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QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon And here, all this time I had been standing up for America......oh well.... Chief, take a memo for me.....to the Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff.....effective immediately...withdraw all US forces from Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Japan and Europe. Make plans to conduct operations up to and including open warfare on the railroad companies of the United States. Report status of forces and recommended courses of action NLT 01 Nov. We shall vaporize their un-patrotic US flag decal bearing locomotives with the plasma of our depleted uranium SABO rounds, whilst we take pictures from the edge of their property wearing un-licenced UP logo T-shirts and hats........that'll show them..... Okay KP...done....anymore requests.... Dan large Diet Coke and some Jordan Almonds for me Vic Of course it isn't neccessary for me to stand up for America, since I'm Australian, but I will stand up for the US National Anthem. I was taught to do this at school on Coral Sea Day every year when we remember the 1942 sea battle, even though I wasn't around for that war. But I always thought the great thing about being a railfan was that you could go out and photgraph trains from public property, from roadsides and bridges without upsetting anybody. Sometimes railway employees (or even passers-by) get upset even when you are doing something quite legal that doesn't affect them. In that case I normally move elsewhere, since I don't see why I should share in something that is their problem. Besides, it is more fun to watch somebody getting upset than to participate. But Dan, I'm not quite sure what it is that you are proposing to vapourise these locomotives. The "sabot" rounds I'm familiar with are the sub-calibre projectiles used in our "Phalanx" close in weapons systems. We are only allowed to use tungsten projectiles rather than depleted uranium (although I understand Australia has about half the world's supply of non-depleted uranium so it isn't clear why!). The sabot (from the French word for "shoe") is also the source of the word "sabotage" from putting a shoe in the works. I think of this when I contemplate an FFG flight deck covered with these strange bright orange plastic banana peels after a CIWS firing. I should explain for those who don't need to worry about this that the "sabot" is a plastic cover over the CIWS projectile designed to "peel off" into four sections on firing, allowing the smaller, heavy "dart" to travel further and faster and hopefully find an incoming missile and upset it (along with a couple of hundred others) This could make your average SD70ACe look quite a bit like a colander and fairly static after going through the engine and control equipment, but would hardly vapourise it unless you fired quite a lot of rounds. I know the term is also used for anti tank rounds which have an armour piercing capability, and these would possibly have a more striking effect, but for vapourising, I would have thought that a five inch gun HE projectile with contact fuzing would be a simpler and cheaper option in the vapourising category. M636C
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon And here, all this time I had been standing up for America......oh well.... Chief, take a memo for me.....to the Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff.....effective immediately...withdraw all US forces from Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Japan and Europe. Make plans to conduct operations up to and including open warfare on the railroad companies of the United States. Report status of forces and recommended courses of action NLT 01 Nov. We shall vaporize their un-patrotic US flag decal bearing locomotives with the plasma of our depleted uranium SABO rounds, whilst we take pictures from the edge of their property wearing un-licenced UP logo T-shirts and hats........that'll show them..... Okay KP...done....anymore requests.... Dan large Diet Coke and some Jordan Almonds for me Vic
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
QUOTE: Originally posted by PigFarmer1 Hey Anti, I love what you said about the suck-ups. I was listening to some business expert on the radio this morning who was giving advice to an obviously white collar crowd. She said that people should not kiss up to the boss, but, rather, they should MIMIC the way the boss acts. I always thought that was sucking up, but I guess I was wrong. lol
QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates QUOTE: Originally posted by PigFarmer1 Hey Anti, I love what you said about the suck-ups. I was listening to some business expert on the radio this morning who was giving advice to an obviously white collar crowd. She said that people should not kiss up to the boss, but, rather, they should MIMIC the way the boss acts. I always thought that was sucking up, but I guess I was wrong. lol You raise an interesting issue. Sure, it is easier to "get ahead" within the system by supporting those in power. I'm sure they will always have a use for dedicated psychophants.. So long as the psychophants enjoy the look of theor own shoelaces, "everybody is happy"...right? [}:)]..... But at some point any rational being has to stop and ask themselves if yielding even more control to those claiming power, simply to please THEM, is in the best interest of freedom. my take on that is that freedom is a precious commodity. Once you give it up, the price to get it back is always way higher.
QUOTE: Originally posted by ironken "WELL SINCE 911," seems to be the battle cry for certain pollitical figures and the justification of the loss of privacy. Alot of the privacies that have been removed SINCE 911, we will never see again and it is tolerated because of panic. You have a good point gates.
Quentin
QUOTE: Originally posted by K. P. Harrier Who has the guts to standup for America?
QUOTE: Originally posted by ironken Hey Harrier, put a sock in it you bone head!
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