by Wordsmith | Dec 7, 2016 | Japan, military history, On This Day, This Day in History
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbor today. I’m fine with this: The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not apologize during his historic visit to Pearl Harbor in December. A top Japanese official on Tuesday clarified that the purpose of the...
by Wordsmith | May 26, 2016 | Anti-Americanism, Anti-military, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, History, Japan, military history, Ronald Reagan, Social Studies
6 years ago, on the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, I wrote: No sitting Japanese prime minister has ever been to Pearl Harbor; and no sitting American president has ever been to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Will President Obama be...
by Brother Bob | Sep 19, 2015 | Japan, Liberal Idiots, Socialism, Venezuela
Hola amigos – been a while since I’ve blogged at ya, but things have been pretty crazy here in Bobville lately.1 So I wanted to get back in the swing of things with a quick hit for everyone this morning. Back in my days of volunteering as a tour guide for...
by Wordsmith | Aug 6, 2015 | Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, History, Iran, Japan, military history, On This Day, Ronald Reagan, This Day in History
The single most destructive bombing of WWII wasn’t Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the firebombing raids of Dresden in February of 1945, with upwards of 135,000 men, women, and children slain. In wars between nations, the deaths of civilians is historically all-too...
by Wordsmith | Jun 1, 2013 | Daily Distraction, Entertainment, Humor, Japan, WtF?
Yeah, I bet you clicked on here because your curiosity got the better of you. Good. Looks like a slow news day for FA; and since no one has posted anything new up since yesterday, and since it’s the weekend, here’s a frivolous post that might amuse you. No...
by James Raider | Apr 2, 2013 | Canada, China, Economy, Europe, Japan, Politics
During this period in American history when the economy, business, trade and currency have taken pivotal positions in the Nation’s psyche, the country is led by what may well be the most economically uninterested Administration it has ever elected. Loudly professing...
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