Zooming!
So getting the new BARTSFO from my place to the airport takes around 25 minutes and costs $4.60. In the last 18 months, cab fares have risen from around $25 to $35, and they...
Author: mike
All Not Quiet on the Home Front
Military families, so often the ones to put a cheery face on war, are growing vocal … Frustrations became so bad recently at Fort Stewart, Ga., that a colonel, meeting with 800 seething spouses,...
Passing the Buck
President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Turning to his Baghdad proconsul, Paul Bremer, Bush asked, “Are you in...
Traffic Control
On March 30, a car races through a roadblock in north central Iraq, producing a massive burst of weapons fire from Recon’s Charlie Company. Protracted screeching of tires. Unarmed men run from the car,...
Lunatics Running the Asylum
Some more choice God-related items to go with Bush’s apparent schizophrenia: Bush believes he was called by Go d to lead the nation at this time, says Commerce Secretary Don Evans, a close friend...
God Told Me To Do It, Part 1
Gimme some sugar, baby! It’s like Army of Darkness, for real. Albertsons supermarket bagboy goes postal, hacks several astonished shoppers to death with broadsword. A man wielding a samurai-style sword killed two people and...
God Told Me To Do It, Part 2
The couple confessed, Brownsville police have testified, to severing their children’s heads with a large kitchen knife, pausing to clean house and have sex between the slayings. Camacho told police she and Rubio killed...
God Told Me To Do It, Part 3
Bush said: “God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the...
And Now For The Big Guns…
Influential Washington voices are pushing for more certainty on the proceeds of oil sales. The US government Export-Import Bank is pushing for a sale of Iraq’s oil production to fund the infrastructure payments. It...
Meet Your New Bosses, Same As Your Old Bosses
U.S. military commanders have ordered a halt to local elections and self-rule in provincial cities and towns across Iraq, choosing instead to install their own handpicked mayors and administrators, many of whom are former...