Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

The raptor is being eliminated.
It's the only plane capable of survival in an environment dominated by the latest Russian 300 anti-aircraft system. The latter, for all intents and purposes, immediately establishes a "no-fly zone" wherever it is employed. Simply put, you fly you die. Yeah, it's that good. The hard point of it is the Iranians may be acquiring it from the Russians in order to guard the airspace around their nuke facilities.
We ought to sell at least some of them to Israel before the planes are phased-out. Let's face it, we need the bucks, too
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/06/gates.budget.cuts/index.html

A very informative opinion piece from today's LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-klein7-2009apr07,0,3092824.story
I think we ought take the best from Britain, Canada and Israel and our own country and derive a hybrid. Perhaps a mix of government and citizen-funded health care along with substantial price breaks for the middle class.

As if we don't have enough to worry about with Iran developing its own nukes:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562938417&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Go Arrow (fully supported bt OBAMA):
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562933063&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

It seems the Hamas don't like the stinger missiles they stole from the US. Every time they tried to fire 'em at Israeli aircraft, a message appeared on the display stating, "no-fire, friendly aircraft!" Now, while that pissed-off the Hamas, what really pissed them off was the fact that when they insisted on firing one anyway, it locked onto their own gun crew and blew their Hamasses clean off!
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_hamas0266_04_02.asp
Thank God, and thank you too, Raytheon corporation...

Jihadists are evidently engaged in a contest to report how quickly the death rate is increasing from the earthquake in Italy:
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3191807635
Anybody for negotiating with them as they get their jollies?...

Turkish TV mocks Obama with "blackface"
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=da8_1239137290

Given the current economic mess and its causes, among them corporate greed and abuse by corporate executives, is it really so shocking?...

At first glance, it looks like it's all in the family but let's hope this guy has all the answers:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-zeke-emanuel10-2009apr10,0,3500008.story

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/12/somalia.pirates/index.html
That captain has some huevos, too!

It's time for plan B now that we are at war with Somali pirates:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7321378&page=1
I mean we've got to have some manner of protecting merchant ships from these maniacs. There's no law in Somali except for Sharia law and the "elders" in Somali who are present during the negotiations don't do squat. So the pirates know they have a safe haven in Somalia or they can always head for the nearest British warship and demand their rights to political asylum in England.
Now, after watching 60 minutes last night, all we gotta do is recruit the guys at the gun shows who are buying a ton of assault rifles and ammo in Virginia, no questions asked, and put them on the merchant ships. I mean they're probably unemployed anyway, so why not put them to work doing something they love? Thanks to them, the stock of Smith and Wesson has quadrupled, but the supply of ammo in the US is running quite low. So, if we put them all to sea for six months, they get jobs, we get our ammo supply back up to snuff, and the pirates get peppered. It a win, win situation for everybody but the pirates, don't you think?...