American Madness

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The Insanity of Republican Neocons

This diatribe relates to THE DEATH OF ISRAEL, by DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN, published on DickMorris.com on May 24, 2009.
What aggravates me most about people like Mr. Morris and Ms. McGann is that there is no excuse for their lamentable ignorance.  But of course they aren’t ignorant, they are just venal and politically self [...]

The week in brief

Several exciting things happened this week!  First of all, the Obama Administration released “Memos of Law,” written by the Bush “Justice Department.”  We can all decide for ourselves how just and legal those memos are.  As for this lawyer, those memos are a perfect example of what whores lawyers can be when they forget that [...]

Stupid Foreign Policy?

“Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars”, By Jeffrey Gettleman in NY Times 4 /12/09 states:
“…[A]ny effort to wipe out Somali pirate dens like Xarardheere or Eyl immediately conjures up the ghost of “Black Hawk Down,” the episode in 1993 when clan militiamen in flip-flops killed 18 American soldiers. Until America can get over that, and [...]

Jerry Lewis Packing Heat In Vegas

Jerry Lewis was stopped in the Las Vegas airport last week after airport screeners found a handgun in his luggage.
Reuters tells us the octogenarian funnyman was on his way to a one-night only, one-man performance in Mount Pleasant, Michigan when folks at the airport found the unload .22 pistol in his bag.
Seeing as how carrying [...]

Same Story, Different Details

This is kind of a sad one (2).
The remains of Hedviga Golik were found last month in her apartment in Croatia. According to reports she had made herself a cup of tea, sat down in her armchair to watch some tv, and must have passed away.
Having been born in 1924, there is nothign too surprising [...]

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