Red Dawn Rising

Remember when the Mexicans helped the Commies split the USA down the middle in that awesome Patrick Swayze movie that became an instant 80’s classic? Reading stories like this one from IHT.com makes me wonder if that movie was not so far-fetched?

If you’re having recruiting problems, don’t bring in non-loyal foreigners just to be your mercenaries. Do these foreigners have to swear the same oath to defend our Constitution? Do they even know what the U.S. Constitution says?

[via International Herald Tribune]

Black ops target hurricanes?

Black ops target hurricanes?
I highly recommend that you check out this incredible anomaly which appears to show some sort of coolant being injected into the eye of hurricane Wilma. It’s a big animated gif, but what you’re looking for is near the beginning, so watch closely as it loads frame-by-frame. The grab you see above is one in a series of significant frames.

There are only a few conspiracy theories that I subscribe to. Weather manipulation–at least on this scale–didn’t used to be one of them, but this evidence is pretty compelling. The trajectory of the “beam” would also suggest that it is tracking from somewhere in orbit. It also can’t be a glitch because you can see the pattern as it gets swept around through the bands of the hurricane and eventually disappears. Even if it’s nothing, it’s still fun to imagine that such a technology exists.

Big Brother is in your printer

This is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to stockpile firearms and just wait for the government to take down my front door with a battering ram…and I don’t even own a color laser printer.

Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation