Category: Political Rants

Is it a big deal if the clock on a bank’s automated teller machine is three minutes off? It is a big deal if that timestamp is used as evidence in a murder investigation. An Arizona Star article tells the story of two teenagers and a mother falsely arrested for murder, and hauled from Arizona… Continue reading Does anybody care what time it is?

I made a quick stop at Walmart yesterday (no comments, Mel!) to pick up some pictures of friends and neighbors that I took at Rolex. It was the first time I had experimented with the process of having prints made from my Nikon 5700 and I was curious to see what kind of quality I… Continue reading Homeland Insecurity vs. Wally World?

I haven’t been able to produce much new content here recently, so the Kucinich presidential campaign was nice enough to drop some in my lap, in a recent email about his recent ranking by union members at a candidates’ forum in Iowa. When I first received it, it was not yet on their website, so… Continue reading Kucinich Scores in Iowa

In a perfect example of clueless politicians and CEO’s, a New York Times article reports that workers in an Omaha factory will lose a day’s pay when the plant closes for a speech by President Bush, telling them how they’re going to be helped by tax cuts for their rich owners. This doesn’t seem to… Continue reading Marie Antoinette Reincarnated?

Just a brief note to point out this request for an attack on Appalachia. It’s a warm Wednesday afternoon, and I’m struggling just to digest lunch without causing any trouble, so I can’t add anything to it, but it’s worth reading.

This amusing photo comparison has been circulating around the web for over two years. Now it appears that the similarities may be more than just cosmetic, according to a study by a psychology professor at UK. Arnold Ludwig, who has published his research in KING OF THE MOUNTAIN: The Nature of Political Leadership, finds that… Continue reading Political Primates

Somebody sent me this UPI article about Saddam Hussein’s early unsuccessful career as a CIA hit man. Since I haven’t seen much about it in other news sources, I thought it was worth discussing here. Apparently we hired him way back in 1959 to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister, and the plot was badly botched:

I received this via email. It’s apparently making the rounds. I couldn’t find an original source or an author’s name, so I’ll just reproduce it here with thanks to Mr. Anonymous.

Test your knowledge of facts concerning the Iraq situation. I received an email copy of Steve Shalom’s Iraq quiz. As I usually do with such items, I searched for a web source and found it on several sites. After seeing it on the All Hat, No Cattle site, I wandered around that site a little… Continue reading Iraq War Quiz

A Guardian article (thanks, Gretchen) discusses a blog allegedly written by an Iraqi in the suburbs of Baghdad. The article discusses the common questions about its authenticity, and the author seems convinced that it’s real. Furthermore, Chris Albritton of Back to Iraq says he has been in touch with him and is planning an interview.