When you have a friend who's moving, you have to help.
Even if you're a broke-dick-mother-fucker.
I hate being broke-dick, I can't help as much as I think the friendship deserves, but I will definitely give it a game try!
On the plus side, they indicated they didn't want the neighbors to see the CENSORED number of gun cases...
That's only like 5% of the known guns...
I guess they're just throwing those away, so I can take them!
Downside: Fucking Brooksville? REALLY?
Going to lose a lot of time every day making the trip from Tarpon Springs to the southernmost reach of Yankee.
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10 December 2019
For Dismantling?
I was looking at the rafters (on TV) of The Ice Palace Amalie Arena during the VERY disappointing hockey last night.
I noticed that many of the i-beams are bolted together.
It occurred to me to wonder, "Is this so they can take the building apart?"
This seems doubtful.
I noticed that many of the i-beams are bolted together.
It occurred to me to wonder, "Is this so they can take the building apart?"
This seems doubtful.
Deer Season Opener
You'd think that if guns were truly the problem, then every deer season would be a massacre of epic proportions.
Penacola Shooter Was An Unmanly Pussy
Trusting Google Translate to express it in terms that his fellow savages can understand:
كانت العضوة المهزلة التي قتلت ثلاثة أبطال في بينساكولا ، رغم خبأتها الإباحية ، كل امرأة.
It would have been far better for her family to have raised a man instead of sending their daughter to train in America for a job beneath her.
I think it should be up to The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to prove they've got both balls and honor before anything lacking US markings flies there again.
Your pilot murdered three of ours? Durandal all the runways.
كانت العضوة المهزلة التي قتلت ثلاثة أبطال في بينساكولا ، رغم خبأتها الإباحية ، كل امرأة.
It would have been far better for her family to have raised a man instead of sending their daughter to train in America for a job beneath her.
I think it should be up to The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to prove they've got both balls and honor before anything lacking US markings flies there again.
Your pilot murdered three of ours? Durandal all the runways.
09 December 2019
I Am Surprised That I Am Actually Shocked
Television advertising in the 1970's lied to me.
An actor presented himself as Clarence Birdseye in ads touting the virtues of Birdseye brand frozen veggies.
Clarence had been dead for 20 years when those ads aired and my sister and I totally bought that it was Clarence was appearing in them.
An actor presented himself as Clarence Birdseye in ads touting the virtues of Birdseye brand frozen veggies.
Clarence had been dead for 20 years when those ads aired and my sister and I totally bought that it was Clarence was appearing in them.
It's A Flaw
The biggest problem about our two party situation is any political position will be claimed by one party and opposed by the other.
It's how we get a situation where an LGBT person cannot profess to owning a gun because gun rights and LGBT rights are on different sides of the aisle from each other.
Being Godless Atheist myself, I've occasionally been confronted for my conservatism because that's somehow a Right-Wing-Christian exclusive thing.
Atheists are supposed to be liberals, I guess.
Being a conservative and pro-gun also means I'm not supposed to support LGBT rights.
Who decided this?
It's especially galling that admitting you're a Republican in this day and age somehow makes you racist.
Perhaps to the history deprived this could be true.
They don't seem to know who the first Republican president was.
The Civil Rights Act is often touted as a Democrat victory, but it barely got 60% of Democrats in Congress to vote for it while 80% of Republicans did.
Even so, it would have failed without the martyrdom of Kennedy that was exploited by LBJ. The jury remains out if the act actually helped minorities or if it's been the tool used to reduce them to a marginalized status, only useful for their en-bloc voting habits.
It's how we get a situation where an LGBT person cannot profess to owning a gun because gun rights and LGBT rights are on different sides of the aisle from each other.
Being Godless Atheist myself, I've occasionally been confronted for my conservatism because that's somehow a Right-Wing-Christian exclusive thing.
Atheists are supposed to be liberals, I guess.
Being a conservative and pro-gun also means I'm not supposed to support LGBT rights.
Who decided this?
It's especially galling that admitting you're a Republican in this day and age somehow makes you racist.
Perhaps to the history deprived this could be true.
They don't seem to know who the first Republican president was.
The Civil Rights Act is often touted as a Democrat victory, but it barely got 60% of Democrats in Congress to vote for it while 80% of Republicans did.
Even so, it would have failed without the martyrdom of Kennedy that was exploited by LBJ. The jury remains out if the act actually helped minorities or if it's been the tool used to reduce them to a marginalized status, only useful for their en-bloc voting habits.
But Wait
Going over my notes I realized that I contradicted myself a bit.
In dealing with The Blight and the undead, I explicitly stated that Christian burial rites were sufficient to keep a corpse lying in peace.
That means that Christian rituals have magical power or, at least, power over magic.
In GURPS, the religious equivalent to mana level is the sanctity level.
I can imagine that there wouldn't be a lot of sanctity for any religion outside it's consecrated ground.
That coincides with what I've stated about a Christian burial being sufficient to prevent the dead from its grave. Graveyards are consecrated.
It's a delicate thing to do and I don't wish to show any disrespect while creating this world.
In dealing with The Blight and the undead, I explicitly stated that Christian burial rites were sufficient to keep a corpse lying in peace.
That means that Christian rituals have magical power or, at least, power over magic.
In GURPS, the religious equivalent to mana level is the sanctity level.
I can imagine that there wouldn't be a lot of sanctity for any religion outside it's consecrated ground.
That coincides with what I've stated about a Christian burial being sufficient to prevent the dead from its grave. Graveyards are consecrated.
It's a delicate thing to do and I don't wish to show any disrespect while creating this world.
Tying My Harebrained Ideas Together
One reason I am a GM and not a novelist is I am presented my worlds in snippets rather than as whole.
But every once and a while things click together.
A recurring theme is mixing history with magic.
Old West has failed at least three times for various reasons.
It's the never played fragments that are trying to merge in my mind.
Magic "wakes up" in a burst during The Great War. The trench lines become a necromatic wasteland now known as "The Blight". WW1 ended differently because the warring powers needed to deal with The Blight. It was rapidly obvious that it was a problem that couldn't be ignored in the hopes that it would take out the other side first.
The awakening was a bad day for many as they found they suddenly knew complete grimoires entire.
Many were driven insane.
Those that weren't were now powerful mages. They formed the Mage's Guild.
The guild and its attendant athame, used with permission from Lawrence Watt-Evans, I've made details for a prohibition era setting that never was played.
There's people who can do magic without casting spells. They are outside The Guild and are known as Warlocks. GURPS has a vast advantage set for this.
Then there's religious magic. All the "old ways" also returned with magic awake again. All of the old pagan rituals (and even some mysticism from the monotheisms) work again, and don't operate under the same principles as The Guild's magic.
Russia is White.
The nobility of Europe is mostly intact, as are the pre-war nations.
The Roaring 20's still happen because magic is an endless bounty with no down sides.
The Great Depression still happens because of the world's economy adjusting to magic.
WW2 happens, but without a holocaust.
And this is where it stops merging, but I have a decent idea of where the world IS in 1959 and what I want it to be. I'm just having trouble bridging the twenty year gap from 1939.
I want it to be very similar to real history and I think I can get there despite the changes I've made.
Just need a good Cold War substitute.
There's some sticky wickets with religion and magic. How greatly does one offend if one declares that the reason The Holocaust doesn't happen is because the Rabbis can summon real aid with their prayers in the Holiest of Holies?
Would I end up on a neck-cutting list if, after letting Jewish prayers work, I say that Christians have no equivalent and Islamic mysticism is merely magic?
Playing around with the real world can be icky and dangerous in ones fantasy world.
An undercurrent could be played that religious magic is not divine power at all, simply religious rituals tapping into a different form of magic than mana.
Theology and Thaumatology are real sciences here.
But every once and a while things click together.
A recurring theme is mixing history with magic.
Old West has failed at least three times for various reasons.
It's the never played fragments that are trying to merge in my mind.
Magic "wakes up" in a burst during The Great War. The trench lines become a necromatic wasteland now known as "The Blight". WW1 ended differently because the warring powers needed to deal with The Blight. It was rapidly obvious that it was a problem that couldn't be ignored in the hopes that it would take out the other side first.
The awakening was a bad day for many as they found they suddenly knew complete grimoires entire.
Many were driven insane.
Those that weren't were now powerful mages. They formed the Mage's Guild.
The guild and its attendant athame, used with permission from Lawrence Watt-Evans, I've made details for a prohibition era setting that never was played.
There's people who can do magic without casting spells. They are outside The Guild and are known as Warlocks. GURPS has a vast advantage set for this.
Then there's religious magic. All the "old ways" also returned with magic awake again. All of the old pagan rituals (and even some mysticism from the monotheisms) work again, and don't operate under the same principles as The Guild's magic.
Russia is White.
The nobility of Europe is mostly intact, as are the pre-war nations.
The Roaring 20's still happen because magic is an endless bounty with no down sides.
The Great Depression still happens because of the world's economy adjusting to magic.
WW2 happens, but without a holocaust.
And this is where it stops merging, but I have a decent idea of where the world IS in 1959 and what I want it to be. I'm just having trouble bridging the twenty year gap from 1939.
I want it to be very similar to real history and I think I can get there despite the changes I've made.
Just need a good Cold War substitute.
There's some sticky wickets with religion and magic. How greatly does one offend if one declares that the reason The Holocaust doesn't happen is because the Rabbis can summon real aid with their prayers in the Holiest of Holies?
Would I end up on a neck-cutting list if, after letting Jewish prayers work, I say that Christians have no equivalent and Islamic mysticism is merely magic?
Playing around with the real world can be icky and dangerous in ones fantasy world.
An undercurrent could be played that religious magic is not divine power at all, simply religious rituals tapping into a different form of magic than mana.
Theology and Thaumatology are real sciences here.
08 December 2019
Technology
When you have players, when you're a 16 year old GM, who are masters and doctorate candidates in science and engineering...
You learn how things are done.
Two things that keeps coming up over and over when watching Hollywood and swords...
First: Swords made from steel are NOT cast. While crucible steel is molten, it's never seen as a liquid by the smith.
Second: The sparks are from hammering out impurities. Good steel is done with that by the time you're forming the blade.
There's numerous recreations of the historical processes out there for Hollywood to look at.
I really wish they would!
You learn how things are done.
Two things that keeps coming up over and over when watching Hollywood and swords...
First: Swords made from steel are NOT cast. While crucible steel is molten, it's never seen as a liquid by the smith.
Second: The sparks are from hammering out impurities. Good steel is done with that by the time you're forming the blade.
There's numerous recreations of the historical processes out there for Hollywood to look at.
I really wish they would!
07 December 2019
Bought On Veteran's Day
Tampa Bay Brewing Company makes 200 cans of this every year.
It seems appropriate to uncork it on Pearl Harbor Day.
Especially as that day is quickly leaving living memory.
It seems appropriate to uncork it on Pearl Harbor Day.
Especially as that day is quickly leaving living memory.
The Goal
When you start blaming the victim of a crime for the criminal act, you become blinded to the idea of punishing the criminal.
You focus on ways to make your property less enticing to the criminal.
You inconvenience yourself to make the crime more difficult to carry out, but you do it oh so righteously because you will blame yourself for the crime if you're preyed upon and wearing the hair-shirt atones for your sin of owning something worth stealing.
In short, you ignore the criminal and their agency in the crime.
Without the actions of the criminal it does not matter how valuable the item is, or how well it was secured.
But I don't see much condemnation of the actions of the criminal, it's as if it's been decided that criminals are like the weather; something we have no control over and if you didn't want your seats wet, you should have rolled up your windows.
But we do have control over criminals, control we've given up.
We don't punish them if they're caught.
We don't even look very hard for them.
We have far more laws binding the hands of citizens to prevent burglary and theft than we do to stop the theft in the first place.
The thieves are aware that they're very unlikely to be apprehended and even less likely to have to endure serious punishment even if convicted.
The goal should not be to figure out ways to keep the thieves away, the goal should be to eliminate the thieves.
No more than an hour in a sewage grinder seems appropriate.
We've decided that some crimes don't rate capitol punishment because the amounts stolen are small; but that just encourages the criminals.
Just look at the new shoplifting laws in some places. As long as what was taken is below a certain dollar threshold, no police investigation.
Anarchy without retribution or vendetta.
Soon enough, without enforcement of the small laws, retribution and vendetta return on their own.
To really grasp why this is bad crack open a history book on the mafia and see where they started.
It's eye opening.
Saw It Coming But Still Sad
Digital media is supplanting and killing print.
19 car magazines which will no longer be printed next year.
I remember buying, subscribing and reading many of those titles.
I also remember when the builds stopped being informative "how-to" articles and started becoming lists of partsthey bought advertisers gave them.
I remember when the "budget" build could be done by someone who didn't have a six figure salary and I was subscribing when the budget build passed the crate motor from Summit in price.
Inevitable, I suppose, that these mags should die.
When the supply of cars you can build up gets so expensive that only an investment banker can afford a rusted hulk and the price of the engine approaches the price of a new car... Who are you writing these articles for?
19 car magazines which will no longer be printed next year.
I remember buying, subscribing and reading many of those titles.
I also remember when the builds stopped being informative "how-to" articles and started becoming lists of parts
I remember when the "budget" build could be done by someone who didn't have a six figure salary and I was subscribing when the budget build passed the crate motor from Summit in price.
Inevitable, I suppose, that these mags should die.
When the supply of cars you can build up gets so expensive that only an investment banker can afford a rusted hulk and the price of the engine approaches the price of a new car... Who are you writing these articles for?
06 December 2019
Ozymandius
I've listened to this song since it came out and never once paid attention to the lyrics.
Sure sounds like a retelling of Ozymandius, don't it?
Sure sounds like a retelling of Ozymandius, don't it?
An Oddly Cheering Thought
Today I broke my personal record for consecutive number of days existing.
I plan on breaking it again tomorrow!
As long as I can keep this up, I'm not doing too bad at all.
I find that amazingly uplifting.
I plan on breaking it again tomorrow!
As long as I can keep this up, I'm not doing too bad at all.
I find that amazingly uplifting.
Again With The Navy Gun Free Zoning
This time in Pensacola.
I've been to Pensacola to get to the museum, they don't exactly frisk you at the gate looking for guns, but it is officially a gun free post.
I also wonder when reading the stories about Pearl Harbor and Pensacola: What became of the Navy's cops?
Both bases had a heavy response of local, civilian, law enforcement.
Even though Fort Knox was an open post when I was doing OSUT, the Military Police was the only police force on post.
I've been to Pensacola to get to the museum, they don't exactly frisk you at the gate looking for guns, but it is officially a gun free post.
I also wonder when reading the stories about Pearl Harbor and Pensacola: What became of the Navy's cops?
Both bases had a heavy response of local, civilian, law enforcement.
Even though Fort Knox was an open post when I was doing OSUT, the Military Police was the only police force on post.
05 December 2019
Turn Your Traction Control Back On
The Lovely Harvey witnessed a Jaguar F-Type do the fishtail dance into a spin that culminated in it backing into the center dividing wall.
She says that right before they lost traction they were goosing it to pass.
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen an accident stemming from shutting off the electronic stability.
Repeat after me: Unless you are an actual professional race-car driver you're not skilled enough to handle the stupid power so many of these cars make.
Especially when you leave the summer-only tires on that don't have any traction below 50˚F.
She says that right before they lost traction they were goosing it to pass.
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen an accident stemming from shutting off the electronic stability.
Repeat after me: Unless you are an actual professional race-car driver you're not skilled enough to handle the stupid power so many of these cars make.
Especially when you leave the summer-only tires on that don't have any traction below 50˚F.
Dank Kush
If I can smell you smoking pot from half a block away, that means a deputy driving past can too.
Just sayin'...
It's also cute that my father-in-law didn't admit to knowing what the smell was after raising The Lovely Harvey...
It's not even a secret, she's proud of being a recovering addict these past 30 some odd years.
Just sayin'...
It's also cute that my father-in-law didn't admit to knowing what the smell was after raising The Lovely Harvey...
It's not even a secret, she's proud of being a recovering addict these past 30 some odd years.
04 December 2019
Unpossible!
In a state with some of the most restrictive gun control, Hawaii, in a gun-free zone; someone still managed to murder two people and injure another before proceeding to off themselves.
I'm starting to think that gun control doesn't save lives at all.
I'm starting to think that gun control doesn't save lives at all.
Sancho! Another Lance!
I have to admire his optimism, given the current party mix in The House.
HR 5289.
It would remove SBR's from the NFA.
In light of how many "pistols" are out there using braces as stocks, it's kind of already happened to them, they just need to make it all legal.
Otherwise we could see a bumpstock situation where the ATF issues a "we changed our mind!" letter and makes instant criminals of lots of people.
HR 5289.
It would remove SBR's from the NFA.
In light of how many "pistols" are out there using braces as stocks, it's kind of already happened to them, they just need to make it all legal.
Otherwise we could see a bumpstock situation where the ATF issues a "we changed our mind!" letter and makes instant criminals of lots of people.
A Small Omission
Reading this article linked by The Smallest Minority.
The FBI fails to complete about 200,000 background checks each year out of millions.
While they mention that about 1.4% of the checks that take longer than 3-days to complete result in a denial; they don't mention how many of the nine-million or so background checks that are completed result in a denial.
I'm guessing that there aren't many at all, or they'd be talking about how dire the straits are with all these criminals trying to buy guns.
Considering how the rate of gun related violence has been dropping while the supply of guns has been climbing.
I'm going to speculate that anyone who's background is sufficiently muddy that the FBI cannot find a reason to deny them in 88 days either has nothing disqualifying in it, they're damn good at hiding it or the people responsible for keeping these records straight at grossly incompetent.
Considering the number of cases involving people who should have been denied shooting others, I think the last explanation survives Occam's Razor.
The FBI fails to complete about 200,000 background checks each year out of millions.
While they mention that about 1.4% of the checks that take longer than 3-days to complete result in a denial; they don't mention how many of the nine-million or so background checks that are completed result in a denial.
I'm guessing that there aren't many at all, or they'd be talking about how dire the straits are with all these criminals trying to buy guns.
Considering how the rate of gun related violence has been dropping while the supply of guns has been climbing.
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Considering the number of cases involving people who should have been denied shooting others, I think the last explanation survives Occam's Razor.
What's Behind Us Is Not Important
The intertubes have been a quiver with the news that the time for The Cannonball Run has been bested again.
It should probably be a clue to someone how this flagrant violation of traffic laws and regulations is being celebrated.
You cannot long suppress a people who do things like this.
It should probably be a clue to someone how this flagrant violation of traffic laws and regulations is being celebrated.
You cannot long suppress a people who do things like this.
Missed It By "THAT" Much
Making more permanent ramps for the Mother In Law.
This is thirteen 60-lb. bags of Sackrete.
I bought ten more this morning.
Sow Division
When you sow division, you reap oppression.
Everyone who's freaking out about Virginia's "new" "ban" on gun training should be thrilled.
The real new thing is the ban on being armed while protesting.
Y'all are the folks who so despise open carry, congratulations!
This is what you were demanding when you started insulting the people who wanted rights past what your Stockholm's Syndrome could handle.
Our enemies don't need to divide and conquer, they just have to wait for your prefragmentations to take effect.
Slow clap.
PS: which open carry event caused this? Because that's the root of all gun control according to y'all.
What? Nothing? Nobody?
Almost as if they hate us completely no matter what we do and YOU played into their hands by sowing division rather than unity.
It's astonishing you have the temerity to call others idiots.
Everyone who's freaking out about Virginia's "new" "ban" on gun training should be thrilled.
The real new thing is the ban on being armed while protesting.
3. Assembles with one or more persons with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons by drilling, parading, or marching with any firearm, any explosive or incendiary device, or any components or combination thereof.
Y'all are the folks who so despise open carry, congratulations!
This is what you were demanding when you started insulting the people who wanted rights past what your Stockholm's Syndrome could handle.
Our enemies don't need to divide and conquer, they just have to wait for your prefragmentations to take effect.
Slow clap.
PS: which open carry event caused this? Because that's the root of all gun control according to y'all.
What? Nothing? Nobody?
Almost as if they hate us completely no matter what we do and YOU played into their hands by sowing division rather than unity.
It's astonishing you have the temerity to call others idiots.
02 December 2019
Called It!
Narwhal tusk surrender bins installed around London.
Sure, it's Babylon Bee, but Snopes hasn't refuted it yet so it must be true.
Sure, it's Babylon Bee, but Snopes hasn't refuted it yet so it must be true.
The Review
Without any way to test terminal performance, we decided to see if the Federal Syntech Defence 138gr SJHP, that Widener's sent me, would fire and function in a variety of pistols.
All shooting was at 7 yards with Marv, Willard and I trading off the shooting duties.
First off, can you really claim it's in 9mm Luger if a Luger won't shoot it?
I loaded seven round and got two stoppages. The second of which jammed the nose of the round hard against the back of the barrel.
Many pics below the cut:
All shooting was at 7 yards with Marv, Willard and I trading off the shooting duties.
First off, can you really claim it's in 9mm Luger if a Luger won't shoot it?
I loaded seven round and got two stoppages. The second of which jammed the nose of the round hard against the back of the barrel.
Many pics below the cut:
Context Matters
I got pictures of a bear and two cougars means completely different things depending on if you're talking about the bar district or a trail cam.
01 December 2019
Perishible Skill
My groups have opened up to an embarrassing degree because I have not been shooting regularly of late.
I really hate my new glasses, which do not help my shooting a bit.
Long post on the Federal Syntech Defence 138gr review is coming!
I really hate my new glasses, which do not help my shooting a bit.
Long post on the Federal Syntech Defence 138gr review is coming!
Lemme Make A Prediction
The response in London will not be to make it easier for their citizens subjects to defend themselves.
Wanna bet the response will be to ban narwhal tusks and fire extinguishers?
I would also not be surprised to find they charge the person who wrestled the knife away from the perpetrator with possession of a knife and the people who intervened with assault.
Wanna bet the response will be to ban narwhal tusks and fire extinguishers?
I would also not be surprised to find they charge the person who wrestled the knife away from the perpetrator with possession of a knife and the people who intervened with assault.
Warren Again
Warren was cursed.
We, as GMs, didn't even pick on him.
He created his own luck.
Like when his character in Twilight: 2000 tried to drive a Humvee on a ruined road and fire through the windshield. There just isn't room to get an M16A2 into position to do what he was trying to do and he was unable to comprehend my explanation of how there wasn't enough space.
When the chips were down, you could count on Warren to roll the exact worst result the dice could give him.
Those of us who know the HMMWV well know how hard it is to roll one. That's how bad the dice treated Warren.
Sometimes it wasn't his fault at all.
In Traveller he once got flushed out of a cargo bay and into hyperspace.
He'd gotten wounded pretty good reducing the number of hijackers down significantly and FuzzyGeff's Hiver did the appropriate first aid, bundling him into a medical sleeping bag.
The action shifted to other players and parts of the ship for a while. They successfully managed to eliminate all of the hijackers but the ones in the cargo hold, where Warren and FuzzyGeff were hiding.
FuzzyGeff gets the bright idea to open the hatch on the hold because Hiver aren't susceptible to going insane from looking at it. He figured if the hard vacuum didn't get them, the sight of hyperspace would. Warren would be safe because he was in the med-bag and unconscious.
It worked too! The hijackers were sucked into space by the explosive decompression.
So was Warren.
FuzzyGeff had forgotten to tape him to the deck.
We, as GMs, didn't even pick on him.
He created his own luck.
Like when his character in Twilight: 2000 tried to drive a Humvee on a ruined road and fire through the windshield. There just isn't room to get an M16A2 into position to do what he was trying to do and he was unable to comprehend my explanation of how there wasn't enough space.
When the chips were down, you could count on Warren to roll the exact worst result the dice could give him.
Those of us who know the HMMWV well know how hard it is to roll one. That's how bad the dice treated Warren.
Sometimes it wasn't his fault at all.
In Traveller he once got flushed out of a cargo bay and into hyperspace.
He'd gotten wounded pretty good reducing the number of hijackers down significantly and FuzzyGeff's Hiver did the appropriate first aid, bundling him into a medical sleeping bag.
The action shifted to other players and parts of the ship for a while. They successfully managed to eliminate all of the hijackers but the ones in the cargo hold, where Warren and FuzzyGeff were hiding.
FuzzyGeff gets the bright idea to open the hatch on the hold because Hiver aren't susceptible to going insane from looking at it. He figured if the hard vacuum didn't get them, the sight of hyperspace would. Warren would be safe because he was in the med-bag and unconscious.
It worked too! The hijackers were sucked into space by the explosive decompression.
So was Warren.
FuzzyGeff had forgotten to tape him to the deck.
30 November 2019
I Knew It Would Come To This
That the Galil obsession would lead to making a character was a foregone conclusion.
What's not clear yet is what sort of character.
The character that originally wore this outfit is long lost.
It was for a Top Secret campaign where we were the most destructive hostage rescue team ever created.
"Run for your lives! We're here to help!" was our unofficial motto.
I'd start with the 50-rounder in an Galil ARM because fewer reloads and work my way through, literally, dozens of 35-rounders and copious amounts of grenades.
This team also had Warren.
Oh... poor Warren.
He was a great guy, but... let's say he didn't often see the implications of what he was doing.
In the same raid/rescue he became frustrated that his hand grenades weren't able to penetrate the thick glass at a security checkpoint we needed to breach. This was because they wouldn't stick to the glass.
So he had his character HOLD the grenade against the pane! You did not misread that, Troubleshooter.
After many attempts to keep from doing it, it was allowed and he got blowed up but good. But not dead.
So we stabilized his wounds and dragged him back to a nearby helipad to wait for extraction. We put him in the office at the pad because there was a Huey we'd liberally perforated earlier. Leaking fuel all over the pad level of perforations.
Warren, bless his heart, did try to role play and when the extraction helo was inbound, but we had not yet gotten back to the pad, he decided that since his radio was out and was out of contact with everyone that the helo could have belonged to the bad guys.
So he crawled out of the office to hide under the leaky Huey.
When he was informed that the incoming bird was marked as appropriate for our extract, he decided to signal them.
With. A. Flare.
KA-BOOM!
Well, the pilot definitely saw that signal...
What's not clear yet is what sort of character.
The character that originally wore this outfit is long lost.
It was for a Top Secret campaign where we were the most destructive hostage rescue team ever created.
"Run for your lives! We're here to help!" was our unofficial motto.
I'd start with the 50-rounder in an Galil ARM because fewer reloads and work my way through, literally, dozens of 35-rounders and copious amounts of grenades.
This team also had Warren.
Oh... poor Warren.
He was a great guy, but... let's say he didn't often see the implications of what he was doing.
In the same raid/rescue he became frustrated that his hand grenades weren't able to penetrate the thick glass at a security checkpoint we needed to breach. This was because they wouldn't stick to the glass.
So he had his character HOLD the grenade against the pane! You did not misread that, Troubleshooter.
After many attempts to keep from doing it, it was allowed and he got blowed up but good. But not dead.
So we stabilized his wounds and dragged him back to a nearby helipad to wait for extraction. We put him in the office at the pad because there was a Huey we'd liberally perforated earlier. Leaking fuel all over the pad level of perforations.
Warren, bless his heart, did try to role play and when the extraction helo was inbound, but we had not yet gotten back to the pad, he decided that since his radio was out and was out of contact with everyone that the helo could have belonged to the bad guys.
So he crawled out of the office to hide under the leaky Huey.
When he was informed that the incoming bird was marked as appropriate for our extract, he decided to signal them.
With. A. Flare.
KA-BOOM!
Well, the pilot definitely saw that signal...
No Need To Panic
The headline read "Winter Storm Warnings From Coast To Coast".
It was a little breezy, but hardly storm worthy from here all the way to Daytona.
Mid to high 70's.
Clear skies.
This fake news stuff has got to stop!
It was a little breezy, but hardly storm worthy from here all the way to Daytona.
Mid to high 70's.
Clear skies.
This fake news stuff has got to stop!
HAKKA PÄÄLLE!
80 years ago, today, The Winter War began as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics invaded the former Russian territory of Finland.
Akavit as soon as the sun is above the yard-arm.
Akavit as soon as the sun is above the yard-arm.
Technomad Speaks
The marriage vs civil union thing reminded me of something else happening in LGBTland.I'm not terribly friendly or sympathetic to gays as a group. I remember, all too well, the years when AIDS first appeared, and how it was the gays who marched in the streets and fought like scalded cats to keep their damn bath houses open...even though those places were known and obvious vectors for the disease. This doesn't strike me as well-thought-out, to put it very mildly. And their "pride" parades seem designed to honk off straights in a lot of ways.If all the gays wanted was to be left alone, I'd have to support them. But I notice that a lot of them seem to want, not just quiet acceptance, but outright applause...and that a lot of their shenanigans seem designed mainly to piss off the straights. This business with "He won't BAKE MY WEDDING CAKE!" is a perfect example. In the first place, about any urban area (where most gays are) has lots of bakeries and other such places---why not go down the street to the next one? In the second place, if you've got to have a cake from THAT bakery, what's so hard about buying a standard-issue wedding cake, replacing the figure on the top with a "two brides" or "two grooms" figure, and going with that? I can buy those dead cheap on Amazon, and I doubt that gays are less net-savvy than I am. In the third place---would YOU want to eat food made by someone who was more-or-less cooking it at gunpoint? I am not too trusting and wouldn't go near it, myself.I also notice that for all their howling about individual rights, I've never, not ONCE, seen "Big Gay" roll out the infantry, cavalry and artillery for anybody but themselves. Advocates of the decriminalization of prostitution have noticed that "Big Gay" is utterly silent on the subject, even though a lot of sex workers are, themselves, gay, and gay sex workers are generally treated even more harshly than straights by the pigs. With the honorable exception of the Pink Pistols, I also haven't seen gay groups rallying to the Second Amendment. I may be wrong, or misinformed, but my overall impression is that they're dominated by urban liberals who're convinced that guns are icky and the sole preserve of toothless rednecks.Their current leadership seems to be caught up in a mental place where, having got the rights they said they wanted, they're out on a crusade to get back at everybody who opposed them...as well as payback on Mommy and Daddy, the preacher, and everybody else who wasn't too pleased about them coming out as gay This strikes me as highly unwise, and as begging for a backlash against them that might just wipe out their gains.They could have had everything they wanted from marriage if they'd been willing to compromise on the word "marriage," calling it "civil union" or some such. But a lot of their leaders wouldn't have it so, because that way they couldn't go out of their way to find venues and businesses that didn't want to be part of things, so they could sue and sue and sue and whip up Twitter mobs. And I note that they got their damn ol' "Gay" "Marriage" via the courts. What the Supremes gave, the Supremes can take away, blessed be the name of the Supremes.I frankly think they're heading for a real nasty backlash against them, and I won't feel one little bit sorry for them. As Victor Suvorov comments, in what I think is a Russian proverb: "Greed ruined the priest."
What pronoun? When is someone a woman?
Both sides are fucking this up from different directions.
The conservative / religious side is demanding that the chromosomes define sex and therefore gender.
The liberal / LGBT side is demanding that the external or apparent gender define gender.
Both sides want the defined gender to determine how the person is treated and its the definitions which are the sticking point.
The problem is gender and sex aren't the same thing, no matter how blurred both sides have made it by shoving the definition of one to coincide with the other.
That chromosome is what decides the sex. Traditionally, in Western society, your gender follows your sex.
Traditionally.
What we have ended up with is people talking past each other very angrily because the terms are the same, but the definitions are different.
It's not helped that both sides have advocates who've chosen to be as big a prick about it as they possibly can be.
29 November 2019
Brewery Grand Tour
The Tampa-Sarasota area is home to dozens of micro, nano and pico breweries.
We hit a decent percentage of them today and Siesta Key distillery.
Better than dealing with the mobs at the mall or Wal Mart by a wide margin.
We hit a decent percentage of them today and Siesta Key distillery.
Better than dealing with the mobs at the mall or Wal Mart by a wide margin.
Generations
Over the years I've owned several Glocks.
Until the 45, all of them have been Gen 1 or 2.
I just don't like the finger nubbins on the Gen 3 and 4.
Thankfully, they started removing them.
First with the FBI's 'M' variations, then the 19X and now the Gen 5.
The swappable backstraps are also welcome.
If only I could convince Marv and Harvey to join the Church of Gaston...
Until the 45, all of them have been Gen 1 or 2.
I just don't like the finger nubbins on the Gen 3 and 4.
Thankfully, they started removing them.
First with the FBI's 'M' variations, then the 19X and now the Gen 5.
The swappable backstraps are also welcome.
If only I could convince Marv and Harvey to join the Church of Gaston...
28 November 2019
Thanksgiving
Today is Thanksgiving Day in the USA.
I'm thankful to have been born in the US, still the best place to be even with all our problems.
I'm thankful for what family still talks to me.
I'm thankful that the rest of my family doesn't.
I'm thankful for a roof over my head.
I'm thankful for food in my belly.
I'm thankful that my pyramid of needs is more concerned with Legos than base survival.
I'm thankful for some of the best friends in the whole world. Geff, JT, Marv and Willard in particular; but there's no slight if you're unnamed.
I'm thankful for the readers of this blog.
Thanks!
I'm thankful to have been born in the US, still the best place to be even with all our problems.
I'm thankful for what family still talks to me.
I'm thankful that the rest of my family doesn't.
I'm thankful for a roof over my head.
I'm thankful for food in my belly.
I'm thankful that my pyramid of needs is more concerned with Legos than base survival.
I'm thankful for some of the best friends in the whole world. Geff, JT, Marv and Willard in particular; but there's no slight if you're unnamed.
I'm thankful for the readers of this blog.
Thanks!
27 November 2019
Advocate
I've mentioned before that I generally support LGBT rights.
Back when I first noticed that one could be straight and not hate on the bents the people whose rights I supported were rational, intelligent human beings who deserved the same consideration as anyone else.
I deplored the prejudice that I saw everyday.
A lot has changed.
LGBT people have really attained the goals they aspired to back then.
We have, however, moved past that now.
The fucking crazies are demanding rights past what everyone else has and doing it in a manner that slanders the people who were deserving of the rights that were fought for and gained.
I swear, for every Erin Pallette there's now ten fucktards who're going to ruin it for her.
Can't one pro-rights group that the liberals capture take victory and go home?
I'm guessing the answer is a resounding, "NO!"
Back when I first noticed that one could be straight and not hate on the bents the people whose rights I supported were rational, intelligent human beings who deserved the same consideration as anyone else.
I deplored the prejudice that I saw everyday.
A lot has changed.
LGBT people have really attained the goals they aspired to back then.
We have, however, moved past that now.
The fucking crazies are demanding rights past what everyone else has and doing it in a manner that slanders the people who were deserving of the rights that were fought for and gained.
I swear, for every Erin Pallette there's now ten fucktards who're going to ruin it for her.
Can't one pro-rights group that the liberals capture take victory and go home?
I'm guessing the answer is a resounding, "NO!"
You Know What?
Fuck you!
Every time I read about what a misogynist I am, on the basis of being male and white, I cannot but think, "that's incredibly sexist and racist."
I am a stay at home father.
I am not the biological father of my son.
My mentally disabled son.
Would the women who condemn me adopt another woman's child as their own if they were so disabled?
I have news for them that claims they would, it's even rarer than a man stepping up. People with children like The Boy are a community. We don't see many adoptions. We don't see any women adopting. We do see a lot of single parents, mostly single moms, because the other parent bails on "that thing" they created.
Because I'm the stay-at-home parent, I cook, I clean, I do the dishes.
I make lunches.
I pick him up from school.
I do the meetings with his teachers.
I take him to his doctor's appointments.
But I am a misogynist?
For encouraging my wife to work? To make the normal "male" sacrifices to get the promotions and advance in her career?
Fuck you, feminists!
What you seem to forget, and my situation puts lie to, is a misogynist society wouldn't allow The Lovely Harvey to be successful enough to be the primary and only breadwinner in our home.
Every time I read about what a misogynist I am, on the basis of being male and white, I cannot but think, "that's incredibly sexist and racist."
I am a stay at home father.
I am not the biological father of my son.
My mentally disabled son.
Would the women who condemn me adopt another woman's child as their own if they were so disabled?
I have news for them that claims they would, it's even rarer than a man stepping up. People with children like The Boy are a community. We don't see many adoptions. We don't see any women adopting. We do see a lot of single parents, mostly single moms, because the other parent bails on "that thing" they created.
Because I'm the stay-at-home parent, I cook, I clean, I do the dishes.
I make lunches.
I pick him up from school.
I do the meetings with his teachers.
I take him to his doctor's appointments.
But I am a misogynist?
For encouraging my wife to work? To make the normal "male" sacrifices to get the promotions and advance in her career?
Fuck you, feminists!
What you seem to forget, and my situation puts lie to, is a misogynist society wouldn't allow The Lovely Harvey to be successful enough to be the primary and only breadwinner in our home.
I Beg To Differ
Something I keep reading about in the differences between the Glock 19X and Glock 45 (other than the color) is the lack of a lanyard ring on the Glock 45.
Every Glock I've ever owned has had this little hole in the grip and it's for a lanyard.
It's a different style from the Glock 19X, but it's still a lanyard ring.
Every Glock I've ever owned has had this little hole in the grip and it's for a lanyard.
It's a different style from the Glock 19X, but it's still a lanyard ring.
Electrical
The inlaws house had a couple of gigs that prevented us from getting home-owner's insurance.
One item was double taps on two circuit breakers.
Happily they make tandem breakers in their size and it's easily remedied. Another item was missing fillers for the breaker panel.
Cheap and easy.
Happily they make tandem breakers in their size and it's easily remedied. Another item was missing fillers for the breaker panel.
Cheap and easy.
Stay The Course Mike!
I just endured Michael Bloomberg using an entire commercial block to brag about what a great mayor he's been.
You get the impression that he was mayor for 9/11 and he single handedly saved the nation in the aftermath.
But the entire five minute block is going to alienate people.
The longer an ad drags on, the more people just want it to fucking end and they start getting retaliatory towards the product.
The late night advertisers are the first people to discover this and they stopped doing it because the channels were reporting people tuning out.
I, for one, hope to see him piss more of his money away in this manner!
The longer an ad drags on, the more people just want it to fucking end and they start getting retaliatory towards the product.
The late night advertisers are the first people to discover this and they stopped doing it because the channels were reporting people tuning out.
I, for one, hope to see him piss more of his money away in this manner!
26 November 2019
I Did Not Win
No Galil clone from Classic for me unless the named winner fails to respond or is otherwise disqualified.
I mentioned the contest to The Lovely Harvey last night with me saying, "I've always kinda wanted one, but they're very expensive for what you get."
She replied, "Is there any rifle that you don't 'kinda' want?"
Uh...
I am afraid that she got me there.
I mentioned the contest to The Lovely Harvey last night with me saying, "I've always kinda wanted one, but they're very expensive for what you get."
She replied, "Is there any rifle that you don't 'kinda' want?"
Uh...
I am afraid that she got me there.
Noted Philosopher M. Muir
Just cause you don't understand what's going on don't mean it don't make no sense
And just cause you don't like it, don't mean it ain't no good
And let me tell you something;
Before you go taking a walk in my world
You better take a look at the real world
Cause this ain't no Mister Roger's Neighborhood
Can you say "feel like shit"?
Yea maybe sometimes I do feel like shit
I ain't happy 'bout it, but I'd rather feel like shit than be full of shit!
And if I offended you, oh I'm sorry...
But maybe you need to be offended
But here's my apology and one more thing...fuck you!
And just cause you don't like it, don't mean it ain't no good
And let me tell you something;
Before you go taking a walk in my world
You better take a look at the real world
Cause this ain't no Mister Roger's Neighborhood
Can you say "feel like shit"?
Yea maybe sometimes I do feel like shit
I ain't happy 'bout it, but I'd rather feel like shit than be full of shit!
And if I offended you, oh I'm sorry...
But maybe you need to be offended
But here's my apology and one more thing...fuck you!
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