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relevance? as a matter o' fact, the very existence o' arlington is a refutation o' gifted pov. where is arlington national cemetery... and don't say arlington. robert e' lee's home. arlington were established on the grounds o' robert e. lee's home in part to guarantee it would never be turned into a memorial for the aggrandizement o' the confederacy. in recent years, some o' the original harsh legislation regarding lee has been amended and the former home o' lee were furnished and renamed as a memorial site. even so, the arlington site specific recognizes the need to prevent glorification o' the confederacy and lee. honor the dead who has fought in wars without tour guides telling you fibs 'bout the honorable soldiers who successful fought to prevent the spread o' communism in southeast asia. no claims the men who fought in iraq saved the western world from a wmd attack by the madman, saddam hussein. we do highly recommend a visit to arlington. is a somber experience. is 'bout humility and respect. is a reason Gromnir has pointed out on these boards how we is supporting any number o' civil war battlefield site memorials (north and south) as they is powerful reminders o' the tragic loss o' life american exercised 'pon fellow americans... and anybody who cannot see difference 'tween such and 40' tall monuments to nathan bedford forrest, the first grand wizard o' the kkk, monuments built during the civil rights era many years after the civil war, is not being honest. HA! Good Fun! ps thanks for bringing up arlington. we shoulda' mentioned arlington earlier as a contrast example, but didn't think to do so until you raised the spectre, so-to-speak.

wouldn't actual want folks to stop talking 'bout it neither. wwi is different from wwii not so much 'cause it is forgotten, but cause the basic lessons learned were kinda self-evident and w/o controversy. everybody knows 'bout the domino effect which took place after the assassination o' archduke ferdinand. not forgotten. but unless you are a history scholar, what lessons is you learning from the assassination and resulting world-wide conflagration? spend some time on chemical warfare, but everybody outside of syria and its russian supporters agree chemical weapons is bad. and sure, wwii is not particular controversial neither, but fascism and ultra nationalism and genuine genocides (bosnia 1995) is happening now and is real and there is reasonable fear such could happen again if folks ain't careful. wwii weren't simple the most current world war. wwii is one o' those conflicts even moral relativists shudder a bit when they consider some o' the atrocities people, not monsters, but ordinary human beings, were capable o' doing to each other. etc. civil war is not much different for americans than wwii is for the rest o' the world. is tough to ignore the evils otherwise ordinary and even honorable men were perpetrating 'pon each other... and am not just talking slavery neither. were a horrible and brutal conflict. the thing is, the obvious lessons from the war hasn't quite sunk in for many in this country. we bang the drum 'bout wwii 'cause is reasonable fears regarding fascists and nationalists and the possibility o' yet another vw bug generation. is real fears. am not worried 'bout another civil war, no matter what a few pundits claim. even so, we see charlottesville and read articles such as the one we linked. we see a president trying to institute a muslim ban and having crowds cheer him as he makes such promises. got some actor alleged willing to stoke national fears 'bout racism to get a bigger paycheck. see such stuff and we cannot help but wonder at how little we has learned since 1865. but yeah, if you could get absolute everybody to not say anything 'bout civil war or race for a whole generation, then am suspecting most problems would go away. (would also need people to not act racist for a generation or two as well 'cause children learn as much by watching as listening, no?) raise a couple generations o' kids who have no idea what racism is, and have their parents and grandparents eventual die w/o passing on their hate? then yeah, am seeing how situation would be better. 'course am not seeing how such is possible if the tour guide/groundskeeper, or the school teacher, or the parent is active wanting to educate kids 'bout slavery with observations like, "I want to tell them the honest truth, that slavery was good and bad.” While there were some “hateful slave owners,” she said, “it was good for the people that didn’t know how to take care of themselves, and they needed a job, and you had good slave owners like Jefferson Davis, who took care of his slaves and treated them like family. He loved them." will refer you to our current board signature. am knowing gd weren't suggesting state censorship, but am thinking brandeis' words is nevertheless relevant. solution is education, no? HA! Good Fun!

am not knowing what gb cap room looks like. get rid of matthews, while no doubt emotional, looked likely even before the season ended. cobb, on the other hand, is a bit o' a surprise. yeah, even before the hamstring issue last year, cobb hasn't exact been a dominating wr for some time, but when healthy, he were the second best wr on the roster last year, and am not seeing jake kumerow as an equivalent exchange pickup. unless cobb were gonna be costing gb too much cap money, am not sure why they didn't push a bit harder to keep him. adams (wr) and graham (te) are both excellent receiving targets any qb would be lucky to have, but graham will be in his tenth season and he did take some serious hits last year-- gonna need serious consider finding a te replacement soon. needs, not necessarily in order, would be ot, og, interior dl, another safety, another edge rusher, wr and possible a te. dunno how aaron rodgers will feel if gb commits to rebuilding. HA! Good Fun!

Ive reached the point in my life where the government jacking something up "only a little bit" is a win for me. more absurdism? "pluto is no longer a planet," didn't exactly require deconstruction o' the entire educational system. sheesh. go back far enough and gifted pov has the next generation puzzled by invention o' the wheel and terrified by the implications o' fire generated and maintained by man. and as for government jacking stuff up, well, am guessing we mistaken took gifted statements at face value. if sins o' the forefathers is trivial in his estimation, then millions o' dollars per year spent so southerns may feel better 'bout sins o' their forefathers should be aggravating, yes? is admitted tough to decipher gifted complaints on this stuff. consistency is elusive. if there is a rosetta stone, we would be appreciative. HA! Good Fun!

kinda missing the point though. this isn't 'bout the sins o' the forefathers. is a sin o' your tour guide/groundskeeper, and many others. teaching kids fake history? as we said, interesting pov. HA! Good Fun! ps if gifted genuine don't care 'bout sins o' the forefathers, then he should be doubly angry 'bout the $40 million in taxpayer money. one o' the only arguments for maintaining the monuments is so folks do not forget sins o' the past. if such is a non-factor, then what is the other justification for spending so much taxpayer monies?

fragile is one o' those albums we enjoy in totality, even the brahms bit. were one our first records. *chuckle* our sister gave us all kinda crap 'bout our "helium rock." rush, yes, supertramp. insisted the lead singers all sounded as if they sucked in helium before performing and we couldn't complete disagree with her. another tiny desk concert HA! Good Fun!

from the linked article, right at start, "One gray October morning, about 650 local school children on a field trip to Beauvoir, as the home is called, poured out of buses in the parking lot. " the lost cause is what more than a few kids in the south is being taught as part o' their school lessons. ain't much to be done 'bout past generations, but have current taxpayer money support and promote lost cause narrative is actual a bit o' a surprise to Gromnir. were our understanding, much as you explain, the slavery issue were being glossed over or ignored, but at these parks and historical sites, we got scenes such as the following: “I want to tell them the honest truth, that slavery was good and bad.” While there were some “hateful slave owners,” she said, “it was good for the people that didn’t know how to take care of themselves, and they needed a job, and you had good slave owners like Jefferson Davis, who took care of his slaves and treated them like family. He loved them.” am admitting we would be utter dumbfounded to hear such stated out and open and proud to a bunch o' school kids in 2019, but that seems to be the reality. $4 million a year to keep monuments to dead confederates free o' trash and spray paint tags is not exact the bargain gifted seems to think. hell, if such is the case, Gromnir shoulda' changed professions. coulda' retired much earlier. as we noted, if gifted reads the article, he will see many instances o' new construction being described. nevertheless, is interesting to see what gifted took from the article. HA! Good Fun!

In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology the real fake news? during a tour o' of jefferson davis home and presidential library-- A woman in a white floor-length dress decorated with purple flowers gathered a group of older tourists on the porch of the “library cottage,” where Davis, by then a living symbol of defiance, retreated in 1877 to write his memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. After a discussion of the window treatments and oil paintings, the other visitors left, and we asked the guide what she could tell us about slavery. Sometimes children ask about it, she said. “I want to tell them the honest truth, that slavery was good and bad.” While there were some “hateful slave owners,” she said, “it was good for the people that didn’t know how to take care of themselves, and they needed a job, and you had good slave owners like Jefferson Davis, who took care of his slaves and treated them like family. He loved them.” The subject resurfaced the next day, before a mock battle, when Jefferson Davis—a re-enactor named J.W. Binion—addressed the crowd. “We were all Americans and we fought a war that could have been prevented,” Binion declared. “And it wasn’t fought over slavery, by the way!” another example re: the the A.H. Stephens park in georgia Alexander Hamilton Stephens is well known for a profoundly racist speech he gave in Savannah in 1861 a month after becoming vice president of the provisional Confederacy. The Confederacy’s “foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.” That speech was nowhere in evidence during our visit to the park. It wasn’t in the Confederate museum, which was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy with the support of the state of Georgia in 1952 and displays Confederate firearms and uniforms. It wasn’t among the printed texts authored by Stephens that are placed on tabletops in the former slave quarters for visitors to peruse. And it wasn’t in the plantation house, called Liberty Hall. Our guide, a state employee, opened the door of a small two-room cabin once occupied by Harry and Eliza—two of the 34 people Stephens held in bondage. The guide pointed to a photograph of the couple on a wall and said Stephens “kept them good, and took care of the people who worked for him.” We went on many tours of the homes of the Confederacy’s staunchest ideologues, and without exception we were told that the owners were good and the slaves were happy. After the war, Stephens spent a great deal of energy pretending he wasn’t entirely pro-slavery, and he returned to public life as a member of Congress and then as governor. Robert Bonner, a historian at Dartmouth who is at work on a biography of Stephens, said the Stephens memorial maintains the fraud: “The story at Liberty Hall is a direct version of the story Stephens fabricated about himself after the war.” it is worth noting, much o' the $40 million dollars referenced is money spent maintaining parks and monuments. however, a surprising amount of taxpayer cash involves new constructions. on a lighter note, a possible destination for hurl's next road trip. HA! Good Fun!

You never hit the target. It's the one thing you're 100% consistent about. Remedial reading comprehension and dropping the shtick would help. No charge for the advice, as I'm not expecting you to follow it. somebody is quite the narcissist. talk 'bout missing the target. 100% consistent is zor providing us with chuckles. well, at least you ain't hiding behind 50 dead bodies this time. call it improvement. HA! Good Fun!

no doubt many folks have gotten sick o' seeing us post comparisons o' the ruger mini-14 and the ar-15. am knowing the sinister black ar-15 looks scary, and 'course ar means assault rifle *snort* but am never seeming to make headway when we explain both is semi-auto and have similar performance profiles. 'course getting folks to understand what is a semi-auto is also implausibly difficult, and such is a foundational issue, no? at same time, am a bit baffled by how tenacious some folks is in defending bump stocks. https://www.rwarms.com/ they is out of stock by the way. has been a massive last minute run on a modification which will need be returned or destroyed within a week? no shortage o' obtuse folks on both ends o' the spectrum. HA! Good Fun! ps david nunes needs a safe place the thing is, you know the washington post is loving the chance to quote the Congressman's complaint. "According to the complaint, Devin Nunes’ Mom called Nunes a “presidential fluffer and swamp rat,” a statement that is an opinion and, perhaps, and insult, but it’s not factual. "The cow’s account allegedly said that “Devin’s boots are full of manure. He’s udder-ly worthless and its pasture time to move him to prison,'” who would be construed as an insult, too. "

perhaps you wanna explain differences 'tween auto, semi-auto, manual? we gave it the old college try, but seeming am missing the target, so-to-speak. HA! Good Fun!

shoot somebody with a smith and wesson 686 and they are going to feel it, even if you only hit once. rifles ain't necessarily more powerful or more lethal than handguns, but rifles is far easier to fire accurately. however, for home defense, we recommend the following: never jams. never suffers accidental discharge. chances o' your 5-year-old son accidental killing your wife or his sister with the louisville slugger is approaching nil. your accuracy is likely to be better with the slugger, particular in high stress situations. have read police reports with trained cops firing at assailants multiple times from less than 15 yards and missing every shot. swing at center mass with the baseball bat and you are gonna connect and do damage. a smallish woman swinging a baseball bat may generate a surprising amount o' force. tiny (but not afraid) person with a baseball bat v. mike tyson and chances are mike ends up needing eat through a straw for the next year or so. unless you is highly trained with firearms, your best home defense weapon, in our opinion, is the mighty louisville slugger. am personal a traditionalist and prefer the heft o' a wood bat, but they can break. metal bats is lighter, but they dent rather than splinter. if you genuine know what you are doing with handguns, and are absolute certain you got cold steel nerves in a life and death situation, then a handgun is gonna be a highly effective self-defense weapon. am suspecting that description applies to an exceeding small number o' handgun owners. HA! Good Fun!

They can't. Their [the people complaining, to be specific] response with respect to most things including Twitter and Facebook is, basically, outrage or sadness porn with a dollop of authoritarianism for good measure, and I loathe Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter. But, there are literally people here who are quite earnest in their belief that not only should Twitter/ Facebook/ Youtube be prosecuted- when we can't even get them to pay taxes but they seem to think we can throw Zuck in jail or something- but many of them also think anyone who got the guy's video autostreamed to them should be prosecuted for receiving it (!) and that isn't being helped by the police making pointless threats that judges and prosecutors will throw out of court/ never prosecute in the first place. I'd have a decent amount of hope that cooler heads will prevail eventually. Some suggestions are plain impractical. Ban all semi autos and how do farmers control 50,000 rabbits a year? With a semi auto .22. OK, how about feral pigs or deer or goats or thar or moose that you cannot reliably take down with a bunny buster? Well OK, but we still want to ban ***weeoo weeoo trigger warning weeoo weeoo*** semi autos that look like an AK or AR-15. Besides, aren't seni-autos like, 60% or 70% (or maybe 80%) of all guns in the world and 90%+ of every gun ever invented (due to full autos being a relatively recent development)? The earliest guns where you have to manually prime the powder and c0ck the gun would be closest to a completely manual gun since the firing would still be automatic because gunpowder. The thing is that the semi-auto category is so broad as to be useless for legislating. may be a slight misunderstanding. the following is not a semi-automatic. is a bolt-action weapon and from personal experience is a viable vermin plinking weapon. we single-handed erradicated a significant percentage o' the squirrel and rabbit population o' south dakota and north dakota with such a weapon. video o' how the bolt-action works. is not semi-auto as takes manual action to advance next round, yes? gets complicated with revolvers, 'cause technical they ain't semi-automatic even though a double-action revolver advances next round with a single trigger pull. m1911, on the other hand, is a semi-auto weapon, and is probable the most lethal personal weapon in US history. each pull o' trigger fires weapon one time, and the weapon self-loads each time weapon is fired. fully automatic weapons, or weapons where you pull trigger and the weapon throws out a continuous stream o' bullets until you release trigger, is illegal, or to paraphrase so makes sense, Assault rifles have been banned here for ages, all you can buy is a semi auto that looks like an AK or M-16. the ar-15 is an example o' a weapon which is semi-auto, but looks like an m-16... is the most popular rifle in the US. in terms o' performance, the following two weapons is virtual identical ruger mini-14 ar-15 warning: the following video is from the vegas shooting. could be disturbing to many. most folks on these boards, when we heard the footage from vegas, assumed the shooter were using an automatic weapon. just listen to stuccato firing. the thing is, the vegas a-hole were using a simple device called a bump stock, which for all intents and purposes, made his semi-auto weapons perform as if they were full auto. bump stocks will final be illegal on march 26 o' this year, and owners will need turn in or destroy bumpstocks by that day. however, recent sales o' bump stocks has exploded, so... HA! Good Fun! ps in case it ain't obvious, we did not in fact decimate the vermin populations o' the dakotas. however, the number o' dead squirrels and rabbits and even coyote attributable to Gromnir and his stinky winchester would be in the hundreds. plural.

can tell this is gonna be like wod with stalinism. screws up one time and for the next three months we gotta hear how every left-leaning organization or person is stalinist. nothing new. as to our social media footprint, a pygmy possum would need squint to see it. heck, we even gave up our smart phone for a flip phone. our next tweet will be our first. facebook? three stooges in a library is eventual gonna lead to face book, yes? as implausible as it sounds, have never even texted... evar. all the social media hullabaloo leaves us indifferent, with a few notable exceptions. Cambridge Analytica Secrets Allegedly Covered Up by Trump Campaign Veterans HA! Good Fun!

what you said were, "Assault rifles have been banned here for ages, all you can buy is a semi auto that looks like an AK or AR-15." svengali it all you want, but am doubting anybody buys the act more than they did the tim apple error. if your real concern is the 50 dead, am not certain how your continued defense is honoring their memory. *pause for a moment of silence* were a minor slip, a trivial but oft repeated bit o' ignorance. you get to be our resident don lemon for the day, but weren't a biggie. regardless, is becoming spam. say something different. to get back on-track "In other words, it significantly expands the repressive power of Russia’s repressive apparatus. This may be compared to the Stalin’s Troika, a commission of three for express judgment in the Soviet Union during the time of Joseph Stalin who issued sentences to people after simplified, speedy investigations and without a public and fair trial." typical we would assume support for such is a joke, but coming from gifted... irony perhaps missed. such a story could be deemed critical o' russia and/or fake news. regardless o' gifted's curious support, posting the link would be enough to make him subject to fines and imprisonment, depending on opinion o' prosecutor's office. HA! Good Fun!

OSC? perhaps aoc? dunno. again, haven't looked, but am recalling a low and middle income housing plan from warren in the 3 million unit range. would cost far less than to build a largely pointless southern border wall ($8-10 billion grant money?) and would result in both new job creation and a somewhat novel solution to the wealth inequality root problems. families pass on wealth. is one reason why attempts to level the playing field for minorities in 2019 ignores how minority families were getting screwed outta home loans until relative recent. sure, rules is relative fair now, but you disadvantaged many people for generations. stare at 2019 rules and say "all is fair, so go out and get yourself a house," ignores how economic landscape has shifted, making home ownership more expensive than ever before. as we noted earlier, homes is where americans keep a disproportionate amount o' their wealth and minorities weren't able to take advantage o' most o' the home ownership programs, which meant they weren't able to pass on wealth to next generation who would use extra money to go to college and acquire more wealth to pass on to next generation. median home values relative to income has much increased, so you got a whole lotta folks facing a serious uphill battle to become first-time home owners. is a cycle which repeats itself and becomes more pronounced with each generation... and the great recession made worse 'cause the folks who were most likely to lose their homes in 2008-2014 were lower-middle income folks. the people who bought those encheapened and foreclosed 'pon houses were the wealthy. warren is no different than others when it comes to payment for plans. all these plans somehow pay for themselves in the long run, or so the pitch goes. more tax revenues generated and whatnot. is hogwash. is gonna cost no matter how you slice it, is gonna cost billions, but such a plan does appear to actual reach the core o' the income inequality issues in this nation. 'course, as we said, the kinda homes being built is gonna most affect values o' similar homes, so older lower/middle income folks is gonna need serious worry 'bout impact on their retirement plans. am recalling much o' the billions o' dollars warren wants will s'posed come from estate taxes, but have honest not looked at how she proposes to change numbers. but again, am recalling a 3 million home plan and am honest fuzzy on details, so if somebody knows more, we will happily defer to superior knowledge o' the details. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, a plan to build 5 million new houses doesn't mean much to w/o context. am admitted gonna need look at what warren is talking 'bout. however, the housing bubble weren't caused simple 'cause there were too many houses being built in the suburbs, which itself is a bit different than the urban housing crisis. in 2008ish, there were a cascade effect from bad home loans and bonds all failing at once. warren is one o' the few folks who were vocal complaining 'bout the banking problems which led to the great recession. perhaps counter-intuitive, george w. bush also tried to tap the breaks on bank excess, but one o' his vetoes actual got overturned by Congress. point is, warren is not ignorant to the causes o' the great recession, so am suspecting part o' her plan necessarily involves greater bank regulation, and bank regulation issues were the real cause o' great recession. however, as in 2008, far too many people got a large % o' their life savings tied up in their homes. people never learn. you build 5 million additional homes beyond what market current is producing and home values somewheres will drop. if you ain't careful, such a plan will serious hurt those folks depending on the sale o' their home to be retiring. HA! Good Fun!

reductio ad absurdum nevertheless, hidden in the silliness, is actual a valid point. unlike comic absurd lifetime bans, school expulsion is not gonna be the end o' the student's career unless they choose for such to be the end. nothing prevents the kids from reapplying to same or other universities. heck, maybe olivia jade can turn her life story into a feelgood hallmark movie opportunity. get booted from usc and and is depressed and people on youtube is mean to her, but she dedicates herself to genuine study and eventual gets into UCirvine where she eventual earns a degree in computer science and becomes a successful... whatever. becomes face o' a new fashion and cosmetics line entitled genuine. donates 90% o' proceeds from her fashion endeavours to helping underprivileged kids get into major universities. *sniff* beautiful film. haven't cried at a movie since brian's song, but that one got us right in the heartstrings. the government coulda' pursued charges for those kids 18 or over who participated, but they didn't. instead, these kids is being taught a valuable life lesson at relative little cost, a lesson which some folks never learn: cheating is bad. HA! Good Fun!

purposeful misreading or just missed the important stuff? first of the two recent linked articles by gifted, right in the title, says students "could" face expulsion. is nothing in the article which suggests all the students caught up in the scandal will or should be expelled, though there is an admitted argument for such. is no entitlement to a four year degree when you are granted admissions to a university. you pay per quarter or per semester. that's it. most scholarships (including all d-1 athletic scholarships) are valid only for 1 year at a time, requiring student to meet various eligibility requirements to continue. if it turns out a student didn't actual meet admissions standards in the first place, why not have student re-apply? if they has already paid for the semester, expelling seems unjust unless the university is certain the student were complicit in the scheme. regardless, the actual articles don't go near as far as Gromnir... do no more than state obvious: students could lose their seat. there is gonna be a review. omg, no! students part o' a multi-million dollar bribery and fraud scheme are having their admissions reviewed. reviewed? "squee" indeed. "Others might be treated more harshly, she said. "If the kid is 18 at the time he sits to take the tests and the proctor is feeding him answers, I don’t see why he shouldn’t be liable. And I think it’s an interesting prosecutorial choice. I think it says something about how they view the nature of the wrong," she said." seems fair. again, fraud is bad; that observation should be axiomatic. if a student were knowing part o' the scheme to gain admission to school under false pretenses, why should school be forced to keep the student? ain't forced to keep other students who lie or cheat or bribe, but these kids get some kinda free pass? why? HA! Good Fun!

part o' the problem is, in spite o' basic economics, prices is being artificial inflated and demand is being rendered meaningless. artificial increase supply won't help if the folks capable o' buying homes refuse to live in any but a few specific locales or neighborhoods. to make matters worse, it literal takes years to build anything in the vast majority o' cities... save for houston, but who wants to live in houston? permits and regulations has been the biggest problem for builders. is too expensive and time consuming to build anything but the sooper-expensive luxury condo buildings. is not best example, but build reasonable priced 100 houses requires more fees and takes more time than build a 200 unit luxury condo building. so if you are a builder, do you build houses or luxury condos? additional restrictions is a bass ackwards solution to a problem in part driven by overregulation. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2017/09/27/the-great-urban-myth-cities-cant-build-their-way-to-affordable-housing/#77c906b53ffc that said, there is a growing crisis with urban housing and the general increase in housing values is making so only the affluent may afford to live in urban. the folks least able to afford travel costs associated with a commuter lifestyle (poor and lower middle-class) is being forced by economics to move further away from urban areas. to make matters worse, cities has become so dependent on monies from fees and inspections (not to mention the attendant graft,) they is gonna find any alternative to more obvious and sane solutions to housing issues. HA! Good Fun!

we did chuckle at the "thoughts and prayers," but assumed from context it were a joke. then again, if were serious, is even more funny. kinda can't miss on the humor. but aren't you shamefaced for pointing out funny when there is 50 people dead? HA! Good Fun! ps am hopeful is clear we do not believe raithe should need be ashamed for reposting a funny.

if it were a little below dr. strangelove, then it would surely be worth the price of admission. post January 1, 2019 disney flicks is not being released on netflix streaming, so our decision to skip theatre showings is a bit more difficult. appreciate feedback. HA! Good Fun!

got a funny memory. every once in a while we gotta take the old rolled up newspaper to zor, but regardless, trying to wrap your blunder in the tragedy o' fifty corpses demeans you more than it does Gromnir. were absolute no reason to turn this into a tim apple. is a common mistake to think the ar-15 is something other than a semi-auto weapon. common. still a mistake. try and gain sympathy by deflecting is classic zor tactic and increasing transparent with each passing iteration, but am admitting this maudlin protest is jejune. HA! Good Fun!

at some point in the near future, we should see wonderlic scores for qbs, which will have folks juggling draft slot potentials once again. of the top rated qbs, lock is the guy who most intrigues us. we liked how he looked at the senior bowl, but am not certain if we true like him or is simple a case we dislike the other guys projected as first round qbs to such a degree, lock is starting to look good to us. lock plays tough and reported did excellent in interviews when coaches tested his football iq. even so, is not a guy who screams franchise to us. accuracy is pretty good, but not nfl fantastic. the qbs am actual interested in are thorson, finley and grier. thorson and finley look like solid career backups who have potential to be a jeff garcia kinda guy. garcia had four excellent years in the nfl: 2000-2001 and 2007-2008. hurlshot's fave qb? am only guessing as is san jose state and played for the 49rs. the thing is, garcia looked more like ed grimley than an nfl qb proved everybody mostly wrong 'cause he were accurate and played smart. finley and thorson look more like nfl qbs than did garcia, but their arm strength sure ain't any better. both is smart and accurate and will not be first round choices. grier is complete hit or miss, but take in third or fourth round makes more sense to us than take haskins or jones in first. haven't paid much attention to pro days. will need to review. pro days mean less for qbs as is all complete scripted in the ultimate safe zone. is the other positions which has a chance to better bad combine performances. dbs and rbs who had a bad 40 at combine may much improve draft potential if they run well at pro day. that kinda thing. HA! Good Fun!

using chemical stripper or heat? if you got two people to do the job, and the wood ain't too old, steam strippers has been what we used when trying to get rental properties back in shape. less likely to burn wood with steam, but if wood is old, the moisture soaks in and then you is pretty much fubar. the thing is, as we said, steam works best with two people as one person is steaming and immediate behind is the guy stripping the goo. don't wanna let steamed paint dry or you kinda is back at square one. with chemical strippers, we typical end up making a big %$#@ing mess. have seen guys who know what they is doing with chemical strippers and they look like they is doing some kinda infomercial as they work. "just apply and scrape off. it couldn't be any easier!" we got loads o' chemical stripper, but is not worth using 'cause will only mess up the job. would like to use chemical, 'cause then we wouldn't need a second person to help us. am not having any advice on chemical strippers. you drink beer, yes? have lots of beer on hand. won't help you with the stripping though. three skills Gromnir has never been able to improve: 1) fire a handgun with any accuracy (no joke on this one.) 2) get better than 70% success rate (at best) on our pie crusts 3) strip paint with chemicals HA! Good Fun! ps we rare make pie 'cause am too much o' a snob to use pre-made and 'cause am too aggravated by our presumptive fails.