Big Ol' Smitty

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470630,00.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson Long, disturbing report. I recommend reading the whole thing.

Marvin?

The comments on this bad boy are priceless. Read them.

Hey Czech...notice you were on my list. We could chill and discuss our Blago avatars. It'd be grand.

Is that Scroty?

Exactly.

I aims to please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU993Dihlm8

I talked about it in General Chat...there's a thread.

Sorry to hear about your mom, snuff.

Everyone just wants you to cook them dinner.

Linus shoud be BUTT naked.

Since the account doesn't work anymore, I'll go ahead and reveal that I was behind (haha behind) Gaybraham Lincoln.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...?hpid=sec-world Read the whole thing.

Xavier C. says privateers.

On that note:

I had a dream last night about the poster tournament. Somehow Czech had made it really crappy.

Be underwhelmed, probably. I will hopefully be working in the DC area in summer '09 but, alas, our mutual acquaintance has moved to Philly so our chances of random encounter are small.

These are the three questions that constituted my final exam for a class I'm taking on national security (we had to do one). Thought they might, perhaps, generate some discussion here. I think Xavier C. would be especially interested in question #1. 1. Do pirates represent a threat to the national security of the United States? Why or why not? What kind of resources (military and diplomatic) should the United States marshal in the fight against piracy, if any? 2. In the face of an expected Taliban winter offensive, the United States military has begun to retrench around the Afghan capitol of Kabul. Should the US and the Afghan government consider direct talks with the Taliban? Why or why not? 3. The Mumbai attacks may provide what Joe Biden called an early “test” for President Obama. What US national security interests are at stake in the dispute over the attacks? What diplomatic and military resources can the United States use in order to effect a positive outcome? P.S. This is not the same class that I had the Godzilla crisis simulation in, but the same prof. I did question #2.

Haha, Inc! You talked to Jingus!