Category Archives: War

SHOOTING AT THE MOON / NONFICTION by Roger Wagner

July 18, 2010 – 12:46 pm

The airbases fo Issan are relatively quiet now. A few arrivals a day from Bangkok, but during the Viet-Nam War these runways were scorched by US fighters and bombers flying missions over Hanoi and more secretively Laos. This supposed secret war was run out of a small complex on the Udon Thani air strip basically [...]

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Signs of Talibanism

July 15, 2010 – 8:20 pm

Didn’t Harry Belafonte sing, “C’mon Taliban, gimme me banana.” 10 SIGNS YOU MIGHT BE A MEMBER OF THE TALIBAN #10 you refine heroin but object to beer. #9 You own a $300 AK-47, but can’t afford shoes. #8 You have more wives than teeth. #7 Your vests come in two styles; bullet-proof and suicide #6 [...]

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Osama Still At Large

July 4, 2010 – 6:11 pm

Osama bin Laden has just released a new TV message to prove he is still alive. He said that the England Team performance at the World Cup was completely s**t. British intelligence have dismissed the claim, stating that the message could have been recorded anytime in the last 44 years. An English friend sent this [...]

By Peter | Also posted in Pattaya, Thailand | Comments (0)

Good Germans?

July 2, 2010 – 9:04 pm

The 4th of July weekend promised no rain to New York City. Most city dwellers were schlepping out to the Hamptons. A few were heading north to family homes along the Hudson or in the Berkshires. I was staying put. My family was on the other side of the world. Thailand. 26 hours door to [...]

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Kill a Jew Day

July 1, 2010 – 11:42 pm

Someone put ‘Kill a Jew Day’ on Facebook. People are outraged by promo KILL A JEW DAY Friday, July 9, 2010 12:00am – 11:30pm Everywhere Krystalnacht redux. The 2nd Coming? Indeed the rumors of Hitler’s escape from the Berlin bunker are legion. George Steiner wrote THE LAST PORTAGE OF AH about an Israeli intelligence squad [...]

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