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Ain't Dead

Despite depression, I've not eaten a bullet.I marvel at my stubbornness sometimes though.

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Don't Be A Dick

Reversion to draft for breaking that rule.It'll be back after a rewrite.We now return you to your regular blog, already in progress.

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Because Of Whom Is Refused

Jay brings up a good point.The reason it's OK for Mr Springsteen to refuse service to the people of North Carolina and not for a baker to refuse service to a homosexual is because of double...

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Religious Freedom Laws

It would appear that your state passing a religious freedom law will prevent dancing monkeys.Bruce Springsteen won't play North Carolina.Bryan Adams won't play Mississippi.Really guys, way to create...

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Define "Good"

A problem we have today is a most 1911's have about as much in common with an M1911A1 as a Remington 700 does with a K98k.A problem we don't have is people taking classes on Remington 700's and making...

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Baby Steps

Willard's AR15 Mold "survival carbine" is now a completed firearm thanks to a DelTon 16" M4gery kit.1:9 barrel, no chrome.Coming is orange furniture from Cavalry Manufacturing, as soon as he can get...

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Again

Rankin and Bass, much reviled for the musical interludes, is, I am afraid, still the most faithful version of Lord of the Rings made.Eowyn in the Jackson version is terrified and acts as if she is...

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Overpressure

Nice visual demonstration of what shooting full-up .30-06 can do in a Garand.

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Suddenly All Was Realigned And Well

Nothing like a good day at the range to shake off a solid funk.Survival Sarah got her first shots in...That's the "out of the box" first group.  Five click and it's centered (mostly) for Willard, and...

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Counter Productive

Talking with Harvey about the present presidential line-up.What amazes me is how every single candidate has correctly identified a problem, and has a proposal that will not solve it.Different problems...

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Turn Up The Volume

It's not new.But if the soundtrack don't give you chills, I don't think you're a car person.

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Symbiology

You know you've become a connoisseur when you're reading the symbiology on the HUD, position of control surfaces or what's in the mirrors in vids instead of looking at the scenery.

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Fanboi

One nice thing about being the kind of geek that I am is I can tell if the furor comes from someone who's read the source material or not.Scarlett Johansson is just fine to play Major Kusanagi...

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Don't Wanna Give Them Ideas But...

Marv sends me the following:"A while ago a gunship refused to sell a handgun to a guy because he seemed upset and agitated.  The shop counter guy was hailed as a hero when it was discovered the guy was...

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Go Ahead And Sell

If the 28 pages of 9/11 documents does show that Saudi Arabia funded the assholes who perpetrated the attack, that's casus belli.If they paid for it, then fuck 'em.  Go ahead and sell those assets, Al...

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Extra Punitive

Why such a harsh knee-jerk reaction in the previous post?Because if Saudi funded the 9/11 attacks, we were attacked by an ally.Someone who claimed was our friend and on our side.Someone who...

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Plumbing

The present debate about bathrooms is because of cowardice.There's nobody brave enough to say that the division on the rooms is based on the user's plumbing and if you have an outie instead of an innie...

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Support

I will support your rights and fight for them with you.I demand the same in return.If you demand that I sacrifice my rights for yours, we're at war.Especially if there's ways so that we both have our...

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Headed Off At The Pass

Mr Whittle made this video so I don't have to make a substantially similar, and less well researched version.I quibble about the inventor of the jet engine though.  Nobody uses centrifugal flow engines...

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