Ch...ch...ch...changes

I put my lower on The Lovely Harvey's upper and shortened the stock two clicks (A1 stock length) and she decided she liked it better than the A2 stock that she had on the gun.

Marv, who is having reliability issues we think stem from using a rifle gas system on a carbine stock, swapped us stocks.

Result:

Now it REALLY looks like one of the CARs from Platoon.

I Just Can't Seem To Leave Well Enough Alone

None of these rifles have the same upper receiver they were delivered with. The carbine in the center has the upper that was delivered on the carbine on the bottom. The carbine on the bottom has the upper that was delivered with the rifle, on top. The rifle has the upper that was delivered with the carbine in the center. At one time, the rifle has worn all three, delivered with a flat-top, swapped for the C7 and swapped again for the A2.

There's a reason for all of this. I wanted optics on my carbine, bottom, and the C7 upper is not conducive to that end. So I needed a flat-top. I've wanted a 20" for a while, so I ordered that kit with a flat-top and then swapped the uppers when the rifle kit arrived. Last night I was showing The Lovely Harvey that I had installed an A2 aperture into the C7 handle and she expressed a preference for the simpler rear sight. So off comes the A2 upper on her carbine, middle, and on goes the C7; leaving the 20" with an A2 rear and looking very much like an M16A2 now.

The Lovely Harvey's now has a strong resemblance to the CARs used by Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe in Platoon, and she thinks that's really cool!

We Don't Have A Fireplace

So we've hung up The Lovely Harvey's Grampa's shotgun over the closet

Looks good up there, doesn't it?

Need A Pig Stuck

Guns with bayonets! From left to right, SMLE #1 Mk.3; Mosin-Nagant M1891/30; Remington M-1903A3; Mosin-Nagant Kb wz M48; Laconic VKb.07.

We're ready to be out of bullets!

KISS Rifle And Tactical Carbine

Ordered a 20" flat-top kit last Thursday. While waiting for it to ship I decided that I wanted the carbine to be a flat-top.
Today the parts arrived and I swapped the upper receivers between them.

The 20" is now a clone of a Canadian C7. The C7 is basically an M16A2 with the M16A1 rear sight and fire control, full auto instead of three round burst.

There was a little drama when I sent the front take-down detent sailing across the room. I had to run down to Kastle Keep Firearms in Clearwater to get a whole new lower parts kit just for one little detent.

As always I used Del-Ton for the kits and Anvil Arms for the lowers.

The XM177E3 carbine is now a flat-top and sports a Knight's 600m back-up iron sight and an EoTech 552.A65/1 reflex sight.

Here's the view through the EoTech

A Man's Gun

For the paltry sum of $500 I have finally acquired a surplus AMERICAN rifle!

This is my first US military rifle and my first .30-06.

She's a gorgeous Remington M1903A3 made in February 1942. About 80% condition, has the original metal oiler in the stock too. There was some minor surface rust on the butt plate and in several places under the wood. It cleaned up very well.

The pic doesn't do her justice.

Update: I have been talking to the family of the previous owner. This was the gun he was issued in the Marines. He was what we call a designated marksman today, his brother says, "sharpshooter." What that means is when the rest of his unit got M1 Garands, he kept this gun. He carried it on across the whole of the island hopping campaign. What makes this gun interesting is a sharpshooter would have been aiming for specific targets and not just firing with the rounds addressed "to whom it may concern". In all likelihood this gun killed. His brother thinks so. This is the first gun I have bought where I have a strong confidence that it was used.

My SMLE #1 Mk3 was made in 1917 with an Indian pattern stock, it might have seen trench time. The Mosin-Nagant 1891/30 was made in 1942, I don't think the Soviets held guns back. In the case of those two guns, I have not spoken to the people who knew the man who held them in combat.

An Absolutely Essential Read For Any Political Season

Read it, learn it, live it!

Sixty Years Ago

Perhaps things weren't so bad back when...

An Excellent Suggestion

Read, enjoy.

$425,000 per capita!  I think I could have relocated and gotten established in style for that kind of scratch.

Just So You Can Start Saving Now

I'm going to need one each of everything pictured here.  If everyone compares notes, I'll bet we can have all the parts gathered for the Biscayne by Christmas!

Image From Modred

I held my breath as I took up the slack in the old German AT rifle. BOOM! Quickly I half rolled to the telescope I had set up near the gun. It always struck me as odd how long it took for the bullet to fly at ranges like this. I could see my target more clearly now, magnified through the scope. The image was one of heartbreaking beauty. When you saw them, you wanted to obey their whim, to give your self to Him.

The beauty was spoiled by the impact of the heavy 13mm slug in its forehead. Another thing that I had not gotten used to was how it took a hardened steel core bullet as big as your thumb to do as much damage to one of those things as a .22 would do to a person.

Some people called them angels. They were the essence of beauty, almost seven feet tall, gigantic swan-like wings sprouting from the alabaster skin of their backs. Most descriptions lay it on pretty thick, it's almost impossible to overstate how gorgeous they are. Two things make them dangerous; one, they are tough; two they exude an aura that makes you wish to be on their side, to follow their orders in the hopes that you will be allowed to remain in their presence. They aren't angels, they came through the same rift the Nazis made in Nuremburg as the other demons.

I dialed back the magnification on the telescope slighty to get a better view of the area surround the body. Uh, oh! I see another "angel" bending over the fallen form. I can see it is attempting to cast some sort of healing spell, but there's no effect, I had succeeded. But now I have to get out of here without getting caught, and there was another angel less than a mile from me, and alerted by the death of its comrade, would have bullet deflecting spells in place when it started to hunt, and it would not hunt alone like I do...

HELP! DEAR GODS PLEASE HELP WITH A SONG VIRUS!

It's an upbeat late eighties early nineties song.

The main thing I remember is in the middle it has a british guy discussing music, then it cuts suddenly back to the song.

HELPS!

Update: 11/21/14...

It's "Rush" by Big Audio Dynamite.

If You Cannot Laugh At Yourself What Can You Laugh At

Lyrics Corner Mad Max Edition

One of the Living

Tina Turner

In the desert sun every step that you take could be the final one
In the burning heat hanging on the edge of destruction
You can't stop the pain of your children crying out in your head
They always said that the living would envy the dead

So now you're gonna shoot bullets of fire
Don't wanna fight but sometimes you've got to
You're some soul survivor
There's just one thing you've got to know
You've got ten more thousand miles to go

Because you're one of the living
And if we can't stick together
One of the living
Who's gonna make it tonight

Walk tall, cool, collected and savage
Walk tall, bruised, sensual, ravaged
It's every man for himself, every woman, every child
A new breed, ferocious and wild

And all they want to do is shoot bullets of fire
They wanna fight and sometimes you've got to
You're some soul survivor
There's just one thing you've got to know
You've got ten more thousand years to go

Because you're one of the living
And if we can't stick together
One of the living
Who's gonna make it tonight

White Guilt

I finally connected why this bothers me.

Inherited slavery is WRONG! Because the debt that landed the father in slavery should not be transferred to the son. That assumes that the father was justly enslaved (not as far fetched as it first appears, think about it).

Blacks from Africa, for the most part, were enslaved for losing some local war. Enslavement was part of losing these things. Often the slave's children were raised as part of the conquering tribe, thus not slaves. When they got here though, their kids became slaves, and their kids, and their kids ad nauseum. That's how chattel slavery works.

If chattel slavery is wrong because the children who have done nothing to deserve being enslaved then blaming me for the oppression of blacks when I have never owned a slave is also wrong; regardless of whether gramps owned thousands. And while "freeing the slaves" was not why the Union government fought the war, it WAS the recruiting slogan that got many to join and fight. The debt to the slaves was paid in blood, by white men mostly. I guess if you don't consider that enough we can put you back into chains because I certainly don't wanna pay as much as the people who freed your ancestor paid.

It's even more galling to me that the descendants of slaves, who have never been slaves themselves, demand that I, who have never owned a slave, pay for the crimes of my forebears against their forebears. Never mind that my forebears didn't get here until 1873 on my Dad's side and 1924 on my Mom's. Wasn't there, didn't do it are positive defenses!

I have some of the same issues with the fixes being as bad as the original wrong with the wealth that was stolen from WW2 Jews. The people who own it now are very unlikely to be the person who stole it. The heirs of the original owner are demanding that the current possessor fork it over regardless of how it came into their possession. I am sorry the thieves got away with your stuff, but they paid in blood for the theft (remember that whole WW2 thing?). Want us to put Nazi Germany back so you can go through their courts? Any takers? Anyone?

The war crimes trials in Israel are another thing that bugs me. Isreal did not exist until 1947. That nation trying nazis for crimes committed in 1939-1945 seems ex post factum to me. Prior to 1947 it was impossible to break Israeli law because Israel did not exist. The war criminals also did not break Nazi German laws when they committed their "crimes". I do not think they should have gone unpunished for their deeds, just that the wrong government entity was doing the trial.

Quote Of The Random Interval

It is difficult to fight against anger, for a man will buy revenge with his soul. Herecleitus.

Schoolhouse Rock

iTunes has 22 episodes of Schoolhouse Rock! Interestingly since it's two 11 episode packages that they don't have "Good, Good Eleven".

The American history portions are really interesting from my jaundiced modern eye. They are refreshingly upbeat, positive and patriotic! The USA is a good place, full of good people in these educational cartoons. A place one wishes to live and emulate.

Quorum Call

I mentioned a while back that very few people actually voted to plant Mr Bush's ass in the White House.

Something on the order of 50% of the people eligible to vote bother to register and only 50% of those who register bother to actually vote and then 50% plus one of them decide who is elected.

The US Congress has a quorum requirement of 50% showing up before they can vote on something. The voting public is averaging 25%, with 35% being noteworthy enough to make the news! 25% is not a quorum by Congressional standards, why is it OK during a general election?

I know that there is no requirement for a quorum, or even that anyone vote at all. It just seems that there are 225 million Americans who say, "Not those guys!" every single election (and end up with whoever the remaining 75 million pick).

NOW, my tripwire issue is firearms. There are an estimated 100 million gun owners in the US. Pretty damn clear to me that they are not out there voting because we keep getting people who are anti-gun on the ballot and winning elections.

It's The Risk I Take For Trying To Help

Michele Evermore is having a rough time.

She's found a web page that expresses the situation she's just left. That's good!

Unfortunately for me I expressed an opinion in the comments on her blog that such pages are ALWAYS about the man being the abuser.

This led to a mini-debate with another commenter.

The page Michele Evermore referenced was showing an abuse tactic where the abuser gets the abused to defend themselves and then plays the victim card. The pronouns are all male for the abuser and female for the abused. The problem I have with this is this tactic is used far more often by the fairer sex against men. Mind games and mental abuse are firmly in the female sphere. Yes, Michele Evermore has found three guys in a row who do this behavior. No, it's not common for men to be this way, it's more common for men to use physical abuse.

To understand why the page Michele Evermore found bothers me; take this phrase (not from what she referenced), "The never ending argument. A topic that angers both sides and various levels of discussion occur until an agreement is reached. To the average male, this settles things. To the average female, this signals that she is tired of fighting for now and is taking a break." Inserting gender pronouns creates an inflammatory posture that is not necessary to describe the abuse and excludes people of the offending sex from gaining solace from the advice. Saying it this way, "To one side, this settles things. To the other, this signals that they are tired of fighting for now and are taking a break." allows you to describe the behavior without assigning blame to an entire sex. If you have no problem assigning blame to an entire sex, you are a bigot.

And as a straight, white male, I am sick of the bigotry from just about every single victim class on the planet. I am white, so I am responsible for racism. I am straight so I am responsible for homophobia. I am male so I am responsible for sexism.

I am not a racist, homophobe or sexist. I refuse to accept the blame for the actions of others.

On Standards

My recent grapple with an Apple Airport Extreme wireless router brought this out.

The Airport Extreme does not talk to the Westech ADSL modem that Verizon provided us. Our Linksys router has no problem with seeing the modem, when it's working.

Tech support on both sides blamed the other side for the DHCP being implemented incorrectly.

I mentioned this to Geff, who postulated that one of them had gotten the RFC wrong. Something I said led him to say that it was even possible that Apple did it right and Westech AND Linksys did it wrong.

Since Belkin and Linksys see the modem and Apple cannot, and if the Airport Extreme is in compliance with the RFC I would say that adherence to the standard is worthless. I've done some searching online and found that it's a Verizon/Apple problem. Belkin, Linksys and NetGear have all managed to figure out how to talk to Verizon's equipment. It's just Apple, primly sitting in their Ivory tower, that cannot.

If everyone else is doing it wrong, but it works and you are doing it right and it doesn't work I don't give a shit that you did it right. Congratulations! you made a $192 paperweight that consumes electricity.

The total lack of instructions included in Apple products is also galling. Actually, there are instructions, they are useless. They are definitely geared at someone who only bought an assembled router because he didn't feel like taking the time to hit Radio Shack for the parts to make their own. Linksys, by contrast, includes screen shots of what you should be seeing as you start things up.

The single dual color status light on the Airport Extreme reminds me of something I saw on Venture Brothers. The control room of the Gargantua-1 space station has a white monolith in it with a light labled "PROBLEM"! The instructions tell me that if the amber light is blinking, there's a problem...

The Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel Saga Continues

Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel took it well when they arrested him. Resigned is how I would put his demeanor.

His eldest son, Orca Shitheel, first accused his ex-wife of calling the cops on Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel. Now he has accused Harvey in the comments on her blog.

First things first, Orca Shitheel: Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel did indeed commit the crimes that he was convicted of. Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel did indeed violate his probation by leaving Florida and moving to Iowa. The reason Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel is in jail now is not because he was turned in by an "anonymous female caller" but because he violated his probation! If he had recognized his marriage to Tracy as a lost cause two years ago and finished his probation the police would have had no cause to arrest him.

Secondly, when one is a fugitive from justice, one must accept that one might be arrested at any place or time. The likelihood of being arrested increases as you get closer to the jurisdiction that issued the warrant for your arrest. That means that even if Iowa and Florida don't wish to pay for extradition when your records are pulled that does not mean that Pasco County, Florida will not snatch you up when you drop into their laps. And when such a Sword of Damocles is over your head, you make damn sure everyone who knows you are in the area of the original warrant is someone you can trust to not call the police! EVERYONE.

It was an "anonymous female caller." That is all the hard information there is about who called. That person had to know that Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel was here and either my last name or our address. That's a pretty damn small pool of people. Additionally, they need a reason to turn him in, a motive. All of the people with grudges, don't seem to have the address.

Fishy things:

Crackwhore Shitheel (ex wife of eldest son) saw him the day before and as soon as they parted company she stopped answering her phone. She seemed unsurprised that Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel had been arrested when I asked her the next day, before anyone here had time to call anyone. She acted suspicious, but doesn't really have a reason to screw him.

Orca Shitheel and Totally Clueless Shitheel (eldest son and his wife) sure seem worked up over this. Slinging accusations all over the map. And isn't Totally Clueless Shitheel a female? It sure seems like they are protesting too much. Almost like they have a guilty conscious. But they also don't seem to have motive to do this.

Ashamed Shitheel (daughter) is a female. She knows our last name well enough to tell the cops how to find here. I've heard that she's mad a Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel for something about Orca Shitheel. I don't know what, just a rumor. If she is mad, then she did have motive. I just don't see her caring enough to do anything to him.

Escapee Shitheel (ex wife #2) is a female, she's got motive, she knows where I live. She seems to have let bygones be bygones and did seem genuinely surprised that he'd been arrested when The Lovely Harvey talked to her.

Crab Slinging Skank (ex girlfriend) has motive. She's a female. I don't think she knows my last name or address, but anything is possible. This is where I would put my money since I am not exactly hiding where I live.

Mrs Shitheel No. 3 (current wife) is a female, doesn't seem to have a motive, definitely knew where he was the whole time. If it's her then she deserves an Oscar for the performance after the arrest!

Sneakey and Spiteful (former best friends of Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel's) know where I live and have a motive. I am uncertain if they knew he was coming down.

Any other women in Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel life?

If it had been us we would certainly not have allowed him to stay here. Harvey and I are none too fond of the cops and don't want them here, ever. We would also have made a point of calling the police before he could go to his football game on Sunday, we're vindictive! We took Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel at his word that things had been settled and stuff had expired.

It's The Apoxyclipse

Everything that glowbul warmering has ever caused

Well Mrs Shitheel No. 3 Is Still Here

Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel was arrested for his probation violation last night.

Two counts of probation violation and no bond because of his extreme flight risk.

Just Because It Made Me Smile

when criminals in this world appear
and break the laws that they should fear
and frighten all who see or hear
the cry goes up both far and near
for Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!

speed of lightning, roar of thunder
fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog. Underdog!

when in this world the headlines read
of those whose hearts are filled with greed
who rob and steal from those who need
to right this wrong with blinding speed
goes Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!

speed of lightning, roar of thunder
fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog. Underdog!

Pity Party For Thag

Well, not really.

Today is a bit rocky. Today is my mom's birthday. First one since she died and I am in a foul mood.

In typical man fashion I want to curl up in a cave, lick my wounds and be left alone.

Dumbass Fuckwad Shitheel and Mrs Shitheel No. 3 are in from Iowa. It's not their fault, but their presence is invasive and not entirely welcome under the circumstances.

I'll be OK, this is part of the grieving process, it just sucks. Suckage is also part of the grieving process.

Belief

Dead Link to The American Interest Read the whole thing.

In affairs so dangerous as war, false ideas proceeding from kindness of heart are precisely the worst. . . . The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.

--Clauswitz

Oh The Imagery

"Hillary says "Tom Harkin's been working like a Trojan" on a farm bill."

Prolly not the best choice of metaphor. All that pops to my mind are the Trojan Horse and condoms.

And those both mean someone is getting fucked.

Gaming

My enthusiasm for gaming dropped precipitously after dealing with Chris Underwood (a known asshole) last September.

I really stopped paying attention to the forums about GURPS.

Recently I went to peek again.

There's a thread about the new edition of High Tech where someone complains that .40 S&W does more damage than .45 ACP in the new rules (2d+2 pi+ for the .40 and 2d pi+ for the .45). .40 S&W does NOT do more damage than .45 ACP. In fact it falls almost perfectly halfway between .45 ACP and 9mm Parabellum.

The rules gods began posting justifications for the anachronism. The main argument is that the author developed a consistent system for determining damage and since GURPS only allows for two bullet size modifiers (pi+ for x1.5 damage and pi++ for x2 damage) and since pi+ begins at .40 caliber then we are just going to have errors like this. A well respected poster suggests that there really should be a x1.2 damage step to account for .40 S&W's actual behavior. The rules gods say this is too complicated, or is unneeded extra complication.

Essentially the rules gods have chosen; "It's wrong, but is wrong consistently," as an argument. The older values were not debated, it seems that the system developed by the author didn't account for the previous fiat stats being reasonably accurate and creating a system that generated numbers that matched them. Oh, the 3e values gave .40 S&W and .45 ACP identical damage (2d+ cr which would be 2d pi+ in 4e) and different ranges (150/1900 vs 175/1700). Not quite right, but nobody was complaining.

Other posters have justified .40 S&W as being a TL newer than .45 ACP, so it deserves more damage. Perhaps it does "deserve" more damage from being a more recently developed round, but it doesn't actually DO more damage. The TL advance in this round has more to do with getting the cartridge packaged smaller than could have been done with a .40 cal round in the previous TL. The authors stats for the .45 GAP match the .45 ACP, which it should. .45 GAP is two TL newer than .45 ACP and is much more compact for the same velocities with the same bullets.

I tend to wish for the x1.2 damage step but accept that the damage rules are very coarse and when rounding things can get strange around the break points.

One thing the new system allows for is .357 SIG bullets getting the same damage as .357 Magnum rounds of the same weight and velocity.

www.nrablacklist.com

I am not a big fan of the NRA. I prefer to give my money to GOA and JPFO.

But this site is just damn funny.

Awwwww, poor widdy celebrities! You state your desire to disarm about half the nation, especially "fly-over", and you end up on the largest organizations that opposes that idea's web page. Gee, I just can't find any sympathy.

Why? For one, many of you are hypocrites. Lots of celebrity gun owners who don't want me to own a gun. Lots of celebrities have armed security details.

Are you worried that I will not go to the theater and watch your latest diatribe against America? Do you think that I will miss my chance to be indoctrinated to the bloody bosom of socialism?  Or is it you merely object to someone having caught you saying what you said?

Of course, the site is just one complaining about teh eval NRA having a list, not really the celebs complaining.  Gun control works!  Just ask the mall shooter in Omaha!

The Lovely Harvey's New Gun

The Lovely Harvey's was made in 2006, mine was made in 2007. They have changed from roll markings to laser etching in that time.

Here they are together. Mine is on the right, The Lovely Harvey's is on the left. T-Shirt is from Anvil Arms of Lakeland, Florida.

SIG Pics

Some pics of the aforementioned SIG-Sauer P232.

This is a SIG-Sauer P232, 1.2 lbs loaded. It tucks right in and the grip is about perfect for me. No safety as such, just a decocker and a DA/SA operation. There's a loaded chamber indicator as part of the extractor. Magazine release is in the butt, so reloads are a bit slow. .380 ACP is just enough for most self defense applications, much better than .25 ACP!

Three unrelated guns linked through ACP. From left to right; Colt Junior in .25 ACP, SIG-Sauer P232 in .380 ACP and Springfield Armory M-1911A1 GI in .45 ACP. If I get a .32 ACP gun to round it out, Harvey WILL kill me, unless it's a gift.

New Kids In The Hall

I got me a new carry gun. The M-1911A1 doesn't sit comfortably when driving the Vette. The Colt Junior is comfortable, but can't really be counted on to stop an anemic mouse let alone a goblin. Something in .380 ACP or 9mm seemed in order.

Marv is happy with his FEG PA-63 in 9x18mm Makarov. It doesn't quite fit my hand.

I handled a couple of guns in .380 ACP. Walther/S&W PPK/S, Bersa Thunder 380 and SIG-Sauer P232. The SIG fit my hand best. I was concerned with the quality of the other two.

A friend of mine, LibtardLenny, is convinced that the S&W made PPK/S are not as well made as the genuine German Walthers. The internet is convinced of quite the opposite.

Garry has a friend he shoots with quite frequently who had a Bersa flat fail to operate. His Bersa was broken as well, but I didn't know it was merely a worn recoil spring from a couple of thousand rounds use.

The Bersa would have been the cheapest option in .380 at $265. The SIG and Walther were about the same price, SIG being $520, the Walther being $550. The PA-63 would have come to about $250 after I did the mods that Marv had done to make it a decent shooter.

There's nothing really wrong with 9x18mm Makarov, except a definite lack of variety for loads. And I don't think I have ever seen a box outside a gun show. That's a bad sign.

So, I bought the SIG P232 in blue.

The Lovely Harvey is seeking her conceal carry permit. I suggested she give the P232 a feel to see if it fits her hand, she said that it does.

Garry doesn't like his SIG P232, and is willing to sell it for $450. I think I shall get it for her.

Kinda neat, we'll have matching guns!

Dogfights

I've complained about this show before.

They are getting much better.

The control surfaces are moving now! They even seem to be moving in a manner that would cause the maneuvering shown on the show.

Problem is, the aileron on an F-4 Phantom only moves down. On a Cessna, to roll one aileron goes up, the other goes down. On the Phantom, one goes down the other stays put and a spoiler on that wing deploys.

Guess what the ailerons are doing on the show.

100 Years Apart In Design

Colt Anaconda, 6" barrel, chambered in .45 Colt.

I really like the contrast of the modern stainless revolver with a cartridge that was developed in 1872. Cowboy loads in the box and Silvertips® in the speedloaders.

Here it is with its smaller brother in the more powerfull .44 Magnum.

No matter what the caliber, a gun pointed at you looks like a sewer pipe! In this case, .45 Colt.

.44 Magnum has a scare value all it's own!

Please notice that the finger is off the trigger. The only thing in danger was the laptop, expensive, but expendable. I had a kevlar® helmet behind the Mac's camera to catch the bullet in the event of an AD.

Trent Lott Is Going To Resign

And is so well loved by people who are nominally Republican they are mostly saying, "Good riddance to bad rubbish!"

I am afraid that I must agree.

Gang In Blue

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/11/pistol-packing-positivists-our-enemy-in.html Read the whole thing. Comment. Debate. I am still waiting for the clearly defined circumstances where lethal force against a law enforcement officer is legal and justified.

Things You Only See In Florida

The neighbor walking their savanna monitor lizard...

The Bed Is Complete

Did I Put The Wrong EmPHasis On The Correct SylABBLE

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The West
The Inland North
The South
The Northeast
Philadelphia
Boston
North Central
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Nomenclature

The F-35 is all messed up. It's out of sequence.

Next in line should have been F-24.

F-35A is the conventional take-off and landing version. F-35B is the VTOL version. F-35C is the carrier version.

When a fixed wing can land vertically, it gets a V in the designation. AV-8A and AV-8B and V-22 (Harriers and Osprey). The VTOL version should be FV-24B!

Why have a system of naming if you aren't gonna use it?

Oh, the 35 is in sequence if you use the X progression. F-35 comes out of the X-35 project. That was supposed to be, like F-22A, a tech demonstration with one bidder focusing on one aspect with the other focusing on another. Pity the demo turned into a fly-off and the military changed the specs to favor the aspects focused on by Lockeed-Martin.