Argghhh!

In yesterday's now-deleted post (no, not a subject I care to revisit here) Bill had a comment that the gnomes sequestered, regarding this picture:

...and yet they're still trying to kill you and you want them to stop. What to do? Well, you take the bayonet off of your rifle... ..and you accessorize! With a nice, multi-variate spigot-grenade launcher. Oh, sure, nowadays all the youngsters have that stuff built-in, but, we likes the auld iron.Now, sometimes those crapweasels aren't hiding in a trench or hole - they're hiding in a moving foxhole better known as a tank or some other infernal armored contraption, some with wheels. Regardless...

Boq

If you're a friend of the Master and Mistress of Castle Argghhh!, you're invited to celebrate the Second Amendment on the Fourth of July - apt, considering how interrelated the two things are, even if President Carter thinks the Revolution was, on balance, a bad idea.

There's a Scheiße-Storm brewing regarding Delta Airline new upcoming policy of barring Jews from its international flights into Saudi Arabia. Take a good look at the third paragraph of the above letter. In it, Delta states clearly that it is complying with Saudi law in being an agent of discrimination against Jews. In other words: Don't blame us, we're just following orders. Well, that reminds me of Greyhound Bus old policy in Mississippi. Once upon a time, whenever its buses crossed...

Below are the American Forces Press Service article on the President's announcement last night, and a blurb on Secretary Gate's comments. Of course they are supportive of the official position, it's not the place of the AFPS to be anything but. At the bottom of the article is a link to the text of the President's full remarks. What I'm interested in is your thoughts on the laydown of the way forward.Mind you, I'm *not* interested in comments about "He's a tool!"...

One of Her Majesty's finest re-enactors, going at it, hammer and tongs, showing just how fast a trained soldier could handle a flintlock - firing 3 shots in 46 seconds, though in fact he probably wouldn't be firing that way much. The true weapon of the era was the mass of troops and their bayoneted firearms, vice the individual soldier fighting as a distinct individual - at least not until the forces had closed to hand-to-hand.And he's also demonstrating some other things, if not by intent...