It's July, say what's on our mind. Other than Politics/US Government or Lack Thereof!

[Bawanna]

Seems like this year is flying by, maybe life is flying by.

Anyhow this is the place for funny, clean, or just general discussion among friends.

We're closing in on election time, leave that someplace else PLEASE.

All good stuff here, help, ideas, family discussion.

Off color or unsuitable stuff will just disappear without notice. Kind of slows down this time of year as most are outside doing stuff with less time on the crystal ball and specifically Kahrtalk. Try to visit from time to time. Keep your friends and priorities straight.

I'm of to make sawdust. Finish some handles for Deacon today or tomorrow.

Peace out.

[Tinman507]

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/images/w.gifhen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

[mr surveyor]

!!!

[OldLincoln]

Wife wants me to help her work in the yard, I prefer to declare it a wilderness zone. She says the exercise will be good for me, I say exertion is something to be endured, not chased after. Heck I just did 3 pushups a couple days ago which is 1 more than in the past year. Sigh.... the things we do for love......

[mr surveyor]

I remember a teacher in grade school that said something about your heart only having so many beats available for your lifetime... so I figure why waste any?

[MW surveyor]

Thanks for posting Tinman!

OL - I was saved by actual rain today!!!!!!:D

See, I knew he wouldn't forget. What with us sending out subtle hints!

[Barth]

Super busy implementing 2yr long ERP system at work this weekend. Bla
Got ammo and grips for the S&W 629 to shoot next week.
Storm Lake has my OEM P220/45 barrel and their dual ported wamma jamma.
Should have that back to shoot soon.
My triple ported Bar-Sto for the P239/357 should be finished later this month.
NFL starts soon Woo Hoo!!

I'm really trying hard to not buy any more guns this year.
I really mean it this time!!! (I hope...)

[MW surveyor]

Hope this works better than that horse.

[crazymailman]

Thank you Tinman! Great post

[wyntrout]

That Declaration thingy needs to be picked up and dusted off and then Obama's footprints scrubbed off. Then we need to make that declaration again with the same feelings as our forefathers... and foremothers did!

And, yes, thanks Tinman!

Wynn:)

[jeepster09]

Peter is sitting at the Pearly Gates when two men wearing hoodies arrive.


St. Peter looked out through the Gates and said "Wait here. I will be right back."

St. Peter goes over to God's chambers and tells him who is waiting for entrance.

God says to Peter: "How many times do I have to tell you, you can't be racist and judgmental here. This is heaven. All are loved. All are brothers. Go back and let them in!"

St. Peter goes back to the Gates, looks around, and lets out a heavy sigh. He returns to God's chambers and says "Well, they're gone."

The guys wearing hoodies?" asked God.

"No. The Pearly Gates."

[OldLincoln]

Profiling!!!!!!

[muggsy]

Seems like this year is flying by, maybe life is flying by.

Anyhow this is the place for funny, clean, or just general discussion among friends.

We're closing in on election time, leave that someplace else PLEASE.

All good stuff here, help, ideas, family discussion.

Off color or unsuitable stuff will just disappear without notice. Kind of slows down this time of year as most are outside doing stuff with less time on the crystal ball and specifically Kahrtalk. Try to visit from time to time. Keep your friends and priorities straight.

I'm of to make sawdust. Finish some handles for Deacon today or tomorrow.

Peace out.

The older you are the faster time passes. It seems like just last week that I was nineteen. Of course the old woman that I'm married to says that I'm 66 going on 19. I'm thinking of becoming a curmudgeon like Jocko.

[muggsy]

I want to thank Chief Justice John Roberts for siding with the four liberals on the supreme court in deciding that it is constitutional for the federal government to tax the people of the United States for not doing something. By doing so he removed any illusion that we might have held that we live in a free country. We now live in Obama's socialist utopia. It is my sincere hope that the Chief Justice suffers a protracted and agonizing death under that very same federally controlled medical system that he held to be legal.

[Planedude]

I kind of thought Obumma has hit the Demmy trifecta...
He has created a new avenue for Taxing me.
He plans to Spend my tax dollors like my piggy bank will never run dry.
And
He has created a giant new Bureaucracy dept I never wanted.

His place in history is assured.:rolleyes:

[OldLincoln]

Just a tiny little cheerfully applied tag.... Since the mandate is now a tax, it takes only 51 votes - not 60 - to overturn it. A new bill surely will be roling along soon to repeal Obamacare and the Dems can either vote to repeal it or they can vote to tax the lower class into the poorhouse. Also, now business is motivated even more to get Romney elected and his coffers are swelling.

[Bawanna]

Thats the way I heard it. Roberts is pretty tricky. Didn't get in the middle in an election year and made it easy and probably likely to be repealed. I can only hope.

Sad part is theory is it will also make obummer a shoe in but I anticipated that.

Enough politics, you guys tricked me.

[Barth]

Thats the way I heard it. Roberts is pretty tricky. Didn't get in the middle in an election year and made it easy and probably likely to be repealed. I can only hope.

Sad part is theory is it will also make obummer a shoe in but I anticipated that.

Enough politics, you guys tricked me.

There's only one shoe Obummer is going to get!
Don't give up hope yet.
I think many of the polls are as ridiculous as the mud slinging, underhanded,
ad campaign that's being waged. I feel a backfire may be in order.
And a silent, and silently enraged, majority may well have had all they can stomach of this National Embarrassment.

I truely feel his The Day of Reckoning is nigh.

http://rlv.zcache.com/01_20_13_end_of_an_error_anti_obama_bumper_sticker-p128001354163051406en8ys_400.jpg

[Popeye]

THANKS TINMAM
Yes it just shows how broken we have become.

Your right Barth he's a National Embarrassment.

[CrabbyAzz]

I thought the OP ask that politics be left out of this tread...

[muggsy]

I thought the OP ask that politics be left out of this tread...

Bawanna asked us to say what was on our minds. I did just that.

[Bawanna]

Lets erase him from our minds. I try not to think about it anymore.

[muggsy]

Those of you who wish to see what our country will look like when it's people become dependent on democratic socialism need only to look to our ghettos. My grandparents traveled half way around the world to escape tyranny of socialism and our people are running toward it. Never look toward government to find charity. All you'll find is corruption. I gave up six years of my life in defense of freedom. That isn't an easy thing to forget. If that statement gets me banned from this website then I didn't belong here in the first place.

[les strat]

This was a HUGE deal. I think it can't be said enough. It sounds all fairy-tale and all to most of the politically ignorant, but the consequences of this rape of the Constitution will have the ones that supported it crying in the streets within 4 years. The working class can't bear it. Plain and simple.

[OldLincoln]

Oh, LOOK..... SHINY!!!!!

Seen any pretty women lately?

[CrabbyAzz]

Those of you who wish to see what our country will look like when it's people become dependent on democratic socialism need only to look to our ghettos. My grandparents traveled half way around the world to escape tyranny of socialism and our people are running toward it. Never look toward government to find charity. All you'll find is corruption. I gave up six years of my life in defense of freedom. That isn't an easy thing to forget. If that statement gets me banned from this website then I didn't belong here in the first place.

Most of our grandparents came here to find a job, just like the Mexicans. When most of them got here they also became an oppressed minority. At one time being Italian was was dirty like the polish and Irish were previously looked down upon. Before unions the corporations basically ran legalized slavery. In the mine towns you lived in the company housing and had to purchase everything from the company store . Prices were calculated so you would live at the poverty line and never be able to save a penny.

Sorry, but the old days weren't that great...

[MW surveyor]

Geez, less than one day in on a thread that's supposed to last a month.

[OldLincoln]

I just read something I found really interesting. Since 1996 those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence are banned for life by the feds from owning a gun. This was upheld by the Supreme Court (http://www.calccw.com/Forums/general-faq/10663-misdemeanor-crime-domestic-violence-now-federal-lifetime-ban.html) and it lumps domestic violence in with convicted felons.

Now you may want to read up on domestic violence. Does getting into a loud argument with a family member constitute DV. What about grounding your pot smoking rebellious teenage child? How about an anti-gun spouse who files in spite?

All I'm saying is be aware of the consequences.

[Bawanna]

You have to be convicted. Washington state law says that if there is a physical domestic violence the primary aggressor goes to jail. (Sometimes hard to determine) I'm kind of proud that it isn't always the husband/boyfriend going either, often times the female is doing the smacking.


Verbals don't quailfy. Spouses have tried to play havoc with their husbands but usually at least in most of our cases the officers see that.

Your right that a Conviction of DV Assault is just like being a felon when it comes to gun rights.

Up here and I'm sure most places a restraining order or protection order disqualifies a gun buyer until it expires or is removed from the record.

Sometimes it's a tangled mess. I had one last week where there was a restraining order, guy said it was suppose to end 3 years ago following a divorce but it never got removed. Until it is no guns for him.

[yqtszhj]

Oh, LOOK..... SHINY!!!!!

Seen any pretty women lately?

Yep. Sure have.

How about seen a lady with a gun? Back on gun topic now.

[OldLincoln]

I've been fussin about getting a different 45 for carry. Bawanna said I need to carry Dad's Colt 1911 45 for awhile to make sure I was comfortable concealing a larger gun. I did and I am. Funny thing tho, since I can't find anything stating the width of my 1911 I measured. Did you know my 45ACP 1911 Colt Commander is THINNER than my PM9???? I measured a half dozen times refusing to believe that so I smirked and tried to force it into the PM9 holster. It was SLOPPY in that holster and my PM9 doesn't want to go in the Colt's holster. Is that weird or what?

[Barth]

I've been fussin about getting a different 45 for carry. Bawanna said I need to carry Dad's Colt 1911 45 for awhile to make sure I was comfortable concealing a larger gun. I did and I am. Funny thing tho, since I can't find anything stating the width of my 1911 I measured. Did you know my 45ACP 1911 Colt Commander is THINNER than my PM9???? I measured a half dozen times refusing to believe that so I smirked and tried to force it into the PM9 holster. It was SLOPPY in that holster and my PM9 doesn't want to go in the Colt's holster. Is that weird or what?

That is weird.
My MK40 is like 1.0" or something.
It's like deck of cards thin.
My P220/45 is huge in comparison.

I actually like my G27 or P239 as a nice carry size.

[crazymailman]

I've been fussin about getting a different 45 for carry. Bawanna said I need to carry Dad's Colt 1911 45 for awhile to make sure I was comfortable concealing a larger gun. I did and I am. Funny thing tho, since I can't find anything stating the width of my 1911 I measured. Did you know my 45ACP 1911 Colt Commander is THINNER than my PM9???? I measured a half dozen times refusing to believe that so I smirked and tried to force it into the PM9 holster. It was SLOPPY in that holster and my PM9 doesn't want to go in the Colt's holster. Is that weird or what?

The genius of John Browning just keeps on amazing me.

[MW surveyor]

I've been fussin about getting a different 45 for carry. Bawanna said I need to carry Dad's Colt 1911 45 for awhile to make sure I was comfortable concealing a larger gun. I did and I am. Funny thing tho, since I can't find anything stating the width of my 1911 I measured. Did you know my 45ACP 1911 Colt Commander is THINNER than my PM9???? I measured a half dozen times refusing to believe that so I smirked and tried to force it into the PM9 holster. It was SLOPPY in that holster and my PM9 doesn't want to go in the Colt's holster. Is that weird or what?


So you made me measure my 1911 GI's slide. It's 23 mm or 29/32" wide. My CW9 is 22.5 mm or 28/32" wide.

Might have to breakout the good calipers!

[Bawanna]

The genius of John Browning just keeps on amazing me.

Next to Greg, I'm totally in awe of this man.

Think of what he did, and how long he took to create working protoypes with not nearly remotely close to the tools and technology we have now days.

I've seen pictures of his work shop and it boggle my mind what he accomplished.

Pure absolute genius.

[Tinman507]

Pure absolute genius who couldn't sell a gun, but launched so many other people into the history books for manufacturing his designs.

The engineer part of me is in awe and the salesman part of me feels pity he never reaped the rewards of his genius.

[Bawanna]

Actually I'm not sure that's exactly true. He sold a lot obviously to Winchester, and when they balked at buying a few designs he went across the pond and marketed with FN etc.

I really don't think he wanted to be encumbered with production, he wanted to design and collect royalties.

I could be totally wrong and you could be totally right, in fact it's most likely the case based on my past history but that's the way I see it.

[Tinman507]

I bow to your knowledge. I haven't studied him extensively just picked up a few tidbits here and there.

[yqtszhj]

I've been fussin about getting a different 45 for carry. Bawanna said I need to carry Dad's Colt 1911 45 for awhile to make sure I was comfortable concealing a larger gun. I did and I am. Funny thing tho, since I can't find anything stating the width of my 1911 I measured. Did you know my 45ACP 1911 Colt Commander is THINNER than my PM9???? I measured a half dozen times refusing to believe that so I smirked and tried to force it into the PM9 holster. It was SLOPPY in that holster and my PM9 doesn't want to go in the Colt's holster. Is that weird or what?

Yep, my CW45 won't fit into my 1911 leather holster. the 1911 design really has a slim profile.

[mr surveyor]

compare the width of your Kahr trigger guard to that of your 1911. Been there, done that. I carry my CW9 and CM9 in a rather generic Don Hume leather IWB single clip holster (had it for a long time), and they both fit well as far as the frame goes. But try to force the Kahr into a Kydex holster made for the 1911 frame, and the trigger guard width just ain't gonna permit it to work. I've even considered doing a bit of trigger guard shaping on my Kahrs to make them fit my favorite 1911 holsters, but not gonna risk damaging the frames.

[Barth]

Giant two year old ERP project converting Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Payroll Personnel and Supply Chain, using a new chart of accounts and combining three companies including a power station in Guatemala (Spanish) -
goes live TODAY.

Wish me luck everybody....

[Tinman507]

buena suerte

[LorenzoB]

Hope nothing blows up on you Barth!

[Bawanna]

buena suerte

How did that get past the sensors?

Barth, don't drink the water. Not sure why but everybody says that.

[JFootin]

This is cute! :)
http://image.patriotpost.us/2012-07-02-brief-cartoon-2.jpg

[MW surveyor]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=onOavMWFovI

[yqtszhj]

Choot em, Choot em. 18 foot croc. :86:

Worlds largest in captivity.

http://news.yahoo.com/guinness-says-philippine-croc-worlds-largest-061823943.html

[wyntrout]

I watched that video a few minutes ago. The town could get quite a bit of money for that big croc... a big draw for a zoo or some other tourist business. A little recompense for the families of its victims would be nice, too.

Wynn:)

[wyntrout]

Someone just posted this on Facebook. Obama always tries to portray himself as Abraham Lincoln... only smarter! Yet everything he does would have been opposed by Lincoln!

Wynn:)

[jlottmc]

I was over on TTAG a bit ago and there is a bunch of butt hurt coming out of Chicago right now. The anti's are crying because Guns Save Lives used one of the "buy backs" (how it can be called that when chicago never owed the guns in the first place) and is set to send a bunch of kids to a summer camp to teach them safety and marksmanship. I thought it was perfect both in execution and in irony. http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/07/daniel-zimmerman/quote-day-worlds-smallest-violin-edition/ http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/07/daniel-zimmerman/guns-save-life-handling-blowback-chicago-buyback-caper/
I say we keep giving the anti's this kind of medicine. What say you all?

[yqtszhj]

Someone just posted this on Facebook. Obama always tries to portray himself as Abraham Lincoln... only smarter! Yet everything he does would have been opposed by Lincoln!

Wynn:)

Yeah but if all guns are taken away all violence will stop and we'll have a world that is so peaceful... :rolleyes:

[Tinman507]

http://www.musicamedia.it/img/70kumb1.gif

[mr surveyor]

TMan.... I can't read that jibberish....all I remember from grade school is F-A-C-E and something about Good Boys getting something?????

[LorenzoB]

TMan.... I can't read that jibberish....all I remember from grade school is F-A-C-E and something about Good Boys getting something?????

Pretty good memory mr surveyor
"every good boy does fine at college" is how I learned it, but I think there are some other versions.

[mr surveyor]

dang.... and I've been good for nearly 59 years....and I'm not gettin' anything?????

I knew I never learned to read music for a reason:confused:

[yqtszhj]

Giant two year old ERP project converting Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Payroll Personnel and Supply Chain, using a new chart of accounts and combining three companies including a power station in Guatemala (Spanish) -
goes live TODAY.

Wish me luck everybody....

If you get all of that to work right the first time my company needs to hire you. They are really good at meeting their due date but the accuracy of any change leaves A LOT to be desired. They cut to the new system and claim they come back with the "fix" later.It took them 3 months to get paychecks right after they "merged" payroll.:31:

then they went to update the inventory database, same thing.

[OldLincoln]

Barth, I hope all went well but I'm confident you are up to your waist in rattlesnakes about now. I've never known an enterprise conversion to go without some snakes to hunt down and yours sounds plain old gnarly my friend. Let us know - after you get some sleep that is.

[OldLincoln]

Our favorite Sheriff Andy Griffith passed away today "peacefully at his home." (http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/SHERIFF__EMS_Called_To_Andy_Griffiths_Home_1612011 75.html). May he rest in peace.

[muggsy]

Most of our grandparents came here to find a job, just like the Mexicans. When most of them got here they also became an oppressed minority. At one time being Italian was was dirty like the polish and Irish were previously looked down upon. Before unions the corporations basically ran legalized slavery. In the mine towns you lived in the company housing and had to purchase everything from the company store . Prices were calculated so you would live at the poverty line and never be able to save a penny.

Sorry, but the old days weren't that great...

They weren't all that great in Ukrain back then either, CrabbyAzz. Most of my relatives were murdered by the Germans. Those who weren't were starved to death by the Russians. If you feel that there is another country greater than ours you are free to move there. Of course, you might just have to give up your guns.

[muggsy]

Yeah but if all guns are taken away all violence will stop and we'll have a world that is so peaceful... :rolleyes:

Abe Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama and the socialist democrats are trying to make all of us slaves of the federal government.

[Bawanna]

Bridge to all hands. Lets steer the ship away from the current administrations reef, if we strike it we'll leave an oil slick from here to Ohio Columbus.

Ok, another keg of Rum to the bridge.

[CrabbyAzz]

They weren't all that great in Ukrain back then either, CrabbyAzz. Most of my relatives were murdered by the Germans. Those who weren't were starved to death by the Russians. If you feel that there is another country greater than ours you are free to move there. Of course, you might just have to give up your guns.

All I'm saying is, today is the best our country's ever been. We are much better off today than any time in history. I'm happy the way things are and looking forward to even better days in the future. Those conservatives who would like to roll back the clock to the fifties thru fear mongering are delusional!

[Bawanna]

Is this a test? We must be talking different countries. I want whatever your drinking.

Our monthly anything goes discussion areas are closely focused on the radar and subject to not happening anymore. Not everyone thinks they are a good idea.

Lets focus on the good stuff, took the kids shooting, got a raise, didn't get nagged for almost 10 minutes last night, that sort of thing.

[yqtszhj]

Back on track now... I found me some new shooting buddies but my wife is giving me the look about them. They have some really cool guns too. I cant just can't see what the issue would be???

[Bawanna]

Our favorite Sheriff Andy Griffith passed away today "peacefully at his home." (http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/SHERIFF__EMS_Called_To_Andy_Griffiths_Home_1612011 75.html). May he rest in peace.

This is a sad day. He was one of the good ones that didn't have to subscribe to dirt and smut to become popular and loved my a bunch of folks.
First Goober, now the Sheriff.
Opie's showing the miles but I'm sure he's got a long ways to go.

[Bawanna]

Back on track now... I found me some new shooting buddies but my wife is giving me the look about them. They have some really cool guns too. I cant just can't see what the issue would be???

No issues here. I say go have a good time. Be home before dark.

"The Look" is nothing to worry about. Got two words for ya....Frying Pan.

[Tinman507]

Bridge to all hands. Lets steer the ship away from the current administrations reef, if we strike it we'll leave an oil slick from here to Ohio Columbus.

Ok, another keg of Rum to the bridge.

Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dUyeMjRsWFI/TCyyChliovI/AAAAAAAACDs/Q7-u5q6itlE/s1600/bogart_caine+Mutiny.jpg

[MW surveyor]

You know, some people just never get the subtle hints.

[yqtszhj]

I think Tinman has a picture in his pocket for any occasion.

[Tinman507]

The Interwebs in the wrong hands is a dangerous thing :D

[OldLincoln]

The following Internet Caliber Guide has to be true because I read it on the Internet.


.22 LR: The deadliest killer known to man. Seriously, there are so many forum posts that have the words “more people die from .22 every year than any other caliber combined” it will make your head explode.
.25 ACP: Slightly less powerful than a hot cup of coffee.
.32 ACP: Basically worthless unless you carry a Kel-Tec, then it’s “just enough.”
.380 ACP: Basically worthless unless you carry a Bersa, a Kel-Tec, or a Ruger LCP then it’s “better than the .45 you left at home.”
.32-20: Wait, what?
.38 Special: Well, it’s six for sure! *So you’re fine. *Unless you have a five shooter.
9mm: Worthless European pea-shooter.
.357 Magnum: People shot with .357 Magnums are known to explode in a shower of sparks and die so hard their mother gets arrested for an illegal abortion.
.357 Sig: The Semi-Automatic Hammer of Thor. *Because Texas DPS uses it. *And the Secret Service.
.38 Super: Wait, what?
5.7×28: The anti-Goa’uld round of choice, so obviously it’s perfect for shooting real threats.
.40 S&W: An anemic version of the amazing 10mm which is simultaneously not enough gun but totally enough gun if you’re upgrading from a 9mm.
10mm: Don’t shoot it at the sky because it might shoot down a 747 on accident.
.45 ACP: The ultimate round, the design handed down from God to His servant John Moses Browning to serve all men in all capacities for all time until He sees fit to end this world in fire.
.223/5.56: Worthless poodle shooter
7.62 Russian: Obvious upgrade over 5.56 because it’s Russian.
.308/7.62 NATO: Obvious upgrade over everything.
.50 BMG: See .45 ACP.

[CJB]

What's on my mind....

Bourbon

Recovering from being robbed

Bourbon

Restoring my own internet connection via ATT/MegaPath

Bourbon

A certain redheaded girl named Dona ... ahem. Wish I knew her better

Bourbon

A certain blond haired girl... ahem

Bourbon

A certain brunette girl that will always be my friend

Bourbon

Susan the welder... even tho she prefers wimmens, who'll always be a friend, ALWAYS be a buddy.

Bourbon

That bastard our President, and wondering what he'll do to us next.

Bourbon

How the ABATE chapter will move foreward

Hoiw in hell I lost the end of my exhaust on the Wide Glide, and... @#$@#$ now I gotta get a SET to replace one.... go figure.

Bourbon

How life is grand - no matter what it shoves in yer face

Bourbon

and to keep things both elegant and on topic... Bourbon

[Bawanna]

There seems to be a consistent pattern here.....................

What is this fixation with welders?

[yqtszhj]

What is this fixation with welders?

Maybe this is her.....

[OldLincoln]

Mmmmmm.... those overalls are HOT!!!!

[OldLincoln]

Reading a book talking about another country in another time but the text sounded true to this country right now.

"The Republic"—had inspired [the entire world]. It had been a bright, burning beacon, a wealthy, vastly productive renaissance which had rivaled Old Earth herself as the cultural and intellectual touchstone of humanity. Yet that glorious promise had died. Not at the hands of foreign conquerors or barbarians from the marches, but in its sleep, victim of the best of motives. It had sacrificed itself upon the altar of equality. Not the equality of opportunity, but of outcomes. It had looked upon its own wealth and the inevitable inequities of any human society and decided to rectify them, and somehow the lunatics had taken over the asylum.

They'd transformed the Republic into the People's Republic—a vast, crazed machine that promised everyone more and better of everything, regardless of their own contributions to the system. And, in the process, they'd built a bureaucratic Titan locked into a headlong voyage to self-destruction and capable of swallowing reformers like gnats.

David Weber. "Flag in Exile".
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Happy Independence Day!

[TheTman]

Barth how did the conversion go? Haven't heard much from you so I expect it was a can of worms as most of those are. What type of servers are you using, what language are the apps written in? I'm a dinosaur old COBOL programmer, but did learn enough Visual Basic to be dangerous. My last couple of gigs were doing the Y2k conversion for Boeing, and the same thing at our local big newspaper, but they kept me on after because the users were very happy with the reports I could generate in an afternoon for them, writing small COBOl programs. My reports were for the circulation department, and we butted heads a few times when I they wanted to manipulate the figures to make them look better, and I refused on ethical grounds. My supervisors stood behind me on those issues. Hard to believe what those snakes in circulation wanted to take credit for. They wanted me to add things like Auto Renewal numbers into their new client figures so they would look like they were getting more new customers than they were, and little things like that I refused to do. LOL, the craziest night of my life was when I lost several million dollars in the computer one night for a life insurance company. When the figures didn't balance they had me come in in the middle of the night to see what happened. Funny how getting a decimal point out of place can really screw up some figures.

[wyntrout]

Hey! OldLincon, that's from my favorite series... David Weber's Honor Harrington Series. I have all of his books and most of those are available in e-book form free at Baen.com. That's a good place to buy e-books... usually $6 for new ones. They don't like DRM.

Wynn:)

[yqtszhj]

Reading a book talking about another country in another time but the text sounded true to this country right now.

"The Republic"—had inspired [the entire world]. It had been a bright, burning beacon, a wealthy, vastly productive renaissance which had rivaled Old Earth herself as the cultural and intellectual touchstone of humanity. Yet that glorious promise had died. Not at the hands of foreign conquerors or barbarians from the marches, but in its sleep, victim of the best of motives. It had sacrificed itself upon the altar of equality. Not the equality of opportunity, but of outcomes. It had looked upon its own wealth and the inevitable inequities of any human society and decided to rectify them, and somehow the lunatics had taken over the asylum.

They'd transformed the Republic into the People's Republic—a vast, crazed machine that promised everyone more and better of everything, regardless of their own contributions to the system. And, in the process, they'd built a bureaucratic Titan locked into a headlong voyage to self-destruction and capable of swallowing reformers like gnats.

David Weber. "Flag in Exile".
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Happy Independence Day!

Hey, that sounds like the USSR but it couldn't be. They are still around doing fine. Oh, wait a minute...... they died 20 years ago :confused:

[yqtszhj]

Doomsday (or Zombie if you're into that kind of thing) firearm guide

I have been thinking about what I have in the event of dire need and wonder what others are collecting. I need to reach a finishing point and then just buy toys after that. I'm thinking I may need to add others to the collection as I ponder.

Here's the collection so far:
a couple of .45 cal's suitable for myself
a few .9mm's for the wife and daughter (.45 is to much for them at times)
several good .22's for hunting small critters (and enough practice to use them at 60 yards for 1 inch groups w/ a scope)
A couple of .223/5.56 for heavier work (practiced to get 1 1/2 inch groups at 100 yards) along with some medium size game ammo.

No shotgun's yet
I've thought about a .308 upper for an AR but ask myself is that a real necessity if I can be really proficient w/ .223?

What's on everyone else's priority list?

[muggsy]

Hey, that sounds like the USSR but it couldn't be. They are still around doing fine. Oh, wait a minute...... they died 20 years ago :confused:

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Every great power has fallen from within. You never know the true value of freedom until you lose it. Freedom once lost is seldom regained. I want to wish all of the true patriots on this MB a glorious Independence day. May the American flag of freedom forever fly above our great nation.

[OldLincoln]

Hey! OldLincon, that's from my favorite series... David Weber's Honor Harrington Series. I have all of his books and most of those are available in e-book form free at Baen.com. That's a good place to buy e-books... usually $6 for new ones. They don't like DRM.

Wynn:)
I agree. I was surprised that I would like scyfi after reading the war/spy action stuff, but much more of it is free and that matches my book allowance. I was also surprised that I took to the strong woman lead characters but I did.

I read most of the David Drake's Lt. Leary series before I discovered Honor Harrington. Lt. Leary was becoming another Jack Reacher (Lee Child) thing where the character stops developing and it's just another cookie cutter adventure. I'm reading Honor in order and her character is continuing to develop although I'm only on the 5th of 11 books. I've been curious about how the character developed before the series starts and he's just released the first of a teen series that goes back to her childhood. I read the sample pages on Baen.

[jocko]

we haven'thad a drop of rain here in my area of Indiana in over 30 days. corn is toast, all fireworks have been cancelled in oost Indiana towns. We are in real bad shape hgere and the crops are gonna take a servere beating this fall. beans might make it, if we get some rain but most of the farmersaround here say it is way to late for the corn and we are supposed to be above 100 the rest of this week into next week. It is 8 pm here and right now it is 103, down for 106 earlier today. I wonder if the birth rate will increase for the month of June in Indiana and Illinois. Just sayin.

[OldLincoln]

Nah.... to hot for that!

[OldLincoln]

Shiny Post!!

For those who have Kindle readers, a historical fiction, treasure hunt book is available free for a few days only. I enjoyed it very much and the price is free.

The Treasure of La Malinche (http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Malinche-Legacy-ebook/dp/B001FOR93Q%3FSubscriptionId%3D1GVBN9WWNVXC5DBPE502 %26tag%3Dkiq-free-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165 953%26creativeASIN%3DB001FOR93Q)

[MW surveyor]

I'm always up for free books. Just hope it does not go away before I can read it!

OOPS, I've got a NOOK so no luck here :7:

[wyntrout]

Baen.com has all formats... some free.

Wynn:)

[Wisewolfhowling]

This has probably been discuss at one time or another but I didn't see it. I live in southeren Indiana "born and raised" been thinking of mixing my life up a little and moving to a new state. What opinions are out there on which state would be a preferred state to live in and a reason why?

[DeaconKC]

Southern Indiana? Move to Kentucky, they need the DNA!

[Wisewolfhowling]

LOL "but Kentucky might not like that"

[yqtszhj]

If you move to Kentucky and still have all of your teeth you're gonna have to pull some. Well, at least I think so after seeing "Call of the Wild Man" on animal planet. That's the dude that catches animals with his bare hands.

[Planedude]

I left central Indiana in 1979 for Texas.

Yep its hot, Nope I'll never leave.

[Wisewolfhowling]

What can you tell me about Texas that is better then Indiana?

[GROTMAN]

This has probably been discuss at one time or another but I didn't see it. I live in southeren Indiana "born and raised" been thinking of mixing my life up a little and moving to a new state. What opinions are out there on which state would be a preferred state to live in and a reason why?

North Carolina is a great place to live. You've got the mountains on one side and the ocean on the other. Some of the worlds best fishing off the outer banks and the winters are pretty mild. Moved here from Ohio in 85 and haven't regretted it one bit. :)

[Planedude]

Well, for one thing, even the Governor carrys...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFeHzB2eLUw
No state income tax, and the crazy folks tend to hang out in Austin, for the most part...
As an Aircraft Mechanic it's also great that the best jobs are here too.
Nice folks, independant folks around here. Texas was once our own country, the founders decide to help the rest of the US out and join up.
That one usally starts the flames, BBQ anyone.
And we still got space if you need it. Its farther to El Paso TX from my house than it is to where ever your house is in Indiana.
But now I'm just bragging.

[Wisewolfhowling]

Sounds pretty good. I might have to check it out. Been in management in the auto industry most of my work history. Lot of jobs for a guy like me?

[Wisewolfhowling]

Is the cost of living high in North Carolina?

[Planedude]

Sounds pretty good. I might have to check it out. Been in management in the auto industry most of my work history. Lot of jobs for a guy like me?

They are adding buildings and expanding opps at the GM truck plant in Arlington, don't know the timeline on that.
They are also building a rail center for locomotive building and overhaul near the airport, north of town that may fit your experiance.

Good luck on a search.

[GROTMAN]

Is the cost of living high in North Carolina?

Looked it up and sounds like cost of living about 9% per cent below national average. Probably depends where you live etc. Can't say much about the job situation.. I work in health care and are a ton of jobs out there for what I do.. Planedude is starting to make Texas sound pretty attractive though :rolleyes:

[OldLincoln]

"Where Ya from stranger?"

"South America."

"Really, what part?"

"Texas."

[TucsonMTB]

Shiny Post!!

For those who have Kindle readers, a historical fiction, treasure hunt book is available free for a few days only. I enjoyed it very much and the price is free.

The Treasure of La Malinche (http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Malinche-Legacy-ebook/dp/B001FOR93Q%3FSubscriptionId%3D1GVBN9WWNVXC5DBPE502 %26tag%3Dkiq-free-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165 953%26creativeASIN%3DB001FOR93Q)
We now interrupt the weighty matters of state with the following message . . .

Hey Mr. OldLincoln! Thanks for the heads up!

Not only have the first few pages of this book already captured my attention, but the Kindle application on my ThinkPad needed updating and got into an endless loop during the process that was only broken by reinstalling.

We are back to "normal" now and looking forward to this story which already looks like a great read.

Thanks again!

[OldLincoln]

Glad you got it working! I have many more free books than I will likely read through a site called eReader-IQ that is a terrific search engine and presentation interface. Of course I focus on the Free Books (http://www.ereaderiq.com/free/) but they filter them all.

[yqtszhj]

Texas is good. No state taxes and you can buy whatever firearm you desire.

[Wisewolfhowling]

Texas is good. No state taxes and you can buy whatever firearm you desire.

full auto? think I am about ready to move. How bad are the summers and far as heat? Right now it is staying over 100degrees and with the humidity it sucks!

[Barth]

Everyone knows my Barth Six Barrels nickname.
And that I'm primarily a Storm Lake guy when in comes to near match
aftermarket barrels (I have four for my Glock G27).
Storm Lake seems to specialize in Glock barrels.
But does make some limited barrels for other guns.
I got a full boat extended, dual ported, Isonite QPQ
barrel for my Sig P220/45 that would not feed a single round!
Normally I don't return anything, but this really shocked me.
I contacted Storm Lake.
And they asked if I could send them the barrel back with my OEM barrel?

Both barrels are scheduled to return from the Storm Lake mother-ship on Monday.
I have four OEM 10 round extended mags, three 7 round P220 Sport mags
and two EOM 7 round mags
I'm going to load up with about 300 HST, Ranger T, Cor-Bon, Hydra-shok and anything else I can find
(Plus a box of 230 +P Ranger Ts)

Wish me luck!!!
http://www.walkerprecision.net/sites/default/files/tbm/Storm%20Lake%20Logo.jpg

[Planedude]

full auto? think I am about ready to move. How bad are the summers and far as heat? Right now it is staying over 100degrees and with the humidity it sucks!

Its funny what you adapt to over time. The heat tends not to be an issue to me. I have worked the ramp and hangers during every part of the year and it can be hot... and it can be really cold, (Shrug). Days over 100 degrees average about 12 a year. Now 1980 and last year upset the apple cart, but on average most days are rather nice.
Now during the "Super Bowl ice storm" we were one big block of ice for a week. My wife is so freaked by that one storm that I had to get my 2012 Dodge R/T Charger with all wheel drive, just in case. Sooooo I get worse gas mileage (about 2.5MPG avg) on the off chance we get another 100yr ice storm in the expected life span of the car (I trade aprox every 5yrs).
My wifes people are from Fresno CA. When we see them, the "scary" talk always come back to Tornados. They "could never live here" based on those scary twisters. I always ask about the forest fires, mud slides, santa anna winds and of course the earthquakes, which they just shrug off as nothing to worry about. Funny thing is, I always get a warning about a storm, do they get a warning about an earthquake?
Guess its all in what you are used to.
You makes your choices and takes your chances.
Good luck on the search.

[Barth]

Texas is good. No state taxes and you can buy whatever firearm you desire.

Florida has no state income tax either.
I don't know about whatever firearm you desire though??
Federal laws still apply...

[Barth]

I successfully sliced my finger open with my Spyderco (again)
This new liquid bandage works good.
I may have to shoot one handed on Monday...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31532SXQW1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[MW surveyor]

Them Spyderco knives be dangerously sharp! LOL

True story (really)

I have two of the smallest that Spyderco makes. Was in Tanzania and the tide at the location that the rig was at was near 18 feet, in fact, you could walk around the rig at low tide. Tide was going out fast and a boat was alongside with on line of a diameter of 4" caught up and could not be untied. The boat's deck crew laughed when I pulled out my little Spyderco to cut the line loose. Took only four cuts! Needless to say, they were in shock that the knife was so sharp. Those serrations really work on lines!

[wyntrout]

4" line! Wow! my wife and I stopped at a restaurant on the Intracoastal and I tied up our 21-ft+ walk-around-cabin boat... over 4,000 lbs loaded. I like to keep an eye on our vehicles and thought the boat looked different... it was tilting. The tide was going out and though it's only about 4.5 feet between normal high and low tides, the boat was really going to be supported by the 1/2" nylon lines that I used. Fortunately, I noticed the tilt before the boat or the cleats got damaged. I had paid attention to my US Power Squadron lessons and didn't secure the boat with wraps that would bind under the weight of the boat!

After that incident, I designed some lines with marine-grade bungee cords added for tensioning to preclude that.

Wynn:)

[MW surveyor]

Lucky there. The bungees work pretty good if you have the right kind.

[MW surveyor]

Here is the Darwinian principle being exercised.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5jI92Ht99Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5jI92Ht99Y)

Remember, the ones that made it through, vote :eek:

Loved the dog though.

[wyntrout]

That was funny. I can remember some fireworks "fails", too.

I got the "butt rocket" video years ago and couldn't believe that someone would do that. That idiot jumped up after the bottle rocket exploded and high-fived the other guy! I'll bet his nether regions got a bit scorched, though!

This 4th a whole barge went up at once in some U.S. city... the "show" only lasted about 30 seconds.

Wynn:D

[OldLincoln]

That don't hurt....much....well, maybe some....got quite a bite there.....dammmmnnnnn!

[flieger67]

Don't know if there are many cyclists here, but my boss, er, "wife" and I are following the Tour de France.

Also trying to get miles in on my bike and also trying to learn throw knives, which is a lot of fun. Plus, it helps to make extra-chunky sawdust, too.


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[Tinman507]

Don't know if there are many cyclists here, but my boss, er, "wife" and I are following the Tour de France.

Also trying to get miles in on my bike and also trying to learn throw knives, which is a lot of fun. Plus, it helps to make extra-chunky sawdust, too.

You ride a bike and throw knives? :eek: Does anyone ever get in front of you on the bike?

[Manzanita]

What's your favorite multitool? I have a Gerber that I've owned since working as an engineer at a TV station many moons ago. It's the one where you can deploy the pliers with a flip of the wrist. I have a Toolzall-Pro from when I was a steel mill electrician that has a wire stripper type pliers. A few years ago I bought some expensive gazillion attachment monstrosity made out of unobtanium that I use at work as a university television station engineer.

My favorite of all time is my Leatherman Skeletool CX (http://www.leatherman.com/products/product.asp?id=3&f=6&c=1). It doesn't have all the silly things... just the basics (pliers, screwdriver, knife). The carabiner clip doubles as a bottle opener but I've never used it. I have used everything else though. It's lightweight and clips onto my pocket (I use an actual multitool belt case as a magazine pouch). For daily carry it's the most practical.

[yqtszhj]

full auto? think I am about ready to move. How bad are the summers and far as heat? Right now it is staying over 100degrees and with the humidity it sucks!

Last time I was in Dallas it was in July, 1998 I think and it was 93 degrees at 10:30 at night.

I lived there in the 80's and have nothing but good memories. I would find a place outside of town though if I ever go back. I thought about moving to Shreveport, LA a few years back for a job and was planning on living in Marshall, TX. the job didn't work out though.

[OldLincoln]

I've been told it often gets to 95/95 (Temp & Humidity). I was stationed in Little Rock in the early sixties and it was often 90/90. Coming from a hot but dry climate, I'd shower before work, at lunch, after work and before bed. In between was just sweat it out.

I don't mind the heat as long as humidity remains low.

[wyntrout]

I can remember the fun we had in the 70's in Abilene, Texas... Dyess AFB... pre-flighting and flying in those big BLACK B52's... on hot, sunny days. I remember being on alert and getting the morning briefing on how much runway we would need if we had to take off and go to war with a full load of fuel and the EMP emitters and other stuff. It was 108° that day and they predicted that the full runway and the overrun wouldn't be enough, but if you had to take off you could use the dirt and stay in the ground effect... literally... until the airspeed got high enough to start a climb! Yeehaa! That sounded risky, but with incoming ICBMs, it offered a better chance of surviving to avenge our loved ones and the buddies left behind.

Wynn:)

[OldLincoln]

Flying back from over the Grand Canyon, the ladies needed to tinkle so we landed at what turned out to be a nothing airstrip. The facility was a Port-a-Poty mounted on a fork lift skid between runways. It was hotter than we ever thought when we decided to land and of course we were overweight, but fortunately burned off some fuel.

We started out roll from the dust and rolled as far as we dared with power lines coming up. We had a positive climb of about 50fm and cleared the wire with little to spare, but that little 4 banger was stressing and getting warm so we leveled a bit then nudged a bit working our way to a ridge line.

It must have been 10 mile from the runway and we were maybe 500' when we found the ridge wave and knew we made it. The updraft lifted us to over 4K where the air was cooler and all was okay.

Talking about it on the way home we agreed the right way to have done it was to get out of the wind at the air strip and wait until it cooled down. But what the heck, we lived didn't we?

Funny comparison tho', that Buff could hold our little Centurion in it's bomb bay.

[Wisewolfhowling]

Texas really must be the place to go! Other then North Carolina no other states are showing on the radar. The wife said she was ready to try it out when ever I wanted to go. Once I get the remodeling done on our house might have to sell out, pack up and go. Born and raised in Indiana and feel like I need to pack up and move at least once in my life. Never know what is out there if you don't take a chance to look.

[yqtszhj]

Texas really must be the place to go! Other then North Carolina no other states are showing on the radar. The wife said she was ready to try it out when ever I wanted to go. Once I get the remodeling done on our house might have to sell out, pack up and go. Born and raised in Indiana and feel like I need to pack up and move at least once in my life. Never know what is out there if you don't take a chance to look.

Make you a list of things you like (mountains, beach, lots of open space for your own gun range, etc...) and take some 2-3 week visits at different times of the year and see what you like best. We've been all over the country and the wife is deciding that she likes east Tennessee best of all. She likes it better than Colorado. I have to get her to Wyoming or somewhere to check that out. I kinda like out west but I could settle in east Tennessee if I needed to it's just too close to the east coast. I'm wanting some land and open space.

[Bawanna]

Lots of open space in Wyoming. It's kind of where I'd like go. I'd probably already be there if I had legs.

Took my daughter to school over there a few years ago near Cody. Awesome place. At that time there were only 5 people per square mile in the state. I could work with that.

Winters can be brutal though, not sure I could deal with that.

I'd love to work at the Cody museum. What an incredible place that is.

Chatted with several locals and they seemed like real nice folks too. Might not allow me in. Hadn't thought of that till just now.

[MW surveyor]

A fire fighter was working on the engine outside the station when he noticed a little girl nearby in a little red wagon with little ladders hung off the sides and a garden hose tightly coiled in the middle. The girl was wearing a fire fighter's helmet. The wagon was being pulled by her dog and her cat.

The fire fighter walked over to take a closer look. "That sure is a nice fire truck," the fire fighter said with admiration. "Thanks," the girl replied. The fire fighter looked a little closer and noticed the girl had tied the wagon to her dog's collar and to the cat's testicles.

"Little partner," the fire fighter said, "I don't want to tell you how to run your rig, but if you were to tie that rope around the cat's collar, I think you could go faster."

The little girl replied thoughtfully, "You're probably right, but then I wouldn't have a siren."

[wyntrout]

Good one! My first real laugh today!

Wynn:D

[yqtszhj]

Lots of open space in Wyoming. It's kind of where I'd like go. I'd probably already be there if I had legs.

Took my daughter to school over there a few years ago near Cody. Awesome place. At that time there were only 5 people per square mile in the state. I could work with that.

Winters can be brutal though, not sure I could deal with that.

I'd love to work at the Cody museum. What an incredible place that is.

Chatted with several locals and they seemed like real nice folks too. Might not allow me in. Hadn't thought of that till just now.

Tell um you have guns and you'll be in for sure. Save me about 500-1000 cheap acres.

[Bawanna]

I'll try to save ya some. You sure that's enough wide open spaces for ya.

I used to have guns, maybe they'll let me in on a proxy.

Actually I think I'm ok, they do a Wild Bill shoot out each afternoon in the summer time and one of the saloon girls in the act I think was smitten with me. Sat on my lap and everything, Ma even got pictures, and she smelled nice too.

[mr surveyor]

I remember the Cody Museum (1971). Could have spent 2-3 days in there, even back then. I've heard it's more than tripled in size. I wonder if Cody still has the nightly rodeo during the summer? I rode in a Monday night show there and had a blast. They had some good bucking horses there, but no bulls back then so my running buddy had to sit that one out. Good times back then:)

surv

[Snidely Whiplash]

What can you tell me about Texas that is better then Indiana?

It's a lot farther from Chicago.

[yqtszhj]

All this Wyoming talk makes me want to do vacation there next year. If I camp in my tent there will a brown bear eat me?

I may get to pass through later this summer but I'm not sure if that's going to work out.

[yqtszhj]

It's a lot farther from Chicago.

I THINK WE HAVE A WINNER :third:

[Bawanna]

I remember the Cody Museum (1971). Could have spent 2-3 days in there, even back then. I've heard it's more than tripled in size. I wonder if Cody still has the nightly rodeo during the summer? I rode in a Monday night show there and had a blast. They had some good bucking horses there, but no bulls back then so my running buddy had to sit that one out. Good times back then:)

surv

They had the rodeo every night a couple years ago when I was there. I figured it would really be po dunk having it every night but it was first class, better than the once or twice a year rodeo's we have around here.

Big crowd.

My wife and daughter had been through the museum when they went over to recon the school so they didn't want to go again. They dropped me off at 8 am and said we'll pick you up at 6. I was like yeah right, give me a couple hours. They said if you are done before 6 to call and they would come get me. Other than about 15 minutes for a cup of coffee and a muffin I spent all but about 45 minutes in the gun museum. There are actually 5 museums. Cody's personal stuff, some paintings, and indian artifacts.

I finished the first floor of guns and thought I'd go again, then I saw a sign that said something like if you enjoyed the bajillion guns on this floor go down stairs for a bajillion more. I had to hustle to look by 6 and your right I could have easily spent 2 more full days looking.

What a awesome collection. Incredible.

[Snidely Whiplash]

Hey, Bawanna,

How about a new name for this thread:

"It's July, say what's on your mind - other than politics/US Government."

That leaves many topics dear to the heart, such as beautiful young women - no, on second thought, better exclude that, too, with this group; but what about these: beer, wine, and distilled spirits; cars, trucks, and motorcycles; airplanes and boats; cartoons and jokes (within the limits of decency, of course - yeah, I know - but you could give a LIMITED waiver to Jocko); fishing with grenades, wild turkey hunting with claymore mines, and rattlesnake hunting with napalm; and lots of others...

Just a suggestion,

Snidely

[Bawanna]

Excellent idea Snidely. I suggested that in my first post but as usual my words often times get ignored.

We'll see how it goes with the new title.

[MW surveyor]

Excellent idea Snidely. I suggested that in my first post but as usual my words often times get ignored.

We'll see how it goes with the new title.

Boyo, it only took you 8 days to figure this one out. :banplease:

[DeaconKC]

What about Forum Politics? Does this mean no grovelling to Bawanna or harassing Jocko?

[jocko]

never harass the jocko, our ur mailbox will stink!! Just sayin.

[Bawanna]

What about Forum Politics? Does this mean no grovelling to Bawanna or harassing Jocko?

Feel free to grovel although I have no idea what good it may do. I have very little to offer.

If you want to harass Jocko, thats a ok. I'd suggest a large well vented mail receptacle.

[downtownv]

Let's keep these in mind and the fact that this A-Hole in Washington already violated the 1st, 2nd and the 10th!


Constitution of the United States
Bill of Rights


The following is a transcription of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. Called the "Bill of Rights", these amendments were ratified on December 15, 1791. Each amendment's title is linked to a set of detailed annotations presented on the Findlaw website.


1)Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition
2)Right to keep and bear arms
3)Conditions for quarters of soldiers
4)Right of search and seizure regulated
5)Provisons concerning prosecution
6)Right to a speedy trial, witnesses, etc.
7)Right to a trial by jury
8)Excessive bail, cruel punishment
9)Rule of construction of Constitution
10)Rights of the States under Constitution

[OldLincoln]

Yep! Just finished volume 1 . . . volume 2 is not free but priced at $5.99 (http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Malinche-Legacy/dp/B001FOR940/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1221362341&sr=1-2). So, I will stop with the hero at the cliff hanger . . . :rolleyes:

Volume 1 was a good read.
That was quick!! Vol II wasn't as good as Vol I as it had a lot of filler where it would introduce and resolve side stories that didn't reflect on the root subject. But, it does answer the questions and puts all the characters to bed. If you watch for it, Vol II is likely to appear on the list within a month or so.

[Popeye]

This man gets what it means to be patriotic. What better month than to show this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzlrTOaNWdM&feature=player_embedded

[jlottmc]

Make you a list of things you like (mountains, beach, lots of open space for your own gun range, etc...) and take some 2-3 week visits at different times of the year and see what you like best. We've been all over the country and the wife is deciding that she likes east Tennessee best of all. She likes it better than Colorado. I have to get her to Wyoming or somewhere to check that out. I kinda like out west but I could settle in east Tennessee if I needed to it's just too close to the east coast. I'm wanting some land and open space.


See that's what I love about Texas, we have all that. Just pick which one you want most of and drive a day to get the rest.

[OldLincoln]

Had an interesting days today at jury duty. It was a DWI trial and the DA was very sharp and quick, like what you would expect of an DA. The defense attorney was a buffoon both in appearance and asking questions of the jury. In fact he went first and asked one question "Do you believe a person os innocent until proven guilty?" Juror #7 said "Not if he was arrested drunk and failed a blood test. I'd presume that guy guilty." The attorney hadn't expected that and tripped all over his tongue and sat down. The judge was alarmed and asked him "Aren't you going to ask any more questions?" He just mumbled no.

Well the DA made up for it as he went on and on. "He asked each juror "Do you agree with the statement that 'Buzz driving is drunk driving'?" I said I don't know what he means by "Buzz" then he dove in deeper and we had a dialog which eventually led to impaired driving. He tied it into alcohol and drugs to which I replied that and driving while sleep deprived and a lot of other things that can impair your ability to drive. He came back to Buzz so I finally asked him to define buzz. To that the judge who obviously got a kick out of the whole exchange said the law does not define the term "buzz" nor does it define the term "drugs".

Then we got into reasonable doubt. I made the statement that reasonable is in the eye of the beholder, that each of us here likely has own own threshold of what's reasonable. So he moved through "beyond a fantasy of doubt" to "shred of doubt" which I agreed with, and wrapped it up with "Could you convict if you had any doubt he was guilty?" to which I replied "If I have any doubt that the defendant is guilty I cannot vote him guilty."

I don't understand why, but the ADA chose to exclude me from the jury. That's good for another year.

[JFootin]

I just bought: 'Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging' by Suzanne Somers
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yafFQVvyL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-66,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005IQZAT2/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_ask_ATLzD.1FJR44R)
I downloaded the free Kindle Reader for my PC and bought the Kindle version. She is looking better than ever at 65 y.o.a. (Hubba, hubba!!!:tongue:), so I want to see what she has to say!

[OldLincoln]

I like her attitude that you CAN fight your body's aging process. A lot of folks are afraid taking hormones are unnatural and a bad thing and too often they get that from their doctors. I say go for it. There was a sig line sometime back about doing a brody and sliding into the grave sideways, meaning live life to the fullest and then go. Might be something to that. You see the Vitamine T adds on TV running like crazy. The baby boomers are ready to fight! Sometimes I wish I were that young.

[OldLincoln]

How to control squirrels‏

Florida Squirrels



Now I don't care who you are, what religion you are, where you live, or how old you are..........this is funny!


http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm239/1955mercury/ATT00001-19.jpg (http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm239/1955mercury/ATT00001-19.jpg)


There were five houses of religion in a small Florida town:



The Presbyterian Church,


The Baptist Church ,


The Methodist Church ,


The Catholic Church and


The Jewish Synagogue...



Each church and Synagogue was over run with pesky squirrels.


One day,the Presbyterian Church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration they determined that the squirrels were pre-destined to be there and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will.



In The BAPTIST CHURCH the squirrels had taken up habitation in the baptistery. The deacons met and decided to put a cover on the baptistery and drown the squirrels in it.
The squirrels escaped somehow and there were twice as many there the next week.


The Methodist Church got together and decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God's creation. So, they humanely trapped the squirrels and set them free a few miles outside of town. Two days later the squirrels were back.


But......The Catholic Church came up with the best and most effective solution..They baptized the squirrels and registered them as members of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Easter.



Not much was heard about the Jewish Synagogue, but they took one squirrel and had a short service with him called circumcision and they haven't seen a squirrel on the property since.


Keep going.....



For all who appreciate the outdoors, this is the rarely photographed South Florida Squirrel.




http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm239/1955mercury/ATT00002-3.jpg (http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm239/1955mercury/ATT00002-3.jpg)

[OldLincoln]

http://glocktalk.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=226366&d=1341577516

[Charlie]

I bought my senior llife time hunting lisence to hunt tree rats and Turkeys. I use to hunt Yotes but its too cold at night anymore. Enjoy your youth its a wonderous thing that is soon a memory. Fish more swear less and always smoke the best cigar you can afford.

[mr surveyor]

I bought my senior llife time hunting liscence to hunt Tree rats and Turkeys. I use to hun Yotes but its too cold at night anymore. Enjoy youth is a wonderous thing that is soon a memory.Fish more swear less and always smoke the best cigar you can afford.


That made my day:)

[JFootin]

http://i.imgur.com/AZlZu.jpg

[JFootin]

http://www.wsbradio.com/gallery/entertainment/seattleinsider-funny-dog-photos-even-funnier-capti/gfjg/#1456027

[MW surveyor]

^^^So now we know where jocko learned to spell. By conversing with the dogs in JFootin's post. LOL ^^^^^

[jocko]

i had a girl friend years ago that had a tongue like that she worked in my car wash. She took the right side of the vehicle. she did good work..Just sayin

[chipD]

I bought my senior llife time hunting lisence to hunt tree rats and Turkeys. I use to hunt Yotes but its too cold at night anymore. Enjoy your youth its a wonderous thing that is soon a memory. Fish more swear less and always smoke the best cigar you can afford.

I just bought my hunting and deer tags today. I have been shooting the bow getting for the deer season.

[Armybrat]

Probably too controversial to mention on a light-hearted thread, but.....

I think Penn State football should be given the death penalty by the NCAA for extreme lack of institutional control (that rule applies to the coaches conduct). At least a three year ban to cleanse their out of control culture.

Allow the current players to transfer immediately without a "sitting out" penalty, or else remain at school on full scholarship to earn their degree.

JMHO

[wyntrout]

Dang! I thought that I had re-posted an internet picture of that girl with the tongue like Gene Simmons, but it must have been "censored" or I screwed up the post???

Wynn:)

[Bawanna]

I don't think the censors pick off pictures. I didn't do it, seems I say that alot lately. I didn't do it.

[wyntrout]

I tried to post that picture again in response to Jocko's mention of his girlfriend. It's certainly not indecent or anything. Maybe I screwed up the post. It wouldn't be the firs time! Anyhow, here it is. I know you remember her!

Wynn:D

[MW surveyor]

No Comment!

[Tinman507]

I'd imagine that's handy getting that last little bit out of the ketchup bottle.
Just sayin ;)

[wyntrout]

That's about the only picture I've seen like that, besides Gene Simmons of KISS fame, especially of a woman.

Wynn:)

[jocko]

this is a harley gal, so leave her alone. When riding on the back she can keep the bugs off my glasses . Sure beats the hell out of wearing a helmet. I am sure u have seen a cat clean themselves ALL OVER. Susie (thats her name but most callher slurpy for short) can do the exact same thing... Just sayin.:D

[Bawanna]

She has pretty eyes.

[OldLincoln]

Poor thing.... maybe she can get a toungectomy or something. How does she even get it all in her mouth or keep from swallowing it in her sleep?

[flieger67]

You ride a bike and throw knives? :eek: Does anyone ever get in front of you on the bike?

Now that you mention it, not very often...



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk.

[jeepster09]

Health Warning
Gonorrhea Lectim - new deadly disease (UNCLASSIFIED)

One should be thinking about this seriously. I'm sending this because I know you are bright and I care about you.

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called "Gonorrhea Lectim." It's pronounced "Gonna re-elect em" and it is a terrible Obamanation.

The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting your cranium up your rectum. Many victims contracted it in 2008...But now most people, after having been infected for the past 1-3 years, are starting to realize how
destructive this sickness is.

It's sad because Gonorrhea Lectim is easily cured with a new drug just coming on the market called Votemout. You take the first dose now and the second dose in Nov. 2012 and simply don't engage in such behavior again; otherwise, it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.

Please practice 'safe voting'.

[wyntrout]

+1000 on the "safe voting".

I just did a search for long tongue photos... and there are apparently quite a few people with LOOOONG tongues! Some may be fake, but there are a lot of real ones!

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=b2ie7&sz=all&va=long+tongue

Wynn:)

[wyntrout]

Today is Bastille Day! Vive la France! http://kahrtalk.com/data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhKQAbALMIAAAAABAAACEICCkp50oxGP8 AAP/3If///wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH/C05FVFNDQVBFMi4wAwEAAAAh+QQJGgAIACwAAAAAKQAbAAAEwR DJSWsFNuu9gR9geIzkUZwo1xFAKJYjmqoZwLogHMsFXd84nYnn s9haQR2vV6QccQPhsukEuqREquSZhE21CO5VmdWKX94y9Zwjyy qBeHyFHKffkrhhv58bWWATAXyEfX8YgYOFhQEXgIl7AgJ8koZV AAJgigaVkZOWWyycWpuLhI0Skp+ZVKWmlpOdrE2ur42fR7O0ka afAZ8GR4EIisC8BqUCwpCeqnybmcvMptChiMN6p7+qEx7Xw8Ry qOAaEQAAIfkEBRoACAAsAAAAACkAGwAABLkQyUmrvThrC7b/EyAOZHmc6FGsLFgBBFCa6cm2bhjPZG3fhZxOxvOpgEIJjDgzAo PJJW/gREZ3Rd8ziZBma9srkwa2Cr1NrVkSaLczaHIqjGgb7vc3B5su3 9h4gXl7HVwBgogBLzFcdYgGAgKDFEuGeJGXkpNKMZFCh4+CikO Qn6GiE5GaAqaneIqYmKU5oJqCmgG2S6xJtbd5gpWWd6qyBqDEw sOPyJ7Khsh5uapDjRRuehcihUIRAAA7http://kahrtalk.com/data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhKQAbALMIAAAAABAAACEICCkp50oxGP8 AAP/3If///wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH/C05FVFNDQVBFMi4wAwEAAAAh+QQJGgAIACwAAAAAKQAbAAAEwR DJSWsFNuu9gR9geIzkUZwo1xFAKJYjmqoZwLogHMsFXd84nYnn s9haQR2vV6QccQPhsukEuqREquSZhE21CO5VmdWKX94y9Zwjyy qBeHyFHKffkrhhv58bWWATAXyEfX8YgYOFhQEXgIl7AgJ8koZV AAJgigaVkZOWWyycWpuLhI0Skp+ZVKWmlpOdrE2ur42fR7O0ka afAZ8GR4EIisC8BqUCwpCeqnybmcvMptChiMN6p7+qEx7Xw8Ry qOAaEQAAIfkEBRoACAAsAAAAACkAGwAABLkQyUmrvThrC7b/EyAOZHmc6FGsLFgBBFCa6cm2bhjPZG3fhZxOxvOpgEIJjDgzAo PJJW/gREZ3Rd8ziZBma9srkwa2Cr1NrVkSaLczaHIqjGgb7vc3B5su3 9h4gXl7HVwBgogBLzFcdYgGAgKDFEuGeJGXkpNKMZFCh4+CikO Qn6GiE5GaAqaneIqYmKU5oJqCmgG2S6xJtbd5gpWWd6qyBqDEw sOPyJ7Khsh5uapDjRRuehcihUIRAAA7http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/f/france-flag-waving-emoticon-animated.gif

Link to my favorite singer belting out La Marseillaise. I tried to find a good video clip but EMI has blocked its playing in this country and most of the clips I found were poor and had lyrics in every language but French or English. Anyhow, Veuillez écouter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3IvXo0W1YI&feature=player_embedded

This version brings tears to my eyes... from Casa Blanca:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU&feature=player_detailpage

Added: This is my second favorite national anthem. None is better than ours, but La Marseillaise is the second best! Both songs are born in war and invoke great patriotic feelings.

Wynn:)

[JFootin]

Health Warning
Gonorrhea Lectim - new deadly disease (UNCLASSIFIED)

One should be thinking about this seriously. I'm sending this because I know you are bright and I care about you.

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called "Gonorrhea Lectim." It's pronounced "Gonna re-elect em" and it is a terrible Obamanation.

The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting your cranium up your rectum. Many victims contracted it in 2008...But now most people, after having been infected for the past 1-3 years, are starting to realize how
destructive this sickness is.

It's sad because Gonorrhea Lectim is easily cured with a new drug just coming on the market called Votemout. You take the first dose now and the second dose in Nov. 2012 and simply don't engage in such behavior again; otherwise, it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.

Please practice 'safe voting'.

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee486/John_England/Smilies/laugh.gif

Here is Votemout in convenient powder form.

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee486/John_England/Smilies/AntiMonkeyButtBuyNow.jpghttp://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee486/John_England/Smilies/AntiMonkeyButtGal.jpg

Edit: That's the best photo of Nancy Pelosi I've seen! :D

[OldLincoln]

@Wynn: I've not heard Mireille Mathieu before. This version of La Marseillaise is absolutely beautiful. Now off to watch more of her videos.

[wyntrout]

She's fantastic in any language. I "discovered" her while watching TV in Germany in the 80's and bought every record of hers that I could find. She turns my age... 66... July 22. There's a wealth of videos of her singing on YouTube and the "Net. Another great French singer is Hélène Ségara. I went looking for someone similar to Mireille to add to my French women collection, but Mireille is my favorite.

Wynn:)

[OldLincoln]

Wow, I spent a bit of time on You tube and she is terrific. Of course the side bar there led me to my first infatuation with a singer Nana Mouskouri, so I've been hanging out there for a while now. They sound similar to a point so I guess it is the music. Here's a sample of Nana (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhc7MEYY-Ho&feature=list_other&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BNO0eo_SMc4eb2TClVRQws). Listening to them both now I have to say Hélène Ségara is a bit better.

[LorenzoB]

Cooking on my new Big Green Egg. Chicken for dinner came out moist and flavorful. Then Cranberry Orange Muffins hot off the grill with a little ice cream for desert. Yummy!
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[LorenzoB]

Sorry for the low resolution photos. No matter what I try, TapaTalk always reduces the quality. The higher quality photos are mouth watering goodness, so you'll just have to trust me on that. :)

[jeepster09]

Pig
So the guy walks into the kitchen with a sheep in his arms. His wife turns from the sink and looks at him. The guy says, " this is the pig I've been sleeping with when I'm not with you". The wife says, "you idiot, thats a sheep,not a pig".
And the guy says, " I wasn't talking to you". :eek:

[jeepster09]

My friend's new business in Afghanistan...
A Friend of mine who is an Engineer, just started his own business in Afghanistan.

He's making land mines that look like prayer mats.

It's doing very well, so far.

He says "prophets" are going through the roof!:target:

[gb6491]

LorenzoB,
That chow looks mighty tasty!:hungry:
Regards,
Greg

[Tinman507]

http://static.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/MjAxMi1iNDc2ZTA1MDU1NTI1Y2I0.png

[wyntrout]

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/534860_419034381473405_1918832684_n.jpg

[JFootin]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein

More good reading:
http://www.quotegarden.com/ignorance.html

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/stupidity

http://www.brainyquote.com/words/st/stupidity225049.html

http://mistupid.com/people/page019.htm

[OldLincoln]

That Quote Garden is priceless. Couldn't help but laugh and wanted to add a dozen to my sig but I doubt Dr. John would approve.

[jeepster09]

Loving Wife


A man breaks into a house to look for money and guns.

Inside, he finds couple in bed.
He orders the guy out of the bed and ties him to a chair.
While tying the homeowner's wife to the bed the convict gets on top of her, kisses her neck,
then gets up & goes into the bathroom.

While he's in there, the husband whispers over to his wife:
'Listen, this guy is an escaped convict. Look at his clothes!
He's probably spent a lot of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years.
I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sex, don't resist, don't complain...do what ever he tells you.
Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you.
This guy is obviously very dangerous.
If he gets angry, he'll kill us both.
Be strong, honey. I love you!'

His wife responds: 'He wasn't kissing my neck.
He was whispering in my ear.
He told me that he's gay, thinks you're cute, and asked if we had any Vaseline.
I told him it was in the bathroom.
Be strong honey. I love you too......:eek:

[jeepster09]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHPecr0sqWU&feature=youtu.be

[JFootin]

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store andoffice building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person...

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to tick us off. :31:

[jocko]

yup thats cool, brings back a heh of alot of memories. course back then those things u mentioned were all we had to. It wasn't conservation as much as it was "just living". Sears Roe buck catalogs were sitting in every out house, guraatee u that much. That was a nice thing tha tI never thoght about when I was a kind was thatIf I had to take a dunk, I dind't have to come back home, I just went into any neighbors yard and used their outhouse. I wold nt call themcommunity sh!tters but no one ever cared if u used theirs for they ujderstood. tell thatto your grand is and their first sentence will be, "whats an outhouse".

[yqtszhj]

I remember a lot of that too, and I'm not even as old as Jocko. Remember when the stores gas stations were closed on Sunday too? And someone else pumped your gas, cleaned your windows, and checked the oil too?

Kids went outside and played instead of sitting in front of the boob tube? And what about a house with no air conditioning. We did have a window unit air conditioner in one room though.

[wyntrout]

I just saw this one on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=164127253720461&set=a.133361476797039.26402.133352176797969&type=1&ref=nf

Wynn:)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=164127253720461&set=a.133361476797039.26402.133352176797969&type=1&ref=nf

[wyntrout]

Yeah, I remember all of that stuff. Now our oceans are a slurry of slowly deteriorating plastic drink bottles and bags and the fish we eat from the seas are filled with plastic from living in those plastic filled seas... the ones that aren't killed by plastic debris like monofilament nets, plastic bags that look like jellyfish, and six-pack holders. I've seen seals and waterfowl being slowly choked to death by crap like that. Almost everything we throw away could be recycled or used as fuel in a power plant.

Wynn:)

[wyntrout]

I just took my wife's 2001 Volvo S40 out for a test spin. I took it to Costco to get her tires rotated and balanced Thursday. We had a cloudburst while I was there and I was having too much fun on the last big whifferdill offramp on the way home. I was driving with my usual gusto and thought I would take a second glance for traffic before exiting onto the main road back toward home, so I kinda tapped the brakes... bad move... instant 180° :eek: and slid into the curb with the driver side of the car... jumped the curb into the grass. There was no traffic in front or near me from behind, thankfully! I was able to turn around and exit the low area of the curb/sidewalk and drive on. I stopped first chance and surveyed the damage because I saw the gas tank access door was open. There was a lot of grass stuck in both tires between the bead and the rims and the left rear alloy wheel had a 1/2" strip of the rim about 5-6 inches long broken off, but the tire was holding air. There seemed to be no other damage or any airbag deployments, so I drove on home. The air pressure and dropped to 15 PSI by the next morning so I got out the space-saver 50mph/50-mile tire, washed and treated it with silicone... after removing the LARGE yellow warning sticker from the wheel... and its very persistent adhesive!

I ordered a used alloy wheel online and will get that changed over and get 4-wheel alignment done at Volvo. I had been wanting to do that, anyhow, as the car is over 11 years old and that hasn't been done.

My new Google nexus 7 Tablet came in yesterday and I charged it up and registered at Google Play... got a $25 spending credit for stuff there. It's a super tablet, but I'm reading a book on my "old" one ,and today is the best gun show downtown at the convention center where the president just was campaigning this past Thursday.

Wifey is about to venture out in the Volvo after two days at home. I hope that she has no problems. Tuesday will be two weeks since she was laid off at work and she has a lot of running around to do next week... on the temporary spare... looking for a job and going to the job fair at the same convention center.

I'm gonna grab the hurricane fund and go to the gun show for a few hours and look around. I don't intend to buy a gun, but you never know if you might see a deal too good to pass up. I DO feel a little guilty!

Wynn:)

[JFootin]

Wynn, my advice is DO NOT BUY ANYTHING AT THE GUN SHOW! Cook her a quality meal, give her a neck rub and massage her feet. Tread lightly! ;)

[wyntrout]

Maybe I can find her some doodad for her get-home setup. Gotta get ready to go to the gun show! I hope she doesn't call me with car trouble!:eek:

Oh! Tonight we're having the other half of the rotisserie chicken I brought home from that trip to Costco.:rolleyes:

Wynn:)

[OldLincoln]

Aren't those chickens great? We usually debone it and make 4 meals out of it plus a sandwich or two.

[wyntrout]

We only get two meals out of one... my wife and I... but the last half I get to pick the bones, too. The Wal-Mart chickens are so salty we would almost choke, but the Costco ones are fine... no EXTRA salt added.

Dang! I went to the gun show at the convention center and they were having an Herbal-Life convention or something. I tried to call Wifey but she was still on the phone with her mother. So I went to Shooters and looked at guns there. CW9/40's and CM9/40's were on sale for $349.99. I found a used P9 on sale for $470... was $520. I kind of thought about it, and pulled the slide off to check it out... not as clean as I would have liked, so no sale.

When I got home I checked the calendar and the gun show was at the fairgrounds... the "lesser" show. That's why I tried to call my wife. Maybe I'll get there tomorrow. I made up a sign to wear and had my S&W 645 to look for a trade... maybe. I also had the hurricane fund... just in case.

The good show is August 4th weekend, so I'll have another chance, unless my "Alzheimer's" acts up again.:rolleyes:

Wynn:)

[OldLincoln]

I've only been to one gun show and couldn't even get to all the tables is was so packed. But I don't recall seeing people wearing signs. Since sellers buy tables I'd think management would frown on that. Is that the sign that says "Kick me HERE V" ? :)

[wyntrout]

I don't recall being successful selling any guns that way... or much ammo, but I did that many years ago before I saw any others, but you do see guys with signs trying to sell stuff. Hey, it's buy, sell, or trade!

I'll try again tomorrow... hopefully at the correct location this time!:)

At least I got to Sam's Club and got gas. I cleverly waited until the price had gone up 20¢ a gallon before getting my six 5-gallon "cans" filled for my lawn tractor and big generator. It's hurricane season and I used StaBil and StaBil Marine Gas Treatment in each for gas longevity and protection against water condensation caused by the alcohol component in our gas down here. I probably have half a 16-gallon tank of last season's gas left in the generator. I'll fill up with the new and be good to go. I put the gas I had in the cans in our cars to use up. The StaBil extends the use of the gas for at least a year, but the clock starts on the StaBil itself when you break the seal and mine is two years old or so.

Wynn:)

[losg]

I want to thank Chief Justice John Roberts for siding with the four liberals on the supreme court in deciding that it is constitutional for the federal government to tax the people of the United States for not doing something. By doing so he removed any illusion that we might have held that we live in a free country. We now live in Obama's socialist utopia. It is my sincere hope that the Chief Justice suffers a protracted and agonizing death under that very same federally controlled medical system that he held to be legal.

hehehe...all I'm happy about is I don't make enough to be taxed at all regardless. Probably ever. And I live in Florida, which has a finger reserved for the ruling.

[losg]

If you move to Kentucky and still have all of your teeth you're gonna have to pull some. Well, at least I think so after seeing "Call of the Wild Man" on animal planet. That's the dude that catches animals with his bare hands.

Yep, you must be ready for some Live Action Yeeeeehhheee! That is a crazy show. But, it would be cool if the Turtle man can come get this armadillo out of the from yard.

[LorenzoB]

Wifey and I celebrated 16 years of marriage yesterday (didn't post yesterday because I would have got the look if I was on the forum). Time sure flies!

[gb6491]

Wifey and I celebrated 16 years of marriage yesterday (didn't post yesterday because I would have got the look if I was on the forum). Time sure flies!
Congrats!:)

[jeepster09]

http://objflicks.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

[aray]

You might find this video interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2p6W0mvVCE

[wyntrout]

Well, if the government isn't already tracking ammo purchases... like certain sums of money... they'll be tracking ammo purchases and trying to limit or stop online sales. We'll see attempts to LIMIT "stockpiles" of ammo and so forth!

Suspect Bought Large Stockpile of Rounds Online (http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgBgchvv X0RQCLzE8KmJyCvkcdl//15iDy6IFLn9vJT4IxzaoiIaMMUoR8rcQ3b7eoMWFfEsbfDYSwF MaVlVDLxk31z9OgYBlHYx/IomRxCxYGTAMd1/anmEj/K/izfvEzo4h7sujGYvRgsvPV1t8gO5mq3HBI+0+Z&campaign_id=129&instance_id=16969&segment_id=36513&user_id=105ed92a3f7c20feae9a400f4be96668)

By JACK HEALY

The 24-year-old man accused of killing a dozen people inside a Colorado movie theater gathered what the police called a 6,000-round arsenal legally and easily.
Wynn:rolleyes:

[CrabbyAzz]

Range day today. Finally a day where it's not too hot ond not to wet.

[yqtszhj]

Range day today. Finally a day where it's not too hot ond not to wet.

It's kinda :crazy: but I like the HOT and WET days. Those are the days that no one else shows up and I have the whole range to myself and can shoot however I want.:D

[Bootlegger]

It seems I have less than a post a month for the last 2 years, bet my wife wished I talked as much as I post.

[Armybrat]

It seems I have less than a post a month for the last 2 years, bet my wife wished I talked as much as I post.

Two posts in one day all of a sudden - gettin' kinda chatty, ain'tcha?

[Bootlegger]

I waited until after midnight to post this just so I dont seem like a chatter box :D yes 2 in one day, I must have had alot of time on my hands. Ok talk to you next month :)

[wyntrout]

Dang! I just got an email from Cabela's:
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The trouble is that I got it this morning Wed 7/25/2012 1:17 AM. Normally this might be a good deal to buy some ammo... if the ammo is priced right!

Wynn:(

[Armybrat]

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[mr surveyor]

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I know just how he feels

[wyntrout]

He looks like he's falling asleep...so cute.

It's a shame that they can't stay puppies. Young animals are just so cuddly... even the ones who will grow up and think you are good for a snack... you being much lower on THEIR food chain!

Wynn:)

[OldLincoln]

A blonde is watching the news with her husband when the newscaster says
6 Brazilian men die in a skydiving accident.

The blonde starts crying to her husband, sobbing 'That's horrible.'

Confused, he says, 'Yes dear, it is sad, but they were skydiving and
there is that risk involved.'

After a few minutes, the blonde, still sobbing, says, 'How many is a
Brazilian?

[OldLincoln]

The Pastors Wife

The pastor's wife was expecting a baby, so he stood before the congregation and asked for a raise. After much discussion, the congregation passed a rule that whenever the pastor's family expanded; so would his paycheck.

After 6 children, this started to get expensive and the congregation decided to hold another meeting to discuss the pastor's expanding salary.

A great deal of yelling and inner bickering ensued, as to how much the pastor's additional children were costing the church, and how much more it could potentially cost.

After listening to them for about an hour, the pastor rose from his chair and spoke, "Children are a gift from God, and we will take as many gifts as He gives us."

Silence fell over the congregation. In the back pew, a little old lady struggled to stand, and finally said in her frail voice, "Rain is also a gift from God, but when we get too much of it, we wear rubbers."

The entire congregation said, "Amen

[OldLincoln]

Mountain Man !!
Many years ago, in the days of the mountain men a mountain man was captured by the Indians. They didn't kill him. They had a test for him, not a written test but an endurance test, a "gauntlet" if you will.

If he lived through the gauntlet he would get all his pack-horses, weapons, furs, and supplies back. He would also be able to travel and hunt in the tribes territory without any harm coming to him. If he didn't pass the gauntlet, well, it did not matter, because he would be dead.

The Chief, in front of the whole tribe showed the mountain man 3 tee-pees. he told the mountain man, " In the 1st tee-pee is a gallon jug of 'white lightning'. When you pick it up, you can not put it down until empty. You drink all of it. In 2nd tee-pee, female grizzly with bad tooth. You pull tooth. In 3rd tee-pee, squaw. Very horny squaw. you satisfy squaw."

Well, the mountain man thought this shouldn't be too hard. He had fought bears before, and he had been with women before. The only thing that concerned him was that he wasn't much of a drinking man. He had nothing to lose so he went in the 1st tee-pee. He picked up the jug and pulled the stopper. he started drinking. after about 2 hours he came out, staggering and stumbling. He seemed quite disoriented and the chief pointed to the 2nd tee-pee and said, "Bear."

The crowd laughed and made fun of the drunken mountain man as he stumbled towards the 2nd tee-pee. As soon as he entered the tee-pee the fight started, growling, screaming, cursing, more growling, yelling and plenty of other noises came from the tee-pee. About 30 minutes after he went in, he came out. He belched. He farted. He hiked up his buckskins and he asked the Chief, " Now,,, where's that squaw that had that sore tooth??"

[Barth]

Last time, actually only time, I posted a joke Bawanna had to delete it.
Looks like my stand up career ended before it started - LOL!

As for what's on my mind?
My big project went well.
So after two years I finally get to take vacation time.
Six months of Fridays off!

I think I'll do something completely different.
Like go to the Range!
Yup, that's the ticket.

Looks like my extended, triple ported, chamber opend for HPs
Bar-Sto barrel for my P239 is going to be late.
What a surprise.

It's probably a good thing there isn't many after market parts or
gunsmith work to be done on a Kahr MK40 Elite.
It's the only bone stock auto loader I have LOL!

I still want my new barrel...

Barth Six Barrels
http://www.picture-indian.com/gaunad/pictures/Apache-indian.jpg

[Armybrat]

Watching the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics in London last night:


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[OldLincoln]

You are right and it really must be a sad thought for her. They really were that powerful for many years and now back to where they started. I suppose if some had their way we would be back to 13 colonies looking at all those states we used to have, but sold to China to pay off our national debt.

[OldLincoln]

INNOCENCE IS PRICELESS

One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex standing in the foyer of the church staring up at a large plaque. It was covered with names and small American flags mounted on either side of it. The six-year old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up, stood beside the little boy, and said quietly, 'Good morning Alex.' 'Good morning Pastor,' he replied, still focused on the plaque. 'Pastor, what is this? ' The pastor said, 'Well son, it's a memorial to all the young men and women who died in the service.'

Soberly, they just stood together, staring at the large plaque. Finally, little Alex's voice, barely audible and trembling with fear asked,

'Which service, the 8:15 or the 10:30 ?'

[OldLincoln]

Motorcyclist A motorcyclist picked up his friend from work one raw autumn day. The friend complained he was cold from the wind, so the driver stopped and got his friend to turn his coat around, so the collar would stop the wind blowing down the neck.

They went on a ways, but came to a construction site. Quickly the cyclist bumped through the dirt path, and at the end turned around to check how his friend was doing. But the friend had fallen off!

The cyclist rushed back along the dirt path, and discovered a group of construction workers gathered around his friend. He pushed his way through the crowd and asked how his friend was doing.

"He seemed alright," came the reply, "until we turned his head around the right way."

[getsome]

If ya'll haven't done so already Google Austrilian hurdler and watch the youtube video of Michelle Jenneke's pre race warm up routine....I think it's wonderful that we can come together and admire this perfect example of Olimpic athletcism in motion...:cheer2:

[MW surveyor]

If ya'll haven't done so already Google Austrilian hurdler and watch the youtube video of Michelle Jenneke's pre race warm up routine....I think it's wonderful that we can come together and admire this perfect example of Olimpic athletcism in motion...:cheer2:

And one seriously good looking woman!

[Barth]

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[MikeyKahr]

Dutch field hockey. I think I am cheering for them.

[OldLincoln]

Appears to me the Google Australian hurdler is a very happy young woman! She does have a presence and she does get results winning her sprint. I'm happy for her.

[Bawanna]

I'm happy that she's happy. I think she might be an angel.

Perhaps confidence is mixed in with happiness too? That's a good thing too.

[OldLincoln]

>>Perhaps confidence is mixed in with happiness too? That's a good thing too.<<

Yeah, I thought about that as she did her dance and even waved to the crowd BEFORE the race. Had to make the others say "Wow, what am I up against?"