B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 12, 2015

“Quickly, Quickly…. There’s No Time” !!

But that is not for hunting then. It is for defense. You need a whole different permit and licensing arrangement for that.

Please stop.

when you need to defend yourself, you need it NOW

The correct phrase is " Oh you´re charles smith are you, why don´t you bugger off back to france with all the other annoying xenophobes?"

A gun is like a beer cooler, It should be fully loaded when you start andcompletely empty when you are done.

I love my Blowgun.

“Attention iammu: The correct phrase is je suis Charlie. Not jus suis Charlie.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, Charles, we know, we know. Now just sit quietly and try to calm down.

You’re teaching French to people who get steak “with au jus?”

This just in….noted spammer Charles Smith was found on the street, muttering to himself, “NOT jus suis…NOT jus suis…NOT jus suis.” He was picked up and taken back to his half way house, where it was found that he had gone off his OCD drugs a week ago.

Especially when your background is gaining on you rapidly.

“I still think Background checks are necessary.”.Even if a carnivorous beastie is right behind ye?You probably already have a spear.

He’s about to lose a customer

Question 1 for the application – Are you going to use this on an endangered species? If yes, please describe the species. Extra paper may be used If necessary.

“if a country’s technological capacity truly reflects its underlying religious values…” If is the operative word. You have proof that Nuclear proliferation was faith based?

“Many a would be bomb maker has been blown up in their own work shops.”.And over all, that’s probably a good thing.(Not that I don’t enjoy a few BOOMS now and then.)

“what does the fact that Western nations eagerly sought the ability to end all life on the planet say about Christians’ claims that theirs is a religion of love and tolerance?”?It shows we aren’t as Christian as we wish we were or could be.It shows we respond to perceived threats by preparing to dissuade them.It shows we didn’t really trust our delivery systems. (Note that yield per warhead was dropped as accuracy and reliability improved.)It shows we believe a thing worth doing is worth overdoing..Consider what we were thinking. We remembered Pearl Harbor and the fact that our navy was mostly wiped out by a single surprise attack.We wanted to be certain our destructive ability after an attack would be enough to convince anyone to not try that attack.“If you would have peace, you must prepare for war.”?

And don’t forget to be able to outrun other potential meals. Maybe he will die of old age before getting to you

Good one. Seems sometimes you do need a gun pronto.

You just had to go and make fun of his overly short arms. When, oh when will you ever learn!

“Preparing for war is about more than just amassing military materiel and training the nation’s youth to use it – it also involves educating the nation as to the horrors of war and its almost unimaginable costs – personal, economic, political, social and moral – so that there is less political will to engage in combat in the first place..Military preparedness must be balanced by intellectual and philosophical prowess if a nation is to enjoy peace. In the words of Lt. Gen Sir William Francis Butler:.“The State that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” ".Makes perfect sense to me other than the general thinking our military leaders are fools or that our civilian leaders are scholars or even cowards. In fact, they often seem more like fools..GWB for example was not prepared for war because he seems to have given no thought to the day after victory.(We won the war but stirred up insurgents by not quickly leaving or else restoring order the next day because he didn’t prepare. It might have been impossible, but preparing for the impossible is better than assuming we just need to try harder.).Further, if you are clearly prepared to wage war, diplomacy looks better to everybody..I’m reminded of an old Western in which a mob was prepared to kill a lone gunman.“You can’t kill all of us.”“No, but I can kill YOU.”The individuals didn’t mind SOMEBODY dying but none wanted to be the one who actually did.(Fiction but a grain of truth.)

“I was merely playing devil’s advocate by asking whether, using the same standards of observation, having a Christian popularity meant a nation was automatically bloodthirsty and morally bankrupt.”…Good one.But no war has ever been fought for God.Nobody has ever been killed for God.Wars are fought and people killed for power.The more power that is available, the greater the chance that bloodshed in obtaining or keeping it is likely. The use of religion as a justification to maintain the illusion of moral superiority is not indicative of religion as a source of conflict or aggression.Sun Tzu explains the need of rulers to provide the appearance of moral authority in The Art of War.

@RWJAMES“military leaders and politicians COULD BECOME fools and cowards, respectively, if their spheres of knowledge and activity are completely divorced.”.Yep, that could be the result, but associated problems in both sectors should kick in far before that. You can’t study war without studying. You can’t lead without knowing people. Cowards know killers can single them out.

.And like me said, politicians are seldom scholars.This worked against LBJ because he lacked the confidence to stand up to some carryover JFK folks who pushed him deeply into Vietnam and withheld crucial information about the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

I’d give you a piece of my mind…. IF I COULD TYPE.