Archive for the 'Afghanistan War' Category

Conservatives Admit Bush A Failure

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Life Has Become A Disaster Movie

Before I get to what I wanted to discuss today, I didn’t realize I missed a milestone. In the same week I passed 6000 tweets I also passed 2000 posts here at The Sunshine Empire. The world is a vastly different place from when I began writing this back in 2007. Since that time we’ve [...]

When The Fake Newsman Does Better Than The Real Ones

Jon Stewart throughly cuts holes in the current al-Qaeda Seven garbage and most of the spurious straw men that the right often use to scare up votes. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Progress In Afghanistan: Will Republicans Notice?

I’ve been derelict in my duties to this blog the last couple of days for a variety of reasons. On Saturday I nearly froze to death, in Florida, as my dad and I worked to build the walls of a house for Habitat for Humanity in St. Augustine. During the Sunday political shows the big [...]

The Olds, And Hard Candy

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Godspeed Kenny

Yesterday evening I received a call from my mother informing me that my uncle Kenny had passed away from an apparent heart attack. Her stepbrother was a quiet, sweet man who lived almost as a recluse. After his service during the Vietnam War he was irreparably changed. The horrible reaction of the American people to [...]

Reagan: It Was Different Then

Our Changing Disaster Movie Of A Decade In Review

As we reach the end of the first decade of the 21st century the news is filled with not only year end reviews but also decade end reviews. I began this decade in a simple and unglamorous fashion. In late 1999 my girlfriend’s parents at the time were paranoid Trilateral Commission types convinced that the [...]

Steven’s Playing Afghandyland

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