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Dropping bombs

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

This is the bomb President Donald Trump dropped today on Afghanistan, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, the MOAB for short or the Mother Of All Bombs. Today was the first time this $314 million, 21,000 pound, non-nuclear bomb has … Continue reading →

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The terrorist in the mirror

Posted on December 30, 2016 by

“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” – Noam Chomsky I would suspect that most Americans believe that we are the victims of terrorism rather than the instigator. But that would be … Continue reading →

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Do they have our attention yet?

Posted on September 19, 2016 by

“On November 4, 1979, Iranian students calling themselves Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line, took control of the American Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 embassy staff hostage for 444 days – an event known as the Iran hostage crisis. … Continue reading →

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A celebration, a truck and death

Posted on July 15, 2016 by

We were watching the six o’clock news last night trying to decide what we were going to do about dinner. Normally I would have been 10 miles into a 30 mile bicycle ride by this time on a Thursday night … Continue reading →

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So where do we go from here?

Posted on June 13, 2016 by

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” –  Mahatma Gandhi “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this … Continue reading →

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