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From Tom Clancy to Reality . . .

Posted By: Okie | 9:22 am — 9/29/2004 | Comments Off See comments below:

Laser injures Delta pilot’s eye – The Washington Times: Nation/Politics – September 29, 2004:

He noted that incidents of lasers being directed at commercial airliners during takeoff and landings have raised fears that ‘this in fact may be a new form of terrorism.’
‘Lasers are easily obtainable and can be self-manufactured weapons in the terrorist arsenal, which essentially can effect a soft-kill solution and leave virtually no detectable evidence,’ he said. “

In Clancy’s mid ’90′s book, Debt of Honor, our CIA operatives used high powered light weapons to bring down Japanese 747 based AWACs while they were on final approach. To have a commercial airliner’s cabin washed with laser light as it approached Salt Lake City International Airport last week is an ominous event, although it very well could be accidental. I wonder what the military provides for its pilots to wear to protect them from this type of attack or if that is possible? The statement above is by Naval Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly, who suffered such an attack while on duty in U.S. waters. More and more techno-military fiction events are becoming reality. I read at least three books involving terrorists using aircraft as weapons, including crashing them into government buildings, years before 9/11. To see the future, read more novels. Hopefully the good guys will win in the end!

Michelle Malkin gives her own take on the character of John Kerry.
I don’t think that she is very impressed.
How will Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry hold up under the spotlight? What will the cameras reveal? Beneath the Christophe-coifed hair, unnaturally taut skin and artificially enhanced tan, there are some naked attributes Kerry cannot conceal:

His spite. His haughtiness. His condescending core.

John Kerry detests his opponents. He detests his own staff. He detests anybody and anything that interferes with his political ambitions. Since returning from Vietnam, his main contribution to public discourse has been contempt, not courage. He possesses resentment, not hope. He does not inspire. He sulks.”

It will be interesting tomorrow night to see how his demeanor stands up to that of Bush. The campaigns of both candidates are trying to lower expectations in order to win the spin war. After watching Bush on O’Reilly these last two nights, he’ll do OK, but won’t convince any real Kerry supporters. G.W. didn’t duck any questions, but some of the hardest ones made him uncomfortable. Wonder if JFK will ever accept O’Reilly’s invitation to do the same, and if so, will answer ALL of the questions without obfuscation?

Found on lgf: TIMESMAN TIPPED OFF TERROR CHARITY: FEDS
September 29, 2004 — The Justice Department has charged that a veteran New York Times foreign correspondent warned an alleged terror-funding Islamic charity that the FBI was about to raid its office — potentially endangering the lives of federal agents.”

You gotta read this one!

Also from lgf & RatherBiased.com (whose site is down at the moment) —

Apparently, the fraudulent memo scandal has taught CBS News absolutely nothing.

On last night’s CBS Evening News, in a story that was a textbook example of slipshod reporting, CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger used debunked internet hoax emails and an unlabeled interest group member to scare elderly “Evening” viewers into believing that the U.S. government is poised to resume the draft.

At the center of Schlesinger’s piece was a woman named Beverly Cocco, a Philadelphia woman who is “sick to my stomach” that her two sons might be drafted. In his report, Schlesinger claimed that Cocco was a Republican and portrayed her as an apolitical (even Republican) mom worried about the future.

Schlesinger did not disclose that Cocco is a chapter president of an advocacy group called People Against the Draft (PAD) which, in addition to opposing any federal proscription, seeks to establish a “peaceful, rational foreign policy” by bringing all U.S. troops out of Iraq. Like Schlesinger’s Cocco, the group portrays itself as “nonpartisan” although its leadership seems to be entirely bereft of any Republicans.

The group’s domain is registered to a man named Jacob Levich, a left-wing activist who in a 2001 essay compared the Bush Administration to the totalitarian government portrayed in George Orwell’s 1984.

CBS News also reported that there are two bills in Congress to reinstate the draft, but failed to mention that they were both introduced by Democrats.”

I was asked yesterday about the possibility of the draft being reinstated and replied that as far as I have been able to find out, only Democrats are calling for a new draft, and that this looks like a political ploy to increase the anti-war sentiment among potential draft age voters and their families. This is NOT the ’60′s and this war is NOT Vietnam. I can’t understand why up to 50% of the American public do not see the potential threat of International Islamic radicalism mixed with weapons of mass destruction. Is it going to take losing a major U.S. city for us to wake up again like we did after 9/11? I certainly hope not! . . . db

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