Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619
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The perfect feast for the holiday!
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Three miles of 'light rail" in my city has taken at least that long.
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I had it on videotape years ago. It hadn't been forgotten then....
[I didn't play the link; I remembered the episode...]
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I have two (actual) Stetson fedoras, one black, one brown, that each cost about $350, marketed (and marked) by Stetson as 100% beaver felt, a claim that I have no reason to doubt. Weather has no effect on them, unlike lesser hats I've owned.
[I say 'actual' because the linked article, and other places, seem sometimes to use 'stetson' as generic for cowboy hats, rather than the brand.]
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Exalauno Day is March 4th; a pun on the Greek verb 'exalauno' meaning "March forth", recurrently used in Xenophon's "Anabasis of Cyrus", (often translated as The March Upcountry or the March of the Ten Thousand).
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Xenophon's story is quite true, about the long escape of ten thousand Greek mercenaries from the heart of Persia after their leader, a claimant to the Persian throne, was killed. Took place in the generation before Alexandert the Great.
I read it a few years back after a respected acquaintance described it as 'the greatest true adventure story ever written'. It qualifies, and it is not a hard read.
Roxbury Latin School invented the holiday a century or so ago, and it makes the news now and then....
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You get quite a bit of latitude on cross-examination, but there are still limits....
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Yes, abolutely.
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1 hour ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:
Must have watched what was on when I went to work this morning lol.
Sucks they ordered the people that lived and farmed there Leave you have xx daysIt was total war. Same thing happened at Hanford/Tri-cities Washington.
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So it's temporary. You're coming back. This is a local and limited emergency. So you take a handgun, a rifle, and a couple boxes. This is not a SHTF scenario...
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8 hours ago, Buckshot Bob said:
As I understand it so far everything in Ny has been civil court
Yes. The 'fines' assessed against LaPierre and others are to be repaid to t'he NRA, not the state.
That was the jury part of the case. The case is now before the judge on future governance issues. He long ago dismissed the AG's attempts to dismantle the NRA. Probably the only way to get rid of the current board and reorganize the governance will be by the Court. The board will never do it itself.
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'Geometric' basalt pipes are found lots of places; Washington state has loads of them. When thick basaltic lava cools, it contracts. Geometric 'pipes' are produced. Think of similar formations in drying mud.
Haven't seen those cubic formations before, though. I would guess a similar process.
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30 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:
At my LGS, we sell non-dash pistol bras that has been tumbled for .10 each.
Amazing price; they usually cost more.
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6 hours ago, Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 said:
Costner has come a long way since "Silverado". I used to not really like him until he played Frank Hamer in "the Highwaymen". I think he plays good roles now.
He was outstanding as Hamer.
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3 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
There were around 1700 intervening years, any conjectures are just mental masturbation.
I would call it interesting speculation! We do often think of a lot of 'might-have-beens' in life....
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The M3 Grant/Lee gave good service. They shipped a lot of them to Russia, too.
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Staple of time travel SF for a long time.
One of the best examples is Delenda Est, an 1955 story by Poul Anderson, which has time travelers killing Scipio Africanus with the result that Hannibal eventually defeated Rome. What ensued was a Celtic/Carthaginian culture in place of a Greco-Roman one for Europe.
The Time Patrolmen have to straighten it out.....
Many tales along those lines. Pick any important battle. What if Harold Godwinson defeated William of Normandy at Hastings? And so on.....
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Didn't used to like Costner. As he got older, he got a lot better, and I changed my view. Hope this is a good one.
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While we think of the Vikings as Atlantic raiders mostly, at the same time they were heading down the Eastern European rivers en masse. Usually called Varangians in that context. Russia ultimately was founded at Kiev by Rurik, a Varangian. Scandinavian soldiers guarded the Emperor at Constantinople. There is famous Viking rune graffiti in Hagia Sophia.
They could have come into contact with Moslems in many ways in those times.
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What I would like to see soon would be an article in the next American Rifleman, or maybe the next after that, that has a full account of the facts; honest, detailed, without embellishment, rationalizations, or spin; one which also might point the way forward. And which contains no plea for funds whatever.
Won't hold my breath. But something like that should happen soon.
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8 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
These same people, the ones who looked the other way while this stuff was going on, are still in leadership positions in the NRA. For the NRA to truly regain it's stature as the guardian of the 2nd Amendment, these people need to be removed from power and it needs to happen quickly...months, not years. It's the only way to earn back the public and membership trust.
The NRA can, once again, become foremost leader in 2nd Amendment rights and I sincerely hope they do...but you can't just wipe the piss off of the toilet rim and declare the entire house cleaned.
Exactly. It's the board that really failed; they ignored their responsibility to the organization and its members.
NRA revenue fell 40% in the last couple of years because of the refusal of the membership to continue down the path. Yet LaPierre remained in charge throughout. What ordinary board of directors would keep an executive after that? What board would ignore the exec's filing a bankruptcy petition without board approval or even knowledge? Yet they did.
So a new board is needed and the NRA can move forward to strength again. A lot of goodwill and prestige has been lost and some hard thinking is required.
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Good cast at any rate....
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I still do some backpacking and we always boil or filter the creek water. Most of it where we go is probably fine but it's unwise to assume it.
After dinner we'll boil a couple pans of water, cover to cool and refill the water bottles in the morning.
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4 hours ago, Matthew Duncan said:
On the flip side. I don't understand how a State can tell a private company how the company can spend their funds.
It's a not-for-profit corporation. As such, entitled to significant tax advantages. The tax advantages arise from the idea that such corporations serve a social or public interest.
State laws allowed the creation of non-profit corporations to serve public causes of all types, often charitable. They do not have stockholders who can provide ultimate oversight. There have long been statutory mechanisms that allow state review of the operations of non-profits, to see that they do not deviate from the purposes that allowed them to solicit tax-free contributions on the basis of those purposes in the first place. Thus if they divert contributed money to improper purposes not in accord with their misson, they can be subject to legal 'correction'.
The sad part is that it was left to an anti-gun leftist AG to do what the board in particular, as well as the membership, should have done long ago.
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If you've been buying into the NRA's endless chicken little fundraising stuff, apart from the basic membership, this is what you've been paying for for years.
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the things that run through people's minds
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I suppose with airplanes he would have conquered Gaul. Which he did without them.