Archive for July, 2010
This is starting to smell like a scam.
A Fallen Hero: How an Insurance Company Profited A headline like that kinda gets your attention. Long story short it seems that when Sgt. Ryan Baumann, killed in Afghanistan his mother was unable to bring herself to seek the money. But when she tried to use it 6 months later she ran into problems. She […]
Har-dee-har-har
Like two-year-olds; I held my thoughts on Mike Kern for more than a year because someone told me he needs help. He doesn’t need help…he needs a playpen and a rattle. ANd this isn’t free speech…it’s grade school playground talk about pee-pee and wee-wee. Yeah, I’m not stalking anyone. Concerned people send me this stuff.
Antiwar activist loses home
Just A Grunt sends us a link to a story today about anti-war activist Patricia Roberts who lost her son Jamaal Addison in the Iraq War in the same incident Jessica Lynch was captured. Roberts helped pay for the condo’s $513 a month mortgage, but her income also dropped when she left her job as […]
Where are the calls for ‘context’?
Last week we heard the word “context” every two minutes from the media and the White House in defense of Shirley Sherrod, whose words, they tell us, were taken out of context. So where are these purveyors of context today when we need them? The 91,000 “document drop” cries for some context – just like […]
Russia Violated the ’91 START treaty. Who knew???
Well knock me over with a feather… From Bill Gertz at the Washington Times Russia continued to violate provisions of the 1991 START nuclear-arms treaty up until the agreement expired in December, raising new concerns that Moscow will violate the pending “New START” treaty now being debated for ratification in the Senate. So here’s a […]
Frank wanted his dollar discount
The other day we discussed John Kerry and his tax avoidance. By the way, it looks like public pressure has forced him to pay the taxes he owes on his boat. Today it’s Barney Franks causing a scene enroute to Fire Island over his senior discount on the ferry (did I spell that right?); Barney […]
Gurkha charged for beheading dead Taliban leader
MEW sends us a link to an article about a young Gurkha soldier who, in the confusion of battle hacked off the head of a dead Taliban leader for identification purposes. The 20-year-old is now facing charges in Britain over the incident. From the Times of India; His unit had been told that they were […]
A little late but…welcome, France
Nine years after George Bush declared war on al Qaeda, the French have finally done the same according to the Associated Press; “We are at war with al-Qaida,” Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, a day after President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the death of 78-year-old hostage Michel Germaneau. The humanitarian worker had been abducted April […]
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