So I read an interesting article today about Israel's strategic needs and the need of Israel to rely upon a powerful international ally who can supply cash and industry flow  to compensate for Israel's lack thereof. Following WWII, that capacity was filled predominantly by France with some UK participation. However about the time that the US was ( Read more... )

I need everyone to go look up the song 'I Wear No Pants' by the Poxy Boggards. Listen to the tune, and then once you've done that apply this instead: "I SMELL LIKE ASS! I SMELL LIKE ASS! I SMELL LIKE I SMELL LIKE I SMELL LIKE ASS ( Read more... )

So someone decided that the world is going to end this weekend because they interpreted such from the Bible. I don't really have the details but suffice to say that I've been seeing comments on this for most of the day ( Read more... )

 Bin Laden is dead. It doesn't mean much beyond a morale boost to our side of things. We're now on heightened alert as we brace for the inevitable backlash this is going to solicit from the various elements of Al Qaeda. Make no mistake, Al Qaeda is far from dead. If anything they may become more deadly now than before. Osama is now going to become ( Read more... )

So we had a hurricane alert this week, what did this entail? It meant that a bunch of us in ACU had to be trained in emergency response which wasn't too bad honestly as it gave us somethign to do ( Read more... )

So I'm in ACU now, which basically means I hang around and pretend to be busy for the entire day. It's very boring to say the least and there's little we can do to break the monotony as we're supposed to be professional and apparently that means be bored out of our skulls for no readily apparent reason other than the fact that the Navy would rather ( Read more... )

You know at this rate, the world might just haul off an end a whole year early...unless of course we're just winding up for the big finale like at a fireworks show ( Read more... )

You know sometimes I encounter such imbeciles, and sadly I'm related to one or two of them ( Read more... )

 So I've been looking at getting back into a rather infamous hobby of mine, namely Warhammer 40K and I don't mean the video games. I mean the good old fashioned and life consuming model building, table top waaagh game ( Read more... )

 So I was contemplating the idea of death today. Might sound a little morbid but bear with me ( Read more... )