(Korea trip, 23rd day ( Read more... )

2008.
May it be a better year than 2007

I found this quote in a science fiction book (4th in a series)... seems applicable to a lot of situations happening right now in the modern world.

“But what Hank did was plain dumb.  You can’t loose the hounds of war and expect to know the tree those puppies are gonna bark up.  That’s why any smart man does his best to keep those sons ah bitches ( Read more... )

I noticed in the recent news that Yale University finally lost their case for banning military recruiters from campus *WHILE* requiring the Government to continue providing Federal funding to Yale (not sure if it was just trying to ban them from the Law School, or from the entire campus, on the claim that the military is engaged in illegal ( Read more... )

(for reasons explained on his LJ... though in general I agree with the statement as is, other than possibly inserting "Neo-con" in place of the potentially too generalized "conservative ( Read more... )

June 21st, 2007 - Summer Solstice. Wish I had cheerful thoughts, but...

Here's a quote from the moron-in-chief, George W. Bush (this was plucked from an article in USA Today, so yes, the source is reliable-- he actually said this):

"Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical, and it is not the only option before us," the ( Read more... )

67 years ago today, "D-Day", actually Operation: Overlord, finally kicked off in Normandy.  The front was opened at last in France in World War 2-- when the landings succeeded, it was one step closer to the end for Nazi Germany.  It was a day of brilliant successes for the Allies, punctuated with some very harsh and almost disastrous beginnings in ( Read more... )

Yes, it's about a real person. No, I'm not naming names...  After having read that particular comment of hers, this was my initial gut-feeling reaction.  To all who read this, remember that-- this was my initial reaction, and is also me venting in poetic form-- don't take this as the be all, end all statement of how & what I feel, also don't take ( Read more... )

Okie, this is a response to a post by Jordan179-- the words in italics are his, the words not in italics are mine.  I was gonna post it on his page, BUT since replies have a limited amount of characters (and even here I may have to put it into several posts, I've uploaded to my own page).  I have, of course, left a comment on his page letting all ( Read more... )

Congress has now surrendered and given the Moron-in-Chief the 'blank check' he's wanted all along for military war funding.  Which makes him right-- all the posing and posturing Congress did earlier was just so much political theater and bullshit.  I wanted to see action from Congress, not just EMPTY MEANINGLESS FUCKIN' WORDS about how they were ( Read more... )