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1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? It’s Time For A National Conversation

The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, so far to little notice.  It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition.  As reported elsewhere, much of this purchase order is for rounds forbidden by international law for use in war, along with a frightening amount specialized for snipers. Also reported elsewhere, at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month.  Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years.  In America.

Add to this perplexing outré purchase of ammo, DHS now is showing off its acquisition of heavily armored personnel carriers, repatriated from the Iraqi and Afghani theaters of operation.

1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? It’s Time For A National Conversation – Forbes

h/t to Kirk Meyers

Now that we know hunters are terrorists …..

46,609,072 People on Food Stamps in 2012; Record 47,791,996 in December | The Weekly Standard

Crack scientists say that Greenland and Antarctica are melting down, and pouring massive amounts of water into the sea and drowning the coasts. It must be that sneaky kind of water which has cleverly avoided California.

Data and Station Information for CRESCENT CITY

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

Weather Forecast Vostok, Antarctica | Vostok Weather | Wunderground

Over the past 16 years, global temperatures have been rising at 0.00 degrees per century.

I asked my spreadsheet how long it takes to reach 100 degrees warming at a rate of  0.00 degrees per century.

David Parker is head of climate monitoring at the Hadley Centre.

In 2004, he has published a paper in Nature, showing that the urban heat island effect has not affected the historical temperature record

David Parker (climatologist) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

The National Weather Service has observed 7 to 13 degrees UHI effect in Phoenix, but David Parker says that doesn’t influence the temperature record.

The average minimum May temperature at the urban locations displayed an apparent upward increase through the time series (1910 through 2000), which was attributed to the urban growth of the region. By the end of the series, there was a +4 to 7 ºC (7 to 13 ºF) difference between the urban minimum temperatures and the rural minimum temperatures.

National Weather Service – NWS Phoenix

Democrats are determined to bring back the good old days, like Prague in 1968

Hunters are terrorists of animal world

Animal rights humanitarians are fed up with hunters, their government cronies and their sick mentalities. Hunting is not sound science. It is sound fun for unsound individuals who commit unrepentant violence against animals.

Hunters are terrorists of animal world » North American Animal Liberation Press Office

This guy should visit a slaughterhouse, where they kill thousands of animals a day and wrap them up in pretty pink guilt-free packages for psycho nutcases like him.

h/t to Dave G

Weather: the snow is here to stay – Telegraph

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent