Now the global economy s chickens may be coming home to roost.

Unfortunately, the chickens of Obama s first term have already come home to roost.

They are often the last birds to roost at night, but appear to sleep soundly, undisturbed by torchlight.

Japanese manufacturers rule the roost in home video games. Pokemon cartoons are broadcast in 65 countries, and Japanese animation is a huge hit with filmmakers and teenagers everywhere.

Seldom do the chickens come home to roost as quickly as they have in recent years an ill conceived war, attempted on the cheap, has not brought peace to the Middle East.

In mid August, I had the temerity to predict that risks had come home to roost, and that a large US investment bank might soon fail or be forced into a highly distressed merger.

But it is no coincidence that Obasanjo removed Okonjo Iweala from a job for which she has proven competence and, more importantly, in which she ruled the roost she had led the opposition from within the government to the constitutional amendment.

One only has to recall the vitriol visited upon Rev. Jeremiah Wright during the last presidential campaign for his now infamous sermon in which he said that, with the attacks, the chickens of US foreign policy had come home to roost.

Now, the costs of the soccer jamboree, coming on top of the country s ongoing economic slowdown, are coming home to roost. Several analysts have concluded that Brazil s bubble has burst, and that the so called country of the future will remain stuck in the present.

We have to ask ourselves, what now? What do we do going forward as a country and as citizens in relationship to the world's worst places, the world's worst suffering, killers, and the kinds of killers that could come home to roost sometime in the future?

Has divorce become such an easy word? asks Saudi Arabian blogger 3abira Sabeel , in this post which discusses how different today's women are from their grandmothers and why young women and men find it easy to dissolve their unions. She sets the tone for her post by describing the scene when our illiterate grandmothers ruled the roost ومن بيت زوجها إلى المقبرة (كما كان يقال فـ ذاك الزمن) ،،