Archive for the 'History' Category
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
World peace has been a goal of most of mankind for as long as civilization has existed. A world without war or violence perpetrated against the weak by the strong is an ideal as noble as it is impossible. Simply put, the nature of mankind is such that world peace will never be realized. It [...]
By: Nick | Category History, Military, Political Correctness, Politics, War on Terror, World Opinion | Comments Off
Monday, June 26th, 2006
The reporters at the NY Times recently did all they could to lengthen the Global War on Terror (GWT) and kill more American military personnel stationed overseas. They had help, of course, in the form of “anonymous sources”, a polite way of referring to treasonous bastards who have, in fact, broken the law they swore [...]
By: Nick | Category Conspiracy, Culture War, History, Journalism, Military, Politics, War on Terror | Comments Off
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
It’s been over four years since the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, yet there is still no memorial and museum at Ground Zero. Now, it appears that there may never be: The public has heard plenty about the “empty pit of Ground Zero,” but most do not know that the $2.8 billion [...]
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Ted Rall has managed, yet again, to prove why he is the person most likely not to be missed if he were to fall off of the Earth today. In another one of his tasteless attempts at cartooning, Rall manages to lie about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, proffer a unsubstantiated conspiracy theory, and bash President [...]
By: Nick | Category Conspiracy, Culture War, History, Politics, War on Terror | Comments Off
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Islamofasicts and Cartoons: Looks like Muslims around the globe are upset over some depictions of Muhammad in cartoons published in a Danish newspaper. Now Denmark is subject to a Muslim boycott and Muslims around the world are threatening to kill, behead, or otherwise terminate Danish citizens where ever they may be. They’re doing this, by [...]
By: Nick | Category History, Life, Politics, Religion, Science, World Opinion | Comments Off
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
On January 28, 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after liftoff due to a design problem with seals on the solid rocket boosters. 7 astronauts lost their lives, and NASA was subjected to several months of investigation by a Presidential Commission. The Commission’s Report revealed a lot of problems at NASA, mostly [...]
By: Nick | Category History, Science | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
If you, like me, have wondered about the beginnings of Kwanzaa, Ann Coulter sheds some light on the subject. 2001 Edition: Earlier this week, President Clinton issued a formal White House proclamation celebrating the first day of Kwanzaa. His announcement began with some claptrap about preserving “what we value of our past,” and Kwanzaa being [...]
By: Nick | Category Christmas, History | Comments Off
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
Jane Fonda, 1960′s radical and used-to-be movie actress, was recently interviewed by email by the Washington Post. In this interview, she claims to have had “secret meetings” with military psychologists”: Fonda said “Winter Soldier” shows the psychological impact of the war on service personnel: “Starting with the Vietnam War we began training soldiers differently. In [...]
By: Nick | Category History, Jerks (Celebrities), Military, Politics, War on Terror | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Selectwoman Sarah Peake of Provincetown wants to rewrite history: To wit, Selectwoman Sarah Peake spun her chair around near the end of the Nov. 14 meeting, gazed up at an oversized oil painting depicting the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact when they first landed in Provincetown, and declared that she wanted it removed. Mind [...]
By: Nick | Category History, Political Correctness | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 11th, 2005
I once read a story in Reader’s Digest about a soldier who had served in Viet Nam and was wounded terribly. Even though the story told about the soldier’s fight with his health upon return to America, the story was, I thought at the time, one of the most uplifting and inspirational I had ever [...]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
Seems I hit a nerve in the moonbat community yesterday with this post. Since it’s fun to do so, let’s take his comments apart one by one. So, Joseph, whose web site is here, this is for you: Can you explain how they broadcast the landing on the moon “live”? If someone filmed the astronaut [...]
By: Nick | Category History | 3 Comments »