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H&I Fires* 2 DEC 2008

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Snerk.  Reference yesterday's post on ethics...  back on September 4, 2007, Mike Shelton was channeling his Inner Armorer

On a related note - did anyone about die laughing when Congress was lecturing the CEO's of the Big 3 about hubris, poor financial management and bad planning? -the Armorer

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Sometimes, I think that Sergeant Tobacco's real name is... Yossarian.  But I would be wrong.  That said, how can you not click on a link to a post that will give you this?:

Honestly, how many Jewish construction workers have you ever met? We are talking about a religion that killed their best carpenter. I would trust a Jew with a power tool as much as I would trust a Korean veterinarian with a dog.

I mean, really?  How can you *not* click on that lnk.  CLICK THE DA*N LINK!  CLICK IT!

Oh, um,sorry 'bout the pic that BT put up for his banner.  -the Armorer

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Like father, like son.  Congratulations (and prayers for father's heart) are in order... - FbL

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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 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. Of course, now I have to call them UAS's, because someone got a Legion of Merit for the name change.Anyway, I call the post H&I Fires because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. Another term of art that might be appropriate is Free Fire Zone.

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Oh, um,sorry 'bout the pic that BT put up for his banner.

*grinnn*

That should put Sly off her feed long enough to forget all about thong snarks.
 
Bill,

Becareful of getting hair in your eyeballs. I hear they're floating around Charlotte.
 
 Yes, I caught some of the hearings.  I sorta got a clue how it would go when they started by asking those businessmen what mode of transportation they used.  When the day starts with irrelevant and stupid grandstanding, you know how it will end the actual testimony be damned.

Of all our major industries, the auto makers have been the most abused by Congress.  Time and time again, Congress has forced them to swallow bad business decisions in the interest of preserving a voting base.  They did it to our mortgage lenders, too.  And now they want to blame the business people for failing to cope with their lunacy when the readily foreseeable consequences hit.


 
As to the auto makers - kill the unions first, and the rest will work itself out.  There's a reason that the Japanese companies can make their cars here in the US and make money,while the US companies don't.

Loved the BT post, but I had a weird moment when I thought the pic was the point, and I was seriously worried about you, John. BT does have a way with words :-)
 
Huh.  I was thinking that was BT's crack for a minute.

Please, the entire congressional hearings remind me of the most bizarre of our history: witch hunts. 
It's like, "Confess that you are a witch and we will kill you.  Don't confess, we will torture you first and then we will kill you." 

Good choices, heh.  The whole time the judges of the witch trials have been known to strip naked and dance in the woods under a full moon after embibing too much holier than thou water. 

Gotta love'em.
 
"Be careful of getting hair in your eyeballs. I hear they're floating around Charlotte."

Well, there was a young lady I knew (way-back-when) named Charlotte who used to give *me* the hairy eyeball whenever I'd plunk down in a certain "O" Club after work.

And helicopters don't float.

 
Well that might happen in Charlotte or in the "O" club.....but it doesn't happen in brazil.
 
Bill,

When you get back to CONUS. Will you spend any time in NJ? I can get you a round at Trump National. My brother works plays there. He's in charge of something or other.
 

RE: "And helicopters don't float."

Didn't I just see a picture of a Chinook floating on this very site?

Bill remains in denial........
 

 
You saw the Army's Littoral Combat Shinook, Rjewell -- and it wasn't floating, it was just trying *real hard* not to sink. And I'm not in denial -- it's detigris...

Fishmugger -- I'll be over here for a while, yet, but I'll be taking a few days' leave sometime before next August. Gotta get my *koff* Driver's License renewed...

...but it doesn't happen in brazil.

Ahhhh -- the Moat Princess waxing poetic...


 
I was thinking that was BT's crack for a minute.

It was.

Just not *this* BT's.

More angular, fewer freckles, less padding. And I don't smoke see-gars in bed -- although I've been told I could eat crackers there...
 
Bill

Not to worry...it's an open invite. Either the one in Bedminster or the club they just bought in Colts Neck. It's too cold to play now anyway.
 

And with that Princess Crabby crack, Bill sinks into hairy territory.

 
When Corn is Cracked, I don't care...

On the other hand, when Tobackee is Cracked, eew.  Almost as tasteless as Aaron's Flan.
 
And with that Princess Crabby crack, Bill sinks into hairy territory.

Ummmm -- unfamiliar with the concept of a Brazilian, huh?

*waving hiya to the gang at The Corner*
 
No, just didn't think it through.  It shoulda read, "...Bill gets himself out of hairy territory."
 
Ahhhhh -- say the Magic Words* and the *rest* of the story appears...

*The Corner. Like, that's a surprise.
 
Fishmugger is out to get me anyway, what with his oral sex talk yesterday.
 
Fishmugger is out to get me anyway, what with his oral sex talk yesterday

I'd bet anything Fishmugger is not out to get you, dear Armorer......his tastes run more toward the denizennes.

****waves back to my Darling Chief who is always on the ball****
 
What? I just went over to the library to check out Lord Jim to see what I missed, and I'm being discussed? John...I didn't mean for you to have a hair ball, I just felt oral sex was worth defending. You, however, were demeaning it.

And what are dinizennes anyway? Is that a good thing?
 
President Clinton did the demeaning, thank you very much.

As for the rest, I'll leave that to Princess Crabby, Werekitty, and Fuzzybee to explain.
 
Fishmugger:  If you want to read the book, go for it, if you want to know what I think of it, read the review I wrote, here: www.canted.com/index.php/tca/review_lord_jim/, but only if you don't mind hearing how it ends...   I hated Lord Jim, but that will be obvious, I guess...  :-)

As for the Jewish Construction worker, I resemble that remark!!  I'm damn good with power tools, and I'm jewish.  Of course, I'm like BT, in that people were surprised that I joined the Army and wasn't an O-type.   You'd think Jews never fought wars, eh.   Also, my entire family was blue collar, electrical, masonry, carpentry, oil delivery business, etc.
 
Maggie said
I'd bet anything Fishmugger is not out to get you, dear Armorer......his tastes run more toward the denizennes.
Oh, lordy. A fishmugger whose tastes run more to the women...

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