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You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...
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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Major kerfuffle at 9 o’clock, low.
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The Military History Carnival is up.
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Apropos the epic below:
Mark Steyn: God and Guns: H3ll Yeah!
Along a similar vein: Trigger Happy
Remember No Taxation Without Representation? Lt Nixon contemplates our own relationship with our government and taxes: Sunday Ramblings
1776: The Greatest Counter Insurgency Failure Ever
Thomas Jefferson: 265 Years Old
North Shore Journal time line America: Democracy is Hard
Via Gateway Pundit - Students Rally for Science Teacher
Freshwater complied with requests from the school administration to take down a display of the Ten Commandments, but refuses to remove a Bible from his desk at school. Freshwater said the administration’s order is a violation of his First Amendment rights. The Bible is a source of personal inspiration to him, Freshwater said, and helps him get through the day.
According to the report, he's had the bible in his classroom on his desk for 20 years. In some ways, under our new onus to be even more aware of the diversity of the modern school and student body, I could understand the ten commandments (though they aren't bad laws to live by), but trying to make him leave his bible at home? The school district went too far.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with the mom who said they had school prayer and didn't see anything wrong with it. I think this story is an excellent example of the difficulties and dangers of trying to dictate where and when someone can express or enjoy their faith.
[And, no, I haven't gone all religiosity on the readers. It's more like "providence", "luck" or "destiny" depending on who you ask. It just so happens that we talk about rights like the second amendment on this blog and, as I noted on the Road to Emmaus, the second amendment was set at number two for the express reason of defending the unalienable and enumerated rights such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, etc. It is "all or nothing": all rights or the possibility of none] -Kat
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Studs of Argghhh! -the Armorer
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shock and awe! Texas style: 18 minute battle of San Jacincto - the corner
*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 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 that particular topic. It's also an open trackback, so if (Don Surber uses it this way a lot) 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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