Oh Shoot

I gave up many years ago after the second strike. Selig's refusal to overturn the call at first base to give the kid his legitimate perfect game is just more of the candy ass same ole. - OS

Yeah, carry the pocket gun. - OS

Yeah. Initially BP was claiming 5,000 barrels of oil/per day total spew. Then they claimed around middle of May, when they inserted the first tube in, that they were getting 5,000 barrels to the SURFACE per day. When you could tell that the spew wasn't visually reduced AT ALL. I think that "claim" lasted actually less than 24 hours. I'm beginning to agree that James Cameron and Bruce Willis might be a better bet. - OS

Between the two, the 10/22. Cheap parts, beau coup customization. 795 mags are much more expensive and 10/22 factory mags, plus good hicap 10/22 options. I think a better debate might be between the 10/22 and Marlin 60. Two Marlin 60 advantages: - no mags to fool with - generally somewhat better accuracy out of the box - OS

Well, no way to really know, but the flow "looks" like it hasn't diminished at all, just coming out over a wider area around the "top hat". I understand vaguely that they'll need to close the "vents". Hope that doesn't blow the whole shebang right off so that things are back to the actually increased flow after the "giant shears". I remain "pessimistic". - OS

Uber boring: 12 gauge only. - OS

Never had any probs with any flavor of Fiocchi. After test shooting a bunch, have stashed some in .357 mag, .223, and 12 gauge buck. - OS

That's his style. He straddles issues so much he's had to put extra material in crotch of his pants. - OS

To be even more fair, the stations that were cited were run by independent franchisers, there were only 3 or 4, and those operators were all fined to the tune of ~$20K each, and had to offer rebates to anyone who still had receipts. At least one was in Ky. Pilot sold the gas at the same price structure to all it's stations and wasn't responsible for the gougers. There were a lot more Wiegels cited than Pilot. It pains me to state all this, as I don't think much of Billy Boy, but you really can't blame the Haslam family for those events. They certainly wouldn't have gotten involved over such small change anyway. - OS

.22 5.56/.223 9mm .357/.38 .30-30 - OS

You can't. You can disguise what the transaction is for, but if you need to make a claim the facts would have to come out. Then not only would they not take any action but likely nuke both of your accounts, too. - OS

Remains to be seen. If there were to be a rash of close enforcement, who knows, they could start pulling permits under the "poses a material risk" clause. It's the reason I was one of the few that felt Kwik's permit shouldn't have been pulled. After all, he broke NO carry laws and they jerked his under that clause, and yet carrying past a sign IS breaking a carry law. - OS

I'm trying to think how you get this digital file onto your gun, short of a computer controlled air brush system? - OS

Okay, perspective. At the now generally agreed upon lowest flow rate per day of 20,000 BARRELS x 42 gallons/barrel x 45 days = 37800000 gallons. Which is just behind number 9 and 10 on the "worst list". In another week or two we'll be number 8 on the list. With no end in sight for all we know. I've never been to the Persian Gulf, but I don't think there's much doubt that to compare the fecundity of the ecosystem of the US Gulf States to the lands that abut the Persian Gulf is like comparing Earth to Mars. - OS

Only 9mm .357/.38 .22 And I'm keeping it that way! - OS

Well, at least one observable surface slick is the size of Maine. We'll just settle for that cheery comparison, then. - OS

Do I read this correctly, in thousands: Net Tangible Assets $71,165,000 $76,032,000 $70,243,000 That's like, $70 Billion? If so, it's not nearly enough. Not like they'll ever have to part with it anyway, with the best lawyers money can buy (of which the US gummit has NONE, especially our doofus Attorney General). - OS

It's my overall understanding, that after 15 years, and the fed courts lowered the judgment TWICE, Exxon paid around 3 billion dollars all total in damages and fixits. That was for a handful of people and a tiny area compared to this one. And of course, the ecosystem there has still not fully recovered, and you can still pool oil by digging a 3 foot deep hole. I think BP has already spent maybe half a billion, and of course has not even touched on the actual economic impact of just the lost income from the coastal folks thus far. Hell, there will be more suicides on the Gulf Coast than all the folks who simply left Cordova in Alaska (although there were a number of suicides in just that small burg. And even if they stop this thing next week, the effects are still really in their infancy. There are combined plumes of oil/dispersant out there bigger than frigging New England. First good tropical storm down there may make this a whole new ballgame, too. I am far far far from optimistic. - OS

I'm really thinking that worst case (and so far that's all we've seen) this could be the "trigger event" to really topple the ever increasingly fragile US economy. Just think of essentially every fisherman, shrimper, crabber, oysterman, lobsterman, charter boat owner, etc in 3 (or more) states being jobless for what? 6 months? a year? two? more? And all the surrounding and tangential economies that depend on them. Then the personal and commercial real estate crash resultant from all those folks simply having to pack up and move and nobody moving IN. Not to mention the tourist industry if this thing DOES indeed start frigging up vacation beaches, too. Etc etc. If you think about it, I'm not sure there's enough (yet unprinted of course) real money in this country TO "make things whole" again if BP/Transocean/Halliburton duck out. Even if they don't flat bail, you can tell already that once that leak does indeed get really stopped, they'll just spend millions on lawyers for the next decade or two, rather than the billions in reparations. Which of course means that WE have to eat it all, or just speed up the printing presses so we accelerate what looks like will have to eventually result in the death knell - hyperinflation. - OS

I'm wondering just how many billion BP will actually throw in the pot before it just declares bankruptcy (with the top 100 execs slipping off with gawd knows how much of course) and leaves the US with a "sorry dudes, we're broke" note. Already seeing some musings suggesting that outcome: BP shares dive; analyst says situation has 'smell of death' - USATODAY.com - OS

I'm wondering just how many billion BP will actually throw in the pot before it just declares bankruptcy, with the top 50 execs slipping off with gawd knows how much, and leaves the US with a "sorry dudes, we're broke" note. - OS

I assure you that if I'm busted for a switchblade in my home, you'll be the first to know, just so you can revel in the irony. But I won't hire you for my defense. - OS

No, but it wasn't me that created the misnomer of the C&R license to begin with, since again, no mainstream definition of "curio" depends on the age of the item. I'll agree with "relic", though. But that's not in the statute either. I have a dashboard Jesus (really), made in China, you can buy a brand new one today. I think it nicely fits the definition of all three of the terms: curio, keepsake, and ornament. So if they ever pass a Christian anti-sacrilegious statute, I hope they leave in the same exception! - OS

Hell yeah. Them XD SCs are versatile, I tell ya. - OS

Nah, I thought it was ****in hilarious. But Nerd should have really popped FatBoy a time or two, so we'd see him cry. - OS