January 2012 - Argghhh!

When I first saw this picture, I thunk it may be part of Obama's De-Arrowing Program . Then I found the credits in another website...

We just missed the memo. The Taliban have declared victory. Time to come home, boys and girls. Who are we to argue with the indigenes? Especially since... they are probably just being premature, vice wrong, in the final analysis of the Western Way of War in the Orient. So why not just short cut it and come home. We did in Iraq, what makes this different? We've given the Iraqis and the Afghans a chance to choose a different future for themselves. It's up to them to actually *choose* it.

[This pic enlargifies.] A convoy of U.S. Army mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles prepare to move out in the Mangrah Troy district of Afghanistan's Paktika province, Jan. 4, 2012. U.S. Army photo by Spc. David Barnes.

Earlier this week I did a post on the XM-25, the newest grenade launcher in the inventory (though still not formally adopted). That post kind of got me thinking. How'd we get here? And just how fast has the evolution been? In the late 1600s into the 1700s and beyond, we had these things: Hand Mortars.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - A cat belonging to an Arkansas Democratic campaign manager was found dead on Sunday nigh t with the word "Liberal" spray-painted across its side, the campaign manager said. The cat was a pet of Jake Burris, who manages Democrat Ken Aden's bid for Arkansas' 3rd Congressional District... One. The message was "spray painted" on the cat's side? That musta been a large cat, or the perp carries around an airbrush (now there's support for...

No, really. I mean, most of us manage to, you bleepin' hypocrites. Oh, I know, you're just too busy... doing the important work of government. And it's all for the children, etc etc etc. Yadda yadda yadda. Talk to the hand. It should be a presumptive firing offense when you work for the FedGov if you don't pay your taxes. Sure, stuff happens. And that should be a defense. But you should have to frickin' defend yourself. A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals...

A good gun pic! Of course, this pic doesn't fix that, since it's not a good pic, though it's a pic of a fine rifle - in this case, the Castle Armory's Swiss M1869/71 Vetterli in 10mm rimfire - this one not converted to centerfire - with bayonet. Enjoy. [This pic enlargifies]...

.30-06's can some times make you giggle with their puppy love...