Cork, sandbags, prayer and the invisible dartboard
I am anticipating the announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death, expecting it to be the biggest news story of the day as I wake up every morning.
View ArticleMassachusetts
Someone on the Control Congress board hit a nerve in me today, talking trash about my state. The population numbers from 2000 and 2005 show almost a 1% rise, but according to him people are leaving...
View ArticleBorn Again Christianity’s Jihad on America
(6/13/2005) Throughout my teenage years I was a born-again Christian. Now in my twenties, I’m not. Without getting overly dramatic or focusing on every detail, the primary reason for this change was an...
View ArticleThe Gallows of Reality
We’re already experiencing the novelty of a post-Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon in the form of a Joint Chiefs of Staff that has suddenly found its voice after having been neutered since before our...
View ArticleWatch 60 Minutes Tonight
The active duty military personnel who signed the 'Appeal for Redress' are being featured on 60 Minutes tonight at 7PM. One of those is a soldier whose website 'Soldiers Voices Forum' I've highlighted...
View ArticleIn A Big Country
Invested in this hyped stock with everything he's got. Money, possessions, bodily organs and hope all down on the idea he had a few years back, developed over some serious unmet needs pertaining to...
View ArticleMy Fellow Americans...Welcome to Baghdad
Pay close attention to the coverage of this most recent shooting-spree in Virgina, as the witnesses are interviewed, the tears brand our brains permanent in puffs of smoke and agony, like the "bad...
View ArticleOur Puppet is Not Well
Since right-wingers are focusing on repeating over and over that the security situation within Iraq is improving, I’m quite sure that Democrats will continue to repeat over and over that a political...
View ArticleDon't Assault Our Tragedies!
(Posted on 9/13/2004) Nature has been racking up a significant body count recently in the form of hurricanes, but with the new rapid-fire bullet propulsion toys about to hit the streets, I have no...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich - Trageditunity Strikes!
Gingrich after Columbine: "I want to say to the elite of this country - the elite news media, the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite: I accuse you in Littleton...of being afraid to...
View ArticleArm Fratboys -or- Curb Straw Purchases?
So here we go again - I posted the following at Control Congress on 3/19/07:
View ArticleDecapitated Slave Army
The United States Army is continuing along in Iraq, with as healthy an appreciation of self as your average heroin junky or to be even more precise, a hardcore gasoline huffing aficionado hunkered over...
View ArticleIs Yahoo! manipulating headlines to insert "Israel"?
The link on the front page reads ‘Hamas militants fire rockets into Israel’, and the article has a different headline that reads ‘Deadly infighting rages in Gaza’. The battle is one sided, with Hamas...
View ArticleRep. Holt (D-NJ) Needs an earfull on voting machines!
Today’s NYTimes editorial page features a letter by Holt, touting his legislation to make paper trails mandatory for voting machines, as was endorsed by the Times on May 16th. Having read this...
View ArticleLabor and the New Nationalism (1919)
(deadissue.com - note: 'Napoleon' is a right-wing participant over there) Napoleon's words sent me into one of my research kicks, and so I've been digging around a bit, reading a lot of material from...
View ArticleMatt Sanchez - Act 2
(Source) Wolf Blitzer is moderating in New Hampshire, and he asks the entire crop of potential GOP candidates for '08 to raise their hand if they believe that gays should be allowed to serve in the...
View ArticleIndivisible Dope Fiend
(OriginalPost) I was told so often during my life that the United States was a great country. In grade school the USSR became Russia, and in junior high we saved Kuwait from a bad man. Over time I...
View ArticleUS Soldier Fears Fratracide
(deadissue) This post is on behalf of a soldier in Iraq, but also to provide the readers here at KOS a close-up on what is going on with some soldiers who are currently enlisted. There are support...
View ArticleCasting for 9/11 'The Sequel'
The story is going to be buried (U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ’05), and our country will once again be left stupefied, wondering "what happened", as the Pulitzer Prize winning book...
View ArticleBlackwater = Border Patrol?
7/25/2007: "Guard's Border Mission to be Halved" -- The number of National Guard troops along the Arizona-Mexico border will be trimmed in half by the end of next month. As the presidentially mandated...
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