Sic Semper Tyrannis

3 to 2 in Overtime

 OK.  You win.  Congratulations.  pl

Go home, Canada.

Whatever the outcome tomorrow,  I must say that it never had occurred to me that 
Canadians thought they were locked in a third world nationalist contest with the US. I thought we were kin.  Clearly, Canadians do not see it that way.  'We will make your team into Slovak girlie boys?"   You should be ashamed to say things like this.  

Your nonsense has affected my view of your country.  You should stay out of the US. No more winters in Florida.  No more attendance of American universities.  no more training of your Olympic athletes in the US.  Take your battalion of infantry and go home.

My ancestors arrived in New France in 1642 from Champagne. When did yours arrive?  pl

Soldier Handbook for Iraq.

 Dr. Silverman sent me this.  It is the handbook that was issued to US soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) before the division's initial deployment to Iraq in 2003.  pl 

Download Soldiershandbookiraq

Congratulations to Canada's Women

I neglected to post a note of felicitation for Canada's victory over the US last night. We hope your men do as well against Slovakia tonight.  We want you, not them on Sunday. pl 

Turn the whale loose.

 ""We have every intention of continuing to interact with this animal, though the procedures for working with him will change," SeaWorld wrote in its blog Thursday.

SeaWorld, which opened as usual Thursday, did not specify how it would change its killer whale performances and did not return calls for comment. It suspended Dine with Shamuand other killer whale shows at its three parks — in San Antonio, Orlando and San Diego — indefinitely."  USATODAY

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A 12,000 pound Orca kept in a fishpond.  He has been kept there and used in an artificial insemination program in which someone has gotten into the fishpond and masturbated him to produce Orca love juice.for the corporate program.

This lady was petting him and kissing him before he turned back, grabbed her by the hair and dragged her under water.  How was he supposed to know how long she could hold her breath?

Put this guy back in the ocean where he belongs.  pl

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-25-killer-whale-seaworld_N.htm

"Will the Dubai hit increase Israel's global isolation?" By Haaretz Editorial

 "These are the known facts: The Dubai police claim that 26 visitors entered and exited the emirate over the past year on false British, Irish, Australian, German and French passports. Some or all were involved in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who also entered Dubai under a false identity. The Dubai police chief has accused the Mossad of the January 19 hit. He has presented no proof, but more than half of the fake passports in Dubai bore the names of Israelis. 

The European Union and the countries whose passports were counterfeited have criticized the misuse of their identity documents without mentioning the names of those responsible. French President Nicolas Sarkozy termed the assassination utterly unjustified - "nothing more than a murder." Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in Mabhouh's killing or in falsifying the documents, but former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz said that such actions attributed to Israel "deter terror organizations." "

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Several networks here and abroad have called for my opinion on this matter.  I have declined to be interviewed, saving this for you.  The best was a foreign network in which the "booker" wanted to know if I would subscribe to the rumor being bruted about (or aboot for South Parkers) that the Israelis wanted to be caught so that they could seem more "bad-assed" (my vernacular).  I laughed and told her that this rumor was clever on the part of the Mossad.  In fact, they and the Israeli general staff intelligence are just not very good services.  AIPAC does its best to disguise that but in truth most of what the Israelis have, their friends gave them.

Dubai?  They screwed up.  Too many people, too clumsy, too arrogant in their assumption that the "ragheads" would never catch them.  The truth is that the Israelis think of all gentiles that way.  pl 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152509.html

Seems to be fixed

Typepad tells me that a blank entry in the "blocked" file gummed things up.  How that happened I do not know.  pl 

JoeC pls send me that last comment again. 

"On Mortars, Artillery, and Indirect Fire" by Tyler

I will begin by saying that I spent four and a half years as mortar infantry. I did a tour in Afghanistan with Bravo Company, 1/501^st Parachute Infantry Regiment, and a tour in Iraq with Bravo Company, 4/23^rd Stryker Infantry Battalion. Therefore I apologize in advance to all the gun bunnies that read this and wonder why I don’t focus as much on their discipline as I do the mortar. I would rather not guess on what intricacies are involved in your trade. This paper will be split into two parts. The first will describe how indirect fire works.  The second part will give my observations on how indirect fire is used and misused in the current conflicts.

 

Indirect fire has been with us almost as long as the invention of gunpowder. It didn’t take long for someone to realize once something can launch a small object far, it can launch a bigger object far as well. As tactics evolved, so did the methods in which indirect fire was delivered to the battlefield. The modern day models have led to two different paths: mortars and artillery.

 

Homage to Virtue and Moir

 Absolutely stunning.  pl

Artillery, Mortars and Indirect Fire

I am impressed by the total cluelessness displayed by civilian readers on these subjects.  I appeal to the soldiers here to write something that I can post as an article on the subject of fire support, the accuracy of weapons systems today, etc.  pl

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