Airborne Combat Engineer

Bad idea

A pocket watch which looks like a revolver:

Things you never knew existed

Same for cigarette lighters in the shape of revolvers.

The Swiss Minigun, which is functional, is even smaller. The NAA 22LR is not much larger.

DeKalb County [GA] police have been known to shoot people DRT (dead right there) for pulling anything shiny out of their pockets, much less something shaped like a revolver.

Toy guns (given how realistic some look now) are also problematic. Another tragic case happened Friday. [PoliceOne]

St. Patty's Day 2017

Enjoy it while you can.

See more PS entries at Cowboy Blob

Seriously, though, see the continuation

Plame gives Committee secret decoder ring

Valerie Plame, whose CIA career ended when columnist Robert Novak blew her cover in July 2003, today testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee whose members will receive a special secret decoder ring so they can understand her without revealing sensitive intel in a public forum.

Ms. Plame (aka Valerie Wilson) lived such a secret life that when she and her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, appeared in a photo spread in Vanity Fair magazine, she was compelled by CIA covert spy protocol to wear dark sunglasses.

The former agent will speak in a top-secret cipher language. Committee members will break the encryption as she speaks using the secret decoder device.

read the rest at the link

[Scrappleface]

Seriously, she was officially a "NOC." See WaPo article in continuation

Humor me, Tuesday 06FEB07

The theme of today's A-C-E has turned out to be the proposed federal budget, and specifically the military budget and how it relates to non-military items. That's heavy stuff, and perhaps boring to many. So, here's something to lighten things up a bit.

American influence in Iraq

For a minor chuckle, check out this cartoon at Cowboy Blog.

Sorry for the lack of new material today, but thanks for visiting.

How to deal with Macs

Cowboy Blob has a suggestion for the Windows guy in the Mac ad.

Interestingly, CB just had a major problem with his Dell.

ACE has been in both worlds, over the years. Now that Mac is switching to an Intel chip, the debate has been reduced to software and styling.

Gun cam

To determine if guns cause crime, a gentleman has created a gun cam. He'd like your help (when you have time) in watching for any signs of violence.

[Gun Cam]

Hey guys, watch this!

[LINK] AP via ABC7Chicago

A 21-year-old man suffered severe burns to his face and head when he ignited a mortar-style firework that he taped to an old football helmet and placed on his head.

In the continuation, you'll see the operative phrase:

"while drinking"

Stylish sheriff matches gun grips

[LINK] AP

Sitting in a thick wooden king-chair covered with bronze stars and hairy cowhide, Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson reigns at the Ector County Detention Center.

Each day Donaldson covers one of his two 1970s-model Colt 1911 pistols with one of his 19 sets of gun grips. (At the time of the interview, he was waiting for an additional grip with an American flag and eagle design to arrive.) He screws one of the decorative grips onto a pistol handle before placing it in his black gun holster.

Green Helmet Guy's blog

[LINK] Green Helmet Guy

Check it out

AP says his real name is Salam Daher, and comes to his defense (H/T Brainster).