Category Archives: International Affairs

I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

Somali Pirates vow to take on US Mil­i­tary might if attacked. Ahem. 4 guys with AK-47s in a lifeboat with no fuel 300 miles off the coast of Africa are going to take on the US Navy? Really? For some rea­son, I’m pretty sure I know how this is going to turn out. This is …

April 10, 2009 – 7:36 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (0)

Scary Stuff

So Ice­land may be the first coun­try to go bank­rupt in this fun lit­tle cri­sis we’re hav­ing which in and of itself is pretty scary. But if you read that arti­cle care­fully, and if you are of a lib­er­tar­ian, con­ser­v­a­tive bent, I think you’ll find some­thing even more ter­ri­fy­ing. Did you see it? It’s this …

October 9, 2008 – 7:47 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, International Affairs | Comments (0)

Not Being a Sheep

How in the world does one man stab 17 peo­ple? This would never hap­pen in the south­ern US and it cer­tainly would never hap­pen in Texas. If some lunatic plowed a 2 ton rented truck into pedes­tri­ans and then jumped out and started stab­bing peo­ple, at least one per­son would pull out a gun and …

June 8, 2008 – 8:45 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (5)

“We’re Spreading Toilet Culture”

No words suf­fice, just make sure and see the slide show.

July 6, 2007 – 11:51 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, International Affairs | Comments (0)

Our Mainstream Media Lets Us Down

Remem­ber the story last week about the 20 decap­i­tated bod­ies found in Iraq that was splashed all over the major out­lets? Yeah, it wasn’t true. The Amer­i­can peo­ple are left in the dark both by their own politi­cians elected to serve their inter­ests and by an inde­pen­dent media that seems to be any­thing but. Some­day, prob­a­bly …

July 3, 2007 – 7:19 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs, Politics | Comments (0)

News The Left Won’t Read

You mean, Bush’s pro­gram for AIDS in Africa might be work­ing? Funny, it’s not get­ting much attention.

August 21, 2006 – 7:20 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (0)

Tensions Build in Israel

Israeli troops have appar­ently crossed the bor­der into Lebanon after Hezbol­lah kid­napped two Israeli soldiers. All of this orig­i­nally stems from the kid­nap­ping of another Israeli sol­der near Gaza. Money quote: “If the sol­diers are not returned we will turn Lebanon’s clock back 20 years,” Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz to Israeli …

July 12, 2006 – 8:16 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (0)

Great News for Afghanistan

In a land torn by war and poverty for decades, lit­tle things like cof­fee shops take on a whole new meaning. Enter the Kan­da­har Star­bucks. No, it’s not that Star­bucks so don’t get your panties in a wad about the tragedy that is the suc­cess of Starbucks.

July 3, 2006 – 9:19 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (0)

Blame the Victim

It never takes long after a Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ist blows him­self (or her­self) up in a crowded restau­rant or night club or bus before the loonies start blam­ing Israel for the act. This author talks about how the wall will her­met­i­cally seal the Pales­tini­ans to their fate, for­get­ting that”s what they asked for, a state of …

April 19, 2006 – 5:22 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off

Truth in Advertising

If you read the New York Times lead arti­cle on Iraq this morn­ing, you’d think Iraq is a lost cause, a death march towards Amer­i­can Imper­il­ism fail­ure, on the brink of civil war. If you go out of your way to find other sources, you dis­cover that as usual, the story is so much more …

March 14, 2006 – 8:57 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (0)