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I'm salaried, not union. Used word "brother" rather than guy or dude or person (certainly not colleague).

Lighten up Frances.

Vee Americans..

The Greatest Generation..

Thanks Paul. I’m sure they’ll get something moving for me. Just kinda strange they haven’t acknowledged my initial request or said replacement part was being shipped.

You mean the "Hibachi" ones? (That's what a guy at a local gun store calls them).

SPF

If it really worked, I can guarantee you that my dad would have never purchased another single battery - he was raised in the Great Depression and saves/recycles every thing imaginable.

Was there when I was in Jr high with my family, and our sr trip , 3 days in 1983. Most of that was spent in museum of American History. I love the mechanical wizardry stuff!
When Ben was 10 we went down and stayed in Rockville MD, about 12 or 15 miles away. For 5 days, we’d eat breakfast at the hotel and cross the street to the metro station.
You could get on the metro there and ride anywhere in DC which saves the headache of driving. The longest we had to walk was 5 blocks to the zoo. At that time an all day pass was $5.
Reon

Yep, 3 times. Some really interesting things to see.

Ah... you are speaking about a late 99C... not an 1899C like I have (half-octagon barrel, .303 Savage chambering.

The only thing new versus decades ago is video of incidents being recorded and shared.

Look at Officer Schimmel’s written version of events versus video of what actually happened.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/zNm6kngd71etPy21/?mibextid=oFDknk

Been a couple times

Going back to go to the haunted museum

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-bad-faith-olympics/


The Bad Faith Olympics
“This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought. Institutions lie in smoldering ruins. Poisons handed out like candy. We are Neanderthals with iPhones.” — Dr. Toby Rogers

Did it warm your heart to see all those blue and yellow Ukrainian flags waved by our elected officials in Congress Saturday night with the passage of the $60-plus-billion aid bill to the Palookaville of Europe? You realize, don’t you, that the tiny fraction of that hypothetical “money” — from our country’s empty treasury — that ever reaches Ukraine will rebound on the instant into Mr. Zelensky’s Cayman Islands bank account. The rest of the dough enters the recursive shell-game between US weapons-makers and the very hometown folks in Congress waving those blue and yellow flags, who will receive great greasy gobs of fresh “campaign donations” from the grateful bomb and missile producers. No wonder they’re cheering.

What the $60-plus-billion won’t do is provide any fresh arms and equipment to Ukraine’s sad-sack army soon enough to prevent Russia from bringing this cruel, stupid, and unnecessary war, which we started, to a close. Yes, we started it, not Russia, in 2014 with our Intel blob overthrowing elected President Viktor Yanukovych in the so-called “Maidan Revolution of Dignity” (what Wikipedia calls it). And for what reason? To jam Ukraine into NATO as a prelude to “weakening” Russia sufficient to bust it up and gain control over Russian oil, ores, and grain.

Yes, that was actually the neocon’s game, equal parts megalomania and hubris, a fiasco as strategically ill-fated as Hitler’s push to gain control of Russia’s oil fields via Stalingrad in 1942-3. With failure and humiliation looming in Ukraine, the blob’s objective for now, in theory, is the vain hope of prolonging the hostilities just long enough to get its hologram president, “Joe Biden” re-elected, so that said blob can continue its amoebic digestion of what’s left uneaten by it in our sore-beset republic. You’ve got to wonder, of course, what this blob thinks will remain to rule over when it’s done gobbling up everything and jailing everyone from sea to shining sea who objects.

You tell me what conceivable way Ukraine can prevail in this proxy war now without just tripping off the civilization-ending nuke exchange? America does not have enough tactical missiles and artillery shells at hand to send over there. What we did have is gone. NATO never had much to begin with. Ukraine has run out of available cannon-fodder to conscript from its dwindling population. Despite Mr. Macron’s recent bluster, NATO can’t raise a credible army, or even agree on which country would send what. Nobody is riding to the rescue. Instead, Russia is fortifying its home-grown armaments industry and its military while systematically turning off the electricity all over Ukraine by blowing up the power stations. Very soon, Ukraine will be reduced to medieval living conditions — no lights, no phones, no Internet, no shopping, no ability to conduct modern warfare. End. . . of. . . story.

This is apt to play out much faster than America’s blob-controlled news media will be able to lie about. I’d guess it can be functionally over before mid-summer. The result will be yet another humiliation on the “Joe Biden” scorecard. When it’s over, you can be sure the Russians will abstain from an end-zone dance so as not to provoke America’s genius-losers into some final petty grand act of requital. Russia will just soberly declare what is self-evident: that for centuries Ukraine has been in its sphere-of-influence, as Mexico is in ours, and that they have reestablished the natural order of things in that corner of the world.

After that, America and the rest of Western Civ can get on with the collapse of their financial system and very likely a period of profound political and economic chaos in which governments fall, nations change boundaries and shapes, and their populations suffer dramatically from an imploded standard of living. That process may actually play out somewhat slower than the end of the Ukraine war over the coming years. It will look like a combined game of musical chairs and hot potato, with the opportunities to get a seat steadily fading, and the losers left holding things they can’t handle.

In the meantime, our country — remember it, the USA, when it had its once-enviable mojo working? — is busy being insane and finding sixty ways to Sunday to commit suicide. How do you suppose the Democratic Party will actually pretend to put up “Joe Biden” for re-election when the Ukraine failure is completed? Answer: they can’t. This dumbshow of the old gaffer hiding at his beach house and avoiding direct engagement with reality is also drawing to a close. Instead of calling “a lid” on “JB’s” activities, some humid morning in the swamp his handlers will call in “a medical alert” instead, and that will be the last we see of that dreadful apparition.

It’s also looking more and more as though the Republican Party faces its own civil war, especially after Speaker Mike Johnson’s perplexing flipperooski on the Ukraine aid vote. You recall, just weeks ago he said no dice to such a deal without a stop to the invasion coming across our Mexican border. Then, the intel blob boys lured him into a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) where they showed him . . . something. . . ! Everyone’s dying to know what. A secret signed agreement making Ukraine our 51st State? Photographs of Mike engaged in unwholesome recreations with Gawd knows who or what? Or did they just have a little talk with him about how stuff is supposed to work? Whatever it was has made Mike Johnson untenable in his position. And he has explained nothing. He’s got to go.

At the other end of all that stands — or, rather, sits at a defense table — Donald Trump, the seemingly inevitable leader of a party seeking to cough him up like a hairball stuck in its craw. And yet, every week that passes, the various lawfare traps set up to snare him to look more amateurish and gauche — while the Golden Golem of Greatness somehow manages to power through all that adversity. A big faction of the party he leads is in on that nefarious game. The wild card is the increasingly inflamed mood of the American people, in whose name the game is supposedly being played. With absolutely everyone lying to them about everything, it’s turned into some kind of bad faith olympics.

Could be worse - could remove the Speaker and replace him with a complete doormat to the Democratic agenda and then everyone would be looking at you like you're an idiot, especially since the thin majority gets thinner after doing so.

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Several times, and all but one was for work. Fly in- do a job (usually 2-4 days)- fly out. The one time I was there and it wasn't for work was when my son got back from Iraq the last time and they had an extra Marine Birthday Ball for the men that missed the regular one. He wanted me to come out and spend a few days with him.

TTT

9int watched in yrs

Even if literally not working, the agency employing them will frequently end up with the tab due to the off duty authority they will claim.

Not good

No

Never been - no desire to go. There's nothing there for me.

Never been there but there are cheap direct flights from my local intl airport and I’d fly in to rent a car or RV for a west coast dream vacation?

Maybe some day.

I run a straight 4x Burris on my 1894SS. I have a Bushnell 1.5-4.5x but since the gun is stainless and the scope is silver, I stay with it. For a cheaper scope the Bushnell does a nice job.
I also use a Redfield 2-7x32 on any other lever. It has been on several gun and currently is mounted on my 444. I know that a 3-9 is more popular but I prefer the smaller profile and lower mount of the 2-7. I do get the ghost front sight at 2x but I just avoid it by only going down to 2 1/2x.

I didn’t say anything about tobacco.