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To hear President Bush tell it, Iraq is a bed of roses: “Our strategy is succeeding,” he said last week. Yesterday at the U.N., he said Iraq is “on the path to democracy and freedom.” Yet the CIA told Bush recently that the scenarios we’re really facing there range from a quagmire to a bloodbath.
Read moreAfter having slammed into the coast of Alabama and the Florida pan handle, Ivan meandered up through the eastern states
Read moreI read an interesting commentary/Op.ed. piece in Sunday’s St. Petersburg Times. It was written by Francis Fukuyama, a professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and is entitled “Latest threat on horizon: transhumans.”
Read moreI had an interesting beginning to the week. Apparently I was the victim of a spider bite Sunday. I had gathered up a load of laundry to put in the washing machine. I felt a prickly sensation like one gets when messing around with fiberglass.
Read moreI sent the members of the Hamilton, NJ Town Council a link to my recent post concerning the arrest of a protester at a Republican event there. Councilman Dan Benson was kind enough to respond to that article.
Read moreDuring a speech in Hamilton, NJ, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq was handcuffed, lead away and charged with trespassing after she began shouting questions to First Lady Laura Bush.
Read moreWell, in most insurance policies, mine included, you pay your deductible for each occurance of a hurricane. My deductible, like most deductibles in FL is quite high when it comes to “Hurricane related wind damage.” And if you got hit by both hurricanes, you’ll be expected to pay two deductibles.
Read moreHaving sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
Read moreIf you are tracking Ivan, you will see that he stayed on a more westerly track over the course of the weekend. He is still a very powerful storm, and will most certainly graze Cuba, and most likely will hit the U.S. sometime Thursday along the Alabama, Florida panhandle coast if the NOAA track verifies.
Read moreHere are a couple of pictures of probably the worse damage I’ve seen in our neighborhood. This is just about two blocks from the house. That was a motor home, and a lot of the branches have already been trimmed back.
Read moreThough the Bush Administration has spent billions to deal with an imaginary threat in Iraq, it has not sufficiently funded, nor has it put forth realistic strategies to deal with, threats to America’s ports, railways, chemical plants and other infrastructure. It has also failed to secure America’s borders or establish effective terrorist watch lists.
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