apathy is a stain on society! there’s never been a more important time to be opinionated!
Any and all Presidential wannabe’s can and have taken repeated potshots at the Former Secretary of Defense - Donald H Rumsfeld. He is fair game after all. His tenure in office, as the Secretary of the largest and perhaps most important government departments, was precarious from the very start.
Rumsfeld was hired by President Bush to [...]
Last week (at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy) Russian President Vladimir Putin rolled up his sleeves and gave his apparently honest opinion of the United States’ hegemonic ambitions and flawed foreign policy actions which, Putin suggests, have undermined world stability and encouraged nuclear proliferation.
U.S. Secretary of Defense - Robert Gates - tried to [...]
The U.S. Department of State’s Daily Press Briefing - for Tuesday January 30 - responded to a press question about the reported ‘imminent’ release of evidence, by the U.S. of Iran’s role in Iraq insurgency, and military actions - including those reported in Karbala - as discussed yesterday.
The Dept. of State spokesman suggested there was [...]
And I’m not referring to a touchy-feely sit down with Iran - over sushi or skewered mutton! I’m talking about the most severe military engagement with Iran and the use of weapons systems that will put the Iranian regime out of action, permanently.
Before I’m labeled another Bush-moron - a war-loving jerk with no vested interests, [...]
Monday invariably decides the fate of the week - or so it seems. This weekend I decided I’d launch my week with an optimistic, cheery note. I challenged myself to find a topic, a news item or report that would cast a healthy glow of humanity and decency on at least one small part of [...]
With just over a week to go until the Chicago Bears play in Super Bowl XLI in Miami - the city of Chicago is positively giddy with excitement and anticipation.
Twenty-two years is quite a dry spell for a city so addicted to football and the fans have been patient long enough.
For an Englishman’s perspective - [...]
Does history not teach those in power anything? Is President Bush comfortable placing his gut instincts (thus far proven rudimentary to say the least!) in a covenant with evil? Can the U.S. once again make a pact with truly bad people under the hackneyed expression, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”?
As previously mentioned, [...]
If only the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was obliged to give the Iranian parliament an annual ’state of the union’ address. That would certainly help us build a better understanding of what the hell he’s thinking. Unfortunately the current sources of information are somewhat skewed; the Western press or Israeli news sources. Not necessarily the [...]
Yesterday Pierre Thomas of ABC News managed to scrounge some more detailed information on an al Qaeda terrorist threat quietly reported in the never-ending avalanche of warnings, scares and less-than-comfortable terrorist updates that is our daily news fodder.
It appears that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ['al Qaeda in Iraq'] - who was killed approximately six months ago [...]
For the past few years my nocturnal teeth grinding has become an issue and my dentist is far from happy. I used to put this unconscious chomping and gnashing of the molars down to marital bliss but perhaps the daily consumption of disheartening news headlines might be adding to the elevated stress levels. In which [...]
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