M K R (Military):

NEWS FLASH: It has been announced that the CORONIAL INQUIRY into the CHRISTCHURCH MOSQUE MURDERS has been postponed until October.

Hand Milking - according to Jack Hargreaves:  .. is not just a matter of pulling up and down. The job is done with a squeezing rolling motion of the fingers that reproduces the suckling calfs tongue "... In the war (WWII) when we learned revolver shooting they gave us a long series of hard finger exercises that produced much the same ache in the forearms."

There are multiple possible meanings represented by 'M K R' .. but todays sermon is about the phrase MAXIMUM KILL RATE. 

In an earlier time back around 1970 I was part of the development, - tooling & quality control - laboratory analysis etc. of injection moulded release mechanisms for cluster bombs.- I worked in plastics injection moulding both as a Technician & Quality Controller. (- In New Zealand I later worked as an airline forklift-driver - storeman for 29 years).

We set up a lab to test 'melt flow viscosity' of the polymer used - and to prove it's glass fiber content to MOD specs - while developing the tooling and production of components for the "anti-tank" BL755 Cluster Bomb - that releases 147 individual bomblets to parachute down from each bomb (dropped in pairs).

They are meant to explode above ground level for maximum effect rather than risk being masked by growing field crops such as rice or wheat.

You can look this up in Wikipedia to confirm that I'm not blowing smoke up you fundiment .. but these delights were first USED by Britain in the 1982 attacks against Argentinian troops in the 'FALKLAND WAR'.

A single cluster bomb produces a total of more than two hundred thousand fragments.

Now I want to be very clear that these murderous devices were designed, funded, manufactured and deployed  - NOT BY LICENSED GUN OWNERS - BUT BY OUR BRITISH GOVERNMENT .. the same people claiming to want to increase SAFETY by limiting private firearms ownership.

Another "Jack" was my contact throughout the project - a most pleasant Military Cross holder who at one time mentioned "MKR" to me and explained that while he had personally overseen the loading of prototype bombs onto RED CROSS marked aircraft destined to fly to VietNam for appraisal - the main approval was to achieve a high Maximum Kill Rate on range - where animals are tethered to evenly spaced posts to determine kill efficiencies. - I guess the bombing range posts look much like a freshly developed vinyard planting?

The FACTS of life can be very interesting eh - but please don't be cynical about the function of our "Leaders", or ever question their morality - as that might distress them ..

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I was just reading Jack Hargreaves (Out of Town) talking about his 1920s childhood and regretting the passing of the earth privy "The earth privy has no equal as a means of human waste disposal ... if it's dug more than fourteen feet deep - its decomposition will keep pace and it will never fill up."

Here of course we call them "LONGDROPS" but only dig them rather shallow & somewhat aromatic.

- rather like our politicians ..

Marty K.