The Saints Are Coming

You’ve probably seen this video before, but I just have to post it. U2 and Green Day really hit the spot with this (anti-war) music video. Any responsible government should ALWAYS first take care of its own before anything else. Lessons to be learned here for the Bush Administration… The President should ask himself this one question: who matters more, the Iraqi people or the Americans in New Orleans. Hurricane season comes every year. Last year was a quiet one, let’s see this coming summer if the White House has learned anything…

Lockheed Martin’s $27 Million Oops!

Lockheed Martin finally admitted that their almost $30 million unmanned prototype aerial vehicle (UAV) P-175 Polecat crashed at the Nevade Test and Training Range in December. And they only had one prototype…

Lockheed Martin disclosed that the cause of the crash was “an irreversable unintentional failure in the flight termination ground equipment, which caused the aircraft’s automatic fail-safe flight termination mode to activate.” Translated (loosely) into layman’s terms: “some jackass on the ground pressed the wrong button. Oops!” Lockheed Martin also said that the flight termination system performed exactly as expected, causing the crash. Um, really, Captain Obvious?

So it’s back to square one for the Polecat program…

[Check out the Danger Room post for their hilarious take on the matter...]

Sources:
WIRED Blogs: Danger Room [Oops! I Blew up the Secret Drone!]
Aviation Week: Polecat Crash Sets Back LM UAV efforts

Tolerance Takes A Step Back: Gays In The Military

At a time when the U.S. Armed Forces needs every soldier in its inventory fit to fight, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace said on Monday that he considers homosexuality to be immoral and that the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly.

This comes as the Bush Administration is searching the thinning ranks of the military for extra troops to send into Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gen. Pace stated that "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way", referring to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which allows for homosexuals to serve in the military as long as they keep their sexual orientation private.

Regardless of the policy, a 2005 government audit found that some 10,000 troops, including 50 specialists in Arabic, have been discharged because of the policy.

If the military needs more men and women in service, what's the point of discharging or banning thousands solely on grounds of their sexuality? No, they'd rather send in injured troops, because that's not immoral…

Gen. Pace calls homosexuality immoral – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_gays

Military Ebay

Ebay has a militaristic competitor: eDisposals. The British Ministry of Defense is auctoning off its surplus and replaced equiptment. This includes boats, truck, Land Rovers, boots, camouflage gear, etcetera, etcetera. Guns and ammo aren’t for sale yet…

http://www.edisposals.com