Thursday, October 18, 2018
Various Stryker ICV Variants @ Exercise Dragoon Ready in Grafenwoehr Training Range...
All pics via Abraxas Spa Twitter Page!
Moral Curiosity...Pot is legal in Canada...
via Vox.
The Toronto Police Service has a message for Canadians: Please stop narcing on your neighbors about marijuana.Story here.
With the official start of marijuana legalization in Canada on Wednesday, and retail stores opening across the country (although not in Ontario until April), the Toronto police force started a public awareness campaign to inform people that they should no longer snitch on their neighbors about marijuana use.
Some of that public awareness campaign took the form of a few snarky tweets, invoking truly absurd 911 calls (from people asking for directions to asking what to do with frozen meat during a power outage) alongside calls about marijuana as examples of what not to do. The tweets urged people to no longer call the police about “an adult smoking a joint,” “your neighbour’s pot plants,” or “[s]melling weed coming from your neighbour’s home.”
“Cannabis is no longer illegal on October 17, 2018,” the tweets declared.
I really don't care if pot is legal or illegal. I guess I'm a libertarian on that particular drug. Now when it comes to synthetic pot, crack, meth and the other stuff I say hell no. The reason? From what I've observed pot does cause user to turn into the incredible Hulk, baby Superman and Demon Spawn while you're using it.
Regulating pot like its alcohol makes a bit of sense especially with its widespread use.
But that's not the moral curiosity here.
What has me spinning is that legalizing pot is what law makers in Canada and in some US states have decided to tackle.
Budgets, drug abuse, homeless people, high taxes, illegal immigrants, poor schools, troops involved in an endless war, terrorism, cyber attacks, limited energy resources, unaffordable homes...the list goes on but they get pushed to the side while they tackle the burning issue of legalizing pot?
What's even crazier is the reaction of citizens.
All I've been seeing are the hippie types just sitting out smoking in front of parliament and happy happy joy joy all around.
Do you not see how batshit crazy this is?
Govt isn't tackling the tough issues, but they give citizens legalized pot and that makes it all ok?
We get the govt we deserve. So do the Canadians.
I'm glad they have legalized pot. They're gonna need to get high when they finally realize how hard they've been played.
It's like giving the peasants a narcotic while everything burns down around them.
Stryker Integrated with Unmanned Aircraft, Tactical Missile Systems
Ok seeing the concept played out has me thinking I might have been wrong. IF and that's a BIG IF they can actually make it work then I can see why you would want UAVs with the maneuver element and not at Regiment.
General Dynamics has a winner if they can actually deliver this. What I'd like to see is the USMC save a few precious dollars and piggyback off the Army's efforts.
One thing I do wonder about though.
Would a dedicated ACV UAV carrier make sense? Would a hybrid force like the Amphibious Assault Battalion combining ACVs, LAVs, JLTVs with anti-tank missiles and perhaps EO/IR masts make more sense with a dedicated UAV command and control variant on one of those vehicles (or a couple) give us more flexibility?
This is a great capability (again, if they can make it work) but it must be properly resourced. Additionally it should be properly implemented. Just putting them on any rig won't get us where I think we should go.
Retired Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. John L. Canley was awarded the Medal of Honor today for his actions in the brutal Battle of Hue during the Vietnam War.
100% Pure Dee Stud, American Patriot, and United States Marine. This bubba was/is hard as woodpecker lips and as strong as a Brahma Bull on steroids. Well done and congratulations Sgt Major!
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-3 Lands at Vandenberg AFB
I don't know what we're doing with this space vehicle but it damn sure ain't "experiments to benefit mankind"!!!
The irony of this is too delicious.
We're waving this in front of the Chinese and they apparently can't do a thing. It's just public enough to titillate but still secret enough to leave everyone, including our enemies in the dark.
I love it!
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