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Rush Limbaugh, kind of amusing, sometimes annoying, occasionally funny, but, honestly, not an appropriate debate topic for 24 hours or more in congress. These people literally must have nothing to do. They have certainly accomplished little over the last two years. Of course, they're after Limbaugh, not just because of the MoveOn mess, but because they can't quell talk radio through competition, they can't make it give up its market share by the "fairness doctrine" and now they are doing some lame "Mom, he hit me, too" dance in congress. This is so lame I can't believe I'm blogging on it, but wanted to say:
People...the world is going to heck in a hand basket and you're debating Limbaugh. We're doomed.
Except in Iraq where the surge is going so well that the Shia now asked for our specific assistance backing up the IP during a Shia holiday instead of relying on the segregated police and private security. They are too worried it will come out like last time with multiple people wounded and killed.
Hey, some more leaking of the secret plan to conduct a secret test of some not so secret places.
Now, for something completely different from NRO: Why right wing economics beat left wing social causes in elections. (referencing "the Problem with Kansas")
I'll give you a hint: people don't like people that mess with their money, especially when they have no say in how its spent (no taxation without representation). For the most part, Democrat social schemes like Health Care for all and $5,000 savings bonds for Children involve something like taking more of my money, giving it to a crooked pyramid scheme con artist (the government) and then passing what's left around to people I don't know and have no idea whether they deserved it, got it or cared about it like I do.
That would be reason #2 why I won't be voting for Hillary. Scariest thing she ever said in 2004 was "We're going to raise your taxes for the greater good."
Oh, and sometimes, these social schemes remind me of our friendly new dictator down south who calls his movement "21st Century Socialism", but looks a lot like 21st Century Totalitarian Communism complete with "politburos" who will make the "will of the people known" to the executive and legislative branches. Of course, how that will happen since elections are now gone is a mystery unless, of course, the politburos are full of fine upstanding folks with ESP.
Thank you Jimmy Caw-taw for over seeing the destruction of democracy. I always knew you had it in you.
-Kat
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On the Lebanon Fires: Seems they are under control. Details.
And, from SWJ: Kilcullen's Power Point on Counter-insurgency. For the most part, this was a very informative presentation on counter-insurgency. I did find one or two points interesting regarding "strategic communications". More on that later.
-Kat
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Frank - this one's for you! Battery Adjust! -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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