Larry’s Log

About three weeks ago my son, who is a member of the Tennessee Army National Guard, found out that he will soon be heading to Camp Bucca in Iraq to help guard the camp. At that time he was told he would be stationed for between six to eight weeks someplace in the US to [...]

Growing up in the early sixties I remember people building fallout shelters and a fear people had of Soviet missles being launched at the US. The decade hadn’t passed before those bomb shelters were being converted into storage space and the worries of Soviet missles was greatly diminished. There were other, more pressing evils out [...]

A little over two years ago I wrote this. I came across it while looking for something else but I had to stop and read it again just to make sure I’m staying consistant.
What’s bothering me is that I don’t like a lot of what could happen in the aftermath. Who’s going to fill the [...]

Here are the current headlines in the top stories section of my my.Yahoo.com account:

Attacks kill 33 in London, Blair breaks off summit - 14 minutes ago Four blasts rocked London during rush hour early on Thursday, killing at least 33 people and disrupting a summit of Group of Eight leaders in Scotland in the deadliest peacetime attack [...]

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s foreign minister said on Tuesday the killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq by U.S. forces had been a tragic accident, but added that Rome did not believe the U.S. military’s version of events.

I’ve been looking and looking at this incident and wondering how it could have happened. I’ve read [...]

Stars have held various political offices throughout the years with Sonny Bono being elected to congress, Arnold Scwartznegger being elected govenor of California and Ronald Regan being elected both govenor of California and President of the United States. The most bizarre political news involving a celebrity, though, is thatBono or U2 fame may head World [...]

It appears that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have been arrested. It’s curious that at this time (01/04/2004 10:46 AM EST) there is no word about this in US news sources.

You knew it was going to happen. All those supposed terrorist being detained down at Gitmo are going to have to have some sort of final dispostion decided for them by the US. It appears that some pentagon and intelligence officials feel that they need to be kept incarcerated for the rest of their lives [...]

It came two days early. Iraq is now officially a sovereign nation again. My take on it is that the early handover has probably foiled the Iraqi insurgents in any ideas they may have had in marking the day of handover with coordinated attacks on the new government. Aljazeera is reporting another take on the [...]

It appears that it isn’t just Christians and Jews that have problems getting along with Muslims, Buddhist can’t seem to get along with them either.
It was the worst violence in a region that has seen dozens of people killed in near-daily of attacks this year. The government has blamed Islamic separatists who have sought [...]

When things heat up in Iraq I generally look to Salam Pax to get an understanding of what’s really going on over there. Not that he’s got any inside information but he’s living with the consequences of what’s happening. It seems that right now Pax views al-Sadir as a greater threat to Iraqi safety than [...]

North Korea has threatened to expand its nuclear weapons programme if the annual US-led military exercises in South Korea go ahead next week.
Maybe I’m just numb to it all but sooner or later nuclear weapons technology is going to be as common knowledge as vulcanized rubber technology. You just can’t keep this stuff bottled up. [...]

Yesterday I mulled over the events occuring in Spain. The bombing last Thursday chilled me to the bone. My step-sister’s daughter is living in Barcelona and I was worried about her.
I listened to news reports come in telling of Spain’s government insisting that ETA was responsible for the bombings and I thought that claim was [...]

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There have been misguided attempts in the US by school administrators attempting to remove individual student's rights to wear clothing or jewelry showing ones religious affiliation. This is usually over their misinterpretation of the seperation of Church and State. In France it looks like this policy may become the national law.
Now, the French can do [...]

A sad bit of trivia popped up in the news today.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. military deaths from hostile fire in Iraq (news – web sites) have reached a grim landmark with the post-war toll surpassing the number of troops killed during the invasion itself.

Now a lot of people are going to tell you that this [...]