Monthly Archives: March 2008

Five videos show American soldiers at their worst

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From Valleywag

The Digg story "U.S. Soldier throws puppy off cliff" had, at last count, 5,527 votes. Digg commenters, never a demure crowd, aren't holding back their rage. One comment, itself voted for 540 times, reads "Wow. I hope he got shot in the face later that day." This video exposes something about the dehumanization of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that most of us don't want to think about. Here are five more videos that show just how far gone our troops are. A warning: These videos are explicit and -- with the known correlation between violence toward animals and violence toward other humans in mind -- savagely disheartening.

You might need to go to the Valleywag link to see the first video, as Google has taken many copies of it off of their site. The others may soon follow.

If there was ever a case for ending or at least reining this war in, here it is. This is almost worse than Abu Ghraib. At least that could be seen as angry troops taking their frustrations out on “enemy combatants.” But puppies, farm animals and random motorists? Come on!

Update: Apparently the case is being investigated by a Hawaii Marine base. Good.

Hucka-beeotch!

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Just a quick thought on Mike Huckabee and his refusal to gracefully (*snicker*) bow out.

Huckabee has stated that, despite it being mathematically impossible for him to become the Republican candidate, he will remain in the race until God tells him to drop out. He also says that he, “believes in miracles,” and that is what he is counting on to win.

Seeing that a miracle is a divine act of God making the impossible possible, and that the only thing that would make Huckabee the front runner would be if McCain suddenly drops out or dies. One has to surmise that Huckabee, in a roundabout kind of way, is hoping that God comes down and kills John McCain.

That’s mighty Christian of you partner.

‘The Onion’ strikes again

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Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies

A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle.

Since beginning two weeks ago, the deficit in these vernacular phrases has affected nearly every English speaker on the continent, making it virtually impossible to communicate symbolic ideas through a series of words that do not individually share the same meaning as the group of words as a whole. In what many are calling a cast-iron piano tune unlike any on record, idiomatic expression has been devastated nationwide.

"This is an absolute oyster carnival," said Harvard University linguistics professor Dr. Howard Albright, who noted that the 2008 idiom shortage has been the country's worst. "I don't know any other way to describe it."

FULL STORY

Those people have the best job ever.

Sunday talk linueup, former presidential candidate edition; Dodd, Richardson, Dean and Kerry

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Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

ABC’s “This Week” — Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Hillary Rodham Clinton, and David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama.
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CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.; Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.
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NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Republican strategists Mary Matalin and Mike Murphy; Democratic strategists James Carville and Bob Shrum.
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CNN’s “Late Edition” — NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; Reps. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and Roy Blunt, R-Mo.