Talking about politics, or rather trying to educate someone politically, especially Americans is mind numbingly difficult if not altogether impossible.  In large part because we live in the only society in history to ever have an empire that the majority of the populace doesn't know about.

The reason is simple enough, every other empire in history ( Read more... )

I'm sure this is all over the mainstream media, but just in case anyone happened to miss it, we had another major victory in the war on terror a couple of days ago, when we valiantly bombed between 76 and 89 civilians.  No doubt they were busy hating our freedom and plotting devious acts of terrorism and so deserved what they got.

Of course, our ( Read more... )

So who is Al-Qaeda anyway?  This mysterious shadowy organization of super terrorists, able to fell a building with a single box cutter?  Where do they come from, how do they recruit, and what do they want?  Considering they're the enemy that is seemingly the cause of all the world's problems you would think we would know more.

Many people know, and ( Read more... )

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I would hope by now that most people upon hearing about Iran's latest threat would either dismiss it, or at least take it with a grain of salt.  However, when something like this is reported across the media as an event wherein our ships were a heartbeat from destruction, it's not surprising that so many people believe it.

The event, as most of ( Read more... )

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Haythem could only recognize his oldest boy from his tall and slim physique as well as what was left of his shoes. His son's head had been blown away, his body charred beyond recognition. His wife of more than 20 years was torn apart.

"Only part of her neck and jaw remained," Haythem told CNN. The rest of her was covered by ( Read more... )

The USA today reports that 109 soldier have killed themselves this year, breaking the previously held record of 102 in 1992.  It's good to see that even with our economy falling apart and a world that resents us at least we still have that American can do attitude and determination to be number one ( Read more... )

Over the weekend Iran announced that they will no longer be trading oil in Dollars and will be using Euros from now on.  To most this might seem insignificant, but to put it bluntly this is why three thousand people died on 9/11 ( Read more... )

Many of you have heard I'm sure of a recent shooting at the Omaha mall in which 9 people were killed and several wounded.  I of course really have nothing to say about this, mostly because I don't give a shit, which is probably because we kill more people than that on a daily basis, but people can't be bothered to give a shit about that because ( Read more... )

The United States and Iraq just reached an agreement to establish permanent bases in Iraq, which of course the administration, as well as a few naysayers I've spoken to myself, have been denying for years now. Personally, obviously I'm not surprised since I've been saying this for a while now, but there are still plenty of skeptics who believe we ( Read more... )