‘Just a cost of doing business’
December 16, 2011Opened with a big bang — ‘shock and awe’ — and closed with a deceitful shudder. The US ended its military misadventure on Iraq yesterday awash in bullshit. Leon Panetta has got to be one…
Category Archives: Bullshit
Scream Into The Horror of The Night
December 15, 2011Announce that whatever new approach the U.S. decides on, the U.S. is doing so on a trial basis. This will give us the ability to readjust and move to another course, if necessary, and therefore…
The Dick and The Drone
December 13, 2011(Illustration found here). The US drone war is the one conflict that’s always continually escalating — even as the US vacates an isolated Pakistani base from where UAV aircraft were launched will apparently not slow…
Journalism-i
December 9, 2011I have given my whole life to newspapers. I am convinced that they have abandoned their functions, and in an abject and ignominious manner, in the present war. Nine-tenths of them, and even more than…
Watchers/Listeners
December 2, 2011“Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant…
Bitch the Banksters
December 1, 2011If you thought bankers were assholes, you were wrong! Banksters are far, far worse. From Reuters: Major global banks are exacerbating the fight against global warming by supplying power utilities and mining firms with ample…
Venal Brains Cooking
November 30, 2011Most scientists identify as Democrats (55 percent), while 32 percent identify as independents and just 6 percent say they are Republicans. — Pew Research, July 2009 Reality conception doesn’t require the brains of a rocket…
History, Duh!
November 24, 2011“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had…
‘Danger, Will Robinson’ — It’s The GOP!
November 22, 2011One cannot imagine the uselessness of combating anything of importance with those elected so-called leaders of the near-rudderless US of A — the failure of the “super committee” is the latest example of why mankind…
‘Lone Wolf’ — Update
November 21, 2011(Off my post this morning) The case against that guy arrested in New York City yesterday and charged with plotting to blow up U.S. targets, including American soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,…