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STRATFORD, N.J. – November 27, 2006 – It may seem odd, but Silly String is helping to save the lives of soldiers in Iraq and one local community is making a big effort to ship it overseas.
Among the dangers faced by the military fighting in Iraq are booby traps.
Nearly invisible wires trip the explosions, but soldiers and marines have found Silly String is one way to spot the sinister mechanism without setting off the trigger.
Sixth grade teacher Jane Maugeri demonstated Silly String’s use in revealing otherwise stealth threads for students at St. Luke’s School in Stratford on Monday.
It’s all part of a drive by the student council and the parish community to collect cans of silly string to send to Iraq.
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The yard used to be resplendent with silly string until the kids switched to paintball. I hadn’t thought of that stuff in years; didn’t even realize that it was still made! Bwahahahaha. I think it is time to introduce The Next Generation™ to the house-decorating wonders of silly string.
Hey, if that stuff is helping our troops adapt to a changing battlefield, I’m all for it.
That crap had to be good for something besides making a mess, and burning people if they were too close to a flame when it was sprayed.
On the weather front, it was still about 81 degrees at 5p.m. At 9:30p.m., it was 38 and dropping.
Ma’boy stared me down, so I would kick the lazyboy back, so he could curl up between my calves.
has it started storming yet?
Dang, N2L, a 50 degree drop in a couple hours. I’m surprised you weren’t tornadoed.
The fighters in Iraq:
al Qaeda, formerly led by Zarqawi, now by al-masri
Baathist and sunni insurgents
Criminal elements
The shia SADR followers and militias. Not all shia in Iraq are SADR followers.
Sunni tribes (outside of Baghdad) who support the insurgency.
The Iraqi military
The Iraqi police
The Americans
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The methods used in Iraq:
Car bombs (majorly al Qaeda)
IEDs used by insurgents.
Kidnappings: almost everybody uses this tactic, but al Qaeda not so much anymore. Now kidnappings are mainly for murder (shia) or ransom (sunni, shia, criminals).
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Who supports who:
al Qaeda supports al Qaeda (Syria allows foreign fighters to cross into Iraq and may be supplying them.)
sunni insurgents (may be assisted by Syrian baathists as well) support themselves.
Tribal sunni fight only in their own territoy. Supported originally by insurgents, now are siding with the Iraqi military (and the Americans) to rid their territories of al Qaeda and foreign fighters.
Criminals are supported by kidnappings.
Shia militias are supported by Iran.
The Iraqi police are infiltrated by the shia militias (SADR) and have no or very few sunni members.
The Iraqi military are supported by the govt and the Americans and bad elements are weeded out when found. A problem, but not nearly as big a problem as the police. The military has actually been doing quite well.
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As for the Iraqi government, Maliki’s support comes from the SADR shia side. He has no power without them.
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So who is everybody fighting?
Baathists are mostly gone or laying low in Syria directing traffic.
Sunni insurgents are laying IED’s against the Americans and hitting shia when they can.
al Qaeda blows up anybody it can–mainly civilians. It doesn’t much care WHO dies. The more chaos the better.
SADR shia are hitting sunni in retaliatory strikes. These shia really blew their stacks after the Golden Mosque was bombed and haven’t stopped since.
The sunni tribes are hitting al Qaeda.
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And, everybody, please note that al Qaeda is still responsible for much of the violent death occurring in Iraq–and these attacks have nothing to do with ‘civil war’.
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The above was from commentor “syl” at JustOneMinute I thought it was a pretty good summing up.
Aaack, that last comment that I brought over from JustOneMinute must have been too long.
Yeah, y’all, it started with the storms earlier, but not as bad as we first feared. At 2p.m. we under two different warnings, a tornado watch, and a winter storm watch. Most of the heavy thunderstorm activity, including hail, stayed well North of us, but it has been raining on and off for a couple of hours. The temp is dropping, and we are expecting up to one inch of snow/sleet/freezing rain mix by 7a.m., with a wind chill in the low 20′s. We do have lots of bridges and overpasses in this area, a few flyovers are 120feet at their apex. I still want to do one of those with a Vespa on an icy day.
duz yer vespa have wangs?
And a parachute?
I hope you got all of your capital acquisition accomplished today so that you don’t have to venture outdoors tomorrow. An inch accumulation of snow here would shut down everything because nobody could cross the bridges.
unless you had a flying vespa (wid a parachute)
My Vespa, if I had one, would have whangs, if I tried that. As for the chute, the danged ol’bridges have retaining walls, not like the bridges in Florida.
If it were just snow, it wouldn’t be a problem, it’s the worse crap than snow that fouls everything up…and yes, I will be staying home, at least until or if the roads are clear.
One of those bridges, the one that is 120ft high, is in an intersection of two major freeways, and is called the ‘High Five’, as there are five flyovers. The tallest bridge has quickly become suicide central…can you imagine it? Sheesh, what’s wrong with sucking on a Colt.
No kidding! That whole blocking traffic to commit suicide is just not polite.
Nuke, I’ll never forget the first time I visited Vicksburg. I was standing at the top of a hill in town, and looking down that long slope to Ol’Muddy, and thinking to myself, I wonder what these people do when there’s ice?
Glad to hear that you’re gonna be home all warm and safe. Nuke, you take care too as I guess the storm will catch up to you tomorrow.
If there’s ice, we gonna declare a holiday.
yeah, expecting it to roll in tomoroow sometime.
13-Swampie
Well, so far, the jumpers have been very courteous, and have only taken the leap late at night, when the traffic is light. Still, have to feel sorry for the poor dude/dudette that’s driving along, minding their own business at 2a.m., cruising along at 75mph, and then….d-d-d-damnnnnnnn!
when it get’s icy, it’s plumb dangerous.
Well, I need to shut it down. I’ve been up since 3a.m., and no siesta today.
Night y’all.
so when it gets real icy in Vicksburg, the folks there just stay inside the casino
I thought the same thing of Little Rock, as I did Vicksburg. Those are some steep slides to the river.
gnite. that’s a long day.
see you next time
Henh!
I wonder what they did before casinos? I guess they must get a lot of drop in business, from people that were trying to trudge along at the top of the hill.
/henh
Let’s all hope there are no power outages. This place is all electrified, except for the fireplace, and I don’t have any firewood.
/oh well
Aaack! N2L, you gotta get some of those emergency logs from the supermarket and/or a kerosene heater!
/They both work pretty well.
G’nite, all.
nite–(got a chord of firewood laid in) heh