American Politics

Check out the link for profile analyses of photographs. - lifeproof

I like people who can foresee the future. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

Plane Stupid has used the kitsch symbol of global warming in a cliché way but with a more –down to earth–cold-hearted and brutal touch. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

Despite Obama's mediocre performance with number's like this Democrats need not worry AT ALL - sofarsoShawn

I guess the GOP is happy as the Nascar party consigned to a role of permanent minority... - WarLord

We used to ask the religious clergy when would be the end of the world; now we ask the scientists. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

* The Praise of Fatness (Continued from Encomium Aletudinis * – Part I) - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

There is an undeniable fact that we are getting bigger in all age groups and all regions around the world–except for some regions in Asia and most of Africa. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

*dislike*...but yeah... - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

Refugees would like to have the same problems you have. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

PopSci and Physorg announced that Vatican is organizing a conference “on astrobiology and the existence of extraterrestrial life.” - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

1 in 3 children of offenders will become offenders. Help us break the cycle. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

VERY interesting subject. The short answer is *no* -- but it begs another question related to education inflation. - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

In a last-minute dissent ahead of a critical war cabinet meeting on escalating the Afghan war, US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry has cast doubt on a troop escalation until the Afghan government can address corruption and other internal problems. Meanwhile, a report reveals how the US government is financing the very same insurgent forces in Afghanistan that American and NATO soldiers are fighting. Investigative journalist Aram Roston traces how the Pentagon’s civilian contractors in Afghanistan end up paying insurgent groups to protect American supply routes from attack. - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

Here is a place that has good insights: Global Guerrillas http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalg... - WarLord

how do you delineate international boundaries when they are disputed by multiple countries? - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

"CBO begins with the baseline estimate that 17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won't have health-care insurance in 2010. In 2019, after 10 years of the Republican plan, CBO estimates that ...17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won't have health-care insurance. [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-kl...] - MikeAmundsen

@Spencer: i can think of many forced payments imposed by the US gov't. you would say all/any are unconst, right? - MikeAmundsen

Why is this in these rooms? - Captain Bubbles

Turkey is beginning to face its past. The coupe of September 12th 1980 has been a tormenting event in the lives of Turkish people. There is an art exhibition in Istanbul nowadays that brings together a number of artists and their sufferings of the 1980 coupe. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

The Guardian was very surprised to hear from Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan to say that Iran (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad) is a friend of Turkey. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

There is an activist artist group in New York that is led by Jordan Seiler, which is acting against the domination of commercial ads covering the public sphere like skin. The group is constantly white washing ads and drawing their own art on them. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

This ad campaign is launched by Save the Children of Australia. It is heartening to see that the world is trying to save the children. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

these drawings about WWI and WWII will both entertain you and teach you about what happened by those times. Drawings by Agnus McLeod. - lifeproof from Bookmarklet

Infantile pseudo-comic vomit, that's more like it. - ianf ⌘

Pffft - Angus McLeod is quite a brilliant cartoonist - I've enjoyed his WWII series, and his Faces of War series in Storm-Artists for a while: http://angusmcleod.storm-artists.net/ - ProsePetals (aka Denise)