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“To practice freedom we must cherish the individual”- Omar Bradley
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Payton Miller vouches for the Kahr K40
There’s no hammer, so there’s no chance of hammer bite. And that abbreviated beavertail was more than enough to prevent my right hand from being nipped by the slide (I’ve got medium-size mitts, but I tend to grip high). Probably its most appealing feature is that it’s a very effective compromise between shootability and carryability. Like all Kahrs, the K40 has a minimal number of controls: just a slide release and a Browning-type push-button magazine release. The sights are excellent: low-profile, three-dot, drift adjustable…. The star of the show turned out to be MagTech 130-grain SCHPs. To be honest, I’d never shot any .40 S&W loads under 155 grains, but this one was an eye-opener, averaging 1 3/4 inches at 25 yards. (via g&ammo)
Coolidge takes it higher
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Silverado 2011 received a new hood, front bumper, and grille. The engineers focused more on three key attributes: powertrain, frame, and suspension. Improving that trio provides more power with greatly reduced emissions, increased capability, and better ride and reduced noise levels in the cabin.- Allyson Harwood (truck.trend)
Spirit of Ike in 2011
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in the bush (via tangled trees)
A stronger yuan would do little to boost U.S. employment. Fewer than 15 % of “top export products” feature direct competition between U.S. and Chinese firms. Wu says, “we market airplanes & pharmaceuticals. China sells electronics and textiles.” Beijing’s mischievous trade behavior- subsidies, tariffs, copyright infringement- warrants criticism, but the U.S. lost much credibility when it imposed sanctions on Chinese tires in 2009.- NRO (Jan19.11)
VJ Day (via history.com)
George, Bernard, Harry, and Beetle (via wsj)
“Can you remember the last day you didn’t have a drink?” Laura asked in her calm, soothing voice. She wasn’t threatening or nagging. She did expect an answer. My wife is the kind of person who picks her moments. This was one of them… I went on racking my memory for a single dry day over the past few weeks; then the past month; then longer. I could not remember one. Drinking had become a habit. Could I continue to grow closer to the Almighty, or was alcohol becoming my god?
I knew the answers, but it was hard to summon the will to make a change. For months I had been praying that God would show me how to better reflect His will. Faith showed me a way out. I knew I could count on the grace of God to help me change. Quitting drinking was one of the toughest decisions I have ever made… People can change. - George Walker Bush (Nov 2010)
a mouthful (via boerner.net)
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Pres. Obama extends Bush Tax Cuts
by Dick Morris 12.14.10 (the hill)
When Bill Clinton moved to the center, he arrived in triumph. After vanquishing the Republican Congress during the government shutdown of 1995-96, he agreed to a balanced-budget deal with Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott. But it was his deal, along his lines, on his principles. When he signed a welfare reform bill, he did so after beating back and vetoing two Republican bills that coupled reform with harsh cuts to Medicaid. After he got a bill on his own terms, he signed it. Barack Obama’s “compromise” with the Republicans over the Bush tax cuts is no more of a compromise than was the deal Emperor Hirohito cut with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the deck of the battleship Missouri after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a surrender, not a compromise. It was submission, not triangulation.
Most presidents face a challenge of weakness. With Eisenhower, it was his refusal to stand up to Joe McCarthy. With Kennedy, it was his inability to pass legislation. With Nixon, it was his inability to get ahead of the Watergate scandal. With Ford, it was his helplessness in the face of inflation. With Carter, it was the hostage crisis. With Reagan, it was his failure to control the Iran-Contra affair. With Bush-41, it was his passivity on the economy. With Clinton, it was the flip-flopping early in his presidency. With Obama, it will be his retreat in the face of the Republican counterattack of 2011.
Grand Ol’ Gang by Andy Thomas (Laguna Beach, CA) 2010
George H.W. Bush, the one sitting next to Reagan, piloted a TBM Avenger over 58 combat missions and was awarded the Flying Cross. His son, George W, joined the National Guard of Texas, proudly serving for five years.
USS Thunderfish (via: soft.dungeon)
Truman, Churchill, and the Red Butcher who died peacefully in his bed
Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything… Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.
Basterds by James Goodridge (via: slash.film)
I never went to film school; I went to films… This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I’d wanted all that computer game bullshit, I’d have stuck my dick in a Nintendo- Quentin
Operation Overlord
He that conquers his own soul is greater than he who takes a city- Ida E.
Buried together (via: arlington.cem)
1776 to 2010! God Bless America
The Boxer (by Will Draper) via: pbs.drewfire
Army Chief of Staff- George Marshall (code name: “Sunshine”)
Before Pearl, America had 200k soldiers. In 3 years Marshall and McNair recruited and drafted 8 million more American soldiers in the battle against the Nazi/Imperial demons.
Flying Tigers (photo: w.warbird)
Air command
I had blood upon my hands as I did this, but not because I preferred to bathe in blood. It was because I was part of a primitive world where men still had to kill in order to avoid being killed, or in order to avoid having their beloved Nation stricken and emasculated.
Rosie lends a hand
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Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima (1945) by Joe Rosenthal
Tuskegee 332nd air corp fighters
Soldier’s Last Letter
by Ernest Tubb
When the postman delivered a letter
It filled her dear heart full of joy
But she didn’t know ‘till she read the inside
It was the last one from her darling boy.
Dear Mom, was the way that it started
I miss you so much, it went on
Mom, I didn’t know, that I loved you so
But I’ll prove it when this war is won.
I’m writing this down in a trench, Mom
Don’t scold if it isn’t so neat
You know as you did, when I was a kid
And I’d come home with mud on my feet.
The captain just gave us our orders
And Mom, we will carry them through.
I’ll finish this letter the first chance I get
But now I’ll just say I love you.
Then the mother’s old hands began to tremble
And she fought against tears in her eyes
But they came unashamed for there was no name
And she knew that her darling had died.
That night as she knelt by her bedside
She prayed, Lord above hear my plea
And protect all the sons that are fighting tonight
And dear God keep America free.
West Point’s Finest
Only a man that is happy in his work can be happy in his home. and with his friends.
Hollywood goes to War (photo: whosdate)
Father to his son before the bombing mission in Europe: “You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you…. God will lead you through this mad experience. I love you more than I can tell you.” - Dad
General Eisenhower: “Listen up, numbnuts!” (photo: subuniverse)
The Sailor Man
Nagasaki nuclear age (photo:edgewest)
Payback for the bloody murder of 20 million Chinese, Filipino, and Korean people. Retribution for Unit 731- over 1,000 Chinese sawed in half while awake and injected with poisons.
M.General Curtis LeMay and the B-29
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. 
Sherman M4 rumbles through Germany (photo: wikimed)
Good judgment comes from experience and that experience
grows out of mistakes.- Omar “GI General” Bradley
Fleet Admiral Nimitz aboard the USS Missouri (1944)
Pearl was to be avenged. With his men and ships behind him, Chester smashes the Japanese at Coral Sea, Midway, Solomons, Marianas, Leyte, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
