Day: May 22, 2006

It’s official. Lorie Byrd, recently exiled from PoliPundit, now nests at Wizbang. Good for her!

Someone over at Friends of Hillary needs to learn basic Photoshop skills. This picture, which currently serves as the masthead over at www.hillaryclinton.com, is about the worst cut-and-paste arrangement of layers I’ve ever seen.

Besides the fact that Hillary looks bigger than everyone, I especially like the sunshine flooding the face of the lady to her right, but nowhere else. Nice touch. Great effect.

Maybe she’s having a hard time finding Americans who want to do the web graphics job over at her campaign? Oh well, the amnesty program should solve that problem soon enough.

I’m sure someone over at Friends of Hillary has checked “H-Rod’s” music library to ensure it contains legitimate songs downloaded from the iTunes store. And if for some reason it can’t be matched there, I’m positive that Hillary could produce personal CDs from her home music collection that would align with her “Party Shuffle” list.

Right?

(Ahem) Right?

[crickets]

I started laughing the minute I read this headline and haven’t stopped since.

Kerry calls for international summit to quell Iraqi insurgency

Kerry, speaking with reporters after touring areas flooded last week by heavy rain, said the summit should include representatives of warring factions in Iraq, as well as Europeans, Iranians, Syrians and other Middle Eastern players. The goal should be to stabilize Iraq so Iraqi forces can assume control and the U.S. military can stand down by the end of the year, he said.

Be sure to bring Jimmy Carter along to do the introductions for you, John. He’s got lots of old friends amongst this group.

Oh, and John? What about security? How are you going to stop the “representatives of warring factions” from bringing along their own suicide bombers to your little party? Will you be there too or will you just “endorse” the meeting while you stay snug as a bug in a rug in your Boston mansion?

Oh, one more thing John. If a meeting like this really took place, and all the thuggery of Iraq, Iran, and Syria came together in one location, would you be upset if the U.S. decided to interrupt the proceedings with a few strategically placed smart bombs?

Just wondering.

What do you do after a weekend bad publicity involving a video catching you accepting $100 Grand in bribe money from an undercover FBI agent?

Announce, with a smirk on your face, that you’re going to run for reelection.

VIDEO

Now that the blogosphere exists, fake documentaries have become harder and harder to pull-off.

Part I, II and III of this farce can be found here.

Uncle Jimbo…

This spindly little weasel wouldn’t have made it through 10 seconds of RIP, let alone Ranger school or life in a Ranger Batt. The pic on his wall shows the wrong t-shirt, wrong sleeves roll, wrong flash, this boy is so many flavors of wrong I can’t keep up.

Bubblehead at MilBlogs agrees.

UPDATE: Pretty much everyone (including the Moonbats) are now convinced that this guy is a genuine faker. The video has been removed from YouTube, but it looks like you can view it here, at least for now.

UPDATE II: More, from Uncle Jimbo.

Former Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevey has written a book about his “tortured life of lies and sexual repression”.

Frankly, I’d rather read a book written by McGreevey’s wife Dina, the real victim in this story.

I have an entirely new appreciation for our troops today as a result of watching this show on HBO last night.

12-time Emmy Award winner producer/director Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill capture the humanity, hardships and heroism of the US Military and medical personnel of the 86th Combat Support Hospital, the Army’s premier medical facility in Iraq. Sometimes graphic in its depiction of combat-related wounds, BAGHDAD ER offers an unflinching and honest account of the realities of war.

It’s one thing to read about stuff like this, it’s quite another to view it, uncut. Quite a few points struck me as I watched…

…The amount of dedication the medical staff put into each and every casualty, no matter if the patient was American or Iraqi.

…The emotion felt between soldiers when one of their buddies dies.

…The difficult job done by the Army Chaplain which requires a gentle spirit 24/7.

…The sense of mission in each injured soldier, and their unwavering desire to rejoin their fellow troops as soon as possible.

If you have HBO and didn’t get a chance to view the program, you’ll have another opportunity over Memorial Day weekend. It’s well worth your time.