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Margaret Thatcher, RIP

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Margaret Thatcher has died. With Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, she made up the trio of moral leaders in the West who understood what a great evil communism was when so many wanted to appease it, paving the way for the West’s ultimate triumph in the Cold War. Her free market polices reinvigorated a strike-wracked UK economy many thought moribund. She arrested the British military’s decline and retook the Falkland Islands while Tory “wets” were quitely pushing to let them go.

She tamed the IRA and forced a Labour Party dominated by communust-friendly fossils Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock to reform and tack back toward the center.

She was hugely influential, smart, capable, and exactly the sort of leader the UK needed in the dark days of the late 1970s. The UK shall not see her like again.

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North Korea Threatens to Nuke Austin

Friday, March 29th, 2013

So North Korea is kicking its Crazy Invalid act up a notch with Kim Jong-Un threatening to attack the United States.

Which part of the U.S., you asking?

Would you believe Austin?

Dude, we’re all pissed off about the bag ban and the high cost of SXSW badges, but that’s a major overreaction.

Here, apropos of nothing in particular, is a video about the B-52:

And here, also apropos of nothing in particular, is a video of a B-2 hitting targets with 80 500 pound JDAM bombs.

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Iran Plays “Make Believe Airplane”

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

Iran has unveiled an advanced new stealth fighter plane.

And by “an advanced new stealth fighter plane,” I mean “a large plastic RC aircraft that’s obviously not suited for combat, stealth, or actually carrying a pilot.”

So says many experts in military aviation from all around the world.

A few tidbits of analysis:

  • “The engine section lacks any kind of nozzle: engine afterburners could melt the entire jet.”
  • “The cockpit seems to be too small, to such an extent a normal pilot doesn’t properly fit in the ejection seat. Have you ever seen a pilot with his knees above the side borders of the cockpit and his helmet well beyond the ejection seat’s head pad?”
  • “The canopy lacks transparency and looks like it is made of plexiglass.”
  • Many viewers have said that the cockpit instrumentation resembles that of a Cessna rather than a fighter aircraft.

    • Maybe they should have left the fakery to their vaunted Al-Aqua Photoshop Martyrs Brigade

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    General Norman Schwarzkopf, RIP

    Thursday, December 27th, 2012

    News outlets are reporting that retired four-star General Norman Schwarzkopf has died at age 78.

    Schwarzkopf oversaw the liberation of Kuwait from Saddam Hussein during Desert Storm, crushing Iraqi forces in a mere four days. American forces were comprehensively better equipped and better trained than their opponents, and enjoyed unquestioned air superiority, but Schwarzkopf’s plan for liberating Kuwait, including the “left hook” into Iraq, was cleverly conceived and well-executed. If George H. W. Bush had only let him take Baghdad in 1991, much deadly and expensive unpleasantness could probably been avoided.

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    Syria and Guns

    Thursday, November 29th, 2012

    OK. Thanksgiving break over.

    I’ve come across a couple of blogs from the world of international conflict you may want to take a look at:

  • Brown Moses tracks developments in the Syrian civil War, with a special focus on the ordinance expended and captured there.
  • The Gun follows the more general word of international military arms, including transfer and use in combat.

    • Both are worth checking out.

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    Your Top Stories, All Mashed Together

    Friday, November 16th, 2012

    To much going on. Here’s a sampler:

    First up, Unions kill Hostess. By calling a strike against a company that was already in bankruptcy, against the advice of the Teamsters, who had already taken a look at the Hostess books, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union ensured that instead of a 6% pay cut, unionized workers would take a 100% pay cut. Way to go, unions!

    Israel still seems to be gearing up for a ground offensive in Gaza. And by firing rockets at Tel Aviv, Hamas pretty much guarantees that the only faction in Israeli politics urging restraint will retink their position. “I get a lot less liberal when you want to kill me.”

    Lefties are trying to boycott Papa Johns for daring to lay people off because of ObamaCare. “If this is anything like the Chick-fil-A buycott, and you want Papa John’s for dinner, you’d better get your order in now.” It’s amazing that any business in America ever has to declare bankruptcy, given there are so many liberals around who can tell them exactly how much profit they “need”…

    Former general and former CIA head David Petraeus testifies on Benghazi. He says his report said the attack was launched by al Qaeda, but higher-ups in the Obama Administration deleted the reference. The more we hear about Benghazi, the more it appears that Fox News was right.

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    Considerations for an Israeli Ground Assault on Gaza

    Thursday, November 15th, 2012

    Stratfor considers the implications of an Israeli ground assault on Gaza, concluding that it would look an awful lot like Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s 2008-2009 incursion into Gaza.

    The biggest difference is that that back then, Egypt wasn’t run by Islamist assclowns.

    This also gives me a chance to link to this totally off the hook article on Israel’s urban warfare tactics in Nablus in 2002. As far as I know, it’s the only useful application of French postmodern literary theory in the history of mankind…

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    Israel Pounds Hamas

    Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

    Today Israel launched strikes at multiple Hamas targets in Gaza, including one that took out Hamas military commander Ahmed Al-Jabari. This follows a weekend in which Hamas launched more than a hundred terror rockets into Israel.

    Russia Today provides video of that particular strike:

    Yeah, that’s going to ruin your whole day.

    In retaliation, Hamas fired off 13 more rockets at Israel…all of which were intercepted.

    There’s at least some indications that Israel is about to launch a major ground offensive into Gaza.

    Stay tuned…

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    Sexy Girls (With Bad Judgment), Sexy Guns

    Monday, November 12th, 2012

    So it turns out that Paula Broadwell, purported mistress of (now) former CIA director David Petraeus, used to moonlight as a machine gun model:

    While not my favorite of the genre, who doesn’t like a woman who can handle a firearm? (Though she’s more in the “wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers” than “jaw-dropping gorgeous” category; then again, this seems sadly common in today’s Democratic sex scandals.)

    As for the video itself? Whenever a gun manufacturer starts talking about “revolutionary” designs, I start rolling my eyes. It’s an obvious PR/grant bait reel, and should be viewed as such.

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    Barack Obama Stands Down Throughout History

    Saturday, October 27th, 2012

    “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
    For he today that stands down with me
    on Crispian’s day shall be my brother”
    — King Obama V, October 24, 1415, the day before the English surrender at Agincourt

    “Come and take it. No, really, come and take this cannon off our hands. It’s just cluttering up the place. We’ll just stand down while you haul it away.”

    — Colonel John Henry Obama, commander of Texas forces at Gonzales, before handing over the town’s cannon to Francisco de Castaneda, October 2, 1835, ending the Texas Rebellion

    TO PRESIDENT OBAMA STOP
    FROM FT SUMTER STOP
    UNDER BOMBARDMENT BY REBELS STOP
    REQUEST PERMISSION TO COUNTERATTACK STOP

    TO FT SUMTER STOP
    FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA STOP
    STAND DOWN STOP
    STRIKE COLORS STOP
    SURRENDER FORT STOP

    — Telegram exchange, April 12, 1861, a month before the United States government recognized the Confederate States of America.

    General George S. Patton, Commander, U.S. 3rd Army: Request permission to relieve 101st Airborne surrounded by Germans at Bastogne.

    General Dwight D. Obama, Supreme Commander, Allied Forces in Europe: Attack two German armored divisions? That’s just nuts! Stand down.

    — Field message exchange December 23, 1944, three weeks before the Roosevelt-Hitler Peace Treaty was signed

    Gen. Douglas MacArthur: Pusan perimeter now stable. Request permission to launch Inchon landing under Operation Chromite.

    President Harry Obama: There’s no way we can defeat so many red Chinese. Stand down, withdraw from Pusan, and evacuate all U.S. personnel from the Korean peninsula.

    — Message exchange, September 8, 1950

    Gen. William F. Garrison, Commander UNOSOM II: Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters have crashed in central Mogadishu following raid on Aidid compound. Request permission to send rescue force in to retrieve survivors.

    President William Jefferson Obama: Stand down. Our troops could never hope to survive such a hostile urban combat environment. We’ll just have to leave those men behind.

    — Message exchange, October 3, 1994, three days before the American withdrawal from Somalia

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