Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
According to one theory, oil is the international currency. Might as well be.
Now, putting aside all feelgood rhetoric and wishful thinking, let’s ask the unspeakable question — how much is America worth? According to this calculation, the United States of America is worth 400 billion barrels of oil.
And it just ...
Posted in Economics, Middle East, World News, capitalism | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
When we hear the terms Fatwa or Jihad, we often think about radical Middle Eastern extremists whose intention is to impose their religious beliefs upon those they define as infidels. As Americans, we find the declarations of those leaders (Mullahs, Imams, etc.) who support such actions to be offensive and ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, George W. Bush, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Religion, Rhetoric, Right Wing Nut, Terrorism | 5 Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Can I get a "No Shit Sherlock" from the group?
A recent AP-Yahoo poll shows that consumers don't have a rosy outlook for their financial futures any time soon. Because of high gas prices.
From cancelled vacations to finding new jobs, people are struggling to cope with the high price of fuel. ...
Posted in BIO, Iran, Middle East, Politics, Poll Results | 10 Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
The old fashioned way is using clandestine and/or covert ops by various US governmental agencies. The usual agencies are the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Seymour Hersh addresses these operations in his latest article for the New Yorker.
Mr. Hersh received the information on new covert ops against ...
Posted in CNN, George W. Bush, Iran, Middle East, Military, Politics, Video and Animation | 6 Comments »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Take a look at the following video and tell me you can't imagine that extreme religious groups in America could ever trigger the same sectarian strife that currently plagues the Middle East. I don't think the thought is that far fetched...and I'm convinced that the evidence supports the contention that ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Agenda, BIO, Bush, GLBT, Gay and Lesbian Rights, George W. Bush, LGBT, Middle East, Obama, Politics, Religion, Rhetoric, Right Wing Nut, Terrorism | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
After the attacks on 9/11/2001 many Americans pulled their heads out of the sand and began to ask why anyone would want to do anything so horrible to us. Bill Maher famously asked the same questions in what seemed to a too sympathetic way, by going against the common wisdom ...
Posted in Al Queda, America, BIO, Iraq, Iraq War, John McCain, Middle East, Terrorism, War | 5 Comments »
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
The fundamental problem behind high gas prices is that the supply of oil has not kept up with the rising demand across the world. I Call Bull Shit here - Demand isn't increasing, it's shrinking as prices go up.
There has to be more to this than the old ...
Posted in America, BIO, Bush, Contributors, Economics, George W. Bush, Middle East, capitalism | 5 Comments »
Friday, June 20th, 2008
We don't do a lot of "open threads" here at BIO, but sometimes it's nice to just open the gates and see where things go. As I browsed through this mornings various news sources, several topics drew my eye, so I thought I'd toss them out here for discussion. Pick ...
Posted in BIO, General, Health, Iran, Iraq, Life, Middle East, Religion, Right Wing Nut, Science | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Don’t listen to those doom-and-gloom liberals. America does TOO manufacture something: Refugees.
According to the United Nations, the number of worldwide refugees went way up in 2007. The ongoing quagmire in Iraq is responsible for a large part of the increase. Afghanistan and Iraq were the two leading countries of origin ...
Posted in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, World News | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
President Bush's diplomafacatin' negotiators have been working on a new status of forces agreement with Iraq. The negotiations have, for the most part, been behind closed doors - both US and Iraqi. These negotiations also show El Jefe's deep commitment to the concept of negotiating - "I'll tell ya what ...
Posted in Bush, Contributors, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Middle East, Political, Politics, War, World News | 1 Comment »
