Oct
08
2006
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15190745/?GT1=8618
North Korea said Monday it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test.
U.S. and South Korean officials could not immediately confirm the report.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the underground test was performed successfully and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.
South Korean intelligence officials said a seismic wave of magnitude-3.58 had been detected in North Hamkyung province, according to Yonhap. It said the test was conducted at 10:36 a.m. (9:36 p.m. EDT Sunday) in Hwaderi near Kilju city on the northeast coast, citing defense officials.
North Korean scientists “successfully conducted an underground nuclear test under secure conditions,” the KCNA report said, adding this was “a stirring time when all the people of the country are making a great leap forward in the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.”
I am sure this will be Bush’s fault somehow, even though a few people point to the 1994 Framework Agreement as being a huge contributor.
And this is of course an excellent opportunity for the UN to do NOTHING.
No matter. God help us.
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Oct
08
2006
UPDATES In Line:
No, seriously.
I saw this on Michelle Malkin’s site and looked into it. The picture is real, and the assessment is correct:
A military guy e-mails a weekend website blooper:
Thought you might be interested in posting this. The DNC website has a page called Veterans and Military Families where they purpo[r]t to care about the welfare of US troops. Unfortunately they couldn’t even find a picture of a US soldier to post on the page. The picture in the Get Involved frame is not a US Army uniform. The soldiers in the background are not in a US uniform either.
(UPDATED: The page has been changed to remove the man. See Michelle Malkin for details.)
Looks nice, but the little red lapel pin is the Red Poppy worn by many Canadian’s on Remeberence Day.
Sure, an honest mistake, right? Well considering that the Candian Forces all have Canada embroidered on their shoulders (as below) then one does have to wonder if they noticed it as they cropped it out.
(UPDATE: The original photo for the above was found by LGF and it has two things of note: The man above has a large emblem device on his Beret that has been’shopped out, and his shoulder was never visible, so my accusation was faulty. See a companion picture here.)
I will credit the page designer with an honest mistake, but it is a slap in the face really. I mean it would be easy to make note that the Democrats are all sound and fury regarding the issues surrounding the Military, but they are clueless about the military itself. It would be easy to suggest this is just more disdain.
So I won’t.
Dumb, just dumb.
UPDATE: Day by Day pays tribute to the whole mess. See below.
