Thanx. See ya CTut.

Glad you liked Senator Morse. He would like your approach I’m sure, talking to people about matters that are of concern, matters that people can figure out on their own given a few facts. We’ve got some commenters above that seem to appreciate that. Speaking of heading out, I and my SO are heading out [...]

How can anyone improve on eCahn’s summary? Simple and exact. It’s always possible to describe situations in complex terms. That’s what drives think tanks and their huge expense accounts. Simple citizens aren’t qualified to understand such complexities, they say. Baloney. But it’s not necessary, as eCahn illustrates. Keep it simple, and then everyone can understand [...]

@ 23 Subaru Observatory, I take it, is the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii, and which features the Subaru 8.2 meter telescope. Subaru is a term identifying a cluster of six stars, which the Greeks called the Pleiades. So there are six stars on the Suburu vehicle [...]

Paging one Dougie Feith to the phone…!

I know, but really both sides of the aisle starting (at least) with Clinton/Gore and their Iraq Liberation Act wanted Iraq. The country was on its knees from crippling sanctions, and the US military had the technology. What they didn’t have were more important — morality and [...]

Aloha back to ya Meanwhile, in Libya yet another US failure has worsened conditions not only for the locals but for Americans. There have been a series of disturbing security developments. Protests broke out Sunday in the capital. The U.S., Britain and France — the coalition that overthrew Muammar Qaddafi — issued a joint warning [...]

Erdogan is scheduled to visit Obama Thursday where he will be able to deliver his message about “burns, you know, serious burns and chemical reactions.” hah

After Sykes-Picot, the English writer (and traveler) Gertrude Bell achieved prominence in Iraq. She had traveled widely in the Middle East, and became a trusted adviser to the British forces advancing from Basra to Baghdad. Later Bell was instrumental in forming the new country of Iraq, and became known as the founder of modern Iraq. [...]

Partitioning of Syria is the main objective! I hadn’t heard that one before. Does Biden live again? The deep thinkers of the Potomac basin hardly think that far ahead, if at all. To them attacking Syria with surrogates is the best they can do when they can’t attack Iran — she’s too powerful. So do [...]

First Kerry flips, and then he flops. May 7: “So what we are going to undertake to do is to try to get in a position where they, representing the people they represent in Syria, the interests they represent, put people into the transitional government by mutual consent.” May 9: “The foreign minister will work [...]

– And Cindy Sheehan for Attorney General.

Post-Assad Syria? New government? An important part of any civil war is to have an organization to replace the government which is the target of the war. They ain’t got it in Syria. What they have is a guy the US calls “Prime Minister,” Ghassan Hitto, recently from Murphy, Texas. Hitto, who has zero allegiance [...]

And nobody, almost nobody, of any authority in Washington shilling for peace. In Moscow and Beijing, they are.

What we need is a ‘red line’ on renegade congress-critters, because the American people don’t want this Syria thing they’re cooking up in Washington.

(Reuters) – Most Americans do not want the United States to intervene in Syria’s civil war even if the government there uses chemical weapons, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday, in a [...]

UN Security Council resolutions from April last year called “upon all parties in Syria, including the opposition, immediately to cease all armed violence in all its forms” in order to seek a diplomatic remedy. But the US and its petro-despot allies are not complying with the UN resolutions. Instead they are arming the rebels, the [...]

If that’s one of those live volcanoes it’s not a good idea. But Hawai’i is all volcanic so what choice do you have. The Aleutians are exploding too, I see. I’ll take earthquakes any day (and usually do).

@ shoot #114 I couldn’t agree more — which is why I spend so much time trying to get at the truth, which usually varies from what we’re told.

“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that [...]

1. Syria says all options are on the table

2. Israel’s new offshore natural gas wells in the Leviathan gas field, in the Med, went on-line in March. Now that would make a mushroom cloud.

The haze of war — at the Syrian military facility — airstrikes targeted the 104th and 105th brigades of the Syrian Republican Guards . .at least 300 soldiers stationed at Mount Qasioun have been killed and hundreds of others injured, or — Several civilian factories and buildings were destroyed. The target was just an ordinary [...]

There has been some news on “bunker buster” bombs — designed to defeat Iran. The claim: “The newest version of what is the Pentagon’s largest conventional bomb, the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, has adjusted fuses to maximize its burrowing power, upgraded guidance systems to improve its precision and high-tech equipment intended to allow [...]