[Townhall] Under the Constitution, there are three branches of government. The FBI is not one of them. Instead, the FBI was created to assist the president in his job to enforce laws. Members of the FBI are called "agents" because of their agency relationship with the president. The term 'Special' Agent was added by Hoover to exempt them from the Military Draft. The Bureau's animus towards the American military continues to this day.
During World War II and then the Red Scare, the FBI's mission expanded to gather intelligence against spies. Here, too, the FBI was assisting the Commander in Chief. Even the word "intelligence" connotes this fact. The purpose was to help the president act intelligently against domestic threats.
The FBI’s domestic intelligence gathering function caused understandable discomfort on the left. In 1970s apocrypha, President Nixon couldn’t wait to get the goods on undesirables like the Smothers Brothers. Or so we were told by the Smothers Brothers, back when the FBI's mission creep cast it as the Gestapo.
In response to Nixon’s perceived overreach, liberal Idaho (before those words were an oxymoron) Senator Frank Church set up a commission to investigate domestic surveillance abuses. Technology, by then, permitted federal agencies to capture huge amounts of wire communications without disclosing their eavesdropping to Americans who were being surveilled.
Senator Church stated his concerns on an episode of Meet the Press:
"If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny [against those who] combine together in resistance to the government."
The result of Senator Church’s work was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). It provided that the FBI could not use its technological capacity to secretly gather intelligence against an American without first going to court with credible evidence that the citizen was a spy.
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"If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny [against those who] combine together in resistance to the government."
Unknowingly, I believe the prescient Senator Church may have described for us the Obama regime.
[Town Hall] The revelations of the Nunes Memo have shaken our confidence in the FBI and the Justice Department. A law firm working for the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign hired a company called Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate for president. Fusion GPS, then, paid a Trump-hating former British agent named Christopher Steele to produce 16 memos between June and November 2016 based on hearsay from Russian agents.
Skipping the current history of corruption. Enter Darth Bolton:
That level of corruption was unknown in America before now. No wonder the public’s confidence in the honesty, fairness, and integrity of these two institutions has been obliterated. So, unless some of these corrupt individuals end up in jail or at least lose their law licenses, most Americans will never believe in the FBI or Justice Department again.
That’s where John Bolton comes in. The only way to restore the image of those two venerable institutions is to root out the corruption and make those responsible pay the price. To do that we need another special prosecutor, one tasked specifically with cleaning up the FBI and the Justice Department and bringing criminal and ethical charges against guilty parties. Ideally, the person to do that job should be an outsider, because the FBI and Justice Department are not going to investigate themselves, but it would also have to be someone who knows how Washington works.Such a person is John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN.
Although he is known as a foreign policy expert, Bolton was trained as a lawyer and currently works for a law firm. He has lots of experience in Washington. He served three Presidents‐Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. However, he hasn’t held a government post since 2006, so he is now an outsider, and he does not have any special connections to Mueller or Comey.
Most important, Bolton is a straight-shooter and a no-nonsense guy. He says what he thinks in clear, unimpeachable words, and he seems to be immune to bribery, blackmail, and media attacks. The media have been attacking him for years and he usually just shrugs it off. That’s important, because the person who accepts this job will be the second-most-hated person in America after President Trump.
The problem is that Bolton is on record as being against the concept of Special Prosecutors. Also, there are some people, like Mark Levin and Alan Dershowitz, who say what is needed is a Presidential Commission rather than a Special Prosecutor.
Either way, we need a man like Bolton to do the job, because without the rule of law, America will be no different than any of dozens of third-world countries.
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A few other names: Judge Jenine Pirro, Joe Digenova, Victoria Toensing, Glenn Reynolds. Anyone who can't be bought, is strong on law and principle and would put justice back into the system.
[WSJ] The Justice Department on Friday indicted three Russian companies and 13 individuals for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and the man who should be most upset is Donald J. Trump. The 37-page indictment contains no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, but it does show a systematic effort to discredit the result of the 2016 election. On the evidence so far, President Trump has been the biggest victim of that effort, and he ought to be furious at Vladimir Putin.
The indictment documents a broad social-media and propaganda campaign operating out of Russia and involving hundreds of people starting in 2014 that "had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system." It certainly succeeded on that score, as Democrats and the media have claimed that Mr. Trump’s election is illegitimate because he conspired with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton. The charge has roiled American politics and made governing more difficult.
The good news for Mr. Trump is that the indictment reveals no evidence of collusion. The Russians "posted derogatory information about a number of candidates," the indictment says, and by 2016 "included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump" and "disparaging Hillary Clinton." But it adds that the Russians "communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign," and it offers no claims of a conspiracy.
Readers of the indictment will be amused at the comic opera details. In or around June 2016, for example, Russians posing online as Americans "communicated with a real U.S. person affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization." This "real U.S. person" vouchsafed the deep political secret that the Russians "should focus their activities on ’purple states like Colorado, Virginia & Florida.’" Sure enough, the Russians thereafter referred to targeting "purple states." Someone actually paid Russians to collect this insight.
The indictment also contains no evidence that Russia’s meddling changed the electoral results. A U.S. presidential campaign is a maelstrom of information, charges and counter-charges, media reports and social-media chatter. The Russian Twitter bursts became part of this din and sought to reinforce existing biases more than they sought to change minds. Their Twitter hashtags included "#Hillary4Prison," for example, which you could find at the souvenir desk at the GOP convention.
Yet none of this should let Twitter, Facebook or Google off the hook for being facilitators of this disinformation. The social-media sites and search engines clearly did far too little to police their content for malicious trolls and in the process misled millions of Americans. They need to do more to take responsibility for the content they midwife.
The indictment also makes us wonder what the Obama Administration was doing amid all of this. Where were top Obama spooks James Clapper and John Brennan ? Their outrage became public only after their candidate lost the election. If they didn’t know what was going on, why not? And if they did, why didn’t they let Americans in on the secret? President Obama sanctioned Russia for its meddling only after the election.
The indictment’s details underscore Russia’s malicious anti-American purposes. An authoritarian regime spent tens of millions of dollars to erode public trust in American democracy. As Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) put it Friday, "Putin’s shadow war is aimed at undermining Americans’ trust in our institutions. We know Russia is coming back in 2018 and 2020‐we have to take the threat seriously."
All of which makes the White House reaction on Friday strangely muted. Its statement understandably focused on the lack of collusion evidence and made one reference to "the agendas of bad actors, like Russia." But given how much Russia’s meddling has damaged his first year in office, Mr. Trump should publicly declare his outrage at Russia on behalf of the American people. The Kremlin has weakened his Presidency. He should make Russia pay a price that Mr. Obama never did.
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All of which makes the White House reaction on Friday strangely muted.
Really? If you believe in the strawman image of Trump as an egomaniac with the impulse control of a 3 year old, then "Yes, strangely muted". What sort of "price" are these jingoistic pundits wanting... ICBM fired at Leningrad St. Petersburg?
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The Russians "posted derogatory information about a number of candidates," the indictment says, and by 2016 "included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump" and "disparaging Hillary Clinton."
Most people at R-Burg have disparaged HRC and posted derogatory info about her.
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My wife and I ate lunch at a local Wendy's today. Unfortunately, they had MSNBC on. There were numerous Democrats on who seemed to be saying that if Trump doesn't sanction Russia, it is proof that he colluded with them, and therefore must be impeached.
I couldn't wait to get out of there to get away from the noise.
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did you let them know? And that you won't be back?
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02/17/2018 19:26 Comments ||
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Most people at R-Burg have disparaged HRC and posted derogatory info about her.
I wasn't aware there was information about a Clinton that wasn't derogatory.
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The truth is spoken and it is reported as being derogatory.
I don't want to comment about the Florida massacre at the moment. A lot we still don't know.
A discussion on Facebook took place between Gideon Imunim, front man for Cherev Gidon and another individual about concealed carry, surrounding whether it is best to concealed carry with a round in the chamber.
The argument for carrying with a round in the chamber is the less than two seconds' time it would take to draw, chamber a round, cock the pistol and fire; too much time would elapse.
My argument has always been that by the time the threat becomes apparent, the extra seconds aren't going to make much difference. I have seen plenty of live action videos where a concealed carrier has drawn, cocked and fired before the Bad Guy has a chance to return fire. The argument for carrying a round in the chamber, however, makes some sense since it doesn't take much time for the odds to survive a shooting to shift away from you and in favor of your target.
The main thing is that if you are face to face with a violent opponent then it makes sense to have a round ready to go. But how many gunfire exchanges take place in which that extra two seconds, at the most, would matter?
For example, in a convenience store when a Bad Guy walks in, draws and orders everyone to the ground. His gun is pointed at you and everyone else, so in order for the chambered round to work in your favor, some outside incident or distraction has to take place sufficient for you to draw and fire safely.
Another example is in a mall. Much less constrictive place. Fields of fire are seemingly wider and longer, except that in a crowded mall they are the same with others milling around. There is an element of unpredictability present when a shooter draws and fires, and the crowd scatters. You can't always predict if the crowd will scatter in such a way that gives you a clear shot. Depending on where you are, as a private citizen you have to make a quick decision whether to draw and fire. If the shooter is pointing his firearm straight at you, does that quick draw really matter?
Tactical encounters such as the two described are like football games. Every game is different: the shooter, the concealed carrier, fields of fire, lighting and sound conditions, the presence of other shooters and other concealed carriers and so on.
The empty chamber method is called Israeli carry.
Imunim said:
The Israeli way is by far the safest and most professional way to carry on a day to day basis. The fact is, the Israeli special forces have been utilizing that method for decades and there are very few accidental discharges with highly effective results in gun fights with the enemy.
I'd be lying if I said I never did it ;) but stateside (outside of a full scale riot or being already in the midst of a violent situation), it's totally unnecessary and recklessly dangerous.
Your results and comfort level will differ.
I don't own a pistol, so this ain't my fight.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were mostly steady. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mostly higher.
It should be noted that nationwide AK prices have jumped, due to fewer available rifles on the open market. And for the second week in a row, AR-15 prices have remained at the $440 level.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Red River Reloading, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, CRN, Brass Casing, Reloads, .17 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing .13 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Fedarm, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FN, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own brand, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .24 per round (From Last Week: +.04 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Able's, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .31 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Red River Reloading, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: True Shot Gun Club, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Target Sports USA, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .60 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.06 Each After Unchanged (4Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .75 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .85 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged 4Q, 2017)
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Ten Ring, Brass Casing, SP, 2.15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Cabelas, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, HPBT, 2.80 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
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If it’s on the shelf, the magazine is out and the chamber is empty. If it’s on me, both are full.
“The empty chamber method is called Israeli carry.”
Fewer accidental discharges, more stabbing of armed soldiers.
In the Facebook discussion thread Imunim said that the Israeli army requires its soldiers to draw and fire a semiautomatic pistol within 1.2 seconds of start in order to qualify. That means an armed attacker with an edged weapon, for example, would have to be no closer than about six feet for the shooter to draw and fire before the attacker can come into range of his weapon.
[National Review] The country is coming apart, and the advocates of radical egalitarianism are winning.
The wars between Trump, the media, the deep state, and the progressive party ‐ replete with charges and counter-charges of scandal, collusion, and corruption ‐ are merely symptoms of a much larger fundamental and growing divide between Americans that is reaching a dangerous climax.
On four prior occasions in American history the country nearly split apart, as seemingly irreconcilable cultural, economic, political, social, geographical, and demographic fault lines opened a path to hatred and violence.
During the Jacksonian Revolution of the 1830s, factions nearly ripped the country apart over whether the East Coast Founders’ establishment of a half-century would relinquish its monopoly of political power to reflect the new demographic realties of an expanding frontier ‐ and its populist champions often deemed unfit for self-governance. For the most part, the Jacksonians won.
Three decades later the nation divided over slavery, prompting the most lethal war in American history to end it and force the defeated Confederate southern states back into the Union.
The Great Depression, and the establishment’s inept responses to it, left a quarter of the country unemployed for nearly a decade ‐ hungry and desperate to expand government even if it entailed curtailing liberty in a way never envisioned by the Founders. The result was eventually the redefinition of freedom as the right of the individual to have his daily needs guaranteed by the state.
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So many people who are attracted to progressivism or liberalism say I want to be liberal and accepting or I'm for progess in our society. Big mistake, that is not what progressivism/liberalism is about.
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The country is not coming apart. A selection of the population is having a tantrum and are becoming increasingly isolated as a result.
The left is inflicting a type of emotional terrorism upon the nation, with the hopes that folks will take their side to shut them up. This is how Peggy Noonan and others turned on their ideals during the George W. administration and why #NeverTrumpers folded immediately rather than deal with 8 years of the same.
[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] In the last few months, there have been many heinous crimes reported that suggest that our society has become a factory of producing monsters. We may have forgotten but there was a lynching of two innocent brothers by a mob in Sialkot wrongfully blaming them as thieves. There was burning of a newlywed Christian couple in a brick kiln allegedly for committing blasphemy which later turned out to be false allegations. There was broad daylight murder of 34 innocent people that belonged to Ismaili Shia community in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . There were reports of a child pornography ring in Kasur abusing small children. There was the lynching of a young curious and inquisitive student of Mardan University; Mashaal Khan who was blamed for committing blasphemy which turned out to be a false charge while his real mistake was to raise questions about his professors and university administration. There were rape and murder of eight small girls in Kasur and the criminal was finally apprehended through DNA sampling after intense public pressure. Two girls named Asma were murdered in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. One was a small girl that became a victim of a juvenile cousin and the other to male chauvinism when she refused a marriage proposal. There was a murder of a young ambitious young man Naseebullah Mehsud in a fake police encounter. There was the corporal punishment of little children by their teachers so much that one child lost his life. There was an incident of a child cutting his hand because the madrassah teacher told him that a hand raised to ask a question about a religious matter should be cut off.
All these crimes suggest one thing that all segments of our society have lost the ethical, moral, humanistic, and religious bearing. These crimes are committed by people that belong to educated as well as uneducated classes. Some criminals are from poor segments of the society while others are from well to do. Some crimes are committed in rural settings while others in urban areas. It is about time we realise that we have become a sick society and if we did not find solutions to reform then we are heading towards a total collapse with far graver consequences. It is important that social scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and writers come together to identify causes of this crisis of the society and develop solutions. I will only share my observations about the causes of this situation which may not necessarily be scientific but at least it may help further the discussion.
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The islam ensures that all people are mentally ill.
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Much of this has been known for a very long time: the snake-charmer must refrain from touching the snake in front of his small boy, because he knows that the boy imagines he is like his father and will imitate him, and must even caution the boy by himself showing caution in front of him
Al-Ghazzali, 1115 AD
[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] Is it Islam that obstructs democracy in Pakistain or is it illiteracy, ignorance and economic depravity? Is it not feudalism and its pernicious effects that impede social justice and an egalitarian society in Pakistan? Perhaps the two are connected? I'd say the question is whether they're inextricably connected.
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[US Naval Institute Blog] If you can’t launch your airwing, you don’t have a carrier.
You need to read the whole thing to appreciate the challenges ahead, but for this post, let’s look just at EMALS.
Progress has been made, but there are still some items that in the 1QCY18 should give everyone pause.
EMALS testing in 2015 discovered excessive airframe stress during launches of F/A-18E/F and EA-18G with wing-mounted 480-gallon EFTs. The Navy discovered similar problems with 330-gallon EFTs on the F/A-18A-D. Additionally, end-of-stroke dynamics with heavy wing stores were discovered for the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G, which would limit maximum launch speed.
• CVN 78 includes several systems that are new to aircraft carriers; four of these systems stand out as being critical to flight operations: EMALS, AAG, DBR, and AWEs. Overall, the poor reliability demonstrated by AAG and EMALS and the uncertain reliability of DBR and AWEs pose the most significant risk to CVN 78 IOT&E. The Navy is testing all four of these systems for the first time in their shipboard configurations aboard CVN 78.
EMALS testing to date has demonstrated that EMALS should be able to launch aircraft planned for the CVN 78 air wing. However, the system demonstrated poor reliability during developmental testing suggesting operational difficulties lie ahead for meeting requirements and in achieving success in combat.
• In its current design, EMALS is unlikely to support high-intensity operations expected in combat.
At the current reliability, EMALS has a 9 percent chance of completing the 4-day surge and a 70 percent chance of completing a day of sustained operations as defined in the design reference mission without a critical failure.
• The reliability concerns are exacerbated by the fact that the crew cannot readily electrically isolate EMALS components during flight operations.
Based on current reliability estimates, CVN 78 is unlikely to be able to conduct the type of high-intensity flight operations expected during wartime.
• CVN 78 is unlikely to achieve its Sortie Generation Rate (SGR) (number of aircraft sorties per day) requirement. The threshold requirement is based on unrealistic assumptions including fair weather and unlimited visibility, and that aircraft emergencies, failures of shipboard equipment, ship maneuvers, and manning shortfalls will not affect flight operations.
The Navy analysis indicates the ship is sensitive to manpower fluctuations. Workload estimates for the many new technologies such as catapults, arresting gear, radar, and weapons and aircraft elevators are not well understood. Some of these concerns have required redesignation of some berthing areas and may require altering standard manpower strategies to achieve mission accomplishment.
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You may as well remove it from your defense posture review along with the ship stuck in the ice and the two others that got rammed by commercial cargo.
You may as well remove the LCS as well. Ohh and the F-35 too.
The 110th Congress was the end of the military - topped by the fucking obama.
#2
just because you can doesn’t mean you should. along with this mess is the DDG-1000 reduced manning because sensors will alert if there are issues. sorry but Windows 10 cant shore up a bulkhead or man a firehose.....
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Technological Arrogance is not new. In the Spanish American War the US Navy fielded the USS Vesuvius, a dynamite gun cruiser with three 15-inch pneumatic cannons (!). At least it kinda sorta worked in action -- supposedly.
Does the LCS have any, ANY working modules? The modules are the whole reason for the class as is a working catapult for an aircraft carrier.
#8
Being a shipbuilder I will make my comments brief. The manner in which the customer oversees every facet makes the task extremely difficult. We know what we are doing let us do it. We take pride in our work when we are allowed to do it.
[Washington Examiner] As midterm election season kicks off, Democrats are out of the mainstream. They have developed a new strategy for countering popular Republican proposals: They deceive.
That’s what they did with tax reform, and that’s what they’re doing now with the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
Despite rhetoric to the contrary from Democrats, we now know American workers are receiving bigger paychecks thanks to the GOP tax bill. The Associated Press recently reported that the bill Democrats called a "middle-class con job" lead to an increase in take-home pay for American workers.
While some, such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., mocked the increase as mere "crumbs," American workers told the AP they planned to use the increase to help pay for their health insurance, a Costco membership, or the arrival of a new baby.
As they had on taxes, Democrats also misled the American people about the pro-life bill.
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I believe the Liberal actual position on Abortion is that a mother has the right to take out her own toddler if she wants to. Every other position (on late term abortion and such) were simply short-term lies because they know their true position is unpalatable.
[The Guardian] When he was released from prison in 2014, Sekou Odinga felt like he was falling from the sky into a foreign land. After 33 years behind bars, the former Black Panther party leader was released into a United States he didn’t recognize ‐ with strange technology and grandchildren he had never hugged.
Though he celebrated with family and supporters, Odinga, 73, also remained mindful of the many other civil rights activists who weren’t so lucky: "You always feel like you don’t want to leave nobody behind."
This weekend, his advocacy group is gathering outside movie theaters across New York City to educate crowds at sold-out screenings of Black Panther about the real-life Black Panthers who fought for black liberation in the 1960s and 1970s ‐ some of whom have also been fighting for their own freedom from incarceration for decades.
The Marvel superhero film, which is already breaking records at the box office, takes place in a fictional African country and has been widely praised as a well-timed political commentary.
For some activists, however, Ryan Coogler’s film and mostly black cast is much more than a refreshing comic book story that breaks down stereotypes in an industry dominated by white film-makers. Sadly, there is much more and yes, it includes Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Wakanda! Is anything grander
Than cannily planned propaganda,
Be it white with black spots
Or all black with white plots
And demanding one not pan the Pander?
#4
Wakanda! Is anything grander
Than cannily planned propaganda,
Be it white with black spots
Or all black with white plots
And demanding one not pan the Pander?
#4
so why are the US army throwing their hand grenades in metric? Isnt the rest of the country still in the dark ages using the imperial measure. Perhaps the recruits thought it was millimetres.
#6
I understood that thy changed the size/wieght of grenades from the WW2 era pinapple to a more baseball size because Americans were used to throwing baseballs.
Perhaps now they should consider the size-weight of a frisbee or hacky-sack.
#8
Throwing hand grenades is a prime display of toxic masculinity. We need to make close-quarters combat a more collaborative endeavor.
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Like I posted - remove the protection and pits. Make it Go/No Go training. You can't throw it far enough, pull the shrapnel out of your butt or legs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Townhall] Under the Constitution, there are three branches of government. The FBI is not one of them. Instead, the FBI was created to assist the president in his job to enforce laws. Members of the FBI are called "agents" because of their agency relationship with the president. 
[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] In the last few months, there have been many heinous crimes reported that suggest that our society has become a factory of producing monsters. We may have forgotten but there was a lynching of two innocent brothers by a mob in Sialkot wrongfully blaming them as thieves. There was burning of a newlywed Christian couple in a brick kiln allegedly for committing blasphemy which later turned out to be false allegations. There was broad daylight murder of 34 innocent people that belonged to Ismaili Shia community in 
All these crimes suggest one thing that all segments of our society have lost the ethical, moral, humanistic, and religious bearing. These crimes are committed by people that belong to educated as well as uneducated classes. Some criminals are from poor segments of the society while others are from well to do. Some crimes are committed in rural settings while others in urban areas. It is about time we realise that we have become a sick society and if we did not find solutions to reform then we are heading towards a total collapse with far graver consequences. It is important that social scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and writers come together to identify causes of this crisis of the society and develop solutions. I will only share my observations about the causes of this situation which may not necessarily be scientific but at least it may help further the discussion.
[US Naval Institute Blog] If you can’t launch your airwing, you don’t have a carrier.
[Washington Examiner] As midterm election season kicks off, Democrats are out of the mainstream. They have developed a new strategy for countering popular Republican proposals: They deceive.
[The Guardian] When he was released from prison in 2014, Sekou Odinga felt like he was falling from the sky into a foreign land. After 33 years behind bars, the former Black Panther party leader was released into a United States he didn’t recognize ‐ with strange technology and grandchildren he had never hugged.
