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May 01, 2008
Thursday
Hola amigos. Been a long time since I rapped at ya.
My apologies for the delay, dudes, but it was for YOU. While the site hummed along silently, with each of you reloading hundreds if not thousands of times waiting for just the tiniest skosh of an update, I was off on an epic link hunt, traveling across the farthest reaches of the interwebb, questing for content. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Animated gifs on fire, off the shoulder of Orion. I watched jpegs glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... pixels...
1. Via Veronika: Fox News fucks up, confuses Frederick Douglass with Stephen Douglas. Classic!
2. Thom Lessner wheatpastin': SPOTTED! My favorite part is the google-mapping. Focused.
3. 16 Abandoned & Decaying Hotels from Around the World, via Finny. Ryugyong Hotel in N. Korea is fuckin bonkers.
4. Mission Accomplished, five years gone. Matt Yglesias digs up the contemporary CNN coverage of the fiasco:
It was the first time a sitting president has arrived on the deck of an aircraft carrier by plane...
Moments after the landing, the president, wearing a green flight suit and holding a white helmet, got off the plane, saluted those on the flight deck and shook hands with them. Above him, the tower was adorned with a big sign that read, "Mission Accomplished."
Bush said he did take a turn at piloting the craft.
"Yes, I flew it. Yeah, of course, I liked it," said Bush, who was an F-102 fighter pilot in the Texas Air National Guard after graduating from Yale University in 1968.
"Great job," said Bush, a wide smile stretched across his face as he posed for photographs with crew members who gathered to get their pictures with the president. He draped his arms around some, slapped the backs of others and shook hands with many.
To others, the president said, "Thank you," and " 'preciate it."
At one point, he looked up to the observation deck and held up both arms to the roar of hundreds of sailors who had crowded the area.
The landing came just hours before Bush is to tell the nation that major combat operations in Iraq have ended. The speech will be delivered from the carrier's flight deck at 9 p.m. EDT.
Jesus fucking christ. Sadly, Yglesias gets it right:
Since that time, thousands of Americans have died, who knows how many more have been wounded, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent, and millions of Iraqis have been killed or displaced. Naturally, current policy calls for us to stay in Iraq, possibly fighting for decades in the hopes that peace eventually breaks out on terms that allow us to establish a permanent military presence there. Makes sense to me.
Even the White House did the unthinkable yesterday and admitted it got "Mission Accomplished" wrong. Scary.
Posted by caps at May 1, 2008 11:09 AM