Doing my part

Is Barack Obama Muslim?

No

Homemade movies

UPDATE III: Fixed with much better service, actually usable, now.

Just for the fun of it I put two homemade mini-movies on line. The first is a trailer to my daughter's, eh, "upcoming film", The Realm (~2 min, 13MB).

The second is from my niece Lisa's wedding (~ 4min, 23MB). Lisa was the flower girl at my wedding which both makes the wedding special and makes me feel very old. Lisa married a Marine who is being deployed to Iraq this week, I believe.

Too Much Time

I wish I had the time to do this.

Best Summary of Iraq Lies I've Seen

Josh Marshall wrote one of the best summaries I've seen detailing the lies put out by the White Houses as we went into war with Iraq. For those that only hear the exaggerations of the extreme left, check out the real problems:

1. Longstanding effort to convince the American people that Iraq maintained ties to al Qaida and may have played a role in 9/11. This was always just a plain old lie...

2. Repeated efforts to jam purported evidence about an Iraqi nuclear weapons program (the Niger canard) into major presidential speeches despite the fact the CIA believed the claim was not credible and tried to prevent the president from doing so...

3. Consistent and longstanding effort to elide the distinction between chem-bio-weapons (which are terrible but no immediate threat to American security) and nuclear weapons (which are)...

4. The fact that the administration's push for war wasn't even about WMD in the first place...

History will judge this president very harshly. Will he really be judged the worst president ever? Perhaps not. Perhaps someone will beat him out. I don't know who, though.

Conservatives Begin to Agree

Worst President Ever.

(They still aren't there yet, of course, but they are coming around. History will be conclusive, competence is more important than ideology, and the guys in power have yet to show any competency at anything.)

(Ok, except Rice. She's doing a fairly good job right now. Of course, she's basically implementing Kerry's plans, but I'm not going to complain about that.)

Bush

Worst President Ever.

Vampire Domestication

This is just hilarious. Long, dry and dark, but hilarious.


UPDATE: I forgot to add: (via David Brin).