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  1. Do... people actually do that? With their exes, I mean? Well, I was really just trying to be poetic. But to tell the truth when my ex-wife and I split up I hated her with a passion. But a few years later I had a bad car accident and nearly checked out during and after. After that we spoke and made peace. I haven't spoken to her since and she's married to someone else now anyway. But I do remember the good times more than the bad. As for the toast, there is not bad reason to have a drink.
  2. Mainly I posted it here because the politicians who want us to go back to feudalism and live in mud huts and ride donkeys to our "green" jobs live in houses that burn more electricity than a small city. They fly in private jets going nowhere they need to be, thoughtlessly burn energy and preach at us how we need to shape up. They don't even believe their own message. Or just think they are above it all. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888 Besides I remember in 1975 hearing we had just 10 years left. Then in 1982 there would be mass starvation by 1990. Then in 1996 the Earth would be uninhabitable in the tropic belt by 2020. How many times does the boy have to cry wolf? That is not to say climate change isn't a real thing. The climate has been changing since the first free protein strings formed a cell. The climate on Mars has been heating up since Viking touched down at Chryse Plantitia in 1976 to what Opportunity is measuring at Edeavor crater some 4000k away. And that is also not to say man made gasses and human activity do not have some effect. The reductions in the use of fluorocarbons has already had an impact on the ozone layer. But far too often the "green" cause is co-opted by people with a political axe to grind and use this "green zealotry" as a cynical path to political power. Religion and science made a poor combination. But politics and science are equally toxic.
  3. We're all gonna die! Someday https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/thousands-of-scientists-issue-bleak-second-notice-to-humanity/ar-BBEVmmA?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
  4. I watched a lot of college football yesterday and I finally realized what's been bothering me about the NFL. They are all running the same offense and same defense with just a few variations. The NFL used to be where offensive schemes were innovated. Now everyone if using the same Pro Style bastardized version of the West Coast offense from the '90's. And they all run (with a few exceptions like Tampa) the same defense. That's why I'm losing interest I guess. It used to be a good plan could beat a good team. Now all the plans are the same.
  5. I have the routine I do every Sunday morning. I have a daily newspaper delivery but they won't deliver it down my dirt road driveway. They leave it in a plastic box on the main road. Sunday I walk down to the road to get the paper then make a pot of coffee and just relax for a few hours and read it. So anyway this morning just past sunrise I'm walking down with my dog Sunny. It's a pretty good walk, a little less than 1/2 a mile, 800M give or take. It takes me past my neighbors field. I saw a deer standing in the middle of the field and pulled out my phone to get a picture. Well, as I'm lining up the shot Sunny sees here and starts barking. Of course the deer bolted. I did manage to catch this though:
  6. No that's the never finishing Tale
  7. This would be a lot funnier but I think he was serious: http://twentytwowords.com/kenyan-officials-are-saying-that-gay-tourists-have-made-their-lions-homosexual/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=22&utm_campaign=22
  8. Now THIS is funny: http://viralslot.com/funny/thieves-tried-to-siphon-gas-but-the-sucked-out-sewage-by-accident/?utm_source=22wr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_term=tst
  9. Who wore it better?
  10. This reminds me of something I heard a long time ago: Heaven is a place where: The police are British The chefs are Italian, The mechanics are German The lovers are French and the Swiss run everything Hell is a place where: The Police are German The chefs are British The mechanics are French The lovers are Swiss and the Italians run everything
  11. The US Marine Corps is like an old girlfriend from long ago. You had some wild times together. And while it wasn't all good by any means, you remember the good stuff more than the bad. You would never trade the time spent together but you would never go back to her either. But still, when her birthday rolls around you can't help but raise a toast to her. Hey Shady & Manifested, Happy Birthday my brothers! Here's to you and our old girlfriend.
  12. the hell did you do to motivate that chicken? Trying to clean out the pen... she would NOT leave. And a more disgusting job than that one I could not imagine.
  13. It makes sense for Virginia to turn blue. Over the past 15 years there is one industry in this country that has enjoyed unparalleled growth and expansion. The majority of the people who work in it want that to continue and the Democrats are this industry's greatest champion and proponent. The industry is located right between Maryland and Virginia and almost all of it's employees live in one state or the other.. I don't think anyone needs to have is spelled out just what industry I'm talking about here.
  14. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4873155/cops-raid-german-blokes-house-after-his-alexa-music-device-held-a-party-on-its-own-while-he-was-out/
  15. Anyone who thinks chickens can't fly has never tried to catch a sufficiently motivated chicken.
  16. If history is any guide, the Republicans will continue f-----g up. The anti-establisment types will be mad they are not helping Trump, and the Trumpians will turn off the moderates. Meanwhile, no tax cuts, no Obamacare repeal, and people wonder why the hell they voted Republican in the first place. So in 2018 they stay home and the Democrats take over the Senate and maybe the House. Of course they will immediately go nuts and try to impeach Trump whether he deserves it or not and that will harden the political battle lines. So in 2020 Trump gets re-elected with at least half of congress being Democrat and they snipe at each other for four years until the Democrats take over everything in 2024. That will last two years until they have pissed off half the country with their liberty-hating big government spending orgy and the Republicans take back one of both houses in 2026. And on and on it goes. How do I know this? This cycle has been repeating itself for twenty five f-----g years now. Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican, like spokes in a wheel. First one is on top, then the other and on and on it goes grinding the people of this country into the dirt. It's time to break the wheel! http://www.lp.org
  17. I'm sure the typed and unsigned note left behind will have her recanting everything!
  18. A Gun Free America in Five Easy Steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoFKskvSq4
  19. Please put flowers on Algernons grave https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4867891/scientists-give-rats-consciousness-by-implanting-them-with-tiny-human-brains/
  20. It's the kind of night for multiple neat highballs of quality bourbon, jamming Guy Clark on the speakers and reflecting on my life and roads not taken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXCCvBzZxmE
  21. He didn't have a carry permit. It's a different thing and would not apply to a rifle anyway.If you have a concealed carry you don't have to go through a background check because the State has already done one on you. In my State they took my fingerprints, DD-214, and criminal history. It was pretty thorough. But as long as I keep my license up I don't need to do a background check every time I buy something. You need that license to carry a loaded firearm concealed. But not to own one. Or even carry one as long as it's not loaded or concealed. But yes, if he bought that legally (and now multiple news sources are reporting he did) then it's probable the gun-decked his background check. Because if they hadn't it would have been caught. Someone is in big trouble
  22. If the story about the botched background check is true that gun store is looking at, at the minimum, loss of their license and a monster of a wrongful death suit. More likely there is prison time coming. If it's true. Apparently the target was his ex-wife's family: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5054531/Shooter-targeted-church-ex-s-laws-worshiped.html @ smjjames you are asking the important question there. What has changed? I wish I knew. Mental health is an issue sure but even if we had the greatest mental health system in the world and it was all free they can't help anyone who does not ask for it. And we don't want to go down a road where the government identifies and forces people into treatment. And none of that may even apply to this bastard Like Volo might say, sometimes evil is just evil.
  23. Well, there are no statistics on gun violence from the 19th century, so, we can't say for absolute certainty that individual acts of violence were greater in the 19th than the 20th, though I agree that the mass numbers are much more recent. Also, there IS one thing that wasn't readily available to the public 100 years ago, powerful guns like the AR-15 bushmaster type rifle that the shooter used, so, there are new types of guns, that didn't exist until relatively recently. Anyway, Gov. Greg Abbott said that the gunman was denied a right to carry, don't know if that was concealed carry or a total inability to get guns. Also, that terror incident in NY showed that the gun laws worked in that instance, a terrorist doesn't purchase a BB gun and a paintball gun if they're unable to buy a real gun. Not so actually. Up until the 1960's you could buy military surplus including the BAR & Thompson & even the M-14. Most of it completely outclasses the firepower of anything commercially available today. There is some nuance here just to note. Full auto weapons were actually banned in one of the first national gun control acts in the 1930's. But for whatever reason that did not apply to military surplus. They stopped selling surplus weapons in the in the '60's and closed the loophole altogether in the 1980's.
  24. From CNN: Obviously someone f----d up big time. It sounds like they made him fill out the forms but never did the background check. I strongly suspect this is going to get some scrutiny from law enforcement.
  25. There has never been a time in the history of this country where we haven't had at least 40% of the population owning firearms. There have been periods of greater restriction and greater liberty but they have always been around. But people going batsht crazy and shooting up concerts and churches and killing innocent people en masse with no prior motive or argument is a new thing. Individual acts of violent crime have actually been dropping in recent years and we are certainly in a period of increased liberty. So if the guns have always been there but the mass killings are new perhaps the guns are not the problem. After all, 300 million firearms hurt no one yesterday. I checked on mine, they are all still in the gun safe where I left them.
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