Posted in France, History, Video, War on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I have this story of the time I went to Paris and I tried to find the Bastille only I was actually expecting to find the Bastille itself. I felt very stupid, but I have a friend who did the same thing so clearly it’s not that unusual. The confusion comes from the fact [...]
Posted in Bush Administration, Iraq, Lies, News, Politics, Sex, War on July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I like how Naomi Wolf always takes a subject that the average American may think is far removed from themselves and puts that subject in a context that is recognizable.
I had a sense of déjà vu when I saw the photos that emerged in 2004 from Abu Ghraib prison. Even as the Bush administration was [...]
Posted in Bush, Environment, History, Lies, News, Politics, War on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This story has been well reported, so I don’t expect anyone reading this will be surprised, but I thought it might bring about a good topic for discussion and that is “is this guy psychotic or what?”
Bush has said many times that history will vindicate him as a president. I just have to wonder how [...]
Posted in Lies, Media, News, Photography, War on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Via the New York Times.
As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The [...]
Posted in Politics, Random, Video, War on July 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In light of this morning’s Iran missile tests, I thought it might be interesting to look at this film from 1950 on how to survive an Atomic bomb.
Amazing to think that a whole generation of kids grew up thinking an atomic threat was imminent. This film is scary. I mean that house that blows up [...]
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Iraq, Lies, News, Politics, War on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s encouraging to know that it is the Iraqis themselves who may end this war and thus control their own destiny. Think about every justification you have ever heard about the war from George Bush. Those justifications are tremendously hollow when the liberated people don’t want you there.
Iraq will not accept any security agreement with [...]
Posted in History, Humor, News, War on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
A man has been arrested after tearing the head off a wax figure of Adolf Hitler at a newly opened branch of Madame Tussauds in Berlin.
Police spokesman Bernhard Schodrowski said a security guard had been shoved aside by the attacker.
“He tried to prevent the man from acting but failed. The suspect, from the Kreuzberg district, [...]
Posted in America, Bush, Bush Administration, Iraq, Lies, Media, News, Politics, War on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Remember how we lost (literally) billions of dollars in Iraq? This needs to be read in full so I have posted it in full. The link to the article is here.
A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.
For the first time, the [...]
Posted in America, News, Politics, War on June 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Actually it’s a billion point four, but after a billion who’s counting.
The Air Force said the first crash of a B-2 stealth bomber was caused by moisture in sensors and estimated the loss of the aircraft at $1.4 billion.
The crash probably could have been avoided if knowledge of a technique to evaporate the moisture had [...]
Posted in Film, Indie Film, SIFF, War on May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday I saw Elite Squad at the Seattle International Film Festival. It was perhaps the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen. About a special police force that wars with the drug lords, this film was as fascist as they come. The message of the film: these cops are the only non-corrupt ones in Brazil and [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Bush, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, McCain, News, Politics, Terrorism, War on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Whoever takes the presidency in November will have difficulty finding a solution to the mess of Iraq. Though perhaps one individual may be worse than the others, Obama, McCain and Clinton are doomed to failure because this administration never considered part two of playing war.
In reference to the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay here’s [...]
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Decision 2008, Feminism, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, News, War on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
An often used argument for electing women leaders around the world is that women by their nature are not warmongers and that the world would be more peaceful if ruled by women. It is said women and mothers in particular better understand the value of life because they have the ability to give life.
Yet in [...]
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Decision 2008, News, Politics, War on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to the New York Times, we now know that the Bush Administration has taken great care in fabricating a successful Iraq story by carefully manipulating the media. They trained former military officers who would be readily accepted by media outlets as “war analysts” to portray the constructed truth that the war was going well.
The [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Bush, Decision 2008, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Politics, War on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Then George W. Bush and a half dozen cabinet members in some back room somewhere authorize the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody, but we can’t pay attention to that because we’ve all got to decide whether we want a president with good bowling scores.
Where did we get this notion that the President of the [...]
Posted in Decision 2008, Lies, McCain, News, Politics, Polls, Republican, War on April 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
If the polls are correct and Americans
Think the country is on the wrong track
Think going to war in Iraq was a mistake
Think we should leave Iraq
then I can’t see this man winning. With the exception of being a slightly better public speaker than George Bush, I ask you what does he say in this clip [...]
Posted in News, Race, Sex, Sports, War on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The headline grabbed my attention: “Formula One Chief in ‘Nazi’ Sex Scandel.” I thought to myself, what’s a Nazi sex scandal? Apparently Max Mosley, son of Nazi sympathizer and fascist Oswald Mosley, and International Automobile Association President has taken his fetish to a whole new degree of detail.
But Mosley, the urbane president of the body [...]
Posted in America, Bush, Bush Administration, Education, Lies, News, Oil, Politics, War on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
This is perhaps the most important news of the day.
…a report was released showing that 17 of the nation’s 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent.
But that is really quite a rosy picture if you live some select cities.
The report found troubling data on the prospects of urban public high [...]
Posted in Bush, Humor, Iraq, News, Terrorism, War on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Things To Do
Straighten out that whole Israeli-Palestinian peace thing. (Roadmap drafted in October 2002)
Find Osama Bin Laden. (Said I would September 13, 2001)
Bring peace and stability to Iraq. Oh yeah, shirked that off on the next guy. Phew.
Suggestions welcome for part II.
Posted in Bush, Iraq, Politics, War on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he is confident about explaining to the US President his decision to bring combat troops home from Iraq.
Australia has been pretty supportive, so I think this shows how most everyone thinks it is time to go home.
Posted in Britain, Bush, College, News, Politics, The Royal Family, War on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I have never been a royalist, but Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan is turning me around. True patriotism is putting yourself on the line for your country. What it isn’t is wearing your country’s flag on a lapel pin. I was most struck by these quotes from Charles:
The Prince of Wales said he was [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Terrorism, War on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Read a post on Andrew Sullivan wondering why there hadn’t been another 9/11. Here’s my take (sent him an email):
I can think of a good reason why America hasn’t been attacked since 9/11, because to do so would be a strategic mistake in Al Queda’s military struggle against the USA. Al Queda’s war aim at [...]
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, History, Lies, Politics, War on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently in the future we will be thanking God for George Bush, because if George says it then it must be true.
As for his own legacy, Bush said: “I believe 50 years from now, people will look back at this period of time, and say, thank God the United States of America did not lose [...]
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Iraq, War on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The worry is that if we leave Iraq now, all the benefit of the surge will have been squandered as a corresponding reverse surge from our enemy will diminish our gains.
This is why Mr Gates signalled during his Baghdad visit that he favoured the idea that US troops should be held at pre-surge levels [...]
Posted in America, Decision 2008, Humor, McCain, News, Politics, Republican, Romney, War on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
First he says his sons are serving their country by volunteering in his campaign and now this!?!
Mitt Romney suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday, saying if he continued it would “forestall the launch of a national campaign and be making it easier for Senator Clinton or Obama to win.”
“In this time of [...]
Posted in Bush Administration, Iraq, Medicine, Politics, Suicide, War on February 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq war began, that figure was less than one suicide attempt a day.
The dramatic increase is revealed in new U.S. Army figures, which show 2,100 soldiers tried to commit suicide in 2007.
“Suicide attempts are rising and have risen over the last five [...]
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