July 08, 2002

Check out this item from our quirky but lovable truck-driving blogger Cold Fury (News, Views, and Random Cursing), who's been seeing definite domestic indications that "the balloon is about to go up!"

"There is no equipment to be had anywhere. Not East coast, not West coast, not in the interior. The last time this happened was just prior to the Gulf War. The military sucked up the containers/trailer and rail space prior to the public announcement of Desert Shield. Could the equipment shortages the Intermodal industry is seeing now be a precursor to a military build-up? Something for you to consider...."

As cyber military strategist William Quick opines over at his Must Read Daily Pundit,

Add Mike's tidbit to the sudden gush of misleading "battle plan" leaks, the completion of the transfer of command and control capabilities from the Saudi airbase to al-Udeid in Qatar, the sudden IDF clampdown on the intifada (and resultant outbreak of no-bombings), and one has to think that something is up.

I know something's up,too...and it's about time!
"Let's roll!"