links for 2008-05-28

• Gates recommends Ubuntu on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Heh...
  (tags: tech microsoft)
• Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
  ... the Chinese weekly Southern Weekend carried a full-page expose of the misery of Burmese people affected by Cyclone Nargis, providing first-hand accounts from some of the most ravaged areas in the Irrawaddy Delta.
  (tags: china media earthquake asia)
• Military Photos: New Chinese Naval Base on Hainan
  Google Sat Photo
  (tags: china military)
• lgf: Obama: My Uncle Helped Liberate Auschwitz (Bzzt! Wrong!) - Update: Video Added
  Is there a point which the media will start calling Obama out for his absolutely stunning lack of historical knowledge, Unless Obama’s uncle was fighting for the Soviet Army in Jan 1945, I seriously doubt that he was in a brigade that liberated Auschwit
  (tags: politics election)
• Chili’s restaurants closing across the region
  GZE2- Figures...I just picked up a $25 gift card for Brinker Restaurants this week.
  (tags: oregon food)
• Gasoline theft in Hawaii on the rise - Autoblog
  With nothing more than a straight edge blade, a piece of garden hose, and a bucket, the lawless make easy work of the plastic fuel lines under cars as they cut them to gain simple access to the tank and its flammable yet valuable liquid contents.
  (tags: cars news)
• Attacks in Iraq Reach 4-Year Low, Military Says - WSJ.com
  But Adm. Driscoll cautioned that al Qaeda was still a threat and said it was too early to "pop the champagne bottle."
  (tags: iraq waronterror)

Comments

[brooksfoe]

No doubt you have noticed that Obama's uncle helped liberate Buchenwald, rather than Auschwitz.

I'm sure you will give this development full play on your little blog here. We Jews tend to be grateful to people who help us out, rather than pouncing on them when they misplace a name.

[GZ Expat]

Funny thing is...in 2002, Obama said it was his grandfather who had 'heard' about these stories.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30100_Obamas_Auschwitz_Tale-_Not_the_First_Time#rss

I'm sure every time Dubya butchered a word in a speech, you sat back and said, 'ahh, cut him some slack.'