Once this must have been considered cool

A real compliment to be hailed by the frat guy on campus...



But now, it's just pitiful and embarrassing. It must be really hard to demand attention when everyone is trying to see who the next president will be:

The G8 statement on climate change is also likely to highlight agreements to develop new technologies and provide funds to help poor countries limit greenhouse gas emissions.

But activists are wary of prospects for real progress until a new US president takes office next year.

"It's a little bit of a kabuki play," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

"Everyone is just waiting for the next president to see how that changes things."

For those who played with Legos

A trip down memory lane: A Lego vault that has almost all the sets ever made.

The truth about the war in Iraq the Marines don't want you to see

Siun of Crooks and Liars:

This week US Marines censored an award winning photojournalist – continuing the efforts to make certain we do not see the real results of our actions in Iraq. Zoriah was embedded with a Marine unit documenting the reasons so many soldiers are suffering from PTSD. He was only a block away when another Marine unit was caught up in a suicide bombing in Anbar province:

My hands still shake and my heart pounds despite my fatigue. A combination of depression, fear, and adrenaline makes my thoughts race with the realization that a simple decision was the only thing that seperated me from a body count that grows daily. I look at the images I took on the 26th of June, and realize they do nothing to capture the emotion of being an eyewitness to the aftermath of the Al-Qaeda suicide attack in Karmah/Garma… the smell… the sound of screams and crying.

Link to Zoriah's post and pictures.

Saddam had crumbs of yellowcake on his evil mustache

Daniel De Groot of Open Left:

I noted last night that a supply of uranium from Iraq had been successfully moved to Montreal in secrecy.

If you check into this, you'll quickly find that the uranium a) was not weapons grade and b) was well known to the UN and IAEA and was being stored legally by Saddam's government. It was legally in Iraq according to international law.

I wondered if the right wing echo chamber would use this as "proof" that the WMD claims were true after all. I got even better than I hoped, as not only do they use it that way, but they reveal how dishonest they are by the way they have done this.

De Groot then quoted from the blogs that proceeded predictably to do this very thing.

Bush was wrong. We know he was wrong. The American people know he was wrong. The world knows he was wrong. His glorious shiny 6 week war that would pop the clogs off Saddam and pop Chalabi into office went horribly horribly wrong. The wonderful war and decider commander guy president that would ensure a thousand year Republican Reich didn't happen. There were no weapons of mass destruction because the weapons of mass destruction Rumsfeld sold him had gone past their 'use by' date. Soldiers and innocents have died or been maimed in this glorious war on weapons of mass destruction program related activities. Saddam died, Georgie got his gun, but still the war grinds on.

Why did we attack and invade a sovereign country that had nothing to do with 9/11, Georgie? You'll be explaining yourself for the rest of your life, you know.

After all, it's your legacy we're talking about.

McCain: A Rovian sockpuppet

Lying about what General Clark actually said, creating false outrage and dragging out the Swiftboating King Bud Day to swiftboat some more.

Paul Krugman of the New York Times:

The latest fake scandal fit the usual pattern as an awkwardly phrased remark, lifted out of context and willfully misinterpreted, exploded across the airwaves.

What General Clark actually said was that Mr. McCain’s war service, though heroic, didn’t necessarily constitute a qualification for the presidency. It was a blunt but truthful remark, and not at all outrageous — especially given the fact that General Clark is himself a bona fide war hero.

Yet the Clark affair did reveal something important — not about General Clark, but about Mr. McCain. Now we know what a McCain administration would represent: namely, a third term for Karl Rove.

To our newest American citizens

This is how you heckle a despised elected official.

Welcome to the US and remember to vote!

Watch out!

Phila of Bouphonia's Friday Hope Blogging!

Friday Cat Blogging

And Bushwhacking in one:

For those who travel

Fox News exposes its true essence

By distorting reporters' faces and calling them names:

Summary: During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe "attack dogs," Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered -- the journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe's hair moved further back on his head.

Now if someone with photoshopping skills would take on ... oh, look:


and



There. I know it's childish, but I like to win the 'I know you are but what am I?' debate.

Also I'm not trying to pass off the wonderful photoshopping at pssht.com as reality as Fox News was attempting to do.

Update 7/10: Vanity Fair exacts delicious revenge!