This is one of those holidays where I don’t know what I should write about. On the one hand I am very grateful for the brave men and women who have given us the ultimate sacrifice throughout the ages to keep this country safe and protect the freedoms we all enjoy. As sincere as that . . . → Read More: Thoughts on Memorial Day 2011
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So I promised on Twitter that I would comment on the big news from the weekend. Which, on the off-chance that you somehow missed it, is that after almost 10 years we finally managed to track down and murder Osama bin Laden. When President Obama made his announcement there was lots of images in the . . . → Read More: Osama’s death is no victory worth celebrating.
The above video clip is popping up all over the Internet causing all sorts of horrified commentary like this: This amateur video of Pashtun children enacting a suicide bombing has circulated on the internet in Pakistan in recent days, highlighting the disturbing psychological impact of Taliban violence on a generation. The unsettling . . . → Read More: Video of Pakistani kids pretending to be suicide bombers is nothing to freak-out over. With the modern equivalent of the Library Of Alexandria at the fingertips of around 310,650,000 Americans, why are we all still so ignorant, naive, and proud of, what politicians like to call and rely on, uneducated votes? A little research will reveal (to those who deal with Cognitive Dissonance logically and honestly) just how big . . . → Read More: [SEB Guest Post] Yeah I’m a Dreamer. But I’m not the only one. Here’s a news item that’ll boil your blood. Newly released documents reveal that our government, which claims it doesn’t torture, went to some length to hide detainees from the International Red Cross to avoid being called out for torture: “We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better . . . → Read More: If America doesn’t torture then why did we hide it from the Red Cross? See the picture below? Seems some folks in the intelligence gathering industry thought it was created by terrorists to show what they hoped to accomplish some day. There’s just one small problem with that theory: The SITE Intelligence Group said that the image, showing a ruined Capitol Building in Washington, was created by extremists as . . . → Read More: SITE misidentifies video game screenshot as secret al-Qa’eda plot. We’re spending trillions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so you’d think the least the government could do is tell us how that many is being spent. Alas it appears they largely haven’t a clue: The lack of accountability of the funds, intended for purchases of weapons, vehicles, construction equipment and security services, amounted . . . → Read More: Defense Department can’t account for $15 billion in tax payer money. Call it Bush Administration Fatigue, but I find it hard to get outraged about the following story: Memo: Laws Didn’t Apply to Interrogators – washingtonpost.com The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned . . . → Read More: Justice Deparment’s infamous torture memo finally released. President Bush, speaking by video conference to military and civilian workers in Afghanistan: “I must say, I’m a little envious,” Bush said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.” “It must be exciting . . . → Read More: Bush on the romance of danger Today is the fifth anniversary of Bush’s war in Iraq. An undertaking that was sold to the public with lies about the supposed threat Saddam posed to the rest of the world—because of a supposed stockpile of biological and chemical weapons—and with promises that the war would be quick, easy, and cheap. How many of . . . → Read More: Five years of war and Iraq is no closer to being self-sufficient than it was on day one. |
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