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  1. Just heard some talking head on the radio going on and on yet again about the F-35 being single sourced.
    Has no one pointed out to these folks that there is ONLY the F-35? Unless we want to start buying jets from China or Russia, there just isn’t another option for a latest generation platform.

  3. Matt, I think we need to forward this to the kid in the video of the last post.
    It is good to know that the useless degrees mentioned in the last post still qualify you to work for the government! Whew, I thought there skills would not be needed.
    And for Human Rights no less! Hope they paid attention on Commy indoctrination day, opps, I meant year, I guess I mean the whole time.

  6. Black Mamba – Re: a couple of nights ago and Scandis.
    A little known, and undocumented fact, is that after a couple of beers I have the ability to channel thoughts. That night – yours.
    The question remains – What are your sources?

  9. Roger L. Simon reviews playwright David Mamet’s critique of liberalism, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture:
    Mamet has come a ways in three years from a chrysalis bewildered and astonished by his new found views to an author writing in white heat. The new book is a full-throated intellectual attack on liberalism in almost all its aspects from someone who was there, a former leftwing intellectual of prominence, a Pulitzer Prize winner even (and one who deserved it, unlike the New York Times’ Walter Duranty). … The book says to his former friends on the left, the ones who might pay attention anyway, I woke up — what about you?
    … We were self-taught in the sixties to award ourselves merit for membership in a superior group–irrespective of our group’s accomplishments. We continue to do so, irrespective of accomplishments, individual or communal, having told each other we were special. We learned that all one need do is refrain from trusting anybody over thirty; that all people are alike, and to judge their behavior was “judgmental”; that property is theft. As we did not investigate these assertions or their implications, we could not act upon them and felt no need to do so. For we were the culmination of history, superior to all those misguided who had come before, which is to say all humanity.
    http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/05/23/david-mamets-progress/

  10. Volcanic Ash Cloud, “sweet words”.
    “The men of 50 years ago all knew that to keep war in bounds you had to keep death plainly in sight.”
    …-
    “The modern intellectual will probably feel a visceral horror at the idea that such strategies and devices once existed upon a time, a horror that may only be tempered by the possibility that he owes his physical existence to the strategy’s success — up until now, for the devices which existed still exist and the potential for far greater weapons is easily within reach.
    The men who produced the simulation unwittingly left a testimonial to their greatest achievement, which in retrospect, at least rivals the achievement of the Greatest Generation. It was the generation that successfully did not fight their war. We have not had a general war in nearly three generations. In the last reel, one of the fictional generals says, ‘we failed in our primary mission, but succeeded in our secondary mission, that of destroying the enemy’. In actuality, their achievement was far greater. By luck or skill, they led us through the valley of the shadow of death to the 21st century.
    They did it in part by staring unblinkingly at the facts; by refusing to boggle at incredible quantities and incalculable dangers and refusing to hide them. The men of 50 years ago all knew that to keep war in bounds you had to keep death plainly in sight. You had to leave a giant memento mori, in the shape of a special colored phone, on the President’s and Premier’s desk. A reminder against the possibility they might forget and grow proud; when sweet words like R2P and kinetic military action, not terrible war, would creep into their speech. Deterrence succeeded in part because it never lost sight of what the professionals always knew: the root of war was in the heart of man. It was never in the weapons.”
    “Armageddon 1958”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/05/24/armageddon-1958/#more-14856

  12. The Priestly Brotherhood: Me and Chuck.
    “U.S. preacher sets new doomsday date”
    (canoenews)
    …-
    British preacher sets new doomsday date, er “long term” date.
    “Prince of Wales: ignoring climate change could be catastrophic”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

  13. @1:58 – I’m thinking of suing for reparations over the Vikings. I’m also mad about how everything from Ikea breaks.

  15. BlMa: “I’m also mad about how everything from Ikea breaks.”
    Maybe your cat’s not putting them together correctly? 😉

  17. Jack Layton to his Caucus: “Are we ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work?”
    Heck, why not take off ALL our clothes Jack?!

  18. Has no one pointed out to these folks that there is ONLY the F-35? Unless we want to start buying jets from China or Russia, there just isn’t another option for a latest generation platform.
    Posted by: AtlanticJim at May 23, 2011 10:05 PM”
    well aj, what say you about this news tidbit?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37KksovGEHs
    the brigadier general saying himself it’s TOO EXPENSIVE.
    (but not for the extravagant conservatives)

  21. Mr. Fluffy, so sorry. Try hammering the nail in with a hammer instead of batting it with your paw. That might help … Black Mamba wouldn’t get so mad, then. (And, you know, her kicking the furniture doesn’t help.)
    😉

  23. ping, can you say fail? I thought you could!
    You link to a video that you say has the BG state the F-35 is too expensive. Yet, no where in that video does he ever say anything remotely close to that.
    Did you bother to watch it? Or did you just take a flyer on the video title?
    Next, you completely missed or more likely ignored what it was you copy and pasted. There are NO other options. The EU would love to sell us Typhoons I am sure, but at $120 million a copy not including 30 year maintenance costs for 10 to 15 year old tech?
    Bring on the Lightning II

  24. O’s MSM/NY Slimes, ma’am.
    …-
    “Taking in Some London Sights, the Obamas Display Skill at Official Travel
    New York Times”
    …-
    “A minor (royal) mishap”
    “Obama miscues on toast”
    “LONDON – It was all going so well.
    But when the time came for President Obama to deliver his toast to Queen Elizabeth Tuesday night, the meticulously planned state dinner at Buckingham Palace turned, well, awkward.
    As Obama began wrapping up his remarks, he put down his notecards and picked up his glass.”
    http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0511/a_minor_royal_mishap_c3f4001b-8222-4702-92ff-e868f5beabb2.html

  26. … and it’s Scandi workperdaughtership. C’mon.
    Heh. Actually I find the whole paradigm very indicative of a speciesist hegemony. “Inferior Scandi workentityship” – although I won’t lie to you, I’m a little worried about the perception of pro-existential bias.

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