Archive for April, 2006
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Yes, I am against anything resembling an attack on Iran, including Economic Sanctions. An attack and/or sanctions will only galvanize the Iranian people to support their oppresive regime even more so than they do now. An attack will alienate the US even further from the rest of the ...
Posted in Middle East, Military, Quickie | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
What will it take to get our people and the Iranians at the negotiation table? As long as Dear Leader is in charge it doesn't appear as though we ever will. Phillip Zelikow, US State Dept, has rejected a European call to get both Parties to the table. ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Middle East, Quickie | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Dear Leader says:
"I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true. One, I believe there's an Almighty. And, secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody's soul, regardless of what you look like or ...
Posted in Quickie, Right Wing Nut | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
What do you do when you want to test the destructive power of a nuclear weapon, but you don’t want to use a nuclear weapon?
The answer is “Divine Strake.”
Divine strake is a huge conventional pile of explosives (700 tons) which would do the damage of a small nuclear weapon. And ...
Posted in General, Military, Politics | 4 Comments »
Monday, April 24th, 2006
Fred Barnes writes in the Weekly Standard, “But the second problem--President Bush's sagging job approval among Republicans--is one that Rove can address by emphasizing policies that appeal to Republicans and by creating strong fears of a Democratic takeover.”
Fear is political capital for the Republican Party. Fear buys elections. Fear is ...
Posted in General, Politics | 4 Comments »
Monday, April 24th, 2006
The good Reverend Gisher recently awarded us an Extremist rating, and we're very proud. It may not be apparent from our writings, but we're really much less extreme than we appear. By disposition, we're a mixed bag.
We're Libertarian in our opposition to intrusions on freedoms or personal rights. The power ...
Posted in Diaries | 6 Comments »
Monday, April 24th, 2006
Doubt it, not so long as the GOP is in charge anyway. This weekend a revelation was given by a former CIA Officer, Tyler Drumheller, that the CIA warned Dear Leader that Iraq most likely didn't have any WMD's. See the stories here and here. Since the ...
Posted in Middle East, Military, Quickie, Right Wing Nut | No Comments »
Monday, April 24th, 2006
Further proving that the GOP would sell its soul to Big Business to stay in power, they have sold-out on our Planet. The House GOP Website that "celebrates" Earth Day is designed primarily to cast doubt on Environmental Groups?!?!?! Yes, sir their website doesn't once mention Global Warming ...
Posted in Environment, Quickie, Right Wing Nut | 4 Comments »
Monday, April 24th, 2006
.....the list of States I don't want to visit, yet alone live in. Some Right-Wing Nut in S. Carolina has proposed a bill banning the sale of sex-toys in this fine Southern State. Well, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas already have similar laws on the books, and let's ...
Posted in General, Quickie, Right Wing Nut | 11 Comments »
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
We heard an interesting radio discussion recently. Several economists pondered the question, "If the economy's perking right along, why are Bush's poll numbers on it so low?" The inanity of the question confirmed a belief we've long held. Economists understand the economy in the same way witch doctors understand oncology.
Economists ...
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