Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

In my day, never was longer.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

People are weird.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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  1. 1.

    Doug

    I just read the description — no video at the office. Is it a snuff film of a U.S. soldier killing the guys that just tried to kill him?

  2. 2.

    John Cole

    No. it is film shot by terrorist snipers as they shoot a soldier right in the chest. It hits his body armor, he gets knocked down, and gets right back up and looks for a target.

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    Glenn M.

    Ah damnit, out and about on my Macintosh laptop! Can’t view it. I’ll have to wait to get back to my house to watch but, from what I read, thats a pretty nutty thing to catch on camera.

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    sidereal

    Wow, that’s nice. The sort of thing that puts the fear of Allah into would-be snipers.

    If only we could shave some money off of the ridiculous defense industry boondoggles that suck up billions of dollars a day and drop it into stuff that works, like this.

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    JG

    Can you imagine walking around Iraq in full battle-rattle? I can’t stand going from the office to my car when its 115. And thats with light clothing for a 2 minute walk. Over there it hits 115 by 9:00 am. reagan had it right. If you’re going to invade a country, make sure that country is in the carribean.

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    Darrell

    Too bad more troops weren’t sent out with the good stuff.

    I believe pretty much all the troops anywhere near the frontlines always had the topshelf body armor.

    Link’s down for me too

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    Mike S

    jg

    My friend that was over there said the heat was unbearable, and this was in the winter/spring. These guys are going through hell. Thank God the guy in the video got up. I can’t imagine what was going through his head when that happened.

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    JG

    Thank God the guy in the video got up. I can’t imagine what was going through his head when that happened.

    He was probably thinking ‘holy shit this ground is hot’.

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    Jon H

    “I believe pretty much all the troops anywhere near the frontlines always had the topshelf body armor.”

    Er, a problem in Iraq is that there are no clearly demarcated “lines”. Except, perhaps the border lines of the Green Zone, the airport, and other bases.

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    ppgaz

    I believe pretty much all the troops anywhere near the frontlines always had the topshelf body armor.

    Hope you’re right.

    Living as I do in our version of Bagdad, where it’s 110+ every day now, I can appreciate what those guys are experiencing. All I can say is, God bless ’em.

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    JACK ARMY

    thanks for the link. I was amazed, too, when I received that video. A long time ago I had to wear that type of body armor and it is hot, bulky, and gets in the way alot. Fortunately, it gets in the way of those pesky bullets, too!

    Keep our troops in your prayers.

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