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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (72110)	1/19/2010 11:36:58 AM
From: bruiser98	Respond to of 74559

>>>The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps,<<< Wonder why they didn't make it a $666 million contract? The Manhattan Project cost $2 billion.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (72110)	1/19/2010 1:06:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

What a good idea to put messages on the gun sights. It's like the messages on cigarette packets these days. No longer is there just bland packaging, albeit decorative. There are interesting pictures and alarmist warnings. On gun sights there are many Biblical quotes which could be used. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" "Turn the other cheek you bastard" "Love thy neighbour as thyself" "Thou shalt not kill the good guys but Evil-Doers are okay" "Let he who is without sin fire the first depleted uranium" "Look before you leap" "He who hesitates is lost" "Down with Islamic Jihad" "Let Freedom Rain" "Dyxlesic Rulz OK" There has been too much namby pamby with Islamic Jihad. The Koran says to smite the enemy, kill the heretics, belay the blasphemers - that's us they are talking about. We need to fight fire with fire. Already there's a bloke in parliament pushing Sharia law in NZ. Give them an inch and they'll take over - unless the Chinese do first, which seems more likely. We'll need a whole new lot of Biblical quotes to prevent that. Hmm, if I have half-Chinese grandchildren ... um... there must be a quote for that situation. "Smite thyself" perhaps? Maybe Google has a "suitable Biblical quotes" search function. Things get so tricky. We named our son after a Turk and now he gets about wearing a Turkish T shirt with Tarkan on it. Nobody told me that they were conducting Islamic Jihad against us. They seemed really friendly and nice. tarkan.com.tr Maybe we should just have "Smite Everyone". "Smite thy neighbour as thyself". Nice and simple and that way we'd definitely get the Evil-doers. Anyway, what the heck, precisely, does one do if "smiting" somebody. Google probably knows. Sure enough - originally it was "smear" or "daub" but it leans towards giving a good whack in modern lingo: thefreedictionary.com <[Old English smitan; related to Old High German smizan to smear, Gothic bismeitan, Old Swedish smeta to daub] > Tarkan, the Turkish version, used to spend time heading off east to smite the Mongols, who of course had more than a passing resemblance to our son in law and therefore presumably any grand children. I hope this isn't leading to family feuds. Unfortunately, I suspect there is some Jewish ancestry lurking in my genes, so that could cause some problems too. There's going to have to be an awful lot of smiting going on. Mqurice