"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 25th, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Pakistan wants a bigger role in Afghanistan: Pakistan is presenting itself as the new viable partner for Afghanistan to President Hamid Karzai, who has soured on the Americans. Pakistani officials say they can deliver the network of Sirajuddin Haqqani, an ally of Al Qaeda who runs a major part [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 15th, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money A Period of Consequences | The Weekly Standard. Bill Kristol and Jamie Fly invoke Churchill to argue that Obama is a poor leader because he won’t attack Iran when told to by the editorial board of the Weekly Standard. They also argue that Iran won’t dare retaliate with a [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 14th, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money The Mineral Miracle? Or a Massive Information Operation? – Politics – The Atlantic. Marc Ambinder has some doubts about the motives of what looks like a coordinated effort to get the world to pay attention to 20 year old information about mineral wealth in Afghanistan. The NY Times today [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 10th, 2010
Iran Warns of ‘Reduced’ Ties With U.N. Inspectors – NYTimes.com. It doesn’t seem like this will be helpful in any conceivable way. Andrew Sullivan passes along this bit on if this will at least dissuade other “rouge” states: Aside from Obama loyalists and administration members, no one thinks that this round of sanctions does anything [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 7th, 2010
Jonah Goldberg, Quarter Slave (Conceptually). Fivethirtyeight.com posts a reply to Jonah Goldberg’s latest attempt to establish false equivalence between taxes and slavery from the op-ed pages of USA Today. Goldberg wants to tell us we’re slaves to teh gubbermint until “Tax Freedom Day”, which is sometime this week. Overblown rhetoric aside, the real question is: [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 19th, 2009
Iraq air raids hit mostly women and children – Middle East, World – The Independent. It’s just unciviliized. This is what destroyed whatever goodwill we might have had after removing Saddam. This is what encourages the recruitment of suicide bombers. Oddly enought suicide bombings only claimed 28% women and children. Of car bombing victims, 49% [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 28th, 2009
Informed Comment: Urdu Editorials Condemn US Predator Strikes on Pakistan. Obama has to change the policy in Pakistan, either flat out declare war on Pakistan or give up on Afghanistan. This half-assed shit isn’t cutting it. We ARE turning more and more of the Muslim world against us. It only gets worse from there. Let’s [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 17th, 2008
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 28th, 2008
USATODAY.com – U.S. stands apart from other nations on maternity leave out of 168 nations in a Harvard University study last year, 163 had some form of paid maternity leave, leaving the United States in the company of Lesotho, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland. That’s some fine company we’re keeping there. If anyone is interested [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 7th, 2008
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan Basically: borrow around a trilllion from the Chinese to give Iran a new client state next door, occupy it for the next thirty years, and still keep oil at $106 a gallon barrel. Yes: lots to debate. Death, strategic and financial disaster, way to go Bushie.
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 9th, 2008
Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis Compared to other industrial nations the good old US of A ranks 19, out of 19, in preventable deaths. Way to show all those nasty socialist countries that we don’t need their stinking commie health care delivery systems!!!
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 2nd, 2008
Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007 The US (not surprisingly) receives the worst rating. We’re right up there with Russia and China.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 13th, 2007
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/13/2007 | House votes to outlaw waterboarding by CIA The GOP has taken obstruction and raised it to a high art. If something as basic and simple as “we shouldn’t torture” dooms a bill to failure something has gone horribly wrong. When the republicans held the majority they threatened changes to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 12th, 2007
CIA still peddling the lie that low-level crazy man proves waterboarding is a good thing – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth So we tortured the al-Qaeda village idiot, then claimed a great victory against a high level operative. Despite being briefed about the real value of the poor fool by the CIA, Bush [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 9th, 2007
Ezra Klein: “Time to Talk to Iran” A salivating ultra-hawk admits that the recent Iran NIE makes the chances of a strike against Iran extremely unlikely. Thank God.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 4th, 2007
US: Iran halted weapons program in 2003 – Yahoo! News Wow that’s good news. I guess the president will have to back off the bellicose saber rattling directed at Iran, right? No so much: President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that Iran remains a danger despite a U.S. intelligence report that Tehran halted its [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 3rd, 2007
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak – 12/3/2007 – The Japanese flying monkey Nothing logically inconsistent with prosecuting Japanese soliders for exactly the same behavior the blow dried one seems to think is really cool, is there? Maybe he should be waterboarded until he admits it’s torture?
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007
Iran wants Western “apology” after IAEA report – Yahoo! News Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been telling the truth about its atomic plans, according to state media. I think the past [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 13th, 2007
‘Hidden Costs’ Double Price Of Two Wars, Democrats Say – washingtonpost.com Did $1.5 trillion get us more secure? Buy an awe-inspiring display of American military might? Cheaper oil? A sound dollar? Exactly what did we purchase for so high a price? A generation of hatred? Worldwide disdain? A near total loss of moral authority on [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 6th, 2007
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan As I watched event in Pakistan over the weekend I noted that a huge number of lawyers put their careers, bodies and lives on the line in protest of an obvious usurpation of power. I keep thinking that we’d never see a similar spectacle in the US. Not [...]
Date: 07/30/2006