Here an update to an earlier post.

Frank Warren, creator of the PostSecret project, will be speaking about the project and signing books in Atlanta tonight at 7pm at the Barnes and Noble on Peachtree St.

Hopefully I will see other Memestreamers there tonight.

Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship.

Victory also doesn't look like a douche bag "pilot" landing on an carrier with "Mission Accomplished" banner.

On a sidenote, he only cried "9/11" once.

Transcript of President's Address to the Nation

from Mike the Usurper:

These words or phrases are your cues to drink:

* "9/11" - drink once
* "September the 11th" drink twice - is that extra "the" supposed to make the mention more dramatic?
* "Surge" - drink once
* "Escalation" or "escalate" - drink twice.

Tonight's drinking rules! Because no one should have to be sober listening to someone who sounds that drunk.

Bush Iraq War Escalation Speech Drinking Game | The Huffington Post

Conspiracy is not a theory. It is a crime.

The United States Mint, concerned that rising metal prices could lead to widespread recycling of pennies and nickels, has banned melting or exporting them.

According to calculations by the Mint, the metal value of pennies, which are made of copper-coated zinc, is now more than one cent. The metal value of 5-cent coins, made from a copper-nickel blend, is up to 7 cents. Adding in the costs of manufacturing means the Mint now spends 1.73 cents for every penny and 8.74 cents for every nickel it makes.

Until 1982, pennies were made of 95 percent copper. The commodity metal value of one of those coins, which still make up a large percentage of the pennies in circulation, is 2.13 cents, according to the Mint.

The funny thing is, a guy name Darrin I used to work with was doing exactly this. He was collecting large quantities of coins because the metal in them was worth more than monetary value of the coin. Of course "large quantities" is relative, he had collected a few hundred dollars worth of coins.

Melting pennies for fun and profit

Militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive as Iraqi soldiers stood by

Things are going so well in Iraq, we can only lose if we... Who is the administration trying to kid? Is the idea that we're the ones who dropped the crate of eggs so we have to be the ones to put them back together? Into something we can stick back under the chickens to hatch? Welcome to impossible, and the only ones left who don't get that are the ones who make the policy.

Shiites burn 6 Sunni worshippers alive

"It's never been a stay-the-course strategy," Bartlett said.

And yet President Bush has said...

And, yet, we must stay the course, because the end result is in our nation's interest. April 2004, [whitehouse.gov]

We're not going to lose in Iraq. As a matter of fact, we will win in Iraq so long as we stay the course. July 2006, [whitehouse.gov]

Stay the course also means don't leave before the job is done. And that's -- we're going to get the job done in Iraq. October 2006, [whitehouse.gov]

Barlett, you and the no talent ass clown you work for have no credibility. Sit down and shut the fuck up.

Bush adviser: 'stay the course' is not our strategy

A North Korean official warned that the Communist state could test-fire a nuclear missile unless the U.S. acts to resolve its standoff with Pyongyang, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.

"We hope the situation will be resolved before an unfortunate incident of us firing a nuclear missile comes," the unnamed official said Monday

"We hope the situtation in the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia will be resolved before an unfortunate incident of us conquering all of Europe comes" the unnamed Nazi offical said, Monday March 7, 1938.

North Korean official warns U.S. actions could prompt missile attack

A guy from Thailand was in my microeconomics class this morning and told me the real story behind all this coup stuff. Apparently, the PM was a satelite communications mogul who bought them from the gov't and didn't pay any taxes on them. He's the 4th richest person in Thailand, and his approval rating in the city is only about 20%. In the country its much higher, however that's more than likely because he bribes the peasants to vote for him. His main goal in life? To be the 1st richest person in Thailand.

I doubted my classmate until he concluded that his mom lives over there and says there hasn't been an ounce of rioting. Of course there's no rioting when it's what the people want.

Fuck our call to "return to democracy"...these guys seem to be making their own stew just fine.

-janelane, please someone glue Bush's mouth shut

Thailand's king gives blessing to coup

A very good interview with Gen John Abizaid on tonight's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Gen Abizaid is the commander of the Central Command, which includes all U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The General talked a lot of why he feels the situation in Iraq is improving. And by, "situation in Iraq" he really means "in the areas where we've applied military forces. The overall numbers show a slight decrease [in violence]; I wouldn't say [the decrease in violence is] substantial."

... ... well that sure is good to know. He did discuss trying to turn over more and more responsiblity to the Iraqi's, though he ducked a question about how many resources the US is spending on training new Iraqi solders to kill the new insurgents as opposed to cutting out the middle man and doing that ourselves.

There was one thing that certainly shocked me, especially that such a high ranking general made such a point calling our attention to it.

And then the final thing I'd say is it's hugely important for us to keep in mind that the flow of oil and the flow of natural resources through the Straits of Hormuz, the Bab-el-Mandeb, and the Suez Canal have got to continue. And that falls to the United States Armed Forces, which is why we currently have about 215,000 Americans serving in my region.

I'm not such a crazy lefty that I don't realize that Oil is a strategic resource and we want to protect our resources (especially when "our" resources are in other country's borders), but when the General in charge of all military operations in the Middle East says that safe guarding the flow of oil is "why" we have almost a 1/4 million troops there is a little shocking.

NewsHour: Interview with Gen. John Abizaid