trying not to vent

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Well No I do not put crystals in the freezer nor do I salt them , heat

them etc. and when I do clear crystals I usually use breath and

intention or setting on other crystals saging etc.and I make sure that

it is in accord with the crystal that it agrees to clearing generally

its the person working with the crystal who needs clarity and a lot of

the crystal clearing methods are way way to harsh and over blown. I also

do a lot less programming of crystals than I did when I was starting out

now I can usually find a crystal who is already focused on the purpose I

need to work with.

I'm not sure what the astrological aspects are right now some folks seem

to be a bit demanding and others including me are more than a little

touchy. The thing that has me rather upset today is pretty much

completely off topic. Most of the people here know that my family lost a

friend in Iraq last year and that I am managing the memorial web site

profile for him. What has me upset today is an article in the New York

Times about how requests for better armored vehicles were denied because

of concerns that paying for them would cut into funding for pet R & D

projects

 

" Hundreds of United States marines may have been killed or wounded by

roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps officials refused an urgent

request in 2005 from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant

vehicles, an internal military study concludes.Among its findings, the

Jan. 22 study concluded that budget and procurement managers failed to

recognize the damage being done by roadside bombs in late 2004 and early

2005, and were convinced that the best solution was adding more armor to

Humvees. Humvees, even with extra layers of steel, proved incapable of

blunting the powerful explosives used by insurgents.

 

The study also found that an urgent February 2005 request for MRAPs got

lost in bureaucracy. It was signed by Brig. Gen. Dennis J. Hejlik, who

asked for 1,169 of them. The Marines could not continue to take “serious

and grave casualties” caused by roadside bombs when a solution was

commercially available, wrote General Hejlik, who was a commander in

western Iraq from June 2004 to February 2005, and who has since been

promoted to major general.

 

Mr. Gayl cites documents showing General Hejlik’s request was shuttled

to a civilian logistics official at the Marine Corps Combat Development

Command in suburban Washington who had little experience with military

vehicles. As a result, there was more concern over how the MRAP would

upset the Marines’ supply and maintenance chains than there was in

getting the troops a truck that would keep them alive, the study contends.

 

The study says Gen. James T. Conway, the Marine Corps commandant, was

not told of the gravity of General Hejlik’s request and the real reasons

it was shelved. That resulted in General Conway giving “inaccurate and

incomplete” information to Congress about why buying MRAPs was not

forcefully pursued.

 

The Combat Development Command, which decides what gear to buy, treated

the MRAP as an expensive obstacle to long-range plans for equipment that

was more mobile and fit into the Marines Corps’ vision as a rapid

reaction force, the study said.

 

Mr. Gayl writes that “if the mass procurement and fielding of MRAPs had

begun in 2005” in response to the known and acknowledged threats at that

time “hundreds of deaths and injuries could have been prevented.”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/washington/17armor.html?th & emc=th

 

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