From Small Wars Journal By Gary Anderson. “With the exception of the Roman Catholic Church, nobody cherishes doctrine more than the U.S. Army and Air Force. The Marines consider doctrine to be a polite suggestion, and the Navy generally refuses to recognize the concept altogether. The current debate raging among Army professionals is over how…
Monthly Archives: February 2010
SPORTING NEWS
In every corner of the world, something breathtaking is happening, and you would be angry at me for ignoring these gems. From The Daily Telegraph in Australia comes this news: NATHAN Hauritz believes there is room for him and Steven Smith in the Twenty20 side. Hauritz said last night he is also keen to be…
Sssssh/CONFIDENTIAL
An Asian publication that goes by the name ASIA CONFIDENTIAL has some bold articles today. You don’t want to miss them. AC reproduces an article from newsobserver.com because it is bursting with significance. JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s leading clerics are considering a religious edict against riding a motorbike without a crash helmet to promote safety…
EATING LETTUCE WON’T FIX YOUR BROKEN LEG
The British Parliament has come out strongly against homeopathy. Now, it is true that homeopathy is nothing but a load of garbage with wings but the fact that Brit politicians have condemned it adds nothing to what we know. Here is an article I have ripped off from British Standard without asking permission to reprint…
IF YOU THINK HEALTH CARE IS BORING, TRY…
Health care is just a johnny-come-lately to the ranks of the boring. For a time-honored, maybe eternally excruciatingly miserable topic, try polls. Among those that will put an end to your insomnia are two summaries of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics. Yes, this gang actually boasts that its website is CLEAR. At any rate,…
HEALTH CARE AND ALL THAT JAZZ
I am bored out of my mind with the subject of health care but just in case you aren’t, here are some pieces that once upon a time I would have said, “These are interesting.” 1 The Latest Same Old Obama Care Bill 2. On Health Care, Do it. 3. Dems Can’t Give Up on…
ONLY IN AMERICA
The Transportation Security Administration has apologized for ordering a 4-year old boy to remove his leg braces in order to pass through a Philadelphia airport metal detector. The buy is unable to walk at all without them……It actually came to a vote: in both Virginia and Georgia, a bill was beaten down that would have…
CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR
Charlie Wilson helped Afghanistan beat up the Russians by getting Congress to send tons of supplies and money to the whackos who fought the Russians. The movie, starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, makes Charlie out to be a hero. As for his devotion to sexual antics, who cares? Charlie is so sweet. Now, Charlie…
THE BEST CARS AND THE WORST
People make their choices in cars in ways that defy rationality. They like certain colors or they like the overall shape of a car. They look for cargo space and for a nice layout of inside features. They want good gasoline mileage. The least sensible people read Consumer Reports. This venerable guru tells us how…
GEERT WILDERS ON ISLAM
Geert Wilders is a well-kown Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom, a political party in The Netherlands. His controversial 2008 film about Islam in the Netherlands, Fitna, resulted in his prosecution by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal for what it said was “the incitement to hatred and discrimination”. Wilders has been under…
JOHNNY M IS DEAD
Democratic congressman John Murtha, a 19 term representative from Pennsylvania has passed away. Murtha became known for his feistiness when he opposed U.S. involvement in Iraq. In 2006, Nancy Pelosi, Queenpin of Congress, supported Johnny for the job of House Majority Leader. The position went to Stenny Hoyer. So Johnny died a bit of a…
A LIBERAL’S PERSPECTIVE
Howard Zinn (1922-2009), the Liberal’s Liberal wrote in a piece that appeared posthumously in The Nation, January 13, 2010: People ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president – which means, in our time, a dangerous president.
PRICES WILL SOAR
From allAfrica.com…………….A Nigerian militant group said yesterday it had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil pipeline in the Niger Delta. The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), a coalition of ex-militants and community leaders, said it had disabled a trunk line in the Obunoma area of Rivers state connecting several flow stations to the Bonny export terminal.…
SENSE VS. NONSENSE IN MARIJUANA POLICY
Not all is lost in the war against the war. Sane people are trying to change the mad laws against the use of marijuana. Among them is Steve Fox, the director of state campaigns for the Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s largest organization dedicated to reforming marijuana laws. Previously, from 2002-2005, Steve lobbied Congress for…
CALIFORNIA – NOT A NICE PLACE TO VISIT OR LIVE IN
The best thing you can say for California is that it has frequent earthquakes. That helps thin out the herd of morons. From the Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy criticized California sentencing policies and crowded prisons Wednesday night, calling the influence that unionized prison guards had in…
NIPS WANT THEM DEAD
Culled from the Japan Times, Saturday, February 7, 2010 Most Japanese are too young to remember what painful death is like. Only a small percentage of them was alive at the time of the atomic blastings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Moreover, the truly ancient among them may have fond memories of the tortures they inflicted…
GIVE ‘EM HELL, BARACK. TAKE OUR MONEY, TOO
The moderate Obama, the middle-of-the road Obama, the great compromiser, Obama, the bipartisan-seeking Obama, the negotiator Obama is a myth and those who buy into it are insane. Here is my summary of a summary – The Executive Summary of the Project on Defense Alternatives. The entire summary can be read by a CLICK HERE.…
OBAMA JUSTICE
The House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would expand the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, allowing it to review petitions filed by military service members challenging courts-martial decisions. Under current law, a service member is barred from petitioning the high court if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) has…
ISRAELI/HAITIAN CONNECTION
Israel is in the uncomfortable position of being criticized for giving aid to Haiti. It is a marvelous example of “Damned if we do and damned if we don’t.” Enemies of Israel are claiming Israel’s aid is only a public relations ploy and, cynically, they find it amusing that Israel doesn’t provide the same humanitarian…
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