Posts Tagged ‘shoe’

First Insurgent Aerial Attack Squadron Gear

By mike flugennockMonday - January 5th, 2009Categories: Bushit, Iraq, media, war and peace

Are you getting pissed? I mean, really, REALLY pissed? Well, don’t just sit there doing bong hits and watching “Adult Swim” — ­get up, rise up, and show ‘em your shoes! Show your solidarity with the Iraqi shoe-throwing reporter! Let ‘em know you’re ready to “keep ‘em flying”!

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Black Cotton t-shirt, $20.99;
3.5″ button, 10-pack, $24.99;
2.25″ button, 10-pack, $15.99

…and, check out more Official FIAAS Gear here!

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Mission Accomplished!

By mike flugennockWednesday - December 17th, 2008Categories: Bushit, Iraq, media, war and peace

So, I’m poring over the Drudge Report in my daily search for cheap laffs, and finding out what the Enemy is up to, and I come across this Associated Press dispatch from Baghdad reporting on the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President Chimp, and thinking “whoa, that’s some cheap laffs – and he almost hit the sonofabitch, too! Sweet!” and move on with whatever I was doing…

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Later that day, I go by Drudge again, and find another story from Agencie France-Presse noting that the perpetrator of this “shoe-icide attack” is being hailed as a hero in most of the Arab World, and the next thing I know the whole world’s raising hell to get the guy out of prison, it’s being reported that he’s being beaten in custody, there are demonstrations and rallies all over in solidarity, and I’m thinking…holy shit, this story’s really grown some legs, man!

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