A Red Flag

I heard a story about these watches on NPR the other day.
From Wikipedia:
According to The Guardian, "the Casio F-91W digital watch was declared to be 'the sign of al-Qaida' and a contributing factor to continued detention of prisoners by the analysts stationed at Guantánamo Bay. Briefing documents used to train staff in assessing the threat level of new detainees advise that possession of the F-91W – available online for as little as £4 – suggests the wearer has been trained in bomb making by al-Qaida in Afghanistan." United States Military intelligence officials have identified the F91W as a watch that terrorists use when constructing time bombs.
This association was highlighted in the Denbeaux study, and may have been used in some cases at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. An article published in the Washington Post in 1996 reported that Abdul Hakim Murad, Wali Khan Amin Shah, and Ramzi Ahmed Yousef had developed techniques to use commonly available Casio digital watches to detonate time bombs.

Training

A few days ago I was wondering around the internet and found this webpage:
http://www.ustraining.com/new/index.asp

From their mission statement:
U.S. Training Center is famous for our ability to deliver hard hitting, effective training experiences for military, security and law enforcement professionals as well as civilians. We provide advanced training courses for a wide range of missions, terrain and tactical situations. We train both individuals and units applying our knowledge and experience to support their stated objectives. Our world class instructors are matched to the student audience with law enforcement veterans teaching law enforcement and military veterans teaching military courses. Courses are offered at our three U.S. Training Centers and through our mobile training program - delivering instructors to your location to teach.

This place is the Blackwater training facility where law enforcement, military, private security and civilians can sign up for courses to learn tons of stuff. Here is a screen grab of a sample of courses:



It is like a rock and roll fantasy camp, but instead of pretending to be a rock star you can pretend to be a soldier.
Looks like fun. I would like to take one of the driving classes.

Tim & Lamont

Here is a new cartoon I am currently working on with Tim Skinner exclusivley for the Moon Show.
Check it out, I think it is pretty funny but I am kind of biased.
Enjoy.

A Few In A Series

Here are a few doodle pages from a growing archive I have been making and collecting for a while. While I am at work, I like to keep a folded 11x17 piece of paper under my keyboard to take notes on, scribble down ideas, weird images, things that I see that look cool and wish I had made, keep phone numbers and stuff like that. I think they look cool and want to do something with them eventually.

Jonathan!

I'm lovin' it lately.
Spring is around the corner, time to get in a good mood.

Winter!

Shel

This is really crazy.