Random Nuclear Strikes

In the desert? For optical targeting from space? That and other disturbing constructs here.

This makes more sense if you recall that China made a scale mockup of the Himalayan approaches to India for helicopter practice. Trying to find the link….

UPDATE: Ah, here it is:

The Chinese have been building huge structures in the desert for a long time. Back in 2006, they built this 1:20 scale model of disputed border region between China and India. That’s a terrain model 0.7 kilometer wide by almost 1 kilometer tall. Uncanny. Why would they build such a model of a terrain? To play a 1:20 scale war with 1:20 scale tanks? Mind boggling.

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The Dark Knight author and Sin City creator doesn’t like them.

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Yesterday I had to go to my local ACE Hardware to get a gallon of low-odor paint.  I had to get some help since I needed a color match, so I found an employee I’ve worked with in the past.  He’s a very nice, friendly, helpful old hippy with long grey hair and (usually) a tie-dyed shirt, so I enjoy seeking him out when I need help.  What can I say, my parents were hippies, a lot of their friends were, it’s a familiar demographic to me.

Anyway, as he is mixing the pigments, we get into an interesting discussion of how pigments work, and how their application is often times counter-intuitive, and how neat that all is.  I off-handedly remarked that the rules get even stranger when you are talking about colors of light, and he replies that that is so true, and he has to teach people about light when he is teaching them to see & read auras!

And I’m a bit taken aback, wondering how we went from discussing the scientific principles of colors through two different domains, to auras?  o_O

And then I am thanking my mom for being the weirdo hippy that she was, and for teaching me all about auras and “listening” when I was a kid, because I could actually hold a conversation with this guy while my paint mixed, without there being an uncomfortable silence.

Thanks mom, I miss you.

Tim Kowal over at the League finally puts into words the inequality problem (hint, it’s not wealth, it’s power).

Miami PD & Florida Highway Patrol are all a tizzy because a MPD officer did a traffic stop on a FHP trooper, and failed to give “Professional Courtesy”.  Now the FHP is all butthurt, and the MPD is busy smacking the officer down while at the same time shoving it’s collective nose so far up FHPs backside they can see daylight.

First off, “Professional Courtesy” should no be a wink & a nod, but rather, a promise to not treat a fellow law enforcement officer any better, or worse, than any other citizen.

Second, this shows just how utterly morally corrupt our police can be, and how everyone is A-OK with it!  Imagine if this type of behavior had been tolerated by members of our military?  OMG!  There would be such a hew & cry, and wailing, & gnashing of teeth over how awful our military is, and how corrupt, and how it destroys the moral fiber of our young men & women to turn them into such monsters.

This year alone the US Navy has cashiered something like 20 COs for bad behavior (mostly fraternizing with junior officers or enlisted, and some conduct unbecoming).  It’s a strange dichotomy, that we demand the highest standards of conduct & behavior from the people we send elsewhere to enforce our will, but the people at home, that’s just “boys will be boys”.