yes the fr shirts i make out of american wool and fr rayon meet or exceed fire resistant stds both for commercial safety and the military. fabric and sewing here in the USA
my technology was developed by alcoa years ago for their workers safety in aluminum plants worldwide in the uniform shirt and pant;
google lenzing.com to learn about the fr viscose fiber i use and its proven performance and comfort and safety. you can buy the shirts short sleeve and long sleeve and pants and boxers at wickers.com
they are better than any synthetics you can wear for thermal and moisturte mgmt and daily comfort as well as fire. I live in mine year round.
Best way to believe me before you investin one.. i am the inventor and marketer of polarfleecee and have a long 40 year history in synthetics and natural fibers; never ever did I try to sell polarfleece to the military. I was involved in kids sleepwear stds in 1969 when the melting of polyester first was discovered.
Military has no excuse for allowing this to happen the melting and burning is widely known since 1969 they just thought the war wouldn’t turn out to be full of explosives in my opinion.
If Congress wants to buy through ear marks they need to research what the real truths are to the products and the internet is full of knowledge and their staff casn google a day till they find out what they should know.
Too many burn victims now and still all the troops are without safe comfortable long underwear right now for the 5th winter of the wars.
Conract SCAN tv in Seattle for a 30 minmute live video of last weeks show on jan 3 with Stan Emerk where I burned the fabrics.

Did a burn on SCAN tv on the latest syjnthetic heading into ear marks mod acrylic fiber from Japan. Google mod acrylic fiber causes cancer on the internet for a real wake up call. and to boot the mod acrylic being a synthetic also melts but the flame is smothered in toxic gas so now the problems are health as well as safety from fire.

MOST IMPORTANT ..TROOPS ALL OF THEM NEED MY PRODUCT RIGHT NOW AND I NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET TO BRING ATTENTION TO WICKERS.COM thank you for your support and comments.
doug

Small Medium Enterprise has always been on the downstream of industry and that’s what keeps our beloved Corporations strong. That and the fact that a great chunk of our taxes end in their pockets.

Clearly, by the above piece, you are in agreement Susan. Ron Paul is right, scrap the IRS and show your local Corporation the bird!

What genetically engineered veggies have you eaten lately? No food is ’safe’ unless you grow it yourself. Even then if someone plants genetically engineered seed upwind from your crop and it gets “mixed” with yours you could be sued for theft.

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/pubs/MonsantoExSum1.14.2005.pdf

Its over 112,000 as of about noon MST..

You can go here…..www.wexlerwantshearings.com

I also just spoke to his staff in DC. The goal is for him to present sometime after the first of the year all these signatures to the John Conyers and his fellow members of the House Judiciary Committee.

This is VERY VERY important and could build a fire under nancy’s ass and get Impeachment back on the Table.

Pleas sign this if you haven’t already and then pass it on to all your friends.

Bill Keyes, great comments, and very thoughtful. I usually agree with most everything you write, and look forward to your posts.

I am very concerned about the care and treatment of our AD and Veterans… the care and concern of the people, has not transpired into the reality. The number of homeless vets, the suicides of active duty and deployed personnel, the treatment (and lack of same)of the wounded, the lies to the soldiers… I could go on for days on this rant. Anyway, the same holds true here, as I said above. If we accept the minimal standard, and don’t fight against it, we will never see the change that we desire. What is the old saying? The squeaky wheel gets the grease…

On the issue of the food inspection, we really can not say that we did not see this coming. We have even had discussions here on this board on this, or similar issues. The whole thing with importing so many products from China, has to do with profit for corporations. Drug and toys, fish and so many other things. Textiles, all the previously know industries, that have supported the American economy in the past. All gone. And we have given up a fair amount of safety that we have known in the past with them. bushco, and the neocons that he has enabled, will use this once great nation until it no longer serves their purposes, and then discard it as well… BTW, I just read that besides all the other genetically engineered food we consume here in the US, that we are about to start eating cloned beef. I am becoming a vegetarian now for sure…

It’s quite possible that no product would really have performed satisfactorally. In that case, if the RFP was written correctly, no contract need have been awarded.

“The truth is that no nation can be constantly prepared to undertake a full-scale war at any moment and still hope to maintain any of the other purposes in which people are interested and for which nations are founded.

In the first place, it requires a complete surrender of liberty and the turning over to the central government of power to control in detail the lives of
the people and all of their activities.

While in time of war people are willing to surrender those liberties in order to protect the ultimate liberty of the entire country, they do so on the theory that it is a limited surrender and one which they hope will soon be over, perhaps within a few months, certainly within a few years. But an indefinite surrender of liberty such as would be required by an all-out war program in time of peace might mean the final and complete destruction of those liberties which it is the very purpose of the preparation to protect.”

Sound like a sane foreign policy?

It from Mr. Republican, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, also known as Mr. Republican in his 1951 book A Foreign Policy for Americans.

How about the last line where he says…

But an indefinite surrender of liberty such as would be required by an all-out war program in time of peace might mean the final and complete destruction of those liberties which it is the very purpose of the preparation to protect.”

This is exactly what the Bush Admin has done with the “War On Terror”.

So the “War on Terror” is the root cause of all our problems we have today, and it is the lynchpin of the Bush regime’s empire building global denomination scheme.

So it would seem that in order to stop all this we have to stop the fake “War On Terror”. So who is going to stop it? Certainly not the Republicans, the insane military budget will continue to line their pockets. The Democrats?? What a joke, if anything most of them actually still believe the bullshit that the Bush admin has been shoveling out for 7 years, that there is an-Islomfasist-under-every-bush-just- waiting-to-slit-your-throat.

So this is why even if one of the current leaders in the Democratic horse race wins, nothing major is going to change. Why, because you see the profiteers of war and merchants of death, are not of one political party, they are only interested who can best deliver the one thing they cherish the most…

Profit.

They will back and fill the coffers of whoever they think has the best chance of winning and then even if the Dems win,after the Inaug parties are over, they will remind their patrons that is payback time and business will go on as usual and for us losers “we the people” it will be “same ol’ shit, new boss”.

The “War on Terror” is simply a new manifestation of the “Cold War”

After WWII the whole “military industrial complex” which Pres Eisenhower(a good Republican)warned about which actually should have been called the merchants of death and war profiteers needed an excuse to keep it going. So they invented the “Cold War ” which was successful for them for 40 some years. When the Soviet Union collapsed and peace threatened to break out (peace is not profitable) during the Clinton years, they panicked and as it says in the PNAC manifesto needed a “New Pearl Harbor”.

So while waiting for their “New Pearl Harbor” they got Dumbya elected who they knew could be easily manipulated, and lo and behold on 9/11/01, their prayers were answered and as they say the rest is history.

However they were praying all right, but not for some sort of miraculous unplanned event which they could then take advantage of, but they were praying that the plans they made for 9/11 would come off, the public would swallow the Bin Laden and his band of 18 merry Saudi men story and another “Cold War” could be started, just change the name and find a new enemy.
So as I said above their prayers were answered and the rest is history.

However the outcome of this new “Cold War” will be different then the last one. The Republic survived the last one, it won’t survive this new one.

He has a lighter on his flame resistant material, we’re then informed the other material is flame resistant to similar specs. but at different levels is not.

Does his material meet the same standard?

There’s no definition specifically saying what “intense heat” is, and there’s no distinction from the other product to satisfy claims of protection vs. that scale of heat, either.

There’s no basis for comparison with Outdoor Research, whose product was not claimed to be deficient. By placing its bid process in proximity to a prior product which meets a perceived unsafe range of tolerance for items we’re not told what industry standards exist for, we are led to believe it’s a case of both being the examples of potential negligence.

Immediacy seems to be the priority past that, and the product is also sourced within the state that homes a base for equipment needed by Special Forces.

One would assume items that meet quality specs from within one’s state would be desired foremost.

Trying to place bids for those items requested through established channels next to ones whose safety thresholds may or may not be within the range for maximum exposure safety is being a bit of a reach, without clarification it sounds like a hit piece.

Was anyone else found guilty like Rep. Duke Cunningham(R-CA) was? Since a Republican was caught taking bribes his name goes along that of Democrats?

I’d think that Spokane residents would be thrilled to learn their Senators satisfied a military contract with a product made in their town. It’s what you do for constituents. So, does the company who lost the bid specify wrongdoing, or make a vague claim that the writer lets stand?

Paragon of virtue Tom Coburn decides to decry against earmarks, yet when the 109th Congress was in session no bids were accepted, cloture was the motive of operation. Suddenly the minority member sees the light and decries its use.

Has he foregone all earmarks usage for his state?

The final item bears emphasis though, if there’s a product made that satisfies thermal needs and is fireproof, why has it not been purchased? Has the company established that such products are indeed available and satisfy the claims they adhere to for safety, can those claims be proven, have they been, is the item marketed to the point it can be delivered promptly and to the level needed, and finally is the product made in the USA?

Should Congress forgo all earmarks and leave it up to the good graces of other government appointed positions, or even the Executive, to spend the money as they see fit?

“But InSport tried and failed to make a fire-resistant T-shirt that Marines could use in battle.”

Did the same claim get met by the other product? There’s no direct quote by the man saying so. Is his simply a nice shirt with limited fire resistance being met by a shirt with similar capacities made in the Sen.’s state, or is it that much different?

Perhaps a review of the vetting process that the Pentagon uses would be in order if they end up being a determinant. Military needs, timeliness, working under the assumption of minimum compliance, all should be looked at closely.

Otherwise we might have a pretty well shaped PR piece, it seems quite unusual no sitting Republicans are named as ethically challenged, yet several who have made their share of inundated statements are listed.

In either event this deserves closer scrutiny.