Just when you thought George Jr. was even close to being pretty, a couple of horror-shots of his legacy loom large. The first: The escalating violence has residents of Baghdad stocking up on rice, vegetables and other foods in case fighting or curfews prevent them from getting to shops. “It is wrong to say we are getting close to a civil war,” a senior Iraqi politician said. “The civil war Read More ...
Clear skies this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — the moon a white light in the western sky. Weather that’s true or not, who’s to say? Indeed, as the dust settles a bit off last week’s string of shit, and President Obama did the right thing yesterday in putting young Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on trial in civilian court, the history of the US the last 10 to 12 years has Read More ...
Reportedly, at a little after 4 AM out here on California’s north coast, the sun will cross directly over the Earth’s equator during a moment known as the vernal equinox when both day and night are about equal, or spring has sprung. The change of the seasons, however, seems to remain the same. War bones are sticking up through the flesh all over, even a decade after most-likely the worst event Read More ...
(Illustration found here). Ten years along and the recipients of “shock and awe” know it as a wide-awake nightmare — from the NY Times: At the pet market, Karrar Habeeb, a 22-year-old carpenter, paused, surprised to be asked about what was surely the defining event of his youth. “I didn’t know about it,” Mr. Habeeb said of the anniversary. “Are we still talking about the Americans? I don’t think we Read More ...
Another drizzle-gloom morning here on California’s northern coast, but the outside air is still a bit more warm than a week ago. Winter is not such a cut-and-dried event up here — it comes as if in selected waves. So too, the drizzling gloom a-mighty in DC where David Petraeus has become the stuff of dazzling folklore, the scandal carries earmarks of some really good, dirty stuff — introducing new Read More ...
Even now after nearly half-a-century, one Vietnam vet still works to get a grip: Wright died in 1968 when he stepped on a land mine, Atwood said, and Wright’s mother always blamed him for her son’s death. He’s never been able to bring himself to visit his friend’s grave, he said. On Saturday he found Wright’s name on panel 44E, row 60, and he ran his fingers over it, shaking Read More ...
Six US GIs have been killed since Friday in a conflict Mitt Romney says is just a ‘word‘, four this morning, shot dead by an Afghan soldier during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area in the southern part of the country. One aspect of this horror show is getting worse: It was the third attack by Afghan forces or insurgents disguised in military uniforms against international forces in Read More ...
Seven US peoples have been killed in Afghanistan the last few hours, but where’s the political outcry? The Washington Post laments: Yet this may be the first presidential campaign in U.S. history in which an ongoing war fails to produce a significant debate. Explicitly or implicitly, the candidates have successfully encouraged much of the media to accept the following conventional wisdom: The war is a failure but is winding down; U.S. Read More ...
Fog/drizzle this morning up here on California’s northern coast, a mighty contrast to the rest of the US, and most-likely, a huge chunk of the planet. Bad news continues with another mass killing in Wisconsin, this time apparently with religious/racial overtones, and the bizarre link in the shooting deaths of two Brooklyn, NY, shopkeepers, both Egyptian immigrants. War crimes war zone? And speaking/writing of war crimes — today is the Read More ...
Mitt Romney and George Jr. the night of Feb. 8, 2002, the opening of the Salt Lake City Olympic games: As the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s rendition of the national anthem echoed off the snow-dusted mountains, the 43rd President turned to the man who now could be the 45th and marveled, “That was a great moment.” Some great moments can have horrifying consequences. As the US thunders toward a presidential vote Read More ...
