Angry Brazilian whacks NASA to put a stop to ... er, the NSA

Give due respect, Pan Sapiens.

Or Homo Troglodytes. Take your pick.

The entomologists are still in the middle of a bar fight over it.

re: Iran/Iraq

Bush II was partly motivated by revenge after Saddam tried to assassinate Bush I. So there.

Plus, southern Iraq (the bit that had been most hostile to the US) has much less challenging geography for warfighting than Iran has. Iran is a huge, populous country and was much richer than Iraq and hence far more difficult to conquer. My view is that the pentagon, after invading Afghanistan reckoned that invading Iraq would put Iran in a squeeze.

Arguably Bush II's failure was putting too much compassionate conservatism into the war effort. The US is still untouchable technologically, but the will to win a war seems to have left the US, and the rest of the West (France is an odd exception, having no qualms about aggressively policing its former colonies like Mali and Cote d'Ivoire, toppling Qadafi, and now sabre-rattling at Syria).

As an owner of a dozen firearms, half of which were inherited from my dementia ridden father, a hunter and prize competition shooter, I'd be happy with that.

The NRA currently is insanity mixed with firearms.

We saw the results of that mix in a Navy yard in Washington, D.C. recently.

In the US, the lunatics rule the asylum.

I'd not be especially upset, but with all of the shootings and worse, the nuclear arms.

I'm on a few gun related blogs, to monitor things and learn an occasional thing about new products that I'll not acquire.

Things are looking *very* worrisome.