I say - good for them! Weird, but certainly creative. Wouldn't it be nice if everybody did something creative enough to mention here for their weddings?

To my wingnut friend Carruthers:

There's no such thing as a "noble and just" war, even one that by most measures had to be fought, like WW2. Nobility and fairness get tossed out the window the moment somebody starts a war.

Great post/find.

I enjoyed this one, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

hehe - these two comments are great. I was just going to say that it was either Jesus (comment #1) or Toshiro Mifune in Hell in the Pacific (comment #2).

Since this isn't my website I am going to bite my tongue and defer to your wisdom in these matters, Carruthers, Sir.

You, Sir, are the person who thrust himself into this thread with the declaration that the concept of there being problems with military recruitment levels is a "myth."

The rumors being spread by the "MSM" of a military stretched dangerously thin must be predicated upon pure fantasy and/or the malicious anti-Americanism of the military-hating, coastal, liberal elite.

I can't imagine that you actually even believe that yourself. Why should you expect us to believe it?

When're you signing up, Carruthers?

I understand that we're falling behind a little bit in the "winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world" aspect of our mission. That sounds like it would be right up your alley!

Which side of the Iraqi civil war are you on Carruthers?

I'm on both sides!

You don’t have to read the Instapundit piece if it hurts your sensibilities or spoils your perception that the military is silly or incompetent or whatever.

The military? Incompetent? You sound like some sort of America-hater or something.

The military is competent enough to set its recruiting goals so low that they can always report meeting or exceeding them.

Army of one, baby!

If the commercial was about the real Bangkok, the husband would have died while the wife and the baby were stuck in traffic in a taxi cab with a non-functional air conditioner. Also, they would be surrounded by dozens of little barbecued snacks on sticks, things like squid, meatballs and tiny hot dogs.

Sounds like a brilliant way to spend $600k.

Don't Thai people eat babies?

Didn't "Instapundit" also say that Baghdad is safer than Paris? Plus, I heard that he's hung like a cocktail frank. Who knew?

In an anonymous office building in a quiet suburb of Beijing several hundred Peoples Liberation Army psychological warfare experts sit in cubicles, in uniform, creating bogus MySpace pages and befriending American teens. "Yes, I like soccer, too, but in my country, we call it FOOTBALL! Ha ha!"

My take on the story (and yes - this is my photo...)

He left his life of luxury as a young man to be a wandering ascetic. During that time he tried any number of the things that ascetics do, including "mortification of the flesh," which is reflected in (rare) images of him emaciated.

As for "Happy Buddha" being fat, etc... The Happy Buddha image that we are all familiar with is not a Buddha or "the" Buddha, but rather a beloved and influential Chinese Buddhist monk usually called "Ho Tai" who lived sometime between the 11th and 14th centuries, if I remember correctly.