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The Corsair was responsible for shooting down at least one MiG in the Korean conflict!

I like it!!

Finally a got paroled?? WELCOME BACK!!

I’ve been disappointed lately with Chick-Filet! The food is good to great, the last several times we’ve gone there to get breakfast, they completely bolloxed the order!! The local one we’ve used has employees standing in the car lines taking orders, but there’s no posted menu in sight! After you place your order you wind up driving past the menu and the order speaker. Usually, there’s something on the menu that is new or that you didn’t know about!! We’re taking a break from them for now.

I’m thinking that you may be disappointed when you pay off that card. When I paid off the last note we had on a vehicle, a month or so later, my credit score on one of the services dropped seventeen points!! It dropped on all thee to some extent, but SEVENTEEN DAMNED POINTS was absurd! They explained that this is “usual and customary” when an account is closed out. The other two services dropped my score a couple of points and it was back up in a couple of months. That third one took almost seven months to recover and has been much slower to advance since then. I have a second mortgage that will be paid off in two months and another couple of small personal accounts that will be done by the first of next year! Two of the three services have me rated as “excellent” and the third is in the “very good” range. It’ll be interesting to see what it does for my scores when I only have the one mortgage on the house!! By the way! One of the main functions of the credit services is to get you to take new credit cards!! That’s what the big banks are really paying them to do!

Welcome to the fire!! NO! Your .357 guns will be fine!! Only the Classic Cowboy category requires calibers .40 or larger!! Those Colt Navys are acceptable in any category as far as I know, but you will be busy keeping them fed! Your shotgun will also be fine generally. Go to a nearby match, take your gear, and ask as many questions as you need to get your head around the basics of the game! If you can get in contact with a club official or match director, they’ll gladly help you with your questions and with guiding you through using your gear and who to see for any specific needs! This can easily become the most fun you’ll ever have with your clothes on!!

I can still get up and walk out of a place without the slightest feeling of regret!! I can understand if you don’t have what I want or need. I CAN be picky! I won’t tolerate bad service or poorly maintained facilities. I pay good money for good service and better if the food is good, but I expect to be treated well and a certain level of courtesy and convenience.

I got better things to do with my time!! Added: Since my youngest grandson passed the age of three, I have not darkened the door of a McDonalds. Our local one was closed because of a power failure and we went to Hardee’s, (Carl’s Jr to you folks out west) for breakfast on the way to his daycare! The next time we were going through town and I turned on the turn signal, he said “No, Papa!! Hardee’s!” Damn sure didn’t hurt my feelings!!

That it’s cooked in a covered pot makes me contend that it’s a stew. Casseroles are generally baked in open dishes. The use of the oven could easily be bypassed by an open fire or low heat on a stove top! It would be outstanding, cooked in a cast iron Dutch oven!! I would add mushrooms and maybe some bell pepper.

Those look quite delectable!! Schoolmarm makes something similar using Won Ton wrappers and spicy sausage. I think her’s uses some sort of ranch dressing mix! She calls ‘em sausage stars. We take them to parties and they disappear immediately.

That is a STEW!! You can scoop out a casserole onto a flat plate and it’ll hold the shape it had when it first touched down. Call it what you like, but that IS AHAT IT IS!! 😜 The one depicted looks quite delicious!!

We used to say the same about ROADWAY drivers… forty years ago!

You’re misspelling it!! It’s Goobernor Nuisance!!! 😡

Check with Michigan Rattler or Persimmon Dan!!

Au contraire mon’ frere! I stopped at a Subway last fall that had a touch screen kiosk in the drive thru!! It wouldn’t sense my fingers and didn’t offer some of the items I wanted. A sissy butt manager person came out to see what I was doing and did nothing to make the experience any better! I pulled out of line and drove away!! I DID inform the drone that I would never return to that establishment!!

I’m happy with whatever I can win! I HAVE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE!! I won a .38 cal derringer a number of years ago. It’s a cheapy, but it shoots reliably and it was free! It was a drawing where everyone put their name in a hat. I won a stainless New Model Vaquero 5” .357 at a state match. It was on a raffle ticket supplied in the shooter package. I won a little bolt action, mag fed .22 rifle at a big match where everyone was eligible. Fun little gun. I won a Dillon xl750 on a raffle where you bought cards from a single deck at $20.00 a pop and I bought three. It was the first card that they pulled. I won a Henry Golden Boy .22 with an octagon barrel last year on a raffle ticket that Schoolmarm bought for me. That one is destined for Slater’s tent at the Tennessee State Match in a couple of weeks!! I’v seen nearly every kind of gun and several other lucrative prizes given away at big matches!! I know that the generosity of sponsors and local businesses are the reason we have these opportunities. No matter what you win, BE SURE TO THANK THOSE WHO HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN!!

For your own peace of mind and the safety of the rest of us, employ some sort of powder check/ lockout device, at least to start with. The one from Dillon is reasonably easy to adjust and mine has stayed accurate for a year now. I’ve changed loads several times and when I do, I make the simple adjustment. I also double check, visually, every few cycles and I will pull a case and weigh the powder charge every fifty or so, (I’m still pretty new at progressive reloading too) which gives me a little extra peace of mind. Like my personal rule for racing and hotrodding reminds me, “The ass you save may be your own!!” I always packed my own parachute too…

Just received this email from CCRKBA, the lobbying branch of the Second Amendment Foundation! CCRKBA JOINS EFFORT TO REFORM 1934 NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT May 22, 2025 | 0 comments BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms joined a broad coalition of gun rights advocates and political leaders in what has so far been a successful effort to reform the 1934 National Firearms Act by removing suppressors from NFA regulation as part of the budget reconciliation package. In a letter to Congress members Jodey C. Arrington, chair of the House Budget Committee and Virginia Foxx, chair of the House Rules Committee, the coalition of nearly 100 Second Amendment leaders including CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb demanded inclusion of portions of the Hearing Protection Act (H.R. 404) in the budget reconciliation bill, known as the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” In a 215-214 vote early Thursday, the House passed the package with HRA provisions intact. “We have cleared a significant obstacle in the effort to bring suppressors into the mainstream, and make the Hearing Protection Act a reality,” Gottlieb said. “The Citizens Committee is proud to have joined with so many of our friends and allies all over the country in pushing for reform of the NFA, which is long overdue. “It is gratifying to see Hearing Protection make it past this important hurdle,” Gottlieb continued, “because it means members of Congress are finally seeing past the misinformation, myths and outright lies about suppressors which have been perpetuated for years by the gun prohibition movement and their media dupes. “A big job still remains,” he acknowledged, “and that is successfully getting this legislation through the Senate with the HPA segment intact, then on to President Trump’s desk for his signature. CCRKBA remains committed to making that happen, and we will encourage our members and supporters to keep contacting their Senators to approve the budget reconciliation package with the HPA inclusion. “For years,” Gottlieb recalled, “CCRKBA has supported deregulating firearm suppressors in the interest of hearing protection, and making the devices available to the public without all of the regulatory hoops and the $200 tax requirement. Happily, we’re almost there.” This kinda’ confirms what GOA has published.

Injection is nice, but I’d rather be BLOWN!! ❤️

Irish, chilled and neat.

Spent the morning thawing out the middle drawer on our “frost free” refrigerator!! The repair manual says that the drain is stopped up and the inside back of the unit will have to be removed to clear it. I’m in no shape to do that right now. 😡 Leaving here in a few minutes to go and get my hearing aids and grab a few groceries. It’s now twenty-four hours ‘til I find out whether the surgery worked an if it’s likely that I’ll get to keep my foot!! I’m kinda’ hoping that it’ll be yes to both!! I received news yesterday that any physical therapy was going to be covered with a minimal copay, so I’m thinking that we can get it to where I’ll manage without having to go any further. Stand by!!

Should not have taken ANY time, effort, or money for that transaction! I signed the petition!!

^^^^^ THIS!!! ^^^^^

Hangin’ in there!! I’ll give you a call tomorrow afternoon!!

I have a maximum per charge limit on my debt card and the bank calls me immediately if they see any such charge. I can make a quick phone call and bypass that limit with a protected code. I’ve had a couple of attempts to rip off my account and I was never out any money for more than a couple of hours. It is part of what keeps me going back to that bank!! I also keep a separate account that has no card attached to it. I keep the bulk of my money there and dole it out into the other accounts as needed. Takes a couple of minutes at most and acts as an extra firewall to protect my funds.