21 July, 2009 (06:47) | AH, UK, austria-hungary, dutch, europe, exclave_enclaves, france, french, geography, germany, history, indonesia, iran, iraq, islam, israel, language, lebanon, linguistics, malaysia, maps, middle_east, montenegro, netherlands, orthodox-christian, pakistan, philippines, religion, russia, scotland, serbia, singapore, spain, spanish, thailand, turkey | By: jrittenhouse
From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates. Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]
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24 June, 2008 (08:06) | GOP, bush, corruption_govt, iran, iraq, lebanon, middle_east, politics, sep_reality, television | By: jrittenhouse
Hydrogen, stupidity and incompetence. I swear to gawd, folks, I sometimes cannot imagine how we ever got this idea that George W. Bush, the first President with a MBA (from Harvard, yet) would run a tight, disciplined and competent organization that would – oh, how did that line go – “restore honor and dignity to [...]
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29 August, 2006 (04:30) | immigration, iraq, katrina, lebanon, military, oil, politics | By: jrittenhouse
Cut and run – from George Bush – if you want to get re-elected. ‘Hey, aren’t you a Republican?’ ‘Who, me?’ “Sen. Barack Obama urged Kenyans to take control of their country’s destiny by opposing corruption and ethnic divisions in government during a speech Monday in Nairobi.” Heck, it’s good practice here, too. Various GOP [...]
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