Quit! Now!
November 22, 2008Decider George has become worse than useless. The little shithead is in Peru this weekend waxing “a little nostalgic” for the hallucinogenic heady days of shock and awe, mission accomplished, and ‘bring ’em on’ —…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Ice Tea with History
November 21, 2008A reunion of history sipping ice tea and savoring the memories. Journalism became a celebrity job in the mid 1970s, surging upward an already-emerging elite, near-aristocratic class of news people, from the copy desk, reporters,…
Conundrum: Word!
November 20, 2008Even here in the far reaches of northern California, life appears as a dilemma. If one ponders the entangled proceedings bursting at the seams, many questions arise in which the answer lies within the question…
Corruption Is As Corruption Does
November 18, 2008Villainy from a master. Corruption is Decider George’s real middle name — along with a nasty form of depravity named Karl Rove — and this innate form of life has spilled over into Iraq, an…
Osama as Political Patsy?
November 17, 2008In full Arabic transliteration his name is UsÄmah bin Muḥammad bin`AwaḠbin LÄdin. In the West, however, in English-language mass media, it’s simply Osama. The original bad boy of modern times. The US military has…
‘Balls’
November 14, 2008Insights into the little dust up in the Caucasus region last summer keeps coming into the light just about every day. The West wanted to believe the Russians were the bad guys in the Georgia…
Obama & Iran = Huh?
November 14, 2008Rhetoric dreams fade fast when confronted with political reality. Despite President-Elect Obama calling for easy, unconditional talks with just about everybody, and for quickly getting US GIs out of Iraq, reality bites the ass of…
Earth Gone
November 13, 2008UPDATE BELOW As President-Elect Obama continues a rapid transition into the White House, he faces not only the mundane problems, like the financial meltdown, wars and more wars, but also the most-major of issues: The…
Leaving Afghanistan
November 12, 2008As the situation worsens in Afghanistan, some are voicing concerns whether the US should be there in the first place. Seven years along and nothing has really changed. Foreign Policy In Focus two years ago:…
Regretting the Regrets
November 12, 2008Decider George said yesterday he had regrets, most of which were some of his hardcase-cowboy, dumb-ass remarks, nothing serious, though, nothing about torture, Iraq, Katrina. “I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said,” Bush…