This video leaves me speechless and full of emotion at the same time everytime I watch it. It’s an old video and you all probably see have seen it hundreds of time (I’ve seen it thousands). Our generation needs to wake up and realize that change is possible. No ONE man can do it, but it’s gonna take EVERY man to achieve it.

I had a friend who became an environmental engineer. It’s not the weak fluff-laden PC course you’d think. He took several semesters of physics, biology, chemistry and engineering. Just before he did his senior thesis he confided something to me:

“The Emperor has no clothes, global warming is a sham.“

He had seen the data, he (and a few others on campus) agreed. Global warming is made up, just like global cooling and toher supposed man-made disasters. I agreed but told him that he could never state that out loud becuase the campus enviro-nut and many professors would crush him.

He was right of course: (just a sample of the links out there)

1. Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident.(Wikipeida)
2. “The world has stopped getting warmer, defying the complex models that predicted anthropogenic global warming to continue until it reached crisis proportions”(Neptunis Lex)
3. WaPo reports on East Anglia CRU e-mails, global-warming controversy(Hot Air)
4. Pajamas Media gies us an count of the code in the climate models. and Congress may probe the scientists to see if they misled the public. (h/t Neptunus Lex)
5. Some people don’t get it. (Newsbusters)
6. jules crittenden has a good roundup of reaction in the press. They were climate change and envior wacky cheerleaders for years, now what are they going to do?
7. Even a climate change believer thinks that the e-mails are bad news.(Guardian Online)

Well, guess what, the very powerful have acted very stupid. Altering the facts to fit your views is not science. Yet they would crush free enterprise and economic growth because of their agenda. The only winners so far seems to be the loony left and neo-marxists. Green is the new red.

No I realise that pollution is bad. Yes. I. Get. It. But change the climate? As if humans have the power. An open secret has been that the world is recovering from a mini-ice age in the middle ages. Their may be other causes to global warming if it is occurring. The debate is far from settled.

Tell that to the left. Warming of the planet and melting oceans fit their idea of a harmful west. Resources need to be redistributed, technology needs to be restricted (unless your a wealthy elite in New York, London or LA). Disagree and you’re just a wealthy white man who wants to oppress the planet.

Why is there no debate? Why is dissent not tolerated? The BBC got the climate gate files but refused to cover them. Did a White House science adviser ridicule scientists who did not agree with global warming?

I’ve known solar physicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon for a long time. I’ve published articles with Willie and enjoyed extensive communication. I was on advisory committees with them when Sallie suddenly and politely withdrew from the fray. I don’t know if the following events were contributing factors but it is likely.

Baliunas and Soon were authors of excellent work confirming the existence of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) from a multitude of sources. Their work challenged attempts to get rid of the MWP because it contradicted the claim by the proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Several scientists challenged the claim that the latter part of the 20th century was the warmest ever. They knew the claim was false, many warmer periods occurred in the past. Michael Mann ‘got rid’ of the MWP with his production of the hockey stick, but Soon and Baliunas were problematic. What better than have a powerful academic destroy their credibility for you? Sadly, there are always people who will do the dirty work.
– Newsbusters quotes Canada Free Press.

In law, the famous adage goes, “When the facts are on your side hammer the jury, when the law is on your side hammer the judge, if neither is on your side hammer the table.”. THe Left has been hammering the table over and over again but we are the ones getting nailed.

"El Factor X"

El Factor X: 27 años de edad, profesor Danyl tiene una pasión por el canto y se roba el escenario por completo en una increible primera audicion!

The X Factor: 27-year-old teacher Danyl has a passion for singing and manages to completely own the stage in an incredible first audition!

Connie Talbot singing Ben and winning her Britains Got Talent semi final

Andrew Johnston

The X Factor: It’s difficult to surprise Simon Cowell, but Stacey Soloman manages to do just that… Does she have The X Factor?

Jamie Archer AKA Jamie Afro has never had his chance to break into music, despite it being a lifelong dream. Will he get that chance today?

Joseph McElderry The X Factor: Joe from South Shields immediately got a yes from Cheryl before he started singing! But will he be able to perform well enough to impress the other judges?

Susan Boyle – Memory from Cats – Made Amanda Cry – Piers said brilliant!

You voted him, out of thousands of entrants, your X Factor winner 2007! Watch Leon Jackson perform his brand new single When You Believe!

Lucie Jones,The X Factor 2009: Nervous Lucie takes to the stage, but her choice of song is questioned by Simon. Has she got The X Factor?

The X Factor: 24-year-old Duane returns to The X Factor after failure at last year’s Boot Camp. Has he got what it takes for this year’s competition?

Shaheen Jafargholi Britains Got Talent Wins Semi Final,UNBELIEVABLE 12 YEAR OLD BOY SINGS!!!

Nicky Evans, who recently lost her father, tries her luck at the auditions – and manages to amaze even Simon!

I voted for Barack Obama and I worked hard campaigning to get him elected. I would do it again and I’m proud of the small contribution I made to achieve change.

But I’m not happy with the President’s strategy or performance when it comes to our nation’s response to global warming. After the jump I’ll share what I said on Climate Progress about it yesterday, and you can read Bill McKibben’s comment there too.

But first, let’s listen to what McKibben told Grist TV yesterday about it:

Yesterday on his Climate Progress blog, Joe Romm, reported on the White House’s attempt to spin Obama’s Copenhagen participation in a post he called, “Breaking – US Will Announce Target For Cutting Carbon Emissions Before Copenhagen“  He ended his piece with a comment on whether Obama will go to Copenhagen himself and wrote,

“He ought to go, and I expect he will.”

And here’s what I wrote in reply:

He ought to do a lot more than just go.
He ought to lead the way on this issue.

He ought to acknowledge that the USA is only 4% of the world’s population, but that we contribute 25% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions – and that number doesn’t even include all the emissions our companies outsource to be belched out in other countries. He ought to take responsibility for those emissions.

He ought to also acknowledge the damage we’re doing to the world’s most vulnerable nations with each day we continue to delay drastically cutting our GHG emissions.

And he ought to use his worldwide popularity and the media spotlight he enjoys to do the job reaching and teaching his audience the facts about global warming, generating the sense of urgency this issue demands.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda.

As the saying on the basketball court goes – “If ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ were raisins and nuts we’d all be eating Waldorf salads.”

“Wimpy and inadequate” is the apt description of United States action so far, which only looks good under Obama compared to the eight years of Bush, but the best we can do? Hardly. Not even close.

We need a Winston Churchill on this issue, and we needed him yesterday.

Expecting anyone else but President Obama to fill those shoes ignores who he is and where we currently are on the timeline.

It’s time for greatness and historic achievements. Doing the best under the circumstances no longer cuts it.

« Yes we can » – Barack Obama, slogan de sa campagne électorale, automne 2008

« Au cours de périodes où règne le mensonge et la manipulation, dire la vérité devient un acte révolutionnaire » – George Orwell

« Vous pouvez avoir du pouvoir sur autrui tout aussi longtemps que vous ne leur enlevez pas tout ce qu’il possède. Mais lorsque vous avez tout volé à un homme, il n’est désormais plus sous votre pouvoir – il est libre de nouveau » – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Voilà déjà une année d’écoulée depuis l’élection de Barack Obama. Comme je le prédisais à l’automne dernier, ce nouveau gouvernement élu sur un vent de changement, se révèlera n’être qu’une vaste illusion, une campagne de promesses vides et de faux espoirs. L’administration Obama n’est rien de plus que la continuité de celle de Bush. L’illusion du paradigme de la gauche et la droite, des Républicains et des Démocrates s’effondre. Il n’y a qu’UN parti politique aux États-Unis: Le parti de la guerre et de Wall Street, le tout orchestré par les banquiers privés de la banque centrale, la Federal Reserve Bank (Fed). Que les Américains votent pour un parti ou l’autre, l’agenda est le même. Il y a longtemps que les États-Unis sont tombés sous un coup d’État silencieux, probablement depuis la mort de JFK.

Voici de nombreux exemples de ce bilan négatif de l’administration Obama:

- L’administration Obama tente d’étouffer le dossier des courriels manquants de la Maison Blanche

Obama avait promis à l’Amérique plus de transparence. Cela ne s’est jamais vraiment concrétisé. Nombreux sont les exemples. L’administration Obama a décidé de suivre les pas de l’ancien président George W. Bush en tentant d’étouffer une poursuite judiciaire visant récupérer des millions de courriels manquants liés à la Maison Blanche pouvant contenir des informations importantes quant à la gestion de l’administration Bush, effaçant ainsi potentiellement des évidences de crimes.

- L’argument identique du « secret d’État » utilisé par Bush est mis de l’avant par l’administration Obama pour empêcher la divulgation d’informations troublantes et incriminant.

- Le département de la Justice imite l’administration Bush en invoquant le privilège du « secret d’État » face à des poursuites judiciaires dans le dossier du programme de capture extraordinaire de la CIA (rendition program), mis en place par Bush, Cheney et Rumsfeld. La raison évoquée pour éviter que les poursuites judiciaires se poursuivent contre ce programme d’enlèvement de suspects à travers le monde, transportés secrètement vers des prisons non identifiées publiquement pour se faire torturer, est que ces poursuites pourraient révéler des informations secrètes relatives à la sécurité nationale.

- Barack Obama avait promis que les États-Unis ne torturerait pas sous sa garde.

Mais tout comme Bush, Obama se bat pour empêcher des milliers de photos documentant la torture made by America, alors que Guantanamo n’a toujours pas fermé ses portes et que la torture se poursuit inlassablement sous son administration, tel que rapporté par une enquête espagnole. Cette dernière explique différentes techniques pratiquées comme l’écrasement de testicules, la détention dans des cellules souterraines dans un les ténèbres totales avec privation de sommeil et de nourriture pour une durée de trois semaines, inoculation à l’aide d’injections de maladies canines, torture à l’eau (waterboarding), etc. Tout cela sous l’autorité de personnel militaire américain, parfois conduit en présence de professionnels médicaux.

Le président Obama refuse de rendre public les photos de torture parce qu’il « croit que leur publication pourrait mettre en danger les troupes ».

En réalité, non seulement Obama ne poursuivra pas les responsables de la torture en justice, mais en fait, il planifie donner de l’expansion à cette torture et continuer sa pratique. Des centres de détention secrets pour des suspects terroristes seront ouverts en Mauritanie, en Éthiopie, dans quelques pays de l’Afrique du nord, du Moyen-Orient et en Asie.

- Obama a passé outre le Congrès américain pour permettre la détention de suspects terroristes pour une durée de temps illimitée, sans qu’aucune accusation formelle ne soit déposée. Dans d’autres pays du monde, on appelle cela des pouvoirs dictatoriaux.  Cela permet au président de détenir unilatéralement des « ennemis combattants » sans habeas corpus, un terme légal qui signifie que les plaignants sont forcés de vous accuser formellement d’un crime pour justifier la détention d’un suspect. Le terme « ennemi combattant » qui faisait en sorte que les Accords de Genève sur les prisonniers de guerre ne s’appliquaient plus, a été abandonné par Obama dans le cas des détenus de Guantanamo, mais il a gardé le terme pour les autres prisons à l’étranger, s’assurant ainsi encore une fois de conserver des pouvoirs exécutifs impérialistes.

- Obama est du même avis que Bush: les prisonniers de Bagram, Afghanistan n’ont pas de droits constitutionnels. Pourtant, les droits ne sont pas donnés par la Constitution, ils sont reconnus. Lorsque les droits peuvent être retirés, ce ne sont pas des droits, mais bien seulement des indulgences octroyées par un maître inspirant la crainte à des esclaves qui se comportent particulièrement bien.
Obama Sides With Bush: No Rights for Bagram Prisoners

- Obama est allé jusqu’à menacer l’Angleterre de cesser leur coopération d’échange du renseignement pour éviter que des évidences de torture soient révélées.

- Trois provisions controversées du Patriot Act instauré Bush reçoivent l’appui d’Obama.

Le département de la Justice a indiqué que l’administration Obama donne son soutien pour le renouvellement de trois sections controversées du USA Patriot Act qui expire en décembre. La première est la Section 206 qui permet au FBI de faire de l’écoute électronique des lignes téléphoniques ou des ordinateurs des Américains. La suivante est la Section 215 qui permet aux enquêteurs d’obtenir les archives médicales, d’affaires, de librairie, bancaires et autres de quiconque, avec l’approbation de la Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. La dernière, surnommée le « loup solitaire », permet d’accumuler des renseignements à propos de personnes qui ne sont pas suspectées d’être part d’un gouvernement étranger ou d’une organisation terroriste.

- Toutes les pièces de législation adoptées sous l’administration Bush qui étaient profondément liberticides et allant à l’encontre de la transparence, de la Constitution et de la démocratie, sont maintenant embrassées par le régime de continuité d’Obama, qui a brisé une fois de plus une importante promesse électorale. Il en est de même pour le Commissions militaires (Military Commissions Act), qui permet de juger des détenus dans des tribunaux militaires établis à Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

- La NSA a filtré toutes les communications des Américains et a ciblé des journalistes depuis l’instauration de ces mesures draconiennes par Bush, dans le cadre de sa guerre bidon au terrorisme. Tout le trafic de ces communications transigeant par de grandes firmes privées de communication comme AT&T étaient directement reliées à la NSA, agence d’espionnage américaine. Depuis que les Démocrates sont au pouvoir, rien n’a changé. Obama ne veut pas tenir Bush et ses acolytes responsables de leurs crimes et violations de la Constitution parce qu’il veut conserver ces pouvoirs. Idem pour l’enlèvement d’individus étrangers, leur transport vers des nations étrangères pour ensuite être torturés.

Ainsi, l’administration Obama bloque les poursuites judiciaires contre les écoutes électroniques illégales, donne de l’expansion à la défense légale de Bush en ce domaine et invoque constamment le « secret d’État » pour défendre le programme envahisseur et criminel de surveillance de Bush.

- Le parti de guerre est toujours l’oeuvre. L’industrie de la mort poursuit ses bonnes affaires sous Obama

Les États-Unis planifient déployer 25 000 troupes militaires en Géorgie d’ici 2015, à la frontière de la Russie. Les Américains ont l’intention de construire deux bases militaires sur le territoire de la Géorgie et une base navale. Ce déploiement fait suite à la provocation de la Russie en août 2008 par les États-Unis et Israël, via l’Ossétie du sud. Une guerre contre l’Iran signifierait une confrontation contre la Russie qui a déclaré qu’elle considèrerait une attaque contre l’Iran comme une attaque personnelle.

Quoi de mieux que d’avoir le prix Nobel de la Paix pour plaider en faveur du recrutement de mineurs pour l’armée? Obama veut son armée, il entend lever une armée de jeunes qui ne serviraient pas la Constitution, mais le président directement. Le plan d’Obama se nomme le « Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act», ou plus simplement, le « GIVE Act ». Ce projet de loi a été voté, à 321 contre 105, le 18 mars 2009. Ce projet de loi H.R. 1388 est donc présentement « à l’étude » au Sénat américain.

Obama a d’ailleurs annoncé, de pair avec Rahm Emanuel, qu’il comptait avoir un corps de volontaires de type milice paramilitaire aux États-Unis aussi bien financé et équipé que l’armée US elle-même.
Heil Obama! Des enfants-soldats sur tout le territoire américain…

- La guerre est toujours une option sur la table, comme on a pu le voir toute l’année dans le cas de l’Iran., quitte à nommer un anti-iranien pour gérer cette situation.

- L’administration Obama continue la doctrine américaine de dominance militaire globale.

Obama n’a pas diminué le budget militaire, au contraire. Il n’y aura pas de renversement de l’agenda militaire ni de la politique étrangère des États-Unis. Surtout pas avec Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates et Rahm Emanuel et son frère. Les États-Unis viennent de briser son record de la guerre du Vietnam en étant en Afghanistan depuis plus de 8 ans. Cela n’est pas près de se terminer, au contraire de ce Obama avait promis durant sa campagne électorale.

- Obama, son administration et différentes agences gouvernementales comme la NSA reçoivent d’ailleurs leurs instructions et conseils par la même élite dirigeante, dont fait partie Henry Kissinger, la Ford Fondation, et la quatrième branche du gouvernement, Goldman Sachs et les banquiers et financiers de Wall Sreet qui pullulent au sein du gouvernement Obama, comme Geithner.

- Obama refuse toujours de toucher à la Fed. Tant qu’il ne forcera pas une reforme entière de la Fed pour récupérer le pouvoir de la création de la monnaie, au lieu de le laisser entre les mains de banquiers la créant de nulle part et la prêtant à crédit au gouvernement (lire le peuple) avec intérêts, l’économie entière sera sous l’étroit contrôle des banquiers privés qui ont ruiné les États-Unis depuis 1913, date de la création de la Fed.

- Obama avait promis que les lobbyistes ne se retrouveraient pas dans son organisation. Une autre fausse promesse lamentablement vendue au public américain. Une douzaine de lobbyistes ont trouvé un poste au sommet de l’administration Obama. On y trouve des gens nommés au département de la Défense ayant travaillé pour Raytheon, un manufacturier d’armement, un ancien VP de Monsanto à la FDA, des anciens généraux et du Pentagone partout dans le gouvernement, et ainsi de suite.

- Obama agit de manière similaire à Bush dans le domaine des pétrolières, des énergies et est même allé jusqu’à approuver la décapitation des montagnes pour y retirer du charbon, une politique qui fut sévèrement condamnée lorsque Bush s’y adonnait. L’étroite collaboration entre les exécutifs du pétrole et Washington se poursuit de plus belle.

Il y a fort à parier qu’avec un tel bilan, les Américains ne seront pas dupes très longtemps et qu’Obama sera un président d’un terme seulement. En attendant le prochain poulain de l’establishment, du parti de la guerre et de Wall Street, nous pouvons aussi parier que l’Amérique aura le temps de s’appauvrir énormément, au point où la classe moyenne aura pratiquement disparue et où le pays sera complètement ruiné et en banqueroute, affligé d’hyperinflation et de la plus grande dépression depuis les années 30. On annoncera alors l’arrivée d’un autre président… sauveur de tous, charismatique au sourire charmeur.

« Yes we can »

« Change we can believe in »

François Marginean

The final draft of our painting to life video.

Obama Vs. Bob the Builder

Graph by: lolsmuch6125 via Graph Jam Builder

Design For Obama book, edited by Spike Lee & Aaron Perry-Zucker w/ an essay by Steven Heller. Click to purchase or for more information.

Hey! Remember the 2008 Presidential Election? The intensity, the rabble-rousing, the way that people were so directly affected to work for their chosen candidates? Well, color me included in that wave. Twice, if you will.

A poster that I designed and printed (my Vote! poster, below, or page 64 in your books!) to help get the word out about Barack Obama in the fall of 2008 was included in a fantastic new book called Design For Obama, published this November by the swell Taschen Books, edited & curated by Spike Lee & Aaron Perry-Zucker with an essay by design steward, Steven Heller.

2-color hand screenprinted poster, Vote! Click for more information or to purchase.

The book is culled from a collection of posters from around the world  that were submitted to and featured on the Design For Obama website before the election of the United States 44th President. Designers interested in the election and wanting to express their take on the entire Obama campaign’s story sent in an amazing series of work. When I became aware of the site, I sent in my own poster, which had already been printed, and in turn I was blown away by the work of hundreds of others who had also been feeling similarly. But don’t take my word for it, here are some of the editors words about their book:

Design/ers for Obama was created when Design Observer essentially asked the question, “how can graphic designers best support Barack Obama?” Our answer ended up extending the question to cover visual communicators at all levels. In addition to supporting Obama for America we jumped at the opportunity to bring the spirit of grassroots style organizing and collaboration to poster design which, to us, meant not only forming communal bonds but sharing the fruits of our efforts equally and in such a way that anyone can enjoy and benefit from (because most of us do not own our own printing presses).

Design for Obama was created by Aaron Perry-Zucker, a senior studying graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, and was built by Adam Meyer, a senior studying industrial design at said school. This website was inspired and is supported by Design Observer.

Design for Obama book key info for you:

• For more information on the entire Design For Obama project or to see all of the designs, click here. You may also vote & comment on the online gallery of posters, as well as download your favorites in printable formats.
• Design For Obama is now available for purchase at Taschen Books here with a cool virtual leaf-through too.
• Design For Obama is now available for purchase here at Amazon.com
• To share photos of the posters “In the wild” add yours to the Flickr set here.

If you are at all interested in design, art, the intersection of politics, propaganda and the previous, well…I don’t know what you are waiting for, this book is rad. I’m sure that it would make a great gift for the design and political wonks in your life too. Thanks very much to Spike Lee, Aaron Perry-Zucker & Steven Heller for including my poster in your kickass book. Cheers!

C’est la saison 2, on prend les mêmes et on fait pire. C’est le retour du Sylar du rap Frinçais, celui qui as tous les flows gros, en gros ou en détails.
Aujourd’hui, Patrice Kennedy visite quelques uns de ses illustres collègues qu’il soupçonne d’avoir pompé ses phases.

Kennedy -Kennedy dans la maison ! Le neuf quatre dans la maison !!
Rohff -Qui qui est dans la plazza ?
Kennedy -On m’appelle Kennedy ou future, parce que j’ai trop d’avance !
Rohff -T’as vraiment trop d’avance parce que le 94 c’est encore moi, sale taré.
Kennedy – mc, je sais que t’apprécies ce que je fais, mais faut que t’arrêtes vite de pomper le cahier de rimes refré.
Rohff – Qué qué passa ?
Kennedy -Non parce que toi tu fais rimer “surhumain” avec “des pompes sur une main” dans “Pour ceux” mais seulement voilà je l’ai déjà faite cette rime là.
Rohff -Hachek ! Mais de quoi tu parles ?
Kennedy – A tes souhaits. Ben je dis juste qu’en 2003 t’as pompé une rime que j’ai déjà faite en 2008…
Rohff -Houlàlà mais c’est quoi ça ? T’es un sale rageux de merde ? t’essayes de lancer des rumeurs sur moi sale jaloux de merde ? Tu vas encore dire qu’on m’a volé mon Cayenne ?
Kennedy -Non moi je dis juste que même si je sais que t’apprécies ce que je fais, faut que t’arrêtes vite de pomper le cahier de rimes refré.
Rohff -Tu sais à qui tu parles ?
Kennedy -Je pense bien, t’es Six Coups MC de Rappeur d’1stinct non ?
Rohff -Quoi ? Quoi ? Quoi ?
Kennedy -T’es Ikbal ?
Rohff -Mais t’es sûr d’être green dans ta tête toi ?
Kennedy -Ah mais non excuse moi, t’es le grand frère de Ikbal.
Rohff -Tu te rattrapes bien.
Kennedy -T’es S’Co !
Rohff -Bouge pas, je vais chercher ma pelle. Je suis Rohff ! Rohff ! Putain ! Tchicky R.O. Tchicky H 2 F !! Rohff le capi’chef !! Quand je me promène le gens bloquent et disent “Oh c’est Rohff !” ils me le rappellent quand j’oublie. mais toi t’as pas intérêt à oublier ! Jamais ! J-J-J-J-J-Jamais !!!!
Kennedy -Celle là aussi, c’est une phase à moi. Quand je me balade les jeunes disent “Téma c’est Kennedy !”
Rohff -Quoi ? Cesse de te prendre pour moi, idiot !

Dans une hutte perdue en Malaisie, d’après la légende, vivait Ali.
Ali, ex-Lunatic de son état. Ecoeuré du rap game il coulait des jours paisibles et des bronzes bien durs à force de bouffer du riz. Parce que là bas on bouffe que ça, du riz.
Il se pensait loin de tout, mais un jour, un mystérieux voyageur arrive aux abords de sa demeure isolée.

Kennedy -Kennedy dans la maison ! Le neuf quatre dans la maison ! Enfin dans la hutte quoi. D’ailleurs je voudrais une pizza fromage, oignons, pommes de terre avec un supplément anchois.
Ali -Déjà 1, je fais pas de pizzas, je prépare mon nouvel album pour 2010. Et de 2, si je devais faire des pizzas je ferais pas des pizzas dégueulasses comme celles que tu commandes. Qui es tu mon frère et que me veux tu ?
Kennedy – mc je sais que t’apprécies ce que je fais, mais faut que t’arrêtes vite de pomper le cahier de rimes reufré.
Ali -De quoi est-il question ici bas ?
Kennedy -T’as pompé une de mes rimes. La fois où t’as dit “Parfois les mains tendues sont des poignards.”
Ali -Je me souviens avoir dit ça en effet.
Kennedy -Donc tu ne le nie pas, faut dire que c’est un peu gros comme phrase, pour la ressortir telle quelle faut vraiment être un enfoiré.
Ali -Oui. Un être peu scrupuleux et dénué de toute honnêteté intellectuelle.
Kennedy -Bah ouais gros.
Ali -Ceci étant, et maintenant que nous nous accordons sur ce point. Est-ce que je peux enfin savoir qui tu es ?
Kennedy- Je suis Kennedy, le rappeur préféré de ton rappeur préféré.
Ali -Explicite toi de manière plus claire, petit scarabée.
Kennedy -Dans ton album t’as repris une phase de mon album sorti en 2009 ! Et là tu dis plus rien, t’es bien feinté !
Ali -… C’est la consternation. Es tu bien conscient que mon album est sorti en 2005 ? Soit 4 ans avant le tien ? et que d’ailleurs j’avais déjà fait un son classique : Le code de la rue. et loin de moi l’idée de porter des jugements de valeur, mais il me semble que le tien qui s’appelle pareil, et bien c’est même pas du loukoum à côté.
Kennedy -… Disons que tu t’en tires bien… Bon bah je vais te laisser… Ah au fait je suis avec toi cousin ! Nique le jambon !
Ali -Quoi ?

Kennedy – eh toi là bas !
Black kent – yeah ?
Kennedy – il paraît que tu vas appeler ton album Yes I Kent
Black kent – c’est ton boy black.
Kennedy – ouais ?
Black kent – mais tu peux m’appeler kent. j’te vois mec !
Kennedy – mais moi aussi j’te vois, je suis juste en face de toi bordel.
Black kent – non mais c’est comme les cainris qui disent tout le temps « i see ya » tu peux pas comprendre si t’es pas anglophone.
Kennedy – bah ce que je comprends c’est que t’as pompé un titre à moi.
Black kent – hein ?
Kennedy – non mais ho ! me prends pas pour un con non plus. j’ai fait un son dans mon album qui s’appelle « yes we can ». alors ? hein ? t’as pas l’impression de pousser le bouchon un peu loin maurice ?
Black kent – je m’appelle pas maurice.
Kennedy – je vois pas le rapport.
Black kent – non mais moi l’album s’appelle Yes I KENT. comme mon nom, black kent, qui vient de clark kent tu vois. C’est un jeu de mot.
Kennedy – un quoi ?
Black kent – c’est un calembour quoi. une astuce.
Kennedy – écoute je suis pas anglophone alors parle moi français bordel.
Black kent – mon album s’appelle Yes I Kent en référence à mon nom.
Kennedy – mais ça veut rien dire, yes i can’t ça fait oui je peux pas. c’est super con.
Black kent – non mais c’est pas can’t, c’est kent.
Kennedy – bah oui, c’est bien ce que je dis.
Black kent – bordel…
Kennedy – et ouais mon gars ! faut y penser à ça, sinon ça te suit toute ta carrière.
Black kent – mais tu sais que c’est pas ta phrase à la base, c’est d’Obama. c’était son slogan pendant toute sa campagne. tu es au courant de ça quand même.
Kennedy – ah oui, je vais devoir lui demander des comptes à lui aussi, ce sale copieur de merde.

Kennedy, A.K.A. Sylar, se rend désormais chez celui qui a pompé toutes ses phases. Celui qui s’est fait tant d’argent sur son dos.

Kennedy -Je suis le rappeur préféré de ton rappeur préféré. et vu que ton rappeur préféré c’est déjà moi, je suis donc mon rappeur préféré !
Booba -Salut, salam, shalom. T’es qui wesh ?
Kennedy -ben c’est moi. Kennedy, le neuf quatre, la maison, futur tout ça, quoi…
Booba -Bon, on va dire que je me souviens on va gagner du temps, et le temps c’est du… du biff ! C’est nous qui la vendons, c’est toi qui la sniffe. et tu kiffes. Et tout ça.
Kennedy -En tout cas, tu vas me rendre mon appart ou mon pav’tar de bâtard avec un garage pour coffrer Porsh et 4×4.
Booba -Le seul porche que t’auras c’est celui de ton batiment, sale assisté de merde. Au nom de quoi je devrais te filer du… du biff !
Kennedy –Parce que tu me pompes mes phases. Par exemple tu dis que t’es le bitume avec une plume et moi ensuite je dis que je suis le bitume avec une paire de nike air et un flow de bâtard. Quand tu dis qu’on se paye pas de villa en taffant au mac do et moi je dis qu’on deviens pas millionnaire en taffant au mac do. C’est un peu gros quand même ?
Booba -Gros comme ton QI, non ?
Kennedy -Ouais ! Je vais aller chez Ruquier pour le montrer, mon gros QI.
Booba -T’es un bon, toi. En attendant tu restes un foutu attardé comme rappeur du futur. Parce que là t’arrives trop tard. Fallait les dire avant tes phases à la con. Avant que je les fasse en fait. Mais il aurait fallu que tu les trouves tout seul comme un grand.
Kennedy -Mais pourtant, c’est mon heure… Allez vas-y demande moi l’heure qu’il est.
Booba -Je suis trop en avance pour te demander l’heure, manant.
Kennedy- Allez euh ! Azy fais le s’te plait !! Fais le !!
Booba -Excuse moi, quelle heure il est steu plait ?
Kennedy -C’est mon heure ! je suis là pour…
Booba -Ouais mais, non. on est passé à l’heure d’Hiver, on a reculé, repasse plus tard.

Kennedy était donc rentré chez lui comptant les minutes qui le séparaient encore de son heure pourtant proche.
Lorsque tout à coup, on sonne à sa porte. Il va ouvrir et tombe nez à nez avec un individu doté d’une étrange tête.
Youssoupha -Salut Kennedy, il va falloir que t’arrêtes de me pomper.
Kennedy- Quoi ?
Youssoupha – Non mais ho ! Quand tu dis “je suis le rappeur préféré de ton rappeur préféré” moi je dis “Je suis peut-être le rappeur préféré de ton rappeur préféré » dans mon album qui vient de sortir là.
Kennedy – oh merde…
Youssoupha – et ouais mon gars !

Sylar s’était fait à son tour voler ses pouvoirs.

kennedy – nique sa mère
black kent feat bishop lamont – pass that
Comment photocopier son cul

Somehow, it seems that every time I see a political bumper sticker it manages to anger me in some way. I’m not talking about the “I voted for (insert name of savior du jour here).” I’m talking about the little catch phrases. You know the ones. The ones that sound like they were coined by some failed political science major trying to impress their college professor.

Now, that’s not completely fair. I’m sure there are dedicated professionals that work diligently to come up with these, but I often question if these people think them through or at least get an outside source to look at it from a different perspective. I offer two examples.

“Dictators like an unarmed public.”

That may not be the exact wording, but I am confident that it captures the gist of the sticker. Let’s explore this sticker. On the surface it appears true, does it not? Dictators do not like a public that has the ability to challenge the authority of what is usually an already tenuous hold on the power they covet so much.

Now let’s take this to the next level. Given that most dictators rise to power through a coup d’etat or a similar grab for power, those same dictators were once part of the public. Beyond  the fact that this is obviously quite hypocritical, it suggests that they once held the opposite belief. That is that the public should be able to bear arms (and in their case we’re not talking a shotgun and a revolver, we’re talking a mac 10 and a Russian made rpg).

To go a step farther, the point could be made that this sticker is associating dictators with the second amendment waving segment of the right wing. This makes the statement, “You can pry my guns from my cold dead fingers,” just a little more disturbing.

That doesn’t even mention that if that association is made, the sticker is essentially attacking the very demographic who produced it. Ain’t that a kick in the head.

Now, obviously, I am not advocating anything I just said. In fact I don’t even believe much of it. I am just trying to show how these things can be so easily manipulated. Since I hope to be an equal opportunity critic, “hater,” asshole, what have you, I will now pick a target that leans more to the left.

“Yes we did!”(Accompanied by the stylized image of President Obama)

No… No, we didn’t. Quite simply, no, we didn’t. Maybe it will be more clear if I state it this way: No, we havn’t. Does this person not get it? The slogan, “Yes, we can” had nothing to do with getting President Obama elected.Let me say that again: It had nothing to do with getting anyone elected! It was a platform for change! “Yes we can,” affect change. The important aspect of this being that it is a slogan that pushes the need for citizen unity in the resolve to make the necessary changes in order to better our society. I ask once again, though I think the answer is quite clear at this point: Does this person not get it?

I loathe sweeping generalization, but I will make one in this case. This is exactly what is wrong with America. Somehow, we have come to believe that doing our civic duty means delegating it to the person of our choice. Perhaps this is our own fault. Perhaps we have worked so hard to get people to exercise their right to vote that they believe that is all they have to do.

Whatever is the ultimate cause of the inaccurate idea behind this sticker, I’m sure my disapproval is quite obvious. I see this as a short sighted, lazy, ignorant and arrogant attempt to claim responsibility for an event that is far greater than the person who possessed this sticker. Moreover, the true meaning of the slogan was lost by their grab for some pathetic semblance of glory.

With all of my ranking and raving on this sticker, one might ask that if I’m so smart what is my suggestion for a better slogan. My suggestion for a better slogan… “Now, we can.”

That’s the view from the middle for the time being. Good night, and good luck.

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O Flamengo entra de vez na briga pelo Brasileirão. Apesar do São Paulo estar 2 pontos na dianteira, o Fla continua na perseguição. Será que o rubronegro vai relaxar no fim? Não para o Andrade:

Dica de um tweet do Arthur, do Urublog.

With President Obama and the rest of the leaders of the world’s biggest polluting nations kicking the ball down the field on climate change and effectively pulling the rug out from under all of us who have been targeting the Copenhagen climate talks as the moment we must seize, our response must recognize the obvious.

Despite the historic gains we’ve made building the 350 movement across the planet in the past year, we have not captured the hearts and minds of the general public or the media.

We have the science and the scientists on our side, we have built a mighty coalition of activists, businesses, churches, schools and enlightened government representatives – but in the Age of Stupid, where cats who love cheeseburgers rule the Internet, and where polling both in the United States and in the United Kingdom show declining numbers of adults believe global warming is either man-made or a real threat, the sense of urgency is far greater for learning who the next winner of American Idol is than for switching to a new clean, green, carbon free economy.  Go figure.

Scientists have been telling us for a couple of years now how scared they were about the gap between what they were discovering and reporting and what the public was understanding, accepting and believing.  And the worse things have gotten in terms of the discoveries and the reports, ironically the wider the gap between reality and what the average man and woman on the street is grokking.

One thing has become abundantly clear to me through the work I’ve been doing as a community organizer on behalf of 350.org here in Southern California – we need a swift and massive public education campaign that builds rapid awareness, interest, appeal and action on behalf of our brand.

And the way we need to market and sell that brand is the same way successful politicians like Barack Obama sell themselves, the same way Guitar Hero, Viagra, iPods, Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Las Vegas make their brands impossible to ignore powerhouses.

Yeah, that’s right, we have a brand and it’s the only brand that can satisfy the greatest urges and needs mankind has:  survival, continued propagation of our species and quality of life.  That’s a damn fine “point of difference” as we call it in the marketing world.

So instead of spending so much time trying to earn political support from politicians and governments I think we need to turn our focus to recruiting the best marketing, sales and creative pros – many of whom are currently on the street, jobless, downsized due to cutbacks in consumer spending.

We need to employ these pros to use the same tools and tactics that have consumers living in fear of bad breath, body odor, dandruff, or being ridiculed for buying the wrong brand of computer, car or cell phone.

Policy takes forever, but markets, brands, trends and popular culture all turn on a dime – especially in the Internet era.  New stars come out of nowhere and rocket to the top in months while legends and classics fall out of favor and off the radar screen just as quickly.

We need a worldwide, integrated marketing campaign to build sweeping awareness, interest and to drive climate change consumers to rapid action. And that campaign starts by filling that gap between what scientists know is happening right now and what the public is hearing and understanding.

We can’t wait for the media or anyone else to package and deliver this news and information for us, we need to put together our own teams of the best and brightest communicators on the scene today and we need to use the same tactics, the same language and leverage the same equity in the minds of consumers as the brands that currently fill their heads with slogans, positioning lines and reasons for believing.

Don’t get me wrong – we still need to continue all our grassroots efforts, but we need to do more than that.  We need to reach and teach the masses.  And the way we do that is to tell and then to sell.

And when it comes to selling the need to act and the solutions we need to act with, we all need to remember ABC –

A = Always

B = Be

C= Closing.

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Eu sei que muitos desacreditam do Verdão, da raiva daqueles torcedores que falam: O Palmeiras não tem time para ser campeão. Chances matemáticas é o que não falta para o Verdão, mas não confio na matemática do futebol, eu confio no futebol do time!

Nós só vamos ser campeões se fizermos as atitudes certas: colocar o Diego Souza no banco. Lenny voltar a jogar. Obina na reserva. Sacconi titular. Ortigoza titular. Jogar no 4-4-2.

A realidade do Brasileirão:

- O nível técnico é medonho. Num certo momento até achei que não fosse, mas é. A prova é o Ronaldo. Ele deita e rola nos zagueiros brasileiros. Na Itália, quando estava fisicamente igual a hoje, ele não fazia um quinto do que faz aqui.

- Que não se fale em “arrancada são-paulina”. O Palmeiras quem parou, pipocou. Demos não só ao SP a chance de ser campeão, mas a todos outros times. O SP foi o maior beneficiado pois era o adversário mais próximo.

- A arbitragem de novo roubou a cena. Não vou entrar no mérito se decidiu ou não o campeonato, mas misteriosamente os mesmos times são ajudados e sempre os mesmos são prejudicados. Hoje no Morumbi dois sãopaulinos se agrediram. Era vermelho pros dois, essa é a regra. Pena que não vale pra todos.

- STJD: perseguem descaradamente algumas equipes. Beneficiam outras na mesma proporção.

- Nosso time não correspondeu. De novo. Lideramos o Paulistão de ponta a ponta. Perdemos na hora H. Na Libertadores fomos eliminados por um time medíocre. No Brasileirão lideramos por boa parte, mas de novo na hora H o time arregou. Pra mim o problema é o time. Muricy: fique e monte um time experiente em 2010.

- Libertadores: com esse grupo desconfio que nem cheguemos à Libertadores. Quem soma 6 pontos dos últimos 24 disputados não pode reclamar muito.

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Aposto que vão fazer de tudo para os Bambis serem campeões. Para mim vai ser difícil agüentar os Bambis se eles forem campeões, porque eu moro perto do Panetone.



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10,000 Dancers for the Climate with music by U2.

How did this happen?  Read about it here.

Something big is happening all around the world.

Are you ready to be part of some more history making on the beach?

The clock is ticking…

TCKTCKTCK

Can you hear it?

Can you feel it?

Are YOU ready to dance?

Creative Greenius, Joe Galliani, with his free LED lights from the South Bay Environmental Services Center Holiday Light Exchange

For the third consecutive year I was able to take advantage of the Holiday Light Exchange offered by my great friends at the South Bay Environmental Services Center.  And they’ve still got plenty of these high quality GE mini white LEDs as well as the GE multi-colored LED sets available.  But they always run out some time in November so you better move quick.

It was the holiday Light Exchange in 2007 that first connected me with the SBESC and I’ve been a volunteer with them ever since.  In fact, this year I have well over 250 volunteer hours served with the Environmental Services Center and I’m excited about being honored at next week’s Volunteer Appreciation Dinner.

I’m also excited about all the new volunteers who have joined our ranks and hope that more of you will get out there on the front lines of teaching the public about energy efficiency, renewable energy, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and all the other things, individuals and businesses can do to help make a difference in the fight against global warming and climate change.  Click here to learn more about volunteering with the SBESC.

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The President’s campaign theme was simple but effective because it found a receptive ear in the general populace.   The campaign placards simply said “Change” or sometimes “Change we can believe in.”  He suggested one such change in the course of his victory speech.  It was subtle and important.  He described our nation’s timeless creed as “Yes we can.”  A creed can be timeless only if varying political opinions, mores or traditions cannot change it, meaning no matter how much things change around and in us our belief in the what the creed says never changes.  I suppose the president’s formulation cannot change.  It is so general.  It’s like saying:  “We can change” or “Yes we are” or “Yes we will.”   What we are left with is an amoral call to action, just like the omni-present, value-free, urge to embrace “change.”  As if changing anything we can change is the tonic for America’s perceived ills.  But this is not our timeless creed. 

To set the record straight, our creed is not some general, emotive, affirmation; it is a statement conceived in principle and purchased with blood.  It is the Declaration of Independence.  This act of independence, expressed through a document dated July 4, 1776, cannot be changed or amended; it is truly timeless.  The Declaration is the historical event which created our country.  And to deny it is like a child denying it has parents.  Our true creed is as different from the new creed as patriotic cries from airy feeling, sacrifice from good intentions, medicine from placebos.  Let the inspiring Dr. King remind us of the core tenet of our Declaration:   “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:  ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.’”  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963. 

On the night of November 5, 2008 with all the world his stage, President Obama could have recited those heroic words of Dr. King.  He could have inspired many with our true American creed.  Indeed, our belief that all men are created equal is why people from all over the world want to come to our country.  They want to believe in our creed even before becoming Americans, even before setting one foot here.  They become Americans by their very desire for the freedoms we enjoy.  They see America as the land of freedom and opportunity because of the principle of equality.  They believe that everyone, no matter who they are or where they are from, has a fair chance to be happy.  Those Declaratory words that surged through our Revolutionary parents and moved their minds and limbs to throw off the stiff yoke of England reach through time and beyond our shores to the farthest deserts and mountain reaches of earth.      

Why didn’t the president follow the path of Dr. King?  What is consistent between Dr. King and the Declaration is an acknowledgement of the natural law.  This is the intellectual bond, or shall we say heritage that was passed from our Declaration to Frederick Douglass all the way to Dr. King, Supreme Court Justice Thomas and Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. King, an outspoken proponent for the pro-life cause.  Where does the president stand in this heritage?  Outside of it.  From the articulation of his campaign positions and goals and the adoption of a new American creed, it is clear that an understanding of the natural law is not the intellectual heritage of our new president.  Rather, his heritage is one of pragmatic moralism, or more simply, relativism in pursuit of power.  How else do we explain the urbane dismissal of the aborted born alive infant with the oh-so generous promise of a lonely comfort room but no comforting arms, no human touch for the defenseless, gasping human?  The former Illinois state senator’s position was the product of intellect in service of the quest for power. (Welcome to the gentle barbarism of the progressive elite.)  How else do we explain an agreement to sit down as if with equals those who would proclaim the deaths of millions of innocent Jewish lives as their national imperative?   The answer is accomodation for the sake of power and position.  And the past associations between our president-elect and various sophisticated ruffians are but another reflection of this feature of his intellectual heritage – these individuals promised access to political power and backing in corrupt Chicago.  Such a heritage is not surprising.   It lives and feeds on minds in our leading educational institutions, where teaching begins with a winking nod about searching for the truth and graduates with lettered disdain for the very concept of truth.   

Which leads us to the tragic irony of our president.  His election certainly is welcome and wondrous for it proclaims the end of effects of slavery.  Yes his moral relativism leads us one step closer to an even more sinister form of slavery, one which results in the abolition of mankind.  His vigorous embrace of embyronic stem cell research is no more and no less than the enslavement of one distinct human life unto his or her destruction for the benefit of another. 

I am borrowing the phrase “abolition of man” from the brief and genius work by C.S. Lewis written in 1943 titled the same.  The insight of Prof. Lewis was that man’s power over nature inevitably becomes some men’s power over other men.  The starkest example of that is the technology of contraception which simply denies existence to a generation, or, through more precise techniques, selects whom in a generation should survive and whom should not.  The timing of that book seems to be no accident.  Shortly after World War II, it became clear that German scientists had energetically carried out their belief that some people were best used as experiments for the benefit of more deserving members of society.  The categorization of “deficient” humans and the ghastly details of the experiments so meticulously recorded by that cruel regime are enough to shock even the 21^st century mind. 

Yet it turns out that these scientists were merely before their time and had not the technological advances to show the world in a more refined way the real benefit their philosophy could bring to the world.  Their time has come.  As the junior senator from Illinois, the president was a co-sponsor of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007, the effect of which would allow “excess” embryos from fertility treatments to be used in research.  And let’s revisit the then-senator’s statement regarding an earlier piece of legislation he promoted in 2006:  “Embryonic stem cells can be obtained from a number of sources, including in vitro fertilization.  At this very moment, there are over 400,000 embryos being stored in over 400 facilities throughout the United States. The majority of these are reserved for infertile couples. However, many of these embryos will go unused, destined for permanent storage in a freezer or disposal.  We should expand and accelerate research using these embryos, just as we should continue to explore the viability of adult stem cell use and cord blood use.”  Sen. Barack Obama, Statement of Support for Stem Cell Research, Monday, July 17, 2006.  The president supports the use of excess human life for the benefit of others. 

Some philosophers or moralists will argue that this excess life is not a “person.”  That is a semantic fog fit for the weak mind.  Our scientific understanding of what happens at conception and through nourishment of the zygote shines through and dispels any fog, namely, that a unique, individual boy or girl comes about with all the distinguishing features of eye color, hair color, shape of nose, shape of ears, shape of feet, sound of laugh, sound of cough, sound of the future “I love you mama” . . . sound of life, ready to come to full blossom only through nourishment in the womb. 

Yes we can .  . . ?  Let’s try:  Yes we can – cure Alzeihmers through repeated experimentation with embryos.  Or, why not hypothesize the following:  Assume that our erstwhile scientists really believe that the most potent form of stem cells are in the late-term fetus.  Now, since the aborted born alive are so much living waste, why not put that excess to use?  Reformulated the creed is:  Yes we can – cure Alzheimers through repeated experimentation with aborted born alive humans.  There is no material distinction between the first and the second proposition.  None at all.  In fact, given the president’s focus on being efficient with “excess” human life, the second is almost required.  Instead of a comfort room, we would mandate that a hospital administer death-causing agents so the born alive can be used in the research wing of that same hospital.  And since medical poison might affect the cell tissues of the infant, what this will come down to is suffocation by a comfort pillow.  Now that’s real change.  Though not change we want to believe in.   

The allure of the president’s new American creed is that it resonates with every American’s natural optimism.  We are the “can-do” nation.  Nations admire “American know-how.”  So of course we like to hear and want to believe that we can overcome obstacles, we can together make real change for the good.  But no one wants change at the expense of our true American creed:   We believe that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  All have equal dignity.  No man is deserving of slavery.  And no man should be the tool of another.

Via Wired comes another essay in the endless argument against our high tech force.

Taking the Measure of a Slam-Dunk Weapons System

Robot war. It just couldn’t be cooler, could it? Especially if the only blood you spill is the other guy’s, since our “pilots” are flying those planes from thousands of miles away. Soon, it seems, the world will be a drone fest. In his first nine months, President Obama has authorized more drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal borderlands than the Bush administration did in its last three years in office and is now considering upping their use in areas of rural Afghanistan where U.S. troops will be scarce.

In Washington, drones are even considered the “de-escalatory” option for the Afghan War by some critics, while CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose agency runs our drone war in Pakistan, has hailed them as “the only game in town in terms of confronting or trying to disrupt the al-Qaeda leadership.” Among the few people who don’t adore them here are hard-core war-fighters who don’t want an armada of robot planes standing in the way of sending in oodles more troops. The vice president, however, is a drone-atic. He loves ‘em to death and reportedly wants to up their missions, especially in Pakistan, rather than go the oodles route.

–Drone Race to a Known Future
Why Military Dreams Fail — and Why It Doesn’t Matter
By Tom Engelhardt

Mr. Engelhardt starts here then goes on to try and breathe life into some dead cliches.

The Wonder Weapons Succeed — at Home

So why am I not excited — other than the fact that the drones are also killing civilians in disputed but significant numbers in the Pakistani tribal borderlands, creating enemies and animosity wherever they strike, and turning us into a nation of 24/7 assassins beyond the law or accountability of any sort? Thought of another way, the drones put wings on the original Bush-era Guantanamo principle — that Americans have the inalienable right to act as global judge, jury, and executioner, and in doing so are beyond the reach of any court or law.

And here’s another factor that dulls my excitement just a tad — if the history of air warfare has shown one thing, it’s this: it never breaks populations. Rather, it only increases their sense of unity, as in London during the Blitz under Winston Churchill, in Germany under Adolf Hitler, Imperial Japan under Emperor Hirohito, North Korea under Kim Il Sung, North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and of course (though we never put ourselves in such company, being the exceptions to all history), the United States after 9/11 under George W. Bush. Why should the peoples of rural Afghanistan and the Pakistani borderlands be any different?

Really? “round the clock” bombing hurt the Germans so bad their air force stopped flying. Not the morale but the INDUSTRY was destroyed. Towards the end of the war, their aircraft were made of wood and scraps. Same with Japan. It was the atomic bomb that forced them to end the war, their military was reduced to meeting the allies with sharpened bamboo sticks on the beaches of Japan.

The Viet Cong and North Vietnam were aided and abetted by the USSR. Without the flow of arms, technical know how, intelligence and surface to air missiles, North Vietnam would have folded. They LOST the Tet offensive. America lost the will to fight due to losses (fueled by Russian aid). Iraq both times did not have that aid. And got their brains beat out both times.

Of course, you know the results of this sort of magical thinking about wonder weapons (or technologies) and their properties just as well as I do. The atomic bomb ended nothing, but led to an almost half-century-long nuclear superpower standoff/nightmare, to nuclear proliferation, and so to the possibility that, someday, even terrorists might possess such weapons. The electronic battlefield was incapable of staving off defeat in Vietnam. That impermeable anti-missile shield never came even faintly close to making it into our skies. Those “smart bombs” of the Gulf War proved remarkably dumb, while the 50 “decapitation” strikes the Bush administration launched against Saddam Hussein’s regime on the first day of the 2003 invasion of Iraq took out not a single Iraqi leader, but “dozens” of civilians. And the history of the netcentric military in Iraq is well known. Its “success” sent Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld into retirement and ignominy.

Huh, MAD (mutually assured destruction) kept the Cold War cold. Would he have liked WWII to be come WWIII? Nuclear proliferation is the result of humans wanting to kill each other. India did their bomb on their own. North Korea may have had some help, Pakistan did theirs on their own. So did China. The USSR stole nuclear secrets. We killed the Rosenburgs for their crime in aiding the USSR and making the world a more dangerous place.

The GAO, in the report cited, liked to claim bombs carried by airplanes that didn’t fly (bad weather, mechanical problems etc.) as dropped. Donald Rumsfeld left as SecDef because of the insurgency after the war. We won that one not just with the surge, but by air power and our high tech advantage. The Sons Of Iraq would not have succeeded if it were not for US military might backing them up. Contrawise, the insurgets have had help from Iran, Al Queda and other evil doers. Not enough to save them, just enough to break our hearts.

True, Reagan’s impermeable shield was the purest of nuclear fantasies, but the “high frontiersmen” gathered and, taking a sizeable bite of the military budget, went on a decades-long binge of way-out research, space warfare plans and commands, and boondoggles of all sorts, including the staggeringly expensive, still not operational anti-missile system that the Bush and now Obama administrations have struggled to emplace somewhere in Europe. Similarly, ever newer generations of smart bombs and ever brighter missiles have been, and are being, developed ad infinitum.

Really? My career field is in missile defense. We do what you call impossible everyday. Critics keep insiting that the system wont work or that our enemies are too dumb to build missiles that can hit us. Or they argue that terrorists will sneak a bomb past our borders. Now they try to have it every which way but lose. They won’t lest us strengthen our borders, now will they lest us build anti-missile systems. Nor do they believe our intel.

Our weapons work. Not the way politicians want them to, but they do work. Civilian deaths? It’s called war for a reason. Sadly terrorists and other scum surround themselves with innocent people. We don’t attack we’re cowards. We hit them and we are cruel. Well, they want cruel, and they admit that they love death more than we love life.

Mr. Engelhardt goes on to lament the monies spent on drones. Classic hippe arguments that don’t hold water. Every dollar spent on our military brings back civlian returns and makes sure that people are free to read this blog and Mr. Engelhardt’s too. We must fight them. We care about innocent lives and grieve their loss. The enemy does not. Their bloodlust knows no bounds. Well our weapons have a longer reach and bigger punch. Too bad for them.

The last paragraph is a risible mention of the Terminator movies. *facepalms* In the real world American Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen risk their lives. Drones help save our people, innocent civilians and our allies.

To hell with the enemy.

Drones are tools nothing more.

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”

General George S. Patton