Mark@Sea

We've all heard this one before.  Usually like cars.  How about this? - treat buying a gun just like casting a vote.   Must be done in person - no absentee ballots save for active duty military/associated contractors - and the election cannot be decided until those ballots are in and counted.  Nursing homes can get their own polling stations.   Must provide photo ID with your home address on it.  No ID, no vote, no kidding.  An election judge at every polling station from each party to verify each voter.   NICS used to verify voting eligibility.  SSN's used to ensure that one person, one vote is respected.     And here's the kicker - serious felony time awaiting for those who try cheating the system.       You give me that, then I'll be willing to go through a dealer for private sales.  So how about it?  Or is this 'national conversation' another one-sided screech?

Uh huh.

The only troops I would be concerned about would be F-troop.

And yet, if they had resisted, they would have won. To paraphrase; "Take not counsel of your fears. Instead, give those who come for you a nightmare."

"During an arrest, you think since you are not guilty, how can they arrest you? Why should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make your situation worse; you will make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake. And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We did not love freedom enough. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself." ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

You might be thinking of Kendra St Clair, who used her mothers' glock this October to shoot a man trying to get to her after breaking in to her house - but there are several other similiar incidents. The little girl in Arizona who used a 12 gauge on a pair of home intruders is one of my favorites. I'd include a link, but for some reason the system isn't giving me the option, and cut-n-pasting a mile long link is too unwieldy. At any rate, if I had a pair of 17 year old twins, no - I wouldn't let them have access to my guns while I was gone. They could use their own.

Well, the majority of the country was against Obamacare. They couldn't get it done in the house, so they 'deemed it passed' and wrote it in the senate, then rammed it through the house with bribes and extortion. First everybody thought it would never get passed, then everybody thought the Supremes would shoot it down. Yet look where we are now. I am not so sure.

Mikes had a few this morning. Had to park next door, shop was standing room only. When I left there were 2 AR's on the rack but I very much doubt they'll be there by closing. No layaways on AR's or AK's, and no mags left AFAIK. Saw a lady, on the far side of 60, shopping for a glock. Warmed my heart, I tell you. On the plus side, he hadn't superinflated his prices.

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Much better than my idea. I was gonna mail 'em a bunch of red coats.

You mean, just like the teachers at that school had to do? I thought there were limits to everything. Stupidity, however, appears infinite.

I can probably rebuild it for you, but I'm in east tennessee.

Here is the problem with fewer carriers, and I've experienced this myself. Some places you just have to have a birdfarm. However, for that carrier doing donuts in the gulf of whatever, you've got 2 more. 1 that just got relieved and is heading (hopefully) for home and some much needed crew leave, and one that is on workups, covering a flareup, supporting training, or in a yard period. My last carrier cruise was extended on both ends. We were supposed to do a couple months of workups out of a yard period, and have 4 months in home port prior to deployment. Instead, we went from doing workups to 3 days in port to load supplies, and then left port again for a little local excitement in Haiti. After a month doing donuts, we went directly to a 3 month stretch to cover for another conventional carrier that had a major engineering casualty and couldn't serve as the practice carrier for the aviator newbs in Pensacola. We concluded that little exercise with 3 days in home port - again, loading supplies and in fact most of the crew were unable to leave the ship - and departed directly for our med cruise. Just in time for Bosnian aerial diplomacy efforts, as a result of which we had 1 port call the first four months of the cruise. We were extended a month on station to continue the 'Clinton Diplomacy', We transited directly from there to the Persian Gulf to cover for another carrier that had to depart a couple months early. Guess who got extended again to cover the gap? The ship actually used MWR funds at one point to rent a barge for a day so we could bring it alongside, go down, and have a couple of beers. Fun day, and the highlight of the cruise. Shoot, it was the highlight of the year. I'd truly love to see a way for UAV's to replace manned aircraft. I really, really would. The tech just isn't there yet.

Never had any use for the stuff, but here's the thing. When they wanted prohibition of alcohol, it required a constitutional amendment to give the fedgov the power. What changed, exactly? It isn't something I am particularly happy about, but it is a small step in the right direction.

I think the administration is planning and preparing for breadlines. Hard to use an EBT when your address is the local tent city. O'care regulations are going to make the remaining job market look like a chum line in a shark fishing tournament. One way or another, everyones' taxes are going to increase - some dramatically. There will be a domino effect, as more lose their jobs more jobs will be lost - dropoff in demand for goods and services as people are unable to pay for even food and shelter. Small business is taking one body blow after another. There are 3 classes of people looking pretty right now - the welfare class, the politically connected, and gov't employees. Obama/democratic party cannot allow any meaningful 'entitlement' reform, so the presses at Treasury are going to continue rolling 24/7. Dramatic inflation is inevitable, as the night follows the day cash will buy less. Foodstuffs are already sold in reduced portions at the same price. At some point, the financial ice will crack, and we're all in for a swim.

Well, there, mr.ak47, how about a source for that? I sourced that statement from DOJ crime statistics. Blacks are more likely to kill whites than vice versa by more than a 2 to 1 ratio.

Black on white violent crime is far, far more prevalent. You won't see it on national news, though. Title should be amended; This country is no place for thugs.

UAV's can't do air-to-air for squat. The missiles vs carrier argument has been around a while. The riskiest threat is a short range high mach sub launched pop up. Until somebody comes up with another way to put manned aircraft on target from halfway around the globe, carriers aren't going anywhere. Force projection is the name of that game, and a Predator with a couple of hellfires isn't going to replace the mk1 eyeball and a full load of ordnance any time soon.

I've got a Handy Gas Plant around here someplace... 2 or 3 500A's (a smaller version of the same thing) and a buncha 502's, the best single burner stoves Coleman ever made.

Strick knows a bit about Colemans... but no. Isn't specifically a water heater, although Coleman did make those at one time. Yes, it does appear un-used, and came with spares and manuals. It is a distilled water maker. In short, a still. Made for field use. I've run across some oddball coleman appliances, but this one takes the cake.

Some of you know I collect and restore old Coleman lanterns and stoves. This is a Coleman, dating from 1942. My Christmas gift. Anybody have a guess what it is? [img]http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o94/OldRadarTech/DSC04548.jpg[/img]

Why two people? Can't you shoot straight?

Maff is hard!

Check your PM's...

Thanks... Cloud Creek was getting it last night, I think. At this point most of Short mountain has burned over, it is climbing Stone mountain just north.