Fantastic Contraption, for Reals. This is seriously cool.

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From TED

Brian's blogging, so it can only mean one of two things: either I've found a new hobby, or politicians are offending me again. Well, both of which are true--I'll try to do my best to actually post updates on my personal life; however, politics are more inflammatory, more goading, so I'm first getting this off my chest...

Barak Obama is proposing that the United States deploy about 10,000 more troops to battle resurgent forces in Afghanistan.

Does this man have the slightest idea of what he's talking about?

At one point in the interview, he even looks away from the guy he's talking to. How can anyone expect this guy to lead us in his beliefs when he can't state one plan of action to a reporter in a comfortable arm chair.

If he wants to give the US hope, he should do it as a motivational speaker, as a pastor, as... oh, I don't know... as a US senator... who votes. That this man could get this far in a presidential race offends me as a citizen.

Among my peers, my family, my friends, I've heard the one thing he has going for him again and again: "He'll bring the troops home." Well, aparantly not. He'll just get them out of Iraq, where they've been doing a lot of good, and move them to Afghanistan.

Printed source: New York Times Article

To keep this in perspective, the "fiscally irresponsible troop surge" of 2008 (which is working, btw) called for 21,500 more troops. Barak has already fantasy deployed half that number into an allied country before his campaign has ended.