Category Archives: Current Affairs

NPR And NY Times Say Bush Was Correct About Pushing Democracy

Get your ice skates out, folks, Hell has just frozen over, starting with NPR: In Egypt, More Proof That George W. Bush Was Right Two weeks of massive street protests have given Egyptians their voice and today Hosni Mubarak has heard them. If the events that led to Mubarak’s resignation after 30 years as president […]

Sorry, Obama Zombies, It Was Climate Change That Caused Mubarak To Resign

Of course, the narrative is now that it was Obama giving another speech via TOTUS that caused Mubarak to resign, but, Science Blogs thinks differently The Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, has resigned, finally relenting to weeks of massive protests. Is he the latest casualty of climate change? This is a provacative question, but I believe […]

Tim Pawlenty: Obama Deserves Nobel Less Than Al Gore

Awesome stuff from Tim Thank you and thanks to Sean Duffy. Are you fired up and ready to take back our country? That’s great, we really need you. You know why? President Obama has done the impossible. He’s proven that someone can deserve a Nobel Prize less than Al Gore! On what planet do they […]

Obama Faces Stark Choices On Mubarak Update: Mubarak Steps Down?

The original headline of the NY Times article was “US faces stark choice as Mubarak clings to office,” but, perhaps the Fish Wrap realized that the rest of pretty much know what is going on, and have made our choices, and that so far, Obama has voted “present” President Hosni Mubarak’s refusal to step down […]

Say, How’s Obama’s Afghanistan Adventure Going?

Buried on MSNBC’s front page Wednesday was an interesting article from Reuters, which I found using my Fluent News iPhone app. And those are pretty much the only places this story resides. Just imagine the following came out while Bush was president, or during a John McCain presidency: this story would be one of the […]

Blamestorming And Butt Covering Begins Over Egypt

Showing that politicians, especially Democrat politicians, are more interested in laying blaming on others than….well, really, that is what they are interested in: point the finger at others over Egypt The debate over who “lost” Egypt seems to have begun. Critics are openly questioning the quality of information and analysis given to President Barack Obama […]

Massive March On Mubarak’s Palace Scheduled For Friday

It’s almost 3am Cairo time. What will happen when it becomes daylight in a few hours? For 10 days, violent protests have engulfed Egypt, calling for the resignation of embattled president Hosni Mubarak, killing at least eight and wounding hundreds as increasing lawlessness, looting and arson continues. Friday will be the moment of truth for […]

Dangerous Terrorist Charged With Bringing Gun To School

Did I say terrorist? Sorry, I meant 7 year old with a nerf gun A 7-year-old child allegedly shot a Nerf-style toy gun in his Hammonton, N.J., school Jan. 18. No one was hurt, but the pint-size softshooter now faces misdemeanor criminal charges. Hammonton Police began an investigation into the “suspicious activity” at the Hammonton […]

Snap! Wikileaks Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Well, well, well, it would be interesting if it won. It would join a long list of idiocracy in giving it to Yassar Arafat, Lê Đức Thọ, Al Gore and the UN IPCC, Barack Obama, IAEA and Mohammed ElBaradei, Kofi Annan and the UN, and Jimmy Carter. A Norwegian politician said he has nominated WikiLeaks […]

That Angry Egyptian Camel Dude Sure Gets Around!

I wonder where the Angry Camel Dude has been spotted?

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