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Targeted Ads
Or should I say Searsed since it's Sears generating them...I sure hope this combination is causing some confusion with the NSA's tracking system.
View ArticleRemiss
Today, on the deck of USS Missouri the Second World War ended with the unconditional surrender of Japan.This is also the last actual war the US has fought, everything after that lacks a congressional...
View ArticleAssassins!
It only occurs to me after I've done the search...In our massively connected and recorded internet existence...Is looking up "Failed Presidential Assassination Attempts" likely to get a visit from the...
View ArticleAlternative
In Traveller, the Star Trek could be regarded as an alternate history because it's set 3,300 years in the past.It could be also be considered a fantasy story as well because of the unrealistic and...
View ArticleOn Birthright
I've said before..."To be considered a natural born citizen of the United States your parents must have been legal residents or citizens of the US at the time of your birth. Persons born to illegal...
View ArticlePercussion
What the heck happened to black powder?It wasn't all that long ago that you could buy a complete set-up in Wal Mart.Now I can't even find percussion caps at a gun store!I've found them online and the...
View ArticleI Just Wanted One Thing
Dear Brownell's,All I wanted was a couple of replacement followers for Harvey's M&P 9.Since the shipping would be more than the parts I actually needed, I looked around for stuff that would be...
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New Game
Thirdwire is having a sale on their older PC titles, so I dropped on First Eagles 2.The flyable list is:Albatros D.III with 160 hp Mercedes d.III engine.Albatros D.III with 170 hp Mercedes d.IIIa...
View ArticleWhat Are We Proving Again
Tam's testing to 2k rounds on that SiG has me to thinking and Willard to mentioning...What are we testing here?It's a great demonstration of reliability, to be sure.What did Tam get for failures in...
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Wing Tip Clearance
While it appears that there's plenty of room between the water tower and the church steeple... The game box it occupies must be much larger because it took off the left wingtip when I flew between...
View ArticleFirst Eagles 2
A sort of review...Great War planes are slow. Slower than Cessna slow.They are also a lot more work to fly, even simplified like the game is.You have to give it rudder to counteract the prop torque....
View ArticleGetting Pissed
There are some things in customer service that drive me batty.This firing pin for the Star is getting to be one of them.If you're not going to bother with an online ordering system that works, just...
View ArticleConcession
If the pro-choice side concedes that abortions are repugnant.Will the pro-life side concede that making them illegal will be as effective at ending them as the war on drugs has been at stopping the...
View ArticleSurprise
It just occurred to me that the entire point of, "we have to pass it to find out what's in it," was to obscure congressional intent from the courts attempting to discern such intent later on.
View ArticleFinally
The Star B firing pins finally arrived.He put them in the mail on the 17th, the monday following my conversation with his wife on the 12th. Arrival was four weeks two days from when his ordering...
View ArticleInjustice Inside Information
A son of a friend has been shot in a home invasion. Dead center in his left knee-cap, will prolly be OK in time.Apparently this is the fifth such invasion and the same description of three suspects...
View ArticleBulletproof
When I was 14-18 I was immortal.When I was 18-21 I knew I wasn't immortal, but knew that nothing bad would happen to me for years and years.When I was 22-25 I knew something bad could happen to me, but...
View ArticleLike The Weather
The Hugo awards...It was interesting watching the controversy, but...I realized that I did not care before the whole Sad Puppy thing and that I don't care now.Just like the movies I really like tend to...
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Planes And Engines
Pics of each flyable plane in First Eagles 2. Because they're mostly just re-engined variations, it gets repetitious.The Luftstreitkräfte planes had much smaller increases in engine power than the...
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