• The 450-foot-long airship would be a “potentially game-changing” addition to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities because of its 10-year flight time and a radar unit so massive it wouldn’t fit into any aircraft now in the service’s fleet, Dahm said.

  “It would allow us to observe remarkably fine details over very long periods,” he said. “That lets us better understand how an adversary operates, how to anticipate their actions, how to interpret their intent, and many other things that we need today, tomorrow and beyond.”

So let me ask this question, How incogruous is it that I have a greater fear of the government of my Nation under the leasership of a Socialist/Marxist/Fascist Wannabe Commie than I do of the current enemies of the state - The Muslims?

• Obama will be asking each department and agency chief for specific proposals for trimming their budgets. He says families are having to make tough financial decisions and need to know the government is spending their money wisely, too.

Dept of Homeland (In)Security Janet Napolitano may not be willing to recognize the problem of Mexican Drug Cartel violence or admit it exists, but five men in the town of Columbiana, Alabama would effectively argue it does exist. And they can't even speak english!
The five men [url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517078,00.html t=_blank]were found [/url]in a small, barely furnished apartment in Columbiana by Shelby County Sheriff Chris Curry at at what was supposed to be just a routine welfare check. Their welfare was in poor condition since they had all assumed room terrmperature.

On arrival and finding the five deceased people, Sheriff Curry immediately made calls to the FBI and DEA.
Shelby county isn't a big crime mecca and may only see five homicides in a single year, until now.

Some of the five showed signs of torture and all had their throats slit, post mortem.  All were illegal Mexicans and were involved in one of Mexican Drug Cartel businesses most likely the Gilf Cartel. They are what is becoming a [i]spill-over [/i]crime wave which has been raging in Mexico for years.

For those that don't know about history . Here is a condensed version:

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can was invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food is standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history:

Please note that I did not write this, but merely chose to share it with y'all. Hope it was helpful and instructive.

"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally,"

"The only significant calvings in Antarctica have been in the west," Dr. Allison said. And he cautioned that calvings of the magnitude seen recently in west Antarctica might not be unusual.

"Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years."

• "You can't fight this war with just one hand," he said. "You can't have Mexico making an effort and the United States not making an effort."

Some of the answers were eye opening even to a rabidly anti-tax type such as myself.

"designed to maintain the power of elected officials."

  Primarily I accept the title because it is being given to those who believe the Federal Government has overstepped its bounds, those who believe the Federal Government has taken more of the sovereign status of the individual States away, those of us who still believe the Constitution of the United States is real and means only what it says  and perhaps most importantly because it is also the title being given to those with "radical ideologies based on Christian views, such as opposing illegal immigration, abortion and federal taxes.”¹

  Those “radical Christian views” though are the basis of the Constitution for the Nation in which I live. Some revisionist Socialists disagree with the concept of the founding fathers having a Judeo-Christian background, and indeed there were a few of them who weren’t staunch adherents to Christianity but who were deists nonetheless.

  While I am somewhat offended by the use of the term Right Wing Extremist from an appointed Government bureaucrat, the most offensive use of the term by Napolitano is in relation to the singling out of returning veterans from the Iraq Afghanistan war as being “of particular concern” 

  "Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists," it says. "DHS/I&A is concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities."   It seems I have more faith and trust in the people who have served their country than does the Government who placed them in harm’s way.  Not difficult to imagine from a group of government cretins who mostly never served their nation in any capacity except as tax leeches.