Yeah, yeah, i'ts April Fool. I don't feel like joking. Sorry.




This is my first April Fools as a blogger when I didn't do something fun or funny.


It seems apropriate in the circumstances.





(This guy is from the Central Valley. Photo by John Moore.

All pictures from Iraq the Model blog, edited by me and Bighugelabs toys.)



Here's something funny. She WAS kidding, right?




Right???!!!!!!


If MC "Get Elected or Lie Trying" was going to try to be all keepin' shit gully, she should have gone all the way.

The Dialectizer Only one way to make that back-peddling-in-a-tailwind Iraq apology speech even funnier-




“Good mo'nin'. ah' wanna dank Secretary West fo' his years uh service, not only as Secretary uh de Army, but also t'de Veteran’s Administrashun, t'our dudes and honky chicks in unifo'm, t'our country. Slap mah fro! ah' certainly do rememba' dat trip t'Bosnia, and as Togo said, dere wuz some sayin' around da damn Honky Crib dat if some place wuz too small, too poo', o' too dangerous, de super-dude couldn’t go, so's drow de Fust Lady. Slap mah fro! Dat’s where we went. Man! “I rememba' landin' unda' snipuh' fire. Dere wuz supposed t'be some kind'a some greetin' ceremony at da damn airpo't, but instead we plum ran wid our haids waaay down t'get into de vehicles t'get t'our base. .... Ah be baaad... Derefo'e, de critical quesshun be how kin we end dis war responsibly and resto'e America’s leadership in de wo'ld? It won’t be easy. Slap mah fro! Dere be no magic wand t'wave. Brin'in' our troops crib safely gots'ta snatch some super-dude who be ready t'be Commander-in-Chief on day one, some super-dude who knows our military and gots earned deir respect. Man! Brin'in' lastin' stability t'de region gots'ta snatch some super-dude wid de strengd and determinashun, de knowledge and confidence t'brin' our troops crib; t'rebuild our military eyeballiness, t'care fo' our veterans, and t'redouble our effo'ts against al-Qaeda. WORD! If ya' gimme de chance, ah' gots'ta be dat super-dude.


The Dialectizer