Born at the Crest of the Empire

This is not the America I was brought up to believe in. This blog seeks to highlight abuse of power, deception, corruption, and just plain bad ideas in government and corporations. Updated several times a day.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Somebody's targetiing Rahm Emanuel

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Two days ago there was an ubstantiantiated story in the British Telegraph (friendly to Republicans) which was then promoted through Drudge c...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Idiots

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Drudge is headlining the fever dream of a "one world currency," and people on the right are still believing this is a possibility....
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Issa threatens Obama investigators

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Well known wank and California Republican rep Darrell Issa is promising to hire tons of investigators and to flood the White House with sub...
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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Steppin' out....

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I'm doing some stuff over this weekend so blogging will probably be near non-existent. I expect to be back to regular service by Monday ...
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Iran a year on

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The Iranian government raises security as the one year anniversary of Ahmadinejad's dubious reelection rolls around .
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Friday, June 11, 2010

Today

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The World Cup starts today. Because many can't watch the games live, I will not post anything about results until about 8:30 or 9:00 PM ...
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A National Shame

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( WaPo , USAToday ) The Army has found hundreds of cases of mishandling, misplacing, or improperly buried remains at Arlington National Cem...
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Oil now, oil forever.....

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Government experts now say the BP oil spill is probably double their earlier estimates, although that only puts their estimate at 25,000-40...
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Too little. Very Late

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The Pope finally begs forgiveness for priest abuse and promises the church will no longer tolerate it (after how many decades that they (an...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Iran

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The US gets a new set of sanctions against Iran . The sanctions freeze the international assets of many semi-governmental institutions like...
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N. Korea

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The NYTimes takes an interesting look at N. Korea from interviews with defectors.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Thought for the Day

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The media is buying this "Republican year of the woman" crap. Did they ever cover the 170 years of the fat, white, old males?
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Dead Meme

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Remember three or four months ago when there was all that media about all the black candidates the Republicans had running for office? Well,...
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California passes "open" primaries

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Without too much press, California passed a new law that would change their primary system. Every potential candidate from every party will...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

N. Korea's crisis

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While I was unable to post yesterday (thanks, blogger!,) there was one event that I should probably note. North Korea underwent a rather un...
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Horrible

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Marines are trying to kill themselves at a record pace this year despite a 2009 program aimed at stemming the problem, according to Marine C...
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