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This week's news in pictures
The Associated Press claims that this photograph shows Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "shaking hands" with Hugo "Cheeks" Chavez, somewhere in New York, after Columbia University dissed Alphabet by NOT granting him an honorary doctorate when he spoke there Monday.
Blogger1947's sources tell us that this is inaccurate, and that the two were photographed practicing the foxtrot, in preparation for the next round of So You Think You Can Dance?
At right is a photograph that WCBS-TV ran on its website, with a caption saying it was "similar to" the rifle confiscated this week from a 22 year old student on the campus of St. John's University in Queens, NY. the rifle depicted here is a .50 BMG, a military weapon that weighs approximately 24 pounds, is about four feet long, has a bipod (because it can't possibly be shoulder-fired) and a flash suppressor. You CAN buy one of these, provided you have four or five thousand dollars to throw around, not to mention the four bucks a round for ammunition.
At left is a photograph of the actual model of rifle confiscated at St. John's. It is a break-action muzzle loader that fires one round at a time between meticulously reloaded with a percussion primer, a black powder charge and a lead bullet and wad. Compared to the BMG, this baby is about 32 inches long, weighs under ten pounds, is used for deer hunting, and sells at Cabela's for about $275. The only similarity between the two is the bore of their barrels-- 0.500 inch, or .50 caliber. Was this a careless mistake by someone at WCBS, or a bit of clever disinformation? Considering how the anti-gun crowd in Congress has attempted to ban the .50 BMG for purely specious reasons, I know what I think...
In this undated photograph I found recently, Senator Hillary Goddamn Rodman Rodham Clinton, presumptive heir to the throne of America, appears to be assuring the audience that if she is elected President, she will end the war in Iraq, "quick like a bunny."
Finally, this photograph of one of my favorite American entertainers showed up on my monitor the other night while I was in the midst of browsing images on the Web using the Google image search.
There is not the slightest connection between this photograph and anything that has happened this week, but I am running it for the sheer pleasure of pissing-off some Muslim fundamentalist, somewhere.
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