Posts Tagged ‘bin-laden’

Shortest Presidential Campaign Ever

May 13th, 2011 | No Comments

May 12, 2011, sometime early in the morning, Ron Paul announces he’s running for President of the United States of America on Good Morning America: He’ll be running initially in the Republican Primary.  He makes this announcement to the bastion of right-wing, conservative, Republican politics, George Stephanopoulos.  Not sure too many hard-core Republicans were made [...]

Global Warming picks up two supporters this week

January 30th, 2010 | 3 Comments

This one was probably first, just took a while to get his word out: According to Bin Laden, because the US didn’t sign the Kyoto Agreement, the only way we can save the planet is to destroy the US.  Novel concept. Additionally, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been instructed to quit reaching for [...]

More change you can believe in – Karzai edition

November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Sensing a bit hesitation in President Obama’s support, Hamid Karzai promised reforms the world can believe it.  Among those reforms: “We want our Taliban brothers and all others to come back and join with us,” he added. Last I recall, the entire point of going into Afghanistan was to remove those who supported Osama Bin [...]

Rebuilding the wall

August 25th, 2009 | 2 Comments

It’s telling me that the policies of Jamie Gorelick and Bill Clinton/Janet Reno are back. That was my opinion January 5 of this year when Obama put Leon Panetta in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency.  As of now, the Central Intelligence Agency will not be allowed to glean intelligence from war prisoners.  The Federal [...]

When victory is not the goal

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

In my world, the ultimate definition of a pacifist is to enter a war and not be terribly concerned with winning.  You do this by not acknowledging it’s actually a war, then equivocating what the ultimate outcome must be.  In Korea and Vietnam, the United Nations, with an assist from the United States, would not [...]

Taliban and the Bomb

April 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

News is coming in that the Swat and Buner provinces of Pakistan have fallen under the control of the Taliban.  It doesn’t seem to be getting much airplay tho.  Let me see if this makes things a little more urgent:   The blue areas are where the Taliban were.  The red area is where they [...]

Huckabee slams the Saudis

November 26th, 2007 | No Comments

Mike Huckabee had this to say in what I think is a response to the gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia: Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we’re paying so that the Saudis get rich — filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas,” schools “that [...]