‘Idiots’
December 22, 2021Overcast and cold this early Wednesday evening here in California’s Central Valley — a rainy out-of-doors, too. We do feel like it’s raining all over the world, especially among the imbecilic. An example of knowing…
Tag Archives: Tony Blair
Iraqi Inquiry — Blair Blares: ‘The World is Better and Safer’
July 6, 2016Sunshine, near-clear skies and some gentle ocean breezes this Wednesday afternoon on California’s north coast — a thick-looking fog bank hangs seemingly just to the northwest, but we’re not gray-covered as of yet. Experienced some…
History Block
October 25, 2015Last night at a Iowa fundraiser, Bernie Sanders proclaimed about the entire Republican Party: “They suffer from amnesia.” Mental incoherence is required — under the watch of the last GOP president: Worse attack ever on US…
George and Tony ‘Poodle’ Horrible Hokum
October 19, 2015As the fall turns into winter here on California’s north coast, another nasty-nugget from the lie-archives of the Iraqi war — according to a leaked memo, in public, Tony Blair was a seeker of peace,…
‘Covered’ Asshole
August 7, 2015Yesterday, the 70th-anniversary of Hiroshima, and another notable milestone, too, — one with a major, major ‘what if?‘ narrative. Review of the 2006 book, “The One Percent Doctrine,” via the Washington Post (h/t Digby).: The book’s…
T-Bone and the George
January 27, 2015Just as it was announced the US will deploy this week an additional 1,000 soldiers to Iraq, a couple of episodes from the Canadians, also in country to ‘only‘ train the national army, on how shit…
Not-So-Happy History
June 15, 2014Bright sunshine just starting to break the gray this Sunday morning on California’s north coast — dark, heavy-clouded and gloomy a little earlier, but typical for us up here, the scene/sense of the weather can…
War Crime
January 21, 2014Heavy ground fog this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, which in turn makes the moist air a little-bit warmer — meanwhile, on the eastern US seaboard today winter keeps on keeping on with storms…
Washing Away the Lies
November 14, 2013High overcast again this early Thursday on California’s north coast and real still and quiet, too. We’re now at the vantage point where the weekend can be seen with the naked eye. And speaking of…
Tony’s ‘Blank Cheque’
January 21, 2011Tony Blair’s speech before the UK’s House of Commons, March 18, 2003: “It will determine the way in which Britain and the world confront the central security threat of the 21st century, the development of…