Signs of the times

A reader sends a photo (snagged off some board) of a truck with Kentucky plates, resplendent with homemade bumper stickers:

For those of you lacking superhuman eyesight, I’ve enlarged a few of the more charming sentiments:





You can also see a larger photo of the truck here. But just for the record, here’s a partial list of the messages this individual has decided to share with his fellow Kentuckians (spelling and punctuation his, not mine):

MUSLIMS WEAR THEIR DIRTY DIAPER’S ON THEIR HEAD, BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO LAZY TO WASH…

THOUSAND YEARS OF EVOLUTION AND STILL THE ONLY THING ARAB MUSLIMS CAN DO IS THROW ROCKS AND BLOW THEMSELVES UP.

THE U.N MUST RECLASSIFY A-RABS MUSLIMS AS AN ANIMAL OR INSECT FOR THEY HAVE PROVEN THEY ARE NOT HUMAN

BOYCOTT ALL TAXICABS DRIVEN BY DISGUSTING ARAB MUSLIM MAGGOTS

WHEN MUSLIMS MAGGOTS PRAY, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE SENDING FARTS TO ALLA THE PIG AND FARTING IN THE FACES OF THEIR INFIDEL COMRADES TO THE REAR.

ALLAH HAD SEX WITH MOHAMMED, BOTH HAD SEX WITH THEIR MAMA, PRODUCING THE ARAB ISLAMIC BASTARD MAGGOTS OF TODAY

(…if anyone knows where the photo came from originally, I’ll credit it accordingly.)

Update: photo by Joe Accardi, who took it in the parking lot of an Applebee’s.

More and more

From the LA Times:

WASHINGTON — Pentagon documents released Monday disclosed that Iraqi prisoners had lodged dozens of abuse complaints against U.S. and Iraqi personnel who guarded them at a little-known palace in Baghdad converted to a U.S. prison. Among the allegations was that guards had sodomized a disabled man and killed his brother, whose dying body was tossed into a cell, atop his sister.

The documents, obtained in a lawsuit against the federal government by the American Civil Liberties Union, suggest for the first time that numerous detainees were abused at Adhamiya Palace, one of Saddam Hussein’s villas in eastern Baghdad that was used by his son Uday. Previous cases of abuse of Iraqi prisoners have focused mainly on Abu Ghraib prison.

A government contractor who was interviewed by U.S. investigators said that as many as 90 incidents of possible abuse took place at the palace, but only a few were detailed in the hundreds of pages of documents released Monday.

Via Cursor.

Huh?

Bush said it’s important to celebrate a “peaceful transfer of power” and that he suspects inauguration guests have been generous in donating to tsunami victims. “You can be equally concerned about our troops in Iraq and those who suffered at the tsunamis with celebrating democracy,” he said.

Peaceful transfer of power?

He, uh, does know that he’s been president for the past four years, right?

Story, via Greg. And speaking of the inauguration, both Greg and Bob have noted that…

Parade performers will have security escorts to the bathroom, and they’ve been ordered not to look directly at President Bush or make any sudden movements while passing the reviewing stand.

Celebrate democracy — but no eye contact please! It might disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.