MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Seems to have interesting phots and news that's not just Reuters replay
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yeah, interesting, and I never noticed it before, thanks for pointing it out.
They've got this story and photo at top right now
IS suicide bulldozers attack Iraq forces in Mosul
which made me think right off about the whole ISIS recruitment appeal issue. My little brother, when they were like 8 and 6 years old "playing army" fanatics, would have rated a war movie with one of those in it as awesome.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 8:54am
Straight out of Mad Max: Road Warrior, except drones are nowhere near as crazed and sexy as the whirly copter and pilot in the movie. (Sadly they added another installment to the film franchise, a completely pointless exercise of rescuing some virgins in the desert and parading some really poor quality CGI to boot.)
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 9:02am
Maybe an overall good source bit I think there is some little-boy-type-war-imagining much like your little brother's going on in that article.
The Mad Max bulldozer pictured just went head on through a hail of gunfire including RPGs and anti-tank weapons according to the author. The bulldozer was apparently even fired at by an Abrams tank which has first round accuracy over great range with rounds which can destroy another tank which is much much more heavily armored than that dozer. Nothing that hit the bulldozer in that hail of gunfire that finally killed the driver was even powerful enough though to break through the layer of rust and leave a single ding mark anywhere that I can see. Maybe it also had a force field around it. Also, when a dozer works through a sand berm or other soil/rock combination, as this one had supposedly just done, the bottom edge of the blade gets shined to silver. That contraption had been sitting and rusting for some time when the picture was taken is my strong odds on bet.
Also, not worth taking the time to explain why, but there is no way a mortar hitting water sends an ‘extraordinary waterspout of clear water high into the air’. The author seems to be prepping to be a screenwriter for action movies.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 12:42pm
Perhaps, or just wants to come across descriptive & engaging.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 8:31am