While I was out and about reading about the 2009 budget proposal I came across the fact that the CIA has a kids page. Interesting.

Starting two days ago, Japan will be fingerprinting any foreigner that enters Japan. You can check out some of the media response in my shared news items. Japan becomes the second nation in the world to start finger printing foreigners entering the country. However, unlike the U.S. even foreign residents, not just visitors, will be fingerprinted. Of course SOFA members are exempt, as they ex[...]

I just read this article on the BBC and it seems like O'Hare Airport had about 100 workers with fake badges. 23 were arrested. Umm. WHAT!?! 100 workers had fake security badges at an airport?? How did that go unnoticed? Perhaps I don't have all of the story but that seems pretty damn serious. The article notes that many were from Mexico and a few from Guatemala. While I have no info to back [...]

I recently watched this video on the Union of Concerned Scientists Website linked to from this post on Fox Attacks. It seems to be pretty easy to understand and has some pretty damning reasons, if they are true, why bunker busters would be ineffective at destroying underground targets and would cause massive damage to the environment and kill millions of people. Bush added funding for the[...]

Recently there has been a number of problems with the quality of Chinese goods entering the U.S. and other countries. Am I alone in thinking this news is all too timely? Before I continue, let me say that I don't doubt that many products from China are sub-standard and not terribly fit for consumption. But we have been importing cheap Chinese goods for a long time. So while China's growing [...]

I read conservative pundit Michelle Malkin's blog which mentions the 9th circuit's decision to allow the military to conduct sonar exercises without previous measures to ensure that they weren't hurting whales. While I understand the need to protect the country and that sonar exercises have a degree of necessity (though I'd be lying if I said I didn't think it was largely of our own making), [...]

Last week, I was watching Ainori which is a favorite TV show in Japan of Reiko and me. Ainori is a reality TV show where the members of the show travel to different countries together and try to find someone to fall in love and return to Japan with. So this week and last Ainori was in Venezuela the home of the infamous Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez is known for socialism, not respecting free spee[...]

I just read on BBC that the figures of civilian deaths are generally inflated or exaggerated. It appears that media outlets are taking witness accounts but not verifying the number of deaths when the witnesses themselves may not know all the facts or are pressured to exaggerate the numbers. It seems that the insurgents are pressuring people to report higher numbers than are accurate. From th[...]

Today I read a story that Rush Limbaugh has been playing a song on his radio show called "Barak the Magic Negro" to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon". While just being a liberal is enough for me to not like Rush Limbaugh, he seems to go out of his way to upset liberals by doing the exact thing that liberals stand against. One being making fun of someone based on their race. From the articl[...]

Apparently the Army is in the business of fabricating stories about soldiers to make them seem more heroic and glorify the war in Iraq. CNN carried a story yesterday about the testimony of Bryan O'Neal and Jessica Lynch about how the Army fabricated stories about soldiers. In Jessica Lynch's case the stories were about herself and how she was shot and stabbed during a heroic and intense fire[...]