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Were I purchasing a gun for home defense, I would buy a shotgun.

Safer, more intimidating, more effective.

And, if you have to, you can hit what you aim at, even with a pulse of 110, adrenalin overload and a shaky hand. And once hit, your target is incapacitated.

I used to deer hunt with a .45-70. I have two, a trap door Springfield and an 1886 Winchester. The Winchester can use heavier loads, putting a 300 grain Hornady out at about 2,100 fps. The trap door is limited to lighter loads, about 1500 fps for the 300 grain load.

For comparison a .45 ACP pistol is commonly loaded with a 230 grain which comes out at about 850 fps.

I like the trap door — something about the long barrel and the “one shot, so make it count” appeals to me.

No idea about rest of Wisconsin though I have heard both (1) voting heavy in Waukesha (repub—milwaukee suburb) and Madison (so blue it hurts your eyes). My ward went about 54% Bush in 2004, but we have a lot of new houses creeping south from Madison, including one large development, so who knows now.

Wisconsin always has high voter particpation so I think overall change will be less than 10% in turnout percentages. just not that much room for upward expansion.

Wisconsin-—formerly rural area south of Madison turning suburban from outflow of Madison.

I usually vote around 10-11:00 am to avoid crowds. I was number 1617. In 2004 I was right at 1100. There is never a line at that time, this time there was—about 50 people. We don’t have anything big on the ballot outside of the presidential race.

The southern wards that vote at my polling place are slightly Republican overall , but it is very difficult to say how much of the increase is from increased turnout and how much from population growth.

Showing how no device is idiot proof, there was a roll of “I voted” stickers left on top of the ballot scanner for people to peel off stickers when they voted. Nobody tore off the backing paper so it dangled. It was fed into the scanner with a ballot and we had a voting machine breakdown! Many jokes by voters, problem soon remedied.

My understanding is that there has been a lot of advance in storing hydrogen in sponge like materials to which it weakly bonds in a hydride form and can be easily extracted in the vehicle using a catalyst.

In many ways it is like a ni-cad battery only instead of extracting electricty one extracts hydrogen, and then periodically re adds it.

The major problems are weight and size (currently about 3x as big as a gas tank and 6x as heavy), cost (metals used as the sponge may be expensive not to mention the catalyst), and safety.

The big push is for the tank to store about 50% of its weight in hydrogen. At that point you probably have something commercially feasible.

Range?

Why a chrome-molybdenum barrel? In those calibers and with a semi-auto it is likley to see a lot of rounds. Stainless would seem a much better choice to me, though it would cost Remington a few more bucks a rifle.

Law seems clear to me: the White House is to prepare the report. Does Schieffer think the President should disobey the law?

P.L 28-110:

A) The President shall submit an initial report, in classified and unclassified format, to the Congress, not later than July 15, 2007, assessing the status of each of the specific benchmarks established above, and declaring, in his judgment, whether satisfactory progress toward meeting these benchmarks is, or is not, being achieved.

(B) The President, having consulted with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Commander, Multi-National Forces-Iraq, the United States Ambassador to Iraq, and the Commander of U.S. Central Command, will prepare the report and submit the report to Congress.

(C) If the President's assessment of any of the specific benchmarks established above is unsatisfactory, the President shall include in that report a description of such revisions to the political, economic, regional, and military components of the strategy, as announced by the President on January 10, 2007. In addition, the President shall include in the report, the advisability of implementing such aspects of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, as he deems appropriate.

(D) The President shall submit a second report to the Congress, not later than September 15, 2007, following the same procedures and criteria outlined above. ***

(3) Testimony before congress.- Prior to the submission of the President's second report on September 15, 2007, and at a time to be agreed upon by the leadership of the Congress and the Administration, the United States Ambassador to Iraq and the Commander, Multi-National Forces Iraq will be made available to testify in open and closed sessions before the relevant committees of the Congress.

Power tools? Real men do it with hand tools, preferably old hand tools.

Mindermasts

“The Navy still has piles of M-14s. That’s all I ever shot. The boarding parties use M-4s but for ship and pier watches it’s M-14s.”

Back in the Vietnam era my destroyer had 03A3 Springfields, Thompson .45 submachine guns (commercial type, blued, nicely machined), BAR’s,Johnson semi-automatic rifles that I have never seen since, and Garands. No AR-15’s, Our ammo was in wooden cases, some dated 1944.

Nice to know they still lag by 40 years.

This analysis is “over the top”.

First it ignore Jennen’s own statements of what he is saying.

Second, it puts undue emphasis on word choices, e.g. “nations” rather than “heathen”, that are translation choices and which various versions of the Bible, including those available to Jennen’s use alternatively.

Plot the latitude and longitude on Google maps/satellite.

It appears to be about 10 miles offshore, just where the water starts shallowing and at the edge of the channel.

A logical place to anchor.

Decimal latitude and longitude you enter in google is about:
29.833382, 48.716818

Which corresponds pretty well with the degrees, minutes, seconds format in this picture

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/DB42AC92-E1CC-4478-9910-B8CB299A6612/0/HeloGPS.jpg

let them know what you think:

cpicpressdesk@iraq.centcom.mil

Where to complain about Yon getting squeezed:

cpicpressdesk@iraq.centcom.mil

You may like or dislike Yon but he is a hell of a better straight shooter than 99% of the journalist fat cats who do their "week" in Iraqm, yet they get first class treatment.

Everybody has a normal dinner. Except for the swallowing impaired . His goes in the blender with a little liquid.... bzzschloop..,. steak, peas, and potato, down the hatch.

My wife was bit by one of our cats at the veterinarians. The vet cleaned and bandaged the bite. She went to work the next morning with a stiff hand. Four hours later she called me to come get her. Two hours later she was in the hospital, white as a sheet, with IV drips of industrial strength antibiotics, an arm the size of a leg, and a very, very worried hubby.

The villain turned out to be the bacteria whose fast deadly action was what caused Louis Pasteur to put together the idea of infections being caused by bacteria. Pre-WWII my wife would have died, or would have lost her arm.

This is scary stuff -- I have never seen an infection go so fast.

I am dumbfounded. My understanding is that the general weather patter of west-to-east is a result of coriolis force driven by the earth's rotation.

I am conservative/libertarian and I think you guys are out to lunch.

The government should leave the market alone, but when the government acts to create monopolies it has to regulate them.

That is what has happened here.Take a look at the barriers to someone entering high speed internet service.One needs radio frequencies, or easements on phone poles, or easements on highways. One needs permission to run a competing cable service tv (with internet)--and most municipalities have entered into exclusive deals with cable tv companies.

Having created a monopoly, the government can't then say "and they should be able to charge whatever and however they wish".

I would rather see the monopoly busted, or confined to the absolute minimumum (i.e. cable companies that are regulated, but act as only a carrier, with you free to make any deal you want with providers of services and content). But if I can't havve that, then the government needs to make sure that the telcos and cable tv companies don't get to control what I can use my service for.

There is a reason you saw a lot of misleading advertising on this issue. If the monopoly cabl;e tv and telcos can erect toll gates on the internet it will be big, big bucks for them. Guess who will pay?

The aircraft opposite the island with its wing spread, (just coming off the arresting gear?) looks very much like an A-6.