Life in 3D

What Really Happened in the Middle East

Go and get yourself educated.  God knows you’ll never hear this from the MSM

h/t to Brutally Honest

Pin Ups for Vets

Gina Elise has the new Pin Up Calendar for Vets out and you should go buy yourself a couple of dozen copies to help out our wounded servicemen and women.

Here’s a sample to encourage you to hop over to her site.

My Kind of Carbon Footprint

A company called Carbon Motor Corporation has designed the first car that was designed specifically for police work and after reading about the features it has and seeing the photos, I would like to see it on every street in America YESTERDAY!  It is that freaking cool!

Flashing emergency lights are embedded in the E7′s frame, making the car aerodynamic and visible from all directions. The front seats are designed with extra space to accommodate a police officer’s utility belt.

The rear passenger compartment is completely sealed off from the cockpit. Molded plastic seats in back allow for easy cleaning and prevent prisoners from hiding contraband.

Two front-mounted cameras automatically scan license plates of nearby vehicles and alert police when they find a car flagged as stolen or involved in some other crime. According to developers, the car’s onboard equipment can also detect nuclear and biological threats.

Li said the car’s 300 bhp forced-induction 3.0-diesel engine will deliver 420 lb-ft of torque and propel the vehicle from zero to 60 mph in 6.5 seconds, with a governed top speed of 155 mph.

He also said the E7′s engine, which can run on either ultra-low sulfur diesel or biodiesel, will have a combined fuel economy rating of 28 to 30 mpg — up to 40 percent more fuel efficient than conventional police cruisers.

The men and women who put on a uniform every day to protect the public deserve to have every tool that we can give them to make the job easier and safer for them.  It even has ballistic protection for the officer built into the doors and dash as well as a FLIR system (Forward Looking Infra Red) according to their website

This is one of the coolest cars to come out in a long time and I certainly hope this is just the beginning of a long and successful life for Carbon Motor Corporation.

As for the officers who will (hopefully) be driving this car in the near future – You lucky bastards 

Pearl Harbor

God bless our armed forces who died on that day.

Of course, there are always some assholes who will try and say that Pearl Harbor was our fault:

The high-handed tone of the Hull Note of November 26, demanding Japan’s withdrawal of all its troops from China, was a final blow to the moderates in Japan’s government, who still hoped for diplomatic negotiations. By this time, many policymakers were convinced that the US was not ready to hear them out. It was ultimately in the name of saving Asia for all Asians from what was regarded as western arrogance that the government united to wage war. On December 1, it was decided that the war would commence in six days.

It was the “Hull Ultimatum”, but yes, how dare we demand that Japan stop invading China and massacring it’s people like they did at Nanjing.  We should have said ‘pretty please’ and begged them, because that sure would have been more effective.

And then of course comes my favorite part

With almost 70 years of hindsight, Pearl Harbor should offer some lessons for US foreign policy today. Despite obvious differences between Pearl Harbor and recent Islamist terrorist tactics, they show the common desire of self-proclaimed Davids to topple their Goliaths in a clearly lop-sided battle. These Davids depend on western technologies to overcome imbalances of power, and are driven by a sense of real or imagined humiliation.

Yep, there it is “real or imagined humiliation”.  Doesn’t matter what the reality is, just what their perception of reality is.  Gosh, they think we insulted them by not converting to Islam so gosh golly we better apologize right now.

This the kind of useless jerk who will blame everything on everyone except the person that is actually responsible.  Crime?  It’s the fault of the wealthy for having stuff to steal.  Pearl Harbor, it’s the US fault for taking a stand with an ally;  9-11?  Well of course it’s our fault because of the “imagined humiliation” that those poor terrorist suffered from because we actually exist.

The good thing about the free west is that you can say what you will; the bad thing is that people like this moron actually say stuff at all.