H&I* Fires 23 SEP 2007
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You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...
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Jesse MacBeth, poseur, felon, jailbird. His apology is hard to take, at least for me. I'm just lacking the charity gene, I guess. H/t, Kevin.
Over at Stop the ACLU, this crie-de-coeur from a college newspaper editor: ...it is my sincere hope that our readers understand our intentions were not malicious. Translation: "Waaaaaaah! I was just exercising Free Speech! I was speaking Truth To Power! You're supposed to worship me because of that!" Heh. Trust me, boyo, the withdrawal of advertising support for your cage lining fishwrap is not malicious, either. It's a lesson, and, after all, you're a student, right? The lesson? Actions, even speech, can have consequences. It's a free society. You're free to print what you want, with few restrictions, and people are free to spend their money where they want, eh? Just because you run a newpaper doesn't create an exemption there. Snerk.
Talk about flexing and adapting... the poor man's JDAM. Bill, there *may* actually be work for you... I'd be after a touch more standoff, myself.
Speaking of flexing and adapting - the FOAB compared to the MOAB. -the Armorer
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Unintended Consequences... Over at Stop The ACLU, Jay has a piece up on "idiosyncratic reasoning from a US Court." The ruling supports an Illinois statute that effectively shut down the last slaugtherhouse in the US that processed horses for overseas consumption.
Unintended consequence of that? The whole foofaraw over the slaughter of horses (something SWWBO has very *strong* feelings on) has had an interesting impact. Horse breeders are going out of business. Before the move to protect horses from slaughter for consumption, even "bad" horses (as in badly trained, lamed, poor conformance, etc) could bring in about $1,000 when sold for slaughter. Good horses went for several thousand. Really good horses still sell well, we're talking average, decent riding horses. Now, as two horse breeders have told me *this week* you can't give 'em away, and good horses are selling for $3-400, at least out here in the midwest, a condition that will continue until the market stabilizes... by reducing the herds. It's just... interesting. Any horse breeders in the readership? -the Armorer
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This just in - NYT is biased. Yeah, well, so is this place. Only I get snarked for it by MSM journalists, but when the NYT does it... hey, that's just "hard choices" and "holding people accountable..." (that last will be explained in a post for tomorrow). Stop The ACLU has a nice one-stop round-up on the topic. -the Armorer
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Jules Crittenden pats Ken Burns on the back. Wearing ninja claws. Read his review of Burn's new opus "The War" Short form of the review? Magnificent Failure. -the Armorer
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Fixed-wing jocks - you *knew* they were always envious of people like Bill and V29... -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 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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