War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In a metaphor mix, Afghanistan’s capital appears encircled in a hangman’s noose as Taliban forces expands its footprint across the country. In a report issued Monday by a France-based think tank: The group said Taliban fighters have advanced out of southern Afghanistan, a region where they often hold de facto governing power, and carry 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…
One of the most indiscriminate and terrifying weapons in humanity’s vast arsenal, among a long, long list of terrifying instruments, are cluster bombs. Situated within the category of dumb bombs, or those just dropped from aircraft without any specific target, gravity-fed, these little sonofabitches have an enormous killing zone — cats, dogs, children, women, old…
Early in the morning, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, a line was drawn deeply, quickly in the sand of life, altering the balance, forever loosing the strings of harmony. Oh, shut the shit up, give it a rest! Flowering words with a poetic Far-Eastern bent, creating a myth of of unmitigated proportions and uncalled-for phrases of…
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…
In the last few years there’s been a lot comparisons between the current Iraqi adventure and the Vietnam war, two towering blunders in US foreign policy, not to mention the immeasurable loss of life and the cataclysm in the social conscience of a nation. Iraq is not Vietnam — or is it? (Illustration found here).…
Mark Twain hit the real bird squarely on the truth’s head: “Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the…
Decider George is like a rotten, aching and throbbing tooth, one of the them backside, big-old molars, one that can’t be worked on or even pulled, sitting there in the headcase, making life even more miserable with each countdown-passing second. Yesterday, the outgoing commander-in-chief told a crowd of people most-likely destined again for the Islamic…