Delayed Round Up

Busy, busy, busy- and Blogger just would not let me post last night. Here's another round up.

First off, Michelle Malkin and Captain's Quarters highlight the priorities of the National Education Council. For a meeting of their Assembly they had a 30-point agenda. The first item on the agenda to actually deal with education came in at number 15. Only two items directly involved education. Makes me think even more that the United States should adopt wholesale the suggestions of California Republican Tom McClintock's education policies.

I don't have a Gamecube but I'm tempted to buy one just to get Resident Evil 4- and this nifty chainsaw controller too of course.

Another tech advance- a robot Humvee has managed to drive itself for seven hours without crashing on a desert race-course in the States. The test was preparation for a DARPA race to be held in October. Last year, not a single vehicle finished. It'll be interesting to see how the other vehicles fare this year.

Directed Energy weapons have been developed for use by the US military but it seems that there's still going to be a few years wait until they are fully deployed to active units. Again, this is a development which will be worth looking out for. Non-lethal weapons like this could have a profound impact on futre warfare.

MPACUK- a Muslim Public Affairs Committee- has posted an article called "Jihad Against Terrorism". It doesn't seem too promising to begin with-

the suicide bomber story will keep the press happy for years.

In the next few weeks you'll hear how they met Bin Laden etc... In the US, they will probably have met Saddam as well. On Fox “news” they would have been friends with the september 11th hijackers and any other tenuous link they can use to defame Islam.

You will also read about 72 virgins and the usual “hate us, hate our way of life” rubbish.

However, they do go on to say-

Tony Blair and Charles Clarke can worry about intelligence failures, It is now time for the British Muslim communities, institutions and organisations to declare our own Jihad against Terrorism. It is not worth denial, disbelief, condemnation without some action. There are a million questions. How can 4 lads with no previous convictions do this. Where did they meet? Who taught them that this was something they should do? We must all work vigilantly to make sure this does not happen again.

Remember kill one person, kill the whole of humanity, save one person, save the whole of humanity.

Let's all work for this Jihad against terrorism.