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Someday, John is going to regret giving me the keys to his blog....but, today....
I got the power! (yeah, C+C Music Factory reference...don't worry if you don't get it)
Starting off this morning with something particularly salient to this blog: A Liberal's Lament: The NRA might be right.
Kind of goes along with all that "free speech" stuff I'm talking about in a separate post. I think the guys if finally figuring out there are no half measures and no one right that should be defended while the others are crushed, no matter the reason, nor matter the cause.
Speaking of being "crushed", US says it kills 25 Insurgents (read "Mahdi Army) in Iraq while simultaneously busting up an AQI meeting where (gasp) an Iraqi MP was found attending (sounds like it was a "martyrs" funeral, but we'll see what turns out since the MP was a member of the largest opposition Sunni Block - who is also known to have ties with the Ba'athists, et al; might have been a set up - stand by for updates).
AQI Financier goes down in a blaze of glory and the list of AQI members noted yesterday includes Britons, Belgians, French, etc, etc, etc who will probably never be able to return to their adopted country. Yeah, we're sad for them, can't you tell? Speaking of that, wonder if that's how we snooped out the Iraqi MP? How many of those guys are running around ready to make a deal?
Well, there are 22 groups (ooh, scary) who decided to form yet another (yes, one more) giant organization (since the others keep falling apart) to "fight the occupiers", but also leave the door open for negotiations and, kind of, sort of, denounce Al Qaida.
They better hurry up and decide, because AQI is stepping up attacks on the Anti-AQI in their last bastion in Arab Joubour (also known as Saleh al din, Tikrit, etc north of Baghdad). Sometimes, those who come late to the party don't get any cake. However, don't confuse internal Shi'ite politics with AQI assassinations. The mayor of Iskandariyah was likely targeted by crazy Shi'ites trying to jockey for the position of "ye who gets to kill the women and enforce Shi'ite extremist Islamic Shariah on the unsuspecting citizens".
Sometimes people get the democracy they deserve when they do things out of fear like vote in Shi'ite extremists for "security". There are always 300 Tyrants waiting with out stretched, bloody palms. After all the hoopla about the missing 180k weapons from 2004-2005, we are in an all fired hurry to hand over millions of dollars more. Makes you go, mmmm....particularly while Ahmadinejad keeps on about Iranian dominance and acquiring "nuclear technology". You know what they say, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."
Stand by for updates.
-Kat
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Let me get this straight:
2) Thanks to the firewalls that 3-COM (the contractor in charge of DOD’s cyber infrastructure) has put in place, the cyber-attacks are largely unsuccessful.
3) The Chinese military orders its networking and telecommunications equipment supply company, Huawei Technologies (a CHICOM subsidiary), to purchase 3-COM.
And that’s where we stand. Are the Chinese doing an end run play, to do by subterfuge what they could not do by brute force? - Pescem Primum ad Caput Foet.
BOQ
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Heh, now I've got Denizens *dueling* to get an H&I started. Both Boq and Kat had one going.
Jules Crittenden asks: Got Kids?
Why is that important? Why should you click that link?
The paranoia over parents is so strong that the AAP encourages doctors to ignore “legal barriers and deference to parental involvement” and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get.
And that information doesn’t stay with the doctor, either.Debbie is a mom from Uxbridge who was in the examination room when the pediatrician asked her 5-year-old, “Does Daddy own a gun?”
When the little girl said yes, the doctor began grilling her and her mom about the number and type of guns, how they are stored, etc.
If the incident had ended there, it would have merely been annoying.
But when a friend in law enforcement let Debbie know that her doctor had filed a report with the police about her family’s (entirely legal) gun ownership, she got mad.
She also got a new doctor.
I'm guessing the AAP wouldn't approve of the Arms Room of Argghhh!!! - which gets cabinetry and the door installed today... whee! Busy day for me - I've got that, plus I'm laying out the route for the American Heart Association Heart Walk (which takes place tomorrow) and then there's that whole, oh, work thing, too. -the Armorer
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Wow! There's a lot of serious stuff today. You know it's Friday, right? Since nonsense is my specialty I think I'll point you toward a YouTube vid sent to me by Anthony. It is nonsense, but it's fun in a history geek kinda way......Maggie
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Maggie says "humor" we comply or else the princess might ask for our heads...
PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky officials on Thursday sued the manufacturer of OxyContin, the prescription painkiller dubbed "hillbilly heroin," because of widespread abuse in Appalachia.
Okay, drug abuse not funny, but "hillbilly heroin" is. And, six counties are joining in the suit. Talk about "pain". Nothing like telling drug companies not to create new and improved drugs because, you know, we just can't hack it, we'll become addicted, AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!
(In which case, can I sue Typad, blogger, the first amendment, stupid congress critters, and the maker of my computer for blog addiction?...never mind...moving on....)
Here's some unintentional humor: When the CIA got it right.
This in the "eww..that is just sick" column. (you know you're going to click it - SFW)
-Kat
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Geez, Kat, if yer gonna stomp me, quit wearing the stillettos, eh?
Code Pink strikes a blow for FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!! /sarcasm. -the Armorer
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Well, it was the stilletos or the steel toed boots. Men are never happy. -Kat
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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