H&I* Fires 9 Sep 2006

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This oughta be fun...
Men Smarter than Women, Scientist Says. Yup, that's the provocative headline. The study was based on brain size. Dig a little deeper in the article and you'll find out how flimsy a conclusion that headline really is. Best comment on the article at lucianne.com?: "The brain is just another organ. It's not the size of the organ that counts, it's how you use it...."

PGS at Techography knows the value of an adult beverage. - FbL

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Movies are for watching, not verbally describing, indeed.
It's okay to have a bias (and I suspect moreso if it's politically correct) but it's not a good idea to express it in Canada, if you're a reporter...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - One of Canada's top television reporters has been suspended from her job for praising the country's increasingly troubled military mission in Afghanistan, La Presse newspaper reported on Friday. Christine St-Pierre, a veteran Ottawa correspondent for French-language public broadcaster Radio-Canada, wrote an open letter to Canada's 2,300 troops telling them to ignore mounting criticism of the mission.

Note the editorial slant in the article itself. Read the whole thing here. H/t, CAPT H. -the Armorer

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In the category of pricelss: Wheelchair-Bound Woman Shoots Mugger. And right in your backyard, John! - FbL

[The incident occured in Harlem, NY, Fuzzy. *Reported* in a link from my backyard... -the Armorer]

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Our missing AF Major has been found. Alive. Good. Remember - the Buddy System is your friend in these situations. -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. 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".