Forty Rod SASS 3935

Well, it works and in a world where so little works it's almost refreshing. ;D

Why is that b---h still showing up on my computer?

Every time I look at a gun and declare it be the ugliest gun ever, someone comes along with something to prove me wrong. Good going, Joe.

OKay, I'll pull that one. It sounded better in my head.

Momma was half Dago, half English. We had them a lot.

Only one?

And it takes a few days to get them into action and the fleet will likely be gone by then, having stirred the pot already. I'm not suggesting an attack, just a showing to get someone's attention long enough to put other steps into action....like throwing the UN off our shores with a 60 day time limit to get out. Consider cutting off support of any kind to anyone who can be shown to be an enemy of the USA. Modifying the rules of diplomatic immunity which allow everyone coming into the country the "right" to spy, break our laws and spit in our faces when they choose. In other words, we need to stop being everyone's nice uncle.

Imagine if you will a fleet of a battleship all modernized up, a couple of carriers with their planes flying around, again outside the territorial waters, and a herd of smaller craft showing up, all just outside the territorial waters of a nation, visible from the land, but just sitting there. Throw in a few submarines for garland. Might be a good idea to mess with their communication systems such a TV, radio, and almost any other electronic communications, military, civilian and any others. Imagine the clogged highways and byways, crowds trying to get out of the line of fire, runs on products from food to toilet paper, etc. pure unadulterated panic. People fighting in the streets to get away, looters taking advantage of the situation Your military would be hindered by these panicked people and it would reduce the military's ability to respond. . . . . . Now imagine this armanda off shore by Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Seattle, Oahu, or any of OUR population centers. Now, just before it all goes south, recall all of our equipment except for some to watch and report, staying as invisible as as possible. Don't mention it to any other country, especially the UN, and do our best to keep it from our own media.. Just sit quietly and smile.

So that's what that thing was for. My dad had one the the first one and we never knew what it was for. Great grandpa of the P-38. He gave it The Cache Valley Pioneer Museum when I was still in high school so now I know. Finally I can sleep nights not wondering (Not really.) I hadn't thought of it in about 65 years.)

Atta boy, Creeker. I hit 189 today, the lightest I've been since 1965 when I graduated from college, got commissioned in the Army, and got married.....and way down from 293 back 37 months ago. I don't much recommend the way I lost a lot of it, though. The rest was almost easy. Keep going until you get to where you want to be, Pard. I have only 4 pounds to go.

We are still overlooking the intimidation factor. Battleships are scary, not to the military as much as the civilian population. Those ships just ooze danger, strength, and awe to people who may never see one. They just cry out "WE WILL KILL YOU AND DESTOY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE!" It's a public image matter because very few nations will ignore their population. Too many countries do, however, and we can still intimidate them in many other ways, but a humongous steel fortress bristling with weaponry and leading all the many other ships just outside your major cities can raise the pucker factor and force those countries to divert funds to places they wouldn't consider spending them otherwise. Wouldn't need the heavy armor any more, nor huge guns, but something massive with modern weaponry and tech advantages, all visible and intimidating, can work as well....just so it's an apparent visible threat.

Someone on this site made some of these a few years back. Very well done and nostalgic as all get out. I thought it was Hardpan, but he says it wasn't him. I'd buy two more if I could find who made the first one. Any one know who did these?

Several regional variations. I grew up in Utah and the Pacific North West (North Wets in some places where the sun never shines), with pee con...then I went to the the Carolinas, then Texas, then New England.

I'll bet that works better than Dad's did, too. He'd get his running a bit and then spend a lot of time re-focusing the magnifying glasses and mirrors...then the sun would go behind a cloud and it would stop. I wonder what happened to that. I'd ask my sister, but we don't talk much these days.

I always have some "Old English" spread. Great for cracker snacks when I'm in a hurry, or just plain lazy. They used to have pimento, and a few others (pineapple?), but I haven't seen them on the shelves in years...sadly. Just looked them up and they have a whole bunch of flavors. Guess I'll order one of each. BTW, they last almost forever if refrigerated.

Including the people who live there...and I doubt that they are edible to people like me, either.

Shawna and I were together for 51 1/2 years before she passed. I was the luckiest man alive. Someone asker her why she married me and she said "because I needed a project and he needed to be projected." She's been gone 9 1/2 years and I still miss her every minute of the day.

My dad was a college professor, a grade school teacher, and a gadgeteer. He just loved to make or remake things that moved. We had windmills all over the yard. He had two Sterling engines, both much larger, and nowhere as attractive than yours. One ran on lighter fluid, but he rigged one with a few magnifying glasses to run on sun light. This was in 1957 or so. He said that some day solar power would run the world. I wonder what he would think today.

They don't make snow tires for airplanes. And, in my estimation, a razor back Jug just looks funny.

I miss my old business partner (one of three and me) Hanna Reichwald. She would bring in a different German dish and sometimes tiramasu (SP?) every week. She had six or seven crocks of sauerkraut, all different, going on in her kitchen at one time, and several deserts or pastries, candies and puddings, etc. all the time. And she knew all there is to know about potato dishes. She's about 95 now and slipping away.

SOME? MOST!

If he has then so have about 200,000,000 other Americans. The rest pronounce it wrong or have never heard the word... (he said poetically).

I send a few, but not a lot. Maybe eight to ten a year, mostly to my kids and friends.

You can not even imagine how much I would rather starve than put that in my mouth.

British bomber group 1941, about 42 minutes, target an oil storage yard hidden in a forest...and NO ACTORS. NO NARRATORS. They put together a documentary from bits and pieces of actual footage, and made it watchable because it looks like a war movie, only better. They showed things I've never seen before. A two engine bomber that I haven'y had time to identify A ground control bunker with a tin roof covering a "plastic" hemispherical dome, the operator standing on a stool to see out. Maps and wall charts, and paper everywhere. No radios but a lot of telephones with very long cords. A wounded navigator laying on the steel floor of the bomber with no heat. One pilot's seat. The co-pilot radio operator has the climb over the pilot while the"Skipper" goes back to check on his man.to check on his man. Crossing the Channel in the dark and looking for somethingto show them where they were. Discovering that they are of they turn to find another marker. Setting the forest on fire to light it up so they could keep the Germans busy while they made run to bomb the tank farm. One-on-one gunfight with heavy machine guns on the ground (NO FIGHTERS protecting the target). One plane (with the wounded man)drops back and comes in slow and low. Runway lights are lit by a man with a torch igniting containers of fuel. Lots of other things that I'm going to have to go back and see again. I bought two sets of four films each called War Classics from the Prescott Valley library. If any of the rest are near as good it will be worth the $1.50 per package that I paid from the DVDs for sale shelf. It made me fell like I was really there, only warmer and with a sandwich and sarsaparilla by my side.