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Airshow tomorrow in Kansas City. AIAA is caravaning out there. I'm bringing my D40 and big zoom lens so expect tomorrow night to see some in-flight pictures of:

F-16 (Thunderbirds)
F-15
F-15 & P-51D Heritage Flight
F/A-18
F/A-18 & F-4U Corsair Legacy Flight
L-39 in Blue Angels paint

and more

See: [link]

Update!
First, if you're interested, I've got a 2008 Calendar (yeah I know it's already late August). I'll make another once I can submit a 2009 Calendar. It might change slightly, but essentially look the same. So check it out: [link] (click on calendar at the bottom right).

The best two out of the bunch are here:


And the other good ones are here:


And then for those of you that like Wallpapers, in 1280x1024 px I made four backgrounds I liked:


As with all my stuff, it's free to download and share, just don't charge for it.

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So that this information is not lost. My response to a Question about the UN's worth:

have they ever actually done anything useful?

Yes. See: [link] as well as:

UN General Assembly: [link]
--Human Rights Council: [link]
--Universal Declaration of Human Rights: [link] (this alone is worth keeping the UN around)
--Int'l Criminal Tribunal for fmr Yugoslavia: [link] and for Rwanda: [link]

UN Security Council: [link]

Peacekeeping Missions: [link]
Africa
<sub>* MONUA (Angola)
* UNAVEM I (Angola)
* UNAVEM II (Angola)
* UNAVEM III (Angola)
* ONUB (Burundi)
* MINURCA (Central African Republic)
* UNASOG (Chad/Libya)
* ONUC (Congo)
* UNMEE
* UNOMIL (Liberia)
* ONUMOZ (Mozambique)
* UNTAG (Namibia)
* UNAMIR (Rwanda)
* UNOMUR (Rwanda/Uganda)
* UNOMSIL (Sierra Leone)
* UNAMSIL (Sierra Leone)
* UNOSOM I (Somalia)
* UNOSOM II (Somalia)</sub>
Americas
<sub>* ONUCA (Central America)
* DOMREP (Dominican Republic)
* ONUSAL (El Salvador)
* MINUGUA (Guatemala)
* MIPONUH (Haiti)
* UNTMIH (Haiti)
* UNSMIH (Haiti)
* UNMIH (Haiti)</sub>
Asia and the Pacific
<sub>* UNGOMAP (Afganistan/Pakistan)
* UNTAC (Cambodia)
* UNAMIC (Cambodia)
* UNTAET (East Timor)
* UNMISET (East Timor)
* UNIPOM (India/Pakistan)
* UNMOT (Tajikistan)
* UNSF (West New Guinea)</sub>
Europe
<sub>* UNMIBH (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
* UNPSG (Croatia)
* UNTAES (Croatia)
* UNCRO (Croatia)
* UNPROFOR (former Yugoslavia)
* UNPREDEP (former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
* UNMOP (Prevlaka Peninsula)</sub>
Middle East
<sub>* UNIIMOG (Iran/Iraq)
* UNIKOM (Iraq/Kuwait)
* UNOGIL (Lebanon)
* UNEF II (Middle East)
* UNEF I (Middle East)
* UNYOM (Yemen)</sub>

E-Mine (Disposing of land mines): [link]

Economic and Social Issues:
* Advancement of Women: [link]
* Human Rights: [link]
* International Trade: [link]
* Population: [link]
* Science and Technology: [link]
* Social Development: [link]
* Sustainable Development: [link]

Humanitarian Work
* UNHCR (High Commissioner for Refugees): [link]
* UNRWA (Relief & Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees): [link]
* Chernobyl Disaster: [link]
* Children and Armed Conflicts: [link]
* UNISDR (Int'l Strategy for Disaster Reduction): [link]
* Food Security: [link]
* UNICEF (UN Children's Fund): [link]
* WFP (World Food Program): [link]
* UNAIDS (AIDS Support): [link]
* UNDP (The overarching Development Program): [link]

but we get nothing out of the UN and it's just so damned expensive right? Pay no mind that the UN's TOTAL BUDGET is just over $4 billion (less than 1/3rd of NASA's laughably small budget of ~$15 billion): [link] and that it costs the US about $0.42 billion [link] (or each US citizen $1 and some change).