by Pops » Tue 18 Sep 2007, 16:06:30
Nice pic, Boss; good perspective rendition and the little boat in the background is a nice touch.
I can guess where the saltpeter comes from but what about the sulfur?
It seems to me they had things like this 60 years ago with much bigger and better supplied guns and though those platforms were mobile, they were defeated by much less expensive means.
As far as No Be There, you are pretty obviously there, immobile and with something to protect. Nothing draws attention like big guns obviously protecting something like Shanny’s tomatoes; just ask some of our folks now deployed in various locales.
If the US has learned anything in the last 250 years it should be the possibilities of asymmetric warfare.
Several good swimmers with appropriate devices could easily cause them tomatoes to float and a few more could pluck the harvest.
I guess I will respectfully decline your offer.
Oh oh! What is that smell?
Ahh! I forgot to take off my boots!
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
