Ahmadinejad telling it like it is. Also a clown

You tell 'em!

Wait, WTF?

Who then hell is that guy?



Man I love this guy. Why can't we have a predident with as many zany and wacky...

Oh, wait...

Video tour of Iran's nuclear program

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

"Three Shots."

US commander explains how the pirate hostage situation was resolved.



The description he gives of the conditions under which the three shots were fired makes this sound a little fishy...

There are three factors which make this highly unlikely, if not impossible.

1) The pirates allegedly "presented themselves." Why would all three hostage takers move from cover at the same time?

2) It was night. Sure, there are such things as night-vision scopes, but it increases the difficulty of the shot by a measurable degree.

3) From one boat - listing in the ocean - to another, also bobbing up and down. Vessels such as lifeboats tend to pitch and yaw unpredictably even in small waves, and this would also have increased the chances that the SEALS would be off target on at least one of their shots.

Let alone that all three shots must have been fired very close together, each one was also a fatal wound (head shot). This is either a miracle, or the SEALS are using tactics that the general public aren't aware of.

Update:

Here is a more detailed explanation of the pirate-take down, but offers another mystery;

The 'hatch' the are referring to looks quite small, and as I said before, it seems unlikely that all three hostage takers presented themselves while holding the AK-47 to Pillips' back.

North Korea's rocket launch...

Re: War Porn

Considering that I am currently reading "Wired for War", byt P.W. Singer, I thought I should mention that my disgust with the human race's tendencies to kill each-other far outweighs my personal fascination with what Singer calls "War-Porn".

Below is a slightly old rant which might be applicable here. It was in response to a 19 year old who was thinking about joining the military.

If you want to kill people, than I would highly recommend going to see a Marine recruiter tomorrow. They will teach you how to kill people in more ways than you can imagine. They will pay you just enough money to keep you happy, and yet still keep you around. When your ETs (End Term of Service) draws near, they will offer you tens of thousands of dollars to reenlist. If you don't, they might just keep you around anyway.

If you don't have a problem with killing people, but don't really want to, then go see an Army recruiter tomorrow. They will tell you exactly what you want to hear: "money for college," "it's just like a regular job," "won't see any combat,"you won't be stop-lossed." It might even sound exactly like what I am telling you here. Some of what they promise you might even come true, depending on how well you score on the ASVAB. They'll pretty much do anything to get you in. In fact, if you're particularly intelligent and manipulative, you could string them along for weeks. If you speak a foreign language, especially Arabic, they might even suck your dick.

If you have a problem with actually killing people, but don't mind being "a part of something bigger than yourself," go see a Navy or Airforce Recruiter tomorrow. Of course if you want to do anything worth a shit in either of these two branches, you must have skills in areas that would qualify you for many other jobs in the civilian sector, unless...

Unless if you really really want to kill people, and lots of them (I'm not talking about three or four at a time, maybe topping a couple dozen confirmed kills by the time you retire. I'm talking about dozens upon dozens of people, possibly killing hundreds by the time you are forced into retirement), do this: Enroll in community college. Achieve excellent grades, and transfer to a military academy. Then follow up on your dreams to become a certified fascist warmonger with a license to commit mass genocide from ten thousand feet by becoming a commissioned officer and a pilot in the United States Military. Or if that's not your deal, and all you are really good at is video games and computers, you can still do all of the above by remotely piloting an Unmanned Areal Vehicle. Now you can get paid to kill people with no risk to your personal safety whatever!

Via Reuters

PRAGUE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons across the globe

This is big news here, my fellow internet fucktards.

Look, the only way the US can regain the ground it lost in the last 8 years is by visibly cutting it's nuclear stockpile. As we (the US) withdraws from Iraq, and starts dealing pragmatically with Russia and China on issues like North Korea's arsenal, it will become more and more apparent that our nuclear hegemony must be abandoned to create a Real Kind of Peace.

That, and preventing conflicts like that of the recent spat in Georgia/Ossetia (one that another blogger has covered extensively). As fighters (insurgents and otherwise) start dispersing from Iraq, they will obviously take with them the skills they learned fighting the most sophisticated war to date.