Today, the military tried and failed again at getting a missile defense system to function properly. Interestingly enough, when I stumbled across this story at Google News, there were very few articles about it, and none of the main articles listed were from American news sources. You can see what I mean from the image. Suppression of the media by the administration? Here's a choice quote from the article, emphasis mine: bq. The Missile Defense Agency has attempted to conduct the test several times this month, but scrubbed each one for a variety of reasons, including various weather problems and a malfunction on a recovery vessel not directly related to the equipment being tested. We need to have perfect weather conditions for the missile defense system to work? I don't think that Kim Jong Il is going to give a damn about what the weather is like when he decides to launch missiles against the US... There are bigger problems than that anyway. Missile defense in general is just a flawed plan for a ridiculous number of reasons - I'm not going to go into them here, not now anyway, but basically it's just a giant boondoggle that allows the government to line the pockets of wealthy military defense types. Hopefully we can throw the bums out of office at the next election...