Category Archives: 2010s

The Greater Depression

September 6, 2011 – 3:16 pm

p>The recession has hit everybody really hard My neighbor got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can’t afford batteries. CEO’s are now playing miniature golf. Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. A stripper was killed when her audience showered her with rolls of pennies while she […]

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Peace In Our Time

September 1, 2011 – 7:11 am

GW Bush and his White House convinced the American people that Saddam and Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction or WMDs. A pre-emptive invasion was successful beyond the wildest dreams of the neo-conservatives seeking to transform the status quo of the Middle East. The president landed on on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln […]

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Soldiers With No Names

August 31, 2011 – 12:35 pm

August 2011 was ‘deadliest month’ for US in Afghan war. The death toll soared with the crash of a Chinook Helicopter. A rocket grenade hit the twin-engined aircraft during a raid on insurgents. The big copter is capable of speeds up to 190 MPH, but its vulnerability during landings and take-offs have cost many casualties […]

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The Fury of the Unnature

August 31, 2011 – 9:08 am

I had expected my flight from Tokyo to JFK to be delayed by the storm. I landed ahead of schedule. The A train was running on time. The sky was beautiful. Walking down my street from the subway station, I saw little sign of the storm’s passing. I thought New York had been lucky, for […]

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Frontrunner For A Day

August 25, 2011 – 10:41 am

The Death Penalty throughout history has been imposed on traitors, heretics, adulterers, thieves, murderers, rapists, arsonists, and the innocent. One of my distant family members was hung by the English for religious dissent in the late 1500s and more recently Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois in 1844. I have never […]

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