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  1. “Free-Range Parenting”

    I’m not as sure that this is a step in the right direction. What has been done is to insinuate that all activities not mentioned may be bad. You’ll see, lawyers will flip this within 2 years. By way of omission all other activities will be deemed to be bad and the people will then beg their new god government, for more permissions to raise their own children.

  2. Free-range parenting brings about funny visions of kids pecking at the ground with their hands stuck in their armpits to imitate wings.
    Sad seeing anyone murdered. Strange how abortion isn’t talked about. Adults using children for an agenda of giving up freedoms and rights is disgusting.

  3. I was born as a Light Infantry Soldier in the 80’s. The article is very true. We used the very same kind of tactics during our Korea rotations. Once they had us dig in and try to defend a fixed position against Mech attack. We, being highly trained jungle specialists basically said “Say what?” And as some of you can imagine, with a few other words mixed in. A few minutes after the attack came, they literally had blown right through us, our dismounted TOW section was dead, and we were shooting flares at the back of the tanks because we had nothing else. After the “fight” the graders were all about telling our Commander about how bad we did, which he and we all chorused together that the exercise was against our doctrine and training. The big shot grader then asked what were we good for. About 72 hours later, we had almost 400 men behind the Blue forces lines in groups no larger than platoon size and had the Blue guys crying because we took out maintenance sections, fuel points, command posts, setting up road blocks that had to be cleared by dismounted personnel who were then made very aware of our presence, hit and run stuff. Never tied down and allowing ourselves to be directly engaged. Tank commanders, they were a special target sitting in their hatches. Hell, one of groups even hit and took out a BN Aid Station. They ground to a halt and lost the exercise.

    An aside to all that.

    Shooting flares at tankers as they roll by you is not good for your well being. Especially if you light one of their bustle racks on fire and burn their personal gear. They didn’t find it very funny and a good brawl ensued. Also, creating any kind of trouble I today’s Army ends careers.

    Anyone remember when you were told that the book was made as reference material and we were to feel free to try variations of what was written in them?

  4. Maybe I’m missing something here. The 2013 CDC report states: Firearm-related injury, in particular, is a serious threat to the health of the nation, with direct costs to the victims of violence as well as societal costs to families, friends, and communities. In 2010, there were twice as many nonfatal firearm-related injuries (73,505) as deaths.4,5

    That would indicate about 36,000 firearm-related deaths per year.

    The CDC study on drowning says: From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day.1

    Then the editor says: The reality is that swimming pools kill more people than firearms.

    Please help here. What might I be missing?

    Carry on.

      1. “These make up the bulk of them.” How many is that put of 36,000?

        I take no position on what is more deadly. I simply point to your link, note the numbers, and request clarity regarding your statement.

    1. The bit you are missing is that AR-15 type rifles only account for a tiny percentage of firearms deaths.

      I like the FBI’s webpage for this kind of thing:

      https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-4.xls

      Assume the worst case: that every “firearm, type not stated” is a rifle. Assume every rifle is an AR-15 (I really hope it is redundant to mention that both of these are most likely off by an order of magnitude). In every year listed handguns STILL kill twice as many as those horrible AR-15’s.

      Now, let’s take a more realistic assumption: that the unknown firearms are proportional to the known ones. That drops ALL rifles murders COMBINED below people who were *beaten to death with someone’s bare hands and feet*.

      Now, make whatever estimate you like for the proportion of AR-15 type rifles out there compared to every other type of rifle combined. You are probably more likely to be murdered by *being set on fire* than by being shot with an AR-type rifle.

  5. Lightning is more dangerous..
    Be Careful!
    Trying to tell the truth to people who don’t want to hear it could get you put on a hate list – one of the the signs of a worthwhile Human Being!

    1. The Lahti was cutting-edge when it was designed, but by the time it got to the troops, it was falling behind the armour/firepower curve.
      The tanks it was facing had been up-armoured to the point where the Lahti could not penetrate.
      It was too powerful (and too heavy to carry far!) for trucks or troops, not good enough to use on tanks.
      An evolutionary dead-end…

      1. I realized immediately after I posted the Lahti comment that I should have mentioned that after armor improvements the Lahti was no longer effective against tanks . What I wanted to illustrate is that a determined group can improvise and make the opposition doubt their technology . Tanks are engineered to withstand what the enemy has in the field . After tanks were disabled by the Lahti or other means they had to up armor , this took time ,money and operators confidence . Added armor increased the weight making the engine work harder ,slow down tank and use more fuel . Thank you CeeJay0714 for calling me on this and keep up the good work .

        1. Don – Hi!
          It’s good to meet like-minded people on a site like this!
          The more we talk, the more we learn.
          We ALL need to keep up the good work…
          God bless

  6. Re: Sleeping bag in a can

    You might want to note that those things can occasionally be found on eBay, but they rarely sell for less than $300.00 average price is closer to $500.00 No thanks.

  7. Regarding rural hospitals closing: Obamacare has a lot to do with this. Many rural hospitals are marginally profitable, and often take care of, or have a disproportionate number of medicare patients, as the youth moves out to find opportunities and the parents stay and, well, age. Obamacare cut the provider reimbursements for medicare and redirected some of the money “saved” from those cuts to Medicaid. The large cities have a problem with having to provide for Illegals, homeless, and working poor people, and less of a problem with too many medicare patients. The shift has made small rural hospitals that were marginally profitable, or perhaps slightly unprofitable impossible to keep open. Many non-profit hospital groups kept their rural hospitals open even if they ran in the red by a few thousands per year. They could re-direct charitable donations to help cover the losses. With ACA, the losses shifted dramatically, with no hope of being able to keep them afloat. It goes right along with Agenda 21. Push people out of rural areas and into big housing blocks in big cities.

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