Last week one of my Facebook friends posted an article by Al-Jazeera on Israel’s attempt to turn Jordan into the Palestinian homeland. I was reading the article while sipping my coffee and enjoying labors of free speech when suddenly I was thrown back to Jack Ass Land when someone left an insanely ignorant and mis-guided message [...]
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General McChrystal may not have been the most politically savvy person in the lot, but at least he had a sense of humor. In the infamous Rolling Stones article that cost McChrystal his job, it was mentioned that some of his team referred to themselves as Team America… Team America being the exhaustingly hilarious movie [...]
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Obama has decided to drop the missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. I didn’t follow this too closely, but I’m a little shocked that they are completely abandoning it. That being said, it seems like it might be a good thing as no one seemed to actually like the idea (except for Bush). Also, while [...]
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One of the pieces I get in my blog reader (almost every day) is the New York Times’ Names of the Dead List. Every time a US military servicemember dies in the Iraq or Afghanistan War, the Times runs a small piece listing their names, age, rank, hometown, and regiment. Today’s paper listed the 799th, [...]
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