The British conservatism has surrendered to technology. British forces are to be given a new standard issue handgun for the first time in more than 40 years. According to the BBC the Ministry of Defense has signed a £9m contract to provide the Armed Forces with more than 25,000 new side-arms and holsters from Austria’s Glock. It will replace the Browning 9 mm pistol which has been in service since 1967.The Glock 17 9 mm pistol is lighter than the Browning and can be fired faster, within a second or so. Continue reading “New handgun for British troops.”
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This is a recipe handed down to me by my mom. It’s been in my family since I was a kid (back when dirt was new). I’ve tweaked it slightly to my own satisfaction, but will also provide the original specs. I’ve yet to come across a store-bought cookie that equals them.
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/3 cup cocoa
- 3 cups oatmeal (1 minute ONLY)
- 1/2 cup peanut butter (creamy)
- 1/2 cup milk (or 1/2 & 1/2)
- 1 stick butter (1/4 lb)
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract Continue reading “Awesome No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies”
Huffington Post – by David Chance and Phil Stewart, Reuters
SEOUL/WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) – North Korea put its rocket units on standby on Friday to attack U.S. military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force. Continue reading “North Korea Rockets On Standby To Hit U.S. Bases On Kim Jong Un’s Orders, KCNA Reports”
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON ELECTION ADMINISTRATION
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote the efficient administration of Federal elections and to improve the experience of all voters, it is hereby ordered as follows: Continue reading “Executive Order — Establishment of the Presidential Commission of Election Administration”
If there was any doubt that the military has new confidence in its forthcoming laser arsenal, the Navy’s top geeks want to outfit Marines with a laser cannon to shoot small drones out of the sky.
Specifically, the Office of Naval Research thinks that Marine air-ground task forces are too vulnerable to adversaries flying cheap, small spy drones overhead, like the four-pound Raven the Marines themselves used in Iraq. Its answer: outfit Marine ground vehicles with laser guns. Continue reading “Navy Wants Lasers on Marines’ Trucks to Shoot Down Drones”
Living on the coast offers people tranquillity and beautiful views.
But for residents along this stretch of the English channel at the top and the bottom of the White Cliffs of Dover had a lucky escape when a huge chunk of chalk fell into the sea.
Tonnes of rock fell onto the shoreline along a part of the cliff face at St Margaret’s Bay between Dover and Deal in Kent. Continue reading “Huge section of White Cliffs of Dover falls into the sea just yards from row of beach front houses”
Over the weekend the secret service responded to anonymous tips that a man in an Ohio restaurant was making threats against president Obama. Apparently the man was overheard saying that he was going to “take Obama out”.
What makes this story even more interesting is that this suspect claims to be the son of late president Dwight D. Eisenhower, and even has the paperwork to prove it, according to local police. Continue reading “Secret Service Detains Son of Dwight D. Eisenhower for Alleged “Threats” Against Obama : Report”
Lew Rockwell – by Murray N. Rothbard
It was a scene familiar to any nostalgia buff: all-night lines waiting for the banks (first in Ohio, then in Maryland) to open; pompous but mendacious assurances by the bankers that all is well and that the people should go home; a stubborn insistence by depositors to get their money out; and the consequent closing of the banks by government, while at the same time the banks were permitted to stay in existence and collect the debts due them by their borrowers. Continue reading “Anatomy of the Bank Run”
Prison Planet – by Steve Watson
Gun store owners say they have never experienced anything like the demand for firearms and ammunition that they are currently witnessing in the wake of a renewed government push for gun control.
Owners at Blue Steel Guns & Ammunition in Raytown, Miami told The Miami Herald that customers were so hungry for ammo that they couldn’t even stack shelves with fresh supplies before they had all been bought. Continue reading “Gun Store Owners: Ammo Shipments Are Not Even Making It To Shelves”
One has to wonder how Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri benefited by sliding in that nasty little rider that putsMonsanto above the law? Not unlike Judas Iscariot, Blunt used his position to betray those who trusted him, but it appears that the senator got more than 30 pieces of silver.
As an elected official, Senator Blunt is obligated to promote the wishes of the people. All of them, not just the ones with money.
Let’s go down the rabbit hole and explore why Blunt might have done such a thing. Continue reading “Sen. Roy Blunt: Monsanto’s Congressional Judas”
On Wednesday afternoon, the Des Moines Register published a map that shows which public schools in Iowa have no security.
The map actually shows:
- Schools with no security guard – Red Dots
- Schools with a security guard – Green Dots
- Schools that did not respond – Grey Dots Continue reading “Identifying Targets? Newspaper publishes interactive map showing all public schools with no security officers”
Fox News – by Joshua Rhett Miller
A Buffalo Wild Wings waitress refused to serve eight Virginia police officers because their guns were in full view in what the apologetic restaurant manager now says was a “misunderstanding.”
The plainclothes Prince William County police officers stopped in at the Manassas restaurant on March 20, presumably to dig in to the popular chain’s specialty, but never got the chance. An unidentified server told them they would have to put their service guns out of sight before being served. Scott Lupton, general manager of the store, said he heard about the incident from Daryl LaClair, a local man who contacted restaurant representatives afterward. Lupton denied reports that the county’s Finest were asked to leave. Continue reading “Buffalo Wild Wings sorry after gun-fearing waitress refuses to serve cops”
Common Dreams – by Norman Solomon
If your daily routine took you from one homegrown organic garden to another, bypassing vast fields choked with pesticides, you might feel pretty good about the current state of agriculture.
If your daily routine takes you from one noncommercial progressive website to another, you might feel pretty good about the current state of the Internet.
But while mass media have supplied endless raptures about a digital revolution, corporate power has seized the Internet — and the anti-democratic grip is tightening every day. Continue reading “Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet”
Cedar Rapids Activist – by Ajai Dittmar
April 21, 1836 -is the most important date in Texas history. San Jancinto Day is a state holiday and a day that has been reenacted for the last seventeen years at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte, just east of Houston. This reenactment is the largest in Texas.
Having lived between Texas and Iowa throughout my childhood I have always consider myself ‘part Texan’. I attended 4th grade at Nolanville Elementary in Central Texas during the Cold War in the 80s. This was a time of great tension between the United States and the USSR. Continue reading “Pro Texas Group Denied Place At San Jacinto Anniversary Because They are Too Political”
Just as DieselBOOM accidentally admitted Monday, it appears that the Cypriot bail-in is anything but a one-off event, and is in fact the new collapse template for the entire Western banking system, and not just the ECB/ Eurozone!
SD has been alerted to an alarming provision that has been buried deep inside the official 2013 Canadian Budget that will result in depositor haircut bail-ins jumping to this side of the pond during the next bank crisis! Continue reading “Canada Includes Depositor Haircut Bail-In Provision for Systemically Important Banks in 2013 Budget”
WASHINGTON – The National Park Service is ready to start using sharpshooters to kill deer in Washington’s Rock Creek Park.
The park service says it will begin killing deer Wednesday night. Sharpshooters will work in the overnight hours from late Wednesday through early Saturday morning. Continue reading “National Park Service to use sharpshooters to kill deer in DC park”
Everyone knew Magpul was going to take its jobs and nearly $90 million in taxeselsewhere as a result of the state’s recent gun control laws. That was just the beginning of the rebellion. The blowback that has begun against Michael Bloomberg’s Colorado gun control bills is so massive that even the Washington Post is noticing it.
Hunters across the country are boycotting Colorado because of recent legislation meant to curtail gun violence. Continue reading “What Bloomberg hath wrought: Colorado gun control blowback accelerates”