08:06 – We got a lot of science kit stuff done yesterday, with more on the schedule for today.
I think I’ve mentioned .308/7.62mm API’s (armor-piercing incendiaries) “blue tips” in the past. They’re a handy thing to have on hand. From personal experience firing them, they’ll punch a nice hole in a steel engine block, and the incendiary charge is more than enough to ignite gasoline, and often even diesel. I used to have a bunch before I accidentally lost them in the lake.
As far as I remember, the ones I lost were heavy hand-loads made with pulled bullets, which may have been US-issue .30-06 bullets or NATO 7.62mm bullets. They had very pale blue tips, robin’s egg blue or even sky blue, not the darker blue tips found on some current US-issue (frangible?) ammo. I believe the charge is white phosphorus. I do remember that they generated a bright flash when the bullet hit even thin metal like an auto body (we used to shoot at junked cars a lot…). Presumably the tungsten penetrator core continued unaffected by losing the incendiary compound that surrounded it.
I was going to recommend that everyone pick up at least a few rounds of this stuff, but as far as I can tell it’s no longer available, except perhaps under the counter at a gun show. That’s a pity.
And there goes another one.
I would imagine that such ammo could be put together by a modestly skilled firearms person/handloader and I would further imagine that the instructions for same are available somewhere on the net, but I could be wrong.
.308 and .30-06 all by itself will commonly punch through ordinary vehicles and most body armor.
And the economy’s doing swell and the stock market is setting records and everything is groovy, baby…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/01/93482000-americans-workforce-march/
The FCC votes to give poor people a subsidy for ‘net access. WTF, over? How can a Federal entity just give money away? Doesn’t Congress have to authorize that? The FCC budget needs to be cut by 90% stat. Next, they’ll need a SWAT team to swarm down on illegal ham transmissions. The article quotes a poor female who lost her job. She enrolled in college, but can’t afford internet access to do her homework, or buy coffee at a Starbucks. WTF? What college or library doesn’t have free internet? More stuff for the FSA!
The Federal Communications Commission today voted for two broadband-related proposals. One is designed to give Internet users more control over how Internet service providers monitor and monetize their Web usage. The second proposal will update the 31-year-old Lifeline phone subsidy program so that it can also be used to buy Internet service.
FCC decreased their technical focus and increased a societal/social focus. ‘Bout the same time as spectrum auctions came into being.
I don’t know where the money is coming from, but at this point, I feel like F the “poor”. They get way more than I do, and I end up paying for it.
nick
Hater. Them poor people _earned_ their internet because they’ve been oppressed. Just aks ’em.
See, you privileged white men don’t understand. Saw this comment posted on FB about the wonderful new California minimum wage.
clueless male minority budding socialist who needs remedial english grammar
Budding business leader right there. He should start his own company in California and show ’em how it’s done.
That socialist nitwit ought to look at the previous and current examples; faced with the choice of paying their drones more or moving the company and/or the jobs offshore, guess which one they’ll pick?
As for English grammar, that failing is common on the Right as well; I see it all the time. Doesn’t anybody fucking check their writing anymore or have an editor? It’s embarrassing.
Rain showers and steady rain now here, moving to colder temps during the week and possible snow showers. Whatevuh.
Coming soon to a dam near YOU:
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/cyber-war-comes-to-the-suburbs?mbid=rss&utm_source=howtogeek&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
So this raises the pesky question, and maybe somebody with knowledge that poor ol’ OFD don’t have, why is the control for the dam’s gate on the friggin’ innernet???
Hey kids! Remember them boxing robot toyz?
“These battles could be short and over in hours, fought with robotics and cyber combined arms. In some cases, they could go on for decades. An eternal contest until one side or the other runs out of money or the political need to distract an angry population.”
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2016/03/robotic-weapons-and-the-return-to-great-power-conflict.html
“why is the control for the dam’s gate on the friggin’ innernet???”
’cause leased lines cost money. That’s the short answer.
In this case, if the reporting can be trusted, they broke into the pc in city hall, and accessed it thru that. So we don’t know if the actual controls were online (ever on the public internet). The reason for the pc being online? Well, people still think pcs are expensive, even when they know intellectually they aren’t. I’m betting the pc did more than one function for the city, or someone in the basement liked to check their mail from there.
Or they were sold the idea that authorized peeps on their internal network would be able to “see the status and control it from anywhere thru the cloud.[we need a convention for sneering condescension, as well as a sarcasm font] And since their internal network is connected to the intarwebs….
The bigger issue, is that 3 years later the $2million system still doesn’t work, and isn’t in any imminent danger of working either and kind of gets ‘armwaved’ as a benefit.
I’ve got a bunch of legacy systems running machine and system control with old pcs attached, unpatched win98 boxen even. This isn’t an issue if the control network is never connected to any outside or even inside network. It means I have to physically visit the site for service, but you can’t do service remotely anyway. And it cuts down on people using the pc for stuff you didn’t intend, like checking email. PCs that anyone can use to get online end up with programs installed, drivers updated, sometimes entire OSs changed. It’s a nightmare for service, and an ongoing security hazard, as these folks now understand.
I’ve also got a couple of systems that can be manually connected to the internet, as needed and only temporarily, so I can connect and take a peek at logs and status reports. Those systems are ideally also isolated from the company’s internal network, so as not to present an attack surface.
But we all know security is hard, and people will make mistakes and will circumvent anything if they feel like it.
ncik
(so far, a university research facility was the worst for this)
So this raises the pesky question, and maybe somebody with knowledge that poor ol’ OFD don’t have, why is the control for the dam’s gate on the friggin’ innernet???
So that the moron operator can control the dam from his studio apartment in his pajamas.
Excellent answers, gentlemen, excellent!
Shorter answer: Cheap buggers want innernet.
And to hell with security. Well, all we need is one major incident where a dam cuts loose and drowns a neighborhood or a whole town. Or even better: they cut the power to a whole region of the country, like that huge Northeast blackout decades ago.
“Karl Rove: ‘Fresh face’ might be best GOP nominee”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rove-fresh-face-might-be-best-for-gop/article/2587383
Looks like the fix is in for Jeb Bush or Paul Ryan. Neither can beat Hillary in the jail cell.
And Paul Ryan is a moron for pushing the Social Security privatization scheme:
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/31/donald_trumps_social_security_heresy_taking_on_paul_ryan_and_the_privatization_push/
The social security privatization would probably go to The Goldman Sachs. Who, would figure out a way to embezzle at least 50% of the funds.
“Looks like the fix is in for Jeb Bush or Paul Ryan.”
Hopeless, of course, but that’s the point. That’s their objective: Anybody But Trump. RINO strategy at its usual best.
The UK and Irish election betting markets are predicting that Trump will get the nomination but be slaughtered by Cankles in the general, which I could sorta believe ’cause she’ll have the demographics, i.e., the womyn, the minorities and the swarms of immigrants. OTOH, anything can happen in the next several days, let alone weeks or months. Naturally the media hysteria over some media ditz being gently slid outta the way in a crowd certainly blows away the Cruz scandals, doesn’t it, along with the constant BLM and SJW rubbish for now.
“Who, would figure out a way to embezzle at least 50% of the funds.
Is there any reason why you might think that’s not gonna happen REGARDLESS? The game is afoot to loot the last dime out of our pockets while the getting is good, whether through SS, Medicare, Medicaid, VA, 401k’s, you-name-it. ObummerCARE is another vehicle for this, as evidenced by our doubling and tripling of premiums for worse health care. And all while they keep printing more fiat currency and take on more foreign debt.
Sooner or later the shit-wagon gets piled too high and either collapses or tips over and then there’s a helluva mess to clean up for somebody.
Hopeless, of course, but that’s the point. That’s their objective: Anybody But Trump. RINO strategy at its usual best.
Hopeless, of course, but that’s the point. That’s their objective: Anybody But Trump or Cruz. RINO strategy at its usual best.
Fixed that for ya.
The game is afoot to loot the last dime out of our pockets while the getting is good, whether through SS, Medicare, Medicaid, VA, 401k’s, you-name-it.
I actually view Social Security and Medicare as two good federal programs. In fact, I advocate extending Medicare to all USA citizens. And @RBT advocates extending Social Security to all USA citizens (I do not to be clear). Other good federal programs are the Interstate System and the minimal versions of the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act (not the nightmares that they have turned into today).
And yes, our IRAs and 401Ks will be looted XXXXXX reinvested in t-bills in the next ten years. Probably later rather than sooner.
Sooner or later the s***-wagon gets piled too high and either collapses or tips over and then there’s a helluva mess to clean up for somebody.
Oh, that wagon is barely above the sidewalls at the moment. Nicely formed and all that. You will be fascinated how high the load will get.
BTW, Hillary claimed yesterday that she has one million more votes in the primaries than Trump does. I would like to see these numbers but I cannot find them. I did see this likely voters graph but it is too soon for such polling since there is still a race in the primaries:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
This poll in Utah is claiming that Utah will vote for Hillary over Trump in the general. There is no way that I believe that.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865650513/Poll-Utah-would-vote-for-a-Democrat-for-president-over-Trump.html?pg=all
Eh? I don’t advocate SS at all, let alone for everyone. I’m a free-marketer, period. I’d let poor people starve to death, including women and children. Evolution in action. I have said that I fear the Basic Income isn’t inestimable, but only because a huge and increasing percentage of our population is useless economically. As I’ve said jobs are disappearing by the millions, and they’re never coming back. Most people in a free market would be able to sell their labor for a bowl or two of gruel per day, at most. They just aren’t worth much, and that’s never going to change because they’d note smart enough to learn spills that are in demand. All of this is the real reason for the slow-motion collapse we’re watching now.
“In fact, I advocate extending Medicare to all USA citizens. And @RBT advocates extending Social Security to all USA citizens (I do not to be clear).”
RBT basically advocates getting rid of all government entirely; I advocate cutting it savagely down to the barest minimum, enough for a common defense and the means to financially support that defense. But I also advocate breaking up the Murkan Empire once and for all and busting out into different regions, pretty much like Joel Garreau advocated years ago in his “Nine Nations of North America” or Sebastian Ronin with his ethno-nationalist enclaves in Novacadia and Cascadia, with the American mountain redoubts in the Rockies and Appalachians.
As for the elections, I view them as boffo entertainment for the most part, but figure we have nine months or so to really prep and gear up and tool up for what is likely to be a very rocky next few years in this country. Because even if Trump or Cruz is elected, there will be hell to pay from the FSA, SJW and BLM mobs and subsequent violent pushback and State repression. If Cankles gets it, the rest of us will be pushing back by then and we will probably start to see who are our real friends are and who are not.
RBT and I x-posted above.
Let’s ponder in-demand skillz:
Right now, in the IT drone world, I keep hearing that it’s Big Data, Linux and IT security, but try and find a full-time job in any of those areas with bennies after, say, you hit age 35-40. There’s always a need for low-paid security drones to guard corporate and gummint property. Other than that, it’s either high-paid “senior” positions or low-end scut work for shit pay and nothing in between.
OK, how ’bout after SHTF?
I rate the important skillz as follows:
1.) Security/defense/offense, layered, from personal/household through neighborhood and town and country and region. Weapons, tactics, strategies, commo, and all associated fields.
2.) Medical, from basic CPR/First Responder through EMT, paramedic, nurse and the various professional medical specialties and general practice.
3.) Food production
4.) Engineering and building trades, the gamut, including the usual, plus ability to shut down and turn on power plants and nuke reactors.
5.) Teaching of all of the above, plus basic “liberal arts” on the model of the medieval Quadrivium and Trivium.
6.) How to startle the fuck out of mindless drones texting on their cell phones and iPads while walking and driving and give them instant coronaries and strokes.
And another hospital has been ransomewared, “Under pressure to digitize everything, hospitals are hackers’ biggest new target”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/01/under-pressure-to-digitize-everything-hospitals-are-hackers-biggest-new-target/
“The cyberattack on MedStar Health — one of the biggest health-care systems in the Washington region — is a foreboding sign that an industry racing to digitize patient records and services faces a new kind of security threat that it is ill-prepared to handle, security experts and hospital officials say.”
“In MedStar’s case, a virus early this week infiltrated its computer systems, forcing the health-care giant to shut down its entire network, turn away patients, postpone surgeries and resort to paper records.”
Not good, not good. Hardening these hospital and governmental systems is going to be difficult at best.
Eh? I don’t advocate SS at all, let alone for everyone.
Sorry, I equated Social Security to Basic Income and thought that you were there with your previous discussions of BI.
“Hardening these hospital and governmental systems is going to be difficult at best.”
So one could easily ID this area and critical national infrastructure like dams as in dire need of IT security people and skillz. Ya think anybody would then make an effort to recruit and train peeps to do that kinda work? Maybe peeps who already HAVE some IT and security background and experience? Naw. Fuggedaboutit.
And the several times OFD went to management and advised them of potential security threats to the IT infrastructure I encountered immediate kill-the-messenger Syndrome. They don’t wanna hear it and would rather not spend the money on it and thus take their chances. But if something happened it would be the IT security drone who takes it in the neck and gets the blame for it.
Just like with the normality-bias syndrome with spouses and families; we can yak about SHTF stuff and repeatedly get blown off and taken for fools and nutjobs, but when something happens watch them start screaming at us that why didn’t we do something.
The big company I used to work for had an official policy against saying anything bad or negative about the products or projects. It would get official reaction of very strong counseling and could be a firing offense.
It made it very hard to correct problems, and there are always problems.
Some people take anything negative as an attack, and respond very personally.
nick
RBT basically advocates getting rid of all government entirely; I advocate cutting it savagely down to the barest minimum, enough for a common defense and the means to financially support that defense. But I also advocate breaking up the Murkan Empire once and for all and busting out into different regions, pretty much like Joel Garreau advocated years ago in his “Nine Nations of North America” or Sebastian Ronin with his ethno-nationalist enclaves in Novacadia and Cascadia, with the American mountain redoubts in the Rockies and Appalachians.
That kind of split-up is not going to happen without some shooting. Ok, a heck of a lot of shooting over three or four years.
As for the elections, I view them as boffo entertainment for the most part, but figure we have nine months or so to really prep and gear up and tool up for what is likely to be a very rocky next few years in this country. Because even if Trump or Cruz is elected, there will be hell to pay from the FSA, SJW and BLM mobs and subsequent violent pushback and State repression. If Cankles gets it, the rest of us will be pushing back by then and we will probably start to see who are our real friends are and who are not.
Nah, not going to happen for another 3 or 4 general elections (8 to 12 years). Things just don’t suck very bad right now. The feddies are handing out food stamps, social security disability, and rent checks by the trainload. Plus more food stamps for 40% of the babies being born right now. And, free Medicaid for all babies and mamas if the mama lies and says it was immaculate conception.
Unless ol’ Cankles starts to grab guns from the general populace. Then all bets are off.
Or if, those food stamp, disability, and rent EBT’s don’t fund. Then the cities will empty with people looking for food. And water (see Flint).
And the several times OFD went to management and advised them of potential security threats to the IT infrastructure I encountered immediate kill-the-messenger Syndrome. They don’t wanna hear it and would rather not spend the money on it and thus take their chances. But if something happened it would be the IT security drone who takes it in the neck and gets the blame for it.
It is actually very easy to do. Just disconnect all mission critical systems from the internet. Air gap them all. Make all email internal. And no EXE files in emails or in ZIP file attachments.
I do not know how to fix the external email problem but air gapping it is a start.
Google mail is very good about detecting nastyisms. In fact, so good that I have been getting one or two false positives per day lately. And most of them are customer emails to us.
So we’ll either run outta money to fund the gigantic FSA and/or start cracking down harder on ordinary citizens and 2A. I give it much less than eight to twelve years, though; more like four, tops. We’ll see some acceleration of it all in the next year alone.
So we’ll either run outta money to fund the gigantic FSA and/or start cracking down harder on ordinary citizens and 2A. I give it much less than eight to twelve years, though; more like four, tops. We’ll see some acceleration of it all in the next year alone.
Why?
I think they’ll run out of money a lot faster and a lot sooner, for one thing. I also believe we’re likely to see some kind of “perfect storm” of events, internationally and domestically, that will jack it up drastically. Too many things can go wrong now, and the current regime, composed as it is of the incompetent and the wicked, won’t be able to cope much longer.
You and I mostly agree but differ on the timetable. I sincerely hope, however, that I am wrong and you’re right. More time to line up our ducks.
Cholesterol hypothesis debunked: (I’m in India having cataract surgery and other stuff done)
After he finished with my foot, I conned the ultrasound guy to do a Doppler on my carotid arteries and they are clean as a whistle. So much for the cholesterol hypothesis causing atherosclerosis! This is from a male, 55, who smoked for 40 years, eats lots of red meat and drinks, not only alcohol but a staggering amount of whole milk. (Honestly, about 2 gallons a week at home in Seattle.)
Nice to be back in India. My friend Sijo is such a dear. We had horrible attack of uncontrollable giggles in the pre-op waiting room when they wheeled a guy out from surgery. He had suffered some sort of trauma to the middle finger of his right hand and only that finger and his arm were bandaged. He was keeping it elevated, so he looked like he was flipping everyone off. We couldn’t stifle the giggles no matter how hard we tried.
“This is from a male, 55, who smoked for 40 years, eats lots of red meat and drinks, not only alcohol but a staggering amount of whole milk. (Honestly, about 2 gallons a week at home in Seattle.)”
Yikes.
You and I must be made of stern genetic stuff or sumthin. I’m 62, smoked for six years, did every drug there was, and drank for forty years, the last couple swilling down three gallons of vodka a week. I’m a Vermonter so I eat what I wanta. Pretty clean bill of health up here from the VA docs repeatedly for the past seven years.
Home Alone again for the next ten or eleven days; taking wife and MIL to the airport tomorrow for their flights to Denver and Kalifornia. Then next Friday I gotta pick up Princess in Moh-ree-oll for a Celtic harp thing down here somewhere. Other than that, I have lotsa time free to do the five-page To-Do List stuff.
Several studies have determined, there is no link between dietary cholesterol and blood serum cholesterol. And very little link between DIET and cholesterol levels, and IIRC very tenuous link between high cholesterol levels and heart disease.
It’s late and I could be mis-remembering, but it turns out a whole lot of the recommendations are based on very little science, and a whole lot of personality and MONEY.
nick
I do recall, however, there was a direct link between drinking half a gallon of vodka a day and losing a lot of weight. Why eat? Just stay hammered.
Another direct link between a 1,000 mg acid trip and seeing and hearing lotsa really weird shit.
And finally, a nasty direct link between cold-turkey heroin withdrawal and severe flu symptoms and stomach cramps.
In case you haven’t figured this out already: Trump is nuts.
He wants Saudi Arabis to have nukes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-02/donald-trump-nuclear-fallout-analysis/7294358
OFD wrote:
“Then next Friday I gotta pick up Princess in Moh-ree-oll for a Celtic harp thing down here somewhere.”
Doesn’t she have a licence?
So:
“Obama warns ISIS ‘madmen’ aim to ‘kill as many innocent people as possible’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3519295/Obama-says-world-progress-preventing-nuclear-terror.html
and these are the same ISIS he claimed were the ‘second team’ and were no threat and under control?
and
“‘ISIL has already used chemical weapons, including mustard gas, in Syria and Iraq,’ Obama said, using his preferred acronym for ISIS.
‘There is no doubt that if these madmen ever got their hands on a nuclear bomb or nuclear material, they most certainly would use it to continue to kill as many innocent people as possible.'”
But the IRANIANS, calm rational folks, will never be a nuclear threat.
And perhaps the emperor’s nakedness is beginning to spread;
Peace out, fools! Obama plays the clown by flashing the peace sign for nuclear security summit ‘team photo’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3519583/Peace-fools-Obama-plays-clown-flashing-peace-sign-nuclear-security-summit-team-photo-gets-unimpressed-looks-bemused-world-leaders.html
“”We fired 56 rounds yesterday until this threat was eliminated.”
-AR with one mag, and a tiny pistol, with 7, and the bad guys never got off a shot.
BPD- 28 shots per dead guy.
Only 2 BPD officers shot- so 2 full mags each, (ie reloads!) and they’re being praised.
It’ll be interesting to see the video and see how many rounds ended up on target.
I’m betting not many.
nick
And a quick scan of local news articles, only one of four explicitly mentions the gang affiliation, and the revenge motive, and one mentions prior shootings but not the gang or revenge motive. All of them mention the race of everyone involved.
“Obama plays the clown by flashing the peace sign for nuclear security summit ‘team photo…”
Not the first clown Pres we’ve had; remember Larry Klinton? Going on late-night tee-vee, playing the sax, etc., etc. A succession of clowns for quite a while now; it’s downright embarrassing. Deranged chimps with their hands on nuke triggers and vast arsenals.
“….see how many rounds ended up on target.”
And concerning the rounds that didn’t, where the eff did they go??? Nobody knows, nobody cares. Ridiculous. Even standard-issue 9mm or .40 rounds should have done the job with one or two shots, normally.
Which “BPD” was it?
Home Alone again for the next ten or eleven days; taking wife and MIL to the airport tomorrow for their flights to Denver and Kalifornia.
I’m going on the road with MrsAtoz in a couple of weeks. Fly to SEATAC and then drive to Lake Chelan. Back to SEATAC and fly to SLC (maybe Romney will be there!) Back to Vegas. About 5 days. MrsAtoz is getting too old to drive for hours on end to small villes, so I’ll be doing a lot of driving.
We may get a big gig with LA this year. A lot of Obola-Bucks are up for grab. I guess Obola is emptying the coffers before he’s out. Greasing the way for much bucks on the speakers tour.
Baltimore.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3519501/Baltimore-police-identify-2-armed-men-died-shooting.html
“…Fly to SEATAC and then drive to Lake Chelan.”
Mrs. OFD gets some odd locales for assignments, too. I also do almost all the driving, not so much because Mrs. OFD is getting old, but because I’m a FAH betta drivuh. (loads of training over the decades and only two accidents in half a century, neither of which were anywhere near my fault).
“I guess Obola is emptying the coffers before he’s out. Greasing the way for much bucks on the speakers tour.”
No doubt, and the whole point of the exercise for presidents and most other politicians; get elected, rob the people blind while in office, and then move on to lucrative speaking and writing tours. Like the perfumed princes of the Pentagon, who do their twenty or thirty years of ass-kissing and then retire to swell corporate gigs.
“Baltimore.”
Interesting rifle; besides the weird and awful pink camo, it’s got a friggin’ bipod and an optic of some kind. I’m guessing stolen from somebody’s house and some dimwit former owner who loaded it up with gimcracks and geegaws. So Dad and son didn’t get off a shot, looks like; I wonder what the range was. Also lucky that one of the officers is black, lol. Or maybe that doesn’t fly anymore with the BLM and SJW mobs.
Still, 56 rounds to knock ’em down. And where oh where did all them other rounds end up….
I was reading an article somewhere on new combined IR and Night Vision tech for milspec scopes. Anybody know anything about this? IR is layered on NV, vice versa, or any combo of highlighting. I want one.
Yeah, and did you get the bragging tone? as if they were somehow heroic to use 56 rnds, like it goes to show how dangerous the victims were, it took 4 mag dumps to kill them….
“They’re SUPER men, our hard working officers had to RELOAD to kill them dead enough! We’ll be lucky if they don’t have a repetitive stress injury from pulling the trigger so many times!!!111!!”
And on a meta level, all the specific reporting about the rifle, but the tiny little pocket pistol is just ‘a pistol’.
A bit like the breathless reporting on the TV about the bus station shooter’s “ARSENAL.” Which was 8 mags in a ‘bag near him’ and a pistol in his waistband.
And in other news, how can it be an “armed standoff” when only the cops are armed?
This guy was chased into his own home, and when he wouldn’t come out, 30+ cops loaded for bear broke in and grabbed him. Note that he was arrested for an outstanding warrant, after the kidnapping, but he did nothing wrong and wasn’t charged with anything. Sounds like LA taxpayers are gonna be funding this guy’s lifestyle for profiling him as a thief and kidnapping him….. oh silly me, he’s not black, it’s ok to profile scruffy white guys.
“Puddle Of Mudd singer in armed standoff with cops as 30 officers storm his Los Angeles home”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3520425/Wes-Scantlin-singer-Puddle-Mudd-gets-standoff-cops-30-armed-officers-storm-Los-Angeles-home.html
nick
“IR is layered on NV, vice versa, or any combo of highlighting. I want one.”
+1,000
When the price drops to bargain-basement levels or someone gives me one for Xmas or my b-day. (or, using yet another page from the SteveF Playbook, I kill a cop or two and just take theirs). (just funnin’, y’all, just JOKING, JOKING here..NSA spies…)
Speaking of which, I see the Virginia state trooper who got killed the other day was NOT wearing a ballistic vest during the “training exercise.” If I was in charge at a PD, I’d stipulate that if they wear them on-duty then they should wear them in training stuff, too. So then the question becomes, do they wear ballistic armor down there on duty? Another fun question is: did OFD ever wear a ballistic vest? Nope. Not even during the SEA “exercises” and certainly not during my days with the police. Or nights, rather, mostly. And they were available but just as spendy then as now. Uncomfortable in hot humid climates, too. Like Maffachufettts in the summa, let alone VA or FL or TX. I was the despair of my CO and senior NCOs in SEA because my usual getup was fatigue pants, jungle boots, a t-shirt and boonie hat. Wouldn’t wear a helmet or a vest. Sucked already toting the M60 and ammo without loading up with more chit.
“… as if they were somehow heroic to use 56 rnds…”
Yeah, I caught the tone; promotions and raises all around! Heroes! Which I’d have less trouble believing if they’d been involved in a knockdown CQB shootout with the perps and come out OK.
“… it’s ok to profile scruffy white guys.”
Oh HELL yeah. Been going on a real long time and rarely makes the nooz at all. We had many names for them back in the day, too: “leaks, scrotes, skells, muffs, dirtbags, shitbirds,” etc. But it would normally be just one or two of us that rousted them, not a full SWAT platoon, what a laff. I’d be embarrassed to be a cop on that detail and have it get out.