ShrikeHawk

I'm with you, bud. I always liked it when the Blue Angels buzzed SF during Fleet Week. Yeheah!

I read a bit from Mauldin about the "fingers of instability." Really interesting stuff. Chilling as well.

How amusing that Glenn Beck thought it was "creepy" that a political youth camp exists at all...when Glenn Beck sponsors his own political youth camp! Hmm... I don't think political camp is all that strange. It hardly seems different in scope than a church youth camp. It could be worse. They could be out dealing drugs and learning how to kill each other with guns. With a political camp, they can learn how to sit in an air-conditioned office and direct "other people" to shoot people with guns...

Hmm...I was expecting lexx_luthor to jump in on this one. The numbers are staggering aren't they? A visual representation like that really brings it home. I loved the quote from Henry Ford. To paraphrase, if people really understood how the banking industry worked there would be a revolution by morning. I think our politicians are so overwhelmed by the extent of the problem they're unable to figure out a solution. But they won't tell us that. Instead, they keep themselves busy renaming streets, peeking through keyholes to see who's screwing who, and investigating whether baseball players lied or not. And so the problem continues to grow...

This is just so funny, I believe her. I'll bet she had no idea what she was cutting into.

My Fave... 16. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home." Yes, madam. That's because the Americans didn't have to fly across the "pond."

I'm thinking to myself, who the heck did Norway offend? I guess the soft target theory is as good as any. It's not like these terrorist attacks have any "real meaning." It's become like the mad bomber's equivalent of computer hacking by a 14 year old. It's destruction just to see what kind of numbers are reported by the press. A scorecard measured in deaths and wounds. These guys aren't fighting for a religion or a cause. This is the lunatic fringe of the world playing a twisted game of one-upmanship.

Great stuff, folks. I loved all these videos.

That's awesome man.

Great job! Loved the narration. I felt like I was watching the History Channel.

Hahaha! My god, I've almost seen it that bad for real.

Thanks much for the comments, gents. I appreciate the detailed critique, razorback. I'll look into getting a better microphone.

I recall that when the USAAF broke away from the Army and became the USAF it worked out pretty well for everyone. The Army wasn't left high and dry at all. An airforce needs to stand on its own as a separate branch in order to be most efficient.

I've noticed a lot of stickman animation out there. So I decided to give it a try. Here's the latest. Comment if you like. Cheers!

Well that explains a lot. We've still got some lookers, even if they aren't as "lookerer" at that. Even though some of the Japanese girls are...*sigh*...I'll still pull for our Ugly Americans. Go US Women!

Nice pics, xclusiv! Not only do they have guts, they got looks too. Go US women!

Congratulations! Thanks for all the years.

Glad to see the pilots survived, but it's still tragic to lose a Mustang.

Well, this thread is about the press misrepresenting a study about electric vehicles, and by extension, the benefits of electric vehicles and alternative energy. How the banks are profiteering from concerns about CO2 is getting a bit off-topic. However if Lexx wants to start another thread about that thought, I'd be happy to chop it up there.

Here's a link to a very interesting article. A photo was shot of a Bald Eagle resting on a gravestone. Turns out it was the grave of a serviceman with a keen eye. An excellent marksman who served in the Aleutians. http://www.startribune.com/local/124543223.html

I think it's hardly sporting to call the scientists frauds and shills on one side of the debate, and in the same post ask that the scientists on the other side be not demonized and accused of being shills. You can hardly expect cooperation when you're doing the very thing you ask another to stop doing. Back to the topic... I have never seen Al Gore's movie, "An inconvenient truth." The reason: I already knew about it. I had learned all of this stuff watching science and nature programs (for free) for over a decade. Up until that movie released, nobody questioned the science. Nobody doubted the results. The facts and figures all survived peer review. There was no doubt about it all...until Al Gore championed the cause. As soon as a "political figure" stuck his finger in the pie, then suddenly there are doubters everywhere. And the doubters overwhelmingly sprung the opposite side of the political spectrum from Al Gore. Hmmm. Coincidence? Once the fact of climate change got into the hands of politicians - God help us all - a very clear and straightforward understanding became muddy and uncertain. Climate change became a political tool wielded both sides without any appreciation whatsover for its scientific revelations. I imagine the politicians supporting it now probably knew nothing about it because they were too busy, eating Spotted Owl and Bengal Tiger at state dinners, to know anything about science and nature. I don't believe that the politicians ( for or against ) know anything about climate change. At first, it was called Global Warming. But then all the "against" pundits presumed that meant that every square inch of the entire Earth's surface would rise a few degrees. When it didn't happen they cried, "foul" and called the the whole idea "fraud." Had the politicians read any further than the title, they would have understood that's not how it works. Global Warming changes weather "patterns." So a location that was normally very dry might suddenly become very wet. A hundred miles away, the neighboring location that used to get all the rain might suddenly turn dry. We can also expect more storms and more violent ones. We are experiencing ALL these things. Expecting the entire planet to evenly get warmer is the simplistic understanding of a child. Certainly the understanding of an adult who didn't seriously examine the science; who also thought political infighting much more exciting than gaining real knowledge. So, when science tried to clarify by renaming the idea, "Climate Change," the "against" pundits cried "foul" again. They claimed that changing the name at all was substantial proof that the science was fraudulent in the first place. Once again, the politicians play to the "dumber and dumberer" to make their point. In the end, politicians have systematically destroyed any chance for the original science to get its point across. Handing real science to politicians is like giving a fully-armed F-15E to a rich, spoiled child and expecting him to be responsible with it. It will never work. Supporters of climate change are using it to force the nation into accepting alternative energy. They claim, "we messed the planet up, it's up to us to fix it." While I believe that climate change is happening, I'm not clear on who's fault it is. Maybe it's the Earth's natural cycle and maybe it's our fault. It hardly matters...now, does it? The important point is that alternative energy is a good idea, but using the fact of climate change to force it on people is a bad idea. It's hard to prove whose "fault" it is, Humanity or the Earth. Nobody wants to DO anything until absolute proof is provided that Humanity is the cause. It's kinda like two guys, A and B, watching a tsunami wave approaching and arguing about who caused it. Neither one will move until one or the other proves his point. Well, it hardly matters does it? The important thing is to DO something fast, right now! All of which leads me to my original point. If you don't believe that climate change is real, then fine. Don't. Drop the subject and move on to other reasons why alternative energy should be adopted with a vengeance. The important thing is to DO something fast, right now. I think the thing to DO is start developing alternative energy. My reasons are Geo-Political and Economic. I have outlined them in my previous posts. They are not based on alleged "fraudulent science." I don't think anyone will claim that most of the oil being in the middle east is "fraud." If I claim the middle-east is an unstable, volatile region, I don't think I can be called, "fraud." If I claim that our troops are dying in the middle-east while trying to stabilize the region ( albeit through force of arms ), I don't think I can be called, "fraud." If I claim we are giving money to this same region to get oil, I don't think that is, "fraud." So if I say I think it's STUPID to engage in all the above activities when we have the power, the money, the manpower, and the knowhow to avoid charging that whole quixotic morass, and save thousands of American lives, and insure that the USA retains economic dominance over the rest of the world, does it make me a "leftist hippy activist shill?" I don't think so. I think that makes me "more conservative" than all the petroleum backers whose support insures the continued existence of terrorism. These are cold, full-metal-jacket realities, folks. As a nation we should pay attention to them.

Too bad the lunatic who came up with a veggie diet for cats, knows absolutely nothing about cats. Your cat would not only do something terrible to your shoes, it would curl up and die within a few weeks.

The problem is waiting until oil is too expensive. By the time we reach that point, we'll be in a serious bind. Alternative energies are going to need some time to develop; time to "mature" as a technology. This isn't Hollywood where you can outrun an explosion or dodge into a building before the deadly cold kills you. In reality, by the time the problem comes to a head it's already too late. Waiting until the oil situation gets really really bad is the worst thing we can do. Politicians will insist that scientists produce a solution overnight, and they simply will be unable to do it. The best solution is to get going...NOW. Don't worry that EVs don't have absolutely zero emmission this very moment. Keep working at it. Provide even these "imperfect" cars to the general public. Let them get used to the idea. The cars will get better and people will like them better as time marches on. We should continue building wind farms and solar farms. That's a little easier to sell because people won't work with them directly. They only care that the lights go on when they hit the switch. The old power plants need to be replaced anyway. And imagine all the jobs that building alternative energy plants would create. People are constantly complaining about the unemployment rates. Well, we should start a New New Deal and get working on public works projects for alternative energy. It will create new jobs, more money flow, and thus revitalize the economy! Developing alternative energy would... - Limit foreign spending on oil - The savings could be used to cut back on the deficit. - Stop supplying money to hostile nations - They wouldn't be able to supply terrorists so much. - Environmental improvements - Our air would get cleaner - Total cases of Asthma and pulmonary diseases should drop - No more oil spills - a an environmental disaster every time - Climate change may be slowed or even reversed - Avoidance of future conflicts - We'll have no more need to muck about in the volatile Middle-east - We'll have no need to compete with China for oil - Future conflicts over oil resources can be dodged completely The number of Win-Win scenarios constantly grow. Pick your favorite cause whether it be Environment, Geo-Politic, Economic, or Personal Stock Portfolio, there's a way for almost everyone to get something they want. So my question is...what they heck are we waiting for?

Totally Agree. Spot on. Nobody seems to know for certain, but even so we should still take action and stop stalling. I still think about it like this: It's a bad idea to defecate in your own bed. Medical science will tell you that you "might get sick" and you "could ultimately die" from it. But neither of those statements are certainties. What Anti-Alternative Energy pundits are suggesting is that since it's "not certain" that petroleum use is triggering climate change, then without overwhelming proof it's okay to continue petroleum use as normal. It's like them saying it's okay to defecate in your bed and sleep in it because you "might not die."

Sounds like something Yogi Berra would say. Perhaps Ben Franklin?