February 17, 2005
Iraq Facts
From
Random Nuclear Strikes (who trace the linkage much deeper):
Did you know that 47 countries have re-established their embassies in Iraq?
Did you know that the Iraqi government employs 1.2 million Iraqi people?
Did you know that 3100 schools have been renovated, 364 schools are under rehabilitation, 263 schools are now under construction and 38 new schools have been built in Iraq?
Did you know that Iraq¹s higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers?
Did you know that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2004 for the re-established Fulbright program?
Did you know that the Iraqi Navy is operational? They have 5-100ft patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a navel infantry regiment.
Did you know that Iraq¹s Air Force consists of three operation squadrons, 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 bell jet rangers?
Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion?
Did you know that the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers?
Did you know that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers each 8 weeks?
Did you know there are more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq? They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities.
Did you know that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations?
Did you know that 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October?
Did you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%?
Did you know that Iraq has an independent media that consist of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations?
Did you know that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?
Did you know that 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a recent televised debate recently?
If you answered yes to any of the above, what news organization did you hear it from?
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Thought you would get a kick about the background of that email. I guess you could say I choke slammed the NYT and the AP through the spanish announcers' table....
www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/rboyd_20050816.html
August 16, 2005
While Editors Ponder...
Robin Mullins Boyd
The New York Times ran an article on August 15, 2005 that was an eye opening discourse into the
soul of the print media. The article, “Editors Ponder how to Present a Broad Picture of
Iraqâ€, was spurred by an anonymous email that has been making the rounds since January 2005.
The email was basically a list of many of the accomplishments that had taken place in post Saddam
Iraq. A number of editors of major newspapers, all Associated Press members, had concerns that they
where “not telling the whole story†about Iraq.
Mike Silverman, managing editor of the Associated Press, lamented the fact that “explosions
and shootings and fatalities and injuries on some days seem to dominate the news.†Silverman
cited the dangers in Iraq as one of the reasons reporters were not getting more of the good things.
Kathleen Carroll, the AP’s Executive Editor, actually said that “it was much easier to
add up the number of dead than to determine how many hospitals received power on a particular day
or how many schools were built.†Silverman than threw out the typical media excuse –
the positives listed in the email were actually in various AP stories but they were buried in the
articles.
Well here’s a news flash for the editors cited in the article. The email that started the
ball rolling was actually excerpts from an article published on the Internet on January 30, 2005.
The article, “Accentuating the Negativeâ€, was published on OpinionEditorials.com. How
did I get all of this information about the original article? Easy – I wrote it.
Yes, the major print media was thrown into fits of “healthy discussion†by a woman who
lives in Guyton, GA. A southern belle, wife, mother and grandmother that works full time as a
Registered Nurse. A writer that has no degree in journalism but writes op-ed pieces for free (but
would not mind getting paid). A woman who loves to write and has book number 2 in production with a
publisher. I am just someone that seeks out the facts and doesn’t rely on what someone tells
me. Someone that can form an opinion all by their little self. I put my critical thinking skills
developed through years of nursing to work.
Believe it or not, a dreaded “FReeper†and member of the Pajamahadeen knows more about
the situation in Iraq than all of the high paid, high powered editors that rule what we read every
day. I have no connections, no anonymous sources. Ramsey Clark did not have to set up interviews
for me. I do not have an account at Kinko’s or access to forged memo templates. No one got
“outed†in my attempt to uncover the truth. Lives were not placed in jeopardy. Not one
single animal was harmed in my quest for information. No one was forced to wear panties on their
head or participate in naked pyramids. Heck, I didn’t even have to give money to “the
other side†in Fallujah to get the low-down.
In an ironic twist, a follow-up article, "Ignoring the Positive", was published on opinioneditorials
.com the very same day. I did not have to be stationed in Baghdad or embedded with troops in
Fallujah to get my information. No one was firing RPG’s at me. The only injury I sustained
was a paper cut while printing out my rough draft of the article. The information for both articles
came the War on Terror section of the Department of Defense website - information that anyone with
Internet access can get any time of the day. Guess that blows Mr. Silverman’s excuse out of
the water.
Am I surprised that the print media executives were clueless about the reconstruction facts in
Iraq? Not hardly. Was the information more difficult to obtain than tallying up the dead and
injured in Iraq? Uh, no. Any one with any amount of common sense knows the truth. Things are not
all peaches and cream in Iraq but they certainly are not all black as the media would have us
believe. So the next time one of the media pundits laments the difficulty obtaining positive
information from Iraq, consider the source. The only difficulty the media has is setting aside
their hatred of President Bush long enough to do their job. And they wonder why the newspaper
circulation numbers are down across the board? Guess it’s easier to tally up the numbers than
find out the truth.
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February 16, 2005
WalMart is the United States of the Retail Universe
What I mean by that is, if you've got an axe to grind, a stand to take, or a problem to solve, then automatically blame
the US WalMart and dream up some way to make them pay your way.
The great state of Montana, where men are men and sheep are nervous, is the latest in a long list of whiney little bitches when it comes to WalMart.
As an incentive for these "big box stores'' to pay a living wage to their workers, Sen. Ken Toole's Senate Bill 272 would impose a gross proceeds tax on these companies. They would be exempt from the tax if they paid their employees an entry level wage of at least $22,000 a year, counting both pay and benefits and if less than half of their workers were part-time.
Follow that link and read the whole sordid scam.
My standard question to WalMart haters is this: at what point does a company become so successful that they've become evil?
WalMart has been kicking the retail world's ass for a while now, like K-Mart before them, and Sears before them, and Macy's before them, and on and on. Some day, some chain will come up with a better way for the times and WalMart will become another former top-dog.
And for every gripe there is about them, the answer is the same: they're doing exactly what they need to do to compete. You don't become dominant (or even successful) by not being "right". The number of people who shop there, the amount of sales they generate and the mind-boggling number of people they employ all mean one thing. THEY ARE DOING IT RIGHT. Don't like 'em? No problem, go shop somewhere else. That's the beauty of the free market. Of course, you'll pay more, but sometimes taking a stand involves more than announcing your principles. And while you're in that Mom & Pop store, ask 'em how many folks they employ, how much they pay, and what kind of benefits they offer their hired help.
WalMart (and MicroSoft for that matter), aren't evil, just very successful.
I hope that Montana passes their stupid tax, and I hope WalMart says screw it and shuts down every last store in the state. Then, just like in Canada, you'll hear the whiney little bitches bleating about how unfair it is. And they'll be missing the point that I saw someone make recently (sorry, can't remember where), if WalMart is bad, then if they leave it's a good thing. Right?
Thanks to DynamoBuzz for the pointer, although I oughta smack him for making my blood pressure rise like that. 
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and if less than half of their workers were part-time.
...and put half of their employees out of work.
Ted! Haven't seen you riled up like this in a while. That's some damn good posting!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at February 17, 2005 02:26 AM (rwn/7)
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I've always hated Wally World, but not for their corporate policy - for their clientele. If I see another mullet in my life, it'll be too soon.
Posted by: shank at February 17, 2005 08:48 AM (+H1yK)
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The minimum wage in Montana is $5.15/hr. If you worked 40 hours a week that amounts to only $10,712 annually. WalMart is actually paying $3,000 over the minimum wage for a 32 hr week!
If $5.15/hr isn't enough to live on in Montana, WalMart isn't the problem!
Posted by: RC at February 17, 2005 12:16 PM (5mz24)
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I don't care what anyone says I love Wal-Mart both as an ex-contractor who used to work for them and as a customer.They have always been super towards me.Most people I know have enjoyed working for them.If you don't wanna work there then just don't.It's not like you don't have plenty of other choices.If you don't have other choices then it's probably not the fault of anyone but your local government or perhaps yourself.
I would also like to commend Wal-Mart for helping to put the union menace in it's place.
Posted by: Russ at February 17, 2005 10:31 PM (Y9aSc)
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Don't know if you ever saw it on the news or not but we in FR have had our own drawn out Wal-Mart fight.It wasn't that nobody(well almost) wanted them but they just didn't want them in that spot.That I have to agree with.I sure wouldn't build there.
The last county/town elections saw the ousting of everyone who supported Wal-Mart.They where all replaced with morons who displayed no other credentials than being able to say "No Wal-Mart!"I hope like hell it comes back to kick them all right in the nads.
Posted by: Russ at February 17, 2005 10:40 PM (Y9aSc)
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Some of us Montanans vehemently oppose this legislation. Idiots. Like others, I rarely shop at Wal-Mart, but I completely support W-M policies, hiring, management, and existence.
And the sheep are doing fine, by the way.
Posted by: david at February 19, 2005 03:21 PM (ZVhuO)
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Hey David, glad to hear about the sheep. Hell, as a native Californian (from the Bay Area, no less!) you can imagine the ribbing I put up with.
We had a minor WalMart uproar in this area. Plans were announced that a store would be built and "citizen action groups" instantly sprang into action to prevent it. Their main objection was that having a WalMart that close to their gated communities would lower their property values. Only one problem - WalMart owned the land long before the developers started their construction. The judge threw it all out because the hoity-toity residents should've been ticked at the developer for not telling them the whole story, not WalMart.
You can imagine how much I enjoyed that.
Posted by: Ted at February 19, 2005 04:52 PM (ZjSa7)
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I don't understand any good reason to defend Walmart on philosophical grounds. Maybe if you own the hacienda you have the free time to think of bogus arguments to defend your villainy. Then one day the workers find other uses for the tools.
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A Sad Day
Here endeth the
Nog Watch.
For those of you who may have an emotional investment, take solace by the fact that our Nog was truly the Methuselah of nogdom.
There has been a small, private closed-container ceremony.
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I'm absolutely heartbroken.
How could this happen?
Posted by: Paul at February 16, 2005 01:31 PM (vbP6L)
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Don't leave us in suspense here. We need closure.
"Hey, somebody close the fridge door!"
(Sorry, couldn't help myself.)
But really, how did it happen?
Posted by: GEBIV at February 16, 2005 03:23 PM (YVn2E)
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And I hope the proper hazardous waste shipping papers were filled out!
Posted by: nic at February 16, 2005 05:01 PM (etHvD)
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The Nog is dead. Long live the Nog!
Posted by: LeeAnn at February 16, 2005 07:05 PM (vqSdN)
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I haven't heard details, but it was either someone who decided to completely clean out the fridge (it's a warehouse fridge, so it's always disgusting), or the fridge died and they threw everything out.
Posted by: Ted at February 16, 2005 07:11 PM (ZjSa7)
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!
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I mourn with you all...
Posted by: Susie at February 22, 2005 01:55 PM (njD7q)
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New Blog Showcase
When a blogger first starts out, one of the hardest things to do is getting noticed (except for me of course. I sprang from Blogger's loins fully formed and wrapped in a tamale husk, at least that's my story this week and I'm sticking to it).
Sorry for the sidetrack... As I was saying, it's difficult to get that jump start on traffic (spelling is hard too, especially words like vacuum, which I always misspell vacume for some stupid reason).
Oops, there I go again (although Monty Python did this same basic gag much better in the opening credits of Holy Grail, don't you think?).
Ahem. Find someone less tiresome to read at the New Blog Showcase. Your sanity will thank you.
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Vaacum. Vaccum. Vacummmm. As long as the consenents are in the right order it doesn't matter how ya spell it.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at February 17, 2005 02:42 AM (rwn/7)
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It might explain the "lurking in shadows" quirk too
My wife noticed I had a stray hair on my head sticking straight out like an antenna, so I was forced to admit that when I was younger I'd been bitten by a radioactive spider. Unfortunately, it wasn't all that radioactive, so instead of being able to shoot webs from my hands, I just get really sweaty palms.
She said it was too bad I didn't get that "eat your mate" habit too.
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Posted by: Robyn at February 16, 2005 11:23 AM (NiKlM)
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Tell her that it's usually the female of the species who demonstrate that characteristic.
They don't call them black widows for nothing.
Posted by: GEBIV at February 16, 2005 03:25 PM (YVn2E)
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Player's Union blinks, fans miss it for yawning
Today they will finally take this miserable corpse of a hockey season off of life support.
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February 15, 2005
But will it make my go cart fly like Super Mario's?
From
Dustbury, a pointer to the latest in great gadgets, IMHO.
JSC Speed has introduced something called the TurboXS DTEC, which takes one ordinary Nintendo Game Boy Advance (not included) and turns it into an actual automotive-diagnostic device. The various modules allow you to read turbo boost, exhaust temperature, intake air temperature, and RPMs; future modules will include detonation sensors and skidpad readings in g.
If you're a gearhead, then you're probably drooling. For the rest of us, we can simply admire the elegant crossover of technologies.
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You're right on time with this one,Ted.Just so happens that I'm starting to dive kinda deep into electronic engine management systems lately.Besides just for the sake of doing it it's also gonna help me in both some future hop up as well as hop down(I'll explain later!) projects I'm starting to plan for.Ill have to look into this one.
Posted by: Russ at February 16, 2005 01:03 AM (Y9aSc)
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Crystal Claire Glass
That's the name one of my old Air Force buddies claimed he was going to hang on a daughter.
So besides being a fairly good chunk of Google bait, it makes a dandy lead to this wicked cool online toy: The Baby Name Wizard. Go play with it and be impressed.
Thanks to Rodger (the 300th most popular boys name in the 1940's) via Spoons (which is inexplicably missing from the database) for pointing this one out. The drawing link is worth seeing too.
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The joys of parenthood
That title is *not* being sarcastic. For all the trials and tribulations and unexpected crises that come about with little ones, it all fades to insignificance with one smile. And when a child smiles, they smile with everything they've got.
Robert has been kiddie-blogging recently (gee, I wonder why?).
Rich has too.
All links worth reading, because kids are natural-born Monty Python skit generating machines.
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Flip Wilson used to say "Don't fight the feeling"
Somehow along the line, one of the occasionally recurring themes on Rocket Jones has become bondage related posts. I'll admit that I haven't tried very hard to change that (translation: I've run with it).
So in keeping with that hereby-declared fine tradition, I proudly present The Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day.
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Thanks for this too,Ted.Rather cool genre to specialize in.I have tons of the old E.C. reprints although I'm kinda partial to Cavewoman and Liberty Meadows comics.I wish LM would come back to the post on Sundays.Frank Cho is DA MAN!
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February 14, 2005
Happy Valentine's Day!
From
Rocket Jones -
this will stay up top all day, scroll down for fresh nonsense.
Spank you, spank you very much (sorry, couldn't resist).
Have a wonderful day, because we all deserve it!
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She loves me thiiiiiiiiiiis much!
My wife has to work late tonight, which really sucks. But being the shallow type of guy I am, she made sure to ease the sting with gifts. Lots of Valentine gifts.
A couple of weeks ago a box from Amazon showed up at the house and inside was a 12-DVD set called "50 Horror Classics". That was my Valentine's Day gift, and I looked upon it, and it was good.*
Then, last night she presented me with a card, some candy and a copy of The Beast! I talked about the movie here (it's not a horror movie, it's a war movie), and after almost a year of looking in the bargain bins at WalMart for this title, she found it for me**.
I'm a lucky guy, and believe me, I know it.
* I already had about half of these movies in my library, but this collection will allow me to sell off or trade in several DVD's, and with whatever money that brings I plan to pick up this for starters.
** Highly recommended, and for less than $6.00, you can't go wrong.
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Yes, I know it's all about you.... But I'm curious, what did you get for her?
Posted by: michele at February 14, 2005 12:10 PM (ht2RK)
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* original comment deleted *
At first I listed exactly what I "got for her", but then after thinking about it, it's really none of your business.
We don't celebrate Valentine's Day so much as we've lived it every single day for the past 24 years. Except for a few inevitable periods where we've been apart, she's heard "I love you" at *least* once a day, and when possible she's gotten the hugs and kisses to go along with it. She gets flowers several times a year for no special reason, and we buy each other little gifts just because.
I mention all that not as a way of keeping score, because we don't. Most of what we do for each other is to just be there and do for each other, by all the little kindnesses that lets the other know you care.
Sorry if I misunderstood your comment, and I'm sorry that you seem to have misunderstood my post. I mostly have fun here on Rocket Jones, but if you'd care to learn more about the life my wife and I share, feel free to check out the archives. There's a whole category called "Seriously", I'd suggest you start there.
*grump mode off*
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I think I'm going Japanese
This site let's you
enter your name and it will translate it to Japanese katakana characters of various type styles. For instance, here's the caligraphy form of "Ted".
And the explanation as given by the site:
It is pronounced "TEDDO". (Consonants are pronounced more or less the same way as in English. "E" sounds like e in met. "O" sounds like o in old.)
That last line should read "O" as in elder statesman.
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Heyyy, mine had the same, disturbing "cockeyed smiling face" in it...
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Mine ended up looking like P5U or 75%, depending on the font.
Not to be confused with the
F5U of course.
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Picture)
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From the same
site that I found the picture of the F5U, there's, um,
This.
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February 13, 2005
Launch Report - 2/12/05
Saturday was our monthly NOVAAR club launch at Great Meadow Equestrian Center in The Plains, Virginia. The weather was mostly sunny with some high clouds and the temperature climbed to around 50. The winds were calm in the morning but built all day until towards the end they were a steady 10-15 mph with much stronger gusts at times.
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Sorry I missed y'all yesterday,Ted.I had a few projects that I had wanted to complete before yesterday but I barely missed them.Just finished two coats of Future on my old Mean Machine.I have all new yellow decals for it.Plus,I have just finished Futuring a brand new 24mm Big Red Max.Some other stuff I'll be debuting at the next launch,too.I can do without the wind,also.This is no lie but just about every flying day we've had over the past year has been windy except for the last NOVAAR.Speaking of did you know that Mike has scheduled the next Battlepark for the 19th(EX)and the 20th(open).That is the same day as the Daytona 500 so it aint gonna happen unless I do just the early morning thing.There's always next month at the Plains.
Oh and one more thing,Ted.I don't know if you've heard but Danny Joe Brown(ex-Hatchet) has been in Miami hospital for over a week now with very bad pneumonia.They really thought he was gonna die on Monday night but he has been getting better.They had to pump fluid out of his lungs on friday and also did the dialasis thing on him.I don't think I have to tell you why that is.As of now it looks like he'll be o.k.
Well,anyways,if nothing else maybe I'll see ya next month.Later!-Russ
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Hey Russ, sorry you couldn't make it. I won't be getting to Culpeper next weekend, stuff going on, so yeah, next month at Great Meadow. Also hadn't heard about Danny Joe Brown, thanks for the heads up.
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The Plains? The Plains?
Last time I spent any time in that part of Virginia, I was a college student, visiting friends. Stayed at Toad Hall, right next to Forrest Mars's little spread. That was 34 years ago...
I'm just trying to imagine all of those rockets - and all of that nice open space. We used to launch ours in whatever open space we could find in our village on the South Shore of Long Island - which is to say, postage-stamp-size fields. I still have all of my old Estes Model Rocket News issues from the early 1960's...hah!
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A few of my best pictures from the launch:
http://www.vforcerocketry.com/gallery.htm
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A Valentine Series - 7
We're almost done with our romantic look at classic Hollywood moments, ala
Rocket Jones.
Now, certain actors possess an undefinable presence. That unmistakable command of any situation, whether it's dealing with love, life or the bad guys. Even something as simple as giving a little fatherly mentoring was done with style and assurance.
The Duke definitely had presence.
(in the extended entry)
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And it is for this reason that the Duke has the place of honor on my bathroom wall. I don't care if he's dead, he's still hot.
Posted by: LeeAnn at February 13, 2005 11:13 AM (vqSdN)
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Twelve feet deep
The ship is a catamaran that weighs one thousand tons, is almost as long as a football field, and can carry two helicopters. It's also able to operate in water as shallow as twelve feet.
That's the new Sea Fighter, which is a small-scale concept ship being tested right now. Techniques and technologies learned from Sea Fighter will be applied to the Navy's next-generation Littoral Combat Ship. The US Coast Guard is participating in the test program as well, because Sea Fighter might just become their new standard coastal patrol craft.
Murdoc Online has pictures and links.
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February 12, 2005
Bear Spotting
Luuka attended today's rocket launch. There's a picture in the extended entry, and I'll post a launch report and more pictures tomorrow.
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Did she get to light the fuse?
Posted by: Helen at February 13, 2005 03:25 AM (fL9DT)
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We don't use fuses, that would be dangerous. *mandatory safety disclaimer for the BATFE*
Actually, she did sit at the launch table when the button was pushed. She is now an official "Steely-eyed Missile Bear".
Posted by: Ted at February 13, 2005 07:55 AM (ZjSa7)
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Sorry I couldn't be there. Fighting off this lingering cold/flu thing. C'mon, springtime!
Posted by: Doug Pratt at February 13, 2005 08:42 AM (ia2zV)
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She sat on the table while others did the work, eh? That must make her a *Union* Steely-eyed Missle Bear.
Posted by: Victor at February 13, 2005 12:01 PM (etHvD)
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I know where you're coming from Doug, that bug kicked my butt for about two weeks before I started to feel anything near "better".
Posted by: Ted at February 14, 2005 07:59 AM (blNMI)
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Nice name for the rocket.
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