I got nothin'
Nothing's lighting me up this morning, so a few stray thoughts to act as filler between pictures.
There's been alot of talk that the Republicans have 22 of the 34 Senate seats coming up in the '08 election, but the coverage rarely mentions that this lopsided tally comes as a result of the extremely pro-Bush post 9-11, pre-Iraq atmosphere of 2002.
Have you ever noticed that in the current immigration debate, the most vociferous anti-immigration voices aren't from anywhere near the border?
Should there be a question about building the military? After the Cold War ended, the inertia of the big ticket, technology army was continued even after it had no viable enemy, creating an army which is a fairly poor fit for the type of conflict we are now in? As we go smaller and more mobile, are we doing it again? Is the Pentagon building a military to fight the Chinese? Are we ready for a cyberspace war? Are the current Homeland Security designs really effective against a broad terrorist effort if someone like the Iranians were to try and use that as a tactic?
And, Lastly, if global warming does melt the polar sea ice, what happens to Santa? Do we rewrite the story? Put the Christmas specials in storage?
There's been alot of talk that the Republicans have 22 of the 34 Senate seats coming up in the '08 election, but the coverage rarely mentions that this lopsided tally comes as a result of the extremely pro-Bush post 9-11, pre-Iraq atmosphere of 2002.
Have you ever noticed that in the current immigration debate, the most vociferous anti-immigration voices aren't from anywhere near the border?
Should there be a question about building the military? After the Cold War ended, the inertia of the big ticket, technology army was continued even after it had no viable enemy, creating an army which is a fairly poor fit for the type of conflict we are now in? As we go smaller and more mobile, are we doing it again? Is the Pentagon building a military to fight the Chinese? Are we ready for a cyberspace war? Are the current Homeland Security designs really effective against a broad terrorist effort if someone like the Iranians were to try and use that as a tactic?
And, Lastly, if global warming does melt the polar sea ice, what happens to Santa? Do we rewrite the story? Put the Christmas specials in storage?
posted by mikevotes at
7:37 AM
4 Comments:
In my more optimistic moments I like to see the military as obsolete. It's interesting that China seems to be one of the few nations this administration respects.
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Anonymous, at 9:14 AM
That's because it's the future.
As they add technology to the population of their military, they're going to be huge.
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mikevotes, at 10:54 AM
Santa's story?
You mean the one about the red submarine drawn by eight tiny octopusses, where he carries scuba gear to all good little children?
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Anonymous, at 12:13 PM
That's not a bad one.
I was thinking of maybe the image of a little cartoonish shack drifting on a lone piece of ice, or maybe a move to Canada.
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mikevotes, at 1:22 PM
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