Wars: Politicians have their favorites

Republicans like wars fought by the military. Backing wars like these butches up even the gay Republicans. Democrats like social wars. This makes them feel better about their natural penchant for stealing money from those of us who produce. The tactics used to fight wars are usually the same: throw a lot of money at [...]

Want to predict how this is going to turn out?

H/T to my boy Prophet for the link on this one. So I read the article below and thought to myself “self, I wonder how this will end up turning out, but I am sure it won’t be good”. UMM has interests beyond the building of mosques. One of them deals with children’s activities – [...]

Are you kidding me??

I’m not sure why the Republican Party so set against my ever joining common cause with them, but here goes reason number 2,345: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele may be misremembering exactly how and when the Afghanistan war began. At a Republican Party fundraiser in Connecticut on Thursday, Steele declared that the war in [...]

Church and State

Full disclosure…….I am a devout Agnostic. I have not been hit over the head, had an epiphany, been saved or witnessed a miracle that could not be explained. I want there to be an afterlife, but blind faith removed from the above experiences just smacks of hedging ones bets. Rather shallow and transparent to a [...]