Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Dat Hat!!

This is a photo of the Rough Riders with their two Colt 1895 "Potato-Digger" machine guns, the first automatic machine guns used by the Army in combat. As you can read in the article, these guns were purchased privately and given to the Rough Riders.


Check out, though, the hat worn by the man on the far right. It looks as though he is wearing a cover from a large soup tureen.

Here's a Potato-Digger being fired:



2 comments:

Old NFO said...

Scary, and the fact that they were DONATED says something about the lack of funds the military had in those days...

Comrade Misfit said...

Even reading Col. Roosevelt's book "The Rough Riders", it's clear that the Army's logistics system was completely overwhelmed. Most of the Rough Riders didn't deploy. Still, they went from recruitment, through training, deployment, invading Cuba, some heavy combat, returning back to the States and demobilizing in under 140 days.

The other thing was that private citizens were able to purchase medium machine guns with their own funds and donate them to the unit. Try doing that now!