MacGyver

Unbelievable.

I'm pretty sure his appointment was a strategic one to keep him from being pressured to throw his name in the hat for the republican nomination.

Herbert Shughart is still a hero of mine. I hope Mr. Woods gets the opportunity to have a similar conversation.

I hope Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart are waiting to welcome them at the pearly gates. Stuff like this makes my blood boil.

I did some checking. Our two "election obersevers" in Nashville are from France and Armenia. That's rich!It's a sad day when we have someone "checking" our polls, and yet the elections in Venezuela are called the "freest and fairest elections in the world." Seriously. Some folks need to check the chemical content of their breakfast cereal.

Voted this morning. Edmundson Pike Library. 13 minutes from the time I got out of my truck until the time I got back in, including the time spent changing my address. I did notice a gentleman standing in the corner who kind of looked out of place. Looking at the tag he had on, he was a "U.N. Election Observer". I can attest to the fact that no one was oppressed, repressed or otherwise kept from voting while I was there.

We're keeping you guys in our prayers. Please keep up apprised of his status.

Wall Street Journal has Hillary today being a good team player and "possibly" considering sticking around for a second term. I guess trying to fall on her sword for President Obama tarnishes her image, leaves a bad last impression, and hurts her 2016 chances. Lord help us if she ever becomes president. They'll have to pull her off the drapes to get her to leave.

This thread got me to thinking about this picture that has recently been colorized. It's from the 1927 Solvay Conference, and has 29 of the brightest minds of the time Over half of them would go on to win Nobel Prizes, Marie Curie twice. This particular conference focused on the newly formulated quantum theory. Einstein made his famous quote regarding Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle that, "God does not play dice", to which Neils Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do!" You can look at this list and every single one made a lasting contribution to science. Heck, a lot of them had an impact on this Boeing mystery missle.

Oh, I was talking about all your equipment that's going to be down. I'm waiting until the apocalypse to take up smoking anyway...too many other expensive vices...so you're probably right about the stogies.

Meh...chances are it'll still be there waiting when you get there

Hold on, let me check..yep calendar is free the rest of the day. Shoot...an EMP clears up my whole week.

At the Trinity Atomic Test Site in 1945, the 1938 Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi was taking bets on whether it would destroy all life on earth... I guess he was was sitting there, so maybe he knew the odds were in his favor.

I wonder what that math looks like when your target is an airshaft leading to a bunch of centrifuge cascades buried under a mountain.

Maybe a scaled down version of the Phantom Ray that they test flew in 2009. http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/airborne-microwave-weapon-destroys-electronics/ - excuse the source - they had better diagrams than the Boeing Phantom Works wiki page

Yeah, you know the interesting thing about anything in the microwave spectrum is that it attenuates pretty quickly. I wonder if they're kicking the speed up to "missle" speed in order to be able to get a lot closer to their intended targets. It's been a while for me on anything microwave, though it strikes me that the first real "laser" was the microwave based "maser". I wonder how close is close enough.

Pretty cool whatever it is they're using. Figure one high speed pass with this thing could clear any anti-aircraft batteries out of an attack path.

Hmm. Actually, destroying multiples targets before self destructing, I don't know that I'd call it a missle. More of a high speed drone with a ginormous microwave laser with a kickin' gyro system controlling targeting. I guess missile is easier to type.

Chock full. With a really pretty coil of copper, too.

OpsGear has it on sale

I've got an MS3 and love it. It's become my go to sling.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/23/state-dept-emails-from-day-libya-attack-show-al-qaeda-tied-group-on-radar/ Daily Mail on Sunday reported the drones overhead going into the Situation Room.

That's a big deal if it's true. It's morally reprehensible. Turns my stomach to think about it.

For those who are keeping up with this, here's Week 06 and 07, both a Democratic and Republican perspective. While I appreciate each of these speakers, like their modern parties, they both kind of let me down. Maybe it's too much to expect. Maybe they were just trying to tee it up for this week's non-participant: Kingdom Politics - Week 06 - How my faith led me to vote for Democrats http://player.vimeo.com/video/51225033 Kingdom Politics - Week 07 - How my faith led me to vote for Republicans http://player.vimeo.com/video/52016118

Nice looking rail.