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Top Military Websites (2 items)

vaughn — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 7:27:51 GMT

Colaborative database of military history, units, soldiers, weapons, equipment, medals. Thousands of topics, tens of thousands pictures.

Top things about Obama (5 items)

vaughn — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 1:57:21 GMT

The 56th inauguration of the American president is in many ways no different than its predecessors, but in others, this is no ordinary swearing-in ceremony.Barack Obama’s election to the presidency astonished the country and the world; few believed they would ever see a black man in the Oval Office, or a black family residing in the White House.

Obama Announces Energy and Environmental Officials (1 item)

saamneric — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 8:06:33 GMT

President-elect Barack Obama named key members of his team on energy and the environment on Monday as he prepares to take office next month as the country's 44th president. Read or Listen to the Audio Report link found below the Author Name and Report Date.

Top moments of 2008 election (3 items)

vaughn — Thu, 6 Nov 2008 1:06:37 GMT

Barack Obama's victory was as moving as it was monumental. But it wasn't the only times tears were shed during the election season. Here's some memorable moments, too.

Top hot things about Sarah Palin you must wonder (4 items)

vaughn — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:16:43 GMT

Sarah Louise Heath Palin born February 11, 1964) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Alaska, and is the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election.

Let's find something more about her.

What's the things a good President should do? (2 items)

vaughn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:50:07 GMT

One of the primary themes of this 2008 Presidential campaign has been experience. Namely, both Hillary Clinton and John McCain have made the claim that Barack Obama does not have enough experience to be the President of the United States. The problem with this argument is that it’s pretty vague. The Presidency is a job unlike any other, so the only real experience for the big chair is actually being President. In that sense, both Obama and McCain are unqualified for office.

US presidents' top 10 popular ranking (3 items)

vaughn — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:40:14 GMT

In political science, historical rankings of United States Presidents are surveys conducted in order to construct rankings of the success of individuals who have served as President of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The rankings focus on the presidential achievements, leadership qualities, failures and faults (such as corruption).

5 Wars Waged on Familial Insults (0 item)

vaughn — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:46:25 GMT

Wars can start for all sorts of reasons: to secure trade routes, to capture resources, to eliminate a dangerous rival … but the most interesting wars flare up because of personal insults that lead to family feuds. After all, when a king’s starting his speech with a “yo momma” joke, you know trouble’s on its way.

Top 10 Secret Armies of the CIA (0 item)

armchester — Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:47:23 GMT

1. Ukrainian Partisans

From 1945 to 1952 the CIA trained and aerially supplied Ukranian partisan units which had originally been organised by he Germans to fight the Soviets during WWII. For seven years, the partisans, operating in the Carpathian Mountains, made sporadic attacks. Finally in 1952, a massive Soviet military force wiped them out.

2. Chinese Brigade in Burma

After the Communist victory in China, Nationalist Chinese soldiers fled into northern Burma. During the early 1950s, the CIA used these soldiers to create a 12,000 man brigade which made raids into Red China. However, the Nationalist soldiers found it more profitable to monopolise the local opium trade.

3. Guatemalan Rebel Army

After Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz legalised that country’s communist party and expropriated 400,000 acres of United Fruit banana plantations, the CIA decided to overthrow his government. Guatemalan rebels were trained in Honduras and backed up with a CIA air contingent of bombers and fighter planes. This army invaded Guatemala in 1954, promptly toppling Arbenz’s regine.

4. Sumatran Rebels

In an attempt to overthrow Indonesian president Sukarno in 1958, the CIA sent paramilitary experts and radio operators to the island of Sumatra to organise a revolt. With CIA air support, the rebel army attacked but was quickly defeated. The American government denied involvement even after a CIA b-26 was shot down and its CIA pilot, Allen Pope, was captured.

5. Khamba Horsemen

After the 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet, the CIA began recruiting Khamba horsemen - fierce warriors who supported Tibet’s religious leader, the Dalai Lama - as they escaped into India in 1959. These Khambas were trained in modern warfare at Camp Hale, high in the rocky mountains near Leadville, Colorado. Transported back to Tibet by the CIA operated Air American, the Khambas organised an army number at its peak some 14,000. By the mid-1960s the Khambas had been abandoned by the CIA but they fought on alone until 1970.

6. Bay of Pigs Invasion Force

In 1960, CIA operatives recruited 1,500 Cuban refugees living in Miami and staged a surprise attack on Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Trained at a base in Guatemala, this small army - complete with an air force consisting of B-26 bombers - landed at the Bay of Pigs on April 19, 1961. The ill-conceived, poorly planned operation ended in disaster, since all but 150 men of the force were either killed or captured within three days.

7. L’armee Clandestine

In 1962, CIA agents recruited Meo tribesmen living in the mountains of Laos to fight as guerrillas against Communist Pathet Lao forces. Called l’armee Clandestine, this unit - paid, trained, and supplied by the CIA - grew into a 30,000 man force. By 1975 the Meos - who had numbers a quarter million in 1962 - had been reduced to 10,000 refugees fleeing into Thailand.

8. Nung Mercenaries

A Chinese hill people living in Vietname, the Nungs were hired and organised by the CIA as a mercenary force, during the Vietnam war. Fearsome and brutal fighters, the Nungs were employed throughout Vietnam and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Nungs proved costly since they refused to fight unless constantly supplied with beer and prostitutes.

9. Peruvian Regiment

Unable to quell guerrilla forces in its eastern Amazonian provinces, Peru called on the US for help in the mid-1960s. The CIA responded by establishing a fortified camp in the area and hiring local Peruvians who were trained by Green Beret personnel on loan from the US army. After crushing the guerrillas, the elite unit was disbanded because of fears it might stage a coup against the government.

10. Congo Mercenary Force

In 1964, during the Congolese Civil War, the CIA established an army in the Congo to back pro-Western leaders Cyril Adoula and Joseph Mobutu. The CIA imported European mercenaries and Cuban pilots - exiles from Cuba - to pilot the CIA air force, composed of transports and B-26 Bombers.

Top 10 Election Myths to Get Rid Of (0 item)

smarter — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:47:26 GMT

(10.) The "youth vote" campaigns failed.

(9.) The white evangelical Protestant vote alone gave Bush his victory.

(8.) We have fixed the voting problems of 2000.

(7.) The Republicans won because the country turned significantly more conservative.

(6.) The Republicans won the "get out the vote" ground war because they had more money.

(5.) Moral values trumped the election and show that the country is deeply divided along cultural fault lines.

(4.) The United States is a sea of Republican "red states."

(3.) The 11 state gay marriage bans that passed mean homophobia is on the rise.

(2.) Bush's hard-line Israeli policy caused many Jewish voters to vote Republican.

(1.) The Republicans now have a lock on politics for the next 50 years.

Political Party Characteristics of U.S. (0 item)

trailer — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:17:53 GMT

Position	Far Left	Left	Right	Far Right
	Green Party, Libertarian, Pinko Commies	Democrat	Republican	Kingdom
Profile		10%	45%	45%	< 1%
	Wealth	Poor	Middle class	Rich	Superrich
	Income	0 - 30K	30K - 70K	70K - 1M	>1M
	$ Source	Wages	Salary	Fees, Commissions	Rent, Interest
	Occupation	Laborer	Tradesman	Docs, Lawyers	none
	Education	0 - 12 years	14-16 years	18 years	16 years
Money Policies
	Tax Source	Tax upper class	Equal share	Tax middle class	Tax the poor
	Tax Policy	Dump military	Tax and spend	Less taxes	More taxes
	Services	(change priorities)	(more services)	(less services)	(no services)
	Spending	On poor	Social programs	On defense	On rich
Issues
	Abortion	Against	Pro-choice	Pro-life	Whatever I say
	Capital Punish.	Against	Against	For	At will
	Guns	Against	50 - 50	For	For me, not you
	Immigration	Against-low wage	Against	For- low wages	For- low wages
Beliefs
	Position	Idealistic	Liberal	Conservative	No change
	Political	Equality	Middle Class	Privileged	Total power
	Philosophy	Utopian	Altruistic	Grab it all now	God-annointed
	Religion	Buddhist	Jewish	Christian	Self
Mental Traits/ Behavior
	Attitude	Hopeless	Hopeful	Cynical	Screw you
	Behavior	Rebellious	Questioning	Conforming	Ritualistic
	Compassion	High	Medium	Low	None
	Honesty	Painfully honest	Truth-seeking	Deceitful	Subterfuge
	Intellect	Seekers	Average	Smart	Inbred retards
	Personality	Off-center	Open	Restrained	Obnoxious
	Weakness	Naive, no power	Bleeding heart	Me first	Piffed people
Physical Traits
	Appearance	Frumpy	Natural	Slick	Regal
	Car	Chevy, Ford	Volvo, BMW	Cad, Mercedes	Rolls
	Home	Renters	Owners	Multiple Owners	Landlords
	Sports	Hockey, Boxing	Foot, basketball	Baseball	Tennis, Polo
			Where most of us are, yet we allow the RIGHT to control us.

The 5 Biggest Pricks in Congress (5 items)

afees — Sat, 7 Jul 2007 9:52:25 GMT

A Gallup poll last month put Congress' approval rating at 29 percent, which ties it with the President and puts both exactly two points behind AIDS in terms of popularity. This raises the question: Why does America loathe its elected officials so much?

Forgetting that whole “war” thing for a minute, you could make the argument that it's because most members of Congress are arrogant pricks who would rather toss Rosie O'Donnell's salad after a summer hike than do anything remotely kind, thoughtful or constructive for America. Cracked.com has singled out five of the most stubborn, abrasive, inconsiderate pricks on Capitol Hill that you should be keeping your eye on: