Category: General

By renouncing America’s traditional foreign policy and adopting one of global military domination, the Bush administration has made a fundamental change in the international balance.

Just been reading about how French and German companies will be denied any contracts for rebuilding Iraq – but Dick Cheney and others in his ilk will likely benefit financially from the rebuilding contracts. Here is a simple equation for getting money from American taxpayers. Taxpayers pay money for US military, and invasion force, circa $100…

Jonathan Freedland pointedly asks if the war has really helped the situation or just made it worse. I would go with the latter too. This week William Kristol, senior intellectual of the neo-conservative set, testified before the Senate foreign relations committee. He was asked whether the logic of the Iraq war – targeting a Ba’athist…

Mark Lawson on Homer Simpson. 300th episode its almost here, I cant help but feel that since the death of Maude the Simpsons has declined somewhat. Still though, we have a movie to look forward to.

Jaysus everything on the net today seems to be going slow. The Independent website is constantly giving me messages saying the server is too busy to serve. Bernie is having DNS problems, the Iraqi Information site is down…hope I’m not next.

Robert Fisk’s latest report from Baghdad. At the Kindi hospital, they ordered journalists away from the premises but, briefly obtaining access to the emergency ward, I found a Shia Muslim cleric inside, a man who had studied in southern Lebanon, lecturing the gunmen on the need to restore order in the city. Of course, that…

Apologies if I seemed to kicking up stink about Dishings.com – it just came as a shock. Im not quite sure who they are but I take it as a compliment that they liked my site enough to copy parts of it. I realise it is a Radio theme, just the links were the same! LOL…

GO ON IRELAND!

Sorry I haven’t blogged today – had a few things to do. Will be blogging tomorrow about Ireland’s ‘Great Man’ – Charles J. Haughey.

I have decided to post the direct comments that were made about my piece on Google. For the most part they were dismissive, or critical. I’m glad with the reaction, and that it generated a certain amount of debate. The comments made by Pyra’s (now Google’s) Steve Jenson, along with my reply are here.   Below are…