Strike The Root Blog

Recruitment starts early in life:

Always a refreshing sight- youths challenging the state:

The Emperor meets with a believer:

He’s back! No doubt, to “assist” those returning from Iraq:

A reasonable alternative to war:

Where’s Daddy? Perhaps, here……….

Will the Empire drown in its debt?

Slick just can’t get enough attention:

Whoa- Big surprise! Social Security is broke!

The Emperor reminds all to be good, obedient tax slaves:

Crusaders-to-be get some practice killin’ Hadjis:

Guess who got the raw deal in this exchange? The life of a loved one is exchanged for arms full pretty rags and a hand full of trinkets:

Warming wackos freak out over a crack in the ice:

So?

Obama supporters are ecstatic to be promised heaven on earth:

An appropriate way to pay taxes:

El Diablo’s earth-bound warriors sing praises to Lucifer:

The Exalted One gets the red carpet treatment- or is that the sea of blood he has produced:

In addition to initiating two major wars and vastly expanding the warfare state, adding on a whole new program to the costly state socialist health insurance boondoggle, innovating new legal interpretations in order to permit torture of mere suspects (including their children), and subjecting increasing numbers of Americans to government surveillance, George W. Bush is about to pull off one more massive Federal power grab before he leaves office:

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation’s financial services industry from banks and securities firms to mortgage brokers and insurance companies.

The plan would give major new powers to the Federal Reserve, according to a 22-page executive summary obtained by The Associated Press.

The Fed would be given broad authority to oversee financial market stability. That would include new powers to examine the books of any institution deemed to represent a potential threat to the proper functioning of the overall financial system.

Wow.

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The attack on Iran may be right around the corner (boldface is my emphasis):

Baghdad - The Mahdi Army’s seven-month-long cease-fire appears to have come undone.

Rockets fired from the capital’s Shiite district of Sadr City slammed into the Green Zone Tuesday, the second time in three days, and firefights erupted around Baghdad pitting government and US forces against the militia allied to the influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

At the same time, the oil-export city of Basra became a battleground Tuesday as Iraqi forces, backed by US air power, launched a major crackdown on the Mahdi Army elements. British and US forces were guarding the border with Iran to intercept incoming weapons or fighters, according to a senior security official in Basra.

The US blames the latest attacks on rogue Mahdi Army elements tied to Iran, but analysts say the spike in fighting with Shiite militants potentially opens a second front in the war when the American military is still doing battle with the Sunni extremists of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Scroll further down on the first page of the article and you’ll find this:

After rockets hit the Green Zone Sunday, US commander in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus said the weapons had been provided by Iran.

The odds of our lunatic government of neo-crazies attacking Iran would appear to be greatly improved.

Best of luck to you in the new world that will come after.

Just a little reminder: There are three U.S. warships just off the coast of Lebanon, ready to spring into action at a moment’s notice.

Yet another tragic milestone of the Iraq War has been reached:

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000.

The grim milestone came on the same day that rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone, underscoring the fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups despite an overall lull in violence.

How anyone could possibly be convinced that things are somehow “improving” in Iraq is absolutely beyond my comprehension.

Maybe the way to rid the world of Washington is to cover it with graves:

Daddy loses a leg but not the disease of nationalism:

The Emperor does a jig to celebrate five years of darkness:

Sorry, you lost me at “We”

Premier Wen Jiabao answers those who criticize China’s crackdown in Tibet:

Shame on the North Vietnamese for letting him go!

New Iraqi police academy graduates show off the “valuable skills” they’ve learned:

There appears to be no slow down in the grave marker business……

…………This sure helps:

The beat goes on. Paterson claims to be as slimey as his predecessor. I guess the masses are more forgiving to those who are black and blind:

Hold up your hands in a gesture of peace and be shackled by the purveyors of war:

The war whores are upset that billions won‘t be flying their way:

Time to put Algore in his place:

Dead (non-American) children are no longer considered relevant to US crusaders:

There’s nothing more entertaining than watching a state tyrant caught with his pants down:

The Emperor pleads for still more Hispanic bodies to fight his wars. He‘s working hard, selling them on the romance of killing:

The demonic force meets the immovable force:

It’s party time:

A war criminal’s hands can never be cleaned:

The “new” Abe is just as ugly and even more worthless:

Johnny Mac claims he can run the world but seems incapable of combing his own hair:

Those ballots look heavy. Why not just vote with your feet and your money?

Tibetans resist the occupying Chinese thugs. Will wimpy Amerikans ever show the same courage to resist their occupiers?

The Emperor greets one of the few with a comparable resume:

The Emperor passes the mike on to the next red state fascist. Can this one talk in complete sentences?

The dove of peace seems always to be entangled and surrounded by state-sponsored violence:

Ever feel outnumbered when defending yourself against bullies?

The Queen is all for peace.  She ain’t no monster:

And while we’re at it, let’s stop the whores making wars:

Pray that the war god will bless you with an abundance of targets:

The medicated, slavish sheep still believe!

How the state cares for children. If their bombs don’t kill them, their craters make great playgrounds:

Shat-tered. Uncle Sam gets a taste of his own medicine. Is this the first strike against the “professional liars?”

“Why do you have to fight?” - student.

“Because there’s very bad people out there that are trying to do bad things to good people.” -Sgt. Jerrett Peake.

“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” -Jesus Christ:

The Brits get a new killing machine:

On the way to buy groceries in Zimbabwe:

The Emperor show his displeasure to those who would stop torture:

A recent article at MSNBC.com discusses the campaign status of Ron Paul. The story includes a dynamite quote from Iowa State University student Jacob Bofferding, who discussed his frustration in working for the Paul campaign:

“I hate to say that spreading the message of liberty is a waste of time, but it certainly does not sound like a fun job to me considering the war-hungry, government-dependent attitudes of Americans.”

Its become more and more apparent to me that most Americans prefer the servitude of being chained to a perceived benevolent master rather than defending their inalienable liberty to set their own direction, follow their own path, and render their own decisions.

The US government has spent billions on attempting to curb the growth of terrorism abroad, and as usual has failed miserably. Meanwhile, eco-terrorists continue to strike at home.

I found an amusing entry for the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) at Wikipedia: “Any direct action to halt the destruction of the environment and adhering to the strict nonviolent guidelines, listed below, can be considered an ELF action. Economic sabotage and property destruction fall within the guidelines.”

Since when is any form of destruction nonviolent? The obscenity of willful property destruction is bad enough. The worse crime is to suggest that it’s justifiable.

Ahh, the hypocritical. I’m willing to bet that there’s not one Christian member of ELF, and they’re all shrilly opposed to any law that smacks of religious morals. Good for them. Yet at the same time, they force their morals on the rest of us, acting as judge, jury, and executioner for those who offend their environmental sensibilities.

My recommendation for those threatened by ELF: arm yourself, and defend your property to the death if necessary. Make it bloody if you have to. The government’s too busy fighting terrorists elsewhere, even though the ELF has been identified as the #1 terrorist group in the US.

Idol worship is tough when you can’t see well. One man has a solution:

What the dollar is coming to:

Is B.O.’s security all what it should be? When the Clinton’s don’t get what they want, they usually start killing people:

Hillary is fined for her rudeness. No problem, considering her past experience with cattle:

So many children in chains, figuratively and literally:

Fill the darkest corners of the earth with the sound of music.

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace.” Kahlil Gibran:

Bow to your master:

The Emperor has the time to show his home movies- to help us forget about those missing emails:

It’s like this- The state steals our money and uses it to build and launch a satellite that spies on us. Then, it makes itself out to be a hero in shooting and exploding that same satellite before it crashes on our heads:

Gimme that old time religion:

Harry just wants to get in on the killin’, but Daddy says no:

A Guitar Hero is more useful than a dead hero: