August 2011:
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67 comments (Latest Comment: 02/22/2013 01:44:15 by trojanrabbit)

Good Morning.

Today is our 4,153rd day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,177
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,080

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 424, 994, 850, 000 .00

Since yesterday was President's day, we'll do something a little different today.

How many Presidents wore the uniform?
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106 comments (Latest Comment: 02/20/2013 02:31:24 by Will in Chicago)

Ah, Texas; the "Lone Star" state. The state that gave us the roughest, toughest, meanest, nastiest President ever! And even her son, George W Bush became President later on. Land of the super nuts like Ron and Rand Paul (Rand grew up there),Louis Gohmert, Randy "Screaming 'Baby Killer'" Neugebauer, and the guy who apologized to BP Oil after the spill, Joe Barton. Also, Rick "Whoops" Perry (we sure loved you wearing that Brokeback Mountain jacket, dude) and who can forget Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, who once told a group of college students that “the greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack…The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias".

And now we have Jr. Sen. Ted Cruz.

Texas - land of the dinosaurs.
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4 comments (Latest Comment: 02/18/2013 04:39:11 by Will in Chicago)

On Tues evening, overshadowed by the State of the Union speech, was the sad end to a sad story that was playing out like a latter-day Rambo movie. LAPD officer Christopher Dorner died in a mountain cabin in Big Bear California either by fire or gunfire - likely self-inflicted. There are many who say this tragedy was only a matter of time. The difference was that Dorner had the training to actually carry it out.

His "manifesto" was a diatribe against the entrenched racism and bigotry that sits like a cancer in the heart of the LAPD. He set out to target those he felt wronged him when tried to report it and fight it. He is certainly no hero, but more a symptom of a dysfunctional organization that needs to be sanitized with sunlight from top to bottom.
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52 comments (Latest Comment: 02/16/2013 02:46:52 by TriSec)

Last night America was treated to one of our most venerated spectacles: the State of the Union address. Like all things official and governmental, there was the usual bit of pomp and circumstance as various groups of people were announced and paraded in, with lots of smiles and handshakes and schmoozing.

Finally, it was President Obama's turn, and he made his way to the dais. Perfunctory as always, the Speaker announced "Ladies and Gentlemen - the President of the United States" and as if on-cue - a standing ovation ensued. All of it is predictable and silly and entertaining to watch. And then - the President got down to business.
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92 comments (Latest Comment: 02/13/2013 22:26:00 by Raine)