War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Sixty-three years ago today Sueko Hada was then seven-years-old: “I managed to claw my way out from under the rubble. By now, our house was on fire and the cries of my sisters were getting fainter. I left to look for help. When I went outside I saw that everything had totally changed. Although it…
Wikipedia: knuckleball A knuckleball (or “knuckler” for short) is a baseball pitch with an erratic, unpredictable motion. The pitch is thrown so as to minimize the spin of the ball in flight. This causes vortices over the stitched seams of the baseball during its trajectory, which can cause the pitch to change direction, including corkscrew,…
During a crisis, or some calamity, under pressure to solve problems, a nation’s leader should be able to help, to solve and put together resources in efforts to figure out the next course of action. Unless, of course, you’re an inbred, insolent idiot who knows no other life, but an existence of absolute elitism. Decider…
An impatient sun is setting on the deeds and life of the US of A. In the September of his reign as leader of the whole, wide world, Decider George’s antics have begun to catch up with reality and it scares the shit out of even little kids. He will carry a legacy of fear…
And this morning from the Germans via Reuters: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months. In an interview with Der Spiegel released on Saturday, Maliki said he wanted U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq…
One definition-aspect of the word, theatrical, is deeds marked by pretense or artificiality of emotion. Our entangled mess of a planet nowadays is becoming a very-astutely-written piece of theater, a play of many acts and performers — the plot is of a horrible, anti-tragicomedy. And the end is as the French do, ‘finis.’ In this…
A shitload of stuff the US says and then does is an outright lie, or at best, a stance hidden behind a forest of double-standards. Case in full point: Cluster bombs. These little bits of long-term horror have been used repeatedly by all the world’s military since the Russians introduced the Germans to its capabilities…
Hats off to the most-excellent news site, thinkprogress.org for noting yesterday of Decider George’s blatant use of the most-forked of tongues. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blurted out some heavy words to a meeting of Arab ambassadors in the United Arab Emirates Monday morning about how time is coming nigh for the US to gather…
One of our most-favorite of Iraq peoples is the Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr. Beyond looking like a way-sedated Jack Black with a beard, Moqtada carries enormous political clout, and also has the armed capability to back up the rhetoric, attributes in a country not a real country anymore, but now a series of cells…
A category here at Compatible Creatures is Orwellian — a sort which in recent days seems to aptly fit. The word’s very image represents a malignant, manipulative and repressive entity in a position of power, including the power to control reality. Coined from a book by UK writer, Eric Arthur Blair, writing under the way-now-famous-name…