Jason

Jason

  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    That's not the point; the existence of the unorganized militia trumps all arguments about the 2nd Amendment applying only to militia members....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    A 10,000-lb all-terrain forklift is a wonderful thing! That said, stowing the 100-odd pound shells inside a self-propelled 155 mm howitzer is not for the feeble. The automated cranes, etc., only get the ammo to the vehicle....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    It took me 14 weeks to become a (minimally) qualified armored reconnaissance specialist back in the '80s. It took me an additional 7-8 months of active duty to really know my job and to be able to deal with my...
  • Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
    Kind of a non-issue in the US, though, as there are plenty of guns easily available to criminals already. I'd consider it more of a genuine issue if I heard more about people using them in violent crimes, here or...
  • Commented on PSA: Publishing supply chain shortages
    The RAF didn't seriously pursue pressurization during the war because its existing aircraft worked well enough and the tactical environment offered few advantages to increased altitudes. Bombing from 30,000 ft might have reduced losses to flak, but I suspect that...
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    Straight from the front lines! My precinct, one of five in my small town in the Shenandoah Valley, went for Trump 707 to 278, although that doesn't include the early and absentee votes. Kanye got three write-in votes, but I...
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    Early voting is over in Virginia. The final tally for my small town in the Shenandoah Valley: 50% of registered voters, 36% in person and 14% absentee ballots already received and scanned. Only about 2% more absentee ballots remain outstanding....
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    No nuclear testing was done in the Marianas, they were in the Marshall Islands like Bikini, Johnston and Kwajalein Atolls. The Chemical storage and destruction was at Johnston Atoll....
  • Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
    In Virginia, 40' is the minimum distance at which electioneering can be done. Poll watchers here need a letter from their party, who will presumably inform them of the applicable rules. If not, they'll soon receive a sharp reminder from...
  • Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
    I thought that y'all might appreciate a report from the front lines in western Virginia. The state liberalized the voting rules to allow for non-photo IDs like utility bills, bank statements and voter registration cards and also mandated early voting,...
  • Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
    Early voting in Virginia started today and I worked the first 4-hour shift this morning. In my little town with about 17,000 registered voters we had about 130 people come in and vote on my shift. By the end of...
  • Commented on Dead plots
    That's pretty much the system in Virginia. The main issue that I see is that the recent change in election laws here means that ballots that arrive as late as four days after the election are still valid. Could mean...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
    Sure there's a current spike, but the real question is what will the status be in 3-4 month and I don't believe that that can be reliably predicted at this stage. LA-area hospitals are being absolutely slammed with ICU-worthy cases,...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
    I think that you're dreaming if you think that Biden will win by a landslide. The estate of the economy will likely prove the decisive factor and, since the election is 4 months away, that really can't be predicted one...
  • Commented on Cough Cough
    So what are y'all's thoughts on Boris' offer for UK residency permits for many Hong Kong Chinese? What does this do to the anti-immigrant types in the UK? Do they start frothing at the mouth?...
  • Commented on I ain't dead
    Thanks for adding your experiences, Scott. I was by no means a shotgun guy back in the then, so I'm just presuming that it was much harder to find down-rated ammo to fit your grandparents weapons, not that it didn't...
  • Commented on I ain't dead
    I rather figured that you were mainly basing your original comment off the bird-hunting transition from lead to steel or more exotic materials. I'm not a bird hunter myself, so I'm surprised to hear that people were complaining about inferior...
  • Commented on I ain't dead
    Tweet! Flag on the statement; poster evidencing signs of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome! Lead-free ammunition is a thing nowadays, both for shotguns and rifles. Many states in the US have banned bird hunting with lead shot. Some older shotguns cannot handle the...
  • Commented on I ain't dead
    To expand on my earlier comment. The "militia" is defined by Congress as divided into the organized militia and the unorganized militia. The former is comprised of the National Guard, Reserves, etc. The latter consists of every able-bodied male between...
  • Commented on I ain't dead
    The unorganized militia in the US consists of all able-bodied men ages 17–45. So that won't fly....
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
    Sure and it will be interesting(!) seeing how that all plays out. One theory that I've seen lately on conservative blogs explaining why NYFC has had such a high concentration of deaths compared to LA is that the latter area...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
    Might I point out that the majority of the dead in the US don't come from states that voted for Trump in 2016?...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    Maybe Virginia is different than the other states, but provisional votes get counted here. It's not that hard to verify registration status since that's tied to the Department of Motor Vehicles database. I'm an election judge here in my small...
  • Commented on Happy Halloween!
    Bravo, sir, bravo! You went many places that I did not expect with this one. I enjoyed it very much. One other typo for the paperback edition: it's US Park Police, not Parks Police. A slightly more major mistake is...
  • Commented on A brief, bitter quiz
    AFAIK the winter of 45-46 was very hard with lots of starvation in the fought-over areas, although I haven't heard much about Allied occupation forces doing a whole lot to help the starving civilians. Interesting story about the Royal Scots...
  • Commented on A brief, bitter quiz
    Nile, You are seriously confused about interwar and early war Soviet military history. The Red Army had embedded commissars for its entire existence before Barbarossa. And Stalin's Great Purges of the late 1930s further solidified his control over the Army....
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