January 2013 - Argghhh!

...so let's torture you with more mortar fire direction kit. Interesting concept for including all the charge increments on one GFT. Entry argument to the instrument is range, read around the outer edge, using that offset-from-the-center line. The great utility of this approach is that reading along that line shows you all the charges capable of achieving that range, the elevation required on the tube, the time of flight (for setting fuzes) and the maximum ordinate (max ord) which is how high...

and doing his pre-combat checks, but this does beg for some caption fun...

Again, nothing in here bothers me terribly. But there is always room for mischief with the CDC and the mental health regs, not too mention the potential expansion of prohibited persons spreading an overwide net.THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryJanuary 16, 2013Gun Violence Reduction Executive ActionsToday, the President is announcing that he and the Administration will:1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background...

This was left on the door yesterday. They were probably wanting to take a picture to use as "OMIGOD SCARY!" for the announcement this morning...

On this day in 1943 the Pentagon opens. America's war-winning record soon starts to go south. Correlation is not Causation. Except when it is.

The President surrendered. Well, more like he obtained his objective - pretending to be interested until the election was over, and now he can just let it go."So, you know, I think that, have we achieved everything that some might have imagined us achieving in the best of scenarios? Probably not. You know, there's a human enterprise, and you know, you fall short of the ideal, ... Did we achieve our central goal? And have we been able, I think, to shape a strong relationship with a responsible...

Sorry that I've been derelict in my posting duties, but you know...