Woot! I got- erm, my friend Ryan got the NERF Unity Power System. It comes with a NERF Titan, (with a HUGE missile) the NERF Hornet, (6-dart swarm!) and the NERF Scout. (The name says it all.) Now there’s not much I want to tell you about it here, because I’ll be putting up a review later. I’m also adding the other review videos to the “My NERF Collection” page, so expect those up soon. Well, that’s about it for this post. Look for those Review videos!!

The U.S. military’s Missile Defense Agency will practice protecting the United States from a simulated Iranian missile attack next month in an exercise using the agency’s newest missile-killing technology, Pentagon officials said Friday.

Previous tests have been focused on a missile trajectory that mimics an attack from North Korea, but the January test will have a trajectory and distance resembling an intercontinental ballistic missile launch from Iran.

At the same time, the agency will be testing its new “Capability-2″ technology, with upgraded software and sensors loaded inside an interceptor missile that will be fired at the fake Iranian missile.

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via Test of newest U.S. missile defense technology will simulate attack by Iran – CNN.com.

This is video footage from a parking lot surveillance camera, at the Pentagon, on September 11, 2001. Judicial Watch acquired this video, and the one below it, through the Freedom of Information Act.

Second video, same exercise.

Now, what do your lying eyes tell you?

Judicial Watch obtained these videos in 2006. If you and I, ordinary citizens, can do this; you know that the government has already done it.

6 of the 10 members, from the 9/11 commission, have stated that the 9/11 Commission was a white wash, and cover up.

I agree with them.

Tras un periodo de relativa calma Irán vuelve a tensar la cuerda con Occidente. La televisión estatal iraní ha anunciado hoy que el régimen de los ayatolás ha lanzado un nuevo misil capaz de impactar en Israel o las bases estadounidenses en el Golfo Pérsico. La prueba, según la misma fuente, ha sido un “éxito”. Se trata de un misil Sejil 2, de tecnología avanzada y con un alcance de 2.000 kilómetros, que puede recorrer una distancia mayor que el Shahab 3.

Irán anunciaba a principios de noviembre que no cederá su uranio para que sea procesado en el exterior como habían propuesto Estados Unidos, Francia y Rusia. Gran parte de la comunidad internacional, con EE UU e Israel a la cabeza, acusan al régimen de Mahmud Ahmanideyad de ocultar, bajo su programa civil, otro de naturaleza clandestina y aplicación militar cuyo objetivo sería adquirir armas atómicas.

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via Irán insiste en su desafío con la prueba de un nuevo misil de medio alcance · ELPAÍS.com.

La India ha probado con éxito su misil balístico ‘Dhanush’, con capacidad para transportar arsenal nuclear y con un alcance de 350 kilómetros, desde una embarcación militar en la Bahía de Bengala.

Según fuentes de Defensa, el cohete fue lanzado a las 11.30 hora local (07.00 hora peninsular española) a unas 35 millas náuticas de la base militar de Chandipur, en el estado indio oriental de Orissa.

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via India prueba con éxito un misil con capacidad nuclear | Mundo | elmundo.es.

Pow! A snowball connected with my skull behind my right ear. I turned to see young Marcus Brattle, one of England’s less staid exports, already making another.

“Like a missile!” He said.

“Enough with misconstrued similes,” I said. “Not like one. It was one. Something that’s thrown can be called a missile, though we use the word mostly for rockets these days.”

“No, but like a ballistic missile!”

“It was ballistic. You threw it; its course was not under continuous correction. Ballistic comes ultimately from Greek ballein, to throw” – at this point I ducked his next snowball and he started to scoop snow for another – “and missile comes from the past tense of Latin mittere, to send or throw. So ballistic missile is a tautology – and an etymologically paradoxical name for something that is not thrown but launched under its own power, and that in more recent times may have continuous guidance systems.”

“Yes, well,” said Marcus, hurling his next projectile and forcing another evasive manoeuvre on my part, “every time I miss I’ll make another one. Whereas you, apparently, are stuck hurling prayer books.”

He was referring to my North American pronunciation of missile with a schwa in the second syllable, making it sound like missal. “You know,” I said, “in the nineteenth century British dictionaries also gave my pronunciation as the only one. The ‘long i’ version didn’t crop up until about a century ago.”

“Right,” he said, hurling another, giving me cause, as it cruised past my hat, to consider whether my pacifist approach was really effective here, “we finally got it right. ‘Cause we don’t think hurling and churches necessarily go together.”

I looked for, and did not see, an effective missile shield. I continued to try the disarming power of facts. “Missal comes from the same Latin root as missile, though,” I pointed out, “albeit by a less direct route: the word missa, ‘mass’ as in Catholic, comes from the same verb, perhaps from the sending away of catechumens before the eucharist –” Marcus hurled another with a shout of “Away, catechumen!” – “perhaps –” I leapt aside as it scudded by – ”from the dismissal of the congregation at the end: Ite, missa est. That past participle became a noun and from that the adjective missal was formed, which has given many a Canadian Catholic the occasional bellicose pun.”

“Well, I’m aiming for your dis-missal,” Marcus said, hurling on the dis.

“You could be on a sticky wicket, sport,” I said, gradually drawing nearer to him.

“I’ll make this missile whistle – past your ear!” He hurled another and indeed narrowly missed my left ear. “And now –” he started packing one more carefully. I considered my options for missile defense. He held up his ball, which was a rough cube. “The cubin’ missile crisis!” he shouted. I leapt forward, took it in the chest at close range, and promptly put him in a headlock.

“Hey!” he said, as I squeezed my biceps against his cranium. “What’s that got to do with this? You’re changing the topic!”

“It’s a guided muscle,” I replied, and gave him a good grind on the scalp with my knuckles.

Thanks to Ted Witham for suggesting British versus American “missile” conflict.

The Ministry of Defence today announced the successful testing of the RED II missiles, following the release of a video of the launch on the A1BC YouTube channel yesterday. The A1 Government emphasised that it was “not part of militarism” but rather the “testing of technology”.

The A1 National Liberation Front comdemned all of A1’s missile launches, saying that it was “threatening A1’s foreign standing by making us look like trigger-happy tinpots”.