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John Edwards’ Love Child Lives in the Other America
Aug 6th
Former Presidential candidate John Edwards once said there were two Americas, and he was right. There is the one America when you pretend to be father of the year and a doting husband to a wife who is infested with cancer cells.

And then there is the other America where you bang whores, knock them up, and then visit her and the illicit lovechild in a cheap motel room. And it is this second America where John Edwards’ love child, Frances Quinn Hunter-Edwards lives out its short-ass life in shame.

From the Enquirer here:
The stunning “spy photo” shows the former presidential contender holding his infant daughter Frances Quinn Hunter at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles – where the ENQUIRER caught him visiting the baby’s mother, his mistress Rielle Hunter.
Edwards is holding his love child while standing in front of a distinctive striped curtain.
The same window covering hangs in each one of the hotel’s guest rooms – and is clearly visible in photos of guest rooms on the hotel’s Web site.
“These photos are damning proof,” said a source close to the situation.
“He’s been caught lying about his affair with Rielle and their love child for many months – and now the proof against him is piling up.
I know, you doubters will ask, “Pat how can you tell that this is the truth?” to which I say, I almost agree with you because I also thought John Edwards was gay.
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Navy Fires CVN-73′s Captain and XO
Jul 31st
I used to be a welder, and actually helped put the USS George Washington together back in the early 90′s. But the Captain and the Executive Officer got lazy in enforcing fire regulations on board, and the result was a ship in flames that resulted in a $70 Million repair bill. And the Japanese, who are rightly afraid of anything nuclear powered, are having second thoughts about allowing the Washington to serve as the Kitty Hawk’s replacement.

From CNN here:
The U.S. Navy fired the captain and executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington on Wednesday because of a massive fire that damaged the ship in May.
Capt. David C. Dykhoff and his executive officer, Capt. David M. Dober, were relieved of duty while the ship is in port in San Diego, California, for repairs that will cost about $70 million.
The two were fired because of practices on their ship that Navy investigators believe led to the fire. The fire was started when a cigarette ignited material stored in an engineering room.
Investigators found flammable liquids stored in an engineering area of the ship, which is strictly prohibited, and sailors were allowed to smoke in the same engineering areas, considered another violation.
The carrier was due to replace the aging USS Kitty Hawk, which is forward-based in Japan, this summer, but the fire delayed the handover. The incident also worried the Japanese government, which had agreed to have the nuclear-powered George Washington replace the diesel-powered Kitty Hawk despite the country’s long opposition to allowing nuclear ships dock there.
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Anarchist Girl Tries to Extort Cash From Denver
Jul 29th
I wrote previously here about the twisted moonbats in Denver planning to protest the Democrat National Convention who are convinced that the “Gubmint” is going to shoot them with sound waves to induce uncontrollable poopsies in their pantsies.

Pro tip: Don’t give the paper your name if you pretend to be an Anarchist.
Now meet the leader of the crackpots. Its Kelli Refer, an anarchist who, while wearing a mask, provided her real name to the newspaper. She is a Feminazi and a member of the Student Senate at Knox College, serving as a committee chair of.. get this.. student safety! She is a proponent of using a cup to catch her monthly bloody discharge, and she reuses tampons because she is a dirty hippy treehugger, who, by and large, are obsessed with things that ooze out of their bodies.

Kelli’s class picture. I have unmasked the anarchist.
And as an anarchist, Kelli Refer is demanding that the city turn over 50 Million dollars to them or else they will burn the city to the ground after throwing their own feces and urine at the cops. How they don’t get arrested for making terroristic threats is a puzzle to me.
From the Rocky Mountain News here:
A group of self-described anarchists threatening to disrupt the Democratic National Convention is promising to go away if the $50 million federal grant that Denver received to pay for convention security is invested in the community instead.
“As anarchists, we feel the greatest problem with government is how its primary interest is to protect the profits of those in power, even when it comes at the expense of the general public,” Clayton Dewey, an organizer with Unconventional Denver, said in a statement.
“Spending $50 million on weaponry to attack people voicing their opinion and flooding the streets with riot police while schools close down, children go without health care and people lose their homes is exactly the problem with the corrupt two-party system we’re opposing this August,” he said.
Anarchists opposing a two-party system? What do they want? Three parties? Last I checked my dictionary, anarchists want the dissolution of all government, so these twats fail basic government theory too.
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Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg Spend Half Billion to Nag World About Smoking
Jul 27th
Yay. After spending good money on computer operating systems, Bill Gates is taking his share of the profit from my purchase to finance “Operation Global Nag” to pester the hell out of Joe SixPacks around the World about their smoking habits. Really Bill and Mike? Nothing better to do that export Ydoyouthink BS commercials to Asia? Gonna stage some “die-ins” at the Philip Morris headquarters in Bangladesh?

From the Times here:
Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that they would spend $500 million to stop people around the world from smoking.
The $500 million would be spent on a multipronged campaign — nicknamed Mpower — It will urge governments to sharply raise tobacco taxes, prohibit smoking in public places, outlaw advertising to children and cigarette giveaways, start antismoking advertising campaigns and offer people nicotine patches or other help quitting. Health officials, consumer advocates, journalists, tax officers and others from third world countries will be brought to the United States for workshops on topics like lobbying, public service advertising, catching cigarette smugglers and running telephone help lines for smokers wanting to quit.
Half a billion could put in a nice sewer system in an African country. Oh well. Also according to the article is a questionable statistic from the World Health Organization that estimates a billion people will be dying in the next century from cigarettes. Good news for those Global Warming Believers!
On the other hand, it just heaps more guilt on the remaining American Indians who brought this scourge of smoking to the world. That’s right, I said it! The redskins killed billions of people with their “let’s smokem peacepipe; make friendly with whiteman” routine. I’ll keep that in mind next time one of them asks me to buy them a bottle of firewater, which they no doubt must drink in order to quell the guilty echoes of millions of dead smokers they hear in their heads. I might tell him no. I might tell him, “Listen to those echoes, Falling Squirrel. Those echoes say ‘Why did you and your kind kill me with the choking smoke of your forefathers, Falling Squirrel?’”
Hey, if the black man can blame me for 500 years of black oppression, I can certainly blame the red man for killing billions from tobacco.
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Barack Obama’s GrandDad Loved Killing Albinos in Tanzania
Jul 27th
According to this Sweetness and Light post about an article in the Evening Standard, Barack Obama’s GrandPappy, Hussein Onyango Obama, was a Muslim witch doctor. And Witch Doctors from that region of Africa play a new fun game, called “Hack up the Albino.” I wonder how many potions Obama’s grandfather brewed that contained human flesh?

The audacity of hope that you can make a white colored black man run for his life in the African bush! Anything for a buck, I suppose.
From the BBC here, along with a chilling video from an undercover camera crew showing Witch Doctors, just like grandpappy Obama, promising to drag an albino out of his home to slaughter him.
This year, at least 25 people with albinism have been killed. They are being killed because local witchdoctors say their body parts provide the potent ingredient for magic charms, which many local people use to bring success in business and love.
The bodies are left limbless and sometimes with a huge hole in the neck, from where blood would have been drained.
As if that is not enough, they have to bury their dead in the house, guard the graves on their farm and or build them with stones, metal bars and cement to prevent the killers from stealing the body parts.
So I posed as a businesswoman who wanted to get rich and “consulted” 10 witchdoctors. The consultations included talking to a hedge and telling my problems to a chicken.
These are regarded as intermediaries between the witchdoctor, their ancestors and the spirits, or “jinns“.
Sticky green stems or old money notes are put between pages from the Koran.
Then the witchdoctors would speak in Arabic and the local Sukuma language and translate or use an interpreter to get the message through to me.
Two witchdoctors promised to get me a magic concoction mixed with ground albino organs. The starting price was $2,000 for the vital organs.
Another told me said that the police were among his customers and that he could make a special potion mixed with ground male and female private parts to enable people to commit armed robbery without being caught.
Speaking Arabic, playing with Korans and believing in “jinns” or genies are all signs of the Muslim at work. I had a feeling in a previous article that the barbaric practices of cutting up people for magic spells had something to do with Islam. I was right. But I had no idea it had anything to do with the magic of Barack Obama.
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Los Angeles To Ban What Everyone Should Be Recycling
Jul 23rd
I remember when all of the treehuggers banned the paper bag because it killed trees. Now they are switching back because plastic bags harm the landfills. Wait, what? Don’t treehuggers mandate that plastics get recycled?? So why are plastic bags going to landfills? This should be proof that the Environment Worshippers don’t give a damn about the environment. What they really want to do is run your life.

From the AFP here:
The city of Los Angeles announced it will ban all plastic bags from retail stores as of July 1, 2010, following similar anti-pollution regulations already enforced in San Francisco.
The second-largest US city behind New York, Los Angeles, with its four million population, will ban plastic bagging in all supermarkets, grocery and retail stores, the Los Angeles City Council said in its new regulation.
After July 1, 2010, all store customers must provide their own bags or purchase bags made of paper or other biogradable material from the store for 25 cents (0.25 dollar).
The goal is to rid the city of some 2.3 billion non-biodegradable plastic bags that are distributed each year and end up polluting waste dumps for a long time.
So why doesn’t the city government just admit that their recycling program is a total failure if all those plastic bags are going to the dump? And if the recycling is working, why the need for the second law? The only explanation is that this is a political stunt- one that forces citizens to cough up cash for something that has always been free.
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High Gas Prices and Old Pumps
Jul 21st
Many old pumps still in use just weren’t designed to dispense fuel at prices higher than 3.99 per gallon. Its almost like a Y2K issue brought about by democrats refusing to drill for more oil. But the stations owners have found a way to get around this problem. Below is a photo of the gas pump at the Country Store in Shady Valley, TN. Its at the midpoint of the “striped snake,” a twisty road that is a joy to drive.
And here is the sign on the pump.

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Leader of Black Race Called Blacks Niggers
Jul 17th
Wow Jesse. So if you call blacks niggers, its okay if the rest of us do it now?

MediaBistro has the details of what Jesse said on that now infamous Fox News clip:
Below is the partial transcript we received in our tips box, and confirmed to be authentic by Fox News Channel representatives.
Barack…he’s talking down to black people…telling niggers how to behave.
So, yes. Jesse Jackson did use the “N” word.
So how pissed off must Dog the bounty Hunter feel? Or Mark Furman? Imus? If the leader of the black race says it, it must be okay.
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Career Limiting Moves: Nut Cutting
Jul 11th
You would have to be living under a rock to have missed Jesse Jackson threatening to cut off Barack Obama’s nuts while wearing a hot microphone during the taping of a Fox News segment. In case you have been living under a rock the story is here.
There are a couple of things I wanted to point out about the video of Jesse Jackson pantomiming and threatening to castrate a Presidential Candidate. You can see it below:
First, Jesse demonstrated the correct technique to castrate a black man. You hold the knife, with the edge facing up, and you slice upwards very quickly so you take both testicles in one motion. Its almost as if Jesse has had practice in performing this action. Who does he think he is? Tony Soprano? If you don’t toe the race-baiting line, you get punished like a slave who was flirting with the Master’s daughter?
Second, Jesse clearly used the term “black people.” Not African Americans. As Jesse is the leader of the black race, I will be sure to use the correct term going forward.
Third, would the election of a black man to the Presidency end the race-baiting careers of the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of America? Jesse is obviously threatened at the prospect of having his rackets dry up.
And lastly, I have known lots of preachers and Reverends in my life. Not a single one of them would ever speak in this manner.
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Congressman Helpfully Translates Democrat Doublespeak
Jul 11th
There is at least one Republican congressman that still has a spine and can take it to the Dems. Here is a speech by Representative McCotter.
According to HotAir, Democrats are trying to prevent Congressional members from posting any content to sites like YouTube. Free Speech. You can’t have it.
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Democrats and Dog Cage Rape. Change You Can Believe In!
Jul 5th
Meet the driving force behind Obama’s campaign in Durham, North Carolina:

44 Year Old Diana Palmer.

30 Year Old Joy Johnson

And 25 Year Old Joey Craig. Ahem. Make that Reverend Joey Craig, who practices magick, with a “K” to add more Ph3ar!
These three criminals served as the vice chair and “assistant to the vice chair” of the Democratic Party of Durham county, North Carolina. In addition to trying to get Obama elected, these three nimrods run a new-age business called “Indigo Dawn” which sells phony remedies for ailments that only moonbats suffer. And Joey thinks he has the power of Mordor and possesses special powers and insights that mere mortals do not. These powers apparently involve locking victims in dog cages and raping his victims while they are chained to the bed, while his stupid wife watches. Blessed Be!
From the Charlotte Observer here:
A Durham County Democratic Party official was charged Wednesday as an accessory in a sexual assault case that includes allegations that a couple held a man captive in a dog cage.
Diana Palmer, first vice chairwoman of the Durham County Democratic Party, was jailed Wednesday afternoon on charges of being an accessory after the fact of an assault with a deadly weapon. Investigators say she removed evidence from the home of Joy Suzanne Johnson, who had been the party’s third vice chairwoman, and her husband, Joseph Scott Craig.
Johnson, 30, stood by as Craig, 25, beat and caged a man and sexually assaulted a woman in their home. Craig, a dispatcher at Allied Waste Industries, has been charged with second-degree rape, second-degree forcible sexual offense, three counts of second-degree kidnapping and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
The two people he is accused of assaulting listed 2305 Albany St., the home of Craig and Johnson, as their address, according to court documents.
Johnson “instigated and encouraged” her husband as he handcuffed a man and forced him “into a dog cage, leaving him there for hours, terrorizing him.”
Johnson, a 1996 graduate of Raleigh’s Millbrook High School, met Craig several years ago, acquaintances say, through a Web site devoted to Reiki, a spiritual healing technique that traces its roots to 20th-century Japan. Craig moved to Durham from Kentucky not long after that, and some longtime acquaintances began to notice changes in Johnson. Johnson, described as bright but shy, quit her job as a researcher at Duke University. Craig usually answered the phone at their home, and she was not as open and communicative as when she first moved to Durham.
The couple married at Durham’s Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Oct. 21, 2006.
Johnson’s bail is set at $270,000 and Craig’s at $500,000. Craig, Johnson and Palmer are partners in Indigo Dawn, a company that offers products and services “to promote enlightenment and assist in the development and self-empowerment and divine potential.”
The Indigo Dawn website is down now. From Google’s cache, you can learn a bit more about the stupid beliefs of these libtards. They think they are “Indigo Children” who:
Indigo Children are born with a natural indigo aura. They are also known as children of the Sun. The indigo aura is indicative of the third-eye chakra, which controls intuition and psychic awareness. Indigo Children have been born in every decade, but their numbers have increased dramatically since the 1990s. The Indigo Children were placed on Earth to usher in the New World Order or Age of Enlightenment.
Wow. Some people make up the stupidest beliefs when they refuse to believe in God. Well, what do you expect from Universalist Unitarians? Those crazy moonbats of this fake church believe that dirty sweatsocks can be a deity.
Lots of people are saying that this was a case of Bondage and Sado Masochism sex play gone awry. I don’t think so. These whackjobs were zealots and their victims lived with them and were likely members of the cult they started around the belief they were their own divine beings. Most cult activity revolves around sex activity with violence as a means to punish sin. But unlike other more charismatic cult leaders, Fat Joey had to beat his non-believers back into submission.
Meanwhile the Obama campaign has no comment on the behavior of his campaign staff. Thanks to Trench for the story and the links.
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Vienna Virginia is State’s Wussiest Town
Jul 4th
Vienna is just two towns over from where I live. All streets in this crowded Washington DC suburb is restricted to 25 miles per hour. And after a fireworks mishap last year, the town is going with a laser light show.

From WJLA here:
Fireworks are a thing of the past in Vienna as the town replaced them with lasers for 4th of July celebrations after people were hurt in 2007 by a malfunctioning firework.
The switch to lasers has a lot of people upset. Right in front of an elementary school, a gigantic screen will go up for Friday’s laser show, but many residents said they’re not excited to see it, saying the holiday just won’t be the same.
Authorities blamed fireworks made in China for a devastating 2007 accident in Vienna. Eleven people were hurt, two seriously, when rockets ricocheted into a crowd.
But a lot of people are upset since the town tradition dates back at least 40 years. “I’ve seen a laser show. I don’t need to see another one,” resident Mary Suriani.
The Baltimore company’s laser show will cost more than twice as much as the $10,000 fireworks display. The show starts at 9:15 p.m.
Everyone should show up with laser pen lights and shine it into each others’ eyes. Then next year they won’t have a laser light show either. Maybe they will have a slide show in the town square showing photos of fireworks from towns that have the guts to celebrate Independence Day.
To make matters worse, this is how Vienna is going to create the light show:

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This is the Goal of Climate Change Alarmism
Jul 3rd
They want to force people to move to floating communist gulags. Supposedly architects are inventing floating cities to take on “Climate Change Refugees.” In these green cities, complete with solar power and all vegan diets, people will be forced to work in labor camps to grow their hothouse plants. Imagine Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge experiment combined with Water World.

I, for one, think its a great idea. All of the liberals can go there and live out their fantasy of living in a Utopian commune. And then the rest of us can send them our prisoners too since liberals are so fond of not punishing them. And our death row inmates. And our terrorists too since we can’t house them at Gitmo. With all of the crime, starvation, and disease, the denizens of those floating cities will be gone in less than a century. It will be the ultimate recycling program. Maybe we can mine their festering corpses for biodiesel, just for irony and fun, because as soon as the libs leave, we start drilling for oil again.
And in the meantime, the water will not rise, nor will the temperature. Political partisanship aside, this really should serve as a warning to Global Warming believers. Its not about the environment and it never was. Its about social engineering, and forcing people to live a socialist lifestyle. Don’t wait until you are pushed along the gangplank to one of these prisons to wake up.
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The Liberals are Shrieking
Jun 26th
The US Supreme Court overturned the DC gun ban. Now maybe I will feel a little safer when I drive into the city. Chicago and New York will also become safer now that citizens are allowed to protect themselves from criminals.

From Reuters here:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, for the first time in the nation’s history, that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, and struck down a strict gun control law in the nation’s capital.
The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly 70 years that the high court has addressed whether the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, rather than a right tied to service in a state militia.
John Paul Stevens, a big liberal on the bench wrote in his dissent:
…the majority “would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.”
He said such evidence “is nowhere to be found.”
Someone should get Stevens a dictionary so he can look up the words “shall not be infringed.” Yes, the framers wanted to limit the tools available.
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After Three Years, Katrina Evacuees Continue to “Keep it Real.”
Jun 6th
Whether they are kickin’ it poolside or holed up in their hotel room with the AC set to 60, Katrina evacuees continue to live the high life- including using FEMA funds to finance their very own Meth Labs!

Rescued Beer
From NBC15 here:
What are people who receive FEMA assistance doing to help themselves? Very little.
The scorching heat puts many at the Quality Inn poolside, but for Gwenester Malone, she chooses to beat the heat by setting her thermostat to sixty degrees. Malone’s room for the past three months, along with three meals daily, have all been paid for by taxpayers.
“Do you work?” asked NBC 15′s Andrea Ramey.
“No. I’m not working right now,” said Malone. Malone says she can’t drive and it’s too hot outside to find work within walking distance. “Since the storm, I haven’t had any energy or pep to go get a job, but when push comes to shove, I will,” said Malone.
Police found a meth lab in a hotel room directly below her. Taxpayers also paid for that meth lab. The men police arrested were receiving FEMA assistance. The hotel owner says he’ll now have to spend $5,000 to clean out the room.
Maybe another hurricane will come along and flush this piece of human excrement down the drain once and for all.
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Democrats Ph3ar the Brown Noise
Jun 5th
Moonbats are accusing the Denver city council of investing in technology that will cause all of the protesters at this year’s Democratic Convention in Denver to shart themselves. I kid you not.
Read the story here from the Denver Post.
From Susan Greene:
Beware of the Brown Note.That’s the word among some political activists as the Democratic National Convention nears.
As legend has it, the Brown Note is an infrasonic frequency believed to resonate through human body parts and cause a loss of bowel control. Some protesters are convinced that Denver police will amplify such low frequencies to subdue them in August.
Mayor John Hickenlooper’s administration is only fueling conspiracy theories by refusing to disclose what equipment it’s buying with $18 million in federal money. Even after being sued last week, the city insists on keeping its list a secret.
…you would think the mayor would be the first to put an end to wild speculation about his police and their new bowel-moving sci-fi toys.
Unless, of course, it’s true.
In which case I would remind the mayor that we aren’t hosting a war but a convention — and a purportedly democratic one in a time of turmoil and widespread distrust of government and its all-too- heavy hand and secretive ways.
Remember, you don’t have to be stupid and kooky to vote Democrat, but it sure helps.
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Ted Kennedy’s Brain Tumor Getting Sucked Out
Jun 2nd
He went to Duke University to have the procedure performed by miniature brain-eating zombie field mice. Thanks to FARK for this lulzy picture that shows the results of the advanced procedure.

From Reuters here:
Sen. Edward Kennedy, a leading Democrat and patriarch of a prominent U.S. political dynasty, said he would undergo surgery on Monday for treatment of a brain tumor diagnosed last month.
Kennedy, 76, said in a statement he would have “targeted” surgery on Monday at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, followed by chemotherapy and radiation at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Surgery was to start at about 9 a.m. EDT and was expected to last about six hours, media reports said. Kennedy, the youngest brother of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy, said he expected to be hospitalized at Duke for about a week.
Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor called a glioma, a type of tumor that usually kills within three years.
I sure hope he don’t die or nothin!
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GTFO And Take this Injection With You
May 14th
Liberals are wetting themselves over the possibility that ICE agents are injecting sedatives into illegal aliens when they are packed onto airplanes for deportation. Oh Noes!!!

I think its great. I hope they get injected with a drug that makes them forget how to sneak across the border.
From Reuters here:
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged.
The newspaper said it has identified 250 cases in which the government has, without medical reason, given drugs meant to treat serious psychiatric disorders to people it has shipped out of the United States since 2003.
Involuntary chemical restraint of detainees without medical justification is a violation of some international human rights codes, the Post reported.
As I have said before, illegal immigration is a matter of risk. If the risk of getting caught becomes too great, aliens will stop trying to enter the country illegally. I say its time for landmines.
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West Point Wins CyberWar Against the NSA
May 13th
I have a new post up at [GAS] that highlights the capabilities of the NSA in cyberwarfare. In a contest among all of the military academies, it was West Point that was the best able to detect and defend against the stealthy attacks of the NSA.

Go check that article out. In contrast to the post below, where the AirForce seems to have rogue zealots, the NSA has perfected its methodology with years of practice.
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Crazed Air Force Colonel Proposes Air Force Botnet
May 13th
I have previously written about how the Air Force wants to become a major powerhouse in the world of cyber warfare. I think its a great idea in that we need servicemen and women trained in cybersecurity, tactics and methodology behind attacks. But one Air Force colonel is taking the idea a bit too far by proposing that the Air Force create a world-class Botnet. He doesn’t want to infect citizens computers (how nice of him) but wants to use thumb drives in old computers that were just going to be thrown away anyways to seed airforce networks wherever there is a spare jack available.

From the Armed Forces Journal here, by way of F-Secure:
Carpet bombing in cyberspaceWhy America needs a military botnetBY COL. CHARLES W. WILLIAMSON IIIThe world has abandoned a fortress mentality in the real world, and we need to move beyond it in cyberspace. America needs a network that can project power by building an af.mil robot network (botnet) that can direct such massive amounts of traffic to target computers that they can no longer communicate and become no more useful to our adversaries than hunks of metal and plastic. America needs the ability to carpet bomb in cyberspace to create the deterrent we lack.
BUILDING THE AF.MIL BOTNET
Lt. Chris Tollinger of the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency envisions continually capturing the thousands of computers the Air Force would normally discard every year for technology refresh, removing the power-hungry and heat-inducing hard drives, replacing them with low-power flash drives, then installing them in any available space every Air Force base can find. Even though those computers may no longer be sufficiently powerful to work for our people, individual machines need not be cutting-edge because the network as a whole can create massive power.
After that, the Air Force could add botnet code to all its desktop computers attached to the Nonsecret Internet Protocol Network (NIPRNet). Once the system reaches a level of maturity, it can add other .mil computers, then .gov machines.
To generate the right amount of power for offense, all the available computers must be under the control of a single commander.
So Williamson want to not only create the most powerful botnet, but also wants it to spread to every desktop in the .mil and .gov domains. And he wants to allow the Air Force theater commander to be able to press the button of DDoS doom to flood his victims.
Never mind for a second that such a stupid idea would also DDOS the source networks. The Colonel forgets how to defend against a DDoS attack, which is to blackhole ASR’s on the Internet. The ASR is the primary router through which all of the network traffic flows on the Internet. All the rest of the world would have to do to stop this stupid DDoS would be to blackhole the .gov and .mil ASRs and the rest of the world would carry on normally while the .gov and the .mil domains would find themselves cut off from the rest of the world.
I think some people in the Air Force are becoming drunk on their own ideas of power under their new cyber initiatives. And they need to dial back the rhetoric before they find their funding slashed. You want to DoS a network? A guided missile targeted at the facility that hosts the network routers are infinitely more effective and spectacular.
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