Well, not exactly like the original gangster film and remake but the Bush administration has its own version of ‘Get Carter’ at the moment only this time it’s an ex-President rather than a gangster. The Carter in question is former U.S. President and humanitarian Jimmy Carter. Carter won the Nobel Prize in 2002 largely due [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2007
I FINALLY GOT A NEW JOB!!!!
Hooray for me. I finally landed a new job. I’ve been stuck in an admin position in the Planning Decisions Unit for nearly two years now. Photocopying planning reports 19 times and collating them into 19 agendas is long gone! While my new post is still going to be an administrative one, it will be [...]
Deh deh deh, another one bites the dust…
Paul Wolfowitz will be officially resigning from the World Bank. Hallelujah! Another of Bush’s cronies goes down in flames. I’ve been holding on to this cartoon for so long wanting to put it up. I found it hysterical. It came out at the beginning of this whole situation and it’s more than appropriate to post [...]
I like this
A good article today from John Brummett in Arkansas. I especially like this bit. Vince Insalaco, veteran and amiable politico, quoted something he’d read in a Joe Klein column. It was that the Democrats are married to the Clintons, but having an affair with Obama. Married to the Clintons but having an affair with Obama, [...]
Afraid there’s one more for today: Bubba’s gun
This makes 4 official posts but I just had to share it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and I’m pretty sure most will agree with me: America and guns is one strange relationship. This is just creepy, seriously creepy.
Caveat…um…reader (can’t remember all my Latin)
There are three posts today after this one. Sorry, there was a lot to write about. I’ve also updated the About page if you wish to have a look.
Politics, politicians and flip-flops
I found it funny reading this article on CNN about the Republican Presidential debate last night. Four years ago the Republican party lambasted John Kerry for allegedly flip-flopping on many issues. It would appear to me that these guys are now doing the exact same thing. These are a couple of excerpts Former Massachusetts Gov. [...]
Ding dong the wicked witch is dead…
I know I should never rejoice in anyone’s death. I’m actually not altogether glad the Reverend Jerry Falwell is dead; he was too much fun to laugh at. Nonetheless, the fundamentalist Christian right in America has lost a general. This is the man who, in 1999, published an article in which he argued that Tinky [...]
The Crisis of the Liberal International Order
I went to a lecture at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) on Monday afternoon given by renowned International Relations professor G. John Ikenberry. He argued that America’s current unilateral trend goes deeper than simply the Bush administration. He argued that the post-war (WWII) order is in crisis and that [...]
So this Rudy fella
I read the Vanity Fair article on Rudy Giuliani last night. Here it is if you wish to read it too. The only thing I can say, really, is he’s a bit strange definitely. This article paints him as a bit of a nutcase. My favourtie bit, however, has to be this: This is the [...]