The body armor's just a fashion statement
-John McCain's courageous battle with reality-
John McCain's 'Straight Talk Express' took a little detour through right wing fantasyland recently. Speaking on Bill Bennett's Morning in America radio show, McCain told the audience that the troop surge was working and said, "There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today." He also told Wolf Blitzer Bagdhad was safe and Blitzer was repeating a 'three-month-old talking point.' Then he told Wolf that Gen. Petraeus tools around in an unarmored humvee. That didn't go over so well, mostly because everyone and their brother knows it's a bunch of crap.
So McCain went out to prove that Baghdad's safe. He took a one hour stroll through the city's market with '100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead' and body armor -- just like your average iraqi who has 100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead and body armor. He didn't say you didn't have to take reasonable precautions -- like 100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead and body armor. (Think Progress)
-No one ever said Einstein could spell-
Actual headline for a story about a math and science competition at the Shoemaker Center at Ohio University-Chillicothe: "Einstein's Challange." (WKKJ-FM)
-Fun with tools-
"A Danish woman whose teenage son locked himself into her car and refused to get out borrowed a policeman's axe and smashed open a window to make the boy change his mind, police said Monday." My attitude here is that it's her car and her brat. If she thinks she needs to whack out a window to make a point, then she should knock herself out. What I think is weird about this story is that danish police are issued axes. (Reuters)
