Dubious Don #56333

Social Media has empowered a lot of these idjits. They say things online that would earn them a punch in the nose if they said it to the right someone's face. They become emboldened and this is the result. they also feel it's "ok" to trespass, damage property because Trump is bad or some other such nonsense so they rationalize their improper conduct because "Trump's a nazi" or some other such crap which is supposed to make it ok. As for the paintball guy, even though it wasn't "a firearm" I believe it would be at the minimum, misdemeanor assault with a good chance they'd raise it to felony weight. I don't condone that sort of conduct either. Either act within the law or suffer the consequences. Here Endeth The Lesson

Huh. Interesting, but not surprising. Couple years ago, a young Marine LTC publicly questioned what he saw as a command failure, after the fiasco during the evacuation of personnel from Afghanistan from the intl airport since they had previously abandoned Bagram Air Base. this resulted in the deaths of thirteen Service members and many other casualties. LTC Scheller knew he'd get court martialed and left the service three years before he'd be eligible to retire. While I can agree with his reasoning, that incident was a dismal failure of command that resulted in the deaths of service members and civilians plus the loss of billions of dollars worth of US property, his conduct was improper for an Officer. He KNEW this and did it anyway because he believed his cause was just. And he went public with the full knowledge of what would happen to him personally. This is far different from what you describe, young officers in a public area carrying on a conversation about the conditions they are serving in. Shower shoes. LOL In basic we were ISSUED shower shoes. My first posting out of basic was to a unit in West Germany. Our barracks were from WWI. We had a "shower room". big tile room, eight showerheads on the walls. No stalls. LOL. In fact, all through my military service, I never got the "footrot". Until I went to the Police academy. Worst case of athletes foot you wanna see. Took me years to kill that nasty. From the web, I've seen barracks and Base Housing that is simply unfit for habitation. I can't imagine being on a ship in close quarters and dealing with similar conditions. As for the attitudes on these young naval Officers, EVERY soldier "whines" about their command when they are out of earshot of "them" and with their peers. EVERY. In my experience. Is their conduct indicative of a service-wide problem? Dunno. All I can tell you is the Military is a reflection of the Country it serves. I see a lot of fat, soft squatty-bodies who spend entirely too much time whining about stupidness like how their Starbucks didn't come with enough whipped cream or caramel out and about among the general population. I find them to be mostly self-centered, selfish, no regard for others and on the whole, of limited intelligence. it doesn't help that their schooling for the last few generations has been um, lacking. And they turn these same lame-o's into military personnel. Swell. On the other hand, a syndrome I've seen amongst such people happens when the first shot either goes by close enough to singe hair or...lol... takes out the person next to'em. They generally get with the program most ricky-tik. Generally. I guess we're just going to have to wait and see what happens after current events overseas finally get rolling. I don't think we have long to wait.

LOL. Congratulations on your find! I myself amassed quite the pile of old oddball shooters and over the last few years have transitioned from Accumulator to Enabler. I've been thinning the herd, ENABLING others to get bit and bit hard by the funky-ole-gun-syndrome. You're welcome! LOL. Anyway The Rolling block, like many guns of the era transitioned between the black powder era and Smokeless. Remington had issues with some frame stretching so they made the frame beefier. As I recall, they didn't change the patent date or otherwise mark the receivers in any way and I'm too lazy to research it. My advice would be reduced loads. 5744 is as good a powder as any since Trailboss isn't going to appear until next year. Maybe. They say.

Experience; The ability to recognize a mistake before you make it again. LOL My academy driving was mostly how to go as fast as you can without....that was the trick, WITHOUT sliding off the track. And doing it in the established timeframe. It didn't teach us crap about controlling a skid, driving on ice or snow or rain measured in feet per minute. (Arizina's kinda dry LOL) Most of us rookie cops had a couple three or four crashes under our belts within the first three years. Some worse than others. One guy managed to wrap his Caprice around a power pole. Literally. Lived, but he was too busted up to come back to full duty so he got a medical retirement. Another died when he came around a corner too fast going to another call and met a dump truck. Wasn't too long before somebody in the department discovered Bondurant School of Driving. Oh. My. At first, the only people they only sent people there if they wrecked a car. Then another somebody decided that was stupid, why not send them there BEFORE they get into a wreck. Well, duh. LOL Abusing a vehicle like that, driving it to the limit learning all the fun stuff, controlling a skid, bootlegger turns, driving like a maniac without hurting yourself OR the vehicle is fun. Abusing somebody else's hooptie on the track is funner. ALL driver's ed should feature this. This course should be mandatory for all Public Safety personnel. Though, they no longer "approve" of high speed Dukes of Hazzard slash Smoky & The Bandit slash Blues Brothers Pursuit style driving. Or anything even remotely close to that. But driving like a maniac is FUN. As long as you don't crash. That ain't fun. God Bless

Y'all noticed that, huh? LOL. Hard not to. In my town, which is pretty dang big, especially these days there used to be a big variety of gunsmiths doing custom stock work, metal work, anything and everything you'd care to do to a firearm. Many of them learned the trade like I did, under the wing of someone else with a little schoolin' throwed in on the side. And books. Lotsa books. I just never got 'round to going back to a college that taught gunsmithing and getting a degree. Rather than go into bidness for myself, I went another direction which was just as if not more, satisfying work. With gunsmithing throwed in there for a good while, LOL. All of the older fellers I come up with are gone now. Other than "armorer" types or parts-put-er-on -er's, I've not found anyone in the Metro area that does anything close to the work of David Fink. Never met the man, but I know him by reputation. Like Hans Vang. I still have guns that Vang did back in the day. And other smiths, long gone. Not to say that there aren't decent gunsmiths around here in the Phoenix area. Several. Just not to the level of those I was used to seeing as a matter of course, not the exceptions, you know?

Well. Isn't he Mr Cool. Actually, he acted correctly. Probably more to the story. The ATC has the ability to replay the flight with radio audio which will give them a pretty good starting point to do a recovery search. Apparently, this particular incident wasn't covered in radar flight controller school .....

American manufacturing isn't even a shadow of its former self. Amazing what manufacturers did during WWII. Because they HAD to. Boeing once built the finest airliners in the sky. Things change. While the Jug was an awesome fighter, I understand why more examples aren't flying today. Lotta fighter to handle. Maybe some day.

Nice to see people taking a stand where it counts.

Sung with heart. Poured their souls into that I do believe.

Ah. I see they're rerunning their old stuff in hopes that it will stick this time. How nice.

Yes. Doesn't come round that often for some reason.

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We're a long ways out from buying that nasty, shaggy, stem & seed filled high school weed out back of the baseball diamond, LOL. Mary Jane is now a legitimate business. Well, sorta until the feds get on the wagon LOL. I've not smoked (tobacco) in years. Back then. the shops I went to also catered to the MJ smokers. Bongs, grinders, dinguses, you name it. If it's changed, it's only to expand their selection because weed seems to be pretty popular. I'm old fashioned though, I'll stick to my booze LOL. I'm pretty sick and tired of smelling weed from other drivers, though.

Once a witness is sworn in a trial, that Oath is in effect for the duration of the trial. Officers of The Court, judge, Bailiff, Clerk, Prosecutor, defense, Police investigators attending with the prosecutor are all covered by the oaths of their office concerning their actions in court. Lying or misleading statements to the Court are not permitted. The Judge has the power to sanction them if they violate that.

I felt safer in the 80's with SAC on alert 24/7. Having served during that time in Europe, I was starkly aware that as a troop on the ground in West Germany, my life expectancy should the Red Army come storming through the Fulda Gap was measured in minutes. Back in the world, south of my home town were two squadrons of Titan II missiles that pretty much circled Tucson, AZ. Each of those 18 missiles were topped with the W53 9MT warhead. Whatever it hits simply ceases to exist, be it city or underground command bunker. As high value targets they would have targeted multiple missiles on each one, large enough to destroy a facility designed to survive an attack. They would have used a ground burst, or maybe what the USAF calls a laydown. Bomb with a parachute, lands intact on the surface. When it goes off it digs a great big hole with mega-tons of radioactive fallout. In theory, the prevailing winds would carry that mostly east and north towards New Mexico/Oklahoma maybe and parts east. Phoenix, a couple hours north might catch the edges but that type of detonation produces extremely high-rad fallout. Not good. Today the Titan's are gone. There's one remaining in Green Valley, site 571-7. It's a cool tour and if you go, be sure to combine it with the Pima Air Museum in Tucson. Anyway. This isn't the 1970's. Largest warhead in inventory is 1.2MT. They are far more accurate than they were. Drop the thing right down the chimney accurate. Supposedly. We have 450 Minuteman III up north-central CONUS, and unlike the Titans, which would have survived a near-miss but not a direct hit, these sites were designed for that. Each carries three separate warheads. Highly accurate and reliable. Then there's the submarines. The exact number is unknown (classified) that are on patrol at any time. The accepted figure is seven. Each with 18 Tridents. I think they were designed for ten warheads but the in use figure is less. I think. At any rate, that's a whole lotta canned sunshine love for someone. They took all the nukes away from the Army (don't blame them, LOL) so it's up to the USAF/USN. Any aircraft used for that mission would be way down the line from the opening salvo. The USAF and Navy both maintain airborne command and control aircraft. Orders for nuclear must come from the President in a specific manner. The time needed to accomplish this, given that our adversaries are quite capable of firing from a submerged location just off the coast means flight time of an incoming missile could be less than five or ten minutes. Likely prevent that order from even going out but there are backup plans. For conflicts less than the strategic release of nuclear, commanders often have specific rules of engagement to cover most situations. Other responses go up the chain. Once it gets up there, with the current administration you might be able to see how THAT will negatively affect not only our response but how our adversaries react to us. We're sort of sitting ducks right now. If the election goes badly, you can change that by a factor of oh, twenty. In the negative. We'll ALL need God's Love and Protection then. With the current admin we are VERY vulnerable to that. Is that likely? Dunno. So far our adversaries have been kept at bay by our military but they see as well as we do that our government is a paper tiger. Not even that. Glad I'm not on the tip of the spear anymore. God Bless