Random Nuclear Strikes

Don’t know why and I don’t know how, but my connection to this intarweb thingy has been as reliable at getting my posts up as Bush was with vetoing pork-filled budgets in his first 6 years in office.

As of Friday morning it has been up and down, but usually down. I got through a little bit Saturday night to do some financial stuffings, and then down it went. It has been up for over six hours this morning though, so let us all hope that Comcast has cleaned the end of the digital cable plug after they pulled it out of their ass and plugged it into the proper connection port.

Blogging shall commence immediately.

but I’d guess these fully-autonomous robot helicopters with 300-rpm automatic shotguns are just the first step towards a fleet of 24/7 robot aircraft that actually could prevent an aerial assault on a sensitive target like Pearl Harbor — or, say, the Pentagon.

Gee, what could we call this fleet — I’m thinking something catchy like “SkyNet.”
On a completely unrelated note, the Sarah Connor Chronicles start up in January.

h/t: Survivalblog.

That the Heartless Libertarian went east, because otherwise he’d probably be dealing with this.

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That is a picture of Exit 82 over I-5 in Chehalis, Washington.

No worries here, that is not me in any way shape or form. I know that we flood here a lot and live on top of a big hill.

The dirt under these houses, on these other hand, is some of the most fertile on the west coast, precisely because of floods such as this one.

Btw, I’m not trying to mock them by saying that.

Here’s another shot, this one of Exit 77 where the tractor-trailers are stuck waiting for the waters to recede.

I sure am glad that this month’s gun show was last weekend because the fairgrounds aren’t too far out of the left hand margin of this shot.

They just opened I-5 this morning for commercial vehicles (read: tractor-trailers and/or trucks tall enough to ford 2ft of water).

But I think it is going to take a bit to fix up this kind of damage.

Of course, some folks up here are screaming “Global Warming!!! AHHH!!!”, neverminding that this sort of thing happens just about every single decade.

Others are yelling at Olympia, where the money flows from. Raising this stretch of the Interstate has been “planned” for some years now, but for some reason, “Light Rail” or some sort of “transit” project in the King/Pierce/Snohomish Tri-County area always gets to play with the money.

I say “play with” because you folks are paying for the installation of our current mass transit system.

Thanks. And yes, the wet-suits are uncomfortable.