This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than the enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. My rifle and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, or the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit. My rifle is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy. - Marine Corps Rifleman's Creed.
In October 2007 the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard released their combined proposal for maritime strategy: A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower. As would be expected, given the group preparing the report, the strategic importance of the world’s oceans was stressed. The report lists six key tasks, or strategic imperatives:
Limit regional conflict with forward deployed, decisive maritime power.
Deter major power war.
Win our Nation’s wars.
Contribute to homeland defense in depth.
Foster and sustain cooperative relationships with more international partners.
Prevent or contain local disruptions before they impact the global system. Continue reading →
UCLA has hired a new head football coach. Rick Neuheisel comes to UCLA after gaining valuable experience as a volunteer assistant-quarterback coach at Rainier Beach High School in Seattle, WA in 2003. You can bet that Neuheisel will pool his talent. Get it, betting pool.
Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. Continue reading →
For the JLR, this is a rather strange pleading. In October 2007, the JLR filed a complaint against Philip Woolston, Steve Jobs, and Apple Computer, Inc. for “Sexual Harassment With Apple Gadgets.” Then, in November 2007, the JLR filed a “Motion to Withdraw Case.”
On 18DEC07, Lockheed Martin gave a demonstration of the F-35B, Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), to the U.S. Marine Corps. The F-35B uses short-takeoff/vertical-landing (STOVL) to allow it to launch from either a short runway or to launch vertically. The F-35B will replace the AV-8B Harrier. Lockheed Martin is scheduled to make its first delivery of F-35Bs to the Marine Corps in 2012. That is if Lockheed does not experience further redesigns, as it was forced to do three years ago.
A recent study in Psychiatric Quarterly, by Christopher John Ferguson, reports on a meta-analytic review of studies, published since 1995, analyzing the effects of video game play. The Ferguson study concludes that the previous studies of video game violence provided no support for the hypothesis that violent video game playing is associated with higher aggression.
This recent study was quite unnecessary. Aggression and violence are not a product of video games, these attributes are part of the human condition. Take Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) Continue reading →
Evidently, the JLR is not satisfied with the education he received, as he explains in this complaint entitled “The Government Left Me Behind the Gates of FCI Williamsburg.” Below are highlights from the complaint:
I want an Education.
The United Negro college fund won’t Answer my letters for a transfer to Morehouse College to do prison time. Continue reading →
In a complaint entitled “Football Conspiracy / Very Weak Schedule,” the JLR (d/b/a “Dr. Blood’s Orgy of Organs”) has fixed is litigation sights on Ohio State. Here are some highlights from the complaint:
I’m offended at Ohio State plays a weak schedule on purpose to get a high rating.
They play Akron, Youngstown State, Kent State who purposely lost those games. Continue reading →
Governor Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey has such unmitigated confidence in New Jersey’s penitentiary system, and its ability to protect the public from society’s most dangerous criminals, that he has abolished the death penalty in New Jersey. Unfortunately, just prior to the governor’s announcement, two inmates escaped from the Union County jail. Otis Blunt and Jose Espinosa tunneled out of heir cells, using pinup photographs to disguise their progress, as Andy Dufresne did in The Shawshank Redemption. Then the two, in a brilliant replication of Ferris Bueller’s subterfuge, Continue reading →
The Japanese have authorized the harvest of whales. This action, along with Japanese use of the cultural-tradition defense, has been attacked by many, including Greenpeace. The problem with these attacks is the total lack of consistency. Inconsistency is noting new for Greenpeace, considering the group’s co-founder resigned because of Greenpeace’s stance against nuclear energy. For example, Greenpeace lists the whaling issues to include: Norwegian, Icelandic, and Japanese whaling. Conspicuously absent from this list of condemnation is the killing of whales by aboriginal people.
JLR . . . moves this Honorable Court to Issue a TRO Temporary Restraining order against Defendants stopping my extradition to Pakistan in March 2012 because I will be tortured by the Defendants and the Pakistani Government. Continue reading →
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from society’s most dangerous criminals, that he has 
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