:: Gandalf23's Blog ::

:: Saturday, August 30, 2003 ::

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Found a picture to go with the article on US soldiers using AK-47s.

http://media.militaryphotos.net/photos/albums/USMC_EOD_in_Iraq/aaa.jpg
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The guy on the far left first row has a Dragnov sniper's rifle. The guy next to him has a FN Para FAL, as do three other guys. Ther rest either have AKs or M-16s. Very neat picture.


:: gandalf23 7:47:00 PM [+] ::
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Just read Kim Du Toit's Why I Own A Gun. Good read.


:: gandalf23 7:52:00 AM [+] ::
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I got a (rare) email from my dad over in Kirkuk today. Lots of family stuff, he misses us, then this:

" I got some really good pictures of the two wounded Ali Babas that the SAWS operator shot. I don't know if I told you about that incident or not. We drove up to a group of about 8 vehicles at a valve pit. When they saw us coming they started to run, our soldiers jumped out of the 4X4 they were driving that day and told them to stop. I got out and stood in front of our Tahoe. Then an Ak opened up(our CINU guard), then the SAWS opened up. Very distinct difference in the sounds. The two were running to get into their truck. We found an AK in that truck and 4 more in 4 other vehicles. Our safety guy who is a paramedic put IV's in them and we hauled them to the local hospital. Lots of blood but really fairly minor wounds. My replacement was with us and it was his first full day in Iraq. I thought he wsa going to ask to come home. He wasn't doing very well after the shootings especially when I told him that this ususally doen't happen but two or three times a week at the most."

I'll post pictures of the incident when he gets back (next week!).

As promised, pictures:



SAW gunner covering some of the theives. Note that one of them is bleeding.


Closeup of the guy in white that was shot


Closeup of the guy in blue that was shot


These AKs were taken from their vehicles. Note that one has had the buttstock removed, there is a clear plastic mag, and a 75 round Romanian(? does not look Chinese style) drum.


Driving the wounded to the hospital.


The four GIs involved.



:: gandalf23 8:32:00 AM [+] ::
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Cool.

US Troops using captured AK-47s

"We just do not have enough rifles to equip all of our soldiers. So in certain circumstances we allow soldiers to have an AK-47. They have to demonstrate some proficiency with the weapon ... demonstrate an ability to use it," said Lt. Col. Mark Young, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.

In Humvees, on tanks — but never openly on base — U.S. soldiers are carrying the Cold War-era weapon, first developed in the Soviet Union but now mass produced around the world.

The AK is favored by many of the world's fighters, from child soldiers in Africa to rebel movements around the world, because it is light, durable and known to jam less frequently.

Now U.S. troops who have picked up AKs on raids or confiscated them at checkpoints are putting the rifles to use — and they like what they see.

Some complain that standard U.S. military M16 and M4 rifles jam too easily in Iraq's dusty environment. Many say the AK has better "knockdown" power and can kill with fewer shots.

"The kind of war we are in now ... you want to be able to stop the enemy quick," said Sgt. 1st Class Tracy S. McCarson of Newport News, Va., an army scout, who carries an AK in his Humvee.

Some troops say the AK is easier to maintain and a better close-quarters weapon. Also, it has "some psychological affect on the enemy when you fire back on them with their own weapons," McCarson said.

Most U.S. soldiers agree the M16 and the M4 — a newer, shorter version of the M16 that has been used by American troops since the 1960s — is better for long distance, precision shooting.

But around Baqouba, troops are finding themselves attacked by assailants hidden deep in date palm groves. Or they are raiding houses, taking on enemies at close-quarters.

Two weeks ago, Sgt. Sam Bailey of Cedar Falls, Iowa, was in a Humvee when a patrol came under rocket-propelled grenade and heavy machine gun fire. It was dark, the road narrow. On one side, there was a mud wall and palms trees, on the other a canal surrounded by tall grass.

Bailey, who couldn't see who was firing, had an AK-47 on his lap and his M4 up front. The choice was simple.

"I put the AK on auto and started spraying," Bailey said.

Some soldiers also say it's easier to get ammo for the AK — they can pick it up on any raid or from any confiscated weapon.

"It's plentiful," said Sgt. Eric Harmon, a tanker who has a full 75-round drum, five 30-round magazines, plus 200-300 rounds in boxes for his AK. He has about 120 rounds for his M16.

Young doesn't carry an AK but has fired one. He's considered banning his troops from carrying AKs, but hasn't yet because "if I take the AK away from some of the soldiers, then they will not have a rifle to carry with them."

Staff Sgt. Michael Perez, a tanker, said he would take anything over his standard issue 9mm pistol when he's out of his tank.

And the AK's durability has impressed him.

"They say you can probably drop this in the water and leave it overnight, pull it out in the morning, put in a magazine and it will work," Perez said.


:: gandalf23 7:25:00 AM [+] ::
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Hillary Clinton was out jogging one morning along the parkway when she tripped, fell over the bridge railing and landed in the creek below.

Before the Secret Service guys could get to her, 3 kids who were fishing pulled her out of the water. She was so grateful she offered the kids whatever they wanted.

The first kid says, "I want to go to Disneyland."

Hillary says, "No problem, I'll take you there on my special senator's airplane "

The second kid says, "I want a new pair of NikeAir Jordan's."

Hillary says, "I'll get them for you and even have Michael sign them for you."

The third kid says, "I want a motorized wheelchair with a built in TV and stereo headset!"

Hillary is a little perplexed by this and says, "But you don't look like you're handicapped."

The kid says, "I will be when my dad finds out I saved your butt from drowning."

:)


:: gandalf23 9:18:00 AM [+] ::
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This may be a fake, but it looks cool. A satelitte picture of the US during The Great Blackout of 2003:




:: gandalf23 9:16:00 AM [+] ::
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After I heard about the massive blackout on the East Coast I heared on over to CNN and MSNBC to check it out. I ran across an article at MSNBC on how the power grid works in the Unites States. My favorite quote:

"The power grid, essentially an interconnected grid of transmission lines, covers most of the United States as well as parts of Canada and Mexico. It’s divided into three major regions: the East, the West and Texas. "

Woo-Hoo! We get our own major region! Yee-haw!

:)


:: gandalf23 2:01:00 PM [+] ::
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Glenda and Dean




:: gandalf23 9:45:00 AM [+] ::
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Did y'all know that Morocco offered us (the US) 2000 exploding monkeys to help get rid of mines in Iraqi?


In a related bit of news, they are training rats to sniff out mines in parts of Africa.



:: gandalf23 8:43:00 AM [+] ::
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hmmmmm...looks like the Islamic Martyrs need to re-check their dictionarys!

From an article entitled "Radical New Views of Islam and the
Origins of the Koran," by Alexander Stille in the March 2, 2002 edition of the
New York Times:

"Mr. Luxenberg's radical theory is that many of the text's
difficulties can be clarified when it is seen as closely related to Aramaic, the
language group of most Middle Eastern Jews and Christians at the time. For
example, the famous passage about the virgins is based on the word hur,
which is an adjective in the feminine plural meaning simply "white." Islamic
tradition insists the term hur stands for "houri," which means virgin, but
Mr. Luxenberg insists that this is a forced misreading of the text. In
both ancient Aramaic and in at least one respected dictionary of early
Arabic, hur means "white raisin." Mr. Luxenberg has traced the passages
dealing with paradise to a Christian text called Hymns of Paradise by a fourth-
century author. Mr. Luxenberg said the word paradise was derived from the
Aramaic word for garden and all the descriptions of paradise described it
as a garden of flowing waters, abundant fruits and white raisins, a
prized delicacy in the ancient Near East. In this context, white raisins,
mentioned often as hur, Mr. Luxenberg said, makes more sense than a reward
of sexual favors."

The full article can be found at:
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~leem/Files/Qurantheories.html


Wouldn't that suck? You blow yourself and some little kids up expecting to go to a paradise full of 70 young virgins only to find 70 white raisins. :)


:: gandalf23 8:06:00 AM [+] ::
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@%$&*&*&*&*&$@$%!!!!!

Please excuse my French, but se déplacer suce des fesses! Stupid utility companies take the opportunity to ream you a new one just because you move from one location to the next. The house is already wired for phone, electricty, water, gas, and cable: all they have to do is flip a switch on their end (probably not even that, just do some typing and hit "enter"), but for their huge trouble they really stick it to you.

Les bâtards!



:: gandalf23 9:22:00 AM [+] ::
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You know, people always ask me, "Gandalf23, why do you have a big, foot long metal spike in your tool box?" and I always say, "Well, you never know when one will be handy." And last night I was vindicated. I used the large spike to fix the refrigerator. The fan was hitting the cowling and I used the spike to push the cowling back a bit so that it no longer collided with the fan blades.

Also used copious amounts of compressed air to clean the thing out. Wow was it dirty! But, considering it was first installed in 1971, really, it wasn't so bad. I think there was a plugger where you were a plugger if your fridge was older than you were. :)


:: gandalf23 7:58:00 AM [+] ::
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This is the coolest thing ever!

You can play the old Infocom games on the internet: Zork, Zork 2, Zork 3, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Bureaucracy, and Leather Goddess of Phobos! The only bad thing is that you can't save the games (and it does not work in Opera, looks like it's IE only). Now to dig up my old Zork 3 map....


:: gandalf23 10:14:00 PM [+] ::
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You know, I can't make stuff up like this:

"It's all true about the magic stone," says car dealer Mokhaled Mohammed, sitting in a cafe on Baghdad's upmarket Arasat Street. "First of all, he put it on a chicken and tried to shoot it. Then he put it on a cow, and the bullets went around it."

Other choice excerpts:

"Hussein's all-seeing network of informers and bugging devices, which allowed him to know in advance of any impending plot, also contributed to his reputation for preternatural power.

Alharith Hassan, a psychologist at Baghdad University's Department of Parapsychology, has spent years trying to scientifically debunk such superstitions, a rationalist crusade which cost his department dear in slashed funding under Hussein's occultist regime.

He said Iraqi people had become very susceptible to such myths in the long years cut off from the outside world, and suffering brutal oppression from which the only outlet was religion and sects, which the country's president - whose peasant mother used to read the future with seashells - openly endorsed.

Nearly two thirds of the patients coming to see Mr. Hassan have already visited shamans, who try to exorcise genies with spells and often viciously beat their clients.

"It's all a lot of gibberish," says Hassan, who was however careful not to dismiss the genie, a mythical creature mentioned in the holy Koran.

In such a climate, myths of Hussein's supernatural prowess have survived his regime's demise, and contribute to the climate of fear still hindering reconstruction.

"When they pulled down Saddam's statue, lots of men were jumping on it like monkeys," says car-dealer Mr. Mohammed, a Hussein loyalist. "Then a child came up and kissed the head. Why? I think the child was an angel."




:: gandalf23 12:56:00 PM [+] ::
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Who knows what happened on this day 58 years ago? Anyone?

That's right, August 6th 1945 was the day we dropped the first nuclear bomb on Japan.

A few points to ...umm...point out:


1) We didn't start the war, Japan did.

2) We asked, begged, cajoled, pleaded with, and warned Japan to surrender first.

3) Our best estimate was that it would cost 1 MILLION American service men their lives if we were to invade the Japanese mainlands. This estimate was based on our previous experiance in the Pacific and was not just pulled out of our butt.

The closer we got to the home islands the worse the resistance was and the greater our casualties were. We suffered half of all casualities in the Pacific from April to July of 1945. In Okinawa we lost one American for every two Japanese killed, so it was reasonable to assume a similar ratio for the home islands. Since there was a 2 million man army in Japan at the time, we were looking at 1 million dead Americans.

4) We were, at the time, bombing the hell out of Japan with conventional bombs and firebombs and were causing just as much destruction to the cities and to the civilian population. In fact, my understanding is that part of the reason we choose the cities we did was because they were relatively free of existing bomb damage. The big thing was that all this damage came from ONE bomb. Civillians were killed in probably every bombing raid (by any side) in the war, not just when we dropped the atomic bomb. The two bombs killed approximately 150,000 people when they fell. Earlier in the year, intense bombing of Tokyo with conventional bombs had killed about 225,000 people without causing Japan to surrender. It was not one atomic bomb, or two, which brought surrender; it was the experience of what an atomic bomb will actually do to a community, plus the dread of many more, that was effective. If 500 bombers with firebombs could cause so much destruction to Tokyo, what could 500 bombers with atomic bombs do?

5) After dropping the bomb on Hiroshima we again asked the Japanese to surrender. They did not. So we dropped another bomb. Even then the millitary staged a coup and tried to stop the Emperor from surrendering. Luckily they failed, and Japan did surrender. Even after the Emperor surrendered there was another millitary uprising and thousands of officers killed themselves rather than surrender. Remember that: we were up against people who would rather die than surrender. Historically, if you don't mind dying yourself you are very difficult to beat.

6) We didn't drop the bomb on Japan instead of Germany because we were racist. Look at Dresden for cryin' out loud. If we were not wanting to kill "white folks" would we've firebombed the city? Nope. We destroyed that city to see how much damage we could do. Turns out, we can do a hell of a lot of damage. We didn't drop nukes on Germany because we didn't have them ready in time. They surrendered before we had a chance to drop them.

7) A lot of people point out that Japan was trying to surrender as early as May of 1945. What they forget is that by that time we had cracked not only the Imperial Navy's codes but also the diplomatic codes. Sure, we knew about their attempts at surrender, but we also knew that they were lies BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO READ THE ACTUAL ORDERS SENT OUT not just what the diplomats were saying to our faces. Also please note that just prior to the start (by Japan) of our involvement in WWII (by bombing Perl Harbor) there was a lot of dipomatic activity by the Japanese to convince us that they'd never go to war with us. Even had we not cracked their codes why would you believe what they were saying? (moot question, as we did crack their codes and knew exactly what they were up to)


:: gandalf23 1:08:00 PM [+] ::
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Important Axiom:

Diagnostics only find known problems.


:: gandalf23 11:24:00 AM [+] ::
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I was just up in my parent's attic looking for my Electronic Battleship and Axis & Allies games and I found two unused 2-drawer, industrial filecabinets each just shy of 29 inches tall. I think I'm going to use them as the "legs" of my desk. I may need to paint them, and I need to figure out what color to stain the desk top. I'll still go ahead and make some saw horses, 'cause you can always use sawhorses.

Still have no idea where Electronic Battleship and Axis & Allies are. Maybe in the warehouse?
:: gandalf23 9:35:00 PM [+] ::
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Update: I now know Dean's last name. It's....shoot...well dang it....I asked this morning and was told it.... Dearman? Yeah, that's it. Dearman. So my sister will become the next Mrs. Dearman.


:: gandalf23 11:39:00 AM [+] ::
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Wow.



must...get...more...ammo.....(first must get better job, then can get more ammo)


this is not my stash. This is the stash that I aspire to emulate. Sadly, I have not so much ammo at my disposal :( I may post a picture of my meager stash in a few days.



:: gandalf23 10:59:00 AM [+] ::
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Ever wanted to write in Elvish? Well, now you can. Pretty cool. Now I can print out the text on the One Ring and try and get someone to engrave it on a ring for me :)

Ok, I'm a dork. But still, who doesn't want their very own Ring of Power, especially the One Ring?


:: gandalf23 9:57:00 AM [+] ::
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From the Washington Post:



U.S. Adopts Aggressive Tactics on Iraqi Fighters
Intensified Offensive Leads To Detentions, Intelligence

By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 28, 2003; Page A01

Thousands of suspected Iraqi fighters were detained over the six-week period, many temporarily, in hundreds of U.S. military raids, most of them conducted in the dead of night. In the expansive region north of Baghdad patrolled by the 4th Infantry Division, more than 300 Iraqi fighters were killed in combat operations, the military officials said. In the same period, U.S. forces in all of Iraq have suffered 39 combat deaths. The continuing casualties -- such as the four soldiers killed Saturday -- are the direct result of the intensified U.S. offensive, the military officials added.

At the beginning of June, before the U.S. offensives began, the reward for killing an American soldier was about $300, an Army officer said. Now, he said, street youths are being offered as much as $5,000 -- and are being told that if they refuse, their families will be killed, a development the officer described as a sign of reluctance among once-eager youths to take part in the strikes.

Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the intelligence. On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: "If you want your family released, turn yourself in." Such tactics are justified, he said, because, "It's an intelligence operation with detainees, and these people have info." They would have been released in due course, he added later.

The tactic worked. On Friday, Hogg said, the lieutenant general appeared at the front gate of the U.S. base and surrendered.

Tips began paying off so quickly that officials would launch one raid before another was completed, allowing troops to catch some targets off-guard because they didn't know that fellow resistance fighters had been apprehended. Iraqi resistance fighters in the Sunni triangle at first tried to attack U.S. forces directly with AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. While some killed U.S. troops, many attempts were ineffective. So in recent weeks, military officers said, Iraqi fighters have turned to other weapons.

Senior U.S. commanders here are so confident about their recent successes that they have begun debating whether victory is in sight. "I think we're at the hump" now, a senior Central Command official said. "I think we could be over the hump fairly quickly" -- possibly within a couple of months, he added.

Hogg, whose troops are still engaged in combat every day, agreed. "I think we're fixing to turn the corner," he said Thursday. "I think the operations over the next couple of weeks will get us there."


:: gandalf23 9:16:00 AM [+] ::
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Administration In Crisis Over Burgeoning Quagmire

Washington DC, August 12, 1945 (Routers)

President Truman is coming under increasing fire from some Congressional Republicans for what appears to be a deteriorating security situation in occupied Germany, with some calling for his removal from office.

Over three months after a formal declaration of an end to hostilities, the occupation is bogged down. Fanatical elements of the former Nazi regime who, in their zeal to liberate their nation from the foreign occupiers, call themselves members of the Werwolf (werewolves) continue to commit almost-daily acts of sabotage against Germany's already-ravaged infrastructure, and attack American troops. They have been laying road mines, poisoning food and water supplies, and setting various traps, often lethal, for the occupying forces.

It's not difficult to find antagonism and anti-Americanism among the population--many complain of the deprivation and lack of security. There are thousands of homeless refugees, and humanitarian efforts seem confused and inadequate.

In the wake of the budding disaster, some have called for more international participation in peacekeeping.

A Red Cross official said that, "...the German people will be more comfortable if their conquerors weren't now their overlords. It makes it difficult to argue that this wasn't an imperialistic war when the occupying troops in the western sector are exclusively American, British and French."

The administration, of course, claims that, given the chaos of the recent war, such a situation is to be expected, and that things will improve with time. As to the suggestion to internationalize the occupying forces, the administration had no official comment, but an unofficial one was a repetition of the quote from General McAuliffe, when asked to surrender in last winter's Battle of the Bulge--"Nuts."

In an attempt to minimize the situation, a White House spokesman pointed out that the casualties were extremely light, and militarily inconsequential, particularly when compared to the loss rates prior to VE Day. Also, the attacks seem to be dying down with each passing month. But this statement was leaped upon by some as heartless, trivializing the deaths and injuries of young American men.

Many critics back in Washington seem now to be prescient, with their previous warnings of just such an outcome a little over a year ago.

One congressman said that "...it's time to ask whether the German people are better off now than they were a few months ago. Yes, a brutal dictator has been deposed, but at least the electricity and water supply were mostly working, and the trains running on time. After years of killing them and destroying their infrastructure with American bombs, it seems to me that the German people have suffered enough without the chaos that our occupation, with its inadequate policing, is bringing."

It's not clear how much support the Werwolf has among the populace, who may be afraid to speak their true minds, given the fearfully overwhelming "Allied" presence in the country. But it is possible that, like the guerilla forces themselves, the people have been inspired by Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels' pre-victory broadcasts, and those of Radio Werwolf.

"God has given up the protection of the people . . . Satan has taken command." Goebbels broadcast last spring. "We Werewolves consider it our supreme duty to kill, to kill and to kill, employing every cunning and wile in the darkness of the night, crawling, groping through towns and villages, like wolves, noiselessly, mysteriously."

While no new broadcasts of Goebbels' voice have been heard since early May, no one can be certain as to whether he is alive or dead, and continuing to help orchestrate the attacks and boost morale among the forces for German liberation. As long as his fate, and more importantly, that of the former leader Adolf Hitler himself, remains unresolved, the prospects for pacifying the brutally conquered country may be dim.

Although Grand-Admiral Donitz made a radio announcement of Hitler's brave death in battle to the beleaguered German people on the evening of May 1, some doubt the veracity of that statement, and there has been no evidence to support it, or any body identified as the former Fuehrer's. Rumors of his whereabouts continue to abound, including reported sightings as far away as South America, and many still believe that he is hiding with the "Edelweiss" organization, with thousands of Wehrmacht troops, in a mountain stronghold near the Swiss border.

Many have criticized flawed intelligence for our failure to find him, causing some, in the runup to next year's congressional elections, to call for an investigation.

A staffer of one prominent Senator said, "For months, starting last fall, we were told by this administration that Hitler would make a last stand in a 'National Redoubt' in Bavaria. General Bradley diverted troops to the south and let the Russians take Berlin on the basis of this knowledge. But now we find out that there was no such place, and that Hitler was in Berlin all along. And now we're told that we can't even be sure of where he is, or whether he's alive or dead."

For many, marching in the streets with signs of "No Blood For Soviet Socialism," and "It's All About The Coal," this merely confirmed that the administration had other agendas than its stated one, and that the war was unjustified and unjustifiable.

General Bradley's staff has protested that this is an unfair criticism--that the strategic decision made by General Eisenhower was driven by many factors, of which Hitler's whereabouts were a minor one, but this hasn't silenced the critics, some of whom have bravely called for President Truman's impeachment.

But some have taken the criticism further, and say that failure to get Hitler means a failed war itself.

"Sure, it's nice to have released all those people from the concentration camps, but we were told we were going to war against Hitler, even though he'd done nothing to us," argued one concerned anti-war Senator. "Now they say that we have 'Victory in Europe,' but it seems to me that if they can't produce the man we supposedly went to war against, it's a pretty hollow victory. Without this man that they told us was such a great threat to America, how can even they claim that this war was justified?"

(Copyright 2003 by Rand Simberg)


:: gandalf23 9:09:00 AM [+] ::
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You may remember the pictures that I posted a while ago of our Marines destroying AK-47s in Iraq and how I said it was both sad and stupid? Well, seems I was right, we are now looking to buy 34,000 AK-47s for the Iraqis! I say, if we have to buy them, we buy them from Poland. They should have a bunch stored away somewhere. And since they supported us in the war, I say we throw them this bone. If not Poland, then maybe Romania or the former Yugoslavia, they both make AKs. Not from Russia or China though.


:: gandalf23 1:22:00 PM [+] ::
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Defend your castle is a very fun game. You umm...defend your castle from hordes of malevolent stick figures. You have two choices: 1) You can click on the stick figures and just knoick them down or 2) the more historically correct(*) way, you can drag them into the sky and release them. Usually they fall to their deaths that way, but not always. It's especially fun to fling them towards the left side of the screen so that they bounce off and go flying through the stratospehere before landing.

You earn points for each foe that is dispatched. You can use points to repair damage to the wall, build a temple that lets you capture the stick figures, train the capture stick figures in archery or explosive or repair work, all kinds of fun stuff. Eventually you can have magic spells to smite down the stick figures with. It's really quite fun. Check it out.


* Historically correct in that usually when the Hand Of God, or at least a Gigantic Disembodied Hand reaches down from the sky to disrupt people in their attack on a castle it does not just tie their shoelaces together so that they trip, it smites them with great vengeance and furious anger.


:: gandalf23 8:09:00 AM [+] ::
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If anyone has a desk that they are getting rid of lemme know. Even if the top is trashed, I have a good top, I just don't have the rest of the desk. I've got three 8 foor by 3 foot veryvery heavy doors, I figured one would make a good desk top, the other two would be good workbench tops. I think I'll end up building the rest of the desk from scratch. I want it to look nice, but I also need it quickly. Usually quick and nice-looking are mutually exclusive for me. I can always go uber-cheap and just use some saw horses for now and then when I have the time/money do something nicer. hmmmm....
:: gandalf23 1:51:00 PM [+] ::
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Well aparently the perfect girl for me lives in England. I just wish I'd known that a few weeks ago :) My mom's best friend's daughter and her husband have found the perfect girl for me. She's pretty and likes computers. That's about all I know. There're only going to be in England for another year so I guess I better hurry up and head back over there.


:: gandalf23 1:24:00 PM [+] ::
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Very Interesting. Two people are at a restraunt having a disagreement. Both leave something at the table but forget that they do. However, each notices that the other left something. Now the interesting part. One of them gets the item that the other left and hands it to the forgetful person. Only one of them does this. What's that say?




:: gandalf23 7:02:00 PM [+] ::
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Interesting






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I thought about getting this T-shirt to wear a as joke at the next 3 gun match, but then I decided that I don't want to give these folks any of my money. Since the guy is unarmed, though I figure I can probably steal it off him, no problem. According to the site he shouldn't even fight back as that would be promotting violence. :)



just kidding. sheeesh! I'll just buy one of these from Flashbunny.org instead.






:: gandalf23 9:00:00 AM [+] ::
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Well, my little sister is engaged.

Wow.

She and her boyfriend fiance are on vacation in Cozumel (not the restraunt [which would be an odd place to spend one's vacation], but the place off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico). She emailed me yesterday with a rather brief email: "i said yes!"

I'm assuming she meant to his proposal of marriage. Perhaps she meant "Yes, I'd like some more lobster, por favor" but I kinda doubt it. Although, really, who doesn't want more lobster?

They've been talking of buying property out in Weatherford and building a house. I don't see Glenda living in the country, but who knows.

I like Dean. That's his name. Don't know his last name, guess I better ask, but it's soo awkward after you've met someone a few times to ask them what their name is. Maybe I'l just wait till I get the wedding invitation. Anyway, he seems like a nice enough guy. Has a good job out at Bell Helicopter, has a big truck and a Harley and a big riding lawnmower. Wants to build an airplane. Likes to shoot. He seems to have some sort of affection for my sister, and is willing to put up with her bizarreness, so that's good, too. :)


:: gandalf23 8:57:00 AM [+] ::
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