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Carmi's Thematic Photographic 232 is Soft Light. Here we have some soft light and snow around 5:30 P.M. in Washington D.C. (And the dog running up McKinley Street, of course.)

I wanted to post an original and a youtube-enhanced version, for the porpoises of comparison. But youtube figured out that I'd uploaded the file before and auto-deleted it (at the end of the 2nd upload.) So we're sticking with the shakiness.



UPDATE: Sledge, per request.


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Softness

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 231 is Softness.
Soft light at sunset:

Orbs are soft!

Also, snow:

Theda:

Fox and Marshmallows

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Inauguration Trolling, Jenghazi Style

UPDATE: Speaking of war criminals, who does Jenghazi quote criticizing the Administration for national security management failure on 9-11? That's 9-11-2012, silly people, not that other one (whatever it was):

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony yesterday vividly demonstrated that competence is as critical as ideology when it comes to the highest ranks of national security officials.

Former deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams writes, "Having worked as an assistant secretary of state and a deputy national-security adviser, I can report that even in those posts one is entirely swamped by cable traffic and needs a system to cope with it — to be sure that the really important ones get through. From all the available evidence, Hillary Clinton failed to establish such a system for herself, and that management failure is a far more important fact about her tenure than being the third woman to hold the post or having flown more miles than Condoleezza Rice."

P.S. I recommend Charles Pierce's take on all this.

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D.C. Metrobus

Set in concrete


P.S. Anyone reminded of Pinko Punko? (From here.)


Other Dogness:

UPDATE: More fun with the D.A.W.G.

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The Tug of Hiatt

Eschaton's WANKER OF THE DECADE - 1st Runner Up shows how it's done. Again.

But his ambivalence about making a commitment to Afghanistan was evident in the long and tortured decision-making process that led to the surge and the deadline for withdrawal that accompanied his escalation. And the Afghan decision was followed by a retreat from Iraq and near-total passivity as fighting engulfed Syria, with 60,000 people killed so far.

Darn President Obama for not getting us into (even) more wars, and expanding (further) the ones we're already graced with!

Those who argue for a more vigorous international role are sometimes caricatured as war-loving and unilateralist when, in fact, an activist stance has been favored by Democrats from Harry Truman to Madeleine Albright and Republicans from Richard Nixon to Colin Powell. It would be no fairer to label them all bellicose neocons than to call Obama a pure isolationist.

Some people say neocons are chickenhawks and war profiteers, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

Thanks in large part to its openness to immigrants, the United States is far less demographically challenged than many countries in Europe and East Asia, where aging populations will impede innovation and initiative. What’s in doubt in the United States is the political will to solve its fiscal problem, not whether the problem is manageable. Given the strength of the U.S. economy, posting 20,000 or 30,000 troops in Afghanistan even indefinitely would pose no challenge.

On the other hand, on most days ending in a "y", Fred Hiatt or one of his staff wankers will write about our searing need to cut Social Security right now.

When America last turned its back on Afghanistan, two decades ago, civil war followed, with al-Qaeda close behind. Clinton responded with cruise missile attacks, the 1990s’ equivalent of drone strikes. America learned on 9/11 how inadequate that response had been.

Awesome. Not a single mention of Bush and Cheney, the people who ignored warnings about 9/11, invaded Afghanistan on October 7 of that same year, and then forgot the whole thing just two months later. In order to pursue a war they'd been hoping for since their inauguration...a war that Fred Hiatt helped them sell.

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A Plethora of Orbs

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 230 is Multiples.



Other Dogness:


UPDATE: The Metrobus

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On The Water and Angry Birds

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 229 is On The Water.

Here are some geese on Lake Siri in December.

And here's a video of some ducks learning to be ducks.

Other Birdness:
Red-bellied Woodpecker

Angry Birds!


UPDATE: Bob Scotney is right. Theda (and turtles) pic added.


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2012 Pics of the Year

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

Bonus August

Bonus July

To see other pics of the year, visit Carmi.

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Heppy New Tree Feet!

Bonus: the schaden freudes itself:

Ha Ha Hahvahd!

ESPN
 
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