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Hahaha: The Onion – Pakistani Intelligence Announces Its Full Cooperation With U.S. Forces During Upcoming Top Secret June 12 Drone Strike On Al-Qaeda At 5:23 A.M. Near Small Town Of Razmani In North Waziristan I love the image. And the caption. Hehehe.

Categories: War and Peace

A slideshow of our bravest and, obviously, most capable beasts of war. Curtsy: Wheat & Weeds, who knows exactly what I’ll think of this.

Categories: Catblogging

…At Wheat & Weeds. Hmm.

Categories: War and Peace

Photo of the day? Yeesh. Also: ‘“You know I’d love to help you man, but I can’t say a word about Team 6. There is no Team 6.”’ And I think this about sums up the zeitgeist (via The Corner): Update: Oh hey Politico – Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of computer data

Categories: War and Peace

Cuz: The Times – Gaddafi’s foreign minister has flown into Britain to sensationally defect from regime tonight Huh.

Categories: War and Peace

In my Google Reader, at the end of this Power Line post of photos of protests against Obama (re: the wee Libyan war we find outselves in) across the Muslim world, Google throws me this ad: /giggle

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Have you seen the price of diesel lately? I think I can make it till Wednesday. So: The French air force seemed to have kicked some serious ass today in Libya. It’s nice to see them demonstrating their abilities for the world. Hate seeing them lumped in with the rest of the European elf-n-safety forces. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I think the lesson here might be, “Lay off the US for a moment because it might be your third-rate little backwater hellhole that suddenly gets strafed by attack helicopters.” Telegraph Blogs – Barack Obama’s message to Libyans: sorry, the US has intervention fatigue

Categories: War and Peace

I’ve just added a bunch of these to my Tumblr in the sidebar but I thought it deserved more attention cuz it’s so awesome: 2719 Hyperion: Service with Character: Disney World War II Insignia It is indeed an especially intriguing and engaging category of Disney-produced artwork. The insignia designs that were created by the studio [...]

Categories: History

Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’ (Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet) Heh.

Categories: History

These appeared in a lovely long ad-free row in Google Reader, alas: The Corner – Cartoon of the Day, by KLo There are actually 28. My fav, for its poignancy:

Categories: People and Current Events

And for much of it, all I could think of was this: Horrible, I know. But I’m very tired today and obviously it’s affecting my brain. The rest of the movie was good, but I thought the end was a little lame.

Categories: War and Peace

The Times (£) – Afghan woman mutilated by in-laws gets a tour of Manhattan (this is the girl on the cover of Time over the summer with her nose cut off) “She grew up in a tiny village, there was no electricity, no running water. She never went to school.” Not only could she not [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

If the Washington Post needs to do an editorial on how much your film stinks… WaPo – Hollywood myth-making on Valerie Plame controversy Best part: Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; “Fair Game” is just one more example. But the film’s reception illustrates a more troubling [...]

Categories: Entertainment

I have two videos about New Jersey. The first one I’ve had open for a few days now and been meaning to post because it’s really quite good: Mike Marino on an Italian President: The second one isn’t funny. It made me a little teary, actually. But I found this right after re-watching the first [...]

Categories: War and Peace