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  1. They’ve got volleyball and ping-pong. What ain’t they got?

    (Reuters) – A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in a crowd of spectators at a volleyball match in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 45 people, a provincial official said, as foreign troops withdraw from the country after more than a decade of fighting.

  3. If you remove the stealth from the 2 billion dollar B2 stealth bomber, what you have left is a sitting duck with the speed of a commercial airliner.
    http://www.defensenews.com/article/20141122/DEFREG03/311220016/China-s-Anti-Stealth-Radar-Comes-Fruition
    Perhaps it’s time to change strategy. Too many eggs in a basket with a questionable bottom.
    http://www.airforce-technology.com/features/featurebillion-dollar-bomber-us-plans-next-gen-stealth-bomber-by-mid-2020s-4197886/

  6. On a lighter note: For those that don’t know about history … Here is a condensed version:
    Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
    The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
    1. Liberals, and
    2. Conservatives.
    Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.
    Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement…
    Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.
    Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. They became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
    Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass for obvious reasons.
    Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat.
    Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud or Coors. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, engineers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
    Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

  14. Funny and with a solid core of truth. I especially like this line:
    “Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat.”

  15. I am not a religious man but in contemplating the moral inversion inherent in the west’s desire to create a Palestinian terror state I can’t help thinking End of Times.
    Obama’s Legacy (and Europe’s)
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4902/obama-legacy-europe-israel
    The core of the analysis:

    Europe was rebuilt after the Second World War on the basis of an assumption: that the nation state and national identity are the source of all evil. Israel is a nation state and has a strong national identity, so Israel is necessarily bad. (In way, of course, that Slovakia and Moldova are apparently not.)
    Europe was also rebuilt in the shadow of European guilt about the Holocaust. For Europeans who want to get rid of the guilt, supporting the “Palestinians” allows them to pretend that the Israeli Jews are just as criminal as the Europeans were at the time of Nazism. The old saying that Europeans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz remains true: to get rid of their guilt, many Europeans have to find a way to declare that the Jews are guilty — of anything.

  16. Socialism:
    H/T Citoyen MulcairBloc.
    …-
    “NDP accused of trying to silence harassment complaints, two more staffers say they were unfairly dismissed”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/11/23/ndp-accused-of-trying-to-silence-harassment-complaints-two-more-staffers-say-they-were-unfairly-dismissed/
    …-
    “Portugal’s ex-PM spending third night in jail”
    “LISBON – Police transferred Portugal’s former Socialist prime minister Jose Socrates back to his cell at a police station”.
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2014/11/23/22090671.html

  22. AGW/GHG: RIP.
    “Antarctic sea ice may be thicker than previously thought.”
    …-
    “Thick and deformed Antarctic sea ice mapped with autonomous underwater vehicles”
    “Abstract”
    “Our surveys indicate that the floes are much thicker and more deformed than reported by most drilling and ship-based measurements of Antarctic sea ice. We suggest that thick ice in the near-coastal and interior pack may be under-represented in existing in situ assessments of Antarctic sea ice and hence, on average, Antarctic sea ice may be thicker than previously thought.”
    http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2299.html
    …-
    “Surprise: Robot Sub Finds Much Thicker Than Expected Antarctic Sea Ice”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/24/surprise-robot-sub-finds-much-thicker-than-expected-antarctic-sea-ice/

  24. We don’t need no stinkin’ solar panels:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/solar-panels-pose-power-problem-for-firefighters-prompt-new-guidelines/article21740616/
    “The key issue, said Meaford, Ont., Fire Chief Mike Molloy, is that solar panels keep generating power even if they are disconnected from an electrical system or grid. Even at night, the lights from a fire truck are enough to produce some power out of the panels.
    In some circumstances involving fires at buildings with solar panels, foam might be used instead of water to fight the fire, or water may be spayed in a broad stream instead of in a direct stream – so electricity can’t travel up the water to reach the firefighter.”

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