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Now this is a creative graphic from America’s Magazine of Record, Time, which will grace the cover for its upcoming green issue. (Hey, wasn’t that Vanity Fair’s gimmick-issue to begin with?) Of course it is a play on the famous Iwo Jima photo/statue from World War II, which was a fake to begin with. Naturally, Iwo Jima veterans are very offended that their fake posing photo is being used to promote something as Communist as saving the environment. MORE »

Hey look, the “War and Navy Departments” put out this little handbook (PDF) to help the troops in Iraq … in 1943, when we had soldiers and sailors over there for some reason. Let’s see — yes, right: “YOU HAVE been ordered to Iraq (i-RAHK) as part of the world-wide offensive to beat Hitler.”

Join us after the jump as we visit a mysterious era in which everybody at the Pentagon wasn’t a complete fucking idiot, after the jump.

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Evil Nazi war criminal Kurt Waldheim is finally dead at 88. The Nazi not only survived the “Jewish war” but thrived for another sixty years as a diplomat and politician, eventually becoming the head of the United Nations and president of Austria. MORE »

* National Governors Association winter meeting like a Miss America pageant — Governors just want to help poor little sick children. [WP, NYT]
* The Governors also give advice to each other about running for President. Haley Barbour fulfils his contractual obligation for one Civil War reference per sound bite. [NYT]
* In other antebellum news, Al Sharpton finds out his ancestors were slaves to more than just a buffet line. [WP]
* John Edwards’ staff orders him to spend Sunday night watching A Few Good Men after telling Bob Schieffer that “Americans can handle the truth.” [WP]
* Congress living by the letter, not spirit of the “no joyriding in lobbyists’ Gulfstreams” law. [USAT]
* White House warns Pakistan that aid money might decrease if they don’t find Osama, and that it’s totally Democrats fault. [NYT]
* The Christian RightTM is having a hard time finding a Presidential candidate that hates all the right things. [NYT]
* House will try to make amends for all that trouble in Holland, 1945. [NYT]

As we do every January 15, today we solemnly commemorate the completion of the world’s most awful structure, The Pentagon.

It was on this day in Nineteen Hundred and Forty Three that the Masonic Magickal Monument was finished. Learn all about the very first demonic office building, after the jump.

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Expect Britain to quit being so nice to us all the time — ’cause they’re finally paid up. MORE »

On this day, 64 65 years ago, America lost its innocence, and a bunch of ships.

The “World Wide Web” is full of touching tributes to this historic day. Here’s one from Riehl World View. It’s about how we don’t deserve to celebrate Pearl Harbor Day because our country sucks now and is run by Al Gore.

America was frightened of nothing when she began, not because she was brave, but because she was afraid of everything, being a mere niche on a coastline in a once distant and still foreboding land.

Truer words were never spoken, patriot!

More Pearl Harbor fun below decks!

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We missed this, amid all the gruesome hurricane coverage. Our president celebrated the 60th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in World War II in the classiest fashion imaginable, by likening himself to FDR. Speaking to recruits at a Coranado, Calif. naval base Bush laid it all out plainly: MORE »