War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Not only do politicians spew forth much bullshit, the organization that’s supposed to separate shit from bull is itself full of crap. US peoples don’t trust journalism: Only one-quarter of those surveyed say news orgs get the facts right, a new low since 1985 when the question was first asked. Two-thirds (66 percent) say stories…
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…
Continuing the literary realism of a war zone from earlier: This hard and brutal story during Irene’s turmoil this weekend. An Army Ranger captain supposedly killed four people in two states, one a young boy, wounded a couple of cops during a firefight on a rainy Pennsylvania highway, and although was at-large, armed-and-dangerous for awhile,…
“I didn’t set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president,’’ Cheney told Gangel. “If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things about George Bush. And believe every word of it.’’ — Dick Cheney, lying again on NBC (Illustration found here). Deep…
As Hurricane Irene slammed into Cape Lookout, North Carolina, early this morning, the storm had weakened, but wow the size and water content. Flooding not necessarily from seawater is a major threat: “Water is the No. 1 killer,†retired National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield said Friday afternoon. “That’s going to cause the greatest loss…
Yesterday — Friday — was World Humanitarian Day. I had no idea. Of course, I also had no idea last Tuesday was the 34th anniversary of Elvis’ death, until it was ludicrously brought to my attention by one Miss Mickie Bachmann. Sad state of affairs — the human suffering currently rocking some parts of the…
A peep-hole into the soul of government can be witnessed during this mad-cap debt ceiling bullshit — one can see just how far a small, small portion of the population can near-about bring down a country. The crying, finger-pointing, wailing — i.e., John ‘The Boner‘ Boehner telling his beloved own to “get your ass in…
Pure crazy is gaining momentum by the hour, even as the entire structure of mankind’s latest reincarnation of civilization is breaking apart like an Arkansas outhouse hit by an F5 tornado. And the crazies who are in charge of running this so-called civilization haven’t enough sense to scramble away from that outhouse, but instead scream…
(Illustration found here). Even beyond the way-hot weather in the central and eastern US, the disastrous wars all over the globe, and finally even beyond Casey Anthony, the news tearing at the very tattered fabric of everyday life is the infamous, so-called debt ceiling bullshit in which the whacks in DC are deeply bickering. Although,…
Last night, I started reading Jeffrey Archer’s ‘The Fourth Estate,’ a big-fat novel about a couple of apparent Rupert-Murdoch-kind of assholes trying to control the world, and in the words off the back cover, an “awesome tale of wealth and corruption, desire and destruction.” Well, we’ll just see how ‘awesome‘ this ‘tale‘ be — I’m…