Next commander in chief?

On 05/08/2015 3:41 PM, Tosspot wrote:
On 05/08/15 15:19, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 8:13:31 AM UTC-4, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/4/2015 5:14 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 4:12:18 PM UTC-4, Ian Field wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...e-dont-do-this




There's stupid and then there's REALLY STUPID. That guy is in tthe
REALLY STUPID category. Besides which the weapon he used is NOT a
machine gun it's an assault rifle. I really wish writers would learn the
proper terms for various firearms.

Cheers


Right, that's not a machine gun. This is a machine gun:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr...ast/twin50.jpg

A pet peeve is the phrase 'assault rifle', which is pretty darned
nebulous and seems to apply not to any particular feature except
'looks scary to the uninformed'. They are no more or less lethal
than an assault machete, an assault switchblade, an assault hand
grenade (see Malmo Sweden for example) or quite notably a few
assault boxcutters in the hands of assault jihadis on assault
airplanes one fine morning.

Like any tool, it doesn't have volition.

-- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1
April, 1971

Assault Rifle was the term given to early automatic firing rifles
with high (20 or more rounds) magazine capacities that were designed
to allow troops to assault enemy positions. Even the BAR was an
ASSAULT rifle = Browing Assault/Automatic Rifle. It was designed for
assaulting WW1 trenches. Thus assault as in assault rifle is a proper
term.

Indeed, I thought an assault rifle was a rifle capable of fully
automatic fire, compared to say an AK-47, which is a machine gun capable
of semi-automatic fire.

I like the pink ones. Good for kids.


Not that I think it matters much but:
http://www.paladinarmory.com/MachineGuns.htm
Not sure which are available in pink.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/op...bate.html?_r=0

the current GOP poll leader owns casinos, supports white slavery of drug addicted minors, distribution of narcotics, theft, demoralization,

and you thought post Bush Neo Dilettante, the GOP would not continue decay ?

a comment from the above to wit

Jeb Bush is not center-right; he is in the extreme right-wing of this country. But he is left of some of his fellow wing-nuts running for President. (referring to the article linked)

The Republican Party cannot be fixed. It sold its soul to the Devil ever since it stole the election of 2000. The Devil has since demanded many payments: the attacks of 9/11 (which could have been prevented by a competent Administration), two insane wars in the Middle East, the conversion of the largest federal budget surpluses ever into the largest deficits ever, the largest trade deficits in our history, the transfer of income and wealth to the rich from the rest, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and the most vile attacks on a sitting President in history.

I share Mr. Bartlett's hope that Mr. Trump wins the nomination of the Greedy Old Party, because he would lose to any Democrat in a landslide.

pink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle

file that

" Mr Cruz is shown with a semi automatic"...not wanting to appear extremist



BTW APRECIATE THE REFERENCE TO THE WW1 gas pressure machine gun inventor/manufacturer...interesting story......

always stunned by modern slaughter in the backyard.

On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 06:19:07 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote:

On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 8:13:31 AM UTC-4, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/4/2015 5:14 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 4:12:18 PM UTC-4, Ian Field wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...e-dont-do-this

There's stupid and then there's REALLY STUPID. That guy is in tthe REALLY STUPID category. Besides which the weapon he used is NOT a machine gun it's an assault rifle. I really wish writers would learn the proper terms for various firearms.

Cheers


Right, that's not a machine gun. This is a machine gun:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr...ast/twin50.jpg

A pet peeve is the phrase 'assault rifle', which is pretty
darned nebulous and seems to apply not to any particular
feature except 'looks scary to the uninformed'. They are no
more or less lethal than an assault machete, an assault
switchblade, an assault hand grenade (see Malmo Sweden for
example) or quite notably a few assault boxcutters in the
hands of assault jihadis on assault airplanes one fine morning.

Like any tool, it doesn't have volition.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Assault Rifle was the term given to early automatic firing rifles with high (20 or more rounds) magazine capacities that were designed to allow troops to assault enemy positions. Even the BAR was an ASSAULT rifle = Browing Assault/Automatic Rifle. It was designed for assaulting WW1 trenches. Thus assault as in assault rifle is a proper term.

Cheers

The "Browning Automatic Rifle" was originally used by the U.S. Army as
a squad level support "machine gun" and likely designed for that
purpose. Given that it weighs nearly 20 lbs. I doubt that it was ever
a popular selection for assaulting trenches :-)

The original definition of an "Assault Rifle" was a full-automatic
weapon using reduced power ammunition compared to a full size rifle. I
believe that the Germans were the first to come up with the idea.
--
cheers,

John B.

On 8/5/2015 5:49 PM, wrote:


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/op...bate.html?_r=0

the current GOP poll leader owns casinos, supports white slavery of drug addicted minors, distribution of narcotics, theft, demoralization,

and you thought post Bush Neo Dilettante, the GOP would not continue decay ?

a comment from the above to wit

Jeb Bush is not center-right; he is in the extreme right-wing of this country. But he is left of some of his fellow wing-nuts running for President. (referring to the article linked)

The Republican Party cannot be fixed. It sold its soul to the Devil ever since it stole the election of 2000. The Devil has since demanded many payments: the attacks of 9/11 (which could have been prevented by a competent Administration), two insane wars in the Middle East, the conversion of the largest federal budget surpluses ever into the largest deficits ever, the largest trade deficits in our history, the transfer of income and wealth to the rich from the rest, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and the most vile attacks on a sitting President in history.

I share Mr. Bartlett's hope that Mr. Trump wins the nomination of the Greedy Old Party, because he would lose to any Democrat in a landslide.





Steeping nimbly aside from engaging some of your opinions,
road work is probably the second most corrupt, inefficient
and wasteful area of the nation excepting only the public
education racket[1]. Removing the ancillary hobby horses of
non-highway expenditures from that fund would easily
continue the wasteful status quo ante by enough to provide
for infrastructure while greasing all the grubby palms along
the way.

There's no hope whatsoever to attack official corruption
because it is always more profitable to buy the inspector
than to complete the job to plan[2]. But at least spending
highway funds on highways and highway related thefts would
be better than that plus non-highway projects with a new set
of bill-padders in other unrelated projects.

[1]most current example:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...c48_story.html

[2] typical example:
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/b...engulfs_state/

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On 8/5/2015 8:49 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 06:19:07 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote:

On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 8:13:31 AM UTC-4, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/4/2015 5:14 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 4:12:18 PM UTC-4, Ian Field wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...e-dont-do-this

There's stupid and then there's REALLY STUPID. That guy is in tthe REALLY STUPID category. Besides which the weapon he used is NOT a machine gun it's an assault rifle. I really wish writers would learn the proper terms for various firearms.

Cheers


Right, that's not a machine gun. This is a machine gun:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr...ast/twin50.jpg

A pet peeve is the phrase 'assault rifle', which is pretty
darned nebulous and seems to apply not to any particular
feature except 'looks scary to the uninformed'. They are no
more or less lethal than an assault machete, an assault
switchblade, an assault hand grenade (see Malmo Sweden for
example) or quite notably a few assault boxcutters in the
hands of assault jihadis on assault airplanes one fine morning.

Like any tool, it doesn't have volition.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Assault Rifle was the term given to early automatic firing rifles with high (20 or more rounds) magazine capacities that were designed to allow troops to assault enemy positions. Even the BAR was an ASSAULT rifle = Browing Assault/Automatic Rifle. It was designed for assaulting WW1 trenches. Thus assault as in assault rifle is a proper term.

Cheers

The "Browning Automatic Rifle" was originally used by the U.S. Army as
a squad level support "machine gun" and likely designed for that
purpose. Given that it weighs nearly 20 lbs. I doubt that it was ever
a popular selection for assaulting trenches :-)

The original definition of an "Assault Rifle" was a full-automatic
weapon using reduced power ammunition compared to a full size rifle. I
believe that the Germans were the first to come up with the idea.
--
cheers,

John B.


That's correct and Kalashnikov duly credited the German
design as his inspiration[1] for something between an 'MP'
machine pistol and an automatic machine gun.

[1] There is much speculation that Kalashnikov was merely
the propaganda face of a large development team but he still
is officially credited with the design.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

human resources development is essential to the country's well being.

the free 2 year college is IN..

but road work...that we can see and sometimes see 'in progress' ...at least we can see it time it snort it often die on it

ear marks ? not up to date...GAO efficient ear marking bills report.

I went on abt given the expletive deleted Chinese our computer bulge surplus thru Walmart instead of disbursing thru Fed programs...mainly caws the REPS didnah want to do the work or more importantly could not find analysts for that...

I was told the surplus was a meaningless drop in the bucket for road work.

RW seems to lie on the procrastination plain.

well, so its cracked but tell us how cracked is it ?

https://goo.gl/pauTRZ

I tell you what wera not gonna ride over to the LA Bijou for the Cruise flick

On 8/6/2015 8:17 AM, AMuzi wrote:

Steeping nimbly aside from engaging some of your opinions, road work is
probably the second most corrupt, inefficient and wasteful area of the
nation excepting only the public education racket[1].

On one hand, I don't doubt that much teacher training is ineffective.
Example: After working as an engineer, I taught in a tech school in a
distant state for several years before teaching college. At the time,
that state's board of education was hot on the idea of "individualized
instruction," meaning no more lectures; any student should be able to
walk in the door at any time, be given material that was written, on
videos, slides or tapes (this was pre-internet) and working at their own
pace, graduate on time.

Frankly, the idea was stupid. But we were forced to take courses to
retain our teaching certificates, so I took the course on how to
implement "individualized instruction." I foolishly assumed that course
would itself be "individualized" so I could work through it quickly.
Naturally, I was wrong. They felt no need to "individualize" the course
that taught how to "individualize" all other courses.

On the other hand, the quality of teaching is notoriously hard to
assess. K-12 teachers are expected to work miracles with kids whose
parents are absent, unemployed, drugged, in jail, etc. Teacher
evaluations by students are influenced by ease in grading (those who
give lots of A grades do well), ease of workload (lots of homework
decreases ratings), teacher personality ("fun" teachers get better
ratings) and more.

I saw this firsthand, where a teacher on the verge of getting fired due
to poor evaluations said "OK, I can play that game." He made his
courses very easy, gave lots of high grades, became very friendly with
the students out of class, and watched his ratings soar as his courses'
value tanked.



--
- Frank Krygowski

On 8/6/2015 4:46 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 8/6/2015 8:17 AM, AMuzi wrote:

Steeping nimbly aside from engaging some of your opinions,
road work is
probably the second most corrupt, inefficient and wasteful
area of the
nation excepting only the public education racket[1].

On one hand, I don't doubt that much teacher training is
ineffective. Example: After working as an engineer, I
taught in a tech school in a distant state for several years
before teaching college. At the time, that state's board of
education was hot on the idea of "individualized
instruction," meaning no more lectures; any student should
be able to walk in the door at any time, be given material
that was written, on videos, slides or tapes (this was
pre-internet) and working at their own pace, graduate on time.

Frankly, the idea was stupid. But we were forced to take
courses to retain our teaching certificates, so I took the
course on how to implement "individualized instruction." I
foolishly assumed that course would itself be
"individualized" so I could work through it quickly.
Naturally, I was wrong. They felt no need to "individualize"
the course that taught how to "individualize" all other
courses.

On the other hand, the quality of teaching is notoriously
hard to assess. K-12 teachers are expected to work miracles
with kids whose parents are absent, unemployed, drugged, in
jail, etc. Teacher evaluations by students are influenced
by ease in grading (those who give lots of A grades do
well), ease of workload (lots of homework decreases
ratings), teacher personality ("fun" teachers get better
ratings) and more.

I saw this firsthand, where a teacher on the verge of
getting fired due to poor evaluations said "OK, I can play
that game." He made his courses very easy, gave lots of
high grades, became very friendly with the students out of
class, and watched his ratings soar as his courses' value
tanked.




+1

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971