Crap Throwing Monkey

Wait...which evil brown people are we talking about again? Ah, screw it...they're all bad, whether they're picking lettuce or running our ports...

...and hello $6.00/gallon gasoline.

And prominently featured there is a link to this: http://www.livescience.com/environment/060...ifferences.html Apparently, despite the USA-Today quality map in the link you suggest (working link here, btw), the scientific community can't decide if it real has been the warmest "on record" or not. The map would look awfully good in Gore's book, though...right alongside all the other bull sh-- USA Today graphics. The most inconvenient truth about Gore's book (which I read yesterday) is that it's the worst kind of manipulative nonsense.

Hell, we don't even have to kill them. Just so we keep them out of our ports, everything's rosy...

Usually, though, the background looks darker in those case, not muted as in this case. Plus...there's blue sky in the pic. Looks like a bright, sunny day. Doesn't look like flash photography conditions. Still...that's probably the weakest of my reasons. I've seen plenty of odd things happen with cameras. Why, this one time...at band camp...

There's two other guys in the lower right corner in the background...if relative size is any indication (and it is), there's not too much distance between fore- and background. That's not a very deep field; looks to my eye like the f-stop on that exposure was about 0.75... Plus...the lighting looks pretty oddly discontinuous between foreground and background. Could be as a result of focus...I don't know, all my photography experience is at a considerable distance (like thousands or millions of light years ). And as far as I know, there shouldn't be THAT much difference in contrast across THAT little depth of field. Plus...it looks like the guy in the foreground is plugging his ears against the noise of the cannons behind him. Except...the two guys in the background, closer to the cannons, aren't. They're actually pretty clearly engaged in a conversation. The guns aren't even firing. And if you blow up the picture, the guy in the foreground isn't plugging his ears, he's holding some bizarre, unidentifiable square blocks against his face. Plus - and here's the real kicker for me - that's pretty clearly Israeli artillery in the background. Israeli military units take a very dim view of photographers crawling around their neigborhood snapping photos of them. Virtually the only picture a photographer is going to get of Israeli military units in the field is going to be a blurry one. For that reason alone, I'm disinclined to believe an AP photographer got close enough to snap a sharp picture of a soldier closely affiliated with the unit, even though the unit itself is blurry in the background. More likely it's a manufactured photo (not necessarily by AP - hell, the Israelis could have done it themselves), with the guy in the foreground inserted to add visual interest to an otherwise blurry shot.

It's gotta be photoshopped. When's the last time you saw Eddie Munster standing in front of a howitzer?

You think he does?

Well...yeah, I guess. If you want $4.00/gallon gasoline.

bull sh-- like this is why I treat you with complete and utter contempt.

I know what AiO's getting for Christmas...

Or if it does, it's in Iran anyway. And don't forget: Hizb'Allah has morphed over the past few years from a strictly terrorist organization into a political party (a terrorist political party, though...kind of like Sinn Fein and the IRA). Political parties do on occasion find fixed headquarters useful...

The common English transliteration is "Hezbollah". But the most accurate would be "Hizb Allah" (literally, "Party of God"). I've always preferred it as "Hizb'allah", though, to distinguish it as a one-word proper name.

What a mess. Good thing the moderate Arab countries are pretty much saying to Hizb'Allah "You started this. You're getting exactly what you deserve. Next time, think things through." Otherwise this would be turning into a real Charlie Foxtrot.

Wouldn't it just be easier to say "My ideology can beat up your ideology?"

Actually, I think he's referring to the entirety of European history. "Hey, there's a famine...let's go kill the Jews!"

Not a great solution...but I'm hard-pressed to think of a better one, frankly.

The fly needed more cowbell, clearly.

Could you find anything a little more biased?

Could you find anything a little more biased?

I just want to say that you're wrong. Just because, it wouldn't be a thread on TSW if some !@#$ing know-nothing dumbass didn't tell the professionals they were wrong...

I've had that before. It sucked.

Easy choice. Christianity, hands down.

They are. The report of billions wasted originally came from the GAO, I think (if not...then its DoD equivalent. Believe it or not, DoD does audit their contracts for performance.) And like I said earlier...chump change. I was talking with people at my client site today (government contractors themselves), and they - as people who spend government money daily - were laughing at the idea that $15B out of a half-trillion is "wasted". Doesn't make it right, obviously...but it is business as usual in the government. And I guarantee you, too...the way to waste even more money is to spend it on a special congressional investigation into the normal course of events.

Everyone remembers that link, but no one remembers this classic.