War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
The terror/shame of America. (Illustration found here). Similar to peeling the layers off one rotten-assed onion, the horrors of the last presidential administration continues to strike nausea and shame into the very hearts of any US peoples who have any heart left to smell the shit — in the last few weeks bad odorous news…
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! — Lewis Carroll (Illustration found here). A surreal snapshot of a horrifying, nonsensical moment in time: The Iraqi invasion just might end up being the greatest man-made disaster in all of human history. Lewis Carroll created some wild shit with his wacked-crazy use of disambiguation — meaning…
 Less than 20 percent of  US peoples even like the guy, but Dick Cheney has nothing else to do but grimace in public, and apparently, will  continue to grimace: “For a while there was this talk out there that we ought to cut these guys some slack and that they shouldn’t be criticized in the early…
All the worries about swine flu, the ecomony or even global warming could be put to rest with this little unsettling  problem: General James Jones said Pakistan’s army had repeatedly told him the stockpile was “under control”, but “this is very much an ongoing topic”. … “If Pakistan doesn’t continue in the direction that it…
“When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” — Richard M. Nixon, TV interview with David Frost, May 20, 1977. Condi Rice opened her mouth this week and spewed forth Dick Nixon, and in doing so, told the ghost of Ronald Reagon to go flush himself. During an impromtu question-and-answer session at Stanford:…
“Just as you [Eichmann] supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations — as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world — we find that…
Today six years ago, one of the most dumb-ass and dangerous operations in all of history started up and despite all kinds of processes to the contrary, is still going full banana with no end in sight. Just as the eyeballs of the whole US was focused Wednesday morning on DC — AIG CEO Edward…
A lot of verbiage was tossed about last week on President Obama’s approval of 17,000 more US troops for Afghanistan, and even the country’s president declared “We have opened a new page” in the conflict. One needs, however, to check that page against the book from which it comes. (Illustration found here). The problem is…
A now-no-longer-forgotten war, the ponderous grind-down conflict in Afghanistan is getting some payback time in the press. Although economic news played up front in the US — President Obama announced Wednesday his homeowners bailout plan, a day after he signed his $787 billion “overall” economic stimulus package — events in Afghanistan are helping nudge that…
Corruption rot spawned from lies. The entire Iraqi misadventure is a horror-shame of an affair. From UK’s The Independent on Monday: In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a…