Archive for January, 2009

Yep, let the gutting begin … Eight years of stopping the bleeding, rebuilding, re-arming while fighting two wars … about to be tossed down the shitter. We saw this coming. Knew it. Where did anyone think some of the pork dollars were going to come from?
FOX:
Defense Official: Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts
Some [...]

If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message “This site may harm your computer” accompanied each and every search result. This was clearly an error, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users.
What happened? Very simply, human [...]

XENIA, Ohio — A western Ohio man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for disciplining his children with a dog shock collar.
David Liskany of Jamestown had pleaded guilty to charges of felonious assault and attempted felonious assault. Prosecutors had recommended a lighter sentence under the plea deal.
In court yesterday, Greene County Common [...]

Sky News UK:
Web-users have been given the chance to become the ‘Hero of the Hudson’ - but some have branded the online game as “offensive”.
US Airways pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger’s heroic splash landing into the River Hudson earlier this month saved dozens of lives and was heralded as a miracle.
Now a team of developers [...]

BAGHDAD — The director of an orphanage in Tikrit says she must remove the shoe sculpture set up to honor the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush.
Fatin al-Nassiri says Iraqi police told her the statue had to be removed because government property should not be used for [...]

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s provincial elections have wrapped up without any reports of serious violence.
Polls closed at 6 p.m. (10 a.m. EST) on Saturday — an hour later than planned — after millions of voters cast ballots for influential regional councils around most of Iraq. There were no reports of major violence.
Iraqi authorities imposed a [...]

Caption:
A collection of still images and video taken by myself and the men of 82nd LRSD on their 2007-08 Afghanistan Deployment. Edited by Justin Hunt using Sony Vegas Pro 8


Oh man! I LOVE this story … Love these two movie depictions.
Yunz guys know my sci-fi roots.
I have stated before, one of the all time classics is Howard Hawks’ “The Thing” … Business-like and professional in the characters, but the dialog was highly candid, almost ad-libbing … conversational. And I still swear Ridley [...]



Nan: “In the words of Dolly Parton, Takes a lot of money to look this cheap …”

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