Kent State was a situation where professional provacatuers, hiding behind a human shield of real protesters, worn down the under-trained National Guardsmen by continuously attacking then with rocks and bottles.

Posse Comatiatus keeps the Army and Air Force out of that business by law; Navy and Marines stay out by regulation.

I figured somebody crossed the proton-pack streams.

I doubt it, schools* have gotten too in grained into the reducing everyone to the most common denominator mindset. *By schools I mean enough of the teachers and administrators too wear-down the majority that would do their jobs properly.

Skeptical Science, please lets be serious. The truth is that the data sets shows a definate downtrend, its not statisticaly significant but its there;
    RSS: -0.04K,
  GISS: shows a -0.06 trend,
  HadCRUt4: -0.07K
  NCDC: -0.04K,
  UAH: +0.00K.
  All data sets show the current temperature are below well model predictions. If the climate is going to get back on the predicted warming trend line, its going to take some spectacular temperaure increases.

We had micro-nuc's like the W48 for the 155mm howitzer had an explosive yield equivalent to 72 tons of TNT (0.072 kiloton). The Tactical Atomic Demolition Munition had a yield of 0.5 KT. All of the sub-KT devices have been removed from service. As far as precision, when a warhead flies halfway around the world and explodes over its target travelling at over 15,000MPH with a Circular Error Probability of 300m, I'd say that was plenty accurate.

Odd it seems the Director of the NSA has the same password as the combination on my luggage,1234, or is it the same 7777 that activated all of the Air Forces Nuclear bombs I can't remember. One would think that the NSA would have a login lockout mechanism that would prevent people from accessing the system at unauthorised times and locations, so that people like Snowden wouldn't be able to use logins of other people without a bunch of visiable hoops to jump through

My little brother worked at a place where when he got to work, he got undressed, put his clothes and belongings into a locker, took a shower, exited the shower on the other side, got dressed in company supplied uniform and went to his work station; exiting was the reverse of the proceedure.

Except there hasn't been any warming for 200 months.

I'm not sure banning CFC's have had any effect on the ozone hole, but the sulpher oxide allowance trading pretty much eliminated the acid rain problem in North America; and is the paradigm for the present carbon credit trading boondogles of today.

We don't consider WP a chemical weapon, but an obscurant smoke device, the Russians consider it and all smoke chemical weapons. Now I realise that WP has some pretty devistating effect on human flesh as does other flame weapons like napalm. Interestingly the obscurant power of WP is primarily in the visual light spectrum, and it is difficunt to handle because the white phosphure has a low melting point and if the rounds aren't kept upright they will become unballanced and fly erratically. For these reasons WP is being replaced with red phosphorus which is easier to handle and has better obscurant properties in the IR spectrum, WP was only being used on an existing stock basis when I retired back in 1997, I doubt there is any left that hasn't expired.

It's not about illegally avoiding taxes, it's about spending earmarked money for an unauthorived purpose and doing it so that accounting is unaware of the transaction that is probably embesselment.

Another point people don't realize is that it's expensive to price out each part of an end item, and most contracts have a specification that the total price of all the parts may not exceed a certain percentage of the total cost. This leads to the condition where the public outcry over a $5,000.00 hammer that will never be purchased separately is adjusted back to a more reasonable level is done, the cost of parts that will be purchased rise accordingly.

The NSA will always win due to having the lowest ping times.

I was thinking these guys are some major idiots because everybody knows that these nests of vampire have to maintian copies of all Emails to prevent insider-trading and all manner of illegal bloodsucking activities, not to be confused with the SEC santioned bloodsucking.