One of the beads on the Neckless:

Oil tankers...even then..

The Panay incident !.

http://www.usspanay.org/attacked.shtml

I guess this is the only safe place for me to post !

Why Wars are Fought:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Ja..._December_1941

Possibly of interest to some.

Is there a connection with our current views ?

The abundance of Natural Resources and Capital Investments were the keys that pushed our Nation forward from the beginning and allowed us to exploit that abundance.

As we gradually depleted that abundance and grew in numbers we (as the other developed Western Countries had done for centuries ) found it necessary especially in respect to “Energy” to go farther afield in our own exploitations driven first from an initial financial aspect and later because of developing scarcity. ...

Colin Powell: A House Negro No More!

by Blame Bush

Former Uncle Tom, House Negro, and unrepentant war criminal, Colin Powell, gave his coveted endorsement to Barack Obama last weekend, hailing our future President as a "transformational figure".

Transformational, indeed! Saturday night, Powell was a still just a lapdog of the Bush Junta, a lying liar who lied...

Deficit Hypocrisy
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Budget Policy: Call it the iron law of modern liberalism — deficits matter only when they're useful in defeating tax cuts. When time comes to unleash government spending, they can be ignored.



Indeed, two liberals who were most vocal about deficits as...