Russian warplane on par with most advanced US technology

Russia's new t-50 fighter jet was rolled out earlier this week. Supposedly it's a 5th generation fighter, with stealth capability and sustained supersonic cruise, among other potentially lethal high tech gadgetry. If the Russians are not lying and that's a pretty big if since Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is about as trustworthy as a crackhead in an electronics store, but IF they are not lying, this jet heralds the re-emergence of one of the most aggressive and dangerous military forces in human history. Further more, said aggressive and dangerous military power would be treading on the equally dangerous and aggressive toes of the American industrial military complex. World War III anyone?

Since nobody watches the State of the Union Address, here's a post!!

Obama gave his state of the Union address Wednesday. I thought he came off sounding poised and unafraid of the unprecedented challenges his administration faces. Though judging by the supreme court's reaction to Obama's criticism of a recent ruling on campaign finances not every one believes the prez walks on water.



Obama acknowledged the democratic defeat in Massachusetts but announced intentions to go ahead with health care reform anyway. He'll have to be more bipartisan about it this time if he wants it to work. Being belligerent didn't get him or his party anywhere. Obama also renewed his call for openly gay people to serve in the armed forces. All I can say is it's about time. Why we guard so closely the right to die for country on some far off God forsaken soil I'll never know. But health care and homosexuality weren't the only things on Obama's mind. Obama promised he'd have troops out of Iraq by August, renewed pleas for international forces to take the lead in Afghanistan, promised big money to fund clean energy products, said he'd make America's education system the best in the world and chastised republicans and democrats for not working together.

It was nice to see an American president give an eloquent state of the union address, 8 years of former president George Bush's painful awkwardness was enough and I'm tired of Americans coming across as cross-eyed and drooling morons in the international media. But, no matter how good Barrack Husein Obama sounded, talk is cheap. This country is facing foreign competition like never before. If America wants to keep freedom and prosperity as its brand names, there needs to be an about face from the status quo on capitol hill asap. If you'd like to listen to the State Of The Union speech in it's entirety it's up on YouTube here.

Why Nebraska will start off as a Big 12 front runner next year

Is Bo Pelini going to lead Nebraska to its next national championship? In his three years at Nebraska Pelini has improved Nebraska from 112th in total defense in 2007-2008, to 55th in 2008-2009, to 7th in 2009-2010.

Every year Pelini has been at Nebraska his teams have gotten progressively better, and Nebraska's players have gotten tougher and smarter every opportunity Bo Pelini has gotten to teach them.

And you can't get too much tougher and smarter than Nebraska was at the end of the 2009-2010 season. If Pelini's team improves by the same degree this offseason as it has in previous offseasons, Nebrska fans could be in for something special next year. The blackshirts have become a feared defensive unit once again. What remains to be seen is if the team as a whole can ever return to anything more than a shadow of its former self. The other teams in the Big 12 have got to be very interested to find that out next year, because while college football is better when Nebraska is good, the Big 12 is also a whole lot tougher too.

Make the world a better place punch a terrorist in the face

News week posted a multimedia article with the faces of the top 8 most wanted terrorists recently. Though the odds are none of us will ever see any of these people in person, I figure it would be good to remember their faces so that if we do we see them we can expediently kill them.

The end of the New York Times?

The New York Times announced a bold new business strategy recently. They are going to give a certain amount of articles free and then have people pay for access after that starting in 2011. I hope it works because "the grey lady" is the best newspaper in the world, but why would people pay for a product they can get for free? Looks like I'll have to take them off of my Igoogle. You win this round Rueters.

The democratic nightmare

Well kids, Scott Brown has won Massachusetts senate seat. I hope I'm wrong about the republicans gridlocking the wheels of government, but I doubt it. Whether this reform or another one goes through, the numbers don't lie. Americans are paying far too much for healthcare that is adequate only for the middle and upper class. I can't see how anything is going to get done now that the republicans have the power to torpedo any reform. The total beligerence shown on both sides during the health care debate makes me think that the United States might be entering into political paralysis at a time when it can ill afford it. I guess I should start studying up on my Chinese. Ni hao benevolent Chinese overlords! Yes, that should be a good start.

Consequences for Pakistan

It doesn't matter who refutes the claims or what the Americans did. Even if they are a bunch of dirty scumbag terrorists, Americans have the right to due process in a court of law and a fair trial. If allegations of torture by Pakistani police and prison officials are true, which they probably are, then the 5 Americans accused of terrorism in Pakistan are not receiving that. America needs to respond strongly to this. Pakistan may be an ally in the "war on terror," but allowing any Americans to be tortured no matter what the pretext puts all Americans abroad at risk.

Big brother is watching you

Good news everyone! We're safe from terrorism! There's no way Osama Bin Laden can reach us through the iron bars we've built up around ourselves! The Guardian, a respected British newspaper unearthed a new revelation regarding the amount of power we have given law enforcement to oppress the citizens of the United States today. It sure seems like we ought to be more concerned with the very real threats from within our nation rather than Obsessing over ol' Osama.


The FBI has been fraudulently claiming to investigate terrorism in order to illegally search the e-mails of journalists under the auspices of the patriot act. Ladies and gentlemen, nothing on the internet or on your computer is secure from our recently empowered law enforcement bodies. In order to fight a rag tag band of dirty flea infested religious crazies the U.S. has sacrificed major civil liberties. You can bet that though one incident of abuse of the patriot act has been caught, there are thousands of others that have not been caught. It may not be too long before George Orwell's thought police become a reality. I'm not advocating revolution, but something better than apathy is required.

African jerk offs ruin religion for everybody

God dammit religious zealots! Will you quit killing innocent people so religious minded folks can enjoy the piece of mind that their lifestyle brings. Where in the bible or the koran does it say that it's ok to murder those who don't agree with you? You guys would be douche bags whether you were religious or not. If there is a hell, it's difficult to imagine that those who murder others in the name of religion are not going there.

Run in terror left coastians!

As usual, I'm bitter about the often terrible whether in my home state of Nebraska. So, when those who live in paradise get slapped with a little piece of my own meteorological hell, a little part of me rejoices. California got a tornado warning today, but alas, there was no destruction. I wonder how much of our national debt would disappear if that state vanished in some cataclysmic natural disaster?

The new kings of the Big 12

With rivals imploding left and right it looks like the University of Nebraska's football team is going to come back loaded next season, and Nebraska is starting to look ascendant. After ending the year with a holiday bowl stomping of Mike Stoops' Arizona Wildcats Nebraska is back on the national stage, and every one in Nebraska feels all warm and fuzzy.


The the curse of Steve Peterson looks to be over, and no one since Charlton Heston has pulled off a better Mosses impersonation than Nebraska's Bo Pelini. This year he led his long suffering flock of Nebraska fans out of the Egyptian slavery that was our Peterson imposed football Purgatory. The resemblance may get even more uncanny next year, as he just might lead us to the promised land.



The evil genius is gone from Texas Tech, the eggman is gone from Kansas, OU appears to be on the wane and the Big 12 is looking weaker than it ever has. That is of course good news for Nebraska fans. There's no reason to think that the defense, which made monumental strides last year, going from a Callahanesque 113th in total defense to being one of the most dominant squads in the nation, won't continue to improve. And if it does, they could start a cheerleader under center and still challenge for the Big 12 Championship. Not that a cheerleader could do much worse than Zach Lee did last season anyway.

This weeks sign that the apocalypse is upon us

While there might not be a need to remind those in Haiti that the end is nigh, those in the United States sometimes need a gentle reminder that all good things in life will soon meet a horrible and agonizing end.

So, this weeks sign that all the world is going straight to hell is that the U.S. government is going to need to raise the debt cap again. I'm all for optimism, but the Christian Science Monitor figures America's national debt will need to be increased to over 13 trillion dollars in order for it to remain solvent in 2010. That's a whole hell of a lot of money. With the way the country has been performing economically in recent years, it looks like it's going to be very difficult if not impossible to pay that debt down.

Let the clusterfuck begin!!

Well, if the Democrats this senate race in Massachusetts they will lose their filibuster proof super majority in the senate and Americans can officially look forward to an agonizing gridlock in government for the next three years. I Hope America doesn't need to raise taxes or make new laws any time soon.

This is CNN right?

One of the most insidious effects of the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle has been the use of non-experts in the role of experts. CNN does this all the time and it drives me bonkers. The Onion does a great job of making fun of it, and the should because the use of reporters as pannel experts is misleading and useless as a news format. This is why I love the Onion, not only are edgy and funny, but they attack a lot of salient points that most candy-assed corporate journalists are too scared to take on.


The pendulum has begun to swing back in the news world from extreme corporatism to more community based jouralism, and the huge international conglomerates are going to find it increasingly difficult to turn a profit off of news. This is good news for the common man. But we, the American News consumers, might have to wait quite a long time before the industry finally reaches its nadir and is forced to reform. So, until that glorious day, we will have to watch reporters pretend like they know what the fuck they are talking about on any number of issues Check it out what I'm talking about.

Google finally stands up to China

Don't have time to write this now. But this is just awesome. After China tried to hack out the e-mail acounts of Chinese human rights activists google has decided to stop censoring its search results for them. Check it out here.

Saudi King's brilliant plan to recover lost diamond goes horribly awry

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia's plan to recover a national treasure stolen from his country in Thailand 20 years ago was met with bitter defeat yesterday. The monarch's attempt to recover the famous blue diamond was foiled when, after summoning the entire Thai royal family to a secluded room in his palace in Saudi Arabia he gave them a chance to come clean.

"Now I'm going to leave for five minutes and when I come back that diamond had better be on my desk." Abdullah said.

Upon returning to the room after the five minutes had expired the sultan found it completely ransacked.

"Those motherfuckers took everything," Abdullah said. "They took the rugs, they stole the damn desk and they even took my fucking dog! That was a $7O,000 dog!"

Thai crown prince Vajiralongkorn, seen walking a dog looking very much like the sultan's with a suspiciously huge blue diomand hanging from its collar has denied all allegations of theft.

"As a representative of the Thai people I would never steal and then have sex numerous times on King Abdullah's rug," Vajiralongkorn said. "And I would certainly never use his dog to help engage in any of those lewd sex acts over and over again."

H1N1 now more popular in Thailand than current government coalition

The H1N1 death toll has reached 192 in Thailand according to news outlet Rueters, leading a majority of Thai citizens to shift their allegiance within the contentious constitutional democracy.

"We are tired of being gunned down during military coups or packed by the hundreds into trucks and suffocated during dissident crackdowns. We prefer to expire during a violent fever. It is much more humane." Bangkok resident Somkid Boonthanom said. "It is time for a new leadership! Viva H1N1!"

Meanwhile behind the scenes Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the ultra powerful Thai royal family have ordered the discreet assassination of H1N1, purchasing millions of orders of a new vaccine earlier this month. Reports from those close to the Thai royal family indicate that the royals believe they will be able to defeat H1N1 with the vaccination program currently underway, but that they are disappointed that they won't have anything to rape or loot once the conflict is resolved in their favor.

Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra also responded to the arrival of a new political heavyweight in the Thai arena.

"Let me first just say that H1N1 is an evil killer as are all of its supporters," Shinawatra said. "I don't condone violence, but if tens of thousands of my completely independent supporters were to suddenly rise up and burn down the city of bangkok in an attempt to destroy my infectious opponent on February 12 sometime between 5 and 11 pm, weeeellll I just wouldn't know what to say about that."

H1N1 could not be reached for comment as it is a fucking soulless virus, but it is assumed that the swine/avian flu combination is confident in it's chances of carrying the next election due in no small part to the unsanitary conditions of the Thai capitol of Bangkok and a human rights record that is far superior than that of its political opponents.

Islam in the crosshairs

This is the kind of stuff that makes me sick. A Somali man attempts to murder a cartoonist who draws the Islamic prophet Mohammad and the charge can't just be attempted murder, it has to be terrorism as well. "Phtew," that is the sound of me spitting on this prosecutor. Thanks to this person's zeal to heap as many charges on some crazy religious radical as possible we can now rest assured that there is no such thing as equal justice for Muslims. The Muslim attempted to murder the cartoonist. That's what it was! But nope, the prosecutor wants to further his career at the expense of justice, so the charge is terrorism.

I see this as wrong on two levels. First, I am sick and tired off prosecutors using the law, and the lives of men and women as tools to further their careers. What is with them throwing every charge imaginable at a man to try and see if they can make one stick? In my opinion this is nothing but sheer malice towards the citizenry they are supposed to serve, and the kind of callous disregard for human life and liberty that they are supposed to be preventing, NOT PROMOTING!

Second, why did the Danish cartoonist have to do his damnest to blaspheme the Muslim religion? Look, I'm all for defending free speech, and yes, this man has the right to draw whatever cartoon he wants. But knowing that this is the most disrespectful thing he can do to Islam, and still doing it, shows that this man is intentionally antagonizing Muslims. Get a life Danish cartoonists! There are better, less disrespectful ways to get your point across than drawing a cartoon of a religion's holiest prophet with a bomb on his head in the shape of a Turbin. And when you Blaspheme someone's messiah, don't be surprised when the craziest guy in the club tries to kill you. You brought it upon yourself.

So, just remember people. Justice has nothing to do with fairness or equality. And if you're Muslim, now would be a good time to watch your step. Big brother is watching you closer than ever.

Another good coach covers up another poor Big 12 coaching decision

Tommy Tuberville is a great hire for Texas Tech. Though he's not the equal of the man the school just fired due to his chilly relationship with the athletic department, Tuberville will probably keep Tech nationally relevant for at least a couple of years.

The problem is, Texas Tech isn't the kind of school that will allow Tuberville to recruit the kind of athletes it's going to take to line up and play winning smash mouth football in the Big 12. Tech will almost certainly trend away from the explosive finesse offensive attack that Mike Leach pioneered under Tuberville's stewardship, and that's too bad for Texas Tech. Expect Tech to eventually be relegated to it's familiar role as perennial cellar dweller within five years. It's sad to watch a program that redefined offence in college football implode like Texas Tech has, but, such is the grand circle of life. Here's ESPN's take on it.

Take a good look, this is the problem.

No virgins for you!

Terrorists in Afghanistan could be the new favorites to win this years Darwin award. Here's the story on how they shot their metaphorical wad too soon and blew themselves up. Praise be to Allah!

Isn't it about time that the world moved out of the counter-reformation?

The gay marriage debate in America is really getting stale. The United States of America is supposed to be the land of the free and yet, gays are not free to get married. I thought this graphic from The Atlantic was extremely telling. Apparently American's would rather have marriages that produce children with webbed feet than marriages between same-sex couples.