CLUSTER-BOMBS AS VIAGRA, THE SHOW: Discover your world
"Discover your world!" crows the Discovery channel. To which DD adds, "Yes, discover the world of engineering for massacres."
Whenever Discovery or the Military Channel airs a repeat episode of Futureweapons, hits on this site creep up due to universal searches for cluster bombs like the Sensor-Fuzed Weapon.
"This is awesome! Your tax dollars well spent!" crowed someone on YouTube.
Only pinheads would engage in mockery.
Shown in empty-headed rotation and hosted by Richard Machowicz, the now well-known shaven-headed ex-NAVY SEAL and sniper, the episode called "The Power Of Fear" purports to show how frightful technology hot from US weapons shops annihilates en masse.
This week, along with the Sensor-Fuzed Weapon promotional video from Textron -- which seems to have aired at least sixteen times in the last four months alone -- there was also the Excalibur, a smart artillery shell that is designed to do about the same thing.
Illustrations show its use as a massacre-enabling cluster munition. Look! The usual whirling hot copper submunitions, great for decapitations.
It's not possible to heap enough slurs upon Futureweapons. As an example of pitiless television without a single redeeming feature, its producers and enablers seem to have not fathomed the obvious: None of the weapons glorified as examples of American power are worth a bucket of spit now. They are virtually designed for a certain type of enemy, the nature of which doesn't exist.
Emphasized repeatedly, the Sensor Fuzed Weapon can erase in one stroke, an entire armored corps assembled in the space of six football fields or so.
Glorious!
Now if only the US military could get the pesky Iraqi civil war fighters and terrorists to convene en masse on an airfield somewhere, we'd really be in business. Or perhaps if China could be inveigled into attacking Taiwan with its land army, over a six-lane pontoon bridge thrown across the Strait of Formosa!
For your consideration, a show that is a couple rungs up the ladder of evolution from Futureweapons: Picture a cable sitcom, one starring a couple of blunt-spoken but lovable buddies in a special office at the Pentagon, trying to humorously get through a day of explaining to generals and various bumbling gadflies, why such favorite weapons of massacre exist. Pilot episode synopsis: Contractor Tex has a recurring nightmare in which his genitalia have been inexplicably replaced with one of the Sensor-Fuzed Weapon's molten copper-shooting skeets, a development which causes him to break out in a cold sweat and become unable to perform when his wife turns amorous.
In a development that shows some people do enjoy other things than looking for photos and paintings of cluster bombs, "Joan Jett Made Me Sweat" has inexplicably rocketed to the top of the DD blog hitlist. There may yet be hope for us Americans.
"Discover your world!" crows the Discovery channel. To which DD adds, "Yes, discover the world of engineering for massacres."
Whenever Discovery or the Military Channel airs a repeat episode of Futureweapons, hits on this site creep up due to universal searches for cluster bombs like the Sensor-Fuzed Weapon.
"This is awesome! Your tax dollars well spent!" crowed someone on YouTube.
Only pinheads would engage in mockery.
Shown in empty-headed rotation and hosted by Richard Machowicz, the now well-known shaven-headed ex-NAVY SEAL and sniper, the episode called "The Power Of Fear" purports to show how frightful technology hot from US weapons shops annihilates en masse.
This week, along with the Sensor-Fuzed Weapon promotional video from Textron -- which seems to have aired at least sixteen times in the last four months alone -- there was also the Excalibur, a smart artillery shell that is designed to do about the same thing.
Illustrations show its use as a massacre-enabling cluster munition. Look! The usual whirling hot copper submunitions, great for decapitations.
It's not possible to heap enough slurs upon Futureweapons. As an example of pitiless television without a single redeeming feature, its producers and enablers seem to have not fathomed the obvious: None of the weapons glorified as examples of American power are worth a bucket of spit now. They are virtually designed for a certain type of enemy, the nature of which doesn't exist.
Emphasized repeatedly, the Sensor Fuzed Weapon can erase in one stroke, an entire armored corps assembled in the space of six football fields or so.
Glorious!
Now if only the US military could get the pesky Iraqi civil war fighters and terrorists to convene en masse on an airfield somewhere, we'd really be in business. Or perhaps if China could be inveigled into attacking Taiwan with its land army, over a six-lane pontoon bridge thrown across the Strait of Formosa!
For your consideration, a show that is a couple rungs up the ladder of evolution from Futureweapons: Picture a cable sitcom, one starring a couple of blunt-spoken but lovable buddies in a special office at the Pentagon, trying to humorously get through a day of explaining to generals and various bumbling gadflies, why such favorite weapons of massacre exist. Pilot episode synopsis: Contractor Tex has a recurring nightmare in which his genitalia have been inexplicably replaced with one of the Sensor-Fuzed Weapon's molten copper-shooting skeets, a development which causes him to break out in a cold sweat and become unable to perform when his wife turns amorous.
In a development that shows some people do enjoy other things than looking for photos and paintings of cluster bombs, "Joan Jett Made Me Sweat" has inexplicably rocketed to the top of the DD blog hitlist. There may yet be hope for us Americans.
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