February Fiasco

[Barth]

The Trump administration has told top officials at the FBI to resign (https://www.foxnews.com/category/tech/topics/fbi) or lose their jobs
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-issues-unexpected-ultimatum-senior-fbi-ranks (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-issues-unexpected-ultimatum-senior-fbi-ranks)

[jeepster09]

Finger Paint.....:2eek:

[340pd]

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'Kids today probably don't even know that cars used to come in all kinds of different colors...

[jeepster09]

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[340pd]

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[340pd]

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[jeepster09]

So true....

[340pd]

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[340pd]

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[Barth]

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[getsome]

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I actually went to Sears in 1975 and bought a pong game that you could hook up to your TV with a coax cable, paid a hundred bucks of 1970 dollars to get that thing and let me tell you, it was so cool at the time………damn I’m so old………….

[Barth]

I did have the original Atari 2600 - Missile Command was a favorite :)
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Defender gets honorable mention ...
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[jeepster09]

Be careful of 38's....:behindsofa:

[Barth]

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[Barth]

https://youtu.be/V8VO8QnYUag

[jeepster09]

Here you go.....

[GROTMAN]

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[Barth]

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What wine???

[Bawanna]

Perhaps too big for Itxi, but look good to me.

[dao]

Some things are best contained...

[JohnR]

Or not...

[jeepster09]

:w00t::yo::2eek:

[340pd]

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[jeepster09]

Life lesson....

[Barth]

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[jeepster09]

Game on....:amflag:

[jeepster09]

:behindsofa:

[Barth]

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[jeepster09]

:2rolleyes: ...

[Barth]

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[jeepster09]

NOT BAD FOR A PART TIME JOB:



The majority of teacher salaries fall between $32,800 and $55,800.
The top 10% of teachers earn $62,192 or more. Grade school teacher pay in Minnesota.

[berettabone]

I remember back before covid when they had their last poo poo here in my state. I always thought the same thing. When you were in college, did you miss the part where they explain what it's like to be a teacher and what to expect? I remember I was still in the big city and some of them actually laid down on the I-94 expressway in protest.................while the rest were doing a mill and a half's worth of damage to the capital, which my tax money helped fix. These are the people teaching your kids.........................

[Armybrat]

……….

[340pd]

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[jeepster09]

Got my sweetie some flours and a card....:angel:

[Barth]

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[wyntrout]

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[340pd]

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[340pd]

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[340pd]

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[dao]

Love it!

[jeepster09]

Jeep time.....:amflag:

[Bawanna]

Kind of a wet blanket to throw on February Fiasco, but I just found out that Sportsmans Warehouse in pulling all their ammo off the shelves in preparation for our new law going into effect, with 11% tax on ammo, background checks required and limited purchases. Can't confirm but was told that the 11% tax revenue will go to Washington state anti gun groups. ????? Have to wonder about that.
It's a mirror image of California which has already been confirmed unconstitutional. Hoping it falls flat but I'm ammo shopping just in case.
Also was told since the state has taken over all background checks, city's and counties no longer do them a lot of people who qualified before, don't now. They are looking at out of state charges which might not be felony in the state but are a felony in Washington and denying based on that. Total BS.
Heck, my soap box tipped over, can't feel my legs. Carry on.

[jeepster09]

WOW....:behindsofa: that sucks.

[jeepster09]

Got the family together for a Valentines Day photo.....

[jeepster09]

Early Nascar.....

[berettabone]

Kind of a wet blanket to throw on February Fiasco, but I just found out that Sportsmans Warehouse in pulling all their ammo off the shelves in preparation for our new law going into effect, with 11% tax on ammo, background checks required and limited purchases. Can't confirm but was told that the 11% tax revenue will go to Washington state anti gun groups. ????? Have to wonder about that.
It's a mirror image of California which has already been confirmed unconstitutional. Hoping it falls flat but I'm ammo shopping just in case.
Also was told since the state has taken over all background checks, city's and counties no longer do them a lot of people who qualified before, don't now. They are looking at out of state charges which might not be felony in the state but are a felony in Washington and denying based on that. Total BS.
Heck, my soap box tipped over, can't feel my legs. Carry on. It would be my time to move. Especially if it all makes your property less valuable or more difficult to sell because of politics.................

[Bawanna]

It would be my time to move. Especially if it all makes your property less valuable or more difficult to sell because of politics.................

I'd be packing up if I was quite a few years younger and had legs. The big negative is grandkids. Grandma wouldn't be ok with being that far away. I do enjoy them too.
One daughter in law suggested buying a huge acreage and all building on it. Not sure I want them that close but if the place was big enough it would work. That plus they still need to work so that limits options some too.
I just read where the 11% tax includes guns also, I'd skimmed over that. Now trying to figure out if it applies to reloading components, powder, primers, bullets etc. I'm not sure why I'm so concerned, I don't shoot that often and I have a fairly nice inventory but of course not nearly enough. There's always traveling to another free state and stocking up too.
Now I'm torn weather to shop for ammo or guns? Course the piggy is a might on the thin side as usual. Haven't used a credit card in years but this might be the time.

[Bawanna]

So true.

[JohnR]

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[jeepster09]

:blushing::bump2::yo:

[Armybrat]

Best video angle of the regional plane crash in Toronto.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1isa8f3/a_clear_visual_of_the_delta_airlines_crashlanding/

[laserfish]

NOT BAD FOR A PART TIME JOB:



The majority of teacher salaries fall between $32,800 and $55,800.
The top 10% of teachers earn $62,192 or more. Grade school teacher pay in Minnesota.


Forgive me if I take up an offense for my wife, a master teacher of 30+ years. If this is a part time job I will eat my hat! She averages over 12 hours per day, works weekends and holidays thanks to the additional work expectations, forms, calls that need to be done after hours. And I don't know any of us who would like a three month unpaid layoff each year. Yes, they take the 9 months of salary and divide it by 12 which makes people think this is a really cush job. Cannot tell you the times I had to control myself when some ignorant person insisted that teachers work from 8 to 3:30 and it is a cushy job. This is her last year, thank GOD, the situation is getting untenable in the schools, and we are in a great school district.
Rant over.

[jeepster09]

Well my neighbor is a history teacher and he brags about the fact he only works 40-45 hours a week and gets 2 weeks off at Christmas, 2 weeks off for spring break and many holidays. He also BRAGS about getting the summer off and takes big vacation with his family every summer; he said he then "writes a paper about it" and gets to deduct vacation off his taxes as a research for his school class work. He makes $68k a year. He also gets to collect Social Security and PERA when he retires. [PERA is public employees retirement association pension.] Between the 2 pensions he will gross about 5k per month when retired. Your wife may be the exception to most teachers. Some teachers care more about doing a good job than others. Just like many other jobs, you have good workers and slackers.

[JohnR]

My daughter is in her third year of teaching, the last two in a private school. Money is tight for her, and she’s considering getting a masters so she can earn more. She seems to like it in spite of the students’ lack of motivation and skills.

[Armybrat]

My cousin was an ATC (air traffic controller) who retired early after 20 years of high stress on the job in Kansas City.
He went back to school, earning a teaching certificate and took a job at an inner city high school.
He lasted just one semester before bailing out. Lol

[Armybrat]

………………

[getsome]

My cousin was an ATC (air traffic controller) who retired early after 20 years of high stress on the job in Kansas City.
He went back to school, earning a teaching certificate and took a job at an inner city high school.
He lasted just one semester before bailing out. Lol

I wouldn’t last long as a teacher even if I was smart enough for the job because the first time some little smart ass punk spit on me they would get to study what the earth looks like from orbit and I’d be in jail……Back in the day teachers had respect and if not the principal had a boat paddle with holes in it to make sure you behaved in the future, today schools are a free for all war zone…….No thanks

[jeepster09]

Teaching today's youth with little support from parents would be real tuff. Many parents don't parent.

[Bawanna]

I attribute it a lot to working parents who have day care raise their children. My wife and I agreed beforehand that raising the kids was her job. I don't think we even left them with relatives before they were 2 or 3 and then only for an evening etc. As they reached school age and prior she did some work from home stuff. Best was working lures for Dick Nite, did that for like 25 years, and I did some also during that time.
We're watching my newest grandson on Mondays and Wednesdays while his mom has to work in the office, we're trying not to screw him up too much. I think he'll be ok.

[berettabone]

My wife taught classes at the college level. Told me stories. I suspect that many parents weren't even aware that their kid wasn't even coming to class half the time. Then they would question their appropriate grade. Much of the class was physical so you had to be there. She felt sorry for many of her students. Pretty helpless generation. Either they weren't paying attention, or the parents had no contributions. I suspect both. Hell, I knew someone my age that never did laundry until his fifties.

[jeepster09]

Okay so you want an old car to fix up.....

[jeepster09]

Bawanna had the grand child over.....

[Bawanna]

That one's not mine! Mine is here now taking a siesta.

[jeepster09]

Sorry my mistake that's the grand child's buddy from down the street :yo:

[Bawanna]

Oh yeah, didn't recognize him with his back turned towards me. Thought the Glock looked familiar, his dad a bit strange but an ok guy.

[Barth]

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[Armybrat]

Hey!

[Barth]

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[Wlfman13]

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[jeepster09]

Todays update....

[GROTMAN]

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[jeepster09]

New plan from DOGE.....

[340pd]

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[getsome]

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Thought about this very thing Saturday, My wife had a baby shower for our first grand daughter this weekend and I had to assemble a car seat which had more instructions and stickers of doomsday if you didn’t follow along exactly than I could even believe, like don’t leave a child strapped into the seat without the seat being secured into the vehicle, ok that seems to make pretty good sense, I asked the boss if I should remove all the stupid safety stickers and she said absolutely not, let the parents do that………Made me think about all those miles I rode laying in the package tray watching the clouds go by in my grandmothers Buick Skylark on the way to Florida, Somehow I made it……

[Bawanna]

I made it from Missouri to Seattle in the package tray of our 57 Chevy. I lived too.

[340pd]

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[JohnR]

Was the road carnage really that horrific back in the day, or were there just a lot of lawyers involved?

[berettabone]

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[jeepster09]

DC workers scrambling....