April 2011 - Argghhh!

For you noobs who haven't been around that long and don't take the time (understandably, they're huge and they're cranky) to rummage the archived posts... This post first ran on Feb 12, 2006, almost exactly two years ago.Yu-ain [who useta hang around here a lot more than he has lately] said:Oh, and by the way. I just hafta share (this is a gun-ish blog of sorts): The LG and I just completed the Safety Course needed to obtain our state's Handgun Carry Permit.And while I've...

Ta-daaaa! Neffi was mostly correct, and PrimEvil was exactly correct. The Steyr-Mannlicher M1905 automatic pistol. One of the earliest players in the game.Ooops. Scene-stealer.Here. This one is better.This is one of the 6000 pistols made for the Argentine Army contract. If Damncat's head wasn't in the way, you could see where the Argentine crest was ground off the pistol when they were surplused out. Older Argentine weapons have their crests ground off because some surplus rifles ended up...

Today is ANZAC Day, the Australia-New Zealand equivalent to Memorial Day. New Zealand Website on ANZAC Day. The Australian Equivalent . The Gallipoli Campaign was the brainchild of Winston Churchill, an attempt to force the Dardanelles and reach the Black Sea, freeing up the Russian Black Sea Fleet and opening up new routes of supply and a new thrust at the Austrians and Germans via the Balkans. Churchill really had the hots for the idea that Italy and the Balkans represented the "soft underbelly"...

Yesterday, I stumbled upon the old DDR's Kinderpanzer Programme...

Some good friends of mine went adventuring... ...in Cambodia.

And see if that helps.

Boq

Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA. So, will it be Panetta's job to be Louis Johnson , Truman's SecDef whose job was to essentially dismantle DoD, or Robert MacNamara? Both suck, if for different reasons. Petraeus to CIA - I don't think the General is going to have a good time there. But I think the President likes having him off the street for 2012, and doesn't really care if the general flails or fails at CIA. In fact, that might even be perceived as a feature, not a bug, by this...