A couple of updates from Al-Anbar

A short post here includes:
…the insurgency is quickly approaching a tipping point. If things continue as they are right now, our military won’t need a surge to chase the terrorists out of Anbar- the citizens will do it for us, which is as it should be. It’s beginning to show already: more local tips, more [...]

Transgenic sheep are 15 percent human

Slashdot:
“Professor Esmail Zanjani and colleagues at the University of Nevada-Reno have created sheep that are 15 percent human at the cellular level. Half the organs in the sheep are human. The idea, of course, is to harvest those organs to transplant into human patients. From the article: ‘He has already created a sheep liver which [...]

Location of Lord Kinbote and the lava men revealed

Roky: And so, at each death, the soul descends further into the inner earth attaining ever greater levels of purification, reaching enlightenment at the core. Assuming, of course, that your soul is able to avoid the lava men.

In case you don’t recognize the quote (what business have you here!) it’s from X-Files: Jose Chung’s From [...]

Terrorists up the ante with more chlorine

[This post edited 4/3/07]
Never bothered looking at the news yesterday, which was great. So it wasn’t until this morning that I saw the bad guys were at it again with the chlorine, only this time they packed five 1,000-lb tanks onto a truck apparently targeting Ramadi police on March 23. Looks like they’re [...]

What superhero are you?

Thanks to The Armchair Generalist, another quiz! Yay! And how could this one have come out otherwise?  Try it here.
You are Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

87%

Superman

80%

Green Lantern

80%

Supergirl

67%

Robin

62%

Batman

60%

Spider-Man

55%

The Flash

50%

Iron Man

45%

Catwoman

40%

Hulk

40%

You are a beautiful princess with great strength of character.

DoD adopts RSDL skin decon kit

DoD’s Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) approved RSDL skin decontamination lotion for initial procurements. RSDL has been around for years and is already in use by several other countries.
It was tested at USAMRICD against VX, VR, GD, HD (distilled sulfur mustard), and by Battelle against VX and HD. The DoD [...]

Terrorist movie plots

What came out of the military’s brainstorming session with a bunch of top Hollywood creative minds after 9/11? As Sharon Weinberger recounts in honor of “Sunshine Week,” The Army told her back in 2004 that the meeting was related to a “vulnerability assessment” and the results were “deliberative” in nature. Working papers (in other [...]

No, it’s not smallpox

Just saw:
WMBD-TV/RNS – CHICAGO — It was declared eradicated more than 25-years ago, but an Indiana boy is being treated in a Chicago hospital for smallpox.
The two-year-old was apparently infected by his father, a U.S. soldier who recently received a smallpox vaccination.
It appears to have been passed on to the child’s mother, who has [...]