Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Tuesday, January 9. 2007

The EC on the Somalia attacks

Brussels - The European Commission on Tuesday criticised the reported United States airstrike against a suspected al-Qaeda cell in southern Somalia, calling it counterproductive to peace efforts for the war-torn African country.

Is that predictable? I call it highly constructive to peace. Ya gotta love that nasty airplane - my second favorite after the A-10. It sounds like the bad guys were driven into a trap. (h/t, Polipundit)

Update: I see our Special Ops came back to the same area today to bounce the rubble. Jolly good show.

Posted by The Barrister in Politics at 11:10 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Tell the Europeans to bite it.
#1 Habu on 2007-01-09 11:39 (Reply)
Exactly.
#2 The B. on 2007-01-09 12:54 (Reply)
The EU could peacefully resolve the problem in Africa by bringing Islamists into Airbus.
#3 Streiff on 2007-01-09 12:57 (Reply)
I think, instead of playing cowboys and jihadists, we could exchange family photo albums to resolve our differences.
#4 Clark on 2007-01-09 13:09 (Reply)
I love it when they get their panties in a bunch.
#5 NJSoldier on 2007-01-09 15:52 (Reply)
(from http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=1590#comments)

The rate of fire on the new AC-130U is considerably slower than earlier models.

The first AC130s had 4 7.62mm miniguns (4000 rounds per minute) 2 20mm M61 cannons (up to 6000 rpm) and 2 40 mm Bofors cannons (120 RPM each). Then they got rid of the minigun and went with 2 20mm, one 40mm and a 105mm howitzer.

Then they replaced the fixed 20mm cannons with one trainable 25mm cannon. Now they’re replacing that and the 40mm with 2 30mm cannons, each putting out 250 rpm.

So now they’ll only have to carry 2 kinds of ammo - 30mm and 105mm, and won’t have any more gattling guns. But the impact of each round is huge.

ED NOTE: A total of 500 rpm of 30mm is a very lethal rain. Thanks for the info.

Comment by Richard R — 1/8/2007 @ 11:11 pm
#6 buddy larsen on 2007-01-09 23:17 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.