1.05.2009

First Insurgent Aerial Attack Squadron Gear

Are you getting pissed? I mean, really, REALLY pissed? Well, don't just sit there doing bong hits and watching "Adult Swim" -- ­get up, rise up, and show 'em your shoes! Show your solidarity with the Iraqi shoe-throwing reporter! Let 'em know you're ready to "keep 'em flying"!

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Black Cotton t-shirt, $20.99;
3.5" button, 10-pack, $24.99;
2.25" button, 10-pack, $15.99

...and, check out more Official FIAAS Gear here!

12.17.2008

Mission Accomplished!

So, I'm poring over the Drudge Report in my daily search for cheap laffs, and finding out what the Enemy is up to, and I come across this Associated Press dispatch from Baghdad reporting on the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President Chimp, and thinking "whoa, that's some cheap laffs – and he almost hit the sonofabitch, too! Sweet!" and move on with whatever I was doing...

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Later that day, I go by Drudge again, and find another story from Agencie France-Presse noting that the perpetrator of this "shoe-icide attack" is being hailed as a hero in most of the Arab World, and the next thing I know the whole world's raising hell to get the guy out of prison, it's being reported that he's being beaten in custody, there are demonstrations and rallies all over in solidarity, and I'm thinking...holy shit, this story's really grown some legs, man!

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12.15.2008

Obama's Economic Stimulus Plan for DC

So far as most of us can tell, the "economic stimulus" plan issuing from The Office Of The President-Elect (snicker) includes the most staggeringly pants-pissing amounts of cash to prop up failing corporations, banks and executives, and jack for the rest of us, unless we're prepared to summon up some cajones and engage in a little good old-fashioned shop-floor smackdown, like those laid-off screen-door plant workers in Michigan.

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On the local level, here in DC, as Inauguration Day – or, as now known to some, Barack Obama Day – approaches, The One's economic stimulus program for DC has finally begun to jell; according to The Office Of The President-Elect (smirk), this plan will take a two-pronged approach: one prong for the quite well-off, and another big prong for the rest of us...

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