Awash

In a time so awash in dramatic events, especially the last couple of weeks and the debt ceiling/financial markets bombast — worse Wall Street week in three years, the US downgraded from AAA to AA+ — and this morning came reports of 31 US GIs killed in an Afghan helicopter crash, a commemoration of a…

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Horrifying CWM — ‘The calls are coming from inside the House’

One standing cliche of horror movies is the old trope of the menaced babysitter being scared out of her most-beautiful wits by a killer via telephone calls, which as turns out, are being made “from inside the house.” The just concluded debt ceiling slasher/torture porn production in DC conjures up that same bromide as the…

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Mad and Psychotic

“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” — Lily Tomlin (Illustration found here). Disappointment leads to disillusionment and then onto despair, finally overflowing into the deep well of anger. In viewing the happenings…

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Surge Dirge

All over the hotel, dignitaries, who had come to the capital to discuss the future of Afghanistan’s security, locked themselves in lavatories or hid under beds as the killing began. — The Telegraph, on the attack last week at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel Despite the slaughter at one of Afghanistan’s supposedly most-secure locations, President Obama still…

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Celebration

Another view of this particular day: You profess to believe “that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth,” and hath commanded all men, everywhere to love one another; yet you notoriously hate, (and glory in your hatred), all men whose skins are not colored…

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The GOP — One Ugly Crowd (And Bat-shit Crazy, Too)

(Illustration found here). One must always keep in mind when giving any thought to how Republicans govern to this heart-felt comment from mush-faced twit Mitch McConnell from last October: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” All GOP action dovetails to this one, succulent…

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No Soul

One of the most-horrible stories in a long, long list of horrible stories coming from war waged nowadays: Insurgents tricked an 8-year-old girl in a remote area of central Afghanistan into carrying a bomb wrapped in a cloth and then detonated the bomb remotely when she was close to a police vehicle, Afghan authorities said…

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