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...What I find interesting here is that the 'yaw' - or 'tumble' - characteristic of the 5.56mm round has been known and understood for about, oh, fifty years now. Not sure why this should be a surprise to anyone; it's one of the reasons we use the damned thing.
Mike
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[DAILYCALLER] Miss Puerto Rico has been suspended indefinitely from the Miss Universe pageant after she went on a tirade about Muslims on Twitter.
In a lengthy Facebook post where he called Donald Trump a big wuss, Michael Moore said that Trump was "desperate and insane" for proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country. He said, "We are all Muslims."
Destiny Velez criticized Moore's comments and told him to stop defending Muslims who "have done nothing for the USA."
"Muslims use our constitution to terrorize USA & plant gas stations," Velez tweeted. "There's NO comparison between Jews, Christians & Muslims. Jews nor Christians have terrorizing agendas in their sacred books."
The Miss Puerto Rico organization apologized for Velez's conduct over the weekend.
"In regards to Miss Puerto Rico, Destiny Velez's, recent actions and conduct; the Miss Puerto Rico Organization feels that her words do not represent the integrity and esteem of our program, nor that of our board members, our sponsors and partners, or the National Organization," a statement from the organization read.
"Miss Velez's actions were in contradiction to the organization, and therefore as a consequence of her actions, she has been suspended indefinitely. The Miss Puerto Rico Organization will not tolerate any actions or behavior contrary to the Miss Puerto Rico Organization."
Velez has since deleted her Twitter.
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I've seen a piece on Trump, which claims that such sentiments are widely shared among "Hispanics".
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Matamoros actually translates into "Kill the Moors", from the Spanish verb 'Matar' (to kill). Several cities and towns (and a few surnames) go by that or derivative thereof. Must have been a popular sentiment at one time or another.
'Moros muertos' would denote the Moors' previous passing.
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I stand corrected. It's even better in pointing out the PC insanity.
Ukrainian news media reported December 21 that the country's national security service has banned the leader of the U.S. rock band Limp Bizkit from entering the country for five years.
They're still playing together on the road? Or is this the reunion tour ala Spinal Tap?
The Ukrainian security service told Interfax and the online publication Apostrof December 21 that it had banned Fred Durst, the founder of the group and its lead singer, from entering Ukraine for five years starting in November, "in the interests of guaranteeing the security of our state."
Durst in October had told TASS and Interfax that he would be happy to have a Russian passport and a "pretty little house" in Crimea, the Black Sea region annexed by Russia in 2014. His wife, Kseniya Beryazina, was born in Crimea.
He also expressed an interest in performing in Donetsk, a city held by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine has previously banned French actor Gerard Depardieu and American actor Steven Seagal for expressing support for the Russian government and its policies in Ukraine.
The U.S. Navy shouldn't spend any more money on the Littoral Combat Ship, a vessel designed to be small and speedy in shallow waters close to shore, because it's unclear if it has enough firepower or can even survive in combat, according to the government's top watchdog agency.
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) study released late last week concluded that the "actual lethality and survivability performance of LCS is still largely unproven through realistic testing," even though 24 ships have already been built or are under construction.
The LCS uses an aluminum alloy that's unlike any used in other Navy ships, cutting the ship's weight to increase its speed. However, aluminum loses its strength faster than steel at high temperatures. The GAO states that while the Navy has identified the flaw and conducted tests, the service lacks enough data on how fire or underwater explosions might affect the ship's hull, and won't have the information until 2018.
"The vulnerability of the ship's hull to various sea conditions also remains unknown," the report said. "Due to the dynamic nature of waves, the Navy cannot rely on modeling and simulation alone to provide an accurate assessment of a ship's performance in rough seas."
The two deficiencies led the GAO to recommend the service hold off on spending the $1.4 billion it requested for fiscal 2016 to buy three more ships.
The Navy was expected to spend around $37 billion on the LCS program. But that was before Defense Secretary Ash Carter sent a letter to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus earlier this month instructing him to cut the service's projected purchase from 52 to 40 vessels; "downselect" to one ship model by fiscal 2019, rather than continue with the two designs that exist today; and put the savings toward upgrading other ships and buying more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
The directive leaves the total cost in flux, especially since Capitol Hill lawmakers haven't had a chance to scrutinize Carter's proposed plan yet. Already the congressional delegations from Wisconsin and Alabama, where the vessels are built, have vowed to fight the move.
The GAO report, a classified version of which was completed in July, likely influenced Carter's thinking on the fate of the troubled LCS effort. The program has been besieged with cost overruns and schedule delays.
Daniel GourĂŠ, a national security and military analyst with the Lexington Institute, wrote that Carter's instruction "may have been to encourage the other service secretaries as well as the leadership of the services to get with the program which is, to use current jargon, capability over capacity."
Put another way: stick with weapons and equipment that already exist or are within reach and can be used by the maximum number of people, rather than pursue costly efforts that could lead to painful cuts elsewhere.
GourĂŠ said the three military branches are "falling behind when it comes to the qualitative arms race with a range of opponents. For the Navy, the Army and perhaps even the other services, this means sacrificing quantity in order to bolster quality."
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...In fairness to the Buffalo, when it was in testing it was a superb aircraft. Didn't go south until the Navy started loading it down with things like radios...fuel tanks...guns....
Mike
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a vessel designed to be small and speedy in shallow waters close to shore
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I thought the Navy learned their lesson about aluminum when the USS Belknap burned to the main deck after she collided with the Kennedy.
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"The vulnerability of the ship's hull to various sea conditions also remains unknown,". That doesn't sound good.
Here's the USS Fort Worth in allegedly heavy seas.
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What BS is that? That's NOT heavy seas. While riding CV66 I've seen Frigates and Destroyers take green water all the way back to the superstructure while practically disappearing, only to POP back up.
Hell, I've sailed rougher than that off the mouth of San Fransisco Bay.
Seattle's new tax on gun and ammunition sales can take effect on Jan. 1, a judge ruled Tuesday, siding with the city against the National Rifle Association.
King County Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson dismissed the NRA's lawsuit seeking to block the tax, which it filed in August along with other firearms groups.
Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess, who sponsored the city's ordinance establishing the tax of $25 per gun and 2 or 5 cents per round of ammunition, commented after the decision.
"Then NRA and its allies always oppose these common-sense steps to shine light on the gun-violence epidemic," Burgess said.
"They have blocked funding for basic gun-safety research at the federal level for decades. But in Seattle it is different. Judge Robinson saw through the NRA's distorted efforts to put gun-industry profits ahead of public safety."
The NRA vowed to appeal.
"It's unfortunate the court chose to ignore the law and embrace the Seattle City Council's anti-gun agenda," spokesman Lars Dalseide said in a statement.
"This is not the final word. We will keep fighting until all legal avenues are exhausted and the people of Seattle are free to exercise their Second Amendment rights without persecution from their elected officials."
The City Council voted unanimously in August to approve the tax on gun and ammo sellers.
But in a hearing before the judge last week, a lawyer for the plaintiffs argued the ordinance violates a state statute that bans cities from regulating firearms, reserving that authority for state officials. He called the ordinance a regulatory fee masquerading as a tax and accused city officials of trying to sneak around state law.
A lawyer for the city responded that the ordinance should be allowed because it involves taxation, distinct from regulation. He said the point of the ordinance is to raise money to fund research and programs to curb gun violence, such as a gunshot-victim-intervention program -- not to discourage the sale of firearms or impose gun control.
In a written opinion, Robinson agreed that the ordinance will impose a tax. The judge denied the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, granting the city's cross-motion.
"I'm gratified by Judge Robinson's thorough analysis," City Attorney Pete Holmes said in a news release, adding, "The NRA needs to butt out of Seattle's efforts to enact sensible gun-safety legislation."
The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility also praised the ruling, as did Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.
"For too long, we have had insufficient research and data on gun violence to help guide our response," Murray said in a statement. "We will now have critical funding to advance our work on gun-violence research and prevention."
The plaintiffs are the NRA, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation, two Seattle gun stores and two local gun owners.
The gun-store owners who are part of the lawsuit have called the ordinance an unfair burden that will force them to lose business or relocate outside the city.
Sergey Solyanik, the owner of Precise Shooter near Green Lake and one of the plaintiffs in the case, declined to comment Tuesday.
"We are disappointed and strongly disagree with (Robinson's) ruling, and we are confident that the state Court of Appeals will ultimately concur with our position," Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb said in a news release.
"It is unconscionable for Mayor Ed Murray and the City Council to codify what amounts to social bigotry against firearms retailers and their customers, and we are going to fight this vigorously in defense of a state ... law that has served Washington citizens well for more than three decades," Gottlieb added.
Seattle isn't the first jurisdiction in the country to adopt a tax on gun sales; the Illinois county that includes Chicago did so in 2012. The tax there is being collected in escrow pending the outcome of a lawsuit against the county.
Burgess has said Seattle's tax is expected to raise thousands of dollars annually. Solyanik and other critics of the ordinance have questioned that, saying the tax won't raise much at all if it drives the city's few remaining gun stores out of town.
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Gun stores, suppliers and ammunition suppliers should deny the selling of any firearms or ammunition to their police departments on the grounds of laws against supplying terrorist organizations.
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The U.S. Navy shouldn't spend any more money on the Littoral Combat Ship, a vessel designed to be small and speedy in shallow waters close to shore, because it's unclear if it has enough firepower or can even survive in combat, according to the government's top watchdog agency.
