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CENTCOM Delivers Supplies to Earthquake Victims

CENTCOM shows they are ready, willing and able to supply relief to Pakistani earthquake victims.

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — The first relief supplies from the United States ready for departure aboard here on a U.S. Air Force C-17 less than 48 hours after the devastating earthquake that left thousands dead and thousands more injured. The C-17 and its crew from the 7th Airlift Squadron, McChord Air Force Base, Wash., delivered 12 pallets — weighing almost 90,000 pounds — of food, water, medicine and blankets from Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. Two aerial port specialists from Bagram’s 455th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron were also on the flight to coordinate and manage cargo at Islamabad. Airmen and soldiers at Bagram, with only a few hours notice, worked feverishly to palletize the supplies and prepare them for the flight.

(U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. James H. Cunningham)

This is just another example of how US Forces are in the region to help humanity, even though the mainstream media will ignore this type of story in favor of bombings and casualties and anything to make the military look “evil.”

Visit the CENTCOM website for more on this and other relief efforts.

10 Oct 2005 by International Military

Villaraigosa – Village Idiot

In this case, the “village” is the City of Los Angeles and hizzoner thinks the people are too stupid to vote for themselves:

“In this instance it’s very clear that the initiative process is being misused,” Villaraigosa said. “These are matters that could and should be addressed by the Legislature.”

From GOP Bloggers:

[I]nstead of allowing citizens to vote on issues, Democrats prefer to spend time overriding the clear will of the people on gay marriage and legitimizing illegal aliens.

Read the whole GOP Bloggers article.

07 Oct 2005 by California Whacko Politics

Nobel Prize Committee Upstages it’s Own Stupidity

In an effort to perpetuate it’s own stupidity and far-left political bias, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammed el-Baradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the UN nuclear watchdog and its director-general Mohamed El Baradei. The committee that made the announcement in Oslo said it was honouring efforts to stop the spread of nuclear arms. This is the year of the 60th anniversary of the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency and El Baradei will share a prize worth 1.1 million euros.

The agency has been investigating Iran’s nuclear programme for the last few years. It is trying to find out whether the programme is peaceful, as Tehran maintains, or aimed at producing weapons, a claim made by Washington.

Despite strong U.S. opposition over his differing views with Washington on Iran and Iraq, Egyptian-born El Baradei was re-elected this year to a third four-year term.

I thought they had reached the pinnacle of their stupidity when they awarded the prize to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2001. But noooooooo! They awarded it to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter for his mindless rants the following year.

Under the less-than-watchful eyes of el-Baradei and his agency, North Korea and Iran continue to proliferate their nuclear weapons programs. Armed with letters of reprimand and inconsequential warnings, the IAEA has allowed these insane nations to merely kick the ankle-biting agency away and continue with their programs as they please.

The fact that the Nobel Committee consistently awards this now-demeaned prize to entities within the United Nations underscores the insignificance of this once-revered prize.

07 Oct 2005 by Curmudgeon Rants Degenerates United Nations Whacko Politics

Astronaut Walt Cunningham – Ambassador of Exploration

From SPACE.com — Astronotes

NASA will honor former astronaut Walt Cunningham as an “Ambassador of Exploration,” an award which provides recognition for the astronauts of the space agency’s first manned spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.

On Friday, October 7, at 12:00 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT), NASA officials will present Cunningham with the award, a lucite-encased moon rock, at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. He is donating the rock to the museum, which presently displays the Apollo 7 Command Module on loan from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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This is too cool! Walt Cunningham’s family lived up the street from us when I was a kid. One of his sisters used to babysit my brother and me and another sister went to the same high school I did. Congratulations Walt Cunningham!

06 Oct 2005 by Aerospace People Rocket Science

Don’t Worry – The Sky Isn’t Falling – Yet

But if it starts to, the European Space Agency will call Don Quixote to the rescue . . .

From Science Daily: ESA Selects Targets For Asteroid-deflecting Mission Don Quijote

Based on the recommendations of asteroid experts, ESA has selected two target asteroids for its Near-Earth Object deflecting mission, Don Quijote.

Don Quijote is an asteroid-deflecting mission currently under study by ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team (ACT). Earlier this year the NEO Mission Advisory Panel (NEOMAP), consisting of well-known experts in the field, delivered to ESA a target selection report for Europe’s future asteroid mitigation missions, identifying the relevant criteria for selecting a target and picking up two objects that meet most of those criteria. The asteroids’ temporary designations are 2002 AT4 and 1989 ML.

Update: Click Here for a visual of the IMPACT!

06 Oct 2005 by Aerospace Astronomy Rocket Science Space Rocks

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