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Monthly Archives: September 2013

Iraq redux?

Monday, September 9, 2013

I prefer to stay away from conspiracy theories, and I admit that, though I have expressed a lot of disappointment with Obama, I've held on to a belief that he is qualitatively different than Bush. I have, in short, a tough time accepting that he, like Bush, would lie us into war, but alas I […]

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Playing by Humpty Dumpty’s rules

Sunday, September 8, 2013

A few days ago I came across an article, in which the following paragraph appears. The Obama administration is considering putting the Pentagon in charge of arming and training moderate rebel forces in Syria, a move that could help expand the effort significantly beyond the limited scope of the current Central Intelligence Agency program, U.S. […]

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Good News Day

Friday, September 6, 2013

The week’s almost over, so I’ve got to get this in. No, Obama has not come to his senses and called off the humanitarian bombing, but this is still good news, if it’s true. This man from Japan has invented a process to turn plastic back to oil. I suppose there’s some questions not answered […]

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Our guys vote right on Syria

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

This is not my “good news” post of the week, since it's weak tea, good news wise, but it is good news for the people of this state and this Congressional District that Chris Murphy voted against the Syria misadventure, and Joe Courtney has voiced his opposition. For anyone looking for an education on this […]

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Founding Fondlers

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Lately our historically challenged right-wing brethren have, against all the evidence, taken to ascribing their own beliefs (or beliefs they pretend to hold) to our sainted Founding Fathers. If we are to believe them, our forefathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in religion, and dedicated to the proposition that all men […]

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Who cares what John McCain thinks?

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Depending on how you look at it, I am either blessed or cursed by the fact that I get three physical newspapers a day. This morning, two of them, the Day (too lazy to get a link) and the Times headlined the surprising fact that John McCain is backing Obama’s big mistake. This raises a […]

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Where is this going?

Monday, September 2, 2013

A few weeks ago I noted in my good news feature that Obama did not appear anxious to get himself involved in Syria. That was then, and this is now, and all I can say is that I was acting on the basis of the intelligence I had then. The monumental hypocrisy of our insistence […]

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