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Missile Defense System Success

US News | Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:50:14 pm PST

Here’s a great post at Closing Velocity on today’s successful test of the Ground-Based Interceptor missile defense system: ‘MARK INDIA!’ = Mark Intercept: GBI Successfully Kills Inbound ICBM In Landmark Test.

As I mentioned yesterday, this test was tremendously important for several reasons:

* It was the first flight test of the GBI since Sept. 2007.

* GBI’s are the interceptors we plan to install in Poland. The US-based GBI tested today is a 3-stage interceptor, while the European-based GBI will be a simpler 2-stage version (basically just the upper 2 stages of today’s GBI).

* President-elect Obama has repeatedly said he would only support deploying “proven” missile defense technology to Europe. Okie-freakin-dokie.

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1 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:51:17pm

I bet 0bama finds a way to cut this anyway.

2 CapeCoddah  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:51:23pm

Stock up!

3 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:53:12pm

Sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads!

4 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:53:45pm

Most excellent news, but this probably still isn't a "proven system" to Obama.

The sad thing is that Missile defense will be automatically cut back by his administration, even as the nuclear djinn creeps futher out of its bottle and spreads worldwide.
The beauty of these systems is that they were designed in layers, and to overcome all of the kneejerk criticism to Reagan's Star wars. They are workable, and what the hell doesn't make sense about protecting people from nuclear tipped ICBMS?

The chances are that some of those nuclear tipped ICBMs will fly this century, hadn't we better be prepared?

5 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:54:24pm

re: #1 Sharmuta

I bet 0bama finds a way to cut this anyway.

So do I.

6 gmsc  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:55:34pm

re: #4 Thanos

Most excellent news, but this probably still isn't a "proven system" to Obama.

What's proof? This is 0bama - feelings are all that matter!

7 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:56:01pm

re: #4 Thanos

The chances are that some of those nuclear tipped ICBMs will fly this century, hadn't we better be prepared?

There you go again, making sense...

/Geeeeeezzzzzz.....

8 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:56:08pm

re: #5 MandyManners

So do I.

How to paint it as racist so we can toss it under the bus?

9 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:56:54pm

re: #8 Sharmuta

How to paint it as racist so we can toss it under the bus?

The missiles are mostly white.

10 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:57:13pm

What a cool blog!. Check this out.....
Video: Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) Hover Test
Most of it is computer animation but the hover test looks like the real thing.

11 Noam Sayin'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:57:30pm

OT, but somewhat related:

"If you shoot at my tank one more time..."

12 stevieray  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:58:17pm

If Obama doesn't want it, can the Lizards buy it?

Completely change the nature of the overnight gun threads...

13 Bobibutu  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:58:45pm

""Our testing has shown not only can we hit a bullet with a bullet, we can
hit a spot on the bullet with a bullet. The technology has caught up," Lt.
Gen. Trey Obering said in November."

14 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:59:10pm
The target was successfully tracked by a transportable AN/TPY-2 radar located in Juneau, Alaska, a U.S. Navy Aegis BMD ship with SPY-1 radar, the Upgraded Early Warning Radar at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., and the Sea-Based X-band radar. Each sensor sent information to the fire control system, which integrated the data together to provide the most accurate target trajectory for the interceptor


Here's a pic of the other radar used in this system just for DPRK.

15 mean Gene  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 4:59:35pm

"The missiles are mostly white!"
hahahahahaha!
Thank you I needed that.

16 arrow75  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:00:00pm

And because of all the radiation, cats developed the ability to shoot lasers out of their mouths.

Some will use the cats for good, others for evil.

17 Soona'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:00:19pm

re: #13 Bobibutu

""Our testing has shown not only can we hit a bullet with a bullet, we can
hit a spot on the bullet with a bullet. The technology has caught up," Lt.
Gen. Trey Obering said in November."

The technology of this must be truly amazing.

18 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:00:25pm

McCheneyHaliburtonBlackwaterBushCoExxonMobileMilit aryIndustrialComplexChemTrail conspiracy!

They are lying liars who lie! We must abandon this waste of money so that we can invest in Green Organic Fuels to power our peace machinery and embrace the humanity of the Umah and all of the world's distinct peoples so that we have lasting peace and borderless prosperity!

/Saving everyone a trip to Kos land.

19 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:00:54pm

re: #8 Sharmuta

How to paint it as racist so we can toss it under the bus?

I'll go with OMD in No. 9.

20 notutopia  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:01:01pm

This is very reassuring. I wonder what Russia and Syria and Iran think of all this great bullseye hit targeting and teamwork?

21 Racer X  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:01:11pm

Oh crap, we're doomed. DOOMED!

Sun Shows Signs Of Life: Long-Awaited Solar Cycle 24 Starting To Take Off

After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life.

Fire up the man made Global Warming machine!

22 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:01:36pm

re: #8 Sharmuta

How to paint it as racist so we can toss it under the bus?

Not racist but SEXIST!

The missiles represent phallocentric oppression.

23 wrenchwench  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:01:56pm
Okie-freakin-dokie

Oooh, rocket scientist lingo! Oops, no it isn't:

Do note, McKittrick is not a rocket scientist --- but he manages some and drinks beer with others.
24 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:02:03pm

re: #22 karmic_inquisitor

Not racist but SEXIST!

The missiles represent phallocentric oppression.

Since when does the left care about sexism?

25 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:02:08pm

re: #15 mean Gene

"The missiles are mostly white!"
hahahahahaha!
Thank you I needed that.

No problem!

26 mean Gene  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:02:20pm

re: #21 Racer X

Hmmm...
Guess I'll have to get up to Griffith Park Observatory again soon.

27 FrogMarch  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:03:03pm

Dear Obama,
When it comes to defense, please don't be a knee-jerk leftard idiot.

Regards,
Frog

28 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:03:20pm

re: #19 MandyManners

I'll go with OMD in No. 9.

Where are we going so I can dress appropriately?

29 notutopia  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:04:18pm

re: #14 Thanos

Awesome synchronicity....

30 Soona'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:04:25pm

re: #21 Racer X

Oh crap, we're doomed. DOOMED!


Fire up the man made Global Warming machine!

But if we recycle our plastic grocery bags, won't the sun go back to normal?
//

31 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:04:31pm

re: #3 Killgore Trout

Sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads!

Sharks are endangered, so we had to use ill tempered bass.

32 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:04:50pm

re: #11 Noam Sayin'

OT, but somewhat related:

"If you shoot at my tank one more time..."

Coooooool!

Also from that page. (The little boy inside me loves this and it thrilled The Kid.)

33 Bobibutu  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:05:34pm

re: #17 Soona'

The technology of this must be truly amazing.

Yes - I've been out of the game a long time ... but did get a private tour or three of some of our latest Naval Ships over the last 3-5 years. Just sitting in the Captains or Fire Control Officers Chair with all the toys turned OFF was mind blowing.

34 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:05:36pm

re: #22 karmic_inquisitor

Not racist but SEXIST!

The missiles represent phallocentric oppression.

Look! Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a flying dick!

35 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:05:37pm

re: #32 MandyManners

Coooooool!

Also from that page. (The little boy inside me loves this and it thrilled The Kid.)

OMG!

36 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:05:43pm

re: #24 Sharmuta

Since when does the left care about sexism?

Depends on which identity group is running against the Republican.

Run a woman and all Republicans are sexist!

37 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:06:28pm

re: #24 Sharmuta

Since when does the left care about sexism?

Only when it can use allegations of it upside conservatives' heads.

38 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:06:34pm

re: #36 karmic_inquisitor

Bros before Hos. They don't care about sexism.

39 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:06:56pm

re: #37 MandyManners

They didn't care about the sexism leveled at Hillary.

40 Noam Sayin'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:06:57pm

re: #32 MandyManners

You are something else, darlin.

I wasn't going to click on that one, but I'm glad you brought it out.

41 Racer X  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:06:59pm

re: #32 MandyManners

Coooooool!

Also from that page. (The little boy inside me loves this and it thrilled The Kid.)

Haha!

Thats a keeper.

42 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:07:04pm

re: #35 Sharmuta

He now wants one of those recorders but, with sound.

43 FightingBack  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:07:26pm

Imagine the Pres-elect: Uh, this, uh, seems to have convinced my advisors and I. So, I, uh, am going to approve, uh, funding of it. What, I can change, too, can't I?

44 funky chicken  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:07:37pm

re: #1 Sharmuta

I bet 0bama finds a way to cut this anyway.

I suggest the Polish and Indian governments sign procurement contracts ASAP. If the contracts are signed, it will be hard for Obama to kill them.

45 caliredst8r  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:07:39pm

Ronald W. Reagan Missile Defense Site

Nice!

46 gman  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:07:46pm

This was from a statement Obama released last year:

“The Bush Administration has been developing plans to deploy interceptors and radar systems in Poland and the Czech Republic as part of a missile defense system designed to protect against the potential threat of Iranian nuclear armed missiles. If we can responsibly deploy missile defenses that would protect us and our allies we should – but only when the system works. We need to make sure any missile defense system would be effective before deployment. The Bush Administration has in the past exaggerated missile defense capabilities and rushed deployments for political purposes. The Bush Administration has also done a poor job of consulting its NATO allies about the deployment of a missile defense system that has major implications for all of them. We must not allow this issue to divide “new Europe” and “old Europe,” as the Bush Administration tried to do over Iraq.”

i.e. he has no intention of deploying a missile defense system in Poland

47 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:07:47pm

re: #39 Sharmuta

They didn't care about the sexism leveled at Hillary.

That got a pass 'cause it was their own party doing it.

48 Flying Dutchman  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:07:56pm

Hi all,

Maybe the test wasn't that successful after all :

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Friday it conducted a successful test of its missile defense system, but the target failed to deploy measures that experts said could have helped it avoid destruction.

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

49 itellu3times  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:07:57pm

Just so they're assembled in Chicago.

50 Attaboid  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:08:16pm

Far F*ckin' Out!

51 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:08:19pm

re: #40 Noam Sayin'

You are something else, darlin.

I wasn't going to click on that one, but I'm glad you brought it out.

I would've been bored with a little girl.

52 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:08:44pm

re: #41 Racer X

Haha!

Thats a keeper.

I wonder if it was a set up.

53 LGoPs  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:08:47pm

I thought this was just Star Wars hooey./////

Watch the Dems try to cut it anyway.......anything that might be of benefit to all of us is a target to them.

Bastards.

54 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:08:55pm

re: #27 FrogMarch

Dear Obama,
When it comes to defense, please don't be a knee-jerk leftard idiot.

Regards,
Frog


Upding for that, frog!

55 Racer X  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:09:29pm

re: #46 gman

This was from a statement Obama released last year:

i.e. he has no intention of deploying a missile defense system in Poland

I get the feeling Barry is going to shit his pants once he gets the daily intel briefings. I expect Change™

56 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:10:24pm

Posted on the butt end of the last thread. Always seem to catch that. ;-)>

Liberal Face Smackers

57 CalBear84  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:10:24pm

re: #11 Noam Sayin'

Looks like a LGB took out the bad guys in the van.
Why didn't the tank just do the job?

58 itellu3times  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:10:41pm

re: #55 Racer X

I get the feeling Barry is going to shit his pants once he gets the daily intel briefings. I expect Change™

Change from the Changing Changer?

59 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:10:53pm

re: #55 Racer X

I get the feeling Barry is going to shit his pants once he gets the daily intel briefings. I expect Change™

I also have a feeling that no one is going to respect President Bush more than Obama on January 21, 2009--he'll be standing in those shoes.

60 Soona'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:11:02pm

re: #55 Racer X

I get the feeling Barry is going to shit his pants once he gets the daily intel briefings. I expect Change™

That's all we can hope for, huh?

61 IslandLibertarian  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:11:57pm

Peace through superior fire power and kill capability.
Okie-freakin-dokie!

62 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:12:22pm

re: #32 MandyManners

Coooooool!

Also from that page. (The little boy inside me loves this and it thrilled The Kid.)

HA! Mitch (9) and I just did the same thing!

63 gman  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:12:22pm

re: #55 Racer X

I get the feeling Barry is going to shit his pants once he gets the daily intel briefings. I expect Change™

I hope you are right, but I get the feeling consensus is more important to Obama than common sense.

64 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:12:30pm

re: #61 IslandLibertarian

Peace through superior fire power and kill capability.
Okie-freakin-dokie!

Reach out and touch someone? Long distance says it better?

65 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:12:49pm

Mandy

I used to own this- kept it in the bathroom

66 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:12:57pm

re: #59 goddessoftheclassroom

I also have a feeling that no one is going to respect President Bush more than Obama on January 21, 2009--he'll be standing in those shoes.

It is my hope Obama respects the office of the President..

67 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:13:04pm

re: #10 Killgore Trout

What a cool blog!. Check this out.....
Video: Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) Hover Test
Most of it is computer animation but the hover test looks like the real thing.

That is incredible. Just picked my jaw off the TV tray.

68 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:14:23pm

re: #62 OldLineTexan

HA! Mitch (9) and I just did the same thing!

You farted?

69 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:14:39pm

re: #65 Sharmuta

Mandy

I used to own this- kept it in the bathroom

This is also a good one. The granddaughter loves it.

70 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:14:43pm

re: #67 bellamags

It really looks like something from Blade Runner or Terminator movies.

71 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:14:52pm

re: #68 MandyManners

You farted?

I thought I smelled something.

72 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:15:11pm

re: #65 Sharmuta

Mandy

I used to own this- kept it in the bathroom

That'd make a great Christmas present!

73 BigMoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:16:07pm

But, but, it's just not fair for one nation to have such power ! I'm sure if we melt all our weapons down that others will follow us.
Won't they ?

74 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:16:22pm

re: #68 MandyManners

You farted?

Who said so?

/No, silly, we HAD to click on the infrared video

75 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:16:52pm

re: #70 Killgore Trout

It really looks like something from Blade Runner or Terminator movies.

Do we know its legit? I mean damn, if it is, why aren't we using it right now?

76 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:17:55pm

re: #70 Killgore Trout

It really looks like something from Blade Runner or Terminator movies.

I once attended a Shuttle Orbiter brake test on a giant dynomometer. Titanium stuff melted.

That was so much cooler!

77 SixDegrees  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:18:39pm

This ought to give the Russians something to gnash their teeth over.

Which isn't a bad thing at all. Their expansionist nature has been funded over the last couple of years by sky-high oil prices, and like the Middle East they haven't done a thing to diversify their economy with that stream of wealth - although they're in much better shape than the ME in terms of diversification to begin with. With oil hitting around $40 a barrel today and still falling, it's well below the $50 mark the Russians need in order to keep their current budgets intact. So their style is going to be crimped, big time.

Not as badly as Venezuela and Iran, which have budgets based on $75 and $90 oil, respectively, along with antsy opposition movements who they've been buying off with oil revenue and who will now be finding themselves as hungry and empty handed as ever.

Even an economic downturn seems to have a silver lining.

78 CalBear84  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:19:26pm

re: #32 MandyManners

ROFL Mandy.
Thermal imaging has many uses!

79 solomonpanting  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:19:29pm
So today, the entire West Coast of North America was a massive test range. Naval units, an Army tactical radar, and a huge Air Force radar all supplying targeting data to two interceptor batteries thousands of miles apart with one of those batteries remotely commanding the other as our largest interceptor takes out a hostile ICBM. In space. Ho. Ly. Crap.

Incredible. Now, if the system can be tweaked to spot Somali pirates and jihadi jackasses....

80 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:19:40pm

re: #76 OldLineTexan

I once attended a Shuttle Orbiter brake test on a giant dynomometer. Titanium stuff melted.

That was so much cooler hotter!

fixed

81 Joan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:20:00pm

re: #27 FrogMarch

Maybe the will to power that drives our Dear Leader will entice him to want the meanest, baddest, weapons and systems on the planet. Please, Dear Leader?

82 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:20:34pm

re: #80 bellamags

fixed

I dunno, those jets may not melt titanium.

Did you consult Rosie before making that "correction"? Hmmmm?

83 maddogg  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:20:42pm
* President-elect Obama has repeatedly said he would only support deploying “proven” missile defense technology to Europe. Okie-freakin-dokie.

I think Obama and his groupies will not deploy this technology as it will be "too provocative".

84 Noam Sayin'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:20:47pm

re: #57 CalBear84

Looks like a LGB took out the bad guys in the van.
Why didn't the tank just do the job?

Some more knowledgeable lizard could probably tell you better than I, but I presume it has something to do with a tank's round being too hard for a soft target like that - it would have gone through and damaged much more on the other side of the target than the air-dropped bomb, which also damaged a whole lot of shit, anyway.

85 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:21:04pm

re: #75 bellamags

It looks legit but I'm guess it's still in the early stares of development.

86 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:21:13pm

re: #70 Killgore Trout

It really looks like something from Blade Runner or Terminator movies.

That website is almost "TMI". There are things I won't blog about.

87 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:22:04pm

re: #12 stevieray

If Obama doesn't want it, can the Lizards buy it?

Completely change the nature of the overnight gun threads...

And it would totally keep the trolls away.

88 Joan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:22:15pm

re: #66 HoosierHoops

It is my hope Obama respects the office of the President..

Oh, yeah. He will respect the office of the President juuust fine; will he ever relinquish it is the question.

89 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:23:02pm

re: #82 OldLineTexan

I dunno, those jets may not melt titanium.

Did you consult Rosie before making that "correction"? Hmmmm?


LOL
Rosie can kiss my dog's ass.

90 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:23:38pm

re: #89 bellamags

LOL
Rosie can kiss my dog's ass.

Good Lord....what have you got against your dog?!?!?

91 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:23:38pm

re: #89 bellamags

LOL
Rosie can kiss my dog's ass.

Charles! Dog abuser on aisle 89!

92 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:24:06pm

re: #89 bellamags

LOL
Rosie can kiss my dog's ass.

I'm calling PETA!

/

93 Racer X  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:24:22pm

re: #77 SixDegrees

This ought to give the Russians something to gnash their teeth over.

Which isn't a bad thing at all. Their expansionist nature has been funded over the last couple of years by sky-high oil prices, and like the Middle East they haven't done a thing to diversify their economy with that stream of wealth - although they're in much better shape than the ME in terms of diversification to begin with. With oil hitting around $40 a barrel today and still falling, it's well below the $50 mark the Russians need in order to keep their current budgets intact. So their style is going to be crimped, big time.

Not as badly as Venezuela and Iran, which have budgets based on $75 and $90 oil, respectively, along with antsy opposition movements who they've been buying off with oil revenue and who will now be finding themselves as hungry and empty handed as ever.

Even an economic downturn seems to have a silver lining.

I was thinking about this the other day - what if we are in a new battle? A financial battle. There are forces hellbent on bringing down America. They tried terrorism and GW shut them down.

The new battlefront is our financial markets - and it does not look good. But what if our counter attack is to drop oil prices? I mean in the toilet. That will cripple our enemies financially - the same as they are currently trying to do to us.

Who will hold out the longest?

94 newscaper  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:24:38pm

The great "nuanced" thinkers are incapable of understanding that a missile defense system does not have to be 100% accurate to be effective, either as a deterrent to attack (by unacceptably increasing the enemy's uncertainty from his POV) or in seriously reducing the damage from an actual attack.

Killing these programs when they essentially work, now, is treason in my book.

95 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:24:46pm

DOGPILE ON BELLAMAGS!

/LOL

96 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:24:54pm

Kasey caught in the act of stealing another dog's chew toy.

97 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:24:57pm

Unproven Ah say, it's unproven!

/Foghorn Obama

98 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:25:15pm

re: #90 OldLineTexan

Good Lord....what have you got against your dog?!?!?

I just didn't want to say Rosie can kiss MY ass because: A) she would like it and B)I would be scarred for life.

99 Adrenalyn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:25:36pm

hate to burst tour bubble about 0bama only approving "proven" missle defense......

a "white flag" is a proven defense too

/ducking

100 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:25:56pm

re: #55 Racer X

I get the feeling Barry is going to shit his pants once he gets the daily intel briefings. I expect Change™

I suspect that he's being going to bed at night these days asking himself just what the hell he just stepped into. It will all be on his back soon. Heh.

101 CalBear84  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:26:12pm

re: #84 Noam Sayin'

Sounds like a reasonable explaination to me.
We've got those jihadists surrounded and overwhelmed with massive firepower, but they are too indoctrinated to quit.

102 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:26:17pm

re: #98 bellamags

I just didn't want to say Rosie can kiss MY ass because: A) she would like it and B)I would be scarred for life.

Rosie bites?

103 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:26:38pm

re: #86 Thanos

That website is almost "TMI". There are things I won't blog about.

Awww..c'mon. Was hoping it would turn into a sci-fi thread. Dang.

104 IslandLibertarian  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:26:38pm

re: #64 Outrider

Reach out and touch someone? Long distance says it better?

Over the horizon targeting ROCKS!
@ mach3 is godlike.........

105 The Other Les  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:26:41pm

re: #56 Outrider

Posted on the butt end of the last thread. Always seem to catch that. ;-)>

Liberal Face Smackers

Youtube Video

106 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:26:42pm

MAN O MAN. Do I need to run away fast?

I LOVE DOGS. I believe my sweet dachshund would take one for the team.

107 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:26:45pm

re: #55 Racer X

I get the feeling Barry is going to shit his pants once he gets the daily intel briefings. I expect Change™

It all Depends....

108 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:26:53pm

A fart book sounds like a lot of fun.
But why settle for a book?

109 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:27:17pm

re: #88 Joan

Oh, yeah. He will respect the office of the President juuust fine; will he ever relinquish it is the question.

I'll bet a Trillion dollars ( thank you taxpayers) That Obama will be an ex-president in a little more than 8 years.

110 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:27:19pm

re: #102 OldLineTexan

Rosie bites?

Even worse visual. I don't want to imagine that. eeeewwww.

111 reggie21  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:27:28pm

re: #21 Racer X

Oh crap, we're doomed. DOOMED!


Fire up the man made Global Warming machine!

25 degrees here in the 'burgh today. Bring it on!

112 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:28:12pm

re: #99 Adrenalyn

hate to burst tour bubble about 0bama only approving "proven" missle defense......

a "white flag" is a proven defense too

/ducking

I think we need to reexamine the whole "white flag" thing. Why is a "white" flag a sign of peaceful intent? Why not a black flag? Or a red flag?

Hmmmmmm.

/ So - do you guys think I can get a job in a university somewhere with that?

113 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:28:18pm

re: #106 bellamags

MAN O MAN. Do I need to run away fast?

I LOVE DOGS. I believe my sweet dachshund would take one for the team.

America thanks your dachshund.

114 CapeCoddah  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:28:25pm

re: #92 gclaghorn

I'm calling PETA!

/

Rosie would scare the hell out of my Mastiff.

115 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:28:37pm

re: #103 rightymouse

Awww..c'mon. Was hoping it would turn into a sci-fi thread. Dang.

Jerry Pournelle's writing a new "something big hitting" earth book with Niven...

116 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:29:00pm

re: #111 reggie21

25 degrees here in the 'burgh today. Bring it on!

Drew Carey, frantically spraying from a can upward into the sky:
"Screw the grandkids, I'm cold NOW!"

117 The Other Les  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:29:14pm

re: #115 Thanos

Jerry Pournelle's writing a new "something big hitting" earth book with Niven...

Alright!

118 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:29:22pm

re: #113 gclaghorn

America thanks your dachshund.

she says "your welcome". and a bunch of licks.

119 Adrenalyn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:29:32pm

re: #112 karmic_inquisitor

I think we need to reexamine the whole "white flag" thing. Why is a "white" flag a sign of peaceful intent? Why not a black flag? Or a red flag?

Hmmmmmm.

/ So - do you guys think I can get a job in a university somewhere with that?

you are entirely correct !

why, I think Pelosi would like nothing better than to fly a pink flag

a "code" pink flag

/mu ha ha ha

120 The Other Les  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:29:47pm

Peace is what happens when you run out of targets.

121 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:29:58pm

re: #115 Thanos

Jerry Pournelle's writing a new "something big hitting" earth book with Niven...

They already did Lucifer's Hammer. Something bigger?

122 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:05pm

re: #118 bellamags

she says "your welcome". and a bunch of licks.

Is there such a thing as a dachshund that does not think that peopleface is icecream?

123 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:11pm

re: #106 bellamags

MAN O MAN. Do I need to run away fast?

I LOVE DOGS. I believe my sweet dachshund would take one for the team.

Its a dachshund? Rosie ain't gonna kiss that or anything else the could be confused with a wiener.

124 pat  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:12pm

Obama will likely be unconvinced. Like many moonbats he wants America to be fearful of its existence. it is unfair to have better missiles. OK for everyone else, just not us.

125 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:15pm

I'm pretty sure Obama used the phrase "unproven missile defense technology" to give himself a backdoor. That way he can support as much or as little as he deems politically useful.

126 Shay4l  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:17pm

re: #100 rightymouse

I suspect that he's being going to bed at night these days asking himself just what the hell he just stepped into. It will all be on his back soon. Heh.

He'll just take instructions from the people who've been telling him what to do right along. No problem! Sleeps like a baby.

127 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:18pm

re: #114 CapeCoddah

Rosie would scare the hell out of my Mastiff.

Rosie's been known to tame the most wild dog with a good five seconds of eye contact. Cesar Millan's got nothin' on this chick.

128 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:20pm

*sniff*

129 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:44pm

re: #114 CapeCoddah

Rosie would scare the hell out of my Mastiff.

Your mastiff is precious. Both of your pups are sooo cute.

130 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:30:49pm

re: #121 JCM

They already did Lucifer's Hammer. Something bigger?

Rosie's Ass

131 thedude  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:20pm

re: #10 Killgore Trout

this McKittrick?...looks like Dabney Coleman...
[Link: closingvelocity.typepad.com...]

132 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:21pm

re: #128 MandyManners

*sniff*

I swear! I took a shower!

133 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:28pm

re: #122 OldLineTexan

Is there such a thing as a dachshund that does not think that peopleface is icecream?

don't think so. they like to smell your breath to see what you had to eat earlier.

134 Basho  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:31pm

re: #48 Flying Dutchman

but the target failed to deploy measures that experts said could have helped it avoid destruction.

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

They always say that. That line is mandatory in any news stories that cover these missile defense tests.

"Oh sure, the target missile got destroyed. But what if the missile went through a worm hole and was slightly out-of-phase with our reality. This technology can't stop that..."

135 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:40pm

re: #121 JCM

They already did Lucifer's Hammer. Something bigger?

He's being hush hush about it, not designating what it is. Mini black hole? Who knows?

136 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:44pm

re: #130 OldLineTexan

Rosie's Ass

ARRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

137 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:47pm

re: #125 Kenneth

I'm pretty sure Obama used the phrase "unproven missile defense technology" to give himself a backdoor. That way he can support as much or as little as he deems politically useful.

Nonsense. We have Barney Fwank for that.

138 legalpad  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:56pm

re: #88 Joan

Oh, yeah. He will respect the office of the President juuust fine; will he ever relinquish it is the question.

He will - no question.

139 CapeCoddah  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:31:56pm

re: #129 bellamags

Your mastiff is precious. Both of your pups are sooo cute.

Thank you. I think he is a cross between a pony and a bunny. My ACD is the head of the household. She would NOT like Rosie.

140 newscaper  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:32:08pm

Regarding...

I think Obama and his groupies will not deploy this technology as it will be "too provocative".

That used to royally piss me off back in Reagan's day the 'reality-based' community didn't see how SDI couldn't realistically be both "provocative" AND ineffective.

Actually, the fact they're not 100% effective is a good thing, in that it lets the Russians know that, although they'd be unable to deliver a knockout blow, neither would we be able to attack them with utter impunity either.

In my book that sounds like a *good* thing.

That said, I can see that basing them right on Russia's doorstep may be unnecessarily antagonizing.

One worry I've had about these systems is 'force protection', security.
The difficulty is that the components of the system themselves become targets -- and they don't have to be attacked with ICBMs. I hope someone on our side is being sufficiently paranoid.

141 CapeCoddah  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:32:43pm

re: #127 gclaghorn

Rosie's been known to tame the most wild dog with a good five seconds of eye contact. Cesar Millan's got nothin' on this chick.

LOL, I doubt Cesar would want anything on that chick!

142 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:32:47pm

re: #130 OldLineTexan

Rosie's Ass

Why, I think I've just gone blind in my right eye...

/

143 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:32:51pm

re: #1 Sharmuta

I think it is beyond doubt that Obama will kill missile defense. Ever since Reagan's first term the Democrats have been working hard to ensure that the United States can't protect against ballistic thermonuclear weapons. Objectively, if you look at their foreign policy, oh, since Kennedy, what they've tried to do and what our enemies would like us to do has been strikingly similar.

I'm sure it is just a coincidence. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along...

144 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:32:58pm

This is a Test of Iron Fist's Musical Tolerance

This is only a test

Click at your own risk.

145 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:33:00pm

re: #137 OldLineTexan


bad, bad,...

but I should expect that on a Friday night

146 Steffan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:33:04pm

re: #68 MandyManners

You farted?

Captain who?
--George Carlin

147 CalBear84  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:33:12pm

Great thread!
Frist STAR WARS morphed into fart jokes then into Rosie's ASS!

IT MUST BE FRIDAY!
Happy weekend to all.
I'm going home to have several beers.

148 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:33:26pm

re: #132 JCM

I swear! I took a shower!

Yeah, but what did you DO with it?

/

149 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:33:33pm

FNDT?

150 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:33:44pm

re: #130 OldLineTexan

Rosie's Ass

you people quit with this "Rosie" nonsense! I ain't gonna be able to sleep tonight!

/Momma, I'm scared....!

151 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:34:29pm

re: #115 Thanos

Jerry Pournelle's writing a new "something big hitting" earth book with Niven...

Yikes!
Big? HOW big?

/Pournelle is underrated.

152 Adrenalyn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:34:31pm

re: #125 Kenneth

I'm pretty sure Obama used the phrase "unproven missile defense technology" to give himself a backdoor. That way he can support as much or as little as he deems politically useful.

hey, keep San Francisco out of this

153 CalBear84  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:34:45pm

re: #144 Sharmuta

I hate to admit it, but I've always enjoyed Morrisey's music.

154 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:34:54pm

re: #112 karmic_inquisitor

They are out there. The Black Flag is for anarchists. The Red flag has been for the Communists.

155 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:35:07pm

Squidmas carols!
"It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen."

156 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:35:10pm

Boston Celtics are looking sharp tonight.. They have evolved from the big 3 to the Big 4 because of Rondo..
Watching the team work is a thing of Beauty..

157 Bobibutu  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:35:12pm

re: #140 newscaper

Regarding...

I hope someone on our side is being sufficiently paranoid.

A few minutes with an AF guard and his/her Malinois may calm yours.

/

158 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:35:42pm

re: #150 SteveC

you people quit with this "Rosie" nonsense! I ain't gonna be able to sleep tonight!

/Momma, I'm scared....!

Just read Goodnight, Moon. Like 500 times.

159 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:35:57pm

re: #155 Killgore Trout

Squidmas carols!
"It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen."

Let me guess the next line:

"Buoys in every store..."

160 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:36:17pm

re: #154 Iron Fist

They are out there. The Black Flag is for anarchists. The Red flag has been for the Communists.

The Red Flag was also flown by the Mexican Army at the Battle of the Alamo. There it meant "No Quarter."

161 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:36:40pm

re: #155 Killgore Trout

Squidmas carols!
"It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen."

I don't believe in your Squid, sorry.

162 solomonpanting  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:37:16pm

re: #156 HoosierHoops

Boston Celtics are looking sharp tonight.. They have evolved from the big 3 to the Big 4 because of Rondo..
Watching the team work is a thing of Beauty..

Yep. I'm watching the second best team play Washington.

163 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:37:31pm

re: #149 Thanos

I really messed up my back today bending bamboo poles for my cold frames in the garden. I haven't been in this much pain for quite a while. Booze helps.

164 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:37:42pm

re: #144 Sharmuta

Ack, pffft. I almost coughed up a hairball from that. I'm more of a Damageplan fan.

165 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:37:47pm

re: #153 CalBear84

I hate to admit it, but I've always enjoyed Morrisey's music.

I didn't last a quarter of a minute before I clicked pause.

166 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:37:50pm

re: #161 OldLineTexan

I don't believe in your Squid, sorry.

Some people just got to have something to carp on, ya know.

167 Noam Sayin'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:37:50pm

re: #156 HoosierHoops

Boston Celtics are looking sharp tonight.. They have evolved from the big 3 to the Big 4 because of Rondo..
Watching the team work is a thing of Beauty..

Just tuned it in. Couldn't stand watching my Wolves get owned by the Nets any further.

168 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:37:59pm

re: #161 OldLineTexan

Blasphemy!

169 CalBear84  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:38:00pm

re: #156 HoosierHoops

Should be a helluva game. Portland is improving.
My Lakers will see you on Christmas!
OK...really going home now.

170 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:38:10pm

re: #164 Iron Fist

I knew there was a reason I liked you.

171 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:38:24pm

re: #143 Iron Fist

Some Dems would love to kill it, but... a good number of the contractors are in Democratic districts. Nobody wants to be seen causing yet more layoff today.

On a related point, earlier this week NATO unanimously approved the deployment of missile defense system in Europe, and the Czech govt approved the installation of missile defense components on their territory. Also, Obama's National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones, as a former NATO Commander has lots of contacts in Europe.

This thing is going ahead.

172 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:38:54pm

re: #97 JCM

Unproven Ah say, it's unproven!

/Foghorn Obama

Fogbama Leghorn?

173 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:39:06pm

re: #163 Killgore Trout

I really messed up my back today bending bamboo poles for my cold frames in the garden. I haven't been in this much pain for quite a while. Booze helps.

Yikes, sorry to hear that. It will get worse if you sit too much... stretch occasionally friend.

174 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:39:09pm

re: #166 SteveC

Some people just got to have something to carp on, ya know.

Oh, don't play that old cod again.

175 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:39:20pm

re: #172 Sharmuta

Fogbama Leghorn?

Suh-mile when you say that...

176 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:39:27pm

Speaking of Morrisey, I like this version better than his

Youtube Video

177 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:39:45pm

re: #168 Killgore Trout

Blasphemy!


Aw, man, there was supposed to be a fish pun in that answer!

/

178 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:40:13pm

re: #126 Shay4l

He'll just take instructions from the people who've been telling him what to do right along. No problem! Sleeps like a baby.

Not sure...he has always struck me as someone who has difficulty dealing with reality and 'day to day' stuff. He never really stayed with anything for very long - campaigning was probably the longest he stayed with any 'job'. But at some level he has to know that he's way over his head.

179 Killian Bundy  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:40:15pm

Missile Defense Takes Off

The ABL program places a megawatt-class, high-energy Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) on a modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft to detect, track and destroy all classes of ballistic missiles. ABL also can pass information on launch sites, target tracks and predicted impact points to other layers of the global ballistic missile defense system.

This week, Boeing and the Missile Defense Agency announced another successful test — the first ground test of the entire weapon system integrated aboard the aircraft, including the firing of a high-energy laser through the ABL beam control/fire control system. Earlier tests had unit-tested other components of the system, particularly the ability to find, track and target missiles in flight.

/Peace Through Light baby!

180 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:40:18pm

re: #174 gclaghorn

Oh, don't play that old cod again.

What's with the attitude? You feeling crappie today?

181 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:40:23pm

re: #172 Sharmuta

There's sumpin' wrong 'bout that there boy!

182 CalBear84  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:40:23pm

re: #165 Sharmuta

15 sec pretty good.
That's longer than I can listen to metal "music".

183 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:40:49pm

re: #163 Killgore Trout

Booze helps.

Booze ALWAYS helps!

184 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:41:33pm

re: #174 gclaghorn

Oh, don't play that old cod again.

I just flounder in pun threads.

185 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:41:35pm

re: #181 Kenneth

There's sumpin' wrong 'bout that there boy!

I say, the lights are on, but no one's home.

That boy is about as sharp as a wet leather sack.

186 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:41:43pm

The Morrisey version

Youtube Video

187 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:41:44pm

re: #180 SteveC

What's with the attitude? You feeling crappie today?

What's that? I can't hear you. I don't have very good herring.

188 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:41:47pm

The stinkiness of a fart (S) is inversely proportional to its loudness (L).
S = 1/L
Hence the SBD (silent but deadly) and the LBH (loud but harmless)
Is this a theory or a fact?
Should it be taught in science class?

189 gop_patriot  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:41:59pm

re: #164 Iron Fist

Love it.

190 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:42:18pm

re: #163 Killgore Trout

I really messed up my back today bending bamboo poles for my cold frames in the garden. I haven't been in this much pain for quite a while. Booze helps.


You were doing WHAT? Good Lord.

191 Racer X  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:42:21pm

re: #163 Killgore Trout

I really messed up my back today bending bamboo poles for my cold frames in the garden. I haven't been in this much pain for quite a while. Booze helps.

Getting old sucks.

Try fish oil (Omega 3) capsules. Like instant joint lubricant. Also the Glucosamine with Chondroitin works after a few weeks.

192 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:42:28pm

re: #176 Thanos

Speaking of Morrisey, I like this version better than his

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

It would be difficult to not be an improvement from Morrisey.

193 experiencedtraveller  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:42:40pm

Dear President Elect Obama,

I think you owe the hard working Americans at Exxonmobil a freakin APOLOGY for the gratuitous slamming of this great American company during your presidential debates.

Exxonmobil gain fully employs 82,000 people. All good jobs.

Exxonmobil provides a crucial commodity at competitive market prices.

Exxonmobil does vast amounts of basic research in many scientific disciplines.

APOLOGIZE, SIR!

194 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:42:49pm

re: #186 Thanos

I know better than to click that. ;p

195 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:42:53pm

re: #160 SteveC

I didn't know that. One of the things that started that war was the Mexican's trying to disarm the people. They wanted the people to turn in a small cannon. They replied by telling them to go fuck themselves. One of the flags the Texans used had a cannon on it with the words Come and Take it. A similar flag flies above the Knob Creek range in Kentucky.

196 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:43:10pm

I don't care home much you clown, fish puns are not that funny.

197 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:43:18pm

re: #195 Iron Fist

I didn't know that. One of the things that started that war was the Mexican's trying to disarm the people. They wanted the people to turn in a small cannon. They replied by telling them to go fuck themselves. One of the flags

198 solomonpanting  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:43:34pm

re: #188 Spare O'Lake

The stinkiness of a fart (S) is inversely proportional to its loudness (L).
S = 1/L
Hence the SBD (silent but deadly) and the LBH (loud but harmless)
Is this a theory or a fact?
Should it be taught in science class?

As what, part of The Big Bang Theory?

199 Steffan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:43:43pm

re: #112 karmic_inquisitor

I think we need to reexamine the whole "white flag" thing. Why is a "white" flag a sign of peaceful intent? Why not a black flag? Or a red flag?

Hmmmmmm.

/ So - do you guys think I can get a job in a university somewhere with that?

A red flag is an old privateering badge. Ships that were intercepted by a privateer flying a red flag were expected to heave to and surrender without a fight. French privateers called it "Jolie Rouge," which was eventually corrupted by English privateers/pirates into "Jolly Roger."

If they resisted, the red flag came down and a black flag went up, signifying that no quarter would be given.

By the end of the 17th century, most privateers and pirates were flying black flags as a matter of course.

/I'd sooner trust you than most of the yahoos who have tenure

200 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:43:54pm

re: #195 Iron Fist

See my avatar.

201 callahan23  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:44:28pm

re: #179 Killian Bundy

Missile Defense Takes Off

The ABL program places a megawatt-class, high-energy Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) on a modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft to detect, track and destroy all classes of ballistic missiles. ABL also can pass information on launch sites, target tracks and predicted impact points to other layers of the global ballistic missile defense system.

This week, Boeing and the Missile Defense Agency announced another successful test — the first ground test of the entire weapon system integrated aboard the aircraft, including the firing of a high-energy laser through the ABL beam control/fire control system. Earlier tests had unit-tested other components of the system, particularly the ability to find, track and target missiles in flight.

/Peace Through Light baby!

Couldn't America offer this gorgeous piece of tech to Israel.
'Cause they are really in harms way.

202 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:44:43pm

re: #187 gclaghorn

What's that? I can't hear you. I don't have very good herring.

Mast I speak louder?

:)

203 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:44:43pm

re: #188 Spare O'Lake

The stinkiness of a fart (S) is inversely proportional to its loudness (L).
S = 1/L
Hence the SBD (silent but deadly) and the LBH (loud but harmless)
Is this a theory or a fact?
Should it be taught in science class?

HA! thats my fave post of yours so far.

204 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:44:59pm

re: #185 OldLineTexan

This boy's more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind!

205 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:45:41pm

re: #204 Kenneth

This boy's more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind!

He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. He's about as a bright as a jar of dead fireflies.

206 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:46:11pm

re: #194 Sharmuta

I know better than to click that. ;p

It's actually pretty good, you should try it.

207 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:46:20pm

re: #169 CalBear84

Should be a helluva game. Portland is improving.
My Lakers will see you on Christmas!
OK...really going home now.

In reality.. I've been a Golden State fan most of my life..
And of course a Pacer fan..
But Greg Odem..local boy makes good..the portand center is suspect.. As ESPN the sports guy has noted on his blog that seeing Odem walk in person is like watching a 60 year old hobble..and that was before the microfracture.
I meet Bill Walton in an Airport once.. It was sad watching him walk..My kids could run circles around him.. I think Odems future is in doubt..

208 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:46:37pm

re: #171 Kenneth


Let's hope so. I have never understood the mentality that if a missile shield wasn't 100% perfect that it wasn't worth doing at all. Gun controllers are fond of saying "If it saves one life..." it is worth it.

You'd think that they'd feel that way about stopping multiple megadeaths worth of wholesale slaughter. But they don't.

209 Charles  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:46:42pm

By the way, the Discovery Institute had nothing to do with this success. We do still have a few real rocket scientists left.

210 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:46:53pm

re: #184 JCM

I just flounder in pun threads.


Holy mackerel, that's bad!

211 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:46:56pm

re: #196 JCM

I don't care home much you clown, fish puns are not that funny.

fish puns are just anenome to a thread.

212 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:47:15pm

Here's a squid we can agree on.

213 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:47:15pm

re: #205 OldLineTexan

Smart boy, got a mind like a steel trap...full of mice.

214 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:47:38pm

re: #206 Thanos

He makes me want to gouge my ears out.

215 experiencedtraveller  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:47:40pm

re: #205 OldLineTexan

He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. He's about as a bright as a jar of dead fireflies.

Sharp as a bowling ball?

216 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:48:23pm

re: #215 experiencedtraveller

Sharp as a bowling ball?

Bright as midnight at the bottom of the outhouse.

217 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:48:32pm

re: #209 Charles

By the way, the Discovery Institute had nothing to do with this success. We do still have a few real rocket scientists left.

I guess they were off trying to... discover something, perhaps?

218 Sunlight  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:48:42pm

re: #48 Flying Dutchman

Hi all,

Maybe the test wasn't that successful after all :

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Friday it conducted a successful test of its missile defense system, but the target failed to deploy measures that experts said could have helped it avoid destruction.

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

Oh Puhleez... the test went off without a hitch. It is a development program and I'm sure the next steps will include algorithms to accommodate any countermeasures (and decoys, etc.). It was oh so successful!

219 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:48:55pm

re: #200 OldLineTexan

Yep. My link got hosed up. Here is the link.

It is also of note that the same flag flies above the range at Knob Creek. those people have some real firepower.

220 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:48:57pm

re: #210 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Holy mackerel, that's bad!

Gentlemen, draw your swordfish.

221 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:48:58pm

re: #191 Racer X

That reminds me that turmeric is also has anti-inflammatory properties. I have some empty gell caps that I can pack with turmeric.

222 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:06pm

re: #215 experiencedtraveller

Nice, but it has to be an actual Foghorn Leghorn quote. That's the rules.

223 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:24pm

I'm just sitting down to a bowlfull of chuckroast that's simmered in onions, mushrooms, and barley all day. A dollop of sourcream on the side. No wine, but maybe I'll crack out the cognac after.

224 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:29pm

re: #220 gclaghorn

Gentlemen, draw your swordfish.

Oh, just kiss my lily white bass!

225 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:41pm

re: #216 OldLineTexan


I keep pitching em and you keep missing em.

226 Joan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:42pm

re: #138 legalpad

Yes. He creeps me out though.

227 Sunlight  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:52pm

re: #179 Killian Bundy

Missile Defense Takes Off

/Peace Through Light baby!

It's the laser mafia at work! Nothing succeeds like success!

228 fiat_lux  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:55pm

The late great Carl Sagan was against Ronald Reagan's strategic defense initiative because, he said, " it wouldn't work". This from a man was worked on a spacecraft that could hit a moving target , Mars, land safely and transmit photos of said planet. He was motivated by a leftist ideology that left that over-ruled his scientific knowledge.

229 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:55pm

re: #224 SteveC

Oh, just kiss my lily white bass!

Now don't you start ha-wrass-ing me.

230 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:49:59pm

re: #223 Thanos

I'm just sitting down to a bowlfull of chuckroast that's simmered in onions, mushrooms, and barley all day. A dollop of sourcream on the side. No wine, but maybe I'll crack out the cognac after.

do you have enough to share?

231 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:50:26pm

re: #171 Kenneth

Some Dems would love to kill it, but... a good number of the contractors are in Democratic districts. Nobody wants to be seen causing yet more layoff today.

On a related point, earlier this week NATO unanimously approved the deployment of missile defense system in Europe, and the Czech govt approved the installation of missile defense components on their territory. Also, Obama's National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones, as a former NATO Commander has lots of contacts in Europe.

This thing is going ahead.

From your lips to God's ears. We need this system.

232 snowcrash  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:50:40pm

re: #221 Killgore Trout
Hot tub and Motrin might work faster.

233 legalpad  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:50:47pm

re: #195 Iron Fist

I didn't know that. One of the things that started that war was the Mexican's trying to disarm the people. They wanted the people to turn in a small cannon. They replied by telling them to go fuck themselves.

Gun shows have them here.

The history.

234 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:50:58pm

re: #218 Sunlight

Oh Puhleez... the test went off without a hitch. It is a development program and I'm sure the next steps will include algorithms to accommodate any countermeasures (and decoys, etc.). It was oh so successful!

See Star Wars will never work, Reagan was a doddering old fool!

/The Swimmer Kennedy.

235 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:51:09pm

re: #223 Thanos

Lucky you! I just had a tasty yet unsatisfying vegetarian dinner my daughter cooked. I am delighted she cooked dinner (but I want meat!)

236 Steffan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:51:12pm

re: #183 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Booze ALWAYS helps!

Especially today, the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.

237 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:51:19pm

re: #209 Charles

By the way, the Discovery Institute had nothing to do with this success. We do still have a few real rocket scientists left.

Se we can use the phrase, "What, do you think you're a rocket scientist or somethin'"? :)

238 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:51:31pm

re: #230 bellamags

do you have enough to share?

Sure there's a pot full upstairs

239 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:51:45pm

re: #223 Thanos

I'm just sitting down to a bowlfull of chuckroast that's simmered in onions, mushrooms, and barley all day. A dollop of sourcream on the side. No wine, but maybe I'll crack out the cognac after.

Speaking of barley, I need another beer.

240 Sunlight  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:51:52pm

re: #231 Dark_Falcon

From your lips to God's ears. We need this system.

Whoever gets these systems won the lottery. And hopefully they'll add capabilities from allies' research efforts once gen 1 is deployed.

241 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:51:58pm

re: #224 SteveC

Oh, just kiss my lily white bass!

You're not such an angelfish, are you?

242 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:52:06pm

re: #235 Kenneth

Lucky you! I just had a tasty yet unsatisfying vegetarian dinner my daughter cooked. I am delighted she cooked dinner (but I want meat!)


Where's the Beef?

243 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:52:09pm

re: #238 Thanos

Sure there's a pot full upstairs

K. be there in a few. ; )

244 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:52:11pm

re: #190 rightymouse

I was making row covers. They really increase winter yields.

245 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:52:21pm

re: #211 bellamags

fish puns are just anenome to a thread.


Scale back that snark, would ya?

246 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:52:40pm

re: #216 OldLineTexan

Bright as midnight at the bottom of the outhouse.

A few sandwiches shy of a picnic?

247 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:53:12pm

re: #245 rightymouse

Scale back that snark shark, would ya?

There. Fixed it for you.

248 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:53:14pm

re: #225 Kenneth

I keep pitching em and you keep missing em.

That boy is as strong as an ox, and just about as smart.

249 Killian Bundy  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:53:15pm

re: #201 callahan23

Couldn't America offer this gorgeous piece of tech to Israel.
'Cause they are really in harms way.

We may as well.

/I doubt Obama's going to let us keep it

250 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:53:19pm

Well, I am in some really deep do-do. Bought a 5 POUND TUB of cheeze puffs at the local warehouse store, opened the tub tonight. Glanced down a moment ago and half those puffs are missing!

And why is this cheeze puff dust all over my hand?!?!

251 solomonpanting  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:53:32pm

re: #234 JCM

See Star Wars will never work, Reagan was a doddering old fool!

/The Swimmer Kennedy.

re: #209 Charles

By the way, the Discovery Institute had nothing to do with this success. We do still have a few real rocket scientists left.

Owing to the process of Star Wars evolving through the years.

252 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:53:35pm

re: #236 Steffan

Especially today, the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.

Cheers!

253 itellu3times  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:54:14pm

re: #218 Sunlight

Oh Puhleez... the test went off without a hitch. It is a development program and I'm sure the next steps will include algorithms to accommodate any countermeasures (and decoys, etc.). It was oh so successful!

But if they wrap the warhead in a burqa, we won't dare hit it with a missile, will we?

255 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:54:48pm

re: #242 HoosierHoops

Where's the Beef?

/Clara Peller off. :)

256 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:54:52pm

re: #245 rightymouse

Scale back that snark, would ya?

just keep beating that drum.

257 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:54:53pm

re: #245 rightymouse

Scale back that snark, would ya?

In this forum all are allowed to carp frealy.

258 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:55:21pm

re: #253 itellu3times

But if they wrap the warhead in a burqa, we won't dare hit it with a missile, will we?

No but if it has glasses on... POW! Right in the kisser!

259 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:55:44pm

re: #233 legalpad

Yep. we saw a lot of that flag in certain circles in 1994, too. Gun owners are a significant chunk of that 25 million people that Weather Underground wants to whack.

I don't think it will be as easy as Ayers et al think it will be.

260 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:55:45pm

re: #257 Thanos

In this forum all are allowed to carp frealy.

I do it just for the halibut.

261 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:55:58pm

re: #244 Killgore Trout

I was making row covers. They really increase winter yields.

For example, KT's vertebrae have yielded.

262 saberry0530  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:56:09pm

re: #196 JCM

I don't care home much you clown, fish puns are not that funny.

celeocanth we all just get along.

263 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:56:20pm

re: #174 gclaghorn

Oh, don't play that old cod again.

yah, it smelt

264 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:56:34pm

re: #250 SteveC

Well, I am in some really deep do-do. Bought a 5 POUND TUB of cheeze puffs at the local warehouse store, opened the tub tonight. Glanced down a moment ago and half those puffs are missing!

And why is this cheeze puff dust all over my hand?!?!

The same thing happens when I open a box of Nilla Wafers ~ half the box goes missing!

265 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:56:36pm

re: #251 solomonpanting

Owing to the process of Star Wars evolving through the years.

Sorry, that's intelligent design.

266 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:56:37pm

re: #235 Kenneth


If God didn't want us to eat meat, He wouldn't have made it taste so good.

267 Racer X  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:56:54pm

re: #221 Killgore Trout

That reminds me that turmeric is also has anti-inflammatory properties. I have some empty gell caps that I can pack with turmeric.

Boswellia Serrata (Frankincense) is a good anti-inflammatory as well. Takes a while.

Booze and Ibuprofen works fast.

268 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:56:58pm

re: #260 Killgore Trout

I do it just for the halibut.

It's too early to jump the shark...err trout.

269 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:57:16pm

re: #261 OldLineTexan

For example, KT's vertebrae have yielded.

Because his inner fish isn't spiny enough.

270 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:57:17pm

re: #244 Killgore Trout

I was making row covers. They really increase winter yields.


I understand. But bamboo? That stuff is tough as nails.

271 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:57:26pm

re: #260 Killgore Trout

I do it just for the halibut.

You can be such an eel.

272 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:57:42pm

re: #268 HoosierHoops

It's too early to jump the shark...err trout.

Some of these puns are starting to smell fishy... ;)

273 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:57:43pm

re: #247 gclaghorn

There. Fixed it for you.


lol...

274 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:57:45pm

re: #209 Charles

By the way, the Discovery Institute had nothing to do with this success. We do still have a few real rocket scientists left.

Such a complex and awe-inspiring system is SURELY the result of an intelligent design.

275 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:57:52pm

Supernatural graffiti.....
divine dog door for sale

276 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:58:10pm

re: #260 Killgore Trout

I do it just for the halibut.

I was going to have halibut for dinner last night, but it smelt bad, so I threw it away.

277 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:58:15pm

re: #271 Sharmuta

You can be such an eel.

But I'd rather have him inside the tent fishing out, than outside the tent fishing in.

278 solomonpanting  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:58:21pm

re: #265 OldLineTexan

Sorry, that's intelligent design.

So then, the two aren't mutually exclusive?

279 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:58:37pm

re: #266 Iron Fist

If God didn't want us to eat meat, He wouldn't have made it taste so good.


Amen, bruthah! Would upding you a gazillion times if I could.

280 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:58:37pm

re: #266 Iron Fist

If God didn't want us to eat meat, He wouldn't have made it taste so good.

Favorite tshirt:

"Meat is murder! And yummy too!"

281 IslandLibertarian  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:58:56pm

OT:
Guess who's coming home.

It will be sooooooooooo smarmy.
He's a god ya know...............

282 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:58:58pm

re: #275 Killgore Trout

Supernatural graffiti.....
divine dog door for sale

That's Jeebus, Jesus' cousin. Not as valuable.

283 saberry0530  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:59:05pm

re: #276 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Talapia tales seem to be the odor of the day

284 Noam Sayin'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:59:16pm

re: #207 HoosierHoops

Did you catch that move Derrick Rose put on Andre Miller the other night?

285 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:59:45pm

re: #272 gclaghorn

Some of these puns are starting to smell fishy... ;)

It's a whale of a thread if you ask me..

286 arrow75  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 5:59:47pm

re: #201 callahan23

This is a step in the right direction...
[Link: www.defense-update.com...]

287 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:00pm

re: #270 rightymouse

When bamboo is freshly cut (I grow my own) it bends fairly easily but I think I over did it by bending 40 or so poles in one morning.

288 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:05pm

re: #250 SteveC

Well, I am in some really deep do-do. Bought a 5 POUND TUB of cheeze puffs at the local warehouse store, opened the tub tonight. Glanced down a moment ago and half those puffs are missing!

And why is this cheeze puff dust all over my hand?!?!

cheesy poos

289 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:20pm

re: #269 Thanos

Because his inner fish isn't spiny enough.


That's a whale of an assertion.

290 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:22pm

re: #285 HoosierHoops

It's a whale of a thread if you ask me..

Don't make me beach this thread!

/

291 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:26pm

re: #278 solomonpanting

So then, the two aren't mutually exclusive?

Seriously? God and evolution don't cause me any pain. I am not telling Him what tools He may use.

ID (note the caps) is an ideology that uses lies.

292 solomonpanting  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:36pm

re: #285 HoosierHoops

It's a whale of a thread if you ask me..

IOW, it's not floundering.

293 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:44pm

re: #283 saberry0530

Talapia tales seem to be the odor of the day

You're being koi, what do you mean?

294 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:44pm

re: #285 HoosierHoops

It's a whale of a thread if you ask me..

There's a ray of hope it will stop soon.

295 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:56pm

re: #290 gclaghorn

Don't make me beach this thread!

/

Hey, don't be so roughy on us!

296 Steffan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:00:57pm

re: #193 experiencedtraveller

Dear President Elect Obama,

I think you owe the hard working Americans at Exxonmobil a freakin APOLOGY for the gratuitous slamming of this great American company during your presidential debates.

Exxonmobil gain fully employs 82,000 people. All good jobs.

Exxonmobil provides a crucial commodity at competitive market prices.

Exxonmobil does vast amounts of basic research in many scientific disciplines.

APOLOGIZE, SIR!

They also paid $29 billion in income taxes and $71 billion in "taxes and other duties."

297 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:01:58pm

re: #286 arrow75

This is a step in the right direction...
[Link: www.defense-update.com...]

Looks like it might be what we have based up in Adak. (see the link way upthread)

298 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:01:58pm

re: #267 Racer X

I have Mastic and Benzoin handy. No Frankincense.

299 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:02:34pm

Walleye ought to grab some dinner. See you guys later!

300 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:02:57pm

re: #299 Sharmuta

Walleye ought to grab some dinner. See you guys later!

Sea you later! *snicker*

301 Steffan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:03:09pm

re: #209 Charles

By the way, the Discovery Institute had nothing to do with this success. We do still have a few real rocket scientists left.

No thanks to the NEA.

302 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:03:10pm

re: #287 Killgore Trout


Um, you grow your own, um, bamboo, you say. So do you sell your "bamboo" by the pound, or do you go ahead and divvy it up to smaller, retail quantities?

303 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:03:19pm

re: #294 JCM

There's a ray of hope it will stop soon.

That's if someone doesn't pull the trigger first.

304 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:03:29pm

re: #299 Sharmuta

Walleye ought to grab some dinner. See you guys later!

Well, we hope to be herring from you shortly then.

305 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:03:35pm

Cats vs. slide

Can I haz friction?

306 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:03:37pm

re: #292 solomonpanting

IOW, it's not floundering.

Please, can't you buoys and gills get serious?

307 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:03:39pm

re: #299 Sharmuta

Walleye ought to grab some dinner. See you guys later!

Mackeral grab some seconds as well.

308 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:04:00pm

re: #302 Iron Fist

Personal consumption only.

309 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:04:04pm

re: #299 Sharmuta

Walleye ought to grab some dinner. See you guys later!

Cucumbers and sea lettuce?

310 mamashawna  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:04:07pm

re: #32 MandyManners

That is the FUNNIEST freakin thing I've seen all day...and my boys liked it too!

311 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:04:34pm

re: #257 Thanos

In this forum all are allowed to carp frealy.

'Frealy'. Is that a mako word?

312 Sarge1984  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:05:31pm

So, is there a prize for the first one to incorporate humuhumunukunukuapuaa into a pun?

313 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:05:32pm

re: #267 Racer X

Boswellia Serrata (Frankincense) is a good anti-inflammatory as well. Takes a while.

Booze and Ibuprofen works fast.

Frankincense is one of my favorite oils to use during massage. It has a strong odor, so I cut it with lavender. Very good for stress and "inflammation" for the whole nervous system. Clary sage is also fabulous.

314 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:05:42pm

re: #311 rightymouse

'Frealy'. Is that a mako word?

No, it was said on porpoise!

315 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:05:44pm

re: #305 Killgore Trout

Cats vs. slide

Can I haz friction?

Dog sed fud on top!

316 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:05:48pm

re: #307 Thanos

Mackeral grab some seconds as well.

just perch your yourself and try not to crappie on the carpet.

317 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:05:48pm

Sea Bass? Sea Bass? Is that you?

318 Steffan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:06:20pm

re: #250 SteveC

Well, I am in some really deep do-do. Bought a 5 POUND TUB of cheeze puffs at the local warehouse store, opened the tub tonight. Glanced down a moment ago and half those puffs are missing!

And why is this cheeze puff dust all over my hand?!?!

Moths.

The dust on your hands is an attempt to divert your attention.

319 jaunte  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:06:24pm

re: #312 Sarge1984

It's not my plaice to advise a stuttering Hawaiian.

320 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:06:24pm

You clownfish must think you're really funny!

321 Rancher  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:06:27pm

Well this program has to be cut. We need the money to give tax cuts to those who don't pay taxes, pay the big three auto maker's union, and fund the new civil defense force.

322 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:06:46pm

re: #306 Spare O'Lake

Please, can't you buoys and gills get serious?

You are hot to trout tonight spare o' lake. LOL

323 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:06:59pm

re: #312 Sarge1984

So, is there a prize for the first one to incorporate humuhumunukunukuapuaa into a pun?

Jackie Gleason?

324 solomonpanting  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:07:11pm

re: #291 OldLineTexan

Seriously? God and evolution don't cause me any pain. I am not telling Him what tools He may use.

ID (note the caps) is an ideology that uses lies.

Forgot my sarc tag......

325 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:07:57pm

Damn, but I'm in love. The only thing that could be better would be the same weapon in 7.62 NATO.

326 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:08:00pm

re: #324 solomonpanting

Got me!

327 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:08:04pm

re: #322 bellamags

You are hot to trout tonight spare o' lake. LOL

must be her good natured sole

328 Sarge1984  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:08:07pm

re: #323 OldLineTexan

I was hoping the Foghorn Leghorn quotes would catch on...

329 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:08:27pm

re: #306 Spare O'Lake

Please, can't you buoys and gills get serious?

It's just not Wright I say, it makes me Blue, and while it might be Fin for some of you, it puts a Hump in my Back.

330 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:08:45pm

re: #311 rightymouse

'Frealy'. Is that a mako word?

I borrowed it from salmon I overheard the otter day.

331 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:08:54pm

re: #329 JCM

It's just not Wright I say, it makes me Blue, and while it might be Fin for some of you, it puts a Hump in my Back.

That was just killer.

332 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:09:43pm

re: #330 Thanos

I borrowed it from salmon I overheard the otter day.

You might be taken to school..if you get my shank

333 saberry0530  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:09:47pm

And one that everyone here should know by heart

"You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish"

REO Speedwagon 1978

334 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:10:10pm

re: #328 Sarge1984

I was hoping the Foghorn Leghorn quotes would catch on...

We had quite a string of them, before I knew that was the rule. So one of mine was not a F L quote.

335 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:10:27pm

Lizards are coming up with new fish puns like batfish out of Hell.

336 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:10:28pm

re: #331 bellamags

That was just killer.

I heard he killed him with a hammerhead.

337 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:10:36pm

re: #325 Iron Fist

Damn, but I'm in love. The only thing that could be better would be the same weapon in 7.62 NATO.

8mm, where you gonna' find ammo?

338 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:10:42pm

re: #330 Thanos

I borrowed it from salmon I overheard the otter day.

Isn't that hershey? I've got mounds and mounds of law that says that don't work!

339 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:11:23pm

re: #332 HoosierHoops

You might be taken to school..if you get my shank

Shank's for the manatees.

340 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:11:23pm

re: #337 JCM

8mm, where you gonna' find ammo?

It used to be easy. I was buying Portuguese FNM 8mm back in the day for 9 cents a round.

341 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:11:48pm

re: #333 saberry0530

And one that everyone here should know by heart

"You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish"

REO Speedwagon 1978

Years ago, my friend tried to quote the title and said, "You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fork". Ok, it was funny at the time. :)

342 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:11:49pm

re: #336 poopeedoo

I heard he killed him with a hammerhead.

will that make him an Angelfish or a Sea devil?

343 mattm  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:12:08pm

The system shooting down a real nuke and saving a major US city from annihilation whould not be enough proof for The 0ne.

344 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:12:24pm

re: #322 bellamags

You are hot to trout tonight spare o' lake. LOL

I'll clam up now.

345 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:12:25pm

re: #330 Thanos

I borrowed it from salmon I overheard the otter day.

Bwhahahahahahahaha!

/You're gupping with me. Right?

346 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:12:26pm

re: #331 bellamags

That was just killer.

That's Orca Dokey with me.

347 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:12:48pm

pun like these will result in someone getting a shiner

348 callahan23  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:13:21pm

re: #286 arrow75

This is a step in the right direction...
[Link: www.defense-update.com...]

Sorry, saw your comment late.
Yesss! That should be a good start. Thanks for the link.
I'm late. Gotta go.
Stay scaly lizards.

349 SteveC  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:13:22pm

re: #339 Thanos

Shank's for the manatees.

That's playing on the stereo system all the time down at the Brest Exam Clinic... Thanks for the Mammaries!

350 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:13:26pm

re: #315 OldLineTexan

lol

351 gop_patriot  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:13:48pm

OT:

Has anyone else had problems logging into Yahoo IM tonight?

352 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:13:50pm

re: #341 poopeedoo

Years ago, my friend tried to quote the title and said, "You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fork". Ok, it was funny at the time. :)

You are taking a skate on thin ice... it smelt.

353 OldLineTexan  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:13:51pm

re: #340 OldLineTexan

It used to be easy. I was buying Portuguese FNM 8mm back in the day for 9 cents a round.

BTW, just found a lot of sources in a quick search. But stay away from the Turkish stuff.

354 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:14:02pm

re: #337 JCM

It's around. If I got the weapon, I'd try to get it converted to 7.62 NATO, though. Even if it cost another $1000, it'd be a good deal. No matter what happens with gun control in the next four years, this puppy is only going to rise in value.

355 turn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:14:27pm

I've got a buddy who worked on this program at Aerojet, you wouldn't believe how this thing is bandaded together. Hell WFT, it works.

356 VegasRick  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:14:42pm

re: #352 Outrider

You are taking a skate on thin ice... it smelt.

Hoof Hearted
Ice Melted
Say it 3 times real fast.

357 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:15:04pm

re: #343 mattm

That just wouldn't be fair. I'd say that the donks are more worried that it will succeed.

358 bellamags  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:15:20pm

I am going to have to leave this ocean of fun. See ya'll later

359 JacksonTn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:15:26pm

Good Evening Lizards ...

Is this the FNDT? Not drinking but I think I get a memory high when I listen to this song ...somebody posted a Steve Winwood song the other night ...this is my favorite when he was with Traffic ...

Low Spark ...

Youtube Video

360 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:16:06pm

re: #356 VegasRick

Hoof Hearted
Ice Melted
Say it 3 times real fast.

great. now the wife thinks I'm loony toons. ;-)>

361 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:16:32pm

re: #358 bellamags

I am going to have to leave this ocean of fun. See ya'll later

I need to sail off as well... Later lizards, better feed the family before they get crabby! :)

362 HoosierHoops  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:16:32pm

re: #359 JacksonTn

Good Evening Lizards ...

Is this the FNDT? Not drinking but I think I get a memory high when I listen to this song ...somebody posted a Steve Winwood song the other night ...this is my favorite when he was with Traffic ...

Low Spark ...

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Saw him at Claptons Concert in Chicago in 2007..Pure friggin genios

363 fiat_lux  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:17:00pm

re: #11 Noam Sayin'

Thank you is the American way of war.

364 VegasRick  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:17:16pm

re: #360 Outrider

great. now the wife thinks I'm loony toons. ;-)>

Sorry.

365 Killian Bundy  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:17:19pm

Despite earlier furor, Palin's shopping continued

Despite the furor over a $150,000 campaign shopping spree for vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, it appears the Republican party continued to spend money on clothing and accessories for her in the contest's final weeks.

New campaign reports show the latest buys ranged from $4,383 at Saks Fifth Avenue and $2,130 at Nieman Marcus, to $148 at Victoria's Secret locations in Philadelphia and Cincinnati

/geez, the election's been over for how long?

366 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:17:40pm

re: #354 Iron Fist

It's around. If I got the weapon, I'd try to get it converted to 7.62 NATO, though. Even if it cost another $1000, it'd be a good deal. No matter what happens with gun control in the next four years, this puppy is only going to rise in value.

I can see that, 8mm isn't something I've seen often at shops or shows.

367 Noam Sayin'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:17:45pm

Gun-nut segment, combined with a fish pun segment. This kind of shad can tentacle the herd of wannabe lizards.

368 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:17:47pm

re: #364 VegasRick

Sorry.

eh. nothing new lol

369 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:17:57pm

re: #328 Sarge1984

"You look like two miles of bad road"

370 Sarge1984  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:18:14pm

re: #365 Killian Bundy

Dang. Only $148 at Victoria's Secret.

371 saberry0530  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:18:17pm

re: #341 poopeedoo

Years ago, my friend tried to quote the title and said, "You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fork". Ok, it was funny at the time. :)

Must have been an alcohol or chemical induced laughter.

372 Jimmah  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:18:20pm

Warning - contents may offend sensitive viewers:

Can I haz furry sandwich?

373 poopeedoo  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:18:54pm

re: #371 saberry0530

Must have been an alcohol or chemical induced laughter.

There was a tuning fork on the cover, ya know. :)

374 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:19:15pm

re: #351 gop_patriot

OT:

Has anyone else had problems logging into Yahoo IM tonight?

Shoot your yahoo!

375 turn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:19:29pm

re: #355 turn

Oberth, go google that. Father is credited with the advent of modern rocketry. His GF was the first man to predict geocentric orbit.

376 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:19:38pm

re: #365 Killian Bundy

Despite earlier furor, Palin's shopping continued

/geez, the election's been over for how long?

The MSM and libs are scare absolutely shitless by Palin. She's their worst nightmare. They'll be pounding stakes into her for 4 years.

377 VegasRick  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:19:41pm

re: #359 JacksonTn

Good Evening Lizards ...

Is this the FNDT? Not drinking but I think I get a memory high when I listen to this song ...somebody posted a Steve Winwood song the other night ...this is my favorite when he was with Traffic ...

Low Spark ...

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

LOVE that song!

378 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:19:52pm

re: #367 Noam Sayin'

Gun-nut segment, combined with a fish pun segment. This kind of shad can tentacle the herd of wannabe lizards.

not herd....... grouper

379 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:20:06pm

Getting back on topic a minute: the major reasons Russia doesn't like this is that it tightens our alliances in Europe, and it takes away the threat of a "snapshot".

What's a snapshot? Single tactical use of one ICBM against a defensive front. With a single shot, telegraphed shortly ahead of time via a hotline there would be a lot of condemnation and crap to come, but a nuclear response would be unlikely. It's one of the bully sticks Russia has against East Europe and we are taking it out of the pile of threats.

380 Sarge1984  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:20:45pm

re: #369 Kenneth

That boy's strong as an ox, and just about as smart.

381 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:21:26pm

re: #365 Killian Bundy

Despite earlier furor, Palin's shopping continued


/geez, the election's been over for how long?

Don't sweat it, be happy. It means she's still a force to be reckoned with, and the left doesn't just fear her, they Ph3aR! her.

382 rightymouse  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:21:53pm

re: #365 Killian Bundy

Despite earlier furor, Palin's shopping continued


/geez, the election's been over for how long?


Barry raises and spends close to what now? A billion dollars? And the libs are hyperventilating over Palin's paltry clothing bill?

Gah...

383 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:21:54pm
384 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:22:03pm

Am I the only one drinking here? *hic*

385 Colonel Panik  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:22:04pm

Speaking of the Czech Republic, and President Bush, and weapons systems, the Czech Prime Minister and the Ceske Zbrojovka company just gave President Bush a really nice retirement present.

A custom engraved CZ550 rifle in .308 Winchester.

The odd thing is, I just bought the same rifle, in the same caliber at about the same time as this one was being presented to President Bush. Mine doesn't have all the fancy engraving on it like Dubya's though...

386 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:22:24pm

re: #379 Thanos

Getting back on topic a minute: the major reasons Russia doesn't like this is that it tightens our alliances in Europe, and it takes away the threat of a "snapshot".

What's a snapshot? Single tactical use of one ICBM against a defensive front. With a single shot, telegraphed shortly ahead of time via a hotline there would be a lot of condemnation and crap to come, but a nuclear response would be unlikely. It's one of the bully sticks Russia has against East Europe and we are taking it out of the pile of threats.

What does that mean?

387 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:22:25pm

re: #380 Sarge1984

That boy's strong as an ox, and just about as smart.


This boy's more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind

388 jamgarr  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:22:36pm

And the man in the suit
Has just bailed a new car
With the profit he failed to make clean

389 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:22:55pm

re: #380 Sarge1984


Gal reminds me of the highway between Forth Worth and Dallas - no curves.

390 Sarge1984  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:23:40pm

re: #384 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Oh hell no, el-tee. It's Right Arm Night, you know.

391 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:23:46pm

re: #366 JCM

I've got a couple of huundred rounds of it laying around. My grandfather had a Mauser in that caliber. My big problem with it would be that all the ammo you are likely to find will have corrosive primers.

I like the MG-42/MG-3. This one is from a Yugoslav parts kit. Yugoslavia made some of the best AK-47/RPKs in the whole East block. This one is currently at about what a parts kit would run you.

392 Noam Sayin'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:23:59pm

re: #378 Outrider

Nice one. And I was proud of myself for getting a two-fer.

Now I'm going to filet crappie albacore it all night.

393 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:24:03pm

re: #389 Kenneth

Gal reminds me of the highway between Forth Worth and Dallas - no curves.


Nice girl, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice

394 turn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:24:08pm

re: #383 taxfreekiller

Is this the dialog the world hopes the O will start TFK?

395 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:24:26pm

re: #390 Sarge1984

Oh hell no, el-tee. It's Right Arm Night, you know.

Glad to hear it, Sarge!

396 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:24:27pm

re: #384 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Am I the only one drinking here? *hic*

What does here taste like?

397 Sarge1984  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:24:43pm

re: #387 Outrider

re: #389 Kenneth

Just for full disclosure, I had to google them, too.

398 turn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:24:59pm

re: #384 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Am I the only one drinking here? *hic*

o, I meant no

399 Jimmah  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:25:12pm

re: #384 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Am I the only one drinking here? *hic*

Nope!

400 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:25:17pm

re: #396 MandyManners

What does here taste like?

Like the opposite of there.

401 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:25:35pm

re: #396 MandyManners

What does here taste like?

*Whack!*

402 fiat_lux  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:25:39pm

re: #377 VegasRick

I bought it when I was 18. Thank you for the link. The LP"Shoot out at the Fantasy Factory" I bought in 8 track which was, well, never mind.

403 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:25:57pm

re: #382 rightymouse

If you get down to brass tacks, I think you could get a Court to simply take judicial notice of the fact that Democrats are hypocrits. It's not like they really take any pains to conceal it.

404 Killgore Trout  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:25:59pm

Heads up....

New trojan targets Firefox, masquerades as Greasemonkey

405 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:26:04pm

re: #386 MandyManners


Nuclear sucker punch. Say Russia is really angry at Ukraine. They get a missile ready, call Washington and say, "don't worry, it's not for you" then launch a quick one at Ukraine's military headquarters. By the time the President has time to say "WTF are you doing!?" the deed is doen and the Russians got what they want.

406 VegasRick  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:26:14pm

re: #396 MandyManners

What does here taste like?

Tastes like chicken, just like everything else!

407 saberry0530  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:26:38pm

re: #396 MandyManners

What does here taste like?

There, only a little more tang.

408 loflyer  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:26:53pm

Evening mates! What's up?

409 turn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:26:57pm

re: #406 VegasRick

Rattlesnake, ummmm

410 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:26:57pm

re: #407 saberry0530

There, only a little more tang.

GMTA!

411 JCM  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:27:08pm

Meanwhile in WA State the saga continues....

Anti-Religion Sign Returned To State Capitol

The controversial anti-religion sign that was mysteriously removed from state Capitol Rotunda has been returned to its place in Olympia after it was turned in to a Seattle radio station.
The sign was at the Capitol at 6:15 a.m. Friday, but by 7:30 a.m., it had disappeared, the Capitol building manager told the Olympian.
Later Friday morning, the receptionist at the country radio station KMPS in Seattle said the sign was turned in to the station by a man who said, "this is for Ichabod," and handed her the sign. Ichabod Caine is a show host at the radio station.
412 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:27:31pm

re: #408 loflyer

Evening mates! What's up?

The sky!

Teeheehee...

413 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:27:37pm

re: #408 loflyer

Evening mates! What's up?

Arrgh... pull up a mug, matey, and catch your fill of grog.

414 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:27:45pm

re: #401 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

*Whack!*

LOL!

415 Killian Bundy  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:27:58pm

re: #382 rightymouse

Barry raises and spends close to what now? A billion dollars? And the libs are hyperventilating over Palin's paltry clothing bill?/blockquote>

/but, but, he spent his money on important stuff like pillars and a seal!

416 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:28:03pm

re: #397 Sarge1984

Now cut that out boy, or I'll spank you where the feathers are thinnest

(me too)

417 Sarge1984  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:28:12pm

re: #396 MandyManners

What was that line from "When Harry Met Sally"?

...kind of like me, fruity, but with a bold finish...?

418 VegasRick  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:28:20pm

re: #409 turn

Rattlesnake, ummmm

Do you dip in ranch dressing?

419 Iron Fist  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:28:23pm

re: #405 Kenneth

That's what we should have done to Afghanistan post-9-11. Everyone would have just hunkered down and hoped that we'd be done soon.

420 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:28:30pm

re: #392 Noam Sayin'

Nice one. And I was proud of myself for getting a two-fer.

Now I'm going to filet crappie albacore it all night.

Well, just for the halibut, I thought I cod perch here. then I thought... what the eel; I'd just be a sucker.

421 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:28:49pm

re: #386 MandyManners

What does that mean?

Let's say one of their neighbors and they got belligerent, and troops went to the front. Maybe Russia invades Georgia, or whatever. If the Russian forces were successfully repelled they could use a nuke as a "defensive" measure. One nuke fired during a war would probably not initiate WWIII nuclear fashion. Remember there's a precedent for limited use of Nukes in wartime, we set it.

No matter how big a conventional force the Eastern Euros gather they couldn't stand against that.

422 Noam Sayin'  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:28:55pm

re: #385 Colonel Panik

It's good to be the Prez.

423 Sarge1984  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:29:16pm

re: #416 Kenneth

Did you find the one with the .wav files?

424 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:29:48pm

re: #405 Kenneth

Nuclear sucker punch. Say Russia is really angry at Ukraine. They get a missile ready, call Washington and say, "don't worry, it's not for you" then launch a quick one at Ukraine's military headquarters. By the time the President has time to say "WTF are you doing!?" the deed is doen and the Russians got what they want.

CBBHO would cave.

425 gop_patriot  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:30:03pm

re: #374 MandyManners

Shoot your yahoo!

Apparently that's the only option left. BRB.

/gah

426 Outrider  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:30:04pm

re: #416 Kenneth

Now cut that out boy, or I'll spank you where the feathers are thinnest

(me too)


Looks like the boy genius is tryin' to show me up

427 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:30:06pm

re: #419 Iron Fist

That's what we should have done to Afghanistan a lot of places! post-9-11. Everyone would have just hunkered down and hoped that we'd be done soon.

428 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:30:24pm

re: #406 VegasRick

Tastes like chicken, just like everything else!

Does alligator?

429 turn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:30:28pm

re: #418 VegasRick

Do you dip in ranch dressing?

Been a while, right now would probably dip it in my Keystone Light. Ha

What's happening in Vegas, Rick?

430 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:30:39pm

re: #424 MandyManners

CBBHO would cave.

How could you tell?

I mean, he'd have to come out from under the desk in the Oval Office to let us know he did.

431 Jimmah  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:30:52pm

re: #396 MandyManners

In my case, 'here' tastes like Glenfiddich single malt whisky, coca-cola, sprinkles, a tablespoon of ice-cream, and a straw. In one large glass.

432 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:30:55pm

re: #407 saberry0530

There, only a little more tang.

As in, orange juice from NASA?

433 solomonpanting  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:31:03pm

At the risk of creating a big roe, is this the fin?

434 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:31:21pm

re: #406 VegasRick

Tastes like chicken, just like everything else!

Then what does chicken taste like?

435 Sharmuta  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:31:28pm

Oh, hai...

436 legalpad  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:31:31pm

re: #385 Colonel Panik

Speaking of the Czech Republic, and President Bush, and weapons systems, the Czech Prime Minister and the Ceske Zbrojovka company just gave President Bush a really nice retirement present.

A custom engraved CZ550 rifle in .308 Winchester.

The odd thing is, I just bought the same rifle, in the same caliber at about the same time as this one was being presented to President Bush. Mine doesn't have all the fancy engraving on it like Dubya's though...

That makes me want to be president -

437 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:31:41pm

re: #417 Sarge1984

What was that line from "When Harry Met Sally"?

...kind of like me, fruity, but with a bold finish...?

A drink at a gay bar?

438 VegasRick  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:31:46pm

re: #429 turn

Been a while, right now would probably dip it in my Keystone Light. Ha

What's happening in Vegas, Rick?

By local law I am not allowed to tell you.

439 Thanos  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:03pm

Remember that the bear is paranoid, and what I outlined are the things it's thinking of when it says that "missile defense is a threat to them".

440 gop_patriot  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:04pm

re: #431 Jimmah

In my case, 'here' tastes like Glenfiddich single malt whisky, coca-cola, sprinkles, a tablespoon of ice-cream, and a straw. In one large glass.

That would send me into a sugar coma! LOL

441 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:15pm

re: #424 MandyManners

CBBHO would cave.

Nuking Ukraine, Vlad? Fine, can I finish my waffle now?

442 MandyManners  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:32pm

re: #421 Thanos

Let's say one of their neighbors and they got belligerent, and troops went to the front. Maybe Russia invades Georgia, or whatever. If the Russian forces were successfully repelled they could use a nuke as a "defensive" measure. One nuke fired during a war would probably not initiate WWIII nuclear fashion. Remember there's a precedent for limited use of Nukes in wartime, we set it.

No matter how big a conventional force the Eastern Euros gather they couldn't stand against that.

But, we weren't the aggressors so the precedent doesn't exist.

443 turn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:33pm

re: #433 solomonpanting

At the risk of creating a big roe, is this the fin?

Fin, spin, grin, sin, who cares?

Can't believe the market went up with the bad employment into.

444 Jimmah  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:35pm

re: #435 Sharmuta

LOL.

445 loflyer  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:36pm

re: #405 Kenneth

Nuclear sucker punch. Say Russia is really angry at Ukraine. They get a missile ready, call Washington and say, "don't worry, it's not for you" then launch a quick one at Ukraine's military headquarters. By the time the President has time to say "WTF are you doing!?" the deed is doen and the Russians got what they want.

Here is an interesting series of excerpts from Strategy Page on the Poland ABM and European natural gas supplier issues with Russia.
"Russia is making a lot of noise about the U.S. anti-missile systems being installed in Poland and the Czech Republic. Russia believes the anti-missile systems are meant to negate Russia's nuclear weapons (the only really effective military weapon Russia has left). East European countries are fine with that, but the main purpose of the anti-missile system is to knock down the handful of ballistic missiles Iran might be able to fire at Europe in the near future. Nevertheless, Russia sees the anti-missile system as a threat, and has made a series of announcements about new ICBMs being developed that will negate the anti-missile system. In fact, Russia has not been able to develop a new ICBM design, to replace it's "heavy" Cold War era ICBMs (the SS-18 and SS-19). All it really has is the Topol-M (SS-27 in NATO parlance), which was developed at the end of the Cold War. The Topol-M was modified to serve as a new sea launched ICBM (Bulava) and as a heavy ICBM (RS-24) to replace the elderly SS-18s and SS-19s. There is no money for a major new ICBM development program, but Russia can afford to create some scary press releases."
and
"November 23, 2008: Natural gas is again being used as a diplomatic weapon. Two years ago, Ukraine was paying bargain rates ($130 per thousand cubic meters, which is equivalent to $74 per barrel of oil, a price that is nearly half what natural gas went for on the world market). After much diplomatic pushing and shoving, Russia raised the price to $179.50. Now Russia wants to boost the price to $400, and also collect $2.4 billion in unpaid (and disputed) gas bills. Ukraine complains that Russia is demanding higher prices from them than Western Europeans pay. There, the price of natural gas is based on the price of oil. That price has declined over 60 percent this year. At most, Ukraine was expecting to pay $250 per thousand cubic meters of natural gas in 2009. These negotiations make Western Europe nervous, because there were threats of interrupting supplies of Russian gas to Western Europe. Russia can't stop gas shipments to Ukraine without cutting off supplies for Western Europe. Such interruptions were a major issue when Russia first proposed selling natural gas to Western Europe. Russia promised that the gas supply would never become a political issue. Now it is, and West Europe's traditional distrust of Russia is revived. Western Europe is paralyzed by fear of losing a quarter of its natural gas supplies. Two years ago, when Russia cut Ukraine off, the Ukrainians simply diverted gas meant for Western European customers. "

/I trusted the deposed Soviets a lot more than the Russians, mates!

446 Kenneth  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:44pm

re: #423 Sarge1984

yup!

447 gclaghorn  Fri, Dec 5, 2008 6:32:49pm

re: #435 Sharmuta