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4 More Years – GW Bush 2008

May 23, 2007 – 10:37 pm

The 2000 US Presidential election ended in controversy. A recount in Florida was denied by a GOP governor Jeb Bush and a partisan Supreme Court ruled any further legal proceedings a waste of time. After his inauguration GW Bush plodded along like a C-student surprised to find himself president of the high school senior class. Nothing was […]

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Pantip Plaza Raid / Bangkok / 1 DVD seized

April 30, 2007 – 1:38 am

Panthip Plaza is an amazing bazaar for IT merchandise. Six stories packed with computers, software, and cameras catering to the free market forces of pseudo-intellectual commerce. Some of it legit. some of it pirated, especially the DVDs and most recently the Deputy Prime Minister sponsored a raid to suppress vice and intellectual property crimes. With complete secrecy […]

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44 Degrees Centrigrade in Tak

April 26, 2007 – 11:05 pm

In 1974 I stepped off a bus in Needles California. At first I thought the overwhelming heat was from a bus exhaust. The giant thermometer across the street told the truth. 137 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade. I hid in the dairy Queen and drank ice cream sodas until the sun went down, then hitchhiked […]

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Boris Yeltsin – RIP

April 25, 2007 – 10:46 pm

In the 1980s I had occasion to visit East Germany. The frontline of Reagan’s Evil Empire. I drove my orange VW Beetle into East Berlin. No traffic other than rickety Trabants. I parked before the old Reichstag. No parking meters. I bought everyone in the Karl Marx Communal Bar a round. The bill came to 5DMs. The […]

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The Height of Hypocrisy – USA vs North Korea

April 9, 2007 – 9:26 pm

Back in the distant past Dick Cheney’s lack, GW Bush, called Iraq, Iran, and North Korea the ‘axis of evil’. The USA in 2003 invaded Iraq to avenge the 9/11 terror attack by Saudi Arabia stooges and their Al-Quada masterminds. Since 2001 Dick Cheney the unelected president, has been lambasting Iran for its nuclear ambitions, while we rewarded […]

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