War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). The US drone war is the one conflict that’s always continually escalating — even as the US vacates an isolated Pakistani base from where UAV aircraft were launched will apparently not slow the operations down at all. From Wired: The CIA just got kicked out of a major Pakistani launching pad for…
Today 70 years ago one of the landmark events of world history — the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor — a horror-hole episode leading to a massive worldwide war which killed 2.5 percent of the planet’s inhabitants or about 60 million people. Europe had been at war for a couple…
US peoples should hide in great-confused and frightful shame. In facing the greatest threat to humanity, maybe in all of recorded history, Americans still can’t decide whether they should give a shit or not on climate change. The latest Gallup poll revealed 53 percent of US peoples see global warming as a very or somewhat…
If you thought bankers were assholes, you were wrong! Banksters are far, far worse. From Reuters: Major global banks are exacerbating the fight against global warming by supplying power utilities and mining firms with ample funds to build coal-fired plants, according to a report released by non-governmental groups at the climate talks in Durban. ……
Most scientists identify as Democrats (55 percent), while 32 percent identify as independents and just 6 percent say they are Republicans. — Pew Research, July 2009 Reality conception doesn’t require the brains of a rocket scientist, but one does need some kind of brain, and maybe a brain that’s not so flat. Take Mitt Romney…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep — and, lo and behold — the price of a gallon of regular has dropped four cents to $3.95 in just two weeks. After seemingly being stuck at $3.99 a gallon for months, it was odd to see a difference in the numbers.…
Another thin-skinned GOP asshole caught being an asshole — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback got his panties in a bind when a high school student Tweeted that the good governor, “#heblowsalot:†Emma Sullivan, 18, was hauled into her principal’s office and ordered to write letters of apology after one of Governor Sam Brownback’s office contacted the…
(Illustration found here). Tomorrow, of course, is turkey day — one of US peoples’ more obtuse holidays where actual thanksgiving gives way to stuffing the face with food. And like most of the other so-called holidays, it’s authentic as a 3-dollar bill. One — watch out for the shit in cans, and the increase of…
One cannot imagine the uselessness of combating anything of importance with those elected so-called leaders of the near-rudderless US of A — the failure of the “super committee” is the latest example of why mankind just might be freakin’ doomed. If these assholes can’t agree on finances, how can they reach an accord on the…
My apologies to one of Forrest‘s most-beloved quips, but US politics has become so much more than stupid talking, it’s mean-spirited pure ugly — especially amongst Republicans. Hence, the supposedly GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich on OWS: “Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system…