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Hello. Nowhere better to ask this than on freerepublic After watching 13 hours (good movie) and noting that the weapons seemed to be accurate and handled correctly, which is rarely the case in Hollywood, I was intrigued by the usage of those infrared scopes and how they were also used as signaling devices. What model/type scopes were those/ I would like to fit up with one of those on a pictanny rail Thanks!

Early this year, Islamic State forces showed a powerful new side to their murderous military operation by knocking out five of the Iraq Army’s M1A1 Abrams tanks with anti-tank guided missiles and shooting down six of the army’s helicopters with a light anti-aircraft gun and rocket launchers while damaging 60 others. The New York Times quoted a U.S. official in June as saying that, in all, 28 Iraqi Army Abrams tanks had been damaged in fighting with the militants, including the five that suffered “ full armor penetration” when struck by the anti-tank missiles. As for the helicopters either destroyed...

Well, here is an interesting video of Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis stating that all of Chicago's problems are due to you rich white people. These cretains are certainly holding the whip hand these days.

Hello. I was in a new local gun shop and I noticed the Taurus Judge on display; a weapon that I had been interested in. It seems like a good choice for VEHICLE DEFENSE, only it wasn't a Judge, it was a Smith and Wesson Governor. This revolver holds 6 rounds, not the five that the Judge holds and its chambers can handle three distinct rounds, the .45 Long Colt, .45 ACP, and the .410 gauge 2.5-inch shotshells. I don't really know the difference between the ACP & 45 long colt, but the ability to fire multiple types of ammo...

This is detailed video footage of a US sniper team at work at a 1 mile range. This dude punches a round through a brick wall where a 3 man assault team is hiding with heavy weapons and absolutely obliterates them into pink mist! Other targets hit as well at 1 mile range.Video here

Barry Carson's brief trip to the men's room spared Gov. Charlie Crist the embarrassment of being censured by Palm Beach County's Republican Party last week. Carson, a Republican Executive Committee member from Jupiter, was out of the room Wednesday night and missed the vote when the rest of the committee split 65-65 on a resolution to rebuke Crist for his various departures from GOP orthodoxy... The tie vote means the resolution failed. Carson said he would have voted for censure... Carson said he told party leaders he was back and wanted to vote before the roll call was complete, but...

While there are a lot of numbers reported in Citibank's recent quaterly earnings there is ONE critical comparison that is missing -- that is the sequential analysis of the credit losses (Q1 vs. Q2). I believe this is critical information not just for Citibank but for all financials. First, here are the links to the Q1 report http://www.citigroup.com/citi/press/2009/090417a.htm and Q2 report http://www.citigroup.com/citi/press/2009/090717a.htm Getting to the point on credit losses: April 17th report: Credit costs of $10.3 billion, up 76%, consisted of $7.3 billion in net credit losses, a $2.7 billion net loan loss reserve build, and $332 million of policyholder...

U.S. foreclosure activity for May ebbed from April's record, but mortgages still failed at a staggering pace as President Barack Obama's rescue programs... Foreclosure filings dipped 6 percent in the month but increased 18 percent from May 2008, marking the third highest month on record. "There were almost one million foreclosure filings in a three-month period, and that's simply unprecedented," Rick Sharga, senior vice president at RealtyTrac in Irvine, California, said in an interview. Temporary freezes on foreclosure activity ended in March. Failures of many seriously delinquent loans that were put on hold during those moratoria have been thrust back...

I have been extremely strident in my ridicule of bogus, bankster “bottom-lines" - and I'm certainly not alone... Thus, when a Wall Street mouth-piece like Bloomberg heaps doubt onto the validity of Wall Street accounting, and the supposed “profits” they are now reporting, this is something which should be examined more closely than most of their drivel... To quickly recount this propaganda campaign to make U.S. banks not only appear solvent, but “profitable”, here is the chronology. First, the so-called U.S. accounting “regulator” severely diluted U.S. accounting standards (see “FASB strong-armed into mark to fantasy accounting”) - just in time...

President Barack Obama insisted on Sunday that military force alone would not end the war in Afghanistan and suggested a U.S. "exit strategy" could be part of a new comprehensive policy he is expected to unveil soon... "What we can't do is think that just a military approach in Afghanistan is going to be able to solve our problems," Obama said. "So what we're looking for is a comprehensive strategy. And there's got to be an exit strategy ... There's got to be a sense that this is not perpetual drift..."

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has responded to U.S. President Barack Obama's offer of better relations by demanding policy changes from Washington, but the Islamic state is not closing the door to a possible thaw in ties with its old foe. Iran wants the United States to show concrete change in its behavior toward it, for example by handing back frozen assets, but Tehran is not pursuing "eternal hostility," said Professor Mohammad Marandi at Tehran University. "I think they (the Iranian leadership) are quite willing to have better relations if the Americans are serious," said Marandi, who heads North American studies...

Americans have been on the escalator of life for the last 30 years. The escalator has been going up for the vast majority of that time. Since Ronald Reagan was President, the escalator has been moving upwards with only a few momentary breakdowns. We wanted it all. We believed it was our right to have it all. Americans did whatever it took to have it all. That meant an explosion of household debt promoted by bankers, the Federal Reserve, politicians, the media, and Presidents. We were dancing on the escalator of life ...

Despite saying she wants to return to Stanford University, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has let it be known in Republican circles that she would consider running for vice president if asked. One source told Newsmax that she expressed interest in the possibility when Rudy Giuliani was running for president. Another source said she has more recently let her interest be known discreetly within top Republican circles, presumably including John McCain�s camp. Fueling speculation that she would consider being on the ticket, Rice appeared for the first time this week at the so-called Wednesday meeting run by Grover Norquist, president...

Lieberman: McCain Will Get Tough With Castro, Chavez January 17, 2008 By: Paul Crespo Joe Lieberman was dispatched to Miami's Little Havana on Thursday to woo influential Cuban-Americans to back GOP presidential candidate John McCain. Lieberman, a longtime friend of the Cuban-American community, said that McCain is the best candidate to champion the cause of freedom ... Most importantly, Lieberman said, McCain would be able get bipartisan support for these measures. And McCain will take on more than just Fidel Castro. Across the board, McCain will engender trust in our friends and fear and respect from our enemies, said Lieberman.......

Hillary Clinton's political machine is so powerful that only a demonstrable scandal can keep her from winning the Democratic presidential nomination, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview. The machine is just too powerful,O'Reilly tells Newsmax: She may lose New Hampshire and Iowa. But it doesn't matter. On Super Tuesday, she's got the dough, he says. The Democratic stalwarts are going to come out in her favor Sen. Clinton has been roundly criticized for waffling in recent debates on issues such as New York Gov. Elliott Spitzer's now-defunct proposal to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens....

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to be closing in on what would be a rare achievement for a Republican governor: providing universal health care coverage to his state's citizens. One possible roadblock, however: State legislators in the governor's own party are none too happy about it. Following the lead of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, Schwarzenegger appears close to striking a deal with a Democratic-controlled Legislature to make health coverage both mandatory and affordable for his state's 6.5 million uninsured. The Legislature passed a version of the plan in mid-September. Schwarzenegger vetoed it, however, citing higher-than-desired...

Immigration Could Add 100M to U.S. by 2060 Written by Randy Hall, CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor If both legal and illegal immigration continues at its current pace, the U.S. population will grow by 1.25 million per year and reach a net total of 468 million by 2060, according to a report issued Thursday by a Washington think tank. That increase of 167 million people over the next 53 years "is equal to the combined populations of Great Britain, France and Spain," said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), during a news conference at the National...

LONDON (Reuters) - A four-wheel-drive vehicle crashed into the main terminal at Glasgow airport on Saturday and exploded in flames, a day after police foiled a possible al Qaeda plot to detonate two car bombs in central London. A Glasgow police spokeswoman said there were no immediate reports of any injuries and said the blaze was under control. Witnesses told the BBC that the vehicle, a Land Rover or a Jeep Cherokee, had exploded shortly after crashing into the glass front doors of the terminal, and said there was a heavy stench of petrol. "It raced across the central reservation...

Dick Morris: Bloomberg Could Win Presidency A Michael Bloomberg presidential campaign could prove to be more than just a spoiler in a Democrat versus Republican battle he could actually win the White House as an independent, according to political analyst Dick Morris. "If Mike Bloomberg decided to run for president, he would have a strong chance of winning the election, Morris told NewsMax after Bloomberg's announcement on Tuesday that he was switching his party status from Republican to unaffiliated. "As a social liberal and a fiscal conservative, he fits what most Americans want. And unlike Ross Perot, the last independent...