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TheCorinthian

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  1. Deadly chemical weapons, buried and lost, lurk under U.S. soil

     

    I am well aware of this. :p

     

     

    http://www.latimes.c...y#ixzz2wl6DTiyM

     

    Yea, how does anyone not know this...? One of my last jobs on Active Duty was overseeing the clean up of one of these places. Here is the funny part: since it was not illegal to bury it at the time, we had very precise (and damn near invaluable!) records on what was there and where it was. Our method was to literally freeze the ground, take it up, and run it through a huge industrial blow furnace to destroy the bad stuff. Big 60 Minutes episode was filmed there.

     

    All at Fr Bragg, NC.

  2. I will give Villa a look next time I am in BKK.

     

    We have a Foodland out here but need to have another look there as often I find items stuck away in unlikely places.

     

    Thanks!

     

    Yea you got that right. I have a photo somewhere from a Big C I think of pool chlorine on a shelf above motor oil. (For the non-chemists or pyros out there, this stuff spontaneously combusts violently when mixed in very small amounts.)

  3. Now the VA accepts that agent orange caused a lot of damage to the US soldiers (and others)...you don't know of this ruling?

     

    If the VA gets off the $$$ and resources to finally take care of out soldiers, that is clear enough for me.

     

    Answer the question please:

     

    Is just flat out impossible that the cancer of the 70 people on that ship could be unrelated to the accident in Japan?

     


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  4. That is 70 that the Navy admits to being sick...check in 20 years from now...remember agent orange, the harmless chemical???

     

    Let me guess.... It is just flat out impossible that could be something unrelated, right?

  5. It is really a rather mediocre weapon, not very accurate. However, it is cheap to make and so simple that almost anyone can use it ... and it is nearly indestructible. It throws out a lot of lead and is deadly at fairly close ranges. It is amazing that it is still in so much use these days.

     

  6. USS Ronald Reagan Crew Members Sick With Cancer Three Years After Fukushima Contamination

     

     

    Nearly three years after the destruction of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, at least 70 U.S. Navy sailors who participated in relief efforts after the accident have been suffering from radiation sickness and even cancer as the crew of the USS Ronald Reagan was exposed to fallout.

     

    70.... out of 6000...? wow... (kind of... well maybe a little "wow")

  7. HS, congratulations on your wife getting US citizenship. My wife has been eligible to get US citizenship for almost 2 years but has no desire to get it. My 19 year old step son barely graduated from HS last May and had a laid back summer. He goes to court on Monday for kicking 2 holes in my house. I talked to the DA and have an understanding that the charges will be dropped on completion of some anger management sessions and paying court costs and joining the National Guard. He will never go to a 4 year college but maybe, givien time, a 2 year program may look good to him. The 23 year old step daughter decided to drop out of college after breaking up with herboy friend. As she had changed to hotel management ( her 3rd major change), I didn't try to stop her. She does have potential, so I hope that she will go back eventually. No such worries about the16 year old, who is both smart and determined. So far, she has straight "A"'s in college Advance Placement courses in Math and science. Hopefully, she will get a full ride somewhere, or she will be living at home and attending a local college

     

    National Guard? I would send him to the Marines where they appreciate that stuff.

  8. What happened to the crusaders at newspapers?

     

    I've been trying to think of the last few confirmed "earth shaking" revelations in the press concerning the US. A few I can come up with might be:

     

    WorldCom financial melt down

    Enron

    Clinton Gate

    AuboGrab (sp?) <<<---This might not qualify as those idiots did it to themselves by posting the photos online. So the press did not break it, they just reported on it.

     

    With the internet making just about everyone a reporter, I think we will see less and less serious revelations by the hard working journalest unless the story is so old that next to no one cares anymore. They will just report on what "the low level accountant discovered his company is lying about its earnings to the tune of $50 billon" and published himself on YouTube and Facebook.

  9. Better to say the media and a few others won't let this rest.

     

    Like they, never let the truth get in the way of a news story!

     

    Well, I'm not sure many would call "natural news. com" main stream media. 90% of it is written by one guy? (2 shitang say he's trying to make money.) CNN, MSNBC, Fox all seemed to drop this one when they actually read the request and did some simple math.

  10. Powers to be just won't let this rest and it seems compounded that the US gov

    just does not give a clear, truthful answer :dunno:

     

    But that's not true either. The DHS gave the answer posted i think twice above. The real issue is a very few people don't want to believe it.

     

    "US tries to save money sometimes? No way!"

    "Cops actually train a lot?? Say it isn't so..!"

  11. DHS excuse for buying billions of rounds of ammo exposed as yet another blatant lie

     

    http://www.naturalne...latant_lie.html

     

    Responding to a letter from Sen. Tom Coburn, the Department of Homeland Security — an agency that has no business being armed in the first place — says it’s buying billions of rounds of ammunition in order to “significantly lower costs.â€

    It’s all about saving money, you see. DHS isn’t arming up in anticipation of a shooting war on the streets of America, and it’s not buying thousands of armored assault vehicles for that purpose either. No, DHS is only buying all this ammo to save you money!

    This response by DHS, of course, is an obvious lie. Why? Because a significant portion of the bullet purchases specify hollow point rounds. In case you didn’t know, hollow points are significantly MORE expensive than “ball†ammo (FMJ). Under the Geneva convention, hollow points are illegal to use in war because they cause far greater tissue damage, too. So they can only be used domestically, inside the United States in a civil action, not an international war...

     

    That's moronic. Guess they did not talk to any cops. I dont know any police dept in the US that does not use hollow point ammo. We shot it at the range to because you practice with what you play with. (Also you want to turn over old stock.) I only got ball ammo in the military. But we still had hollow points and even nastier stuff like zip rounds, tracer, and incendiary.

  12. The USA was founded wiith the usage of mercenaries. I think if our country wanted to

    they could find an abundance of third-world soldiers to fight

    as mercenaries in our proxy wars and it would not cost us much in the process.

     

    As for my original question

    "What would Audie Murphy have said about expending 100,000 rounds of ammo just to kill one enemy?"

     

    Well, for one that is not what you asked. But either way, I answered it. See above.

  13. I know a retired Marine colonel who said he started losing people when they saw how much more they could make privately. They didn't re-up when they realised they could do far less work for much more money. Mercenaries aren't cheap nowadays.

     

    That's what happend to us and also why I did it for about a year. (Went back to the military though afterwards, as many here know.)

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