The Great Round World » presidential http://the-great-round-world.com And What Is Going On In It Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:48:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://the-great-round-world.com http://www.the-great-round-world.com/Downloads/logo.png The Great Round World Iran Has The Bomb! http://the-great-round-world.com/news/iran-has-the-bomb http://the-great-round-world.com/news/iran-has-the-bomb#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:52:14 +0000 Phil LaDouceur http://the-great-round-world.com/news/iran-has-the-bomb

“We think they do, quite frankly,” Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN.

[From BBC NEWS | Americas | Iran's uranium 'enough for bomb']

Oh, wait. Uh, maybe not:

Iran is not close to having a nuclear weapon, which gives the United States and others time to try to persuade Tehran to abandon its suspected atomic arms program, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.

[From Iran not close to nuclear weapon: Gates | International | Reuters]

It seems like we’re getting a lot of conflicting messages from the government recently. Like Obama saying we’re pulling troops out of Iraq, and then generals saying things like oh no we aren’t we’re going to be there for twenty years.

I guess we get to sit back and see how much change is actually going to happen.

]]> http://the-great-round-world.com/news/iran-has-the-bomb/feed 0 Shoe attack mars Bush’s Iraq visit http://the-great-round-world.com/links/shoe-attack-mars-bushs-iraq-visit http://the-great-round-world.com/links/shoe-attack-mars-bushs-iraq-visit#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:31:22 +0000 Phil LaDouceur http://the-great-round-world.com/links/shoe-attack-mars-bushs-iraq-visit Oh, please let there be video of this.

The outgoing US leader had just told reporters that while the war in Iraq was not over “it is decisively on its way to being won,” when al-Zeidi got to his feet and hurled abuse – and his footwear – at the US president.

[From Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Shoe attack mars Bush's Iraq visit]

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My worry is that Obama will step into the White House facing loud calls for the government to take a greater role but will find the crisis has left the nation’s finances in tatters and without the resources to respond to those demands.

[From Economists for Obama: What the Crisis Will Mean for President Obama]

Step one: Claim government can’t fix anything. Step two: Systematically destroy government institutions. Step three: Sit back and exclaim how you were right all along when the destroyed institutions are unable to respond to the needs of the people.

]]> http://the-great-round-world.com/news/economists-for-obama-what-the-crisis-will-mean-for-president-obama/feed 0 Well, the movie sounds totally implausible, except for this http://the-great-round-world.com/news/well-the-movie-sounds-totally-implausible-except-for-this http://the-great-round-world.com/news/well-the-movie-sounds-totally-implausible-except-for-this#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:57:48 +0000 Phil LaDouceur http://the-great-round-world.com/news/well-the-movie-sounds-totally-implausible-except-for-this While reading a review of a new Indian action movie, I came across this piece of information that sounded like it was lifted from a documentary:

USA is represented by a George Bush (lookalike, of course) who ends up being a comedian in this film. He recognizes Turkey only as a poultry product and doesn’t want to attack India since our call center employees serve their nation. Wow, that could be a new angle to the nuclear deal!

[From Mission Istanbul: Movie Review- Entertainment-Media / Entertainment -News By Industry-News-The Economic Times]

]]> http://the-great-round-world.com/news/well-the-movie-sounds-totally-implausible-except-for-this/feed 0 Why Clinton Isn’t Going To Split The Party http://the-great-round-world.com/news/why-clinton-isnt-going-to-split-the-party http://the-great-round-world.com/news/why-clinton-isnt-going-to-split-the-party#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:19:52 +0000 Phil LaDouceur http://the-great-round-world.com/short-fiction/why-clinton-isnt-going-to-split-the-party

You don’t spend your life fighting for women’s rights and then vote for Sen. McCain.

[From A few more events like this one and we’ll all feel better]

On the other hand, if I was a Republican even moderately dissatisfied with Bush, I might begin to take notice that George Bush at some point killed John McCain, skinned him, and has been parading around wearing said skin. I mean, how else to explain the similarity in policies espoused and the weird, emotionless grin that just doesn’t seem right.

Frankly, I’m starting to warm up to Obama, if for no other reason than the fact he apparently dressed down Joe Lieberman. LBJ-style, indeed.

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