Moe Lane

UAV drone technology is about to hit the civilian market.  Unfortunately, there’s at least three good reasons why you just can’t shotgun the stupid things on sight…

Via Instapundit.

Moe Lane

PS: What?  Oh.  In order:

1. The pellets have to come down somewhere.
2. Urban areas tend to have noise control laws.
3. Too big a debris field.

Glenn Reynolds isn’t particularly scratching his head over why CodePink is so down on drones, and neither am I.  And as to the answer of this question by Zombie of Pajamas Media:

Someone sitting safely at an Air Force base in Nevada presses a button and it launches a missile from a drone which takes out an al-Qaeda leader or a Taliban chieftain — the very warmongers who are causing the problem and the very ones who declared war on us.

Shouldn’t CodePink therefore be protesting in favor of drones? That would make more sense.

…with a question of my own: why are we assuming that CodePink wants the AQ or Taliban target to be the one dying?

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Please, by all means: assume that I’m equating them with dogs.

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Whipped ones, in fact, as Environmental Republican demonstrates (via Glenn Reynolds). You see, he went looking for the Usual Antiwar Suspects’ outrage at the drone strikes in Pakistan, and discovered… well, that apparently it wasn’t really worth noting at all, really. His conclusion?

So what con we surmise from this little investigation? How about the left-wing of this country is populated with hypocritical ideologues who not only hated Bush but had a severe dislike for America. Now that they have a leader who they feel a kinship with, well, it’s all good.

You shouldn’t be surprised: the terrorists that got attacked weren’t Europeans – which is my polite way of saying that they weren’t sufficiently white and Western for the groups running the antiwar movement to particularly care, especially since caring might embarrass a President who isn’t a Republican. Was that too harsh? No? OK, let’s try again: the antiwar movement is run by racists who only like brown people when they can be used as clubs with which to beat anybody to the antiwar movement’s Right.

Well, anyone to their Right, and Jews. A quick perusal of the major players in question indicates that they’re all really upset that Israel isn’t baring its collective neck for the knife.

Moe Lane

PS: If you won’t respect yourself, don’t expect me to respect you, either.

Crossposted to RedState.