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Message from The Other Side?ZAP! You're Dead!Ghost of Gen. Patton Speaks Out on Terror War
This Flash has some things to think about, and tends to reinforce the Chief's posting here. Check it out. H/T to Barking Moonbat Early Warning System for this one.
The Madness of Hurricane KatrinaDARPA's 'Star Wars'-style Laser Cannon
Laser cannon. The words evoke immediate visions of the space war scenes in Star Wars. As it turns out the US is starting to build this new way to do it to them before they get a chance to do it to us. The Darpa program is called the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS).
No muss, no fuss. Direct application of lethal energy to the target with no need for ammunition. Nice.
If you have an interest in other sorts of advanced projects, the DARPA TTO site (use the PROGRAMS link) describes some of the sorts of things that are coming down the chute. SciFi comes to life - our tax dollars at work, and worth every cent!
I can't even begin to touch the quality of blogging that others are providing, so I'm trusting that you're reading it. As I look over the Times-Picayune site, I can't seem to quite get my head around the devastation that's...Hotline on Vegetarian Front
From The Hotline today:IN THE STATES: Is Meat What's For Dinner? Conservative South Dakota Politics highlights a minor controversy about how the SD Dems' comm. dir. is a vegetarian, considering the state is heavily agriculture-based: Everyone can eat whatever they...Media bias and guns
Larry Elder has a column that addresses the use of firearms in self-defense:UCLA professor emeritus James Q. Wilson, a respected expert on crime, police practices and guns, says, We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand...Rounds and Hurricane
Governor Rounds is calling for people to help hurricane victims:Gov. Mike Rounds is asking South Dakotans to help victims of Hurricane Katrina with prayers and donations. The American Red Cross needs money for its relief efforts in areas hit by...Air Force General on Thune and Ellsworth
See what retired Air Force Gen. John Michael Loh said in the Rapid City Journal:Loh said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., arranged for him to meet with or speak by telephone with seven of the nine BRAC commissioners. Loh said Skinner...Ellsworth Saved
Ellsworth AFB, located just outside of Rapid City, SD, received 8 of 9 votes yesterday by the BRAC committee to be kept open. Here's an AP story on yesterday's happenings. Pending approval by Congress and the President, it looks like...
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