Bigmack
Bigmack's JournalForget the "Bushmaster" for a moment...
and let's talk about the .223 bullet itself. It sounds like the perfect bullet for hunting.... oh... let's say 6 year old kids and firefighters!
The .223 breaks up more than other bullets. After it hits someone, the .223 round tumbles and fragments as it punches deeper into the body, multiplying the damage.
If the bullet is fired as a hunting round, with its lead tip exposed, the tip flattens and widens to as much as a half-inch as it travels before it fragments into a "lead snowstorm" pattern of many tiny bits.
If fired as a military round, with a "full metal jacket" of steel or copper covering the round, it may turn sideways and break in two after hitting someone.
For a little bullet, the 5.56 (.223) bullet produces quite dramatic wounds. While the traditional 30-06 caliber bullet of the M1 Garand and 7.62 bullet of the M14 rifle would immediately knock a man down, the 5.56 bullet instead enters the body, quickly turns sideways after passing through only 4" of flesh, then breaks in two major pieces, as well as many smaller fragments. During the Vietnam War, soldiers reported that shooting an enemy soldier with the M16 did not kill as quickly as the old 30 caliber weapons. Instead soldiers would follow a massive trail a blood a few feet away from where the enemy soldier had been hit to find him dead from massive blood loss. Thus what was nominally a full-metal-jacket bullet had in effect roughly the same destructive capability as some hollow- or soft-point bullets
So the .223 round (like our former allies the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein – we can really pick 'em can't we?!) is just another tool that has come back to haunt us.
Famous for its use in the military's M-16 rifle, the .223-caliber round is known for causing extensive tissue damage, says surgeon Ron Maier of the Northwest Regional Trauma Center at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Like all high-velocity bullets, the .223 slug passes through the body with an accompanying shock wave that whipsaws blood vessels and organ tissue that are inches away from the bullet. It’s called hydrostatic shock.
The "cavitation," or cavity, caused by the high-velocity shock wave may briefly expand the diameter of the bullet hole almost 2 inches, about 10 times the width of the slug itself, before it collapses behind, tearing tissue further.
Exotic weaponry has become a staple of movies and entertainment in recent years, but this is the reality we are seeing. And now it is completely out of control.
Here's a wound diagram. Youtube has lots of videos of bullet channels in ballistic gel.
....Scrounged from many sources including... http://www.gunsandcrime.org/lethalty.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich6.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-10-22-bullets-usat_x.htm
Totally tasteless pro gun t-shirts....
"9 out of 10 voices in my head told me to stay home and clean the guns"
"Guns don't kill people... I do"
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2012/12/totally-tasteless-pro-gun-shirts
I wonder how many little NRA stockings will be stuffed with these during this season of Peace.
Boeing increased it's dividend another 10%....
"The planemaker’s quarterly dividend will climb to 48.5 cents a share from 44 cents and be payable March 8 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 15, Boeing said in a statement."
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2019925253_boeingdividendxml.html
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Good for Boeing... good for the stockholders!
One small thing. Boeing hasn't paid any US income taxes for the last 4 years.
When does the country that provides the infrastructure, workforce, legal support, and patent protection get a share of all this?
And people whine about some "welfare queen" getting a hundred bucks a month for food for her kids!
City Commissioner FB post.... Just in case you're not pissed off enough....
A Cooper City commissioner posted this on FB...
"Just wanted to let you know ... today I received my 2013 Social Security Stimulus Package. It contained two tomato seeds, cornbread mix, two discount coupons to KFC, an 'Obama Hope & Change' bumper sticker, a prayer rug, a machine to blow smoke up my a** and a 'Blame it on Bush' poster for the front yard. The directions were in Spanish. Yours should arrive soon."
Dunno why, but some people were pissed. Can't imagine why....
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Cooper-City-Commissioner-Apologizes-for-His-Facebook-Post-183199221.html
He gave the usual non-apology.... "To those of you who were genuinely offended, I offer my deepest apology..."
The teabag movement has given permission to these Neanderthals to say this shit in public... rather than just muttering it to their buddies at the bar.
Microwave oven question....
We're snowbirds. Mobile home type snowbirds.
We leave, and our little tin can gets up to 110 degrees for days at a time here in the desert.
We leave water buckets around to keep things from drying out, but my wife is worried that the high heat will hurt a microwave oven.
I tried to tell her that we have two TVs, a DVD player, radios, coffee maker... that seems to survive nicely.
Any input..? Anybody have experience..?
Microwave oven question....
We're snowbirds. Mobile home type snowbirds.
We leave, and our little tin can gets up to 110 degrees for days at a time here in the desert.
We leave water buckets around to keep things from drying out, but my wife is worried that the high heat will hurt a microwave oven.
I tried to tell her that we have two TVs, a DVD player, radios, coffee maker... that seems to survive nicely.
Any input..? Anybody have experience..?
Question about microwave ovens....
We're snowbirds. Mobile home type snowbirds.
We leave, and our little tin can gets up to 110 degrees for days at a time here in the desert.
We leave water buckets around to keep things from drying out, but my wife is worried that the high heat will hurt a microwave oven.
I tried to tell her that we have two TVs, a DVD player, radios, coffee maker... that seems to survive nicely.
Any input..? Anybody have experience..?
Divorce....?
I posted something like this on DU a while back... somewhat tongue in cheek. And got my ass handed to me.
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http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2019802934_paulvanderveldonenationxml.html
"We in the blue states hear from the talking heads on Fox News and MSNBC that many of you in the red states are so distressed about the outcome of the elections that you would like to secede from the Union......A lot of historians have argued that we would have been a whole lot better off going our separate ways in 1861. Sure, Abe Lincoln was a Republican then, but today he’d be as blue as the ocean. He tried. He thought we could transcend our differences and learn to live with one another.
Even the Lincolns of the world make mistakes. It’s time to move on. We wish you well, and let us know how it’s working out."
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Ok... I'm pretty convinced that divorce is out of the question, but now... seriously... how are we to survive as a country as deeply divided as we are? How do we make a country from (basically) two diametrically opposite world views? Not just politics, but economic issues, social issues, medical issues, scientific issues... hell, personal issues!
Education...? Good luck with that. Some states are actually regressing.. creationism and revisionist histories about the KKK are examples.
Time...? Just wait the old folks out..? Their thinning ranks are being replaced by the brainwashed youngsters. And how long can we wait, anyway...? Global climate change, depletion of resources, poverty and income equality are not really long-term problems anymore.
So... what's the plan? If not divorce... what do we do? Just sit around and watch things (further) turn to shit?
(please spare me the "elect good people" simplistic bullshit)
Will somebody please PM me and tell me what to do...
.. to get the replies to show up when I open a post?
I get the OP, but no supplies.
I have a star, so it ain't that.
I don't remember doing anything to change any settings... which I can't find anyway.
Old... really feeling old.
Don't answer this post... I won't see it. PM please.
How about this.... ? We don't tax the churches....
... we just tax all the NON-church properties and businesses they own.
The Mormons, Catholics, and the Moonies, for example, own billions of bucks worth of businesses of all kinds.
"In 1997, Time Magazine found that current LDS assets totaled $30 billion. If LDS were a corporation, Time continued, its estimated $5.9 billion in annual revenues would have placed it midway through the Fortune 500."
"In 2006, the Boston Globe revealed that the church turned a profit of roughly $55 million on a portfolio heavily concentrated in government bonds."
"In fiscal year 2009, the Evangelical Lutheran church claims to have earned $1,698,336 from “investment income”, $2,238,629 from “bequests and trusts” and another $1,003,420 in rental income. The same report lists a separate column of “temporarily restricted” revenues, on which another $1,625,000 in investment income is reported."
http://www.mint.com/blog/investing/how-churches-invest-05172010/
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