Syria Now!
October 27, 2008Why now indeed? After all these years, the US pulls a punch out of its bag of latent tricks and popped a farmhouse inside Syria on Sunday, supposedly chasing after some bad al-Qaeda types from…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Blood Down the Oil Hole
October 24, 2008Iraq is the nightmare version of Alice’s surreal Rabbit Hole. There’s blood on the walls. (Illustration was found here). When Decider George invaded Iraq in 2003 — carried out over the bodies of US GIs…
3rd-Worlded
October 23, 2008The real race problem in the US — economics. And despite Booker T. Washington‘s approach, African-Americans are getting the short-end of the paycheck stick. An UN Report today: Levels of economic disparity in major US…
Osama’s Endorsement
October 21, 2008UPDATE BELOW While Barack Obama snagged Colin Powell’s endorsement on Sunday, Jackboot John McCain has received thumbs up support from Osama and his boys. According to the today’s Washington Post, al-Qaeda has claimed the best…
Press, Press, Pull: Failure of the Media
October 18, 2008Only logic can save the day. As a kid (and even now as an ‘adult’), I loved the insane violence, and memory brings up a little bit about the media. In one of those The…
Shredding the Troops
October 17, 2008Warriors in that happy-go-lucky city-state of ancient Sparta either can back with their shield, or on it. Veterans from US wars, however, especially those from the little-horrors currently in Iraq and Afghanistan, have no protective…
Same Old, Same Old
October 16, 2008Another example of Decider George/GOP incompetence. Hurricane Ike tore across the Texas coast in September and flattened everything, and despite the Katrina experience, the US federal government is still too arrogant to help the helpless.…
Joe the plumber
October 15, 2008Watching this last debate is so depressing, I have to take more-than-the-usual smoke breaks. I don’t understand live blogging — only been doing this a short while — and so this a kind of real-time,…
Skunk Poll
October 13, 2008No wonder Jackboot John McCain can’t get any traction — Decider George has become beyond loathsome. A new ABC News poll today pretty much tells the tale: Given the global economic crisis, a record 90…
Unburden Thyself
October 12, 2008Delusional arrogance might be the reality. Decider George is “short” — an old military term meaning the end of a person’s tour (or time in service) is quickly approaching, as in, “my time here is…