- From the “Time and Place” Department – Somebody brought a 105 to the machine gun shoot, and that probably wasn’t the smartest thing they could have done. You definitely need a pretty significant set of aiming sticks and one heck of a backstop to make something like that work. If you’re going to fool around with the God of War, then maybe you ought to make sure of your target and what’s beyond it. There are places where it’s perfectly safe to shoot real artillery, and there are places where you probably shouldn’t, no matter what precautions you take.
- From the “Balanced Diet” Department – Scientists have announced the discovery of rather conclusive evidence that our Neanderthal cousins had a nice salad with their mastodon filets. Analysis of fossilized feces shows that ancient man, while eating a lot of meat, also had his share of vegetables. Makes sense to me. If you’re living close to the edge of starvation even in the best of times, and your teeth and gut can do it, adding calories and nutrients from the things you don’t have to chase would be a good idea. And I can now say I learned something today: Apparently human feces will glow under certain wavelengths of light due to their phosphate content. Who said surfing the Internet wasn’t good for your mind?
- From the “Pet or Pest?” Department – Columbia has an issue with hippos, yet another fact that I never would have found without goofing off during my lunch hour. Apparently Pablo Escobar, the late drug baron and collector of animals not from Columbia, had several hippo’s in his menagerie, and after his death they have flourished in their food-rich, predator-free environment. Since hippo’s go from cute to murderous pretty easily, something needs to be done. Columbia doesn’t want the expected bad publicity that they would get from declaring open season, because there was a hue and cry from the subset of humanity that prefers their meat grown in a vat and deposited on foam trays when they had to destroy a few problem hippopotami a few years ago. Failing putting a bounty on every right front hippo foot brought into the ranger station, all I can see is either birth control or learning to live with the new neighbors. I’ll leave out importing crocodiles as a solution, because I don’t want to play “She swallowed the spider to catch the fly” with my South American neighbors.
- From the “Mad Shatter” Department – An EPA office in Colorado recently had to put out a memo asking employees to not defecate in the hallways. Apparently someone has been clogging up the toilets and leaving deposits in the corridors. Maybe it’s a protest against the use of property-rights laws and honest environmental studies as toilet paper. This might be where you could use one of those blue lights they mentioned in the above BBC article.
- From the “44 Ounces of Freedom” Department – A federal judge has thrown out a New York City ordnance that limits the size of sugary drinks that can be served in restaurants. It appears that even in New York, you still have the right to eat what pleases you, no matter how bad for you it is. In solidarity with my New York brethren, this weekend I am going to open-carry a handgun that holds more than seven bullets, while drinking a bucket of soda and thinking bad thoughts about Big Brother.
- From the “Long Legs of the Law” Department – The Russian Interior Ministry has published a directive that the dress code for police personnel has to be enforced, including men not cutting off the arms of their shirts, no mixing of civilian and uniform apparel, and female officers not wearing short skirts and high heels in uniform. In an indicator of the attitude of the union leadership in Russia, one senior member is quoted as saying that the ladies might be dressing this way so that they can catch a husband. Things sure have changed in Russia. The few females in the government that I dealt with in the 1990’s dressed like something out of a 1932 Komsomol poster and were known to chew up and spit out any young lady who didn’t show up to work looking like they were ready to start building tractors.
- From the “Big Damn Heroes” Department – A police officer in Beirut is being hailed as a hero after he died stopping a car bomber on a busy street. Just how much guts does it take to be the one who says behind to make sure the suspected bomber doesn’t drive away while your buddy goes to get help?
- From the “Politics” Department – Former President Clinton, speaking from his throne of nubile dark-haired young women, has proclaimed that his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is not out of touch with the poor people of the nation. Drawing from his goblet of refreshing liquor, made from recycled Rolls Royce engines, he expounded on how hard it was to actually have a mortgage and have to work hard to get ahead in a career of living off of a government pension and being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to crack jokes and blame the worlds problems on those who work for a living. The interview was cut short because Mr. Clinton was late for his afternoon fluff and buff, followed by a quick trip back to the Caribbean, where he could show his folksy roots by taking a walk on a private beach.
- From the “Dumbass” Department – A ‘graffiti artist’ in California caused me to stand up and slowly clap with tears in my eyes after he was arrested for defacing the courthouse in which he was being seen over 60 other counts of, you guessed it, graffiti-related offenses. You know, it’s not often that we see stupidity crafted with such care and attention to detail. This ranks with the DUI suspects who show up to court drunk, or the dead beat dads who show up to court wearing Armani and gold chains. This young man is now the front-runner in the 5th Annual DaddyBear’s Den Dumbass of the Year Award.
- From the “Good Deed for the Day” Department – A group of Boy Scouts in Utah recently aided first responders by lifting an SUV off of a woman so that she could be rescued. I have the utmost respect for these young men and their leadership. I can honestly say that I cannot see me and my friends in Troop 425 doing something like this. For us, scouting was an excuse to run around in the dark, set things on fire, and tie unsuspecting Scouts to trees and leave them in the wilds of northern Minnesota.
- From the “Good Start” Department – The Supreme Court ruled today that a public sector union cannot compel the payment of union dues from certain government employees who do not wish to be part of their club. From the hue and cry I’m seeing over this, apparently we can expect to see government workers chained to their desks, dressed in rags, and fed only gruel made out of the leftovers from Las Vegas buffets. How horrible it must be to be told that in order to get people to give you money for your services, you must convince them that those services are necessary and attractive.
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Posted by daddybear71 on June 30, 2014
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Geodkyt
/ June 30, 2014Have the owners of teh range never been to a machinegun shoot with tracers? ANYONE who has seen the crazy way bullets can bounce would know that 3 miles downrange is NOT enough room for a rifled cannon, unless you’ve got 30 degrees or so to the top of the berm (which better be heavy enough to take three times the maximum possible penetration from a 0 deflection shot — solid shot in a rifled gun is REALLY good at punching through dirt).
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Drang
/ July 1, 2014Hippos. Huh. Beats the sounder of Russian boar that wandered through my LLVI site at Ft Hunter-Liggett. Apparently Kane, er, William Randolph Hearst had quite the menagerie, and some of them got loose after he turned half the estate over to Uncle Sam…
(Got visited by a mountain lion the next night. Apparently, the SALUTE report I sent in was still the talk of the 7th ID when the deactivated it.)
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Old NFO
/ July 1, 2014Nice round up… What caliber for hippos again??? 🙂
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daddybear71
/ July 1, 2014I like .30-06, myself.
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Frank the Wanderer
/ July 1, 201435 Whelen for me.
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