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Breitbart.com : Gulf \'belongs to Iran\': top military officer

Sun, 1 May 2011 03:09:21 +0000

You're right about us having to produce our own oil. Using food to do it doesn't make much sense considering the oil reserves we have exceed those of the middle east Why expend food on an inferior ethanol fuel when we have plenty of oil and coal of our own? By the time we run out of oil, we can get the auto makers to produce good turbo diesel cars and the biodiesel process working on an economically viable scale THEN we can tell OPEC to go sort out their problems and stay to hell away from the western hemisphere Any arguments and we turn Iran and any of its terror sponsoring buddies into ghost towns with neutron weapons or glass parking lots using regular nukes.

KATU - Portland, OR : Navy hopes lasers will put the heat on pirates | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Traffic Weather a

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:35:41 +0000

I'm a fan of simply flying over the Somali Coastline with a flight of Spectre Gunships dropping fliers saying "We'll be back, and not dropping leaflets next time." Then if all of the ships and hostages aren't released within a week, go back and and make good on the promise. Level a few pirate villages and the rest will get the idea. Don't leave a single building intact.

KATU - Portland, OR : Navy hopes lasers will put the heat on pirates | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Traffic Weather a

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:24:40 +0000

A guy I know was involved in that episode. He managed to generate temps in excess of 400 degrees from nothing but sunshine and a number of small polished brass reflectors. Now reflecting that heat to a single spot over a long distance is another story. Not impossible but incredibly difficult. It's the same technology used in some solar generating arrays.

FOX Toledo Online : 18,460 dead people on Ohio voter rolls

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:35:29 +0000

I actually had a former Deputy Sheriff for Dallas County tell me how he and others would take ballots to the local nursing homes and "help" the residents fill them out while on the county payroll. He said that many of the people were entirely too senile to have a clue what they were signing. The deputies were filling them out and having the person scroll an "X" in the signature box with the deputy signing as a witness. The Sheriff he worked for had an incredible following among his elderly constituents.... at least the ones in rest homes.

FOX Toledo Online : 18,460 dead people on Ohio voter rolls

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:25:52 +0000

While I don't know about Ohio, but there were thousands of deceased voters who voted in the 2008 Democratic primaries in the Houston area. Most of them in person. This was rather surprising to some of the widows and widowers who were certain they had buried their spouses years before. THAT is not rumor, that is substantiated fact as reported in the Houston Chronicle.

FOX Toledo Online : 18,460 dead people on Ohio voter rolls

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:25:23 +0000

Welcome to the US. We love immigrants. We don't like illegal invaders or their anchor babies. Immigrants work and make the country a better place to live. Illegal alien invaders are incapable of getting jobs legally and therefore end up costing all of the rest of us so much more.

Kit Up! DEV : Army Pitches XM-25 Purchase Plan

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:23:15 +0000

That sounds good Abn, but I wouldn't want to be the one carrying it. If I were a commander facing it on the battlefield, I'd command my snipers to consider anyone carrying it a target of opportunity to be targeted at will. It doesn't do much good if anyone who picks it up is perforated with a rifle round almost immediately. If my snipers were good enough, I'd tell them to target the weapon itself. I would guess that anyone capable of a 700 meter head shot could reliably hit that weapon out to 1000+ yards. While a single rifle round through the weapon might not detonate the rounds inside, it will almost certainly render the weapon into a very heavy, but classified, paperweight. As I'm sure you're aware, most sniper fire in Iraq and Afghanistan is coming from within 200 yards from well concealed positions such that putting rounds through the weapon is almost like shooting fish in a barrel. Think about how easy it would be for you to hit a weapon that sized with a scoped sniper rifle out to 300-400 yards, and have friends who could do it out past 1000 yards. I could do it easily with a decent rifle. If they could get the price down to $20,000 or less per unit, I could see it as a solid investment. Otherwise, I'd rather see the money go to better body armor, better weapons, a replacement for the M9, better commo gear, etc etc etc. BTW I had a few training landings on Sicily North and South DZs myself back in 83.

Kit Up! DEV : Army Pitches XM-25 Purchase Plan

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:06:51 +0000

Amen to that brother. They did make a step forward when they started issuing optical sighting systems. Now they need to go ahead and upgrade to gas piston uppers and 6.8 SPC or 6.5 Grendel rounds. Yes, they have a LOT of 5.56 NATO stockpiled. Use it for the Navy and Air Force security forces and sell the rest to the public via the ODCMP. Then the Pentagon could recoup some of the costs. The M16 series of weapons has it's strong points, but that direct impingement operating system and 5.56 caliber ammo aren't among them. I always said that if we actually did have to go to war in Europe, I'd have the M16 in the jeep for looks, but an AK or G3 in there for use. I know lots of people who have ARs, but I prefer the solid reliability of a gas piston. That and I love how much easier an AK or FN FAL is to clean. I'm also a huge fan of the convenience of a folding stock. A 30 inch long weapon is SO much easier to negotiate entry and exit from a vehicle with than a 40 inch one.

Kit Up! DEV : Army Pitches XM-25 Purchase Plan

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:56:27 +0000

Considering that most people that I've met at tea parties ARE veterans or their families, I doubt most are going to push too hard to cut military spending. I personally have trouble justifying buying this particular piece of equipment for that kind of cost when we have soldiers being deployed with the same M16 series of rifles their grandfathers carried in Vietnam. My cousins weren't fond of them in Vietnam, I wasn't particularly fond of them as a stateside active duty officer, and the same problems that they had in the jungles of Vietnam are popping up in the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq. The weapon is too prone to jamming when not kept meticulously clean and the range is limited by the caliber. A simple conversion to a gas piston upper and a heavier, larger diameter round would solve both problems and has proven effective at doing so. How about buying one less XM 25 experimental weapon and buy 50,000 gas pistion uppers in 6.8 SPC or 6.5 Grendel for the same $3.2million and give our soldiers weapons that will work more reliably AND have the range to reach out and touch the enemy? The government could even sell the 5.56 NATO uppers surplus and the people would be lined up to buy them. Hence the government would recoup some of their costs. For those who don't know, the uppers aren't even BATFE controlled items. So anyone in the country could buy one for their military memorabilia collections.

Big Government : What Will Obama Do if Egyptian-Style Crisis, Unrest and Revolt Hits America?

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:11:01 +0000

You're right Necronty. All the gold and silver is worthless if you can't stop a person from putting 230 gr (roughly half an ounce, and the weight of a 45 caliber slug) of copper jacketed lead between your eyes and taking it from you. Didn't have the money to invest in gold, and missed the chance to get in on the cheap silver. But I did my best to stock up on food, steel and lead.

Big Government : What Will Obama Do if Egyptian-Style Crisis, Unrest and Revolt Hits America?

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:05:30 +0000

I've been saying this is the inevitable outcome of what the liberals in DC have been doing for years. I've been telling everyone I could that the inevitable result of the "environmentalist" and the other leftist movements will be to cause the collapse of this economy under the weight of stupid regulations, litigation and taxation. When the Dems took control of the House in January 2007, I knew we were screwed and began preparing accordingly. Food prices are already starting to rise and the new "food Safety" law combined with the ban on drilling both in millions of acres in the Northern Plains and the Gulf of Mexico, combined with the new BS global warming regulations that prevent the construction of new refining capacity or coal fired power generation plants will cause energy and food prices to go even higher. Those who refuse to learn from history are destined to repeat it. Obama and Michelle are the 21st Century's version of Louis and Marie.

Big Government : What Will Obama Do if Egyptian-Style Crisis, Unrest and Revolt Hits America?

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:49:31 +0000

I don't sell a shirt on cafepress.com that says "Proud Member Domestic Terror Watchlist" by accident. If I'm not on some list somewhere, they really haven't been reading my posts. I've been trying to tell people since before the 2008 election what was headed our way if the Dems every got unfettered power in DC. Unless, and/or until the CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS purge the halls of the Senate of the bulk of the mental midgets that are the Democrat party leadership (The three branches of government are house, senate and president - Senator Chuck Shumer. Oh really senator Upchuck? Funny but I learned they were Legislative, Executive and Judicial in middle school social studies.) and the RINOS that infest their ranks, this country will be screwed.

Breitbart.com : Kennedy\'s exit from Congress leaves a family void

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:58:15 +0000

Two little tid bits about Patty Boy that I haven't seen mentioned yet. He was elected by the poor fools in Rhode Island, not Massachusetts. The second is that on one of his drunken sprees he got up on a table in a bar and announced that he was Kennedy and therefore didn't have to work, he could simply run for Congress. I wonder how proud of that his constituents would be if it made the MSM.

Breitbart.com : Kennedy\'s exit from Congress leaves a family void

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:57:39 +0000

I am no fan of the Kennedys per se, but I would hazard a guess that JFK MIGHT have made a decent President had he lived long enough. He was a bona fide WWII hero. Unlike the post LBJ Democrats, he was an avowed anti communist. Had he lived, this country might not have suffered through the Jimmy Carter presidency as it can be assured that JFK would not have supported the turn that the Dem party took after 1968. That being said, even JFK was a well known philanderer. The entire family has a thoroughly screwed up moral compass. They push for inheritance taxes on anyone who manages to legally amass an estate while protecting their own inheritance by hiding it in trust funds and other legal entities to prevent those same taxes. They dodge their own tax laws. The push for health insurance (not healthcare, nothing in the Obamacare bill will improve the quality, availability or affordability of healthcare.) legislation that will destroy the very insurance companies that 85% of the people are perfectly happy with.

Breitbart.com : EU-US agree to share citizens bank data

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:44:57 +0000

Isn't it funny that Obama is so concerned about protecting the privacy of EU residents that US law enforcement requests have to go through Europol, while he eliminated the requirement for Interpol agents to go through the FBI before arresting and extraditing US citizens to Europe, even going so far as to give Interpol agents and their families the same diplomatic immunity enjoyed by for ambassadors and other diplomatic dignitaries. While we can't look at a European's bank records, they can scoop us up off the streets, and extradite us to stand trial in Europe without any form of due process. Am I the only one who realizes that any soldier serving in Iraq or Afghanistan can now be grabbed from the streets of the US and drug to Europe against their will under the claim that they committed unspecified "war crimes" simply because some Muslim in Europe wants to protest the war by filing false charges? They would also have NO legal recourse against the interpol agents who had kidnapped them. Great way for a commander in chief to treat his soldiers, huh?

survivingscrounge.com : What part of "Naval Blockade" do the blockheads fail to understand?

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 18:44:26 +0000

You\\\'re right, Gaza is not a part of Israel. Nor was Cuba a part of the US or the Confederacy a part of the Union during the Civil War. Naval blockades are generally used to stop the flow of supplies to a country that is engaged in hostile actions against the blockading country. I don\\\'t know about you, but the thousands of rockets fired into CIVILIAN areas of Israel annually that come out of Gaza would have to be considered hostile actions. Naval blockades (or blockades of any sort for that matter) are employed as a means to cut off supplies to hostile foreign forces. Seeing as Hamas is openly hostile to the state of Israel AND the elected government of Gaza is controlled by Hamas, the civilians in Gaza are responsible for their own suffering. IF they would stop allowing Hamas to launch rockets into civilian areas of Israel from civilian areas of Gaza, and elected a government that would work to achieve a peaceful coexistence with Israel, they would be a lot better off. They have fallen for the same class/race warfare rhetoric from Hamas leadership as the uneducated masses in this country have fallen for from the Democratic party. Cooperation and capitalism work to everyone\\\'s benefit. Conflict and communism do not. I\\\'m not going to insult your intelligence. I must question your history education. Obviously you have not been educated in the purpose of a military blockade any more than the protestors. The lack of education in the rights/responsibility relationship in most western countries is horribly lacking. Someone may have the right to say or do whatever they wish, however they must be willing to accept the consequences of those actions. If you enter a de facto war zone with aid and comfort for the enemy, you should expect to be treated as such. While I understand that the protestors will claim that the relief supplies were for the poor suffering civilians. ( I do commend them for their concern for the welfare of people caught in the crossfire between the two countries. If they were really interested in helping the people of Gaza, they\\\'d work to convince them that working with the, instead of fighting against, the governments of Egypt and Israel would benefit them in the long run.) The fact remains that ANY supplies shipped into a war zone will find their way into the hands of the military first. (US service members being one of the few exceptions in that they frequently will give their supplies to the local populace to ease their suffering. Just look at how the Navy members gave up showers and food to increase relief efforts following the tsunami a couple of years ago) Hence any supplies sent into Gaza will directly benefit Hamas. Israel has the right to blockade supplies to its stated enemies and Hamas is decidedly a stated enemy of Israel. The residents of Gaza are simply caught in a crossfire of their own making.

survivingscrounge.com : Taxation and the GDP

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:09:49 +0000

I\\\'m sorry but your question is untelligible. I am the author of this site as well as the person who does the blog talk radio show Lt Scrounge Speaks out. I would love for someone to prove me wrong. Unfortunately that would require rewriting the laws of economics to do it so I don\\\'t think I\\\'ve got much to worry about on that front.

survivingscrounge.com : Tough box totes stand out and hold up.

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:59:02 +0000

Thanks. No I\\\'m not a professional journalist.

survivingscrounge.com : Tough box totes stand out and hold up.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:15:39 +0000

For those who don't read any Russian, the first sentence says "thanks for the good post." The second one I'd need my dictionary to translate and I don't have it here.
Lt Scrounge

survivingscrounge.com : Food and Water

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:08:53 +0000

Sure. As long as the translation is accurate and the content is attributed.