Dr.Hess

That last "guest" post was me. Tony, I wish you would turn off the unregistered guest thing. I forget to log in and it messes up like that. Dr.Hess

********************************************************** *________________________________________________________* *---------------------------------GIFT CERTIFICATE------------------------------------* *________________________________________________________* *This entitles Uncle Alex Trebec to One Free Rectal Exam or One Free__* *__________________Beer at Dr.Hess' Clinic in NWA_______________* *________________________________________________________* *________________________________________________________* *______________<Expires 3/28/2007>_________________________* *********************************************************** Actually, the native population here is a bit, err, strange. You can usually spot them by the trash in their front yard, including hundreds of empty pseudophed blisterpacks. However, I would have to say that the butthole of the world, and I've been around it 3 times, has to be the Persian Gulf, hands down. Having lived there a year and a half, I would say that Louisianna is the armpit of the world. Dr.Hess

Damn, you're good, Alex. Yes, there is a Great White North connection involved, a fact I was holding out on. And thanks for ID'ing that. This was my first gun, given to my by my grandfather when I was 10. The Weaver scope came from my father's 22 a few years later. Tell you what, next time you are in NW Arkansas, you just hollar and I'll give you your choice of a free beer or a free rectal exam. Whichever you prefer. Dr.Hess

Oh Wise Uncle Alex T., Can you ID this 22 bolt gun? All I know about it is that was probably purchased at a Western Auto some time in the '50's, and it says "Sureshot" on the barrel. I have never been able to figure out what it is. To put it on Safe, you pull the bolt back and twist it over to the left and a lug engages the receiver to stop it from moving forward. Tubular mag. S, L, LR. There is a rabit checkered on the wrist. Sorry I don't have a prize for you, but you will get the satisfaction of showing all the rest of us up. Dr.Hess

Hey Fritz, I'm a vegetarian (about 17 years now) and I ain't ignorant. I'm actually pretty well edjumakated. I hugged a tree once, but my wife made me do it. Dr.Hess

I believe I read somewhere that in states where they released wolves the SOP was to burry them where they got capped. How anyone would want to protect copperheads or rattlesnakes is beyond me. Sorry, I see one, it's dead if it's still there when I come back with a weapon. I've capped a few copperheads here in NW AR. Fortunately, my critters or us peoples haven't been bit. Latest thing is the bunny huggers sueing to protect some swamp or something in east Arkansas to protect the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, which may or may not be extinct. Someone claimed to take a fuzzy picture of one, so they sued to "protect" some huge number of acres. It is insane. Dr.Hess

Having lived in the Swampland, that's funny Tony. True, but funny. That's funny also, TwistJG26, but is pretty normal there, not just after hurricanes. Dr.Hess

If'n we're gonna badmouth Arkies, then ya'll need to realize that half the people up here are from Texas and the other half are from California. There is a small "native" Arkie contingent, though. Look for the pseudophed packages littered out in their front yard. Dr.Hess <18 years in PRC, 18 years in Tejas>

My email account get so much spam, it is practically useless. I've had this email address since about 1995 and the worst happened after the 'bot sucked all the emails out of eBay. I think that list is still being sold around to the spammers. Dr.Hess

And you wonder how there could be someone dumb enough to be a suicide bomber. They should have told them, oh, we couldn't see you, but you missed a spot and we could see that. Dr.Hess

No problem, Tony. Just trying to help out a little. Don't want to see you selling your collection off. Dr.Hess

I like that "Give Peas a Chance." Reminds me of the bumper sticker "Visualize Whirled Peas." Dr.Hess (Vegetarian but not Vegan. I drink milk and eat cheese. Oh, and cap racoons.)

I have a Garand also. I think I paid about $300 for it (DCM) and it was handed to me by a uniformed member of Bill Clinton's government. Dr.Hess

This one is an interesting read. The SAS in action: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtm.../20/nsas120.xml Snipers' head shots had to kill terrorists simultaneously to prevent explosions (Filed: 20/11/2005) Early on a warm summer morning, a few hours before traffic began to fill the streets, a 16-man SAS patrol took up ambush positions around a Baghdad house, writes Sean Rayment. The soldiers had been told that the house was a being used as a base by insurgents - and up to three suicide bombers were expected to leave it later that morning. Dressed in explosive vests, they were fully equipped to hit a number of locations around the city. The bombers' targets were thought to be cafes and restaurants frequented by members of the Iraqi security forces. The intelligence was regarded as "high grade" and came from an Iraqi agent who had been nurtured by members of the British Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, for several months. Expectation among the 16 soldiers, attached to Task Force Black (TFB), the secret American and British special forces unit based in the Iraqi capital, was high. Each member of the four four-man groups was a veteran of many missions where the intelligence promised much - only to deliver little. The plan for Operation Marlborough was simple: allow the three suspected bombers to leave the house and get into the street, then kill them with head shots from the four sniper teams. Each team was equipped with L115A .338 sniper rifles, capable of killing at up to 1,000 yards. The soldiers, liaising earlier with their commanders, had considered the option of entering the house and killing the terrorists - but that plan was regarded as too dangerous. The confines of the house would intensify the impact of any blast, killing everyone inside. The SAS soldiers were told that it was vital that the three bombers would have to be killed simultaneously. If one of them was allowed to detonate a device, scores of people could be killed or injured. In support of the covert sniper teams was a Quick Reaction Force (QRF), which would provide a dozen extra soldiers within a few minutes in an emergency. The QRF was based in a secure location nearby and a team of ammunition technical officers were on hand to defuse the bombs. A section of Iraqi police was also attached to the operation - although they were not briefed on the detail of the attack - to deal with any crowd trouble. Meanwhile, 2,000 feet above the city of five million inhabitants, a CIA-controlled Predator unmanned air vehicle was providing a real-time video feed back to the TFB headquarters deep inside the secure green zone. Shortly after 8am, Arabic translators, monitoring listening devices hidden inside the house, warned the operations centre inside the militarily controlled green zone that the three terrorist were on the move. The message "stand by, stand by" was dispatched to the four teams. As the terrorists entered the street, a volley of shots rang out and the three insurgents slumped to the ground. Each terrorist had been killed by a single head shot - the snipers having spent the past few days rehearsing the ambush in minute detail. The SAS troopers had been warned that only a direct head shot would guarantee that bombs would not be detonated. Only three of the four snipers fired, the fourth was to act as a back-up in case one of the weapons jammed or a sniper lost sight of his target. The message that the terrorists had been killed was sent back to the SAS headquarters and the troops moved forward to check the bodies for life. As they gingerly approached it became brutally apparent that the .338 calibre round - the biggest rifle bullet used by the Army - had done its job. Operation Marlborough was hailed as a complete success and one of the rare occasions on which the coalition has been able to deliver a decisive blow against suicide bombers.

That Adoptasniper site looks pretty interesting. How about we have a MFRC adoption? We can get on their links page which will be advertising for our site and do some good. I'd kick in a few bucks for it.

You mean you can send a woman to EAP for "THE LOOK"? Dr.Hess

Yeah, Karl, I believe you are right. The commies, err, dems, had power for a long time and they are doing everything they can to try to get it back. They only want us doing everything we do for their benefit. And in exchange, they will let us eat and have a roof which they own. The difference between today and 1000 years ago is getting less and less daily. Dr.Hess

The people running Google are extreme left wing commies. There is no doubt about it. They are all Gore wannabees. I forget the exact numbers, but in the last election the contributions were something like thousands to one dem/rep. It is not surprising to me at all that they have no problems with homosexual sex sites but won't let you advertise "Mauser." We need a new search engine. Dr.Hess

Don't piss on my boot and tell me its raining.

Speakin' o' hogs, in the burn unit when we ran out of human skin we would use pig skin on the patients. It is usually more or less rejected, but not always. Tends to scar more than human skin when it takes. We had a really good supply of used human skin at the time, so we didn't have to use pig often. I haven't seen any sign of wild hogs around here in NW AR. Given the local population, I don't think they would last very long. Around these parts, people think that Deer Season is something you buy at Wal*Mart to put on the meat. I don't know how we have any left at all. Dr.Hess

Yes, Fritz, what you describe is why I am living in Arkansas. I saw it coming and it has just been getting worse. They closed the last free park at Lake Somerville. Now you have to pay to sit at any picnic table. I noticed that every single interaction with the State was costing money, and costing more and more. "For the children" is how they always sell it. That's how that woman sold the lottery in. It would be "for the schools." Two years later she is all over the TV saying "I never said the money would go to the schools." Dr.Hess

Upgrading isn't worth it. A new case is $50 or much less. Once you upgrade the guts, throw in the extra 50 and you have a new machine. Yeah, a Green Machine at Wal*Mart is a very good way to go. Many of my friends (in the IT field) just by one of those. Also, word on the street (radio, actually) is that Wally World will have a HP laptop on sale for $399 on Black Friday. Dr.Hess

None. It is probably a good 5 minute walk up and down steep hills with no lights. Plus all the meth labs around, which typically don't like visitors. My wife bought some candy our first year here, but I knew there would be none. Dr.Hess

Do you have the right driver for it? What operating system are you trying to put on it? There are some boot disks available on the net, or make one from another computer with the same OS. Dr.Hess

Must be like whacking them racoons. The first few are easy. They sit there lookin' at ya while you take aim. Then they get smarter and you have to whack them in total darkness (IR & night vision). Takes about ten that way and the word gets around 'coon circles that you can see in the dark too and to split if they see movement in the house. I'll tell ya Fritz, you should hold guided hunts and sell hog leases to the city folk. I mean, not to start a flame war, but hunting is really just killing for sport, so why not let them kill your hogs and pay you for it? Run some ads in the hunting mags for "day leases" and guided hunts. Guaranteed kill or its free. Have someone available to dress the hogs out and pack them in ice (extra charge). They'd be lining up for it. Turn a negative into a positive. It's like that guy that had nothing but a big pile of rocks. So he puts a rock in a milk carton and calls it a "Pet Rock" and makes a bundle. Do the same thing with feral hogs.