<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Commentary @ valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Commentary) </description><copyright>Copyright 2010 valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:27:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Commentary @ valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>2006 - through the crystal ball</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/2006__through_the_crystal_ball.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/2006__through_the_crystal_ball.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=2006%5F%5Fthrough%5Fthe%5Fcrystal%5Fball</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Prediciton is always a dodgy pastime, but it's amazing how many professional prediction pundits there are out there. And they get paid, handsomply whether they're right or wrong! Take economists, half of them say one thing and half the complete oppos]]></description></item><item><title>US Captain J Anderson on Iraq</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/us_captain_j_anderson_on_iraq.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/us_captain_j_anderson_on_iraq.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=us%5Fcaptain%5Fj%5Fanderson%5Fon%5Firaq</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['As a recently discharged Air Force Captain, I now have the privilege of free speech. America is at a crossroads in Iraq, and I find the revisionist historians deceitful and disgusting. Though no WMDs have been found, bringing the terrorists out of t]]></description></item><item><title>ID &apos;not science&apos; - thrown out of court</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/id_not_science__thrown_out_of_court.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/id_not_science__thrown_out_of_court.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=id%5Fnot%5Fscience%5F%5Fthrown%5Fout%5Fof%5Fcourt</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In a landmark ruling on Tuesday, Judge John Roberts III, in Dover Pensylvania, struck a telling blow for reason and logic against superstition and ignorance by ruling that 'intelligent design' was nothing more than creationism in another guise. He or]]></description></item><item><title>Bush finally admits he was wrong!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_finally_admits_he_was_wrong.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_finally_admits_he_was_wrong.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bush%5Ffinally%5Fadmits%5Fhe%5Fwas%5Fwrong</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It would be nice to think so wouldn't it? But in last Wednesdays speech he didn't quite go that far, maintaining that he and the Pope alone remain infallible on this earth.
He did admit that much of the pre-war intelligence on Iraq 'turned out to be]]></description></item><item><title>Bush and the future of Iraq</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_and_the_future_of_iraq.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_and_the_future_of_iraq.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 07:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bush%5Fand%5Fthe%5Ffuture%5Fof%5Firaq</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday that arch avoider of reality, Wuberry Bush, addressed the Naval academy on the state of the Iraqi war. A compliant, loyal audience of strictly military personnel, whipped up into an orgasmic frenzy of patriotism by another tub-thumping g]]></description></item><item><title>Bush the liar</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_the_liar.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_the_liar.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bush%5Fthe%5Fliar</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['We do not torture'. [Bush].How many lies can one man and his administration speak? The US does not do torture? How can this barefaced lie be allowed to pass without barely a mention? What about Abu Ghraib? What about Baghram? What about Guantanamo?]]></description></item><item><title>Bush - Quack quack you&apos;re dead!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush__quack_quack_youre_dead.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush__quack_quack_youre_dead.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bush%5F%5Fquack%5Fquack%5Fyoure%5Fdead</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last week Bush suffered one of his worst periods in office. Libby was indicted on five charges of obstructing justice and lying to grand juries. Miers, his supreme court nomination stood down. The US Iraqi death count soared past 2000. And so on.The]]></description></item><item><title>Figures that don&apos;t add up...Bush</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/figures_that_dont_add_upbush.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/figures_that_dont_add_upbush.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=figures%5Fthat%5Fdont%5Fadd%5Fupbush</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Iraq - US casualties are estimated to be 20,000 (dead and wounded). The number of insurgents is also estimated at 20,000. Therefore each insurgent has injured or killed one American (forgetting America's notorious habit of shooting one another or 'fr]]></description></item><item><title>Women and their waists...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/women_and_their_waists.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/women_and_their_waists.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=women%5Fand%5Ftheir%5Fwaists</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Those that read me regularly will know that I've spent quite a while now travelling through SE Asia and have fallen hook line and sinker for the local women - they truly are beyond compare. But why?I used to think it was perhaps their feminity, somet]]></description></item><item><title>Iraq:- Col Tim Collins - then and now</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/iraq_col_tim_collins__then_and_now.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/iraq_col_tim_collins__then_and_now.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=iraq%5Fcol%5Ftim%5Fcollins%5F%5Fthen%5Fand%5Fnow</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In a remarkable speech, given in March 2003, Col. Tim Collins caught the imagination of the world in a moving speech given to his men just before entering Iraq fron the Kuwaiti desert. It drew praise from many quarters, including Bush and lair. Here]]></description></item><item><title>Cricket - England win the Ashes!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/cricket__england_win_the_ashes.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/cricket__england_win_the_ashes.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cricket%5F%5Fengland%5Fwin%5Fthe%5Fashes</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well who'd have thought it? England winning the Ashes for the first time since 1989 - nearly twenty years.But blood and sand what a sight for sore eyes, what a gladatorial spectacle, what a soul inspiring inspiration to see such a cathedral of achiev]]></description></item><item><title>Katrina - Bush addresses America</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina__bush_addresses_america.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina__bush_addresses_america.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=katrina%5F%5Fbush%5Faddresses%5Famerica</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tonight I want to talk to the people of America about the hurricane Katrina. Except for the poor, the frail, the elderly and foreign tourists, probably all terrorists, who only bring these things on themselves.I want to tell those people that count,]]></description></item><item><title>Katrina - what the world is saying</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina__what_the_world_is_saying.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina__what_the_world_is_saying.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=katrina%5F%5Fwhat%5Fthe%5Fworld%5Fis%5Fsaying</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That the poor, the frail, the sick and the elderly were left behind to fend for themselves and that this is a shameful disgrace to America. New Orleans were depending on a so called Good Samaritan policy, where those who had cars would help those who]]></description></item><item><title>Katrina exposes the real America</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina_exposes_the_real_america.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina_exposes_the_real_america.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=katrina%5Fexposes%5Fthe%5Freal%5Famerica</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Disgraceful. Disgusting. Uncaring. Racist. Welcome to America.And that's just the beginning. Last week before the hurricane struck, I thought that the only people left behind in New Oreleans were those idiotic enough to believe they could outride mot]]></description></item><item><title>Global warming and hurricane Katrina</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/global_warming_and_hurricane_katrina.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/global_warming_and_hurricane_katrina.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=global%5Fwarming%5Fand%5Fhurricane%5Fkatrina</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The terrible destruction wreaked by hurricane Katrina will cost billions in money and estimates of a thousand dead, and tens of thousands more injured. Citizens of New Orleans may have to wait up to four months before returning to what's left of thei]]></description></item><item><title>Disaster in Iraq - the new &apos;constitution&apos;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/disaster_in_iraq__the_new_constitution.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/disaster_in_iraq__the_new_constitution.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2005 06:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=disaster%5Fin%5Firaq%5F%5Fthe%5Fnew%5Fconstitution</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With the news breaking that the Shia and Kurdish parties have forced a constitution on the Sunni minority there can only be one conclusion. The talks over the last few days have been nothing but a farce, as I write the presses are rolling out 5 milli]]></description></item><item><title>The delayed Iraqi constitution - from the Welsh Leek!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_delayed_iraqi_constitution__from_the_welsh_leek.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_delayed_iraqi_constitution__from_the_welsh_leek.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fdelayed%5Firaqi%5Fconstitution%5F%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fwelsh%5Fleek</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The finalisation of the new Iraqi constitution was delayed on Monday for one week following disagreement on its wording between Kurdish, Shia and Sunni delegates. Our on the spot ace reporter Roy Rubberplunger managed to interview one of the delegate]]></description></item><item><title>Iraq today and the rabid right</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/iraq_today_and_the_rabid_right.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/iraq_today_and_the_rabid_right.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=iraq%5Ftoday%5Fand%5Fthe%5Frabid%5Fright</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's a strange curiosity that of most of the blogosphere that concern themselves with Iraq, as opposed to diarising their bowel movements for the perusal of voyeurs, tend to be rabid right wingers, neo-con cheerleaders that are very effective in drow]]></description></item><item><title>Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/euthanasia_and_assisted_suicide.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/euthanasia_and_assisted_suicide.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2005 04:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=euthanasia%5Fand%5Fassisted%5Fsuicide</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Britain three years ago there was a landmark ruling when a woman who was suffering from the advanced stages motor neurone disease was refused the right for someone to help her to die, specifically her husband. She is paralysed from the neck down,]]></description></item><item><title>The London bombings</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_london_bombings.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_london_bombings.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Flondon%5Fbombings</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At such a sad time, more than enough words have been written and spoken about last weeks dreadful tragedy. Suffice then to say that me heart goes out for those who have lost loved ones. Such a death must be truly terrible, so much more so than a natu]]></description></item></channel></rss>