Monday at Benning. My cubicle is *still* better than yours!

While the core distinction here is private spaces versus public spaces... still, the dichotomy (and underlying attitudes displayed) is amusing.

RINO Sightings...!

Then there's this, from Drudge's Blurb about Brokeback Mountain.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes place in Wyoming, may be "too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes."

Me, I don't care about the subject matter - I'm sure there were a gay cowboy or two, if for no other reason than there is gay sex in men's prisons because of the lack of other outlets, leave aside the issue of just liking guys... but if the film industry can't connect the dots between the attitude detailed (I won't say held, from that context) by Jack Mathews and the continuing decline of box office... well, the reason there might be sand in your eyes is because you have your head in the sand... not the onshore breeze on the beach.

Now this is funny - though I would make the following change:

1. I am in the Marines, I have a problem. This is the first step to recovery...

2. Speech:

Time should never begin with a zero or end in a hundred, it is not 0530or 1400 it is 5:30 in the morning (AKA God-awful early).
Words like deck, rack, and "PT" will get you weird looks; floor, bed, workout, get used to it.
"F *ck" cannot be used to -replace whatever word you can't think of right now, try "um".
Grunting is not talking.
It's a phone, not a radio, conversations on a phone do not end in "out"
People will not know what you are talking about if you tell them you are coming from Camp Lejeune with the MWSS platoon or that you spent a deployment in the OCAC

Read the rest here at Strategy Page.

Historical Footnote: 1793. French Revolutionaries abolish Christianity in favor of "Reason." Liberal elites still trying, even as many bend over to accommodate Wahhabism. (and of course, the whole thing is more complex than that - lea' me 'lone!)

From the Admiral of the Moat Fleet comes this... I'll take summa dat! (Warning - ads in the margin may not be worksafe. Ry - nothing about this link is worksafe in your PC-environment - so turn the sound down (even though that's part of the charm...)

It would appear that Piglet's nascent militarism has forced a response from the Big Bad Wolf... oh the bestiality (scroll to the bottom)!

Argghhh! Someone was being lax and lazy about security issues... and how much of that was from fear of profiling... one has to wonder.

I always wondered about cheerleaders...

Interesting concept of "heavy arms." And the French are comparatively lenient on firearms ownership from a Euro perspective.

Welcome to the reality of your Islamic sub-culture, France. It looks like your way isn't working that well, either. And while the riots are not perhaps caused by Islam per se, the religion suffuses the issue and must be accounted for. When does it become okay to put the knackers on Islam that have been put on Christianity? For exactly the same reasons those who decry and despise Christian fundamentalism? It isn't racism to point to the fact, as Newsweek does, that the rioters are mostly African and Muslim. But it *is* useful to note that, and note how that, in context, also infuses the problem. The solutions, if any, will have to be multi-spectral, but to simply cut out huge chunks of relevant data because of fears of being called racist or bigoted is simply going to leave you with flawed, incomplete analysis - and your solutions, absent important data, may well not work, having been developed in a vacuum. Can anyone spell Cabrini-Green, Pruitt-Igoe? Examples of well-intentioned solutions that chose to ignore key data - in those cases not the race issue, but the realities of concentrating misery and miserable people into small spaces. While not as concentrated in the Paris region as those icons of American Liberalism, creating ghettos, whether de facto or de jure, simply makes your problem tougher. No, it's *not* easy. Getting groups of people who are very comfortable in their groups to break out into the wider population is tough - but if you don't find ways to encourage it... they don't assimilate, and simply create little communities with all the pathologies they were fleeing/leaving in the first place. Not true of all groups, times, and places, certainly. But true enough it has to be acknowledged.

Changing subjects...

Now and again I get questions - and when they come with cannon pics, the Armorer *does a happy dance*. The question follows:

I was introduced to your site almost a year ago by [Monteith - good job, boyo!], since then I've been an avid reader, though not much of a commentator.

I recently got back from a vacation in Morocco, where I took these photos of a cannon in Marrakech just outside the "Market Square". Being that this is Morocco, and 'loin' seems translate from French to "far" in English, I assume that this is a French weapon, see cannon-2.jpg for elevation adjustment settings. The bore seemed to be about 75mm, but I did not have time to get any real detail on any part of the weapon.

If anyone could identify this, I would appreciate it.

Hope you had a good time here in Atlanta this weekend.

Thank you.

David C.

I've already answered the question to David directly - but let's see if any of you guys can snipe-hunt this gun. 1. There *is* info on the net. 2. I'll give you a hint. It's an 90mm gun, not a 75mm. And pay attention to the carriage. There is a detail there that clinches the deal. Oh, and the gap in the trail should actually have a door on it (see the hinges on the right side in cannon2.jpg) and the ones I found on the 'net have the door in place - that is *not* the distinguishing detail.

Picture 2
Picture 3

Picture 2 will be the most useful to you. At least it was for me... Oh, and if *this* is the way you introduce yourself as a reader - you get to move to the head of the line!

I'll conclude this post with the next new recruiting poster: The Air Force.

(I'll prolly get a snark from Dusty about this one)