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February 14th, 2005 Biblical Archaeology - I did some research this weekend, and I can conclusively determine the site referred to in the parable of the sower - specifically, the field with rocky soil. It's my backyard. We bought two rose plants at Home Depot (a.k.a. The Money Pit) and tried to plant them Sunday afternoon. We couldn't dig deeper than an inch or two before we hit a rock that had to be removed, with much consternation and shovel-wielding. Fortunately we had a pick I had borrowed from a friend, so the digging went fairly fast after we got that. Eventually we had a hole about a foot and a half deep into which we could put some good soil. Planting is the one home improvement that requires a lack of trust in your own skills. Once the plant is in the ground, you just have to water it. Beyond that, you have to rely on God. Its quite a good activity for building trust in the Almighty. This is my rifle - In 1938 Melvin M. Johnson, Jr. was a Marine Corps Officer intent on developing a rifle that the Military could use. As an observer at the Springfield Armory he noted some flaws in the Garand and Pederson designs that he thought he could remedy.
The result, refined over the next two years, was a semiautomatic, recoil operated rifle capable of a rate if fire equal to that of the Garand and almost 10% more accurate (in one test - in another, the Garand just barely beat the Johnson). The Army, however, decided to keep the M1 Garand, since it was already in production and it was a faster to reload. After the second round of tests in 1940 Melvin changed the name of the rifle to "model of 1941". The Dutch, having been overrun by the Nazis, were very keen to equip their Military in the East Indies with a rifle. Production was begun in Rhode Island. Unusually, the caliber was .30-06, the American standard, instead of the Dutch standard 8mm Mauser. The U.S. Marines found some use for the new rifle as well. It was lightweight and easy to break down and reassemble, which made for an ideal paratrooper rifle. Although it had its good points (very low recoil, reloading easier than with the Garand) it also had problems that couldn't be addressed as easily (many small parts that were easy to lose and incompatible with the Garand). A light machine gun version, fed from a side-protruding magazine, was also produced. Between all purchasers a total of approximately 30,000 rifles were completed, with spare parts enough for more than twice as many. There were eventually sold off to Winchester and Numrich Corp., then to Winfield, who imported them back to the US and sold them off as sportsman's arms. Today most of the rifles are in the hands of collectors. Occasionally one will come up for sale, fetching in the neighborhood of $3,000 or more. More info than can be reasonably condensed on this page can be found here. Crickets - So I found out Saturday morning that Eason Jordan resigned. "Hmmm," thinketh I, "I wonder which lefty bloggers are covering this." I check Kos, Josh Marshall, Eschaton - nothing but the silence that had emanated from Atlanta for two weeks previous. Jonah Goldberg put it best:
Amen. (Right Wing) Blogosphere 2, Big Media 0. The lynch mob theme being run around the Big Media outlets is baseless because (a) the accusations have been corroborated by several eyewitnesses and (b) CNN, possessing the tape, has not made it public. The topic of discussion at which Eason made his infamous comments was "Will Democracy Survive the Media?". I think the answer is a most resounding yes. However, to quote from Rony Abovitz, the blogger who broke the story,
Keep it honest, and we'll keep it trusted. |
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