Archive for January, 2008

From an article on DefenseTech.org by David Hambling:
Meet Deep Digger, first of a revolutionary new generation of bunker-busting weapons, described in this week’s New Scientist. This is literally ground-breaking new technology which uses cannon to tunnel through solid rock, drilling a channel for the bomb.

Existing weapons for attacking hard targets are kinetic, relying on sheer [...]

Nightline anchor Cynthia McFadden nailed her with the question last night…
Heh heh…there is no good answer for her on that one, she can’t say “No”, that would be dissing Bill, and show a lack of leadership on her part. If she says “Yes” that means she is acknowledging that he needs to be controlled, [...]

Smell strangely familiar?

Some disturbing content has recently been discovered in a video posting by two Malaysian Muslim bloggers, Mahaguru58 and MENJ.
These two individuals are also behind the outfit known as the Muslim Bloggers Alliance (readers should recall this outfit as the one that threw a hissy fit at one of RPK’s recent installments of [...]

Baghdad - Violence returned Thursday to the southern city of Basra, where militants pummeled Britain’s airport base with 20 rockets and British gunners answered with volleys of artillery.
The Basra battle also exposed potential security gaps around Iraq’s second-largest city less than two months after a scaled-down British force handed over control to Iraqi police [...]

Looks like the Iranian Theocracy in the Land of Oz is sending the signals out to the Flying Monkeys in the Netherlands that this Wilders film needs to be addressed.
How they plan to address it is the question.

THE HAGUE, 01/02/08 - Iranian Ambassador Ziaran intends to invite all Islamic ambassadors in the Netherlands for a [...]

These pukes, also known as “The Miami 7″ walked…
Given that hard evidence is often scarce in trials of unsuccessful terrorists, federal prosecutors in Miami no doubt felt fortunate to be trying defendants who participated in a ceremony pledging allegiance to al Qaeda—which was captured on video.
The defendants took surveillance photos of government buildings. The [...]

Marine Corps Times:
Just over 40 years ago, on Jan. 30, 1968, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong launched a series of widespread and coordinated attacks against U.S. and allied forces in South Vietnam.
The assault coincided with Tet, the beginning of the lunar year and an important holiday in Vietnam. Although U.S. and South Vietnamese troops [...]

Good, fucking kill each other.
And by the way, we won’t forget which governments enlist the help of terrorist groups.
Bitches.
Sanaa, 31 Jan.-Yemeni al-Qaeda cell spokesman Ahmad Mansour has said that the government asked it to fight a Shia rebel group in the North of the country, local newspaper al-Wasat reported.
“They [the government] have [...]

DAYTON, Ohio - A former cellmate of a woman accused of killing her month-old baby by burning the girl in a microwave testified Thursday that the woman confessed to the crime, saying the baby “fit right in” the oven.
Linda Williams testified that she developed a sexual relationship with defendant China Arnold when the two [...]

Washington Times:
Voters have been telling pollsters that they want “change” in this election, but two consummate Washington insiders — Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain — are the presidential front-runners of the moment.
On the other hand, Republican Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has never held Washington office, and Democrat John Edwards, who ran an explicitly [...]

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(AFP) - US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has sent an “unusually stern” letter to Germany’s defence minister asking the country to send more troops to southern Afghanistan, a German newspaper reported Thursday.
According to Suddeutsche Zeitung, the undated letter was sent a week and half ago directly to Franz Josef, demanding more combat troops, helicopters [...]

2:23 P.M.
Backward schedule, just got up, lol.

Jacobs is the second from the left, with the radio. The following is a brief excerpt from F Company Radioman Raymond Jacobs, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division (Iwo Jima). He was one of the guys that participated in the first flag raising at Iwo Jima, and he has passed on [...]

An electromagnetic railgun at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, in Dahlgren, Va.
DAHLGREN, Va. — A futuristic weapon getting a trial run by the Navy demonstrated its destructive power at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren.
In the demonstration Thursday, engineers fired the electromagnetic railgun at what they said was a record power level: 10 [...]

Jarhead68 pushed me off the fence on this one. I first began mulling this question over yesterday after seeing something about Nader setting up an exploratory website, which got me thinking about Perot, which got me thinking about Bloomberg.
So Okay, here’s the question: Would a third part run by Bloomberg hurt Republicans or Democrats? [...]

Spun.
Always go positive, this is sound advice for someone speaking in public. If you pay attention to the debates, you’ll catch it from the savvy ones. I remember catching Hillary doing it last week, she was giving and answer and said: “I have never done-” then she quickly, and almost imperceptibly said “-I [...]

Sovereign Wealth Funds in six Persian Gulf countries – including Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar – have now amassed $1.7 trillion, positioning them for attempts to control major banks and securities firms in the U.S.
The funds are ready to invest petrodollar earnings worldwide as their managers examine equity plays on businesses around [...]

Mujahid (left) participates in a CAIR demonstration in Chicago. Not only is he everything you read below, he is also very active in the Illinois chapter of CAIR.
Little Green Footballs has lots of links regarding this story.
Dude, WTF is the DNC thinking?
In addition, Pakistan-born Imam Malik Mujahid, founder and president of Chicago-based Islamic teaching [...]