Reflections and Rant for the End of Days
Posted in Babylon, Politics, Propaganda on Mar 31st, 2008
By Frosty Wooldridge
President Bush stated last week in his news conference, “America is at a defining moment in the Iraq War….”
He might add that to his now infamous and false statement, “Saddam Hussein hides weapons of mass destruction that are an imminent danger to the safety of the United States….”
Soon after his personal invasion in [...]
Posted in Kulture on Mar 31st, 2008
Modern men feel emasculated, study claims
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:53am GMT 27/03/2008
Many men believe the world is now dominated by women and that they have lost their role in society, fuelling feelings of depression and being undervalued.
Research shows the extent to which men have had to change within one or two generations, [...]
Posted in Babylon on Mar 31st, 2008
Mile-high tower: Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built
By BARRY WIGMORE
On a clear day, the view from the top will take in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean - providing you’ve a head for heights.
Plans for a mile-high tower in the Saudi Arabian desert have [...]
Hello, folks… Now doesn’t it strain the limits of all credulity to believe that nearly HALF of the US population, despite the heightened anxiety inculcated through the main stream media, should now be considered “mentally ill” or “mentally defective”?
The article below notes that no less than 200 million prescriptions are written annually in America to treat depression [...]
THE DEATH OF SHAME
By Coach Dave Daubenmire
Shame–the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another.
I’m not really sure when it began, as it has been a gradual thing, I’m sure. But like the slow removal of a grass stain from a teenager’s hack-around T-shirt, the impression [...]
Posted in Kibbitz, Philosophy on Mar 27th, 2008
The irony of the article below this apparent: Why should a fan of Fred Nietzsche (or any other pagan/atheist, for that matter) care about the “sanctity” of a grave-site? In a “god-is-dead” world where evolutionary forces (i.e., mindless matter+time+chance) all conspire to yield inherent randomness, what does “sanctity” mean? How can one of his followers wax poetic over the injustice of this [...]
Posted in Politics, Propaganda on Mar 26th, 2008
Drash – Insanity… Never underestimate the power of the lie… and especially the stupidity of the mass-media mindset…. What amazes me is that Americans have become so jaded and blasé regarding bald-faced, shameless lies from the mouths of the most corrupt political aspirants in the world… It’s as “common as a (now virtually worthless) coin of the [...]
Posted in Babylon, Politics, Propaganda on Mar 25th, 2008
By: Justin Raimondo
Well, I guess that makes it official: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the current economic slowdown in the United States is directly related to the enormous costs of the ongoing occupation of Iraq, consigning the United [...]
Home Prices and Consumer Sentiment Slide
Home prices across the country continued to fall in January at record rates while one measure of consumer confidence reached a five-year low.
The value of single-family homes plummeted 10.7 percent in January compared with a year earlier, as measured by the Case-Shiller index, a closely watched survey of 20 [...]
Posted in Babylon, Politics, Propaganda on Mar 25th, 2008
by Pat Buchanon
On reading George Bush’s discourse to the New York Economic Club last week, Cicero’s insight came to mind:
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
With Iraq entering its sixth year, the dollar sinking to peso levels, the economy careening into recession, and 12 million to [...]