Remember The USS Cole?

"Our friend has gotten a royal screwing,"

Kirk Lippold (commander on the Cole) is the first commissioned military officer or civilian official to be punished during George W. Bush's presidency for failing to prevent a terrorist act against the nation.

Bush has been criticized for not holding more people to account, particularly in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and for faulty prewar intelligence and poor war planning.

But now some are questioning whether the White House and Congress, in not acting on Lippold's Pentagon-approved promotion to the rank of captain, have nailed the right man.

Breaking his silence, Lippold, 46, says it's wrong to blame him.

"If you want accountability, there was one accountable officer on that ship, and that was me," Lippold said during a three-hour interview. "But if you want to blame me for allowing that attack on my ship that killed 17 of my sailors -- that is essentially putting me as a U.S. military commander in the war on terrorism on the same level as Osama bin Laden."

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Bush: 'Hydrogen is the fuel of the future'

With all due respect to President Bush, I don't think he's going about the Hydrogen Fuel initiativethe right way. We should be looking at this as if it were the moon shot. Screw this crazy idea of going to Mars. We as Americans should make the fuel of the future our next "Microsoft". I mean lets just make Arab oil an moot point! This is a great site for getting the basics of how FUEL CELLS and HYDROGEN POWER work.

A few cool hydrogen cencepts

Chevy trucks suck?

One ugly truck!

In my line of work and play it's only practical to have a pickup and I'm SICK TO DEATH of pickups. Unfortunately the one alternative in the Chevy line up is the Avalanche or the Ultimate Utility Vehicle (UUV). This vehicle is about as impractical as it gets for anyone who actually uses it hard. I have a laundry list of complaints about it but primarily it's wimpy when it comes to towing and it's gas only engine choices leave it off my list of potential vehicles permanently. The other major complaint is the exterior is so extravagantly nook and crannyish that pretty much any small bump, dent or ding ends up being a major expense. I mean come on, how many times have you bumped the bumper on the construction site or backed into a pole plowing snow? Chevy better get it's act together or I'm going to buy a Ford. Too bad the fords interior suck so bad. Plus it's still a truck!

What a DICKHEAD!!!

Yaron London, a cultural commentator for Israel's Channel 10 television, had this rhetorical question for Suri's proud parents: "Why didn't you just go back to your ancestors' language, and call the kid 'Scram Cruise'?"

I said SCRAM!!!

Nut job!!!

What's that on top? A prop?

Irans new
"super secret"

"super-modern flying boat"

Is that a prop mounted to the top? I bet you can hear that a few miles away.