I am forever opening the paper to some new head-scratcher of a disconnect. A couple of days ago it was Bunning yowling that not one more cent should go to the unemployed until Congress had a plan (presumably one of which HE approved) to pay for it. This morning, it was a tiny afterthought on the weather page about the Marines landing (again) on Iwo Jima that caught my eye. It seems that, this being the 65th anniversary of that immortal bloodbath/victory, someone at the Pentagon thought it would be a good idea to throw a party:
The Marines flew in trucks, water and food from Washington...The commemorative was to be attended by about 1,000 people including Marine Corps commandant Gen. James Conway, members of Japan's parliament and representatives of the Iwo Jima survivors' association...A drill team also arrived on the Island.
