We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:35:59 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification A couple of weeks ago, I was at the Dole Institute at Kansas University, where GEN (R) Myers, past Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, delivered the Dole Leadership Lecture. Follow the link if you're interested in that, this is just stage-setting. While we sat in the lecture hall waiting for the crowd to arrive and settle in, as is my wont I was listening to the conversations around me. The students who come to these things are usually pretty political and motivated, so you can hear interesting stuff - to include civil conversations between liberal and conservative students. A conversation... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html Mon, 21 May 2007 06:40:13 -0600 Yes, dear. You read it correctly. It is the *only* one of those legal for civilian sales. I predict it will sell, and at something close to that price. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60263 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60263 Tue, 22 May 2007 06:05:43 -0600 Did I read the price on that gun correctly? 450K - that's 450,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60262 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60262 Tue, 22 May 2007 05:56:42 -0600 Not saying I only feel cruel and grumpy in dreams, just that I like to think I'm a rational grownup who controls his violent passions. If you never have any violent passions, there's prolly something wrong with you, like maybe not enough Celtic or Cherokee genes, or something. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60258 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60258 Mon, 21 May 2007 23:14:53 -0600 Yes, Jon, and yer victim can see 'em coming, too, which is what makes it such a great terror weapon when one is feeling really cruel and grumpy. Only in my dreams, of course. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60257 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60257 Mon, 21 May 2007 22:55:13 -0600 NDS - there is an Armorer Family Connection to the Union Station Massacre as well. Frank Nash, the slain hood, grew up and lived across the street from my grandmother, and was known to the family. When the FBI was watching Nash on his visits home to Paragould, they would park in front of my grandmother's home. While the events were separated by 60-some years, they both rest across the aisle from each other in the mausoleum of Linwood Cemetery. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60242 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60242 Mon, 21 May 2007 09:57:45 -0600 You think I could keep money away from my wife for even 10 days? You obviously don't know my wife. And I don't mean she spends it -- she socks it away for those luxuries I mentioned earlier. In addition to all else she does she's also Keeper of the Exchequer. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60241 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60241 Mon, 21 May 2007 09:44:34 -0600 http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2002/jul/14/the_attorney_generals/ ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60240 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60240 Mon, 21 May 2007 09:34:14 -0600 So, Steve, by your timeline, it will take 12 or so years for your wife to leave you because of the deprivation... get another job, cut the whole thing to under a decade, you should be golden, right? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60239 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60239 Mon, 21 May 2007 09:31:42 -0600 I figure if I give up the luxuries; food, clothing and housing for the next 10 or 12 years I could afford it. Of course sales taxes would take another year or two and by then the wife would have left me. On second thought I think I'll give it a pass. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60238 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60238 Mon, 21 May 2007 09:22:58 -0600 I have to agree with you about the MK-19, nice, but expensive to feed. It is also one of the few weapons that you can see the actual projectile in flight and "walk" your rounds onto the target. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60234 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hee.html#comment-60234 Mon, 21 May 2007 08:13:02 -0600