Oh Shoot

1953 Pontiac which my Granddad had bought new. About like this one: Big straight 8 flathead engine alone weighed what some whole cars do today. Great drive-in NookieMobile. - OS

Tens of millions might get you a decent run for governor. In some states. Think 500 million and up for Prez. O's going for a billion, might not make it though. Anyway, it will continue to just be an American Idol contest unless we do the right thing and quit allowing the populous to elect senators and presidents. - OS

Permissions got stepped on in "Carry Prohibited Locations", assuming you still don't want anybody but OP and Mods posting follows there, as per FAQ therein. - OS

Usually not, more like 30 days or less lately if there's not some unresolved complication in your past somewhere. - OS

Nah, most all the Russian stuff is steel core, including the Tula from Wally's. You're probably thinking "armor piercing"; just being steel core doesn't make it that. The Federal green tip penetrator ain't either, although I believe at one time the DOD classified it as such. - OS

I must repeat: One flaw with the plan. You have to live with the 2-4 Supreme Court justices that O puts in. For the next 25 years. They'll be bad enough regardless, but if GOP doesn't get the senate, they'll be so far left you'll need binos just to see 'em. (just like the two he's already installed, or likely worse). - OS

I got addicted, I'm 3/4 of the way through what's there. There went the afternoon ... Can't help but see many parallels with Rawles' Patriots, but has plenty of its own character to justify a good read. I find the pacing to be biggest allure, so much happening in very compressed time frame -- whether that's realistic is moot, since the very nature of the genre can only be speculative. Kudos, Toby! - OS

That's one of Orlov's major points. That and the fact that Russia actually had an infrastructure for mass housing and transportation. And to some extent, food distribution, although the country is much more on a "regional eating" basis than here, where little comes from nearby in the major stores. But yeah, the biggest difference of all is in standard of living here, which includes individual transportation, individual homes, and Just In Time services for most all consumption; and regardless of what FEMA and National Guard may claim, an absolute impossibility of effective aid on a national scale. The average Russian saw more borscht and less meat, but the heat stayed on and vodka was almost free. The average American would be crazed in days, and a good chance of being dead in a month. - OS

Yeah, I grok all that. Just that most search injuns may ignore certain input, but will go ahead and parse the rest, rather than refuse whole string. Minor, I guess ... I actually don't spend much time searching anyway. - OS

Wouldn't get carried away by this. Only one was a primary (MO), and it in name only due to a hissy fit with the RNC. In short, no delegates were involved, and probably the biggest immediate outcome will be Newt losing more influence (read: raising money). - OS

We don't need a pope. But y'all decide. I'll still go ABO. - OS

One flaw with the plan. You have to live with the 2-4 Supreme Court justices that O puts in. For the next 25 years. They'll be bad enough regardless, but if GOP doesn't get the senate, they'll be so far left you'll need binos just to see 'em. - OS

Looks like number of posts per page option is gone; seems the default 20 is it. - OS

Tubes, minnows, jigs, what? - OS

Yep, one unpopular stand in one post in a hot topic, and you're toast, seems. Oh well, we're all toast, we just don't know when. - OS edit: ooops, I gave you an UP in two posts, and an accidental DOWN in another. Seems you can't change a mistake though. Oh well, you come out +1 overall - OS

I see this forum has reappeared, but only old locked posts in it? Edit: NM, disregard, I see another new post now, guess it's fully functional again.

That's not a knife. This is a knife: - OS

Nope, treats "got my* first cz* today" as literal, no error, but doesn't find thread, even when in the forum it exists. *.* doesn't work either. - OS

Hmm, okay, I see now, you can't have ANY single word in the search under 4 (now 3) letters. So "Springfield XD Holster" or "Best AR Magazine" both fail. Or even an exact match to a topic title like "Got my first CZ today" Seems the vBulletin search only denied a single word of less than x number of letters, not just having one in a phrase? - OS

Decided I'm gonna bag the primary. Not worth fooling with, you all decide. Haven't had a drink in 15 years, but voting for Mitt in the general is gonna sorely test me. - OS

Dang, Jesus must have fibbed to them two thieves on the cross beside him. And my, all these Christians that only sprinkle are goin' to hell too. - OS

Thanks for all the work, David. Every search I've tried just gives: "One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc, please increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords." - OS

Our own little EMP thingie. See you during the recovery as we rise with sticks and stones in our hands. Or maybe more apt for you and I, jawbones of asses. :) - OS

I'll bet he admires Eric Holder. - OS

Just one of many. https://www.google.com/search?q=muslim+camp+in+tn&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a - OS