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Mar. 9th, 2005 07:33 am
Mar. 9th, 2005
I love The Onion.
Mar. 9th, 2005 09:02 am"I'm pleased to announce that the Department of Defense and I have formulated a plan for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq," Bush announced Monday morning. "We'll just go through Iran."
Bush said the U.S. Army, which deposed Iran's longtime enemy Saddam Hussein, should be welcomed with open arms by the Islamic-fundamentalist state.
"The fact is, we've accomplished our goals in Iraq," said General George Casey, the commander of coalition forces in the Iraqi theater. "Now, it's time to bring our men and women home—via Iran."
Questions have been raised about the unprecedented size of the withdrawal budget.
"I'm asking Congress to approve a $187-billion budget to enable us to exit as smoothly as possible," said Casey, whose budget request includes several hundred additional M1A1 Abrams battle tanks, 72 new C-130 cargo planes, and two brigades of artillery. "We're concerned about the safety of our troops, so we need to have the capacity to deal with insurgent forces all the way from the Iraqi border through to Tehran."
Bush said the U.S. Army, which deposed Iran's longtime enemy Saddam Hussein, should be welcomed with open arms by the Islamic-fundamentalist state.
"The fact is, we've accomplished our goals in Iraq," said General George Casey, the commander of coalition forces in the Iraqi theater. "Now, it's time to bring our men and women home—via Iran."
Questions have been raised about the unprecedented size of the withdrawal budget.
"I'm asking Congress to approve a $187-billion budget to enable us to exit as smoothly as possible," said Casey, whose budget request includes several hundred additional M1A1 Abrams battle tanks, 72 new C-130 cargo planes, and two brigades of artillery. "We're concerned about the safety of our troops, so we need to have the capacity to deal with insurgent forces all the way from the Iraqi border through to Tehran."
It is Excellent!
Mar. 9th, 2005 09:37 amThe excellent Things That Don't Exist remix contest!
If you haven't seen the original video, go do so now. Then return, and view the excellent remix contest, and make a remix!
It will be excellent!
If you haven't seen the original video, go do so now. Then return, and view the excellent remix contest, and make a remix!
It will be excellent!
Rick Santorum, lie? Distort facts? Ignore his constituents? SAY IT AIN'T SO, RICK!
When Rick Santorum's web poll showed this result, he took it offline.
His challenger for the seat in 2006, however, was watching the poll and taking screen captures, so even when Santorum tried to remove the information that disagreed with him, it's still there.
When Rick Santorum's web poll showed this result, he took it offline.
His challenger for the seat in 2006, however, was watching the poll and taking screen captures, so even when Santorum tried to remove the information that disagreed with him, it's still there.
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Israeli Army hates D&D
Mar. 9th, 2005 11:48 amYnetnews has learned that 18-year-olds who tell recruiters they play the popular fantasy game are automatically given low security clearance.
"They're detached from reality and suscepitble to influence," the army says.
"We have discovered that some of them are simply detached from reality," a security source told Ynetnews.
"One of the tests we do, either by asking soldiers directly or through information provided us, is to ask whether they take part in the game," he says. "If a soldier answers in the affirmative, he is sent to a professional for an evaluation, usually a psychologist."
"These people have a tendency to be influenced by external factors which could cloud their judgment, a military official says. "They may be detached from reality or have a weak personality - elements which lower a person's security clearance, allowing them to serve in the army, but not in sensitive positions."
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I can't really argue against this position, given how well D20 sourcebooks sell.
"They're detached from reality and suscepitble to influence," the army says.
"We have discovered that some of them are simply detached from reality," a security source told Ynetnews.
"One of the tests we do, either by asking soldiers directly or through information provided us, is to ask whether they take part in the game," he says. "If a soldier answers in the affirmative, he is sent to a professional for an evaluation, usually a psychologist."
"These people have a tendency to be influenced by external factors which could cloud their judgment, a military official says. "They may be detached from reality or have a weak personality - elements which lower a person's security clearance, allowing them to serve in the army, but not in sensitive positions."
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I can't really argue against this position, given how well D20 sourcebooks sell.
$127 billion "off the shelf"?
Mar. 9th, 2005 01:52 pmUnder Defense Department rules -- specifically, Federal Acquisition Regulation 12 -- everyday, "off-the-shelf" items can be bought with a minimum of paperwork and oversight. Filling out endless forms just to buy new copies of Microsoft Word doesn't make much sense, after all.
But neither does applying FAR 12 to Future Combat Systems, or FCS, a program which encompasses everything from fleets of new robotic vehicles to a whole new architecture for battlefield communications to new uniforms for the troops.
"The FCS system is being included in the fiscal '06 budget as a commercial off-the-shelf item. That means that they are relieved of the obligation to [give] cost and purchasing data to military auditors," Sen. McCain told Army Secretary Francis Harvey during a March 3 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "Tell me, Mr. Secretary, where might I be able to purchase such a vehicle commercially?"
A vehicle John McCain can't buy commercially
But neither does applying FAR 12 to Future Combat Systems, or FCS, a program which encompasses everything from fleets of new robotic vehicles to a whole new architecture for battlefield communications to new uniforms for the troops.
"The FCS system is being included in the fiscal '06 budget as a commercial off-the-shelf item. That means that they are relieved of the obligation to [give] cost and purchasing data to military auditors," Sen. McCain told Army Secretary Francis Harvey during a March 3 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "Tell me, Mr. Secretary, where might I be able to purchase such a vehicle commercially?"
A vehicle John McCain can't buy commercially
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Mar. 9th, 2005 02:35 pmGun Safety, courtesy of the DEA.
The agent giving a gun-safety demo to a bunch of schoolkids JUST finishes saying "I'm the only one in here professional enough to handle this gun" when he shoots his message in the foot... by shooting himself in the foot.
The agent giving a gun-safety demo to a bunch of schoolkids JUST finishes saying "I'm the only one in here professional enough to handle this gun" when he shoots his message in the foot... by shooting himself in the foot.
