We’ve been following developments surrounding the trial of Charles Taylor closely (there are too many previous posts to list – if you are interested in the background, just search fukn.us for ‘Charles Taylor’…). He has been brought to trial at the UN Special Court in Sierra Leone. Previous rebel leaders have been broken out of…
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Honolulu Army Officer Refuses to Deploy to Iraq
Army Lieutenant Refuses to Deploy to Iraq I want to offer my congratulations and support to 1st Lt. Ehren K. Watada, the first commissioned officer in the U.S. military to refuse to deploy to Iraq. Watada is the 28 year old son of the state of Hawaii’s former campaign spending director. As stated in the…
Update on Indonesia Quake
Today’s story is an update Today I am going to discuss the recent quake in Indonesia. On May 27 a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the ancient city of Yogyakarta in Indonesia. An initial estimate of 3000 casualties has more than doubled to 6234 as I write this. It will probably go up further. The news…
Let's build bridges not fences
Citizen Lobbyists Sending Bricks to Congress Those in favor of building a fence between Mexico and the U.S. are sending bricks to congress as a way to show their representatives what they want. Itâs clever (the bricks not the fence) and really gets the message across what these people want. As one congressional aide put…
More Reserve U.S. Troops Deployed To Iraq
Okay, here is my story of the day…. cd The U.S. military has made the decision to send the rest of an Army National Guard unit from Kuwait into Iraq in the hopes of quelling an upsurge in violence in recent days. The remaining 1000+ soldiers are scheduled to deploy in the volatile Anbar provence…
Fascists, Christians, and Cops go Gay Bashing in Moscow
Here at Incredible Fukn.us we are proud to say that we like Gay People. We don’t like gay bashers. If we were in Moscow, we would gladly have marched with the GLBT Muscavites and we would have thrown rocks at the cops, and we probably would have turned the whole thing into a riot. We…
Scooter Libby is naughty in so many ways…
I stole this from the NEW YORKER and it is bizarre. Creativity indeed. The bear “scenario” is choice and could only come from a genius. B.E. CLOSE READING DEPT. SCOOTERâS SEX SHOCKER Issue of 2005-11-07 Posted 2005-10-31 Of all the scribbled sentences that have converged to create the Valerie Plame affair, the most remarkable, in…
Veterans ID's Stolen…Holy Shit! That' Me!!!
Okay, I’m taking a couple of summer courses at the moment and am not finding much time to write or post at Incredible Fukn.us However, that being said, I am taking a class that requires me to read the newspaper every day and write a short summary/ critique/ journal about it…Ah ha! Yes, I’m going…
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The Incredible Shrinking Palestine
I thought this was a well written and informative op-ed… The incredible shrinking Palestine.Israel is whittling away at Palestinians’ land again, but it needs the U.S. to sharpen the knife.By Sandy Tolan, SANDY TOLAN’S most recent book is “The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East.” THE HISTORY of…