Turns out Popular Mechanics found out about the HK 416’s role in the demise of one Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden from websites like this one. Too bad they didn’t bother asking someone from one of said websites how to set up their 416 (or bother acknowledging where they got their info in the first place).
Anyone notice anything wrong here? Who knows, maybe it’s the new gangsta model.
“There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.”
-COL George Armstrong Custer
What’s so ironic about that? Google “Custer” and “25 June” to find out.
Ever wonder what all of those plastic Soldiers did when you went to sleep at night?
An intrepid reader sent us this one.
Basically for $75,000 you get two URLs no one has heard of, an Angelfire-based (yes, apparently it still exists) based business and a client list. The seller is very adamant that he won’t show you his financials which sets off sirens from here to Wall Street. That is, if the Craigslist advertisement wasn’t enough. He claims his client list should be enough to seal this deal.
No kidding, it sounds like an internet hoax but on 3 May, 2011 The Walt Disney Company filed three separate trademark applications (see below) for the term “Seal Team 6†covering clothing, footwear, headwear, toys, games and entertainment and education services. There are a few other baubles thrown in such as “gymnastic and sporting articles (except clothing); hand-held units for playing electronic games other than those adapted for use with an external display screen or monitor; Christmas stockings; Christmas tree ornaments and decorations; snow globes”.
In 2004, Novalogic had applied for a trademark for the term for use with games and action figures but abandoned the effort in 2006. Who knows, maybe they were visited in the middle of the night by black helicopters.
I can’t for the life of me figure out how you trademark a historical term that is decades old. While I am completely dismayed at the intellectual simplicity of the financial and entertainment industries (money, money, money), I find it hard to believe that they didn’t conduct a simple search of eBay which offers literally pages and pages of geedunk slathered with the term “SEAL Team 6”.
Overall, this feels like a really crappy move from a company that supported America’s war effort during WW II producing logos and insignia for a wide variety of units. Although I have to admit, Disney might be on to something with the snow globes.
King-schming, it’s all just semantics anyway when you are an absolute ruler. It’s a well known fact sonny Jim that Khaddafi is protected by a team of female bodyguards. Stories abound about these ladies but who even cares if any of this is true. It makes for one helluva good story.
See the rest at Acid Cow.
Yet another reason to be thankful the Canadians are a part of the Coalition. Captured in Panjwai, Afghanistan.
Yes, it works…no you can’t get one. Sometimes it’s good to want. Look for a report on lots of new SureFire goodness later this week.
