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August 11, 2005

WarPorn Bukkake

Love getting emails from DefenseTech.

Army Chooses New ~~T-3 Hunter-Killer~~ Unmanned Armed Drone:

Defense News notes that "unlike Predator, the ERMP will be able to take off and land automatically" -- handing off the trickiest parts of piloting a drone to a computer. Which means that the ERMP can be flown by young enlisted men, instead of by the ex-fighter pilots, who now operate the Predator fleet.

And it can stay airborn for 72 hours. The Predator can't manage even a day.

"Open Source Insurgency:" The internet means that terrorcraft no longer need be disseminated in training classes in small cells. Now terrorcraft is open to all, just a mouseclick away.

LAPD's New Super Sonic Stunner:

Since the early part of last year, U.S. soldiers and marines have been experimenting with a series of sonic blasters in Iraq. The Long Range Acoustic Devices, or "LRADs," can broadcast messages hundreds of yards away -- or be ear-splittingly loud at close range. The New York Police Department also had the devices at the ready during the Republican National Convention, although it's unclear whether the LRADs were actually used or not.
Last week, the L.A. Sheriff's Department tested out an acoustic transmitter that makes earlier models look like "childrens' toys" in comparison, LASD Commander Sid Heal, a world-renowned expert in non-lethal weaponry, tells Defense Tech.

On Thursday, August 4th, we put the magnetic acoustic device (I'm not sure it has a name yet, so this one will have to do for now) to the test on one of our ranges... Using a variety of sounds from human voice to music to sound effects (screams, shouts, gunfire, sirens, and the like), we succeeded in listening to the sounds from the transmitter located one statue mile in the distance!

Gee, I just can't wait until they come down in price and people can put them in the back of their Escalades.

Finally, I don't like this guy's snarky take, but I'm glad that more athletes are getting involved in politics.

Former 49'ers linebacker is now a "cheerleader" for anti-ballistic missile systems.

posted by Ace at 02:43 PM

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Which means that the ERMP can be flown by young enlisted men, instead of by the ex-fighter pilots

Have they asked any of the 13 year olds who hang out at the display video game unit at my local CompUSA?

I swear, any one of those guys could take out an entire enemy division, no extra training necessary.

Posted by: Phinn on August 11, 2005 03:06 PM

"Using a variety of sounds from human voice to music to sound effects (screams, shouts, gunfire, sirens, and the like)..."

MUAD'DIB!

Posted by: Sobek on August 11, 2005 03:06 PM

Sigh. I've got to get you off the Defense Tech bandwagon one of these days, Ace.

Or is bandwagon a football term?

FWIW, the in-vogue terminology is shooting down archers versus shooting down arrows. Obviously, the first is preferrable, but involves very different requirements than the latter (good intelligence to find the launchers, pre-positioning to be in place during a crisis, ability to hit the target either on the ground before it launches or in boost-phase-- the easiest point to take out a missile and warhead in flight).

BTW, that last bit is funny for any number of reasons, but I'll just pick one that tickles my fancy: Schactman's thinly-veiled insinuation that Ellison's educational background doesn't give him intellectual standing to argue the merits of missile defense.

If Noah really believes he's scoring a point here, I'll be waiting for his snarky attitude to hit up Global Security.org's John Pike, who he lovingly quotes all the time. Pike has plenty of opinions on missile defense, and he doesn't even have an undergraduate degree.

I guess to Noah being largely or wholly "self-taught" in this field only matters if you reach the opinions he already holds.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on August 11, 2005 03:19 PM

I'm not sure it's Schactman. It's posted by "RC."

Posted by: ace on August 11, 2005 03:37 PM

Oh. Must've missed that. Never mind.

Actually, I know Noah. Well, sorta, wink-wink. Good guy, iffy politics, and his site often reflects that. Hence my natural leap to confusion above.

Sorry for being that prick, Noah. Much love and kisses.

Then again, in the end, I'm just jealous that I never get to talk in detail about why he's wrong when he's wrong.

Damn this whole "government" thing sometimes.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on August 11, 2005 04:05 PM

RC was snarky about the athlete but Jeff in the comment section made him swallow some of that snark.

Posted by: Dman on August 11, 2005 04:05 PM

I saw LRAD's in the gulf. Basically we hooked them to an iPod or similar mp3 player and sent out warnings in arabic. Pretty slick. About the size of a stop sign, but only 6".

Definitely don't want to try hand-holding it though. One little sneeze and your buddy could be deaf.

Posted by: Kevin on August 11, 2005 06:32 PM

Must be something in that Bay Area water.

http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1450113/10172001/steely_dan.jhtml

As a member of the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, and as a session guitarist for Carly Simon, Bryan Adams, Ringo Starr and many others, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter has been a clandestine rock and roll hero since the '70s. Now, as a specialist in terrorism, missile defense and chemical and biological warfare, he's also a covert hero for the U.S. military.

Posted by: Kevin on August 11, 2005 06:46 PM

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Whoops! I posted about Dan Goldman losing the NY congressional primary. He might do that, but it won't be tonight -- the primary isn't held until June 23.

One race to keep an eye on: the Levi's heir nepo baby and egregious "Designated Liar" Dan Goldman -- one of the Democrats from a safe district Democrats send out to spread their most indefensible lies -- may actually lose his lower Manhattan/Brooklyn set due to, get this, antisemitism in the Democrat primary electorate.
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I'm usually very anti-antisemitism but if the Communist Antisemite Jihadists can pull this one off, Go Communist Antisemite Jihadists, Go!

Democrat Senator Rueben Gallego, who served his wife with divorce papers when she was nine months pregnant so that he could marry his side-piece, counsels us that we should not judge Graham Platner for his infidelity because these things are personal matters, Racists:

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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., on Platner: "We know that Graham has lived not your typical political experience. He's been very clear and open with his wife, and they worked through whatever they worked through. At the end of the day, this man has had 60 more town halls than Susan Collins has. He's winning the polls, he's willing to accept that he has grown as a person, and I think we should accept that."

Gallego says the drip-drip of revelations won't harm Platner's campaign.

"I think you guys are all in a bubble here right now. The drip, drip that's actually happening is Americans are really, really hurt the fact that gas is still high, food is still high, they can't buy a home, you can't afford rent. They're not going to care about text messages and everything else like that that happened years ago, especially when it was worked out between spouses."

I like that he says that it's okay that Graham Platner sexted 12 different women within months of marrying the woman to sponge off her because he wasn't then "living a political life" -- the clear meaning being, "We all cheat, we just don't cheat when we're running for office, and he didn't know he was running for office when he was sending dicpics to half the women he ran into."
Except he was running: His own wife turned the sexts over to his campaign.
And obviously Reuben Gallego didn't let his "political life" get in the way of his extramarital dating life:

Podcast: CBD goes solo in a short segment...talking about Iran, the nativist issues surrounding Reform and Restore in the UK, and the delicious pain of an imploding Democrat Party, courtesy of Talerico and Platner!

TJM ranks all of John Ford's films. All of them. TJM is very tired.

Funny -- if you don't mind clicking on TikTok. "Amy.Pranks.22" set up an AI scam-call screener which replies to a foreign scammer trying to get her bank information with Trumpian bluster. This might be fake because I don't see how a program can respond in real time, but it's funny.

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The ULA rocket just launched
Thanks to Joyenz
The rocket's enormous engines are fueled by "the volcanic heterosexual lust between James Talarico and his Neighbor With a Uterus 'girlfriend'"
I hope Amazon's rocket works better than the Amazon Prime app does as far as allowing people to watch the black and white version of "Spider-Noir"

From the CA Post:

Spencer Pratt is now Karen Bass' biggest headache.

A bombshell California Post poll conducted with McLaughlin & Associates shows the reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate has surged to a statistical tie with the incumbent mayor.

And voters blame homelessness, affordability and the direction of Los Angeles as the reason for turning on Bass.

Pratt now leads the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into next week's primary.

Socialist councilwoman Nithya Raman sits in third place at 23.4%.

Thanks to beckster

Just like "Spartacus" Corey Booker, now that James Talarico is running for a higher office, he unveils his previously-unknown "girlfriend" and hooboy, it just so happens she used to work for him, and, get this, likes to "dance the night away" at gay bars
Gee I wonder where they might have met
Oh and she's a vegan
When Corey Booker needed a "girlfriend," he conjured up known LGBTQ activist Rosario Dawson. How convenient that when these guys need a girlfriend to show off to the normies that just happen to find an activist with a strong history of and interest in Supporting Gay Men
But seriously, this James Talarico romance with a Neighbor with a Uterus is a love story for the ages. The passion of their lovemaking is hotter than a blue star with a core of Primordial Sex Atoms created in the Big Bang

"Journalists" are all drunks, criminals, sex-pests, and liars, exhibit #25,239,331

And just like that, #PunchANazi became Punch a Ballot for a Nazi

Was the "transatlantic accent" favored by stage and screen actors of the 40s and 50s "fake"? This linguist says no, it was a real accent

"Teen" charged with five counts of attempted murder after attempting to run down police officers with his car in yet another "teen takeover" permitted by woke racist incompetent Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson
Johnson's response to the "teen takeovers" of streets and businesses that he refuses to make arrests to stop is to go after social media companies for not deleting messages to coordinate the "teen takeovers." Um, they're supposed to find these messages and delete them in real time?
It makes no sense but he has to offer an "alternative" plan to just arresting lawbreakers -- which he absolutely refuses to do, saying we "can't arrest our way out" of rampant crime.

The Babylon Bee's crack AI team uses AI crack to simulate the first woman president

TJM explores the world of John Ford movies.

Future Tucker Carlson guest James Talarico:

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Black Americans in a church.

Mexican Americans in a store.

Asian Americans in a spa.

Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.

He's referring to three mass attacks committed by white men in, oh, the past six or eight years. There were a huge number of mass shootings and bombings he had to skip over to cherry pick three committed by white men. Which kind of makes me think that "white men" are not the greatest terrorist threat in our country.
No, I doubt he'll be a guest on Tucker Carlson. The only thing that Tucker clings to that he claims makes him "conservative" is a palpable hatred of gays. Any time there's a communist enslaving their population and executing dissenters and conservatives, Tucker praises that dictator by saying "at least he represses the homos!"

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