Of voting tomorrow………….. On so many blogs, the predictions are of doom and gloom, of jack booted socialists taking money they did not earn, guns they did not purchase, and how taxes will rise and rise and rise. There is real and unwarranted fear of some sort of beginning of
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I agree…..
Reprinted from The Economist, who has it right: America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world
Continue readingWelcome to 1973…….
Now if only I could be 16 again In 1973, the Vietnam war came to an end for the US, the Arabs started one in the Middle East, and the stock market lost half its value and the world went into a world wide recession. Oil prices doubled. I also
Continue readingAt least they are having a debate…….
The Army is-among itself. Andrew Bacevich chronicles it. The chief participants in this debate—all Iraq War veterans—fixate on two large questions. First, why, after its promising start, did Operation Iraqi Freedom go so badly wrong? Second, how should the hard-earned lessons of Iraq inform future policy? Hovering in the background
Continue readingPost card from 2016
The clouds are circling and what is left of Fay is going to drop some needed rain here on Shopping Mall USA. Accordingly, the S.O. finally found that she could no longer stop me from going to the NASA museum here-so off we go there today. We both were slow
Continue readingTilting at windmills……
I’ve been watching with interest T Boone Picken’s campaign about getting the US to take seriously the issue that it buys way too much energy overseas. He has quite correctly pointed out that we Americans as group, truly do not understand the implications of transferring so much wealth overseas. Especially
Continue readingWhere is Richard Nixon when you need him………
At least he would have know what to do about the Russian invasion of Georgia. Much to the chagrin of a lot of the idealists and neocons out there, it would have involved a bus, some Georgians, and something similar to throwing them under it. Not exactly a “1000 points
Continue readingAgitated……..
That’s what usually happens to me when I read buffoonery masquerading as patriotism and rational thought. Which is why I should not, usually do not, go over and read Blackfive and the gang of high brow intelligentsia they have over there. This post by Deebow should merit a simple shake
Continue readingThe payoff…………
You knew this was coming. There was going to be some sort of payoff to the general, the only real question was would it come now or in the next administration. Now we have the answer-it comes now and in doing so the administration flips a big bird to the
Continue readingBe careful what you wish for………
You just might get it. Washington DC wanted an election in Pakistan. Welcome to politics-Muslim style. Like so many others, I watched the news in more than a little shock that Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated. The media have been endless speculating what this means for US policy and the
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