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Saturday, January 23, 2010

US Military 1 - Jesus 0

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Picture h/t Dating Jesus
Remember Trijicon, the company that was busy painting targets on the back of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan included references to Christian bible verses on the optical sites (don't call them sniper scopes) that are being used by our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Well, while the Army may have downplayed the importance, the Marine Corps, made it clear that these markings would materially effect their current and future contracts, and so the "Scopes for Jesus" company has agreed to stop engraving the bible references, as well as providing tools to remove the references on their existing sights:
Trijicon, the gunsight maker that has imprinted Bible verse numbers on its scopes, has announced that it will no longer imprint the verses on the sides of scopes intended for the U.S. military, and will also provide clients with the kits to remove the Bible verse numbers from existing scopes.

An ABC News report earlier this week revealed that the Michigan-based company, which has a contract to provide up to 800,000 scopes to the U.S. military, prints references to New Testament chapters and verses in code next to the model numbers of its scopes. The scopes are used by the U.S. Marine Corps and Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by U.S. allies in those countries, and for the training of Afghan and Iraqi troops.
There now, that wasn't so hard, was it.

My original post on this.

This is Harsh

Jimmy Kimmel bitch slaps Jay Leno:


It's brutal.

It's Bank Failure Friday!!!! (on Saturday)

Delayed because of my being away from home.

And here they are, ordered, and numbered for the year so far.

  1. Premier American Bank, Miami, FL
  2. Bank of Leeton, Leeton, MO
  3. Charter Bank, Santa Fe, NM
  4. Evergreen Bank, Seattle, WA
  5. Columbia River Bank, The Dalles, OR
Great Googly Moogly, 5 banks.

Full FDIC list

Friday, January 22, 2010

A Prediction for 2012

Absent a major scandal, Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown will be the Vice Presidential pick for the Republican party.

The New DHS Security Screening Program

It really does say it all:

Dances With TSA

I'm sitting in Philadelphia waiting for the flight to Boston, and I thought that I would relate my experience with airport security.

It was a surprisingly smooth experience, despite the fact that they pulled my bag for further inspection.

The 7 day yartzheit (memorial candle) is a 3" x 14"cylinder, so I can see how the X-ray machine operator flagged it for further scrutiny.

Still, the whole process, show my ID (honest, officer, I look better in person) and bording pass, take off shoes, put shoes, keys, etc. in bin, put bin and bag through the X-ray machine, grab my stuff, put on my shoes, open my case, show the candle, let the TSA guy wipe my stuff with a "sniffer", and repacking my case only took about 15 minutes.

I can't complain.

I'm off to Massachusetts for the Weekend

To be with my brothers Daniel and Stephen, and see what I can do to help.

Background here.

I'm about to board my flight.

I have some stuff queued up to post over the weekend, and might find time to post via my mobile.

Posted via mobile