My best friend in the world, after Robert, is celebrating a landmark birthday today! Twenty-one! Woot! Happy birthday, Ivan, my partner in crime and web design! Volim te, moj prijatelje, uvek.

So ladies, go on and give Ivan a/k/a SerbianFighter a big birthday kiss!! Then come back here for some virtual (read: calorie-free) birthday cake and champagne!

Click your mouse to give SerbianFighter (Ivan) a birthday kiss. To erase the evidence, hold down the [Shift] key!

Moxie gave a thumbs down to Oliver Stone’s new film, World Trade Center. View the movie trailer. With box office heavyweight Nicolas Cage in the starring role, this film, maudlin at best, becomes just another disaster movie. I was quite put off by the movie’s tagline:

The World Saw Evil That Day….

The world didn’t see evil that day, WE did. The world has been seeing evil far longer than we ever did. By no means do we have the market cornered on grief or righteous indignation. And I’d be willing to bet that this country played a large part in a majority of the wickedness, crime, and evil that is visited upon other nations. Need an example? I’ve got a few.

WARNING: the following videos contain graphic images of death, dismemberment and destruction. Proceed with viewing bearing that in mind.

And just so you don’t get the impression I’m playing favorites with Southeastern Europe:

And this, when all is said and done, is what’s going on right now. One of the most non-judgmental, not taking sides, just throwing it out there, videos I’ve found and from a soldier’s point of view, no less.