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Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.

The Marine Corps Facebook page has an #AskPOTUS post thing going to solicit questions for Obama to be held tomorrow. It’s up now. It’s pretty plain how it’s going to go. It went up 30 minutes ago. The first question was “Obama , why are you destroying America? #ASKPOTUS”. It’s pretty much going like that. Post count is starting to heat up. It won’t be pretty, but it will be fun. :-)

Farmer Builds Helicopter From Scratch Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam - With directions from the Internet and an old Russian truck motor, a Vietnamese farmer fulfilled his dream of making his own helicopter. The job took two friends, seven years and $30,000. Now, military officials say he can't fly it, because he didn't get approval to build it, and they confiscated the makeshift copter. "It's my hobby," farmer Le Van Danh complained by telephone Monday from his hometown of Tay Ninh, in Vietnam's southwest. "I will do whatever I can, including going to the prime minister, to get the permission." True,...

I can die now, I have seen everything. Did I just hear a BBC correspondant chide General Franks for airing information that could be 'useful to the enemy'? LOL!

Careless Coding Causes Killer Kangaroos The following apparently appeared in the June 15, 1999 Defence Science and Technology Organisation Lecture Series, Melbourne, Australia, and staff reports. The reuse of some object-oriented code has caused tactical headaches for Australia's armed forces. As virtual reality simulators assume larger roles in helicopter combat training, programmers have gone to great lengths to increase the realism of their scenarios, including detailed landscapes and, in the case of the Northern Territory's Operation Phoenix, herds of kangaroos (since disturbed animals might well give away a helicopter's position). The head of the Defence Science & Technology Organisation's Land ...

Through another post here in FR, I leaned that there was to be a Pro-Bush Rally at the corner of Balfour and Walnut in Brentwood, (In Contra Costa County, not the OJ Simpson Brentwood.) A friend and I decided on the spur of the moment to go out into the damp, cold dense fog to see if we could find them. Driving out from Antioch, we eventually found about 18-20 hardy souls, easily identified by their American flags, "Don't Tread on Me" flags, and signs reading "Honk for Bush!" From the Freeper community were myself and Lady Maximus that I ...

Say, I wonder if there's anything to be gained by a few Freepers going undercover and listening to what these people (Million Deluded Moms, et al.) say amongst themselves, next time they hold some similarly goofy event? It would require supreme self-control, and a degree of acting ability: one would have to behave as if somewhat overwhelmed by it all, and as such not expected to bellow slogans or carry signs for the enemy. Might make for an interesting post, no? Taking it a step further, one might pretend to be a concerned uninitiate; while feigning ignorance, ask the most ...