There were seven coordinated terror attacks in Paris carried out by militants, killing at least 129 people. The first attacks were launched virtually simultaneously, with two explosions close to the Stade de France at just after 9.20pm local time, four miles apart. The explosions came as a large crowd were enjoying the first half of the international friendly between France … Read More
Bad News Coming Out Of Paris
Looks like a series of pre-planned coordinated terrorist attacks happening in different places throughout Paris. Also a reported hostage situation at the Paris Bataclan concert hall. 18 killed in central Paris according to another report. A possible response to the killing of Jihadi John by a U.S. drone strike? Two explosions were heard outside the Stade de France stadium north … Read More
Bush 41 On Cheney and Rumsfeld
Dad was a far better president than sons. Of course, Dad could never be elected in today’s uber-conservative GOP. But I always had a soft spot for the elder Bush. And here’s why. According to the New York Times: …the elder Bush told biographer Jon Meacham that Cheney “had his own empire there and marched to his own drummer.” Calling … Read More
Russian Plane Crash In Egypt
A Russian charter plane crashed over the weekend on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. All 224 aboard the Airbus jetliner were killed, with company executives ruling out technical or human error only to be upbraided by aviation officials who called such assertions premature. The Metrojet flight full of mostly Russian vacationers, bound for St. Petersburg from the Egyptian resort of … Read More
70 Hostages Freed But….
First official U.S. military death in fight against ISIS is special operations soldier killed in successful hostage rescue effort.
The Problem With Trump-Bush-9/11 And Clinton-Benghazi-9/11
I know I’m not the first to bring it up, but there is a huge disconnect going on right now when you tie together to seemingly separate stories. Trump is saying that since 9/11 happened during Bush 43’s watch, Bush 43 bears some culpability. This makes Jeb Bush act all defensive, because (he seems to argue) the President cannot micromanage … Read More
A Tweet From 2009 Could Haunt Rubio
I’ve always seen Marco Rubio as one of the few “serious” GOP candidates and one who could pose an actual challenge to HRC. But this tweet of his from 2009 is very… uh… Carsonesque. What a dumb thing to tweet. It originally was published in the midst of the June 2009 protests stemming from allegations of elections fraud and the violent … Read More
When Will We Ever Learn… Oh, When Will Weeeee Ever Learn?
I don’t write much about the Middle East because — Jesus, it’s a clusterfuck and it just gets worse and worse and it is depressing. It’s basically an unsolvable problem and everybody wants to kill each other. But I think I have figure out ONE truism. Intervention on the part of the United States makes things worse for us. I … Read More
14-year-Old Kid Named Ahmed Builds A Clock; Gets Arrested For Building A Bomb
This happened in Texas, so…. no surprise. Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday. Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case. So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in … Read More
Michael Stipe Loses His Religion
There was a poorly-attended Tea Party rally against the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday, and at the rally, Donald Trump used the R.E.M. song, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” as his walk-on music. The band was not amused: R.E.M. Slam Trump: ‘Go Fuck Yourselves’. “Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you — you … Read More
Why Is Anybody Listening To Dick Cheney On Foreign Policy?
First of all, Dick Cheney was the architect of the Iraq invasion after 9/11, which even conservatives agree (including all the GOP candidates) was a huge mistake. Cheney says we had faulty intelligence and that Saddam was a bad guy, both of which are/were true. But as this blog has attested, it was easy to see that the intelligence in Iraq … Read More
Cheap Clothes Of Exploitation
At 6:45 p.m. on November 24, 2012, the fire alarm went off on the fourth floor of a nondescript building in the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Inside, nearly 1,200 garment workers were on deadline, scrambling to complete an order. When the bells started ringing, they asked if they could leave. Their managers told them to go back to their machines. … Read More
Tensions In The Koreas
This is ugly: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered front-line military units to enter “a wartime state” after an exchange of fire with South Korea, his country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Friday. The announcement, employing bellicose language typical of North Korea, adds to the edgy situation in the region. The two sides traded artillery fire over … Read More
Obama Calls Out The Iraq War Prevaricators
President Obama’s speech on the Iran nuke deal was a classic. He made a convincing argument for supporting the agreement and provides a plausible overview of what will happen if Congress doesn’t approve it. But he also talked about those opposing the deal, pointing out that these people are the same ones who got us into a costly and pointless … Read More
Jes In Case Them Moz-lims Show Up
Thanks, boys. I think the armed forces or the National Guard can take it from here.