H&I Fires 16 Feb 06

Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...

Heh. Regardless of what you think about the James Frey brouhaha - ya gotta like Bruce Willis' take on the subject. H/t, Ry.

Worries abound in the "Reality-Based" Community... -The Armorer

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Between this and the Evolution contortions we go through around here - sometimes I wish I could tell people I lived in Missouri. Of course, if I did, then I could own shootable machine guns...

Uh-oh. Eastern Washington State just got a little more unliveable...

The French at War. H/t, Kat.

Cheney@War. Jack wants your opinions.

Castle Adjutant Barb is tracking the University of Washington kerfuffle regarding Pappy Boyington, so you don't have to.

Cassandra's Dimwittery Alert is worth a scan...

Jeff of Alphecca peers into Britain regarding Cheney and ShooterGate.

Gun Pr0n at Cowboy Blob's! That little beauty would be comfortable with his buddies in the Arsenal of Argghhh! (see below)

More Gun Pr0n at Mr. Completely (may his firearms jam for his bitch-slapping of us in the BMG awards!).

More Gun Pr0n at ROFASIX

Even *more* Gun Pr0n from Kim.

Dean schools a commenter in his gentle style. -The Armorer

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A skirmish in the Battle of the Sexes over at Lex's. -FbL

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Denizen Alan at GenX@40 is stumped. One thing he was hoping to raise his spirits was for some conservative to "a conservative blogger tossing up some new foolishness and calling it tradition", I went and did my part. Now all Denizens go see what you can do for our poor Bolshie Canuckistanian! - The Armorer

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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.

Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.

Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*

The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.

I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. It's also an open trackback, so if (Don Surber uses it this way a lot) someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".