This Wall Street Journal article asks some interesting questions. If someone used explosives to knock some of your power stations off of the grid, to blow up pipelines for heating oil and natural gas to the northeast during winter, to shut down the phone systems in New York, Washington D.C., and Atlanta, these would likely be considered acts of war. But if these things were done with a computer and without explosives it would not make them any less an act of war.
Archive for Ars Belli
Joe Helping On The Home Front
It probably was carrying the plague anyway:
G.I. Joe Exterminates Al Qaeda Vermin, No Waterboarding Needed
Open To Debate
Ahab has an interesting point on the big support for the 2nd Amendment and firearms possession. A commenter links to an oldie but a goodie on the relative merits of left versus right. And Mr. Campfield comes up with yet another compelling reason to carry a firearm at all times.
For some reason I had not visited Instapundit in too long, but I found the origin of the above there. I have probably missed much. I missed the URL change too.
That’s Bait And Switch!
The headline reads: “Waterboarding an attraction at amusement park“
To Mr. Fu this means that they have a place where you can get waterboarded. But it is just some animatronic protest against waterboarding. Boring!
Where is the animatronic protest against Muslim terrorists showing the guys that jumped out of the World Trade Center, died in the fires, were crushed to death, died in the plane crashes, or had their throats cut? Three thousand Americans get killed, our military is engaged in a shooting war with the enemy, and these yo-yos focus on three terrorists that had water dripped up their noses.
When Bush Gets It Right
Regarding the shoot down of satellite USA 193:
That’s the right stuff George.
For those with an interest in the technical aspects of things flying through the atmosphere and potentially shooting through your roof, check out this article and its links.
Those Killer Drones!
Mr. Fu expected more from the CSM, but when he reads, “An unmanned US predator drone killed a top Al Qaeda operative Monday…” cannot help thinking that the drone just got lucky. Or that perhaps drones have gotten a lot smarter and can now tell the difference between a regular Egyptian guy and an Egyptian weapon maker. That is some trick.
This is the kind of fuzzy headed writing that allows Leftists to conclude that “guns kill people.” No, the sudden transfer of energy into a body kills people. Like the sudden deceleration of someone falling from a great height onto the sidewalk, or the chemical energy to kinetic energy to projectile deceleration in a body energy transfer that is the essence of “guns kill people.”
An unmanned drone did not kill Abu Khabab, a US Air Force pilot controlling an armed, unmanned drone killed Khabab. And with a nickname like Khabab it is just a matter of time before you get toasted.
They Want To Become More European
While some Europeans are just going off the deep end not to offend, especially potential criminals. Fortunately some are questioning the logic of extra politeness towards criminal suspects:
Extreme Cluelessness?
Wow, Iran is really rattling the old sabers now! Mr. Fu is sure President Bush will see another opportunity to tell Israeli to do nothing in response to an increasingly belligerent and soon to be nuclear Iran. Whatever happened to the old Axis of Evil talk? Now that two out of three seem to be out of play, why hold up on number three? Surely President Bush would like to go out with a one, two, three, knockout hat trick, right?
Will is US Air Force B-52s in Qatar and Diego Garcia sit idly by if the US Navy in the Arabian Gulf is attacked? Has Iran forgotten that little lesson about their off shore oil rigs?
What We Are Told
More Lawgivers Needed
Shouldn’t there be some kind of “Arab shall not water cannon Arab” rule? Where is love? Aren’t the Palestinians brothers of the Egyptians?
Comments: Good
Mr. Demetriou’s recent comment had me looking through his blog. It is interesting to see some anti-idiotarianism expressed from across the pond. Especially this bit about the leftists over there being as fed up with democracy as ours are over here. It does remind Mr. Fu of the quote from George Bernard Shaw that the British and the Americans are, “Two peoples separated by a common language.” Of course, Mr. Fu came about the quote via the movie Patton, so he can only be credited with a deep sense of American militarism.
Funny Reply To Firearm Death Statistics
FACT: 98% of all people will die in their lifetime.
Heck, at least 98%. This statistic will be invalid in the event of the Rapture however. (Item from this post)
Ihre Papiere, bitte!
Reports are coming in on a program in Washington, D.C. where neighborhoods will be cordoned off by police and papers checked to see if you live in the neighborhood or have a good enough reason to be there.
Looks like Mr. Fu’s plan for manufacturing and distributing the FP-45 Liberator Pistols once again may be near at hand. Vasily Borodin is going to be disappointed, “No papers?”
In Need Of Some Wilson Fu!
Wilson Fu trained office workers would have been quicker to respond to this:
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There Have Been Worse Religions
Mr. Fu wrote this in response to a friend who was wondering what happened to “Christmas” stationery (slightly edited):
Yes, the redefining of Christmas into a Winter Holiday. Like a Winter Holiday is not religious in and of itself? The Druids were up to no good this time of year and everyone whose ancestors painted themselves blue knows it! While Jewish kids were spinning the dradel Mr. Fu’s ancestors were living in caves, only going out to shove rocks around for a religious experience.Now that would be a real imposition of religion on someone, drag them out to a field outside of Lincoln, Nebraska and make them stack ten ton rock columns up in the snow. They think Christianity can be intrusive and obnoxious? They can just wait until a Druid drops a 20,000 pound rock on their numb foot in the middle of December trying to get the calendar back up and running in time for Winter Solstice!
Mark Muller, American
We need more like him. “Alex, I’ll take Firearms for $250!”
