#13. To: Lod, Original_Intent, Lod, James Deffenbach, Jethro Tull, christine (#0)
According to Admiral Patrick Walsh, the commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet until last year, there is no reason to fear China's military buildup as long as U.S. capabilities keep pace.
So, remember, The Military Industrial Complex is not just a bunch of greedy, politician greasing, ass raping conceptual artists trying to devise the most unthinkable weapons imaginable. They're the glad handing guys in blue suits who guarantee that the little girl picking daisies will always have flowers growing, right up to the moment when they're vaporized at the speed of light by a stealth sub-launched weapon of incredible magnitude.
"Gee, we were so busy selling the military our space based particle beam weapons mounted on the metal storm multi-barreled stacked projectile space drones that we failed to address the (low profit yield) flaw in our submarine nets in the former Rappahannock River, now part of the Washington DC Deep Water Trench Watershed."
As long as there's an America there will be demented eggheads and flag officers preparing white papers for secret congressional committees on the effectiveness of, Jesus who the Hell knows what?
When we consider that killing a half a billion Chinese would be a blessing for them, the next generation of weapons can't just kill the enemy. In order to serve in a deterrent role they must deny the enemy entry into their respective paradise afterlives. It's not a simple matter of greasing bullets with pig fat. These remote controlled weapons will have to trigger complicated incantations that are precisely times to send the (mostly civilian non combatants, you know, like Dresden) newly dead to the land of forever gone and forgotten.
Christ, just thinking about this stuff makes me feel like Lovecraft or Poe, and especially Stephen King. When asked why he chose to pen the macabre King replied, "What makes you think I have a choice?"
Assuming they're working on instruments of damnation for war-hungry Bible belters, we might be facing a "pig fat gap."
For me the term "Bible belters" conjures visions of folks who use fatback/salt pork to season their collard greens. Would it surprise you to learn that with the exploding populations of feral HAWGs as well as the booming pork industry that most of the Bible Belt's "war hungry combatants" could supply their own? Hell, a medium sized tin box could hold enough lube to taint thousands of 5.56 rounds. And "good Moms" could always resupply their sons in their lovingly prepared packages from home.
"Kill them all and let The Morningstar sort them out, Son. Praying to the ONE TRUE GOD for your safe return. Love, Mom. PS, are you allowed to keep souvenirs? Your Uncle Zed brought home these cute little ears from Vietnam and gave them to the church choir...."
#27. To: HOUNDDAWG, Cynicom, randge, christine (#26)
HDAWG: weapons of damnation could persuade Bible Belters to go kosher on account of how G_d's chosen comply with Leviticus. Unwilling to give up Bacon, many would abandon Christian Zionism and backslide. Other faithful would refuse to touch swine eliminating the threat of fat-treated ballistics.
Cyni: some hunger for war others fight.
Randge: Cyni may not have read this outrage against WWI:
IV
These fought, in any case,
and some believing, pro domo, in any case ..
Some quick to arm,
some for adventure,
some from fear of weakness,
some from fear of censure,
some for love of slaughter, in imagination,
learning later ...
some in fear, learning love of slaughter;
Died some pro patria, non dulce non et decor"
..
walked eye-deep in hell
believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie,
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places.
Daring as never before, wastage as never
before.
Young blood and high blood,
Fair cheeks, and fine bodies;
fortitude as never before
frankness as never before,
disillusions as never told in the old days,
hysterias, trench confessions,
laughter out of dead bellies.