In Response to Sharon’s Polite Request

Okay, we will!

UPDATE: Clever culprits identified!! As Dave said, members of the Minnesota National Guard.

GIS DROP SMART BOMB ON KERRY
HILARIOUS HEROES FIRE BACK OVER DEM AND DUMBER CRACK ABOUT IRAQ
…Holtan, who works at Guard headquarters, said he believes the troops behind the Kerry sign are in Iraq, since all the members of the unit in the shot – the 1/34 Brigade Troops Battalion – have been deployed.
He said he can see a unit insignia on one of the vehicles in the background and those vehicles have also gone to Iraq.
Fox News Channel quoted Army officials saying that the picture looked authentic and appeared to be taken in Iraq.
“We are always amazed at the creativity of our troops,” one Army official told Fox.

Oh, you betcha.

I Blame Bush!

…corporate whore that he is.

Those annoying television commercials that told parents to talk to their teenagers about not smoking were especially annoying to the kids they were meant to help, an upcoming article in the American Journal of Public Health will claim–so annoying that they may have encouraged kids to take up the habit that the tobacco-company-sponsored spots were supposed to deter.
…The study looked at the results of the advertising on the smoking habits and beliefs of American school students. It turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that peer pressure overpowered the messages that penetrated living rooms in 75 U.S. television markets.
“As adolescents age toward adulthood, they are more inclined to perceive themselves as independent and self-reliant and less likely to report that they rely on their parents for guidance or assistance,” the study said.
The ads aimed at the kids themselves did not have any effect on teen smoking, the study found, while those targeted at the parents apparently made the kids who saw them more likely to smoke.

“No way!” “You’re joking!” And the always popular “what a surprise!” If this was REAL news and not a RETHUGLICAN PLOT, it would be on MSNBC/ABC and not FORBES.
In an unlikely coincidence, a proposed constitutional amendent is on the ballot here in Florida. In their infinite wisdom, the do-gooder dolts want to:

No. 4: Protect People Especially Youth, From Addiction, Disease, and Other Health Hazards of Using Tobacco
To protect people, especially youth, from addiction, disease, and other health hazards of using tobacco, the Legislature shall use some Tobacco Settlement money annually for a comprehensive statewide tobacco education and prevention program using Centers for Disease Control best practices. Specifies some program components, emphasizing youth, requiring one-third of total annual funding for advertising. Annual funding is 15% of 2005 Tobacco Settlement payments to Florida, adjusted annually for inflation. Provides definitions. Effective immediately.

Protect PEEPS! Especially YOOTS!! For $57 MILLION a YEAR!!
(Hey! Protection ain’t cheap.) Even if the protection doesn’t WORK! Is a FAILURE! Like BUSH’S IRAQ POLICY!! Because he’s STOOOPID. Like YOO ARE if you don’t vote for No.4. You must always vote for the CHIIIIDREN. Or YOO’RE A STOOPID REPUBLICAN HATER GATOR.

Kerry Reconsidered

You know, maybe I’m being too hard on poor JFK for saying this on Monday:

“You know, education — if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

It turns out he was supposed to say this

A Kerry spokeswoman, Amy Brundage, said Kerry’s prepared text had called for him to say: “Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.”

I’m so glad that has been made clear for us, and, as Florida Cracker reminds us, he knows what he’s speaking about when it comes to “intellectually lazy”:

WASHINGTON — During last year’s presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.
But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago.
In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.
Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D’s in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.

And , of course,

Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class.

So, please, let’s cut Kerry the Slacker some slack and for god’s sake study, kids: if you’re lazy in college you could end up President.
Or worse, married to Teresa.
Seriously, if “lazy” Bush’s Yale average of 77 gets us ‘stuck in Iraq’, Kerry’s 76 would have left us…where, exactly?