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Time to add a new caveat, because from email it's not clear to some folks (mind you, if you don't read this it won't matter...) Being an open post, people (collectively, the Denizens) other than I post in the H&I. They sign their work (most of the time) - keep that in mind when you want to flame someone in email please - if it doesn't say "The Armorer" or "John" then I didn't write it! And honestly - if you don't like something said or posted... leave a comment, and hash it out (within the context of The Rulez which are clearly posted on the comment form, I would add).
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What pressure! This is the first time I've had to set this up.
Here's what I found funny enough to put out this kind of effort:
Farmer hides castle from building inspectors
The council wants the building near Redhill some 30 km south of London to be demolished, along with an associated conservatory, marquee structure, wooden bridge, patio, decking and tarmac racecourse.
"It looks like a mock-Tudor house from the front and it's got two turrets at the back," the spokeswoman said. "I understand there is also a cannon."
Sound familiar?........Maggie
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If you aren't aware of, or haven't been following the tale of Hesham Islam, senior advisor to Undersecretary of Defense Gordon England, and Army Reserve Major Steve Coughlin, you can click this link to Claudia Rosett's National Review article to catch up. - there are some disturbing questions raised here - at the extreme end, allegations of penetration of the US government by Islamist agents, or at least, and more likely, a benign obtuseness on the issue of calling an apple an apple - simply because doing so offends some people... You should also click this link, to read the thesis on Extremist Jihad (accepted by the National Defense Intelligence College) submitted by Major Coughlin in his pursuit of his MS in Strategic Intelligence. "To Our Great Detriment." -the Armorer
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In Our Area the Taliban Are Paying More a Month than we are in some places because their life expectancy is much shorter.” quote from Col. Edward Kornish, Commander, Regional Police Advisory Command - South.
That quote is from the Blogger's Roundtable interview with Colonel Kornish - amply summed up by Chuck Simmins at America's North Shore Journal. -the Armorer
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The Commissar finds that Bill Clinton has been channeling... wait for it... Richard Milhouse Nixon of late. -the Armorer
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Meant to post this earlier and I hope enough folks see it. Gardner, KS police officer, member of the Kansas National Guard, receives the Distinguished Flying Cross.
On June 2, 2007, Hammon left Baghdad en route to Balad Air Force base 42 miles north of Iraq's capital. He had four crew members and six soldiers on board as the helicopter flew through the night sky.With night vision goggles on, they crossed a palm grove on the Tigris River. Everything was going smoothly.
From below, tracers zipped by from all directions. Bullets from three different gun systems on the ground tore through the Black Hawk's Achilles heel - its tail.
Without a tail rotor, steering rumbled. They were going down.
-Kat
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Double Amputee Walks Again Due to Bluetooth Technology
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006. He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together.Now, he's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs outfitted with Bluetooth technology more commonly associated with hands-free cell phones.
-Kat
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Talk about too stupid to live... suicide bomber trips, blows up. -the Armorer
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Happy Friday! Here you go! Have some of these, too.Kisses..........Love Maggie
*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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