I remember a WW II set movie where two buddies return home and one jokes about the other-I had to train him to enter a room without throwing a grenade in first.

Clearing a room is not a new concept.

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Let me get this straight. A guy is firing automatic weapons at a crowd. The windows he is firing from are smashed — all those bullets, don’t you know. They are the only windows that are smashed in the hotel.

The smoke was coming out of one window. That was because it was smashed. That was a tip off, you see. “We saw all that smoke.” Yes, coming from where the shots were being fired.

It took 20 minutes for the cops to figure this out.

As comedian George Gobel used to say back in 1954: “Suuuuure it did.” Read the rest of this entry »