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Hey, when Big Government lovin' maple-syrup 'n beer swillin' Alan has a mildly conservative moment - how can I *not* link it? Especially a post that opens up this way:
What Next...No Butter Knives? by alan [5:01 PM July 31, 2007] I am not exactly a candidate for NRA membership but this bit of news about shutting down a Toronto university shooting range with a perfect track record smacks heavily of something very smelly:
To find out more - click here.
Moving back down south...
Given the, *ahem* good press the farm bill is getting right now - and our recent assumption of the mantle of "farmer," it seems appropriate at this time that though are at least two programs we could qualify for, SWWBO and I do not intend to apply for government largesse with taxpayer dollars to subsidize our dream here. We will, however, take advantage of the tax laws that favor our endeavor - and have already in terms of sales taxes on farming-related equipment and keeping the land in agricultural use so that the property is taxed at agricultural rates.
And we're providing money-making opportunities to *real farmers* in the management of our property.
Just thought I should say that. If I was *relying* on the farm as a primary source of income, I might well feel differently, but the programs I looked at that we qualify for seem to incentivize bad planning, with the possible exception of the crop reserve program - which I'm not applying to because I don't want to give the government even more reasons to tell me what I can, and can't do with the land than it already has. -the Amorer
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Larry K sent along this video - I haven't discovered where the secret tractor meets are in Leavenworth County yet - outside the county fair...
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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 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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