War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Ten years ago today was a Monday. In those times, my then-21-year-old daughter was back living at home, working in the area while engaged to a sailor stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, and supposedly set to join him out there after the new year. As she was getting ready to move, my daughter didn’t have a…
As US peoples get ready to wallow in way-much sob-worthy self-agony for the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, other peoples are dying like gnats and flies — literally. As horrific and criminally insane those attacks were, US peoples will always be self-centered, self-indulgent in celebrating the event until we can come to…
Even as President Obama attempts to throw out some kind of jobs plan tonight — the hornet’s nest in the US economy right now — one problem that’s quickly creeping worse strikes at the heart of life — food. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization reports global food prices remain high — especially wheat, rice…
Motive: Something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive. Despite all the science, no one really knows the human brain as the actual workings of a person’s mind is in a world of its own. Police are still trying to figure out the reasoning behind a…
In the wake of the more-recent events in Libya, the world wants to know much-more about the US CIA’s nefarious so-called ‘rendition‘ program, which led to all those “black sites” in at least seven countries where “enhanced interrogation” took place — people were kidnapped off city streets, take to secret prisons and tortured. An operation created…
Coming upon the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the stories are starting to pile up on the history of it all, though, the biggest single reminder of that event can be seen nowadays and the view is not pleasant. Despite what the pundits and the GOP blubber, the attack on the World Trade Center…
(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think that’s really the case. You go to college, you get a degree, you get a lot of debt, and you…
After my weekly visit to the laundromat this morning, I put another $20 worth of gas in my old Jeep, this time the price per gallon was back to near-about standard: $4.09 — a dime more than last time, and back to a price where it had seemed to stick for weeks. Just part of…
Nice to see events carry a note of ‘all’s well, that ends well,‘ plus stages a solid demonstration of like-people taking quick advantage of a given situation. Via Raw Story: A truck carrying a large quantity of marijuana wrecked in San Jose earlier this week, scattering its cargo across a roadway and creating a feeding…
Just as tropical storm warnings were issued Friday for the Gulf of Mexico, there’s come reports the infamous BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is coming back to life. There’s reports oil is leaking from the supposedly sealed Macondo well: Floating in a boat near the well site, Press-Register reporters watched blobs of oil rise to…