was seen this week on the news, while dressed like a Jamaican woman about to cook some gumbo in a 1980’s TV advert, basically blaming everything he could think as to why these silly people were rebelling against his wonderful regime of killing anyone who says “Hang on a moment, are you doing the right thing here chief?” and committing terrorism acts long before we had heard of Osama Bin Lid.

On the list of reasons why it had all gone to pot, he came up with;

al-Qa’ida

Drugs

World leaders

the news

teddy bears

the parents

women’s periods

and probably everything else as let’s be fair who actually had the stamina to watch the entire thing?

It’s actually not surprising that given the recent developments in the Middle East, that some people were not going to go quietly to their summer beach home in Miami and instead remain defiant to the last, in this case taking as many people with them as possible.

It’s something that’s been universally condemned by all, and the UN today imposed sanctions on the Gaddafi regime, most notable an arms trade ban, and to tell him that some people are going to come along to see if they had all been naughty boys for killing people.

Hadn’t this been tried with Iraq before and others and it failed miserably, you may ask? Well….yes. For all purposes, every time the UN stood and said something, the person on the end of their unified telling-off just farted, laughed and then vomited on their shoes before going back to doing everything they did before.

However there is a difference here, and the fact is, some of the people themselves are leading the charge on the ground, with the centre of the town of Zawiya captured by anti-Gaddafi (a phrase which cannot be said 5 times fast) forces, and attempts are being made to form an anti-Gaddafi (nope, still can’t say it 5 times fast) administration in the city of Benghazi. But given the fact that they are surrounded by the Colonel’s secret recipe, sorry army, it’s not as certain to remain that way.

Oh and everyone got annoyed that foreign nationals weren’t flown out as quickly as they should. Well come on, who saw all this coming and let’s be fair; a plane developed a technical fault. Bollocks to that, even if it had one engine and half a wing stuck together with blu-tack, it should still have left on time to save all those people!

Back to the Muppet show and it is worrying however that the last stronghold of a bloke who is firing on all double-barrelled cylinders (just not mentally), who has a face like Michael Jackson after he died and whose transportation is a golf-cart, has on the streets of the capital, a legion of freelancers all eager to kill for cash, and least we forget; Gaddafi’s Angels.

Yes, taking his cue from Charlie back in the 70s of having women crime-fighters, but throwing out the crime bit of course, Col Gaddafi has a entourage of women warriors that any self-respecting rap star would be jealous of. Bizzarely if the news were to ever broadcast any of them fighting for a given length of time, the visitor rate to Redtube would drop to 0.

Mind you half the time right now, given what the media are showing us, you’re not sure what to believe. It seems that the majority of the country still loves Colonel Gaddafi, and if it wasn’t the fact that people were dying over there, you would be forgiven for thinking this was all one big joke. Another speech made by the big joker, he was asking people to sing and dance and be ready. For what? Playing Rock Band? If it was to be a big Karaoke fest, you could understand why thousands of people were trying to flee the country.

For us simple folk, it’s been very hard to continue following the events as they unfold as basically the whoosh sound machine at Sky News has been entering meltdown at the fact that events are changing all the time. You could swear that the producer had to improvise the whoosh himself on occasion.

So the question we are left with right now is: Whose Libya is it anyway? Regretfully it seems to be an answer left open until something dramatic happens, and more blood is shed.