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  • The Definitive Military Service Calibre and Rifle For the 21st Century - Part 2

    01/04/2006 11:28:28 PM PST · by ghostcat · 86 replies · 1,435+ views
    Naval & Military History Page ^ | Unknown | Mike Staples
    The Definitive Military Service Calibre and Rifle For the 21st Century - Part 2 By Mike Staples Over the last 100 years there have been many rifles, which in their day were considered by the countries using them and the men who carried them in war, as being the best rifle for the job. In the early years most were bolt action repeaters and. in the hands of well trained soldiers, were as good as any of today's rifles. What they may have lacked in rapid fire they made up in their simple action, reliability, accuracy and sturdy construction. Today...
  • The Definitive Military Service Calibre and Rifle For the 21st Century - Part 1

    01/04/2006 11:14:38 PM PST · by ghostcat · 51 replies · 1,718+ views
    Naval & Military History Page ^ | Unknown | Mike Staples
    The Definitive Military Service Calibre and Rifle For the 21st Century - Part 1 By Mike Staples Introduction Hi, my name is Mike Staples and I am an ex Australian Army Fitter Armament or to put it more simply, an Armourer. My experience takes in all Australian Military Weapons including pistols, rifles, SMGs, LMGs, HMGs, Mortars, recoilless rifle, and artillery pieces, as well as mounted guns in our Armoured vehicles that were current at the time of my service. On top of that experience is my love of shooting, which started when I was around 6 years of age and...
  • AL FRANKEN IS A PROVINCIAL FOUR-EYED BIGOT

    12/06/2005 7:16:04 PM PST · by ghostcat · 56 replies · 1,954+ views
    Guacabuya ^ | Unknown | Humberto Fontova
    AL FRANKEN IS A PROVINCIAL FOUR-EYED BIGOT Por Humberto Fontova The south comes in for great sport in Franken's new book. "The Republican party became the home to Southern bigots and still is today," he smirks early on. "Evangelical Christians fervently support Israel to fulfil the prophecy of the second coming, the fiery death of all Jews!" he hoots. South Carolina gets slammed for it's state flag. Bob Jones University for it's official dating policy. Washington Times Editor and native Arkansan Wesley Pruden gets smeared because his father was the chaplain (fifty years ago) for the White Citizens Council. "What's...
  • Tanker Truck Explodes, Highway 6 Shut Down

    08/10/2005 3:14:00 PM PDT · by ghostcat · 50 replies · 1,851+ views
    KSL NEWS ^ | August 10th, 2005 @ 4:01pm | KSL NEWS
    KSL News) – A tanker truck carrying some sort of explosive material overturned and exploded this afternoon on Highway 6, up Spanish Fork Canyon. It caught fire and exploded. Highway 6 is shut down in both directions and is expected to remain so for up to eight hours. The accident was reported about 1:30. It's about 10 miles up Spanish Fork Canyon, just east of the Thistle Fork Junction. Doug McCleve of the Utah Department of Public Safety confirmed there was an explosion and there were some injuries, including two burn victims. There's apparently a crater now in the middle...
  • The Depressive and the Psychopath

    04/21/2004 2:13:07 PM PDT · by ghostcat · 38 replies · 323+ views
    Slate ^ | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 | By Dave Cullen
    The Depressive and the Psychopath At last we know why the Columbine killers did it. By Dave Cullen Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 8:59 AM PT Columbine killers Five years ago today, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School. Most Americans have reached one of two wrong conclusions about why they did it. The first conclusion is that the pair of supposed "Trench Coat Mafia outcasts" were taking revenge against the bullies who had made school miserable for them. The second conclusion is that the massacre was inexplicable: We can never understand...
  • Court-ordered hacker exposes BIA

    02/27/2002 10:30:57 AM PST · by ghostcat · 5 replies · 94+ views
    Deseret News ^ | Tuesday, February 26, 2002 | By John Markoff New York Times News Service
    Court-ordered hacker exposes BIA He finds agency's computer systems highly vulnerable By John Markoff New York Times News Service       WASHINGTON — Instructed by a federal judge to determine whether the computer network at the Bureau of Indian Affairs was secure from malicious intruders, Alan Balaran decided to infiltrate it.       He did this not once but three times and determined among other things that skilled hackers would be able to bilk Indian funds in trust at the bureau by having checks sent to themselves.       First Balaran went to a bureau building in ...
  • Stranded Olympic Wrestler Found

    02/15/2002 2:14:12 PM PST · by ghostcat · 4 replies · 102+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | Fri Feb 15, 2:22 PM ET | Staff
    Top Stories - AP U.S.   News StoriesNews PhotosAudio/VideoFull CoverageAll of Yahoo! U.S. National Stranded Olympic Wrestler Found Stranded Olympic Wrestler Found Fri Feb 15, 2:22 PM ET AFTON, Wyo. - Olympic wrestling champion Rulon Gardner was flown to a hospital Friday after he became stranded during a snowmobiling trip and spent the night in subzero temperatures. He was being treated for hypothermia and possible frostbite. Gardner was able to communicate when he was found, but not much, and he struggled when he tried to walk, said Lincoln County Sheriff Lee Gardner, a distant cousin of the wrestler. "He had ...
  • Asbestos Could Have Saved WTC Lives

    09/17/2001 8:15:43 AM PDT · by ghostcat · 13 replies · 418+ views
    Fox News ^ | Friday, September 14, 2001 | Steven Milloy
    <p>Asbestos fibers in the air and rubble following the collapse of the World Trade Center is adding to fears in the aftermath of Tuesday’s terrorist attack. The true tragedy in the asbestos story, though, is the lives that might have been saved but for 1970s-era hysteria about asbestos.</p>
  • Recoveries-Geronomio's Headdress

    08/30/2001 10:14:00 AM PDT · by ghostcat · 1+ views
    F.B.I. ^ | March 12, 2001 | unknown
    &nbsp; Recoveries - Geronomio's Headdress Geronimo was a famous Apache Indian who was known as a great medicine man and spiritual leader. For years, the Apaches, like many Native Americans, fought U.S. troops for the right to remain on their lands. In 1874, Geronimo and his band were captured and forcibly moved to a reservation in San Carlos, Arizona. He escaped soon after and, for the next several years, lived a life on the run. In 1886, he was captured again and sent to Florida for imprisonment with the understanding that he would eventually be permitted to return to ...
  • Freep your Congress Critter to support these bills!!!

    02/13/2001 7:27:45 AM PST · by ghostcat · 81+ views
    U.S. Congress ^ | 01/03/01 | Several Congressmen & Congresswomen
    Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2001 (Introduced in the House) HR 31 IH 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 31 To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2001 Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland (for himself, Mr. STEARNS, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. HALL of Texas, Mr. SCHAFFER, Mr. HILLEARY, Mr. CALLAHAN, Mr. HAYWORTH, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. NETHERCUTT, Mr. BARCIA, Mr. STUMP, and Mr. SIMPSON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the ...
  • Rancher Says an Endangered Species&lt;br&gt; Is Endangering His Way of Life

    01/31/2001 6:19:11 AM PST · by ghostcat · 1+ views
    foxnews.com ^ | Tuesday, January 30, 2001 | Katie Cobb
    Rancher Says an Endangered Species Is Endangering His Way of Life Tuesday, January 30, 2001 By Katie Cobb&nbsp;&nbsp; SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. &#151; Steve Lindsey and his family have raised cattle in eastern Arizona for more than a century. But now, he says, his way of life is threatened. Environmental groups want his land in their quest to return some of the West's farm and ranch land to the wild. And Lindsey fears the federal government is on their side. "We've been in this country since 1860," he said from his more than 600-acre ranch outside the small town of ...
  • Pennsylvania Rep. Shuster Retiring

    01/04/2001 5:18:53 AM PST · by ghostcat · 3+ views
    AP ^ | JANUARY 04, 08:56 EST | JONATHAN POET
    Pennsylvania Rep. Shuster Retiring By JONATHAN POET Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rep. Bud Shuster, a 14-term congressman rebuked by the House ethics committee in the fall for allegedly accepting improper gifts and favoring a lobbyist, said Thursday he will retire at the end of January. Shuster, R-Pa., cited recent ``health scares'' and the realization he had ``reached the pinnacle of my congressional career'' with recently passed transportation legislation. He said he would leave office Jan. 31. ``In recent months, both my wife, Patty, and I have been in hospitals with different health scares. While we remain optimistic, these ...
  • The Myth Of Leonard Peltier

    12/22/2000 10:39:17 AM PST · by ghostcat · 308+ views
    State Troopers Association of Nebraska ^ | November 22, 2000 | "No Parole Peltier Association"
    The Myth Of Leonard Peltier "No Parole Peltier Association" November 22, 2000 The Myth of Leonard Peltier There remains but one crucial question concerning Leonard Peltier: at what point was he transformed from his unnoticed birth on a poor Indian Reservation into the Myth of Leonard Peltier, self-described as, Gwarth-ee-lass, "He Leads the People"? The Myth who is able to say, "I have never lost hope or an absolute belief in the rightness of my cause, which is my People's survival." Perhaps his life would have gone largely unnoticed, except for those family, friends, and acquaintances he would have developed ...
  • O’Donnell’s not-so-Rosie ways

    12/12/2000 9:10:03 AM PST · by ghostcat · 1+ views
    Msnbc ^ | 12/12/00 | Jeanette Wells
    It looks like the pressure is taking its toll on Rosie O’Donnell. The talk-show host nicknamed “The Queen of Nice” showed a nasty side at a recent Broadway premiere for the musical “Seussical” when a television reporter tried to ask O’Donnell a question. “IT WAS SOMETHING completely professional, like‘How has Dr. Seuss’s writing influenced children,’ ” says a source who was there. “Rosie gestured to her security guard and demanded, ‘Keep him away from me.’” Then, according to the source, the reporter held up his press pass and identified himself as being with Reuters television, and he re-asked the question. ...
  • A MODEST PROPOSAL

    07/11/2000 12:40:02 PM PDT · by ghostcat · 1+ views
    findlaw.com ^ | unknown | ANDREW W. COHEN
    CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: A MODEST PROPOSAL ANDREW W. COHEN Americans tend to view campaign finance reform as a regulatory problem. As a result, we debate how to limit contributions and expenditures but find ourselves hamstrung by First Amendment limitations that define such spending as protected political speech. Such reforms would be valuable, but they don't address one major reason why money now decides Congressional elections: The population has grown but the legislature has not. Races for Congressional seats are competitive, vicious, and, above all, expensive because Congressional seats are relatively rare. Increasing the size of the House could profoundly ...
  • Our Diminished Expectations For Public Servants: A View From New Haven

    06/02/2000 10:06:59 AM PDT · by ghostcat · 1+ views
    findlaw.com ^ | unknown but recent | Robert Solomon
    We don’t expect much of our public servants today -- a troubling development that I learned about in the most intimate of ways. For the last 27 years, I have practiced law as a legal services lawyer, a private practitioner and a clinical teacher. During that time, it has been my pleasure to litigate hundreds of cases against the government. As a housing specialist, a number of cases concerned the local housing authority. So, last August, I was a bit surprised but not reluctant to become the interim Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the City of New Haven. ...
  • Some Liberals Get It !!!

    05/12/2000 11:51:12 AM PDT · by ghostcat · 1+ views
    Progressive Review ^ | May 11, 2000 | unknown
    Wild shots Why politicians, moms, and progressives should stop pressing for more gun control laws Real facts about guns and violence from the Progressive Review THE MAJOR CAUSE OF NEW VIOLENCE:THE DRUG WAR Far and away the biggest contributor to new violence in American culture in the last one and a half decades has been the war on drugs. Drug prohibition has created a immensely valuable market over which major drug dealers have been fighting with relative impunity as minor users fill the prisons. As with alcohol prohibition, disputes within the drug trade are settled by guns rather than by ...
  • New study about kids and Guns

    03/03/2000 8:49:43 AM PST · by ghostcat · 139+ views
    "Public officials concerned about students' bringing guns to school have pushed hard for stricter gun-control laws. Maybe they need to redirect some of their activism into initiatives to pass tougher divorce-control laws. In a study recently completed at Indiana University - Purdue University, Ft. Wayne, researcher David C. May identified family structure as a stronger predictor of carrying guns to high school in Mississippi, a state with a particularly high rate of gun ownership. Data collected from about 5,000 students indicate that youth from single-parent or 'disrupted'families were 'significantly more likely than their counterparts from two-parent homes to carry firearms ...
  • Red Riding Hood 1997

    10/22/1999 10:59:52 AM PDT · by ghostcat · 1+ views
    Email | unknown
    Little Red Riding Hood, 1997 There once was a young person named Little Red Riding Hood who lived on the edge of a large forest full of endangered owls and rare plants that would probably provide a cure for cancer if only someone took the time to study them. Red Riding Hood lived with a nurture giver whom she sometimes referred to as "mother", although she didn't mean to imply by this term that she would have thought less of the person if a close biological link did not in fact exist. Nor did she intend to denigrate the equal ...