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Today is Crime Day! Because that's what was in my email, mostly...
CAPT H sends, "Granny, get your gun!" Granny's got some pretty harsh ROE! I hope that second shot doesn't land her in jail.
Lou M. sends us this about an auld Marine who didn't need a gun to deal with his perp.
Jack Lewis has some things he wonders about... some examples:
Why after serving two terms in the House of Representatives and eight years in the Senate, Dan Quayle was considered "unqualified" to serve as Vice-President by much of the Media Elite, yet after serving only two years in the Senate, Barack Obama's qualifications are never questioned by those same Media Elite?If when I assemble a jigsaw puzzle of the Mona Lisa, I can't then claim I painted the Mona Lisa, why do companies buy parts from overseas, pay Americans to put the parts together, and then claim it was "Made in America"?
Why are Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert allowed to say as reprehensible and as outrageous stuff as they want, but Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are almost daily excoriated for stuff nowhere near as offensive?
Check out his others, here.
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Speaking of prosecutors being blinded by the kliegs... Fitzgerald (who at least got a reluctant conviction in a Martha Stewart-esque display of prosecutorial zeal), that idiot Nifong, now let us add... Ronnie Earl and his pursuit of Tom DeLay.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today refused to reinstate criminal conspiracy charges against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two co-defendants.-the ArmorerDeLay, R-Sugar Land, and political consultants Jim Ellis and John Colyandro were accused of conspiring to violate state election laws in the 2002 elections for the Texas House. But lower courts threw out the indictment on grounds that conspiracy to violate the election code was not a crime until 2003,
A majority of the Court of Criminal Appeals agreed.
DeLay, Ellis and Colyandro were charged with plotting to funnel illegal corporate campaign contributions to several Republican House candidates in 2002, when the GOP gained its first House majority of modern times.
The three also were charged with money laundering, but a trial on those charges has been held up pending a resolution of the conspiracy charges.
DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, said he was pleased with the ruling but sorry that it took so long and resulted in DeLay's resignation from Congress, where he represented Houston's southwest suburbs for more than 20 years.
"Ronnie Earle indicted Tom DeLay for a crime that didn't exist, wasn't on the books," DeGuerin said.
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Sigh, Eric, you're harshing my mellow, dude. (see his comment on the "Range" post.)
Just work with me here.
For you - this will be your vehicle... So, think in scale terms...
The map is where things are supposed to be... I can't build it until I own it (after 1500 local tomorrow).
And if your tank is one of these... then there's plenty of room, 'k? -the Armorer
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How 'bout a little Gunner Zen while we're at it, too?
That's some fancy shooting. Or lucky. -the Armorer
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It's a good thing critters can't vote. Mr. Romney would have lost 10 votes at the Castle. And quite possibly two more bi-pedal votes, as well, if he were a candidate we were interested in. -the Armorer
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Cdr. Salamander added his voice to the question of Internet Misogyny and requested the ladies' imput, including mine. - FbL
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ARROWHEAD RIPPER UPDATE
Yesterday's SIGACTs from FOB Tacoma.
Alexandra Zavis of the LA Times with 5-20 IN
Joshua Partlow of the Washington Post with the 3/2ID
Michael Gordon of the New York Times with Comanche Company, 1-23 IN
Drew Brown of Stars & Stripes with the 296th BSB
In other AOs-this report from LTC Matt Green of Ft Lewis, leading an advisory team to one of Baghdad's Iraqi police commanders.
-HL
*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 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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