Fast Cancer on Demand

A little review of killing with radioactive poisons by communist leaders.

We're pretty careful with this stuff where I work. Feeding it to people is right out.

Time Out

As part of my moving towards 3-Gun or Multi-Gun shooting as part off my USPSA/IPSC hobby, I'm putting together a rifle.

I'm going for the Tactical division which lets me have one optic on the rifle, a shotgun with up to 8 shells in the magazine and a Limited class pistol. The rifle was the final component. Here's what I decided to start with:

Da rifle is a Bushmaster Varminter. Yes, I'm more concerned with my long distance shots than close in. So I've gone with a 24 inch barrel. I might add a compensator, but I want to try one with and without side by side before I add one. Yes it's a poodle-shooter .223, but I don't reload and I don't think I could afford to practice much with 6.8 SPC, 6.5 Grendal or 308 Win. I suppose once I got the lower shooting right I could add a 6.5 Grendal upper...and a long-distance scope. Hmmm, sweeeeet.

The rifle has a competition grip and trigger. I might want to add a JP trigger later, but for now I have a two-stage Bushmaster one.

The scope is a Leupold VX II 1-4x. I like the 1x cause I can keep both eyes open. Hopefully, this will translate into relatively fast close-in shots. I hope the 4x is ok for the 300 yard shots. I know it's mainly the shooter and not the scope...yeah well, maybe that's what I'm afraid of.

Oh well, I haven't been the worst one yet with a borrowed rifle. Maybe I can hide out in the middle for a while until I know what I'm doing.

I'm supposed to get two days off from work this week, so I can put it together---before I clean out the garage to get both cars in.

Take a seat

Recycled AK-47s...take a load off and lean back with the help of a magazine.

A couple o' links

Strategy Page is one of my favorite sites. It's a bunch of war gamers who look at the news feeds and rewrite them as "History."

Here's one on the uncontrolled women of Iran.

Here's one about the information war in the media.

Based on how Walter Cronkite spun the Tet victory and the almost total destruction of the Viet Cong into a defeat, we could credit old Walter with killing more Americans than Pearl Harbor and 9-11 put together by encouraging the North Viet Army---a pretty capable force. Walter used to be important, now he just works to keep electricity-generating windmills from being built off-shore of his vacation home.

An Embed Speaks

Here are the rest of the pictures from Ramadi.

Here's his report for the Daily Standard, but better on his site cause the pictures are in there along with video.

As you would expect in a static situation as our troops are exposed to in Iraq, sniping and counter-sniping are BIG. Our snipers are wining.

I've got a rifle and scope to set up as soon as I have a day off...

Family Snap

Young Saudi men in my dad's office referred to these as BMOs---for Black Moving Objects. You weren't supposed to take pictures of them over there either or the Religious Police would take your camera. However, duty-free shops in other countries used to sell cameras that pointed one way and took pictures in another.

No beer in Saudi, so I won't be visiting till civilization arrives.

No Tech Talk This Month

Well, it's early Wednesday morning and I've already worked 70 hours this week. Plus the Princess needs nursing. So I won't make the beer club meeting and won't have time to prepare a technical talk.

I barely have time to drink a beer (and only at 7 am).

No complaints though. It's tax-free week at Sportsman's Warehouse. Can you say "AR" fifteen times?

Meanwhile in Libya

If you pour three Pilsner Urquells into a liter mug, you can pretend you're somewhere else.

As our new Democratic masters settle in and go about signing death warrants for our light-dark friends in the Middle East---and probably for quite a few of us down the road---we move our gaze east where VDH is having a Libyan Holiday. You would think that a small country of six millions with all that oil would be doing well wouldn't you? Another indication that oil or any natural resource is not wealth in the modern sense.

Is it a coincidence that I have some books stacked that explore the '30s and the fruits of appeasement? Yeah, it's a coincidence---I already know what's coming for us---and I just like reading about what happened back then with some new volumes that have come out in the last decade or so.

How long is your rope?

Red Sea (Nov. 3, 2006) Explosive Ordnance Disposal 1st Class Christopher Courtney assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Six (EODMU-6), Det. 16 assist his team members during Special Purpose Insertion Extraction (SPIE) training from an SH-60 helicopter. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) is deployed in support of Maritime Security Operations (MSO) and the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Miguel Angel Contreras

I'm pretty sure that this would exceed my limits for adventure.

Pictures R News

John Kerry was caught on tape sounding a theme that he has espoused ever since betraying our country with direct negotiations in Gay Paris with the Viet Cong and North Vietnam: that if you are stupid you will get stuck in Iraq. I guess the troops in Iraq noticed they were being dissed. Kerry cracks me up---you can go to his web site and read his "honorable" discharge, but he assumes you are too stupid to notice that the date falls in the range of the Carter amnesty and not when he actually left the navy. Oh well, I'm sure he lost his original copy.

The Democrats should assign someone to sit on Kerry for a few weeks before an election. Maybe have Mama Heinz can take him home to meet the family in Mozambique or something.

On the other hand, maybe these Marine robots will go over there and introduce themselves...

I definitely want to be behind those mofos.

Choice

So, would you like to control CO2 emissions at huge cost for uncertain benefit, or give everyone sanitary drinking water for much less?

I think future energy efficiencies will do more to cut our CO2 production before controls that don't include India and China do.

In the meantime, let's enjoy CO2 by dissolving it in beer.