Friday humor

I don't think I've ever seen it illustrated so well...

A little more insight into Iraq and our forces there

From Michael J. Totten is a great read called In the Slums of Fallujah

• FALLUJAH, IRAQ – Captain Steve Eastin threw open the door to the Iraqi Police captain’s office and cancelled a joint American-Iraqi officer’s meeting before it could even begin. “Someone just shot at my Marines,” he said. “We can’t do this right now.”

Like I said, it's a great read and he gives some great insight into the good and bad of our forces over there.

Mailed off the first car payment

Yahoo! Just 71 more and this baby's mine, all mine!

Okay, that won't happen for awhile, so I'll just continue driving it like I stole it and enjoy the ride.

Jim Morrison

Not sure how much truth there is to this one, but there's obvious humor.

I was listening to Sirius Buzz saw and the intro to an old Doors song was a clip from a British comedian (I'm assuming) and he was saying, the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried wanted to dig him up and move him to another cemetery. Apparently, his fans stop by and hold vigils from time to time and the caretakers were tired of picking up beer bottles, used condoms, drug needles, and, well, you get the picture.

As the comedian aptly pointed out, the dude's been dead for thirty years he's still getting kicked out of places for partying...

Can the politics of surrender pay off?

You make the call. From the Washington Times we have Obama's politics of surrender

• One year ago, in the wake of the Democrats recapturing Congress, it was unimaginable that in 2008, Republicans (or for that matter, any American politicians) would be emphasizing military and political successes in Iraq. But thanks to the outstanding leadership of Gen. David Petraeus and the men and women who participated in the Iraq troop surge, things have changed quite dramatically. For now, their achievements sem to have sapped the MoveOn.org, anti-war- movement crowd of much of its political support and energy.

Obama's lack of understanding Iraq

Covered very well in an editorial at The New York Post called BARACK'S IRAQ ATTACK

• March 2, 2008 -- Barack Obama says he's got the perfect prescription for Iraq: Pull out all American troops now, but then rush back in once al Qaeda overruns the place - which, of course, it would after a US cut-and-run.

  Actually, Obama didn't really promise to confront a resurgent al Qaeda - only that he "would always reserve the right to go in and strike" if "al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq."

  John McCain rightly noted just how nonsensical that position is - by pointing out to Obama that "al Qaeda already is in Iraq."

  To which Obama replied: "There was no such thing as al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq."

  True enough.

  Just as it's true that there used to be two tall office buildings in downtown Manhattan until al Qaeda in Afghanistan - that is to say, radical Islam - decided to knock them down, initiating a global war that has taken many unpredictable turns since then.

  As it will continue to do, no matter who is elected president in November.

It's scary stuff, ain't it?

The USS New York

Pinch over at Black Five reports that USS New York Christened

• The fifth ship of the new San Antonio class, the New York already holds a special place in the hearts of Americans because the steel that makes up her bow section includes steel salvaged from the World Trade Center.