Court: whales are protected against Navy exercises

From The San Francisco Chronicle: "A federal appeals court has ruled that the Navy must protect endangered whales from the potentially lethal effects of underwater sonar during anti-submarine training off the Southern California coast, rejecting President Bush’s attempt to exempt the exercises from environmental laws."  Read the whole article here.
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Uncle Sam no longer Berkeley’s travel agent

Protesters in Berkeley are dressed in pink and taking on the Marines.  One poster that appeared on the street was photographed by Jim Castel.  He caught some of the anti-military mood in this very successful picture that probably won’t be used as a recruitment image by the military anytime soon:

This image pushes us back to [...]

Incidents-at-Sea Agreement with Iran

There is a report out that a "Gulf prankster" could have been the source of the recent near-incident at sea between the US and Iran.  The whole event is leading some to push for an "incidents-at-sea" agreement between the US and Iran.  Under this agreement, a series of communications protocol would be established to verify [...]

Close Guantánamo Bay

The American Civil Liberties Union is floating around this new image for their close the Guantánamo Bay prison campaign:

They quote Vice President Dick Cheney as saying, "They’re living in the tropics… They’ve got everything they could possibly want."  It goes on to say that "Torture and indefinite detention are shamefully un-American."  Finally, they encourage people [...]

Navy Diver Destiny

The Navy is your destiny and it’s coming your way according to this recruitment brochure:

This is not one of the Navy’s better recruitment materials.  The diver looks more dorky than enlightened by destiny.
If you were to compare these with other, the bomb sniffing dog ad was better, and the Navy Seals beach ad beats them [...]

Navy ~ bomb sniffing dogs don’t work underwater

While not quite as amazing as the Navy footprints on the beach commercial, this print ad, from the December 2007 issue of Motor Trend, gets the point across by featuring a piece of technology that few have seen.  The ad is interesting enough to make you want to know more about everything the Navy does.  [...]

Dubai Air Show features an aerobatic palm tree

Dubai’s Air Show, which opened this week, is quite a site…and a sound.  I was in Dubai several years ago and had forgotten that it was taking place.  The sound of the jets scared the living **** out of me.  The show has grown since then and features new acts.
One of the featured aerobatic routines [...]

Beach Impeach ~ Mother of all political protests?

Most people can respect political protests in many forms.  I lived for a while on a non-obvious street about six blocks from the White House, where the President would send political protests to keep them out of the way.  While there were always hoards of interesting things happening in D.C., I have to admit that [...]

Captain John Mayer off to the Caribbean ~ are you going to be on board his Mayercraft Carrier

I was watching Best Week Ever on VH1.com this weekend, and this commercial popped up for the John Mayer Mayercraft Sweepstakes:

What’s interesting is that you they are really pushing this as a leisure cruise to the Caribbean, but if you go to the website mayercraft.vh1.com, it feels more like you’re enlisting in the [...]

War in the paradise of the Pacific Northwest

When discussing regions of war, we often don’t think first of the Northwest — the area roughly delineated by British Columbia to Wyoming and across to Northern California.  Andrew Wagenhoffer has a review here of the book Fighting for Paradise: A Military History of the Pacific Northwest by Kurt R. Nielsen. 
Wagenhoffer says that [...]

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