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I was actually going to go out this weekend to buy some rechargable D batteries. (I got a new radio/flashlight on Friday)  I never thought that I might have a problem getting rechargable batteries.

I'll let you know tomorrow. 

You should use cr123 lithium batteries they have a ten year shelf life and are the battery that powers all SureFire Flashlights. Check out their web at www.surefire.com also use crank radios that require no batteries.  D cell batteries are expensive and dont last long they are also large and heavy compared to cr123 Lithium.   

night sights? mighty mouse, are you a secret agent?  maybe we can use you to infiltrate the who. I'll give you my suit case nukes.

Well - to be honest - I was schooled under Secret Agent Maxwell Smart and Agent 99.  My credentials speak for themselves.   

Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.   And in all probablity most altercations are going to occur at night.  That's when the real 'Spooks' will be about.  Iron sights in the pitch black are about as good as aiming a stick.  A nice red dot scope is very affordable ($30) and nice if you need to slip out the back Jack - while someone is breaking in the front, or vice versa.  Might be better than a direct confrontation.  Buy some time to see what's going on.  Take care of the situation on my terms and not theirs.  Of course the wife would have to be quick about it also.  Vacate - locate - make a plan - terminate being an option.  In the Navy they teach you to always have an exit strategy.  Don't get caught in a corner.  I've got a cheap gen1 Russian night scope but the optics suck.  But better than nothing.  Would love a gen3 rifle scope but can't afford it.  Also bought some 12V driveway monitors which I will locate around the house - transmit distance 1,000' but they only cover a 30' range.  Will use fishing line also.  Then there's the three dogs.  Hope we wake up in time to have plans work instead of Keystone Kop scenerio at the OK Corral.

WHO will self-implode when this goes H2H.  Congress will yell and scream at each other,  Bush & Cheney will be in hiding at the Underground White House in Wyoming -  and the military will be trying to maintain order as the cities riot one after the other.  A real cluster f$%k.

As to suitcase nukes - I feel that there are already a sufficient number of them strategically placed around the US by the Chinese so when they invade Tiawan and if we raise a stink - Some of our cities go Boom! Boom! Boom! and we don't know who to blame.  Total chaos.  (this is just my imagination running wild)  But - the Chinese do control the port in Long Beach - and just how many conatiners - containing who knows what - have made it who knows where inside the US.  Isn't it a little suspicious that the Chinese inspect 100% of the containers entering Chinese ports.  Do they know something we don't.

A problem defined is a problem half solved.

  I've done the FEMA stuff..you made me laugh.

You are so right about  US Ports being run by China or any other country. They closed down the only naval base left that could repair or build or refit our navel ships in the continetal US and gave it to the China. Wasn't that under Clinton? Why wasn't there a China-gate about that. Maybe the news media might have a bias?