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Don't tell me this cold weather place doesn't look pretty awesome:http://www.travelphant.com/2009/09/coolest-place-to-stay-and-see-northern.html
I think there's something to be said for cold, snowy winters. I'm trying to put my finger on it, but having lived without them for the most part for the past several years, I have to say it's a different relationship with the world. I was accustomed to winters in which the land is pretty much covered with snow for several months of the year, and I now find myself missing that. You can't truly appreciate nature, IMO, without knowing her extremes, and her beauty in her different faces. I'm not saying it's always comfortable or easy to live in the cold, but you do receive more than you think from it.
So the cold/warm weather changed sides of the Atlantic. Too bad about the flowers, but I'm surprised they'd be popping up this early at all. I seem to recall that when living in Texas, I saw tulips coming up perhaps end of January or February, but not this early in the year.
I personally like the cold weather. Well, actually, I like weather appropriate to the seasons – cold and snowy in winter; hot in the summer; and mild in Spring and Fall.
The BCS Championship game on right now is the only one I am most interested in. Funny how Auburn is currently up by about three scores. This would be an upset if it holds.
Ha, considering what qualifies as “strange” these days, I would say not really. I just think he likes to blow stuff up, and he needed a specialty somewhere along the line.
My brother is in EOD but is about to get out of the Army. His skill set would probably transfer better over in Germany than in the States.
May he rest in peace. I don't know what the current “rules” on war casualties are but I would argue that any deaths that are tenuously connected in time or circumstance to the war should not be considered casualties. Otherwise, war death toll numbers might always have asterisks by them, making them less meaningful. Say hypothetically that a bomb were dropped by a terrorist without detonating, and then lost, and the terrorist were apprehended without him causing any other harm. Say that the bomb was rediscovered 100 years later to explode on accident and kill a million people. Would including those numbers as terrorism casualties provide anything meaningful? Would the lesson be that we should all of a sudden spend more money on anti-terrorism efforts? Or would the lesson be that accidents sometimes happen? Also, if an archaeologist were to discover a spear from the Peloponnesian war, only to prick his finger on it and get it infected from ancient fecal matter, would it count as a war casualty?
So then why did the AK become so popular? Was it simply due to cost? Also, what ever happened to the Heckler & Koch guns that I thought would be more popular in the U.S.?
Well, I'm guessing the author of the infographic was using the following dictionary definition of “rifle”:"a gun that has a long barrel and that is held against your shoulder when you shoot it"and not this other definition:"a shoulder weapon with a rifled bore"I thought that the "How they compare" section was quite interesting. I have heard that the M-16 was not as reliable as something like the AK-47, but when working the technology seems to have been advanced for its time.
Yes, that is it. The source where I read about it must have used an awkward spelling. I have never had it myself, but I did find a picture.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Queniole.jpg
