Cakewalk Creep — Apache-Chopper Style
October 5, 2014Another slide into some kind of whirlwind war zone once again, the odds are slowly being upped for more American flesh being put on the line in Iraq. Not yet ‘boots on the ground,’ but…
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Iraqi Boots
October 4, 2014Maybe an ominous turn of events in the anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq — the crazy horde might secure Abu Ghraib, just outside Baghdad, and could place their captured US 155 mm howitzers within range of…
Cakewalk Creep — ‘Shock and Awe’ Edition
September 23, 2014Overcast and awaiting some forecast rain this Tuesday morning on California’s north coast — right now, warm and quiet. And once again, the spark of ‘shock and awe’ in darkness as the US started its…
Imperious-Imbecilic Intelligence
September 19, 2014Ground fog, and most-likely way up in the dark, there’s overcast skies here on California’s north coast — Friday morning; and ain’t we just burning the shit right-through September? And 2014? A whole year —…
Cakewalk Creep
September 16, 2014Less than a week ago President Obama screeched the ISIS mission in Iraq “will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.” Today, the president’s top military dog, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the…
Terror Prod
September 15, 2014An example of how way-insane the terrorism game — all CIA “lies” the most-fabled al Qaeda has lost its terror-touch (via Reuters): “Whatever slip-ups or errors (regional branches)…may have committed are limited in number in…
IS IS and US
September 1, 2014The late, great Gen. William Odom, in October 2005: “The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history.” The good general, though, was just talking American…
‘So Bad Inside Iraq’
July 30, 2014High overcast and some patches of ground fog this early mid-week Wednesday on California’s north coast, along with just a touch of chilled breeze — not too shabby. Overwhelmed by other horror stories — the…
Fever-Stimulated Silhouette
July 20, 2014(Illustration: ‘The White Tiger of Autumn,’ by Kevin Lee Drum found here). On this early Sunday, the world is in a fog. Here on California’s north coast, it’s literal — deep, ground fog, a normal,…
Crazy List
July 10, 2014Ground fog, and this morning, a bit on the cool side for us up here on California’s north coast as we bleed on through the week. Time moves pretty fast, but sometimes not fast enough.…