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Demon Hunter Supplicants now drop the proper loot.

So last week a man running for the Republican presidential ticket made an almost unheard of statement in the debates on Fox. The congressman from Texas, named Ron Paul, made the assertion that it was because of US interventionist policy in the Middle East over the years before 9/11 were what drove the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001. Of course everyone seemed taken aback at this, the very idea that we might have done something to make someone hate us, especially Rudy Giuliani who shot back the childish retort that the terrorists just hate our freedoms. Anyway, I think Gina’s found her Republican candidate for this presidential cycle. And apparently a lot of minds were blown by Ron Paul’s appearance… on Thursday on The View there was an extended discussion on US foreign policy which you might never have expected to see on daytime broadcast network television:

I’m eating lunch at work with a fork made from sugarcane and a cup that looks exactly like plastic but is made from corn, both are totally biodegradable. That’s kinda cool. Does it fit under any of the three R’s? I suppose Reduce once it all biodegrades. It’s not Recycle since these items are not made from other used materials, and not Reuse no one else has used them before either. There’s always the argument that using metal/ceramic utensils and cups that you just keep and rewash uses less materials, but how do you compare the cost of water to clean them versus the cost of producing the biodegradable materials?

This is an amazing set of images, you just have to click through to see.

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id

Just wanted to chime in with everyone else in the lefty blogosphere about the four year anniversary of Bush declaring major military operations over in Iraq. Hooray!

Also, here’s some really choice clips from some of the media coverage that day, even more amazing than the fact more soldiers are still dying every day now.

COULTER: It’s stunning. It’s amazing. I think it’s huge. I mean, he’s landing on a boat at 150 miles per hour. It’s tremendous. It’s hard to imagine any Democrat being able to do that. And it doesn’t matter if Democrats try to ridicule it. It’s stunning, and it speaks for itself.

MATTHEWS: We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who’s president. Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple. We’re not like the Brits. We don’t want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.

From http://mediamatters.org/items/200604270005. How do these people sleep at night with all the stuff they spew?

Traffic slow around the Bay Area

(05-01) 09:12 PDT — Traffic was slow in some areas throughout the region this morning, two days after a tanker truck crash took out two of the East Bay’s major freeway connectors, prompting widespread fears of a traffic nightmare for commuters.

Lazy reporters can’t come up with a precise headline…