I've lived in Mtn Home since 1989, so that's...hold on...I'm thinking...WOW! Exactly 25 years! Boy, I think I can almost declare myself an Idahoan. But my family is British and I grew up in Louisiana around lots of other Brits so I still think I'm a little bit of a mutt. Those of you who have been around awhile may remember when I used to blog all the time. My opinions weren't very accepted and there was always an issue because I work for the county. That really wasn't fair because I NEVER blog at work! And I am still entitled to my opinions and thoughts about city and county issues, right? However, it stirred a lot of pots and those pots certainly can make a lot of noise! Since I'm a writer, I took what I wrote in my blog seriously so I spent a lot of time researching things which got exhausting to do when you're not even get a paycheck for it. So I stopped. That was a blessing to many! However, to this day, I still have people stop me and ask me why I wasn't blogging and t! hey missed it. I've missed it. Mainly because there are so many issues that come up and I have no voice except around my friends and I'm sure they are tired of it.

Obama should be sued!

Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 12:16 AM

When the battle in the small village of Wanat, a remote U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan ended, nine U.S. soldiers lay dead and 27 more were wounded. After investigating the battle it was determined that the weapons the American soldiers used kept failing. This left them totally outnumbered. How can we do this? Send those soldiers over there with faulty weapons? I know that Bazooka has commented on this before. We have a President jetting off to help get Olympic games to his hometown while we had soldiers getting killed due to his inaction. Now we see 9 more killed due to faulty-crappy guns. I think that all of those dead soldier's families should file a lawsuit against the government for directly causing their deaths. The wounded should sign on and be witnesses. How would that look to the world? The Nobel Peace Prize winner being sued by his own countrymen for directly causing the deaths of US soldiers would really show the world how worthy he was to receive that award.

King Obama getting the prize? What the hell did he ever do that warranted the Nobel Peace Prize? A lot of talk? A lot of bowing and saying, so sorry so sorry about my horrible country?

Come on, you know that I couldn't ignore this Nobel award abomination and not comment. I actually felt ill when I heard it. How did that ever happen and how much value do we give this prize now? The nominations had to be submitted by February. That man hadn't done anything to even be considered! He had built a platform for election with lies, yet is praised and award with the Presidency and now this! And what makes me even more angry is that on the day that it is announced, Iran is telling the world that they will destroy Israel. Obama ignores the enemy, bows and while our allies are left high and dry with no support, he accepts the Nobel Prize. I'm sorry but everyone who got the prize should now feel somewhat unspecial. It's like little kids playing T-Ball. Oh, there are no scores and everyone gets to run the bases no matter if they hit the ball or not. Just what did they learn from that? You don't have to really learn the game and follow any rules because you get a homerun and at the end everyone gets a trophy like they are the MVP. But the reality is that none of them were anything special because they are all the same. The fact that those Nobel people awarded it to Obama just cheapened all of them. His acceptance has made the Nobel Prize as meaningful as an Achievement sticker for effort on a school paper.

According to the ones who awarded Obama the price, it was awarded to Obama because "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said.

"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," said former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate.

"This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act," Walesa said.

"You have to remember that the world has been in a pretty dangerous phase," Jagland said. "And anybody who can contribute to getting the world out of this situation deserves a Nobel Peace Prize."

Well, line up folks! If that is the case than I imagine there are millions more qualified than Obama so your award notice must be in the mail.

On a brighter note, as I was doing some reading about Obama's many accomplishments, I came across a speech he did in July 2008 while compaigning in Colorado. As I recall, this has been discussed before. Here is a direct quote from that speech: "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." There ya have it from the horse's mouth. Obama wants his own civil force to do his bidding. Now, don't try and say he was talking about the Peace Corps because in the speech he had already talked about that he wanted to increase their numbers to do work overseas. This was exactly how he said it, a civilian national security force. I'm sure that will fall under some of his promising peacekeeping efforts that the Nobel people were awarding him for.

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The failed weapons were most likely paid for by the previous administration,which has clearly shown it had no respect for the wellfare of the military or any one else who isn't lining their pockets.

-- Posted by Happy Haven on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 6:36 AM
It still stands that the government is responsible and I don't care which President gets hawled to the stand. The point I am making is that it shouldn't have happened. And Obama has ignored the situation for far too long. He finally was shamed into meeting with his military people after the public was enraged by his lack of participation. The fact that he hasn't taken a swift stand on this situation, more soldiers are dying.

-- Posted by kimkovac on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 6:49 AM
Obama getting the Nobel is comical. I would be curious to know if there were no other candidates and so they felt they had to give this token award to a default candidate.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 8:07 AM
We can play the blame game all day with regard to who purchased the guns that do not work however, the point remains that the CURRENT administration is doing NOTHING to help OUR people fight a war. Obama wanted to give a 1% to the military this year. Why was that? 1%...what does that cover? How much did he and congress get? Why can they not get vests over there to protect them (some can get them but others cannot due to a "shortage"?). They have a "shortage" of people in some areas because Obamanomics/Obama has sent the people to other places. How can you "fight" a war if you do not have the tools to do so? He should be tried for treason and war crimes as just a start. Someone who has never been in the military is hardly fit to be called Commander and Chief, IMHO. Nothing like a "President" that says he is sorry for his people. What a joke. I am happy to say that I voted and not for him.

-- Posted by OpinionMissy on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 9:28 AM
http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Angry-Americans.aspx?cp-searchtext=Angry%20Americ...

Seems that Kim and Bazooka are not so crazy afterall. This is from today on MSN.

-- Posted by OpinionMissy on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 11:49 AM
To properly speak on the M-16 modifications over the years: The M-16 has been modified over the years yes, but the actual one that we are using now is the M-4 carbine, which is not a semi-auto rifle, but a "carbine." In all complete honesty, the M-4 is a reliable weapon, except for one problem which has haunted Colt manufacturing(the people who made the gun) which is jamming. It's nothing mechanically wrong, just the chamber for loading the bullet tends to get clogged with dirt. As far as Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize, mother Theresa must be ****** in heaven, wondering why should couldn't have just "promised" to help the starving poor. This is such a joke. Obama should get the prize just as much as Adolf Hitler was awarded "man of the year" by Time Magazine. Wow.

-- Posted by null on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 1:07 PM
Nice title. Attention grabbing at it's finest with no real link to the problem. Not everything can be blamed on Obama, no matter how much you want it to be true.

Forgive me for my opposition. But maybe you should look into who or what agency actually approves the weapons and gear, used by the Armed forces. And what their guide-lines for purchasing these things are. Are there other weapons that work better under the conditions that the military is currently in and if so, why were these weapons ignored?

There is more to the problem then just one person and one question.

(i remember rumsfeld being questioned by soldiers about these issues and rumsfeld blew them off.)

-- Posted by censored on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 1:36 PM
why is it that the criminal element can get good weapons like the ak-47 and such, and they never seem to misfire, but we can,t get these guns into our troops hands. scary thought, going into battle knowing your weapon may not be any better tnan your fist. you might as well have a pocket of rocks

-- Posted by tolkien on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 1:42 PM
Sorry off subject, but no less relevant:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

Baucus plan to criminalize the poorest among us.

(the 'poorest' doesn't include me)

Chat among yourselves.

(and remember that I am a hypocrite and wanted single payer but single payer was never going to fly here anyway. so what do we get?, a health insurance compromise issued at the hands of the health insurance companies... with the help of the government of course)

hopefully this health reform chit gets thrown out/vetoed before things get out of control.

Concerning Politics

-What is promised, is never, what is given.-

Censored 2009

-- Posted by censored on Tue, Oct 13, 2009, at 2:02 PM
Yes, it was a great title. And I did state that Obama was NOT solely to blame. It is a bigger issue than that. However, as I also stated, our Commander in Chief is sitting on the laurels of indecision while our soldiers are being killed due to lack of support. He has the power and the manpower at his fingertips to get the upper hand yet he is too worried about popularity and getting re-elected. He wants the whole world to love him and doesn't realize that in order to be a good parent, you can't be your children's best friend. (Time 6:23am)

-- Posted by kimkovac on Wed, Oct 14, 2009, at 6:24 AM
I was in need of a car to get me around but didn't have a lot of money. I shopped around and found a vehicle that was priced right, looked real nice, but had a bad transmission. The seller was up front about the problem so I knew the condition of the car when I bought it. I was able to drive the car for a couple of months with no problems until one day, on the way home from work, it broke down. Should I blame the previous owner or take responsibility for my own lack of action? I failed to fix the problems I knew existed, no one to blame but myself.

-- Posted by jtrotter on Wed, Oct 14, 2009, at 7:33 AM
Hey Bazooka, H&K makes a similar version of the M-4 but without all the problems. Fires after being dunked in dirt, sand, water, run over and even upside down. Try that with a 16. They have it in the worthless 223 and other, larger, more lethal rounds. For me and my money I'm buying a Remington R25. looks similar to the 16 in the receiver but in the trusty .308 cal. It's a "hunting" rifle with no bayonet lug. But comes with full up camo coating and all the rails to mount whatever you might need. And it's built by REMINGTON. Think 700 BDL and 870 Wingmaster. Hard to find two more trusted and reliable guns. The m16 was also a POS weapon. Built to wound not kill. Nice idea if your attacked by a large force intent on saving the wounded. The current enemy fights in small groups and beleives that dying is a good thing. So now we need to kill as many as we can as quick as we can. The only way to do that is with the trusted .30 cal round. No matter whether it's in a 30.06 or .308, both are good, quality rounds definately made to punch large holes in soft targets. Check what the spec ops carry. Bethca don't see too many .223 or 9mm in their hands.

-- Posted by mhbouncer on Thu, Oct 15, 2009, at 8:47 AM
I'll keep the 165 match grade hornandy boat tails we used to shoot through the sniper rifles. Little heavier...better penetration and large wound channels...don't deflect in the wind as much.

-- Posted by mhbouncer on Thu, Oct 15, 2009, at 11:38 PM
Believe 22 inch for the larger caliber rifles

-- Posted by mhbouncer on Fri, Oct 16, 2009, at 9:06 AM
My bad...20 inches for .243, 7mm-08 and .308

-- Posted by mhbouncer on Fri, Oct 16, 2009, at 9:09 AM

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