Those who know me on UT, know that I am not an apologist for Obama. Obama made a wise decision to ask the court to not release the photos not because of how it would inflame the Middle East and Muslim world, no one knows if it will or not, but because the release would [...]
Reading somewhat dumbfoundedly the meandering and retarded but mercifully brief something or other, evidently scrawled in crayon on the nursing home wallpaper by my own former Senator, Bob Packwood of Oregon, that the ever-forgiving New York Times saw fit to publish today, I kinda felt sorry for the old heel. How the mighty senator, a [...]
COCKTAIL NEWS FLASH TRAFFIC: SMALL TOWN ITALIAN MODELING AGENT QUESTIONS BERLUSCONI TIES TO 18-YEAR OLD LINKED TO NATION’S LEADER; PARENTS STEADFAST IN DENYING FUNNY BUSINESS; NAPLES GARBAGE PROBLEMS BUILD AMIDST POLITICAL CRISIS; WIFE OF ITALY’S LEADER REFUSES TO BACK DOWN By Dirigo Portici, Italy, May 9,009 - An 18-year old Italian woman, linked in international [...]
My senator, whom I am very proud of this week, Dick Durbin said it simply, “And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place” [ You [...]
One of the many disturbing phenomena of the dark era we’ve been in is the normalization, or more accurately, Anglicization, of torture. Way back in the innocent days of Abu Ghraib, I remember talking to my mother about it, and what stood out in my mind was the way she cast torture as something so [...]
COCKTAIL NEWS FLASH TRAFFIC: ITALIANS GATHER ON ROME STREETS, CAFES, AND REQUEST HELP FROM ELITE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGISTS AND TERROR ADVISERS, AMIDST BUILDING POLITICAL CRISIS By Dirigo ROME, May 5, 2009 – City residents gathered informally and in large numbers in and around Rome’s plazas, as well as its pastry and espresso shops today, discussing what [...]
The anti-government movement that has now swallowed the Republican Party was always intended merely as a cover to transfer wealth upward; something that had historically proved vexingly difficult to peddle honestly, so a series of myths became the necessary bridge to join, for political purposes, the robbers and the robbed. The unfortunate result, however, is [...]
While the polls are showing more Americans are becoming aware of the horrendous torture and rendition that was done in our name, there is still a sizable portion of them and the M$M who minimize and rationalize the awful truth. It is one thing when RWA pundits do it, but when normally very rational people [...]