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Why Does the President Want Us to Buy More Oil From A Crazy Man?

Jimmie | March 24, 2011 | Comments (0)

I used to love the Weekly World News. I never minded handing over a couple bucks to learn where Bat Boy had landed to fight the Islamists or the latest “Dick Cheney is a Robot” story. Nearly every page entertained me and, since I’m already a fan of weird fiction, I could imagine a story [...]

Hugo’s Twitter-Cotta Army

Jimmie | May 14, 2010 | Comments (0)

In 1974, some Chinese farmers found what became one of the greatest archeological finds of my lifetime, an army of terra cotta warriors. The statues, over 8,000 of them, were buried to serve as Emperor Qin’s army in the afterlife, to help him conquer yet another empire in a new world. Hugo Chavez doesn’t quite [...]

Is Our New Foreign Policy Really “Do The Opposite of Bush”?

Jimmie | June 30, 2009 | Comments (1)

If the Obama administration has a coherent foreign policy, the theme seems to be “Do the Opposite of George Bush”. Since the Bush foreign policy was heavy on denouncing tyrants and strongmen and long on promoting democracy on multiple fronts and in multiple ways, undoing that will necessarily mean cozying up to folks like Mad [...]

You Can Only Seize So Much Wealth

Jimmie | May 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

President Obama’s bro-shake buddy is up to more deviltry. A fresh round of expropriations in Venezuela has raised fears that the Opec producer’s already declining oil output could sink to its lowest level in the past 20 years. Troops were mobilised over the weekend to assist Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, in seizing the assets [...]

Why We Love the Newt.

Jimmie | April 20, 2009 | Comments (3)

Michael van der Galien has himself a man crush, but it’s not just any man crush, nossiree. It’s Newt-sized! Newt Gingrich is, as far as I am concerned, one of the best Republicans out there. He is intelligent, a problem-solver, understands how to win elections, and he is extremely savvy. Why yes. Yes he is. [...]

Slapping Skin with Dictators

Jimmie | April 17, 2009 | Comments (4)

I understand that sometimes our President has to shake the hand of a disgusting little ratlike tyrant. It comes with the territory of being a head of state. But did he really have to give him a soul shake with bonus pat on the shoulder? Really?

Meet Your New Neighbors…Russian Bombers?

Jimmie | March 14, 2009 | Comments (0)

Yikes. Just…yikes. “There are four or five airfields in Cuba with 4,000-meter-long runways, which absolutely suit us,” Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev told Interfax. Zhikharev, who is the chief of staff of the Russian Air Force’s long-range aviation, said, “If the two chiefs of state display such a political will, we are ready to fly there.” [...]

The AP Lies for William Ayers

Jimmie | October 10, 2008 | Comments (2)

Un. Be. Lievable. Here’s the headline to an AP story: “McCain TV ad raises Obama’s links to ex-radical” Ex-radical? What, in AP’s opinion, makes William Ayers an ex-radical – that’s he’s not actively trying to blow up innocent people with nail bombs? Bill Ayers has never once repented for his reprehensible and deadly past. In [...]