War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Seymour Hersh had ’em nailed all along. From the New Yorker online: They want to turn these guys into assassins,†a former high-level intelligence officer told me. “They want to go on rumors — not facts — and go for political effect, and that’s what the Special Forces Command is really afraid of. Rummy is…
All the blubbering coming from broadcast news last night on the death of Walter Cronkite yesterday made me want to grab a barf bag and run away. These talking twit-heads on TV are nothing but smoke and mirrors — not at all connected to the news business, but a shadow, a sham and shit-long-way from…
End of trust and straight-talk – Walter Cronkite died today at age 92.  (Illustration found here). In memory, Ben Bradlee with a piece posted today in Newsweek on Cronkite and Watergate: In October 1972, Cronkite devoted two segments, back to back, to the Watergate story. The first was 14 minutes, the second eight. I think that second night…
I didn’t think the Emmys had the grapes — not like that time they nominated Vince Edwards: He’s just a damn doctor, Jim. (Illustration found here). Who said Seth MacFarlane is imbecilic? Go ahead, you homo, tell me and I’ll trim his toenails with an axe. A nomination for Best Comedy was heaped upon Family Guy this…
Last fall, I read Frederick Forsyth’s The Afghan, which contains a view of the riot/battle at Qala-i-Jangi fort in November, 2001, exposing the US public to a view of some ferocious insurgency fighting in those panic/dream-days just after 9/11. A work of fiction, but Forsyth’s novel has more truth in it than what the US…
SOS (same-old-shit) — blame outside influences, but this time with a twist. Instead of the standard Great Satan of the US, it’s the UK: In his speech during Friday prayers, Khamenei played on the historic suspicions many Iranians have of Britain by hinting at its involvement in the demonstrations and describing it as “the most…
Still more grim news, but today’s particular sack of shit is more ethics and morals than anything else. Three stories that reflect our times — strange/bad and getting worse — and how lopsided situations have become as if a giant screw is being tightened down. The first item concerns a near-invisible US horror — coal ash dump-ponds,…
Villager #1: We have found a witch. May we burn her? Crowd: Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her! Bedevere: How do you know she is a witch? Villager #2: She looks like one. Crowd: Right! Yeah! Yeah! Bedevere: Bring her forward. Witch: I’m not a witch. I’m not a witch. Bedevere: Uh, but you…
Change out my wizened, ancient ass! Yesterday from CREW  — Citizens for Responsibility And Ethics In Washington — on the so-called Valerie Plame Wilson episode: CREW learned today that the Obama administration is opposing our request that the Supreme Court reconsider the dismissal of the lawsuit, Wilson v. Libby, et al. In that case, the district court…
Talk about being lost after eight years of failure on so many different levels! It is uncertain whether the Air Force will be able to acquire new satellites in time to maintain current GPS service without interruption. If not, some military operations and some civilian users could be adversely affected. –Â GAO Report on GPS status…