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Two stories this week concerning our increasingly mechanized military.

The first one involves self-driving supply trucks that allow the humans riding in it to spend their time looking for roadside bombs.

Personally, I'd reverse the roles but it's progress I guess.

Next story is a tad scarier. The Brits have basically built a Cylon Raider which they call the Taranis. Read up on it here.

So, um, Skynet may not have been so fictional, eh?

Meet Mikey Weinstein, the man dedicated to stopping the Talibangelical takeover of our military.

Some of his work, plus more of the reason he needs to do his work is covered in this Harper's article.

Haillburton/KBR is still out there in Iraq and Afghanistan poisoning our troops. Read the article, watch the video.

Seriously, a lot of these bastiches need to be doing hard time for the things they do to our troops.

Granted, there are some irregularities here, but to deny a person citizenship after service to our nation in a warzone.

But hey, she's just another illegal to these people, right?

We're not out of the woods yet. According to Richard Clarke, we are woefully unprepared for the next phase in electronic warfare.

No doubt "electing" a Talibangelical Luddite didn't help.

Here is Clarke on The Rachel Maddow Show going further into this:

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Republican obstructionism may be delaying our nation's conversion to green technology, but the Navy has already moved ahead, converting a F-18 to biofuels.

Wired also covers this.

It is possible at least one strike group will be fully converted over by 2016. Considering the problems we continue to have with oil producing nations, this can only be a good thing.

Treason in the ranks.

Find this prick guilty, line him up, and let our men and women know that, while they may not like that a black man is giving them orders, they have to obey them. And that's the point. These racist traitors don't care whether or not the orders are legally or morally sound (I mean, this is the same ilk who didn't care about torturing people), but they DO seem to take issue when the Commander in Chief isn't lily white.

This isn't America, and these jerks need to either get on board or muster out and join a militia so we can arrest their traitorous kind and throw them behind bars.

The Tea Bagger Traitors are moving to spread treason throughout our military.

In short, they want our troops to not follow the orders of a black president. That's it in a nutshell.

If any other entity other than angry white racists were trying to subvert the chain and command system, it would be ruthlessly dealt with as a danger to our nation. Well, maybe not. The Talibangelicals have basically taken over the Air Force already I suppose.

This nation is screwed.

I heard this awhile back and just was thinking on it. From the age of Reagan to that of Bush the Lesser Sikhs were not allowed religious expression in the US military.

The all (Hate) Jesus all the time party endorsed religious persecution of a non-Christian faith all while saying words like "freedom" without allowing it for persons who did not look and believe as they did.

Nothing surprising there, just another example of conservative hypocrisy.

We're finally getting out of Iraq. But look at all the work that entails.

An honest look at military spending. Looking at the raw numbers just doesn't do the job.

Not to say it isn't important, but perceptions can be wrong when just saying we spend more on tanks than does Country X.

Case in point. China has the biggest military on Earth.

It also has the biggest total population. Put that into perspective and:

Interesting stuff.

India is planning to weaponize the ghost chili. That's right, the hottest chili known to man is going to be made into a smoke grenade.

This was covered earlier by both NPR as well as by HuffPo.

Check out this Man vs. Food episode regarding a ghost chili burger. Adam is hurting and it shows.

Here's another damn good story representative of what I'd like to see NPR doing. It's the story of the WWII-era WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) who served our nation and are just now getting the recognition they deserve.

I remember reading some on them as a kid but not so much in recent years. Great article on some great ladies. Give it a listen.

In short, conservative mercenary dicks like Blackwater are recklesss, murderous, irresponsible frat boys, just like the party they vote for.

When they are shooting civilians (or each other), these idiots are using cute fake names to check out automatic weapons in a war zone, and then lose them.

Tell me once again how the money we are supposedly saving is making us any safer when these assclowns are world class screwups? Incidentally, when each of these gun-toting oafs is making like ten times what we pay a grunt, HOW are we saving any money?