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Should you wear body armor to a march for your life
There will be marches this Summer. Prior Summers have proven that everyone should be prepared before engaging in peaceful protest. Not everyone agrees, however.Apparently, the wearing of body armor...
View ArticleAnother Walmart, another man with loaded weapons
this time in Springfield MO.You can read all the details, and see the relevant video, here.A young man drove into the parking lot, donned body armor over military fatigues and went into the store with...
View ArticleGenius? We were at WAR you bastards!
I joined DailyKos at the height of the Iraq War. I adopted the name Fury because for several years I was in a state of...well, fury, over that war. Over the fact that we invaded a country that had...
View ArticleWalking the Gun Walk At Sky Harbor Int'l Airport (i.e., another gun crazy day...
This is not a joke. Man brings his 12 year old son to the Phoenix Airport. Son is carrying a semiautomatic firearm. Dad was packing a rifle. Coming on the heels of the LAX shootout, some people...
View ArticleBody Armor For Kids - Real Protection Or False Sense of Security?
If you’ve been following the news lately, you may have become aware that some companies are now adding protective ballistic panels to backpacks and children’s clothing.
View ArticleConsider some comparative costs
in my last post I noted the cost of a Bushmaster AR-15, without rounds or magazines, was around $1700.I have also just checked prices on various models of Glock handguns, and found they range from $219...
View ArticleWATCH: Remember The Victims, Reject the Violence
The bells rang for the lost: Charlotte Bacon, Olivia Engel, Ana Marquez-Greene, Dylan Hockley, Madeline Hsu, Catherine Hubbard, Jesse Lewis, James Mattioli, Emilie Parker, Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner,...
View Article"I'll be GRATEFUL when you give me something that keeps SWORDS from going...
U.S. Army to test female-specific body armorBody armor is a blessing and a curse for soldiers. Modern tactical armor has saved thousands of lives from bullets and bombs, but it can also be a major...
View ArticleBody armor, part 2: BAE exports Corruption Too Big To Fail
Diarist's note: Back in 2006, when I first started following the body armor scandal, Armor Holdings was one of the biggest suppliers of armor to the military and had a potentially criminal relationship...
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Body armor: some people get rich, some people die (Part 1)
They bring all the bodies home through Dover.
View ArticleVoteVets Cavalry Arrives in Georgia
First, we wondered why we weren't seeing the last remaining Republican Senators who voted against funding for decent body armor for the troops in Iraq getting kicked in the teeth for it.Then, we...
View ArticleSpeaking of "cold chills" and "changing shoes"...
"The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,’’ Mrs. McCain said, in an introduction before Mr. McCain...
View ArticleHallelujah! VoteVets Body Armor Ad Back on the Air.
Back in August, we all scratched our heads wondering why the stunningly effective ads from the 2006 cycle weren't on the air this year. That ad had helped take out top Republican targets like George...
View ArticleWhy aren't these ads on the air?
Remember this 2006 ad from VoteVets?This ad ran against George Allen, Rick Santorum and Conrad Burns. All were defeated for reelection.The same vote against giving our troops the body armor they needed...
View ArticleThe cupcakes challenge: Andrew Rice calls on Inhofe to help troops [OK-Sen]
Yesterday in Norman, Oklahoma, a nice young man made a donation to Bake Sales for Body Armor, a project that does just what the name implies. See, the U.S. government has significant shortfalls in...
View ArticleBody armor: BILLIONS in contracts awarded improperly
This will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed this issue over the past two-plus years:The Army can't be sure some of its body armor met safety standards, partly because it didn't do proper...
View ArticleHutchison (R-TX) calls Feingold bill "a bullet right in the hearts of our...
This is exactly why Russ Feingold was so prescient in pushing the Iraq debate forward today; because the batshit insane Republicans will give a million commercials' worth of soundbites that will show...
View ArticleMedical research shows latest body armor not sufficient to prevent TBI
Science has printed an article about research done by Dr. Ibolja Cernak and others, demonstrating that cognitive and emotional deficits of brain damage are much more common than previously thought...
View ArticleBody armor execs finally indicted for stock fraud, tax evasion
I guess, from the indictment, they went to war with the inventory they wanted, not the inventory they had. Maybe this explains why the troops never quite had enough body armor. And, of course, if these...
View ArticleArmy Body Armor - One inquiry is nearing completion.
The inquiry into whether there were improprieties in Col. Norwood's employment by Armor Holdings so soon after he conducted the Army body armor evaluation that Armor Holdings won is nearing completion....
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