The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
Reverend G R Gleig, survived the First Anglo-Afghan War to write in 1843:
...a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, has Britain acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated.
WMDs Redux
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No, I’m not talking about déjà vu all over again in Iran (like Iraq) or
Syria (like Libya), although no one should be shocked when either or both
of those ...
Morocco, the Gulf and the media
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An interesting item at Angry Arab — Aljazeera and Morocco:
"Yassine sent met this: "So al-Jazeera decided not to air the documentary
on Morocco and the ...
Join the Wyoming Navy-Its every man for himself
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Obnoxious Republicans, the dominate species of that particular animals
these days, absolutely love to point fingers at the failure and stupidity
of gover...
Sen. Lieberman caws again
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(from BombIran.org - an antiwar site)The last dying gasp of the aging warhawk was uttered yesterday, when Sen. Joe Lieberman spoke about possibly using milit...
Joe Walsh thinks Mitt Romney pays too much in Taxes
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Remember how Mitt Romney was loathe to let the plebeians have a look at his
sacred tax returns? Because first it showed how little in taxes Mitt
actually p...
Al Qaeda Is acting out in desperation
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Fears that Iran Is Helping Al Qaeda Plot Atrocity, Al-Qaeda Joins the
Syrian Rebellion and Al Shabab: Time to listen to your own Noman Benotman
Al-Qaeda ...
Could Walker’s Koch Be Cut Off?
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As the stage is set for recall in Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin,
Fartfuhrer Walker has become all the more dependent on the largesse of the
corporate ...
Human Rights Video (25): “Buy a Candle!”
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Three clever Amnesty International ads: 1 of 3 countries censor internet
and social networks. Freedom of expression needs your love. Buy a candle. 1
of 2 c...
Danger: Exploding COIN Rounds
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By the time May sunshine brightens up the Windy City, President Barack
Obama’s fortunes in Afghanistan could bounce back on the announcement of
new troop w...
Miscellaneous 119
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1) Here's some more interesting data. According to government statistics
(and as set forth by the University of California, Santa Cruz), the total
net wort...
Rachel Maddow at the Steinbeck Center
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Rachel flew out to California this afternoon, to San Jose where the
Steinbeck Center is honoring her with a Steinbeck Award.
New blogger interface sucks. Fuck you Google
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I was just about done with pssibly the best post I ever wrote using
Google's new interface and the godddamn thing just disappeared.
Google sucks for denyi...
John S Wilkins’ “Evolving Thoughts”
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A year and a half ago, in September 2010, blogger John S. Wilkins posted
something I meant to remark on here. A response to the public discussion
going on...
Let's Shoot In Iran They Say Back In The Cornfield
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A poll from a paper back in Iowa that means very little. What can be said
that the ones who voted here want to shoot over not shooting. Not
surprising as M...
A Real Job for the Vice President: Leading Congress
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*February 25, 2012*
The vice presidency has been a joke for most of the nation’s history. The
first vice president, John Adams, said it was "the most ins...
"GOP's Radioactive Anti-Obama Rhetoric"
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We are blessed with the freedom to say whatever we want about our president. But those who cast Obama as something other than one of us don’t understand him ...
Matt Kemp 'happy' Ryan Braun wasn't suspended
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Matt Kemp said he was pleased to hear Ryan Braun was successful in appealing his positive drug test from last year. “I was happy that he was not found guilty...
Oh please
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Marvelous Mitt must be desperate to have something scary to say to distract
Republicans from the religious wedge issues the public is getting tired of.
He'...
Obama's Bone Headed Tax Strategy
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STORY ONE: Obama Plans to Triple Dividend Tax Rate to nearly 50%
STORY TWO: Britain's 50p Tax Rate Hike Backfires - Revenue's Drop
Dramatically
While Re...
Baby Momma,Daddy Drama Even In Death!
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As I caught a snippet or two of the coverage of Whitney Houston's home
going service,I could not ignore the drama between Bobby Brown and the
Houston famil...
Great Depression II
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From a N.Y. Times commenter:
I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these
republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...
what constitues a religion - anyway?
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My Webster's New World Dictionary (paperback) - revised and updated - 2003 -
says this about Religion:
1. belief in or worship of God (or gods)
2. a spe...
THE OBJECTIVE & MORAL RESOURCES
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*Feb. 2, 2012 By Gwendolyn H. Barry of A NEW GLOBAL MYTH (**
http://newglobalmyth.blogspot.com/* *and Jack Jodell of THE SATURDAY
AFTERNOON POST (http://ja...
The Right to Life Begins at Birth
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On February 5th, Randal Terry will be putting pictures of aborted fetuses,
arranged in morbid tableus, on prime-time television.
In his portraits of the u...
Predicting Iowa
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Print There are few Americans who do not remember James Earl Jones’ famous
speech in Field of Dreams: Ray, people will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa
for...
Make One Thing Sacrosanct in 2012…
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Another year is about to be come an irretrievable part of the past, joining
all other years in memory, in the imagination.
It’s customary to make a wish f...
"Failure" of the Super Committee??
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This concept has been kicked around for a few days, but TPM boils it down nicely -- if Congress were to do nothing, then deficits would go WAY down. Now, th...
Blogger Blues
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UPDATE 12/18/12: This site is rendering correctly (off and on) - and has been for a while now - but since I've already started the new blog linked below, I...
Blaming The Prophets
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In Matthew 6:24, Jesus tells us that we cannot serve God and mammon. OWS is
telling us that we cannot serve mankind and neoliberalism. Finally, most
climat...
What caused the 2008 Economic Collapse?
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And without Keynesian intervention,
how can we rationally hope to avoid a second,
much worse collapse?
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's...
OUR ALMOST TRIP TO EUROPE
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*Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic*
* Yesterday we would have been*
* *
*on the Danube River*
* Today, traveling the Glass Road *
*...
US Independence, Le Marquis de La Fayette and France
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One of the most important heroes of the US War of Indenpendence:
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette who
made it possible...
Buh Bye Blogger! Moving to WordPress.
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I am no longer posting to this damn Blogger blog. My new site can be foundhere,
and the name is changed to *Leftwing Nutjob*..which is what it should be
an...
911 Was Child's Play??
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*Traces of Radiation too small to kill an Ant was detected yesterday,
Thursday March 17th, at a California Monitoring station. It is said to have
come from...
In case anyone is still visiting this blog ...
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I stopped updating this blog last year, and I am no longer writing for Mad
Mike's. You can now find my volunteer prose poetry and musings at RoundTree7,
wh...
WE ARE FAR TOO TOP-HEAVY!
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*"Corporations are NOT people! Money is NOT free speech!"
- TomCat, www.politics.plus.org -*
*"Advertising is legalized lying."
- H.G. Wells -*
Big bus...
Michael Moore: America Is Not Broke
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Speech delivered at Wisconsin Capitol in Madison, March 5, 2011America is
not broke.Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that
you'l...
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Overpopulation and Further ThinkingTHIS is the most important problem on the earth, no quibbling, and if humans don’t solve it for themselves, Nature will so...
Monty Burns on friendship
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*"I'll keep it short and sweet. Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the
three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business." *-
Montgomery B...
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A New Day
*To Mac's cherished readers and fellow bloggers:*
While living life to it's fullest, Mac always had an optimistic view for
tomorrow. "Tomorro...
Kit, Unwired
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My life is in transition, and my daughter Casie and I are in the process of
moving. We've looked at a few places, from rooms to rent to apartments and
may...
Justifiable Police Brutality
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If I reacted to being stopped and cited for jay-walking in this manner, and
resisted arrest, I would expect to get a pop in the nose. Or something.<i...
Sirens Chronicles bids you adieu…
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We will be closing up the site this week. It has been fun, informative and
interesting with all the various authors/writers we have had over the
couple of ...
Matthew Alexander
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Matthew Alexander (a pseudonym) is a former senior military interrogator
and author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used
Brains, No...
Who's Missing in the Obama Administration and Why?
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In the near future, I am planning a column on my site, The Vigil, in which
I will ask the question,
*What went wrong with Barack Obama and his 60-Vote D...
Racism in China
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Lou Jing sings Shanghai opera and speaks fluent Mandarin, but when she
competed to be China's next reality TV pop star, it was not her voice that
was crit...
Who won the top four Oscars?
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Who won the top four awards at tonight's Oscar ceremony?
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