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Canadian Snipers

Video of Canadian snipers wiping out Taliban snipers in Afghanistan. The video shots were not made through the shooter's telescopic sight -- They were made looking through the spotter's scope. The spotter lies right next to the sniper and helps the sniper find and home in on the target.

Canadian snipers fire special 50 cal. McMillan tactical rifles which are bolt-action weapons with five-round magazines. The .50 cal. Round is about eight inches long and about an inch in diameter. The bullet itself is one-half inch in diameter and roughly one and one-half inches long.

Pay close attention to the beginning of the video. A Taliban sniper is lying on top of the peak in front of you, . . . when you hear the shot fired watch closely what happens. Replay the video if you need to, in order to see the action, at the point of impact. Remember, . . . . the Canadian sniper is about a half-mile from the target.

A Canadian sniper in Afghanistan has been confirmed as hitting an enemy soldier at a range of 2,310 meters, at the time the longest recorded and confirmed sniper shot in history. The previous record of 2,250 meters was set by U.S. Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam in 1967. The Canadian sniper was at an altitude of 8,500 feet and the target, across a valley, was at 9,000 feet. Canadian sniper units often operate in support of US infantry units, which are very grateful for their help. The record lasted only one day, until another Canadian sniper hit an enemy soldier at 2,400 meters (8000 feet).

The Canadian snipers were the only Canadian troops operating without helmets or flak jackets as they had too much other equipment to carry. Each three-man team has one sniper rifle and three standard Canadian C7 rifles, one of which is equipped with a 203mm grenade launcher.

God Bless Our Troops,

Dan'L

Tokyo Rose

The other night we watched a movie called, "Flags of our Fathers." During the movie, I pointed out the radio broadcast of " Tokyo Rose"

She had the best music on her station. During World War II the Japanese developed a way todemoralize the American forces. Psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt wouldwork.

They gave the script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and every day she wouldbroadcast this same message packaged in different ways. The Japanese hoped it would have a negativeimpact on the American GI's morale.

What was that demoralizing message?

It had three main points:

1. Your President is lying to you.

2. This war is illegal.

3. You cannot win the war

Does this sound familiar today? It is because we are being bombarded by Tokyo Hillary, Tokyo Harry, Tokyo Teddy, Tokyo Obama, Tokyo Nancy, Tokyo Murtha, etc., etc. . . . and they have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on Tokyo CNN, Tokyo ABC, Tokyo CBS, Tokyo NBC, etc., to our troops.

The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they demoralize them. . . . . . Come to think of it, Tokyo Rose told the troops she was on their side, too.

Think about it!

God Bless,

Dan'L

Another Moron Celebrity
Brittany's got nothin' on the Lead Stoner

Filed under: Men's Health, Celebrities

He's 64 and a father to seven kids with four different women, but that hasn't deterred Mick Jagger from wanting to become a father again with current gal pal L'Wren Scott. And the skinny senior has apparently adopted a new healthy diet to increase his fertility odds, according to this article.

What's on his list of must-have fertility foods? Avocados, for one. They're believed by the Aztecs to improve men's sexual prowess. He's also drinking lots of goji berry juice, which is known in some circles as 'fruit Viagra.'

I've never heard of either of these being good for fertility, but hey -- whatever works.

The author of this little news blurb, asks, "What do you think of Mick's fertility plans?"

You really shouldn't ask me that. I specialize in the investigation of people who can easily be described as "less than wholesome parents." I've seen the gamut from complete wastes of protoplasm dead-beat dads, to mothers who would rather have a drink, or smoke a joint, or see some waste of protoplasm boyfriend, than to spend even a few minutes of quality time with their own child/children.

I'm also in the process of putting together a book on the subject, which we hope to be ready to present to the publishers by the second week of February of 2008. My co-author is my partner and significant other, Cindy Sorensen. She is an accredited Criminal Profiler, not unlike those FBI agents, you see on the CBS hit television show, "Criminal Minds." She is one of 236 accredited profilers, nationally.

In the early 1950s, as a nation, we began to excuse the behavior of mothers who wanted to increase their standard of living, by taking a job outside the home, calling it a "career." Through incrementalism, we have softened our national position on these matters, with absolutely no thought of what it has done to the children.

When a child goes into the institutionalization of "day care," the parents are promised the world, when it comes to how their pride and joy will be cared for, doted over, fed, diapers changed, loved, played with, and mommy goes away with a real warm-fuzzy about having done the right thing. Not so much!

Truth is, the day care industry has few governmental controls in most jurisdictions, and even less, in the remainder. All of them tell their clients what the clients want to hear, when it comes time to sign on the dotted line. In reality the care provided is less than optimum, and could NEVER match that of a real parent, no matter what.

That same incrementalism is what led to the recent homicidal maniac named Robbie Hawkins, to kill eight innocent people, and wound five others, before killing himself, in what any normal-thinking human being would call, "a tremendously callous act of cowardice." Fact is, he didn't see it that way. He thought that he'd be admired, . . . and even scarier, . . . HE IS!

Even though he's dead, he is admired by his peers, a group of kids that grew up under very similar circumstances. A group of kids that went into foster care, or the day care institutionalization, at an early age, who grew up in a broken home, divided by a completely clueless court system, to live with BOTH mom and dad, . . . not knowing what it's like to have your own room, to sleep in the very same bed every night, . . . who grew up knowing that they didn't have a value that would be equivalent to that of their parents standard of living.

A whole generation of children have grown up under nearly identical circumstances, and they're allowed to play violent video games to the point of addiction, and they live in a world of complete fantasy, with practically no consequences for their actions, except to hear a few notes of sinister music, accompanied by the words, "Game Over!" But, guys like Robbie Hawkins don't get the opportunity to play again, as his parents threw him away when he was three years of age, and the system of government that took responsibility for him, completely dropped the ball. Thirteen fellow citizens paid a very high price for those mistakes, and we need to hold someone responsible.

Robbie Hawkins was a textbook example of what has happened to the fabric of our society, through the implementation of a very liberal approach to the responsibilities of parenthood. I fear that the Mick Jaggers and Brittany Spears of this world are creating a new set of role models for the children of our perpetuity to look up to. Do you suppose they have given any thought to those aspects of parenthood?

God Bless,

Dan'L

In Memory of Cousin Mike

Michael D. Mattox, age 57, longtime Council Bluffs Fire Fighter, passed away December 8, 2007 at his home.

Michael was born in Council Bluffs on February 22, 1950 to Stephen A and Charlene Holly Mattox.

Mike graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1968. He joined the Fire Department and spent 33 years on the Council Bluffs Fire Department retiring in 2005.

Mike and wife Carol Robinson Mattox were married on June 26, 1976. During Mike's life, he was active in Boy Scouts, served as treasurer for 20 plus years for Local 15 Fire Fighters Union, served on the board of the United Credit Union, was past Grand Marshall of the Pride Day Parade, was a team member of Circle Of Friends Relay for Life Team, member of Iowa Professional Fire Fighters and loved trivia.

Mike is survived by wife, Carol, sons, Adam and Stephen, all of Council Bluffs, Mathew and wife Karris, of Waterloo, Iowa, brother, Stephen E Mattox and wife Pat, of Houston, Texas. He is preceded in death by his parents. Visitation Tuesday 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home. Memorial services Wednesday 11:00 a.m. also at funeral home. Luncheon to follow immediately at St. Peters Social Hall.

Family suggest memorials to Circle Of Friends Relay For Life Team.

Mike made his mark on his community. He was a hero as a firefighter. He will be missed by thousands.

God Bless,

Dan'L

Shattered Soul

Wednesday, December 05, 2007: Omaha Nebraska woke up today with wall-to-wall coverage of a visit from President George W. Bush, today. All local programming was pre-empting the regular daily fare on television and radio. Later, that silliness is broken by the sound of gunfire inside one of Omaha's upscale shopping centers, in one of the most upscale stores. At 1:44 p.m., the shots rang out, leaving thirteen innocent victims in the wake of terror on the second and third floors of the Von Maur store at Westroads mall. Suddenly, a young man who had been a nobody all his life; self-described as a "burden" on his family, and bent on making his mark, and "going out in style," had pre-empted the Presidential visit -- pre-empted the pre-emptor, if you will. He was making one, final mark on the society that had let him down. From mid-afternoon on Wednesday, to late Friday night, nearly all local programming was directed at the now-recognized new World Record for Mass-Murders in a Shopping Mall,

Then, on Saturday, December 8, the Online version of the Council Bluffs, Iowa "Daily Nonpareil" carried a banner for a reader poll. It read as follows:

Do you think there is anything that can be done to prevent tragedies such as the Westroads Mall shootings?

Yes, more gun control.
No, gun control isn't the problem.
Yes, more education and programs for troubled youths.
Yes, family members should be there to help.
I agree that some of the above will help.
I don't know that anything can be done to stop similar shootings.

Allow me to submit that there ARE certainly solutions to the many issues that come forth, after such a tragic event as a World's Record Mass Murder for Shopping Malls.

It becomes apparent in the aftermath investigations that the perpetrator was a shattered soul, who has suffered innumerable trauma, in both the physical and mental senses, and was a disconnected child, after becoming a foster child at age three. His life's history show that he had been abandoned, time and time again, and that the outcome of those traumatic events leads to a special kind of mental illness, that he really had very little control over.

Now, I'm not saying that the gunman wasn't responsible for his actions, but the most important people in his life had let him down in really special ways, that led to his becoming a sociopath, and ultimately a psychopathic personality, who had a genuine need to be noticed for once in his life. He found a way to make his mark, and because of all the mistakes that had left their marks on his psyche, he decided to select a day when the most powerful man in the world was in town, and he selected one of the most upscale stores he could think of, and he may have even tried to time the event, so that it would have the most impact on what he perceived to be the kind of people he had developed a special hatred for.

He was what some talking heads would call "a very troubled, yet normal, child, who just apparently lost his way," (actual quote, used by a local television station, the night of the tragedy). In reality, he was the product of a broken home, a terrible divorce, and two parents who either didn't want him, at age three, or couldn't handle him, at that horrible age. As his life progressed, he became part of a system that "treats," but cannot "cure" issues such as his, mostly because there's no money in a "cure," yet the dollars keep a steady flow, when "treatments" abound. The actual welfare of the patient is truly the least of the concerns of those in charge of that system. These events indicate that the system needs to be changed, and new methodology found, to educate young parents that there are consequences to a marriage gone awry, there are young victims who are innocent of wrong-doing, in many of those cases, and the ramifications of abandoning children is a life-long trauma that it's rare to overcome.

Interesting that every single madman of late, (over the past twenty years), who took a gun, and decided to kill innocent people, whether we understand that he/she wanted to make a point, was, at some point, addicted to violent video games -- no exceptions -- every single case, from Columbine to Portland, OR to Virginia Tech, to Florida to Omaha's Westroads Mall. One would think that would be common knowledge, but it's not. We also learned that Robbie Hawkins was a "gamer," and that he enjoyed a number of different video games. Any bets on whether they were of the violent variety?

Given that foresight could be as clear as hindsight, the case of Robbie Hawkins is an absolute textbook example of an emotionally disconnected child, who grew up to become a monster that no one is willing to accept responsibility for, . . . yet there are evidentiary tracks that point toward a number of people and institutions who should have owned more of the task they are, . . . . or WERE, charged with.

Let's face it people, . . . since the early 1950s, the liberal approach to the American lifestyle has been to allow anyone who's a parent to work outside the home, a traditionally MALE role, so that the standard of living could be raised to new levels. The approach creates a need for what we now call "day care." I've even heard parents justify the use of day care as the reason for needing a second, or even a third vehicle, and therefore the need for Mom to work outside the home -- leaving the chore of motherhood to someone else.

Just this past week, our agency met with a client and his attorney, to familiarize them with a psychological strategy for trial, in a divorce and custody matter. We were told that the courts now hold that the use of multiple day care providers is a perfectly acceptable approach to custody decrees, nowadays. This is SOOOOOOO tragic. Imagine, as an adult, having to spend every night at a different motel, in a different city, in a different environment. Now, imagine that you have a language and customs issue added to the mix, to make it interesting. That's what it's like for a child to have to spend his/her day going from day-care to day care, never knowing what the sheets will feel like, how long you can sleep, what is to eat, how your body will accept it, or what is expected of you, how you should respond to any given input, and all under differing conditions of all sorts. This is complicated by the fact that a child is always in the learning mode, adjusting to different people, defining personal needs, (most of which are very basic, and very, very necessary), and compounded by the lack of the love and adoration of a loving parent, when you really need them. Sometimes you just have to wonder if judges and attorneys have any souls, themselves. They certainly have been jaded to the point of losing the ability to ask basic questions and apply common sense, when it comes to giving parental advice.

Last week, we noticed that a local prosecutor has dismissed numerous charges against a man with a history of pedophilia, leaving in place one charge of "lascivious acts with a child," as a matter of plea bargain. the news story said that the prosecutor had "been in contact with the families of the victims of the charges that were being dismissed." Phooey! It's also acceptable for the courts to just release these dangerous people onto the streets of our cities and towns, to find more victims, sometime in the future. Apparently it's just NOT common knowledge that pedophilia is an INCURABLE mental condition, and that there are no psychologists who can come forward to present documented evidence of a cured case of pedophilia, IN ALL OF RECORDED HISTORY! But, our courts find the situation untenable, and don't know what else to do.

Maybe those judges are in the wrong business. Maybe the fact that there are NO CASES of mass murders committed in public places where violent video games played NO part, will become en grained on the minds of attorneys and judges, all across our great country, and our legislators will find a way to make these things illegal.

But it would be so much easier, if parents would just BE parents, instead of working on their own narcissistic behaviors, and increasing their standards of living, beyond what they can afford, at the expense of their children. And, . . . . the cycle continues to degenerate into more mass murders and more shattered souls.

By centering our children in the "day-care environment," and diminishing all family values, . . . by abandoning our children to a corrupt system of governmental supervision of mental health and the internal cash-flow of that system, we have created a new generation of kids who have no real value for life, . . . who will just as soon kill someone, in order to be noticed, . . . who really have no reason to live, because their parents threw them away, in favor of a higher standard of living. We as a society will pay the price for such a liberal approach to parental responsibility. there will be more of these killings, and more clueless television reporters making mindless jabber, about "normal, yet troubled, kids; who have just lost their way."

God Bless,

Dan'L