Russ McClintock - the blog

Memo to the West Indian construction crew working next door:
LESS SINGING and MORE WORKING!

Memo to all the stupid fucks that don’t shower before entering the pool:
PLEASE SHOWER BEFORE ENTERING THE POOL!

WASHINGTON — The only military officer to be court-martialed in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal was acquitted Tuesday of any criminal responsibility for the widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners, but he was found guilty of disobeying an order not to talk about the investigation. - LA Times, August 29, 2007.

Seeking to salvage his reputation and quell the media storm stirred by his guilty plea to disorderly conduct charges, Sen. Larry E. Craig of Idaho on Tuesday denied making a sexual advance to an undercover officer in a men’s room. “I am not gay and never have been,” the Republican lawmaker declared at a Boise […]

Always wear gloves when pruning the hedge. Always oil the tools afterwards.

The challenge in Iraq comes down to this: Either the forces of extremism succeed, or the forces of freedom succeed. Either our enemies advance their interests in Iraq, or we advance our interests.
Thank you. And may God America. (Applause.) - George W. Bush, August 28, 2007.

Castle Drogo was the last castle to be built in England.

This guy was filming a garden and providing a commentary.

A Republican senator has admitted pleading guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in a men’s toilet at a Minnesota airport. Larry Craig, of Idaho, was arrested by a plain-clothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in the men’s room at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, according to a police report cited by the Capitol […]

“Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal engagement was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people gook,’ ‘re-education camps My Lai’ and ‘killing fields napalm’.” - George W. Bush, August 22, 2007.

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The President, as some of you who were in the pool know, got up very early and went biking this morning, mountain biking. - August 10, 2007.
But what the President loves to do when he’s at his ranch is to spend time outdoors. And I know today that they were maybe going to do some […]

Women with guns.
Americans with guns.
Stuffed animals.
Suburban ennui.

WILLARD: Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin’ all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin’ program. - Apocalypse Now.

BELGRADE, Serbia (Reuters) — A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in the bear cage of Belgrade Zoo at the weekend during the annual beer festival. The man was found naked, with his clothes lying intact inside the cage. Two adult bears, Masha and Misha, had dragged the body to their feeding corner […]