Maggie's Farm

I need to tell my lovely bride that she shouldn't tell anyone that breastfeeding is natural anymore. If she does, people may assume it was her that breastfed our children instead of me. Oh, the horror!

I was a little disappointed in the story on Israel's Weapon Wizards. I know it was only a book review, but I was hoping for some more insight into the methods. The root cause for Israel's success seems to be that the IDF won't take substandard weapons when they can adapt something better suited to their purposes. The Tavor is a great example. They needed a battle weapon that wouldn't jam, clog, malfunction or be too hard to maintain. So they develop this baby:

https://www.iwi.us/iwi/media/Gun-Pages/Tavor/TSB16L.jpg

It is a superb weapon. I recommend the 18 inch barrel, which allows it to be shorter than the AR 15 with a 16 inch barrel. I don't want to get into any fights about the merits of the AR 15, but I do think the Tavor is at least as good in most respects and better in others.

It seems that the Israelis are quicker to adapt innovations and refinements to their weapons than most other militaries. I guess when your survival depends on having people and weapons that will work instantly with very little room for error, you can't accept the lowest priced contract very often.

Miss T,

Technically both you and Sam are right. Budgeting the $ doesn't mean that the dept has to spend it. And I would hope that our current cabinet would cut spending on this climate boondogle and other liberal party favors. The problem for those Secretaries is that if they impound the funds by not spending everything budgeted, they will get less next year for what they really need.

Hard to tell until all the shoes have dropped, but yes it seems like a victory for Trump (and those of us who like a lower debt) in the short term. Will see if his cabinet officials agree after the next budget cycle has been set in stone. The key is both Trump and his cabinet having the political will to see this through.

Of course the press and usual liberal suspects will scream that he is killing the poor and minority among us (because he is Hitler, ya know!). I think that the average Joe Sixpack voter sees through this liberal wolf cry at this point. The more the libs do it now the less it works.

I think these are the death throes of a dying liberal movement. We shall see, though. If PT Barnum was right, you can fool all the people some of the time.