War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Wikipedia: knuckleball A knuckleball (or “knuckler” for short) is a baseball pitch with an erratic, unpredictable motion. The pitch is thrown so as to minimize the spin of the ball in flight. This causes vortices over the stitched seams of the baseball during its trajectory, which can cause the pitch to change direction, including corkscrew,…
One of the most-marvelous and near-enigmatic of military operations in the Iraqi war was the famous “surge,” — Decider George’s answer to the fratricide-like butchery shop he’d created with his invasion and subsequent dumb-ass, greed-obsessive policies. In January 2007, he ordered a big chunk of US GIs gushed into certain parts of Iraq for a…
Definition from Merriam-Webster online for terror. Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French terrour, from Latin terror, from terrÄ“re to frighten; akin to Greek trein to be afraid, flee, tremein to tremble — more at tremble Date:14th century 1: a state of intense fear 2 a: one that inspires fear — scourge; b: a frightening aspect —…
During a crisis, or some calamity, under pressure to solve problems, a nation’s leader should be able to help, to solve and put together resources in efforts to figure out the next course of action. Unless, of course, you’re an inbred, insolent idiot who knows no other life, but an existence of absolute elitism. Decider…
This sad, ugly Wide World of War on Terror has gone from real bad to a mounting realization of a coming catastrophic turn for the worse, even as Barack Obama trips through Afghanistan and Iraq, gaining seemingly popular support, as US warfare tactics cause more and more civilian deaths. After all this at the pad…
An impatient sun is setting on the deeds and life of the US of A. In the September of his reign as leader of the whole, wide world, Decider George’s antics have begun to catch up with reality and it scares the shit out of even little kids. He will carry a legacy of fear…
And this morning from the Germans via Reuters: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months. In an interview with Der Spiegel released on Saturday, Maliki said he wanted U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq…
One definition-aspect of the word, theatrical, is deeds marked by pretense or artificiality of emotion. Our entangled mess of a planet nowadays is becoming a very-astutely-written piece of theater, a play of many acts and performers — the plot is of a horrible, anti-tragicomedy. And the end is as the French do, ‘finis.’ In this…
Another lost opportunity for Decider George. Even as he holds out a shocking, back-stabbing fig leaf to Iran, the original intent with the late-great Global War on Terror in Afghanistan is going to shit in a wire basket. Just in the last few days, the situation on the ground there has quickly quick-sanded into a…
A little legal note in the shadows of Decider George’s Iraqi adventure. Sgt. Jermaine Nelson, in a tape-recorded interview with a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent, said he and Sgt. Ryan Weemer were ordered by Sgt. Jose Nazario to kill the prisoners as the Marines swept through a neighborhood in Fallouja in late 2004. Several…