Archive for the 'Military' Category

Several years ago I posted scenario where the Swiss Guard of Pope Benedict XVI would square off against the Red Chinese Army. That was a joke, but it could not be crazier and more dangerous than this story from ABC News.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

TODAY - January 19, 2010
Bible codes found on military weapons
Rifle scope with Bible verse inscription (ABC News)
Bible codes found on military weapons
A contractor has been inscribing coded references to Bible verses on rifle scopes for years. The controversy
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My story pales in comparison…

The Vatican has only one chance.
If the Pope’s troops take it the distance, […]

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Will Be the Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever–Popular Science headline

Friday, August 7th, 2009

And the Pentagon hopes to deploy it next year
By Dan Smith Posted 08.03.2009 at 2:42 pm
Popular Science
The Pentagon is trying to speed up the deployment of an ultra-large bunker-busting bomb, which would constitute the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever used. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that would dive […]

Idiomatic Fightin’ Words…

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

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Image: (Chinese President Hu) chinadaily.com; (Hugh Beaumont) Leave It To Beaver via dijh.1964.files.wordpress.com; (Red army) chinatoday,com

So, Rodney Dangerfield, is that a secret report on Afghanistan? “I wanna tell ya…it’s really hush-hush!!”

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

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ABCNews
Grim’ Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US
“No Plans to Declassify” New National Intelligence Estimate for White House
By BRIAN ROSS
September 23, 2008
US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as “grim”, but there are “no plans to declassify” any of […]

Mac the Knife always cuts himself.

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

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Please take a look at these three articles from Huffington Post.

History is replete with tyrants who have done without candy for Lent.

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war
Tue May 13, 10:01 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.
“I think playing golf […]

Fallen U.S. troops cremated at ‘Friends Forever Pet Cremation Service.’

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Wake up, Folks! This administration is beneath all contempt.

Think Progress
May 10, 2008
Since 2001, the U.S. military has cremated the remains of approximately 200 service members at Friends Forever Pet Cremation Service, a Delaware facility that primarily cremates pets. The practice was stopped yesterday, as the Washington Post reports:
The revelation came to light when an Army […]

Lew Harper: Your husband keeps lousy company, Mrs. McCain, as bad as there is in DC. And that’s as bad as there is.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence: “Bring Them All Home”
April 28, 2008 09:16 PM
When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.
Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq […]

Another pea brain threatens to make all of us drink his FROG ‘n FIG NECTAR.

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Anti-US cleric al-Sadr threatens new uprising in Iraq
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 20, 3:20 AM ET
BAGHDAD - Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gave a “final warning” to the government Saturday to halt a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown against his followers or he would declare “open war until liberation.”
A full-blown uprising by al-Sadr, who […]

Thank you, General Eaton. W’s sportin’ the troops has long passed ridiculous.

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

CNN.com
Anderson Cooper 360 Blog
April 11, 2008
Gen. Paul Eaton: In Iraq, where is the cavalry?
Posted: 11:21 AM ET
The Bush administration has chosen to abandon our under-equipped and over-burdened military to fight alone in Iraq.
After successfully alienating potential allies in the prosecution of our war in Iraq, this Administration continues to view our first truly interagency war […]