Good Morning.

Today is our 3,184th day in Iraq, and our 3,712th day in Afghanistan.

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

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4483
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4344
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3624
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 255
Since Operation New Dawn: 55

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 319
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,848
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 975
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448

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

$ 1, 287, 862, 850, 000 .00
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30 comments (Latest Comment: 12/06/2011 21:14:24 by Mondobubba)

After much speculation about how much damage Ginger White would do to the Herman Cain Train, we waited with baited breath for him to appear from behind the shoddily hung black curtain in front of his beautiful new campaign HQ in Atlanta. Many people came out to speak about how wonderful Herman is as well as to make sure the audience was appropriately patriotic. Mr. Cain emerged from a bus that had a picture his overly large head plastered on to it; a bus that he may be using in his near future to either hit the Senior circuit RV parks with, or, to sleep in his driveway in. His wife, Gloria, was with him at his side. She is either subtly pulling the strings or she is as dumb as a turnip. The music was over the top; some original song that combined God and America and Freedom and Herman Cain all into one large lump of doughy, overly sweet, nutty cupcake.

Once he got to the podium and once the stoned sound tech got around to killing the song, Herman addressed the crowd which was about the size drawn at a used car lot that had a Saturday tent sale and featured a clown.
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13 comments (Latest Comment: 12/04/2011 23:20:16 by Raine)

Eight years, eight months, and 14 days ago, then President George W. Bush initiated a war against the soveriegn nation of Iraq. Ostensibly in the interest of preventing more terrorist attacks, it was more of a whim, rationalized via ginned up "evidence". Hundreds of billions of dollars later (not to mention thousands of lives), this dark chapter in our nation's history is coming to an end.
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68 comments (Latest Comment: 12/02/2011 21:15:38 by Mondobubba)

It must be difficult to be a political candidate, especially on a national level. You have hopes and ideals, but you're also only human. You get up in front of everyone and try to make your points, but all those skeletons in your closet keep opening the door and stepping out into the harsh light of the media cameras, and before you know it, everyone is digging for dirt, seeing just what else is there.

For political parties, there is a process called "vetting", where they ask the candidate to come clean and then try to come up with explanations ahead of time (should the dirt go public), or advise the candidate that they have a poor chance. With the latest allegation against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, one has to really wonder how forthcoming he was during that process.
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56 comments (Latest Comment: 12/01/2011 03:51:08 by livingonli)

While everyone settles back into the beginning of a normal work week, I'll be over here writing a blog with some teeth.

I'm still trying to get over the breaking news this morning that the Caps fired their head coach, Bruce Boudreau and replaced him with a fellow named Dale Hunter.

.... Shaking me head....
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64 comments (Latest Comment: 11/28/2011 22:58:51 by Mondobubba)