Memorial Day

John McCrae: In Flanders Fields

General Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country

Pat Conroy: My Heart's Content

Patrick Camunes: From the Other Side

Reveille: A short film starring David Huddleston and James McEachin

Another masterful column from Iowahawk

I don't know how he keeps it up.

Red Scare

RIP: Maurice Jarre (1924-2009)

I thought he was an absolutely wonderful composer. He is most famous for his Oscar winning scores of the David Lean films, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India.

Just as John Williams is the favorite composer of Steven Spielberg, and Bernard Hermann was the favorite composer of Alfred Hitchcock (until Hitchcock dumped him for debatable reasons), so was Maurice Jarre the favorite composer of David Lean.

However, Jarre wrote scores for other notable films too.

Film composer Maurice Jarre dies

French composer Maurice Jarre, best known for his music for Hollywood films, has died in Los Angeles at 84, after suffering from cancer.

Jarre, father of the composer Jean-Michel Jarre, rose to prominence relatively late in life.

More at BBC


Wikipedia

IMDb

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Don Finn's Irish Coffee

Ingredients:
One and a half cups of strong brewed coffee
Two ounces of Irish Whiskey (three for the more irish at heart)
One and a half teaspoons white granular sugar
One half cup whipped whip cream

Directions:
Put sugar into Irish coffee mug
One ounce warmed Irish Whiskey
Swirl mug until all sides are well coated
Tilt mug and light whiskey with match or lighter
Swirl flaming whiskey for 20-30 seconds, carmelizing the sugar
Add the remaining whiskey
Fill mug with hot coffee leaving space for whipped cream at top
Serve

May be served with a cherry on top, a cinnamon stick, creme de mint, shaved chocolate, but no true Irishman would do any of these queer things.

Drink several, but not exceeding three.
Talk a lot of blarney.
Then crawl to bed.
Sleep well.

Obama Paper Doll

From the YCMTSU files.

The Barack & Michelle Obama Paper Doll & Cut-Out Book

The historic journey of Barack and Michelle Obama to the White House is memorialized in this fun yet fashionable paper doll book featuring the Obama family. For the millions who can't get enough of this remarkable first family, here's a book containing perforated press-out dolls of each family member and over 30 mix-and-match coordinated outfits and accessories featuring the Obamas:

--on vacation in Hawaii

--golfing at Camp David

--on election night

--at the extraordinary inauguration and Inaugural Ball

--traveling the world on foreign affairs trip

--rolling up their sleeves for a day of service

--relaxing on a Fourth of July picnic

plus much more!

Highlighting Barack’s uniquely professional, yet down-to-earth wardrobe that reflects his popular persona and Michelle's outstanding taste in fashion, as well as some of the adorable outfits worn by Malia and Sasha, this book is a must for anyone wanting that special "yes we can" kind of day, every day.

Yes. It's real. I'm going to throw up.

Iowahawk takes off on conservative elitists - again

Once again, Iowahawk gives a deserved blasting to the elitists in the conservative movement:



I Daresay It Is Time We Deal With the Mutineers Aboard the S.S. Conservatism

[ed. note: a number of you have written requesting I invite T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII back for another analysis of the sad state of the conservative movement. After some cajoling and a bottle of VSOP, he agreed.]

T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII
Editor, the National Topsider
Membership Chairman, The Newport Club

Much has been written about the fate of the conservative movement in the months since last I corresponded with you. I won't belabor the barrels of ink expended in the printing of its obituary, nor will I bore you with further reading of its entrails. Suffice it to say the grand old ship is in the doldrums, adrift in the electoral currents, with nary a harbor on the horizon. But it is time we leave such map room mopery aside and navigate a bold new course for the conservative armada. One needn't have a 400-year old heirloom scrimshaw sextant for this task; but, fortunately, I do.

More

Idiot celebs pledge service to Obama

A bunch of celebrity twits have made a video that has to be seen to be believed.

Here it is:

MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge


The urbane Kathy at Cake Eater Chronicles has nailed them perfectly.

And Iowahawk has supplied his own unique send-up.

Yes We Can Monday: On the eve of the inaguration, CBS engages in blatant Obama worship

It's not a photoshop. It's real.


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The Kansas Citian has been on top of this for days.

And take a look at this video:

Photoshop these ducks and dirt biker

A hilarious photoshop contest from Fark.com.

These are the submitted photoshops thus far.

And this is the original picture:


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The Neal Boortz Commencement Speech

Neal Boortz has this to say about his famous 1997 commencement speech:

No, this speech has never been delivered at a college or a university. It was written to protest the fact that such an invitation has never been offered! It has only been delivered on my radio show, printed in my book "The Terrible Truth About Liberals" and produced on a limited edition CD. The irony is that this commencement speech has been more widely distributed, and has been the subject of more comment than any commencement speech that actually has been delivered at any college or university in the past 50 years. ©Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 by Neal Boortz.
http://www.boortz.com

It's well worth reading and you can read it here at Neal's site.

More about the speech at Snopes and TruthOrFiction.