War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
As the bungled, terrible wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to kill and maim US troops, the return home can be just as tedious and terrifying as the war zones. As of yesterday, 4,151 US GIs have died in Iraq since the invasion in March 2003 while 582 servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan, where…
As Decider George and his miserable band of legal cutthroats get ready for a much-anticipated kick out the door, the blood lust must remain first and foremost. As the rest of the US swirls around Jackboot John McCain’s VP pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the White House is attempting to blindside a provision through…
In all indications, the skirmish in the Caucasus has developed into a long-running, hard-line situation. The US rigged a plan to pull at scabs, scratch open old sores and have accomplished the feat. Decider George will launch his vice president, Dufus Dick Cheney, to a few countries next week (within minutes of giving the lead-off…
As we bask in the happy-rhetoric of the DNC, just consider a Jackboot John McCain presidency — maybe one shouldn’t willingly do such a thing. It’s the stuff of horror fiction. A good comment/view on this affrightful apparition comes from investigative journalist Robert Perry over at consortiumnews.com. Perry envisions rightly so a picture of some…
Poland’s prime minister shortly after inking a missile agreement with the US earlier this month: Speaking in an interview televised on news channel TVN24, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the United States had agreed to help augment Poland’s defenses with Patriot missiles in exchange for placing 10 missile defense interceptors in the eastern European country.…
Funny and creepy, under-the-skin scary at the same time. Decider George and Cute Condi Rice in a recreation of an arrogant moron frightfully in charge of all kinds of harmful shit in this YouTube video.
Hoverin’ by my suitcase, tryin’ to find a warm place to spend the night Heavy rain fallin’, seems I hear your voice callin’ “It’s all right” A rainy night in Georgia, a rainy night in Georgia It seems like it’s rainin’ all over the world I feel like it’s rainin’ all over the world —…
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…
“And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s, where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers.…
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,…