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I wonder if the people who are all in a tiff and want this type of preachy guerilla theatre shut down are in support of shutting this down.
Personally, if you take the preachy parts out, leave it as ‘take of this what you will but we have no take home message,’ I have no problem with the second. But it’s unlikely that it fit that description, IMO.
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Ugh. It’s things like this that puts daylight between me, and tdaxp Dan and TPM Barnett. When the Iranians do stuff like this I definitely do not see them natural long term allies in waiting.
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Analysis of the recent congressional vote and its impact, aptly titled: We who are about to die, salute you!
-kat
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Naval aviator Instapinch on the subject of "cold iron" in the context of the Big Juan. I understand what he means, after having clambered through two dark ships myself. While I never served on a naval vessel - being on a decommissioned ship I always get a sense of loneliness. Yeah, I know, anthropormorphizing again. Still - museum ships have a sense of happy purpose about them, which is why I got involved in rescuing that old warrior, the USS John Rodgers/BAM Cuitlahuac. H/t Fuzzybear Lioness
On another note - I get to clamber through another ship! I'm leaving today for Norfolk, to deliver a paper to a conference. While I'm in Norfolk, I'm going to visit the USS Wisconsin. It's been a long time since I saw an Iowa-class battleship, the last time being the New Jersey off of Lebanon. This time - I'll have a camera! And SWWBO will be spared being dragged through another hulking hunk of grey iron... -the Armorer
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Good on Laura Brown! Don't just think, act!. It's here that I note that the other laptop show in town, Project Valour-IT, delivered its 1000th laptop not that long ago. [FbL sez: There's been some confusing info given out on this. The 1000th laptop has been purchased, but not distributed yet. It's expected to be requested and disbursed in May.] I don't care how it's done, simply that it is done. Oh, and lest anyone think that we've not been noticed by Fox News - Fuzzybear had her splash at Fox right here. -the Armorer
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The Snarkatron (aka BCR) has a geography lesson - where will you pop out if you dig a hole to the other side of the earth? I'm just a short swim from... Australia. Well, at least it looks short, sorta. Okay, I really gotta get packing...-the Armorer
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Heh. Here I sit at the Kansas City airport, only to discover their netnanny has classified the Castle as... pr0nography. Sigh. Now I have to figure out who their NetNanny is and appeal the decision. Feh. -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 (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's 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".
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