"Storm Shadow is optimized for pre-planned attacks on static targets, whose positions are accurately known before the mission. (bridges, airbases, radar installations, communications hubs, port facilities, bunkers etc.) With long-range and efficient stealth design, Storm Shadow can eliminate strategic components of enemy defensive systems, without risking manned aircraft."(Edited from the SCALP EG page at Defense Update)
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| Also, all the Gamestop DLC |
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| BATCHIKOMA! |
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| (This guy? He turns out to be Satan later on. Satan and I are both racist against cowboys.) |
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| (Devilman is crying, because he's about to litter) |
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"I don't believe in 'supernatural' magic," he says. "I believe in 'supernormal' magic, meaning that when certain frequencies are sent out into the ether they affect the human subconscious in much the same way that certain circus tunes make elephants march." LaVey then runs through a medley of "rain songs" - "Singin' in the Rain," "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella," a dozen more.
"Putting this leitmotif together is magical because I'm the only one who knows it. It sets up a Jungian gestalt. It's called magical superimposition. It's like five characters waiting for a play: I provide the play." LaVey then heightens and sharpens secret magical tonal patterns that he has discovered through years of trial and error. "You get a lot of rain songs together, and imagine all the creative energy, amalgamated creative energy, that went into those songs. Combine that with the emotional energy I produce in playing it. If the audience is right, like the other night in the bar, I can do something very magical because of ego-circuitry."
Proof that magic works? LaVey knew Hatfield the Rainmaker! He saw it work! What is magic today will be science tomorrow, he says, when the effect of biochemical energy is finally understood. He sees proof of magic everywhere. Not just in the return to romantic tunes and nostalgic fashion, but in parking spaces conjured up on the street and good tables appearing suddenly at restaurants, not to mention the San Diego McDonald's massacre and the Mexican earthquake that resulted accidentally after LaVey vented some anger on the keys. He is like a faith healer who has seen too many miracles to doubt. "It's truly frightening," he says.
Nothing troubling about the timing or location at all.
You probably didn’t notice, what with the disaster in Haiti, but a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Illinois at 10 a.m. last Tuesday, at least in the cyber-world.
Cairo was the epicenter, but the Crowne Plaza hotel on South Dirksen Parkway in Springfield was the nerve center, the place where more than 30 Department of Defense personnel gathered to practice how they would respond in case of real disaster.
While it’s Weimar’s job to design catastrophes, he is reluctant to go against the laws of science. Fulton knows full well the geography of the New Madrid fault, so buildings crumbling too far afield would raise his eyebrows. No problem — there are plenty of faults to play with.
“If I want to give him some more problem sets, I’ll bring up the Wabash fault,” Weimar said. “If we say that building collapsed, it collapsed. If we need to, we will create some aftershocks to create more problems.”
With a playbook that includes plague, chlorine tank explosions, terrorist attacks and myriad other badness, things could always be worse. Take the 10-kiloton nuclear device scenario, complete with a 40-mile radius of destruction and radioactive fallout.
“We’ve blown up Kansas City and Indianapolis twice,” Weimar said.
And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me
Just how I should feel today
IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.
It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters,
"It's certainly biological," Hasenauer said. "It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter.
Something else: No one in Barrow or Wainwright can remember seeing anything like this before, Brower said.
"If it was something we'd seen before, we'd be able to say something about it. But we haven't ...which prompted concerns from the local hunters and whaling captains."
The stuff is "gooey" and looks dark against the bright white ice floating in the Arctic Ocean, Brower said.
"It's pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it," Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose -- just bones and feathers -- to the borough's wildlife department.
"It kind of has an odor; I can't describe it," he said.
"From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it's kind of blackish stuff ... (and) has hairy strands on it."
For the most part, the mystery substance seems to have stayed away from shore.
Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities
