September 2011 - Argghhh!

Video from when we sent Preston on his way.Thanks to Trey for the vids (there's two others, I'll put them up later) and JimC for his assist as the Number One cannoneer....

From Strategy Page, used with permission, all rights reserved.USN Wants To Replace F-35s With UAVs by James DunniganSeptember 26, 2011Six months after the U.S. Navy’s first full size combat UAV made its first flight, the U.S. Navy leadership has ordered naval aviation leaders to examine the possibility of reducing orders for the new F-35B and F-35C, and use that money to buy the new X-47B, and similar robotic combat aircraft. That move was probably helped along by DARPA (the Department of Defense’s...

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. Proverbs 16:18–19 Presidential Styles: Ground Zero, Sunday September 11th, 2011. Boq

...who is bylined in a symposium at National Review right now.

We interrupt the all-politico-bashing-all-the-time to bring you a moment of Castle Zen. In context, even . No cat hair for scale, however.

It seems that certain politicians are not only enamored of shady fundraisers, they favor shady campaign treasurers, too.But this one bit them, Big Time.And just in time for the campaign season, too:"This appears to be political fraud and theft on a scale I have never seen" in 40 years in politics, said Garry South, a longtime political consultant for Democrats in California. "It looks like she might have removed millions of dollars from Democratic campaign coffers of 2012 and it might...