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My former boss and I drove from Baumholder army post in Germany to Sembach Air Base at 120miles per hour listening to La Villa Strangiato air guitaring and air drumming the entire time. Heck of a memory.

well, the math checks out. The fact that he used the thing that was bouncing around in the zeitgeist was not unusual.

I was looking at the Four Freedoms speech. I gather that was the theme of the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City.

I've hit a limit on my storage for firearms. i can't add more without subtracting something. I think the second British rifle I bought thinking it would be useful for parts for the one I like to shoot more is the one that will go when I get around to buying this newer bolt action rifle. I'm in a really weird place with the community surrounding shooting. I'm basically the guy who drives a sedan to the range and not a truck. Trucks are fine but I prefer to drive a car. Every truck in the parking lot has a don't tread on me license plate, a "thin blue line" sticker, and stickers for the make firearms that the driver shoots. My car has a Detroit Tigers plate bracket and a Michigan alumn license plate. Besides that i don't want folks knowing my affiliations. I am routinely engaged in conversation by people who think i'm "like minded" with them that invariably leads to racist dialogue. White guy in his 50s who shoots? Yeah, but what they don't know is how much I despise their guy and their party these days. I'm still true to my core beliefs. Collective security is my religion (Slava Ukraine). The 4 freedoms. Free trade is good. Most people are bent and you can't stop them from wanting to do graft but you have to keep it under control or we would tear each other apart. I do not hold with bullies. I loath oligarchs.

This is pretty close to where I am. The Nazi memorabilia isn't there just because of historical interest or there would be French Army and British Army memorabilia given that they also fought in the Second World War. The fetishism of Trump by this community is just so weird. I do not get how they don't see through his act. But discernment is not a given. Gun shows were not exactly bargain basement prices last time I went (during the early Trump years) although they sorta were in the 2012/2013 time frame when I would go more frequently.

So, I've been mulling a firearms purchase. It would be a fancy new bolt action rifle. I'm a fan of bolt-action because shooting one allows you to work on breathing and patience. I'm a shooter who never uses a human silhouette target. I'm not there to cosplay. Anyway... the idea of this purchase had me contemplating going to the next gun show here in my area because it would allow me to try out the actions on all the bolt-guns. The wife went to pickup Mcdonalds and took pictures of this vehicle outside the local Dulles Expo center. I think I'll give this a pass.

Way too much focus on club sports.

This is really just the lunatics taking out other different kinds of lunatics Inside Kevin McCarthy’s vengeance operation - POLITICO

Interesting

That's amazing. And, it matches up with what Mike Flynn and his brother were doing on Jan 6.

The ones who want a dictatorship are not. They are voting on their blood and soil nationalism.

Well, the voters who voted on democracy definitely are voting against Trump by large numbers. So, its a good indicator that the voters who do actually go to the polls are paying attention. Hopeful sign.

What I found is that Putin is so freaked about drone attacks that he cut some areas and it had blowback impact. Details are sketchy though. Russian media: Internet jammed in three of Russia's northwestern oblasts to protect against drones (yahoo.com)

Apathy is the nail that seals that coffin.

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It is. Weird how it all works. Funny how the pedophilia didn't make it so objectionable that people still won't listen to Michael Jackson at weddings or Gary Glitter at football games? Although the latter case apparently is much better known in the UK and they stopped playing his music at soccer venues.

RNC to meet after Trump allies pull resolution to call him 'presumptive nominee' | AP News I'm told that the recent swing state poll suggests that a large block of voters are motivated by the abstract concept of "Democracy" which it would appear that anointing someone twice impeached, once for implementing an insurrection, who has inserted a corrupt ward heeler like Ronna McDaniel into the RNC to help pay his legal bills and navigate the primary process so he didn't have to run against any opposition to be the nominee seems like a bold strategy, Cotton.

Lots of chatter about russian internet being dead tonight. A result being drop off in of bot activity.

If we can spin our backups for draft pick gold like good teams do...I'm all in.

WOOT!!! I told my detroit colleague about it and immediately all the local office "comedians" were making big johnson news jokes.

Before. We had the lesser record/slot in the playoffs.

Iran was the reason why I chose the path I did in life. I wrote a book at about age 11 about a spy who freed the hostages. Featured in the book were huge crowds of people shaking their fists and shouting "death to America"! Somehow the spy in my crudely drawn book was able to pull off the job were President Carter could not. Somewhere, in the Reagan years we ended up in a sort of war on Iran over tankers and missiles. Later, much later, our gang of students at grad school would gather on our Thursday night drinking nights and chug beers shouting "bar mar am-reek ka!" (Which in our drunken minds was the death to America chant") which is the exact sort of thing you do when you have infantilized your opponent. In my fancy pants school I learned that yeah, Iran had beef. But, of course...we have beef too. Then, after 9/11 when we were in the midst of the West's righteous rage at Sunni Islam, the Shia punks in Iran said "what about us, mate?" and funded and supplied the weapons to thousands of attacks on US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We never quite took their measure but we allowed Israel to strike at their nuclear industry. Now, Iran is working in alliance with Putin to stir trouble for the Western democracies. Killing American troops is the tripwire forcing Biden's hands to act despite his wish not to. Trump is trying to slipstream this conflict back into the White House to avoid prison and to become America's dictator. Steve Bannon rubs his gravy-stained hands in the wings as he plots his leninist takeover of the US on behalf of his oligarch friends. So, my feelings at this point are that is the last thing Biden, America and the West needs but we do need to respond.

That guy Jessie Waters has quite a back story. Punch-able face and impunity to spread all manner of bull

Thanks Dr. Manhattan.