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Monday, 13 September 2010

Godspeed Major General Israel Tal

Israel Tal, a decorated war hero and the creator of Israel's renowned "Merkava" tank, died in Rehovot Israel on Wednesday. He was age 86.

Born in the small Zionist settlement of Beer Tuvia in Palestine in 1924, General Tal, also known as Talik, fought in the British Army’s Jewish Brigade as a teen in World War II, later he helped lay the foundations of the IDF and held a series of important posts in the course of an illustrious military career, leaving the IDF as deputy chief of staff.

He is considered one of the best five armor commanders in history, alongside U.S. Gen. George S. Patton, Gen. Creighton Abrams, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Israeli Maj. Gen. Moshe Peled, according to the Patton Museum in Fort Knox Kentucky, where he is commemorated.

Tal oversaw the design of the Merkava tank _ Hebrew for "chariot" _ which is widely seen as one of the best Tanks of its time. The Merkava Tank was created to ensure the safety of its crew by placing the engine at the front, allowing crew and medics to enter and exit from behind, even under fire...

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P 311 A DANGEROUS NEW ELEMENT

Discovery Announcement ~ The densest element in the known Universe has been found!

PELOSIUM:

A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named Pelosium. Pelosium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311.

Pelosium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311.

These particles are held together by dark forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

The symbol of Pelosium is PU.

Pelosium's mass actually increases over time, as morons randomly interact with various elements in the atmosphere and become assistant deputy neutrons within the Pelosium molecule, leading to the formation of isodopes.

This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientist to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass.

When catalyzed with money, Pelosium activates CNNadnausium, an element that radiates orders of magnitude more energy, albeit as incoherent noise, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons as Pelosium.

Sunday, 12 September 2010

Afghan Studyless Group

Quiz Time!

What all happens when a collective of brainiac academs, super smart attorneys, intrepid journalists, ex gov guys wishful thinkers and the guy from Weenie Hut Juniors hook up?

Not much!

Least in the practical sense for certain views Great Satan could actually use.

Kinda like the Afghanistan Study Group.

First off - no military cats were involved, a serious error!

"...Put briefly, the ASG Report:

Eschews expertise on Afghanistan or the military;

Distorts the nature of the threat;

Does not account for the realistic consequences of its recommendations;

Does not support questionable assertions and assumptions;

Misrepresents vital American interests in the region;

Implicitly blames Pashtuns for militancy, instead of the social and historical pressures driving the insurgency;

Is cut and pasted multiple times, leading to lots of repeated assertions with little argument to support them; and

Is inconsistent and contradictory in consecutive paragraphs and sections."

Easy to diss and dismiss - ASG could have been way more better by admitting without modesty or restraint that the choices are somewhere betwixt suck and suckiest.

Pic "Great Satan would have to deal with a strategic disaster the likes of which we have not seen since the fall of South Vietnam."