If you traipse on over to DemocraticUnderground, they won't allow access to their fora unless you give them $$$. So apparently it's become a pre-pay pity party. Talk about limiting freedom of speech :-)

Micheal Moore called for Tuesday to be Payback Tuesday. Mike, you were right... Yep, Tuesday was payback. Payback for obstructing appointees, payback for backing unions over the safety of the Nation, and payback for placing the desires of trial lawyers over the needs of the United States. Payback is rather sweet...

Shooting down artillery shells is akin to shooting down supersonic ballistic missiles. It's a big step towards true theatre, and eventually strategic, missile and projectile defenses.

Go vote, if you haven't already. I did, and it's made me more manly and stronger. My wife did, and she's gotten more beautiful and her breasts have gotten larger and firmer. Vote! It does a body politic good!

Air Tactics, No-Fly Zones, and Airspace I was a-thinkin'.... The Saudis and turks cutting us off from using their bases for the impending invasion of Iraq is not as much of an issue as you might think... 1. The bases can still be used to support the No-Fly Zones. This means that they are, in essence, air-defnse bases. Plus, if we float a couple dozen aircraft at a time into Iraqi airspace for No-Fly coverage, they present yet another target for the Iraqis to track. If they shoot at those aircraft, we can off the offending missile launcher or gunner as a defensive manuever.We can't bomb everything from there, but we could, within the strictures of the No-Fly zone rules, take out their anti-air elements. 2. We could conceivably use the Saudi desert as a staging area -- park the troops ready to go, then perform the exact opposite of the Gulf Storm manuever and go into Kuwait and hang a left into Iraq. We have the navigation tools to do this easily. 3. The Saudis will probably let us at least fly-over for attacks into Iraq. Longer range, but still very useful. Overall, we've got tools to do without the Saudis -- and their lack of cooperation just lets us move them to the "Regime Change" list all the sooner...