War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Are we finished with Osama bin Laden, already? If the killing of the murderous shithead doesn’t change the insanity of the so-called ‘war on terror’ than the whole thing is just a media spin to give poor US peoples a last chance to chant at the flag. Is Osama’s killing a ticket out of Afghanistan,…
“The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history.” — Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, 2005 The late Gen. Odom — he died in June 2008 — was one the earliest outspoken critics of George Jr.’s horrible foray into Iraq, astutely commenting in 2007: “The…
“They gonna make him outta be a martyr.” — liquor store customer The above quote came from just one of a ton of customers at my liquor store yesterday, all expressing some form of jubilee at the death of Osama bin Laden and offering a wink-wink at how life will now somehow return to normal.…
Since 9/11, social media has become today’s platform for expressing news and views. A sign on Facebook aptly summed President Obama’s political rejoinder to Republican provocateur Donald Trump: “Sorry it took me so long to get you a copy of my birth certificate. I was too busy killing Osama bin Laden.” Meanwhile, on Twitter, a…
Taking up smoking cigarettes has got to be one of the most dumb-ass things I’ve ever done in my life — except maybe for being married twice! From AFP in honor of Kate and Bill and economics: A telltale sign of US economic recovery: the divorce rate is on the rise, after falling sharply in…
Weather horror back East is only a prelude to the coming commonplace. A tornado onslaught yesterday killed 159 people across the US south, 128 in my birth state of Alabama — a catastrophic situation which will only get worse as man-influenced climate change increases these “extreme events” to a weather-related new normal. Film of the…
George W. Bush, president: “We don’t torture.” (November 2005) George Jr., nit-twit civilian: “I sanctioned torture of 9/11 mastermind.” (November 2010). Another excerpt from the US shame files was cut open this week with the New York Times release of some WikiLeaks documents on the nefarious Guantanamo Naval Base — most likely you’ve heard or…
In viewing climate change, every so often there comes along some aspect of that horror-in-coming that’s even more morbid, more dark-cast depressing than normal, and one of those is the impact of methane gas deposits blasting out of the Arctic permafrost (or permamelt, ha,ha,HA) thawing at an accelerating rate, beyond predictions. These methane ‘burps’ are…
Never in US political memory has the discourse become so full of one-sided hate and animosity toward the unwashed masses, i.e., the poor and other meaningless pieces of considered flotsam supposedly throttling the rich from getting even-more richer — Republicans are ranting against humanity. And the shocker is that these GOP claptrap assholes appear not…
We can all rest much, much easier as Jackboot John McCain has his slippers fast on the ground in Libya: Aljazeera ‘s Sue Turton, reporting from Benghazi, said McCain told reporters he was there to meet the Transitional National Council and members of the military to assess the situation on the ground. He also denied…