Guard Dog

I LOVE the liquor shelf in the one in Peru. I'd build something like that but I really only drink one kind of whiskey are rarely have more than one bottle around. The one in Munich is beautiful but too crowded for me. The one in India.... I'll skip that one.

You sir, are on!

A journalists job is sooo much easier when they can just make s--t up!

I saw in the Washington Post that 79% of shootings where the weapon and shooter are identified are commited with firearms the shooter does not legally own. Reminds me of the old saying "If guns are outlawed, the outlaws will still have guns"

New addition to my bucket list: visit and have a few drinks in every one of these: https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/casual/the-world%E2%80%99s-most-historic-inns-bars-and-taverns/ss-AAsjZny?ocid=spartandhp&ffid=gz#image=1 Fortunately most are in Great Britain so they can't be too far apart.

From the late 80s there's been an ever increasing militancy to political discourse - and discourse in general. We're in a period of hyper-normalilzation, a slow boiling of the pot, where most have noticed somethings up, but can't quite put the finger on it. Even the discourse on this little random corner of the net has seen a dramatic change in the last 10 years. Now the discussions around dinnertables all over the world, have always been a little casually racist and objectifying. Not good, but at least managable... But today we're seeing mass generalisations on big network newsshows, accussations flung out without a shred if proof or remorse and huge political scandals that are just 'par the course'.. People are numb to it, which only invites even more. Actually I think the political discussion here on the Obsidian WoT board have never been better than now. It used to be bloodsport here. People really got insulting and angry. Bans and warning were common. Now, points are usually ably argued no one gets too angry. We are an example to the world! Who'da thought?

Welcome to Amazon, GA http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/city-amazon-proposed-attract-company-hq2-georgia/WVuopYRd6WFQE3w7JjcdnO/ Why not!

Maybe it's become so important to "win" people will accept alliance and help from any quarter. Even those it would be wise to shun. Of course if I hear "This is the most important election ever" one more time I'll just... something. They are all equally important. And in two years there will be another one.

Hmmm... I need to add that one to my list. My Viet Nam reading list has been short I'm afraid. I have at home and have read Neil Sheehan's A Bright and Shining Lie, James Rowe's Five Years to Freedom, Marine Sniper and Goodnight Saigon by the same guy whose name I can't remember. At least my non-fiction list is short. I've read a few novels but only one stands out is James Webb's Fields of Fire. Edit: Charles Henderson wrote the last two. That was the name I couldn't remember.

That's the problem when everyone starts to think there are only two teams. Everyone ends up on one or the other. The sad part is there are not just two teams. That only becomes true because too many people think it is. The worst part about this left vs right polarization is it's a fiction. Unfortunatley that does not make it less dangerous. Quite the opposite actually. Personally I'd advise anyone who finds themselves on the same side of a rally with White Supremicists or communists to take a good hard look at just what they are doing and who they are doing it with.

Well he lived over seven years apparently. He certainly beat the curve for a wild wolf.

Just bought this on my Kindle. I'll start reading it at lunch today.

TN stop looking for logic in the attributed actions and motivations of political bad guys. There is none. I've heard people say George W Bush masterminded 9-11 and then call him stupid in the same breath. George Soros financially supports a lot of left wing and anti-capitalist groups despite being a venture capitalist and currency investor himself. That will make him Ernst Blofeld in the eyes of some.

Yeah, yeah. We're not buying that. I don't blame you though. That guy is filthy rich, why not get some for yourself!

You might want to look into the 18th and 21st amendment. You know what? If that's the way they want to do it, then let's do it. If 2/3 of Americans decide to repeal the 2nd Amendment THEN I'll go along with it. But not by the legislature ignoring that inconvenient document that limits their hubris and ramming their will down our throats.

populists reaction: let's abuse this national tragedy for political propaganda This

ps civil war deaths is almost certain underreported. confederate reported deaths don't match the expectations o' most historians, which ain't surprising as confederate record keeping were suffering at the time. add between 100k-200k soldier deaths is gonna be a fair adjustment. gd might know civilian civil war deaths off hand, but we do not and am too depressed by such a thing to check. There is no accurate record for the south. The north the estimate was around 15k. Most of those were during six months or so of the Valley Campaign in 1864. And the majority of those surrounding the four major engagements that took place between Martinsburg, Harper's Ferry and Fredrick. Lee's invasion the year before had very few civilian casualties because it was short lived and saw only one major engagement. In the south I've read as many as one fifth of the population was killed in the war. it's impossible to say. I do know more civilians were killed in Sherman's March, especially at Atlanta than in the north for the entire war.

It always cracks me up how eager you are to shoot your fellow countrymen who are just doing their jobs Eager? Not even. I also really, really, really doubt this would ever happen. But if it does, well... I'd rather die that day than see what comes after. You might say I have principles that I value more than my own life. What the ****? More than anyone else's too, I guess. I'm not too fond of those who'll shoot law enforcement or military forces for their 'principles'. It's fine if you decide you're not worth **** but another human life isn't less important than your goddamn pellet guns. I honestly don't see how that statement doesn't make you as radical as a ISIS terrorist shooting people for his 'principles'. In that scenario I did not go to their house, they came to mine. In the terms of that scenario don't come to my home to take my private property and nothing ever happens. My principles dictate that I will not take what belongs to someone else, impose my principles on someone else by force, or suffer anyone to do that to me. Basically all I want from everyone else is nothing. Leave me alone, I leave you alone. ISIS wants to either kill or forcibly convert anyone who does not think like they do. Do you really want to equate those two things?

It always cracks me up how eager you are to shoot your fellow countrymen who are just doing their jobs Eager? Not even. I also really, really, really doubt this would ever happen. But if it does, well... I'd rather die that day than see what comes after. You might say I have principles that I value more than my own life. is this militant libertarianism? Nah, motivated self defense. Actually I don't see how militant and libertarianism could occur in the same sentence unless as antonyms.

Aren't we? Sadly most of us have had these conversations before. I'm guessing the missile through the hotel window option is frowned on by the hotel industry. To say nothing of the guy in the next room who's wondering what all the racket is.

It always cracks me up how eager you are to shoot your fellow countrymen who are just doing their jobs Eager? Not even. I also really, really, really doubt this would ever happen. But if it does, well... I'd rather die that day than see what comes after. You might say I have principles that I value more than my own life.

He was using a full auto weapon. Full auto weapons are already illegal. Even if it was modified it was already illegal. What kind of gun control are they hoping for here. Make it really, really illegal? Or just take them all away? If so my invitation still stands. They want my firearms come take them, smoking from my dead hands. The ammo I'll be happy to serve up first, as fast as I can fire it.