Month: June 2005

Afghanistan going down the tubes

The Taliban apparently shot down a Chinook helicopter killing all 17 aboard. Hostile Fire May Have Downed U.S. Copter. If confirmed, Tuesday’s attack would apparently be the first time a U.S.-led coalition aircraft here...

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Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 52

image: Bodies arrive at the main hospital after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Al-Rafidain bank in Kirkuk. The ethnic tinderbox of Kirkuk in northern Iraq was gripped by more violence after a suicide bombing at a...

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Today’s Topical Limericks

The President has said it again. “Watching violence and bloodshed offends.” I tune MY TV, But the dead I don’t see, Is he watching the same CNN? (four more after the fold)Proposing gay marriage statecraft...

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The Sound of Force Protection

We are being controlled in more ways than one. I have been wondering for some time now why there is so little actual physical actions against this WH Administration. I intend to keep harping on this until I can prove it....

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Dating and the Class Divide

[Crossposted at CultureKitchen.] I have a date tonight, first one in about eight months.  I’m a little nervous, for both the regular reasons (Will I like him? Will he like me?  Will we both sit there suffering in...

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