War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Quick and forceful: Decider George dodged and ducked more than some footware today. See the YouTube video here. (Illustration found here). Accordingly, one Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network, the guy above with the shoe in his up-raised hand, threw both his footwear at Decider George this evening during a press…
Everything!! (Illustration found here). Just when you figured Decider George’s blundering for near-eight years was all in the big stuff — Iraq, Katrina, the economy — think once, and maybe even think twice more. According to Raw Story this morning, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a non-profit investigative journalism group which recently “set out…
Karl and George: Still up to no good. Now they’re on an exploding PR exit-strategy bandwagon to try and purify Decider George’s putrid near-eight years in office. (Illustration found here). In the closing days of a crime scene government that’s been without doubt the most corrupt and incompetent in US history, not to mention one…
In a flash: There’s a couple of stories out there this morning on Decider George’s legacy — both today and beyond next month. One from CNN here and the other from Juan Cole here, although Cole’s piece is an examination of Decider George’s speech yesterday at the the Saban Forum in Washington, DC. CNN is…
The mouthpiece has moved beyond the mouth. Decider George’s front gal, Dana Perino, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, bit the lip of goofiness yesterday during an exchange with Helen Thomas, seemingly the only White House reporter with balls. In a quiet way, Thomas showed Perino as schoolyard bully in some questions about Iraq…
Nearly two years ago, the current lame-duck White House bunch were put on notice the financial system was ready to collapse, ready to fold-up more like a chair sitting a fat-ass banker than a house of cards. Instead of creating a stop-gap, Decider George opened the flood gates even further. From CNN this morning: The…
A 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, editors, to the executive suites, and this mechanism of modern media received its biggest boost from a “two-bit burglary.” (Illustration…
Even 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 itself, where the reply means more than the words — A horse goes into a bar, bartender asks, ‘Why the…
In 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 been fighting and killing thousands of people all over the globe in the past decade searching for the reported mastermind…
Insights 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 war, even Jackboot John McCain blubbered, “We are all Georgians” during the conflict, but the facts on the ground seemed…