Grand Torino

You got lucky by being able to actually shoot it before you bought it. Things aren't always what they seem sometimes. Maybe they will work the trigger down the road a bit. Great review by the way. :up:

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Disappearing ink....

Well yeah they can...question is will they? They seem to do nothing but collect their checks and benefits anymore. I have no faith in any of them to do the right thing about anything.

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I agree...this is a great place that even makes an old man feel welcome.

I remember him. It's why I blocked him.

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Yeah no....26 years in the military is enough. I'm not going to eat that crap unless the zombies are coming.

I understand and fully support that you do whatever you have to do to keep this fine place online. I read and reread the executive order link you provided and maybe I just don't understand everything...you know...being old and all but this is what I understand about all this.   An Executive Order is only valid if it’s done within the jurisdictional authority of the President’s constitutional authority. To rule against the Second Amendment is not a presidential prerogative. If it is, then the President could turn his attention to the First Amendment and issue an order that newspapers can no longer criticize him. Conservative talk radio would die a quick death if the President issued an Executive Order saying that the freedom of speech had to be limited in several ways, one of which was negative political speech, especially about him.   Don’t get me wrong. I do believe that President Obama would like to do all these things. He’s mad with power. He has a vendetta against America.   President Obama is an elected official. He’s not a king. The king battle was fought a long time ago at Runnymede in 1215. If the President and other anti-Second Amendment advocates want to limit our freedoms, then they can go through the amendment process. An Executive Order is the chicken’s way out. It’s also unconstitutional. Feel free to correct me . I'm not a lawyer or even college educated...just a concerned citizen.  

That Shepard Master thing was a real mess but I gotta go with Jade Helm.

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Second McMaster Carr. I get a lot of stuff from them. Excellent service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt322YpXB9M

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Last week, the House Appropriations Subcommittee marked up the 2016 Veterans Affairs funding bill, and slashed more than $1.4 billion from the president’s requested budget for America’s Veterans. Today, VA Secretary Bob McDonald appeared beforethe Senate Appropriations Committee to discuss that budget proposal. While some may argue this is not a drastic move, every cut and rescission of funds has real-world implications for Veterans across the country. Here are three ways these proposed congressional cuts will adversely affect the quality of care and services provided to Veterans next year if they are not reversed: The 2016 House proposal reduces VA medical care by $690 million. What does this mean? As a result of the overall cut to medical services, an estimated 70,000 fewer Veterans will receive the VA care they need. Also wrapped up in the cuts to medical care is a reduction of $582 million to address VA’s high priority construction projects. This cut will reduce VA’s ability to provide additional outpatient services and will impact four major construction projects, including the long sought-after French Camp Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Livermore, California. The National Cemetery Administration is consistently rated top in customer satisfaction for its work in honoring our nation’s Veterans and maintaining 3.3 million grave sites across 131 cemeteries. Proposed cuts would eliminate funding for several key cemetery expansion projects, reducing our ability to provide burial honors for as many as 18,000 Veterans and eligible family members each year. http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/19356/how-1-4-billion-in-budget-cuts-will-impact-veterans/

Twenty-six percent (26%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the short holiday week ending December 23. This finding is unchanged from a week ago and is up just two points from 24% two weeks ago which tied the low for the year.   The national telephone survey of 2,500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports from December 20-23, 2015. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.   I guess that makes you part of the 26% if I'm not mistaken.

First of all I didn't say none of them worked. I said not so much. I have no problem helping folks on a temporary basis if needed. It shouldn't be a way of life over generations. I'm not convinced there isn't much more abuse than actual need. My cousin worked in that field for years before she quit. She said probably 8 out 10 cases she worked contained some fraud and abuse and time and time again her supervisors "overlooked" it and even went as far as to be asked once "What do you care..it isn't your money". When she pointed out that it actually was her money it wasn't the answer they wanted to hear. To make a long story short she collected the evidence she needed and became a whistle blower. She received a nice settlement and the torching of her garage and car because of it. Anyone that doesn't think the abuse outweighs the actual need is sorely misinformed IMHO.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/30/german-state-tv-to-show-merkels-new-year-speech-with-arabic-subtitles/   German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s usual New Year speech will be available with Arabic subtitles this year, in the surest sign yet that Germany is bending to the hordes of migrants that have settled there, rather than requiring them to learn the native language. Read more.    

I like this line of thinking....

Feel free to add your own insight. This is not a debate but rather opinions that will not be changed but name calling and belittlement of others.    Unfortunately for members of the next generation, it appears they won’t be living in the same sort of America where I had the good fortune of growing up. Of course, there’s still time for a course correction, but it better happen quick. These three short sentences do a pretty darn good job of showing us where we’ve got it all wrong.   We are told not to judge all muslims by the actions of a "few terrorists" but we are encouraged or even belittled to judge all gun owners by the actions a few lunatics or felons that aren't even supposed to legally own a gun in the first place? Funny how that works.   We constantly hear about social security running out of money. How is it we never hear about welfare and food stamps running out of money? The first group worked for their money while the second...not so much. Think about it for a second and let that soak in.   Why are we cutting benefits to veterans and cutting back the size of our military to pre-WWII levels but are not stopping payments/benefits to illegal aliens or whatever we are supposed to call the now? Am I the only one missing something?   Anyway...have fun with this and feel free to add your own ideas without belittling your fellow TGO members.

Regardless if it's Kalifornicate seizing guns or Tennessee seizing cash it just amazes me how the government gets more like the Gestapo every day and the public allows it to go on. It's the direction our country is heading and that can't be denied.

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Yeah...umm...I got nothin'.

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