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Why should anyone buy a share of stock, ever again?
I'm going to have to see some big changes before I ever put more of my own money into the stock market.
John Moses Browning (January 21 or January 23, 1855 -- November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world. He is the most important figure in the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms and is credited with 128 gun patents.
One significant contribution is the pistol slide design, found on nearly every modern automatic handgun, developed in the 1890s and introduced on Colt and Fabrique Nationale (FN) pistols such as the M1911.
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No worries there, no huge difference in price either way. Unless you're planning on selling, a professional re-blue will only serve to protect your family keepsake. I compliment your father for his wise choice in hand-me-downs.
you can chew up so much landscape with one of those.
I also owe my life to a M1911A1 that I used to shoot my way out of my hooch went my fire base was over run by NVA Sappers. You know a .45 slug will knock a small person a long ways when you center punch them. None of this gasping and falling over stuff you see in movies.........they go backwards.
He should have a statue at the National War College.
He should be canonized.
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I have a Winchester Model 94 - style in .44 Magnum. It's not accurate very far out, but it sure knocks the shit outta things. Fun to shoot, but the ammo's expensive
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Also Happy Birthday to JarHed, purdy good American in his own right.
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Yep, could stop a drug crazed Moro* [Muslims] even a hundred years ago - Knocking out the Moros.
"The four-day battle of Bagsak Mountain on Jolo Island in the Philippines took place from 11 to 15 June 1913. Americans of the 8th Infantry and the Philippine Scouts, personally lead by Brigadier General John J. Pershing, brought to an end years of bitter struggle against the Moro pirates. These Bolo men, outlaws of great physical endurance and savage fighting ability, were well organized under their Datus or chiefs. They had never been conquered during several centuries of Spanish rule in the Philippines. The U.S. Army .45-caliber pistol was developed to meet the need for a weapon with enough striking power to stop fanatical charges of lawless Moro tribesmen in hand-to-hand fighting."
*who's occupation and hobby of piracy and slaving were not rationalized back then as multiculturalism or owing to their 'poverty'.
A thousand travellers living at two of Europe's biggest illegal camps were ordered to quit the sites by the Court of Appeal yesterday following years of legal wrangling.
Homeowners initially welcomed the announcement, which they said would end years of obscene, criminal and anti-social behaviour, as well as restore the value of their homes.
But celebrations were short-lived after it emerged the families at Crays Hill, near Billericay in Essex, and Hovefields, at nearby Wickford, were planning to request a High Court injunction to block eviction until their case can be heard by the House of Lords. This could extend their stay by months and, in a further snub to the legal ruling, many are planning to create a 'tent city' on nearby land which they have bought if it is upheld.
Len Gridley, whose bungalow backs on to the Crays Hill site and has seen its value plummet £300,000 since the travellers arrived, said: 'We have won a battle but not the war. The authorities should stop all this legal aid for the travellers because they already have more money and property than we'll ever have. They have stated they own land and properties all over the place. As long as they have got someone else's money to spend they will always find a way to stay by appealing and appealing.'
Jill Walsh, who lives beside the Hovefields site, said: 'I won't see it as the end of the matter until they have been denied an appeal to the House of Lords.'
Malcolm Buckley, leader of Basildon Council, said he was pleased with the Appeal Court ruling but admitted he might not be able to take action if the travellers set up another camp nearby.
Graham Puxton, a spokesman for the travellers, said they had been buying up land between the two sites in case they have to move.
Some of the families living at Dale Farm first settled there in the 1960s and permission was granted for 40 families. But over the years more travellers have settled at the site without permission and also on nearby Five Acres Farm.
Lord Justice Pill said there was a problem for traveller families caused by the limited areas where they may lawfully park. He said in each case the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government had upheld the enforcement notice and refused permission.
Since 1990 the total number of gypsy and traveller caravans had increased nationally by 44 per cent, he said.
In the Basildon District, the increase was over 475 per cent and the area now housed 40 per cent of Essex's traveller families.
Lord Justice Pill said it had been suggested by the council that the cheapness of Green Belt land, because of the severe constraints on development, was a major factor in attracting the travellers to Basildon District. It had also been argued that the reason for the large increase in numbers was that the travellers wanted to be near families and friends.
Lord Justice Pill said the council had taken into account the lack of sites in the area. 'On the other hand, it does not follow from a claimant's wish to live on a site in Basildon District that he is entitled to have one there,' said the appeal judge.
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Authorities have known for some time that old World War II munitions lie underneath the runways at Berlins Tegel airport, but now the airport plans to dig them up in early 2009, daily Berliner Morgenpost reported on Friday.
Clean up crews will work to uncover old bombs and grenades at some 500 points, city development head Ingeborg Junge-Reyer told the paper.
The bomb recovery is part of the citys work to adhere to the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) requirements, which state that big planes like the Airbus A 330 which land and take off at Tegel - need wider runways.
As the Berlin city government discussed the project, politicians called Tegel an "objectively dangerous situation" because of "live munitions near the ground surface" that could be detonated by vehicles, airplanes or "mowing and landscape work that digs into the ground," the paper reported.
The head of Berlins civil underground engineering department Frieder Bühring told the paper that the "suspicion" of old munitions was not adequate for the city to undertake a preventative clean-up project, but that it was necessary to protect workers from potential explosions during the runway expansion. The chance of a bomb going off, however, is as likely as winning the lottery, he added.
More than 60 years after the end of World War II, weapons recovery remains an important task for police and private companies throughout Germany. Allied forces dropped more than 2.7 million tonnes of explosives across Germany during the war. Some of the ordnance did not explode and has become increasingly dangerous with time and corrosion.
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Damn! I've landed there a dozen times and never knew this. At least at Tegel they keep the lights on and coffee shop open for the last flight from Gatwick unlike what used to happen at Templehof (ghost town). Of course, Templehof is a mere memory these days - too bad - great old terminal and more conveniently located to my business dealings.
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The Army has decided to cut off retirement pay for veterans of a largely Native militia formed to guard the territory of Alaska from the threat of Japanese attack during World War II.
The change means 26 surviving members of the Alaska Territorial Guard _ most in their 80s and long retired _ will lose as much as $557 in monthly retirement pay, a state veterans officer said Thursday. The payments end Feb. 1. Applications for retirement pay from 37 others have been suspended.
The state is pursuing a remedy for "these brave Alaskans, who did so much for the cause of freedom during a time of great national peril," Gov. Sarah Palin said.
The action comes almost a decade after Congress passed a law qualifying time served in the unpaid guard as active federal service. The Army agreed in 2004 to grant official military discharge certificates to members or their survivors.
An Army official said the law was misinterpreted. The law applies to military benefits, including medical benefits, but not retirement pay, said Lt. Col. Richard McNorton, the Army's human resources command in Alexandria, Va. "The focus is to follow the law," he said. "We can't choose whether to follow the law."
The Army doesn't intend to seek to recoup past pay, he said.
About 300 members are still living from the original 6,600-member unit called up from 1942 to 1947 to scout patrols, build military airstrips and perform other duties. But only a fraction had enough other military service to reach the 20-year requirement for retirement pay.
Among those who did is 88-year-old Paul Kiunya in the western Alaska village of Kipnuk. Kiunya was 16 when he joined the territorial guard and worked in communications, reporting by radio any unusual noises or the direction of aircraft, including some Japanese planes he spotted.
"We did not get one cent being in the territorial guard," he said. "And we worked hard."
Kiunya _ who later put in 22 years in the National Guard and another decade in the Guard reserves _ will lose more than $358 a month in his retirement package because of the Army's decision. With gasoline in his village at almost $10 a gallon, that's a huge amount to lose. "I don't know why they trying to cut the pay. It's not good for us right now," he said in a phone interview. "It's not right."
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"The focus is to follow the law," he said. "We can't choose whether to follow the law."
Well, if you can ignore a law governing the prosecution of terrorists, passed by Congress and validated by SCOTUS on the last go around, then why not this? When POTUS directs you to ignore the law and you willingly obey, you have a problem hiding behind that argument of picking and choosing.
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"The focus is to follow the law," he said. "We can't choose whether to follow the law."
Laws come and go, you can choose how to interprete the law to save a quick buck tho!
What a bunch of dicks!
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Isn't the new VA head Shineski, the ex-Army COS, who is of Japanese heritage? How about that for irony. Also, those militia guys (the eskimo version of "Dad's Army") did a hellva job. I don't remember the Japs getting with 500 miles of Anchorage.
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I don't think you should be dissing Shineski for Japanese heritage. He was born in Hawaii and has served us honorably. And you don't know his opinion on this.
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Take money away from elderly veterans to undoubtedly hand it to people who have never worked a day in their lives.
Makes me want to puke.
We're going to start the redistribution of wealth program right away I guess.
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These guys saved the asses of a lot of confused US soldiers in the Aleutians, one of the most hostile environments on earth. They deserve their payday.
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holy shit they are taking $557 away from these men who did their jobs and deserve every if not more than this small amount. Find 50 ppl who have been on welfare ALL their life , take it, give it too these men as their pay
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HERE is a good link for learning about the Alaska Territorial Guard. A fellow named Marvin R. "Muktuk" Marston worked to organize the ATG into a fighting force.
Check out the links. I knew some of the old ATG vets up in NW Alaska. It appears that there were Japanese patrols wandering about in Western Alaska during the war.
The army has its head up its a$$ for pulling some sh*t like this. I would imagine that our Alaska Congressional delegation is getting an earful as we speak. Hopefully this can be resolved quickly. If a CEO can get a redecorating for the latest bailout, a bit can go to these brave Alaskans for what they did.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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One significant contribution is the pistol slide design, found on nearly every modern automatic handgun, developed in the 1890s and introduced on Colt and Fabrique Nationale (FN) pistols such as the 
