Ahmadinija's Minions Love To Photoshop

(Gizmodo)

I know this picture is small but click on it for a (slightly) larger version. This is a photo released by the Iranian media (i.e. the Iranian government) showing a massive demonstration in support of Mahmoud Ahmadinijad. Yet in the background, the photoshop-savvy media fleet have noticed blatant copy/paste violations.

Very similar to the photoshopped picture of Iran's partially failed rocket launch, this supports the fact that the Iranian government is crazy, wants to crush it's populace into submission, and lacks the technical skills needed in the twenty-first century to do so. Turn off text messaging? we have wifi. Turn off wifi? We have sat-phone. Turn off internet sites? We have proxies. You can't stop that which you don't know.

Political Cartoon Of The Week

I know, I know. Not everyone who's pro-life wants to kill abortion doctors. But the black and white, us verses them rhetoric that's being shouted out from the top pro-life voices is what's creating people like this. Soooo, let he who is without sin cast the first stone (or bullet) much?

Protestors Rage After Iranian Government Rigs Election

(Huffington Post)

It was an impressive event when Hezbollah was voted out of power in Lebanon, no longer able to push an anti-American agenda. I admit, I had high hopes about the upcoming Iranian Presidential elections, mainly because of all the dirty pool politics Ahmadinejad was playing. Why would he have to pay all these dirty politics if the election was fixed? Therefore, it must be an open election. Well, once again, my idealism gets the best of me. So the government rigged the election and had Ahmadinejad win by a large margin. It's highly doubtful that this was an on-the-level competition, but I guess that's to be expected. So now what is to be done?

It seems pretty obvious that the Iranian people know they were duped, and they have taken to the streets this weekend in protest. Most of the protests were peaceful, if not silent. A few have escalated to the point where the "peace-keeping" forces bludgeon the shit out of protesters. But the thing truly remarkable is that these photos and reports are able to get out of Iran. If this happened in, oh I don't know, China, we wouldn't have heard of it. I'm not sure why the Iranian government let this happen. They cut off international calling. They cut off text messaging. They limited so much communications in Tehran. They obviously wanted to cover this up, but they are failing so miserably at it. So this means one of two things: They want to leak this stuff out (unlikely), or they are unable to stop the flood because they are losing control of their people.

Either way, it's exciting to see people striving to be free of tyranny.

We Are Tiny

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Watch this beautiful time-lapse video. All those dots you see are stars. Some of the dots are other galaxies. Mind-blowing. It kinda puts our puny little world into some perspective to stop every once in a while and look up.

Colbert Debates Colbert On The Efficacy Of D.A.D.T.

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Jon Voight A True Idiot

It's pretty easy to see why Angelina doesn't speak to her kook of a father. Here he makes mention of how America was once the envy of the world, and how far we've fallen. Then, as if he'd been blind the last 8 years, he blames Obama (the "false prophet") for making it happen. Wow, guy. I mean really. You can say all you want you disagree with the way he's handling things, but somewhere between 2001 and 2003, America has become the scourge of the world, not the envy. Saying that we are in a weaker position after trying the tack of, and say this dirty word with me, diplomacy, is backward. Voight seems to have a "Shoot constantly and never ask questions" attitude. He can keep it. Just another example why people in Hollywood don't have the entire picture.

Deeds To Get VA Democratic Nomination

With Terry McCauliffe already conceded, and Bill Moran trailing behind significantly, Creigh Deeds looks to be the winner of the Virginia Gubernatorial Democratic primary. I find it interesting that the McCauliffe campaign sent me, an avid gun owner and concealed carry permit holder, a poster decrying Deeds as a man who "Voted to allow concealed carry permit holders to carry in bars and restaurants!" Um... Thanks Terry! Made my choice a lot easier!

(CNN)

Obama Wavering On "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

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I appreciate how Barack Obama is much more of a pragmatist than either myself or his predecessor. I understand that sometimes there needs to be a little give and take to Washington. But the failed policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" needs to be addressed, and now.

Look people, we need bodies to be fighting both the war that Bush had to start, and the war he chose to start. We have men and women serving on the front lines. It makes no sense to be kicking people out of this man's, not that man's army, when all they want in life is to serve, for being homosexual.

13,000 people, since the implementation of D.A.D.T., have been fired from the armed forces for being who they are. If we fired people if we found out that they were part Afghani, or jewish, there would be riots in the streets. What you think about homosexuality or not, this is blatant discrimination, bordering on racism, and it needs to be stopped.

When we look at the amount of our fighting men and women who finish their tour only to get stop-lossed into a second, third or fourth, and we have thousands of people who actually want to be there who are kicked out. Not only is this unfair to America's homosexual population, but it is unfair to our heterosexual fighters who have been de-facto drafted due to lack of enlistment. The armed forces have even loosened their requirements on ex-cons, intelligence, etc. But still, you can't be a dude who likes dudes and volunteer to fight for your country.

Really, I don't get it.

Stewart Blasts Big Three Cable News Outlets

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I do so enjoy this takes on MSNBC and CNN along with Fox. Most of the time, Fox is the easiest one to call out for it's, shall we say, cutting and pasting of RNC talking points. That Ed guy on MSNBC is just about as bad as Rush Limbaugh but, you know, left-er. As always, the Daily Show seems to bring a refreshingly funny take on the state of political reporting today.

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Gubernatorial Primaries In VA Today

The guy I voted for is a pro-gun democrat. We must get rid of the
stereotype that all democrats are anti-gun. Happy voting, VA democrats!