This is fairly awesome.
Doesn’t that make you want to drink milk?
Month: April 2008
Clifford D. May, A Hundred Years of War?:
A hundred years from now, Americans might still be fighting militant Islamists in Iraq and other places. What could be worse than that? A hundred years from now, America and the West could have been defeated by militant Islamists.
Al-Qaeda, Iran’s ruling mullahs, Hezbollah, and others militant jihadis have told us what they are fighting for. The well-known Islamist, Hassan al-Banna, described the movement’s goals succinctly: “to dominate…to impose its laws on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.” He said that in 1928. Who would have believed then that his heirs would acquire the wealth, power, and lethality they enjoy today? Who can say where they may be 100 years from now? Who can say where the West will be? Survival is not an entitlement. Freedom must be earned by every generation.
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If you live in Flower Mound, Colleyville, or Watauga, Texas, and you want to get your hair cut at a real barber shop, you’ll want to stop by Back N’Time.
Remember Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Yes, yes, it’s still the best Trek film. But do you recall the end, when Spock is “buried” by being shot from the Enterprise within a photon torpedo?
Did you ever think, “Man, that would be a cool casket to be buried in!”
Well…
Scheduled to be available “mid-2008”, and pricing has not yet been determined.
To quote Geekdad, where I first saw this: “Sheer brilliance.”
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Dennis Sellers reports on the death of Stan Flack, co-founder of MacCentral and MacMinute, who passed away yesterday after a long bout of health complications.
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Peter Cohen reminisces about working for Stan Flack.
I don’t know about you, but I prefer my candidates to come equipped without the “High Octane Marxist Cant” option.
Indeed.
[Wave of the phin to Dom.]
It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators — on both sides of the aisle — who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war we are fighting today.
I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war — and our part in it — at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous.
The change goes far beyond the statistical decline in casualties or incidents of violence. A young Iraqi translator, wounded in battle and fearing death, asked an American commander to bury his heart in America. Iraqi special forces units took to the streets to track down terrorists who killed American soldiers. The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq, and many Iraqi boys dream of becoming American soldiers.
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We know now that we can pull off a successful counterinsurgency in Iraq. We know that we are working with an increasingly willing citizenry. But counterinsurgency, like community policing, requires lots of boots on the ground. You can’t do it from inside a jet or a tank.
Over the past 15 months, we have proved that we can win this war. We stand now at the moment of truth. Victory — and a democracy in the Arab world — is within our grasp. But it could yet slip away if our leaders remain transfixed by the war we almost lost, rather than focusing on the war we are winning today.
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I was going to write a blog post and quote from this, but the quote was proving so extensive, I figured I would just link it and you could go read it for yourself.
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Carbon Motors wants to build a car specifically designed for police, rather than the current process of repurposing civilian autos. Sign me up for a civilian version of Carbon’s E7!
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More on the E7, from Wired’s Autopia blog.
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The corporate web site for Carbon Motors, developers of the E7, the world’s first vehicle designed specifically for law enforcement.
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I think that above description line is self-explanatory.