Habu @ 1:
“Welcome to a world where the CINC is a clear and present danger to our survival.”
As so many of us were screaming to the rafters prior to 11/4/08. Might as well have been barking at the moon for all the good it did us. The Obamanation is a cypher, an enigma to which none of us rubes in flyover country hold the key. Where was he born? What do his college transcripts look like? Why cannot we see these things? Most other candidates are glad to show them.
Eggplant @ 3:
“…the Chinese fully compromised Los Alamos National Lab and got everything (correct me if I’m wrong about this). Supposably the Chinese know everything concerning US nuclear weapons technology.”
Uhm, not sure. I am from the area and it appeared that Wen Ho Lee was not guilty of spying just compromising the rules. OR the government screwed up so thoroughly that they just had to gloss the whole thing over. Mheh – you choose.
There are several 4GW & 5GW documents in the public domain on the ‘net. The best are authored from the Chinese. They recognize that they cannot win the physical war that easily without massive destruction but that if the target is softened first then they can come in and mop up the rest easily. I may have some of them copied and I will try and find them – later.
Gerard over at American Digest posted some interesting comments from Robert Heinlein reproduced here:
Small Signs of Decline by Robert Heinlein:
“I want to mention one of the obvious symptoms: Violence. Muggings. Sniping. Arson. Bombing. Terrorism of any sort. Riots of course – but I suspect that little incidents of violence, pecking away at people day after day, damage a culture even more than riots that flare up and then die down. Oh, conscription and slavery and arbitrary compulsion of all sorts and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial – but those things are obvious; all the histories list them.
I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all. This one I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms as you have named… But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.
This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it. It is too late to save this culture – this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper.”
It may be that our demise is not with a bang but a whimper and a slow fade into the darkness.
