WASHINGTON – China cannot be certain that its military, while steadily strengthening, is capable of conquering Taiwan, the Pentagon said Tuesday in a new report on Chinese military power and strategy. Over the longer term, however, an increasingly modern Chinese military could pose a threat to U.S. and other forces in the Asia-Pacific region, it [...]
This is just strange Ok, so I’m eating my omlete in my cube at work and notice that my omlete looks like california. The cube dweller next to me recommended eBay but couldn’t figure out how to keep the eggs from going bad. Is this a sign to move from Miami to Cali? We’ll see.
These people are the extremists that justify murdering kids and women because it suits their twisted warped view of the world. Here’s an AP story… LEEDS, England (AP) – Nineteen-year-old Fazel, a British-born Muslim who is angry about his “immoral” surroundings, seems ripe for the picking by the recruiters of Islamic extremism. “I would go [...]
What the hell were they thinking Is it possible to design an SUV uglier than the Pontiac Aztec and in the likeness of the Edsel? Oh yeah, enter the Subaru B9 Tribeca coming this summer with pricing in the mid-thirties. Jeez, somebody really high up the pecking order saw this and said, “we have a [...]
Microsoft bans ‘democracy’ for China web users Microsoft’s new Chinese internet portal has banned the words “democracy” and “freedom” from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid offending Beijing’s political censors. More…
The deficit is shrinking, thanks to the Bush tax cuts. Friday, July 15, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT Let’s see if we can get this straight: When tax revenues fall and budget deficits go up, it’s bad news. But when tax revenues rise and deficits decline, it’s still bad news. At least that seems to be [...]
This Seems to Settle It Unless we’re missing something, Joe Wilson has disproved his own accusation that someone in the Bush administration violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, USA Today reports: The alleged crime at the heart of a controversy that has consumed official Washington–the “outing” of a CIA officer–may not have been a crime [...]
PRESIDENT CHIRAC sought to regain favour with his worried nation yesterday by telling the French that they are far better off than the British and have no reason to take lessons from across the Channel. The head of state’s focus on Britain would normally have seemed out of place in his traditional Bastille Day television [...]
Top Chinese general warns US over attackBy Alexandra Harney in Beijing and Demetri Sevastopulo and Edward Alden in Washington Published: July 14 2005 21:59 | Last updated: July 15 2005 00:03China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese general said [...]
- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984