lucius septimius 1/14/2020 4:40:34 AM

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vxbush 1/14/2020 6:10:17 AM

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In #1 lucius septimius said: Good morning.  For some reason I woke up with Blondie "Rapture" playing in my head.

Maybe you're being warned of the immediate removal of all Christians from the planet? 

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Morning, campers. So glad it's a bit warmer today. 

PaladinPhil 1/14/2020 7:05:49 AM

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Morning off today, so spent some time trying an experiment. Picked up a spring loaded BB gun fairly cheap. Figured it would be good training tool for me and the wife. Since it's spring loaded shorter ranged and less chance of over penatration. Set up a coffee can with the open end papered over with a target and hung it from the bedroom door hallway side. Pulled out my safety glasses and started plinking.

Going to need to rework a few things. Let me just say that wearing the safety glasses was a good idea. As a training tool though, it is working. Just have to figure out if the hit placement is me or the tool.

JCM 1/14/2020 7:24:36 AM

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JCM 1/14/2020 7:25:17 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 3:

BB's are around and smooth bore. Those things go any direction.

PaladinPhil 1/14/2020 7:27:05 AM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

Good to know. Still good practice until I can get into a proper range. Figure a little over a month now before that can happen.

Occasional Reader 1/14/2020 8:20:55 AM

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In #3 PaladinPhil said: Let me just say that wearing the safety glasses was a good idea

Ralphie?  Is that you? 

vxbush 1/14/2020 10:20:34 AM

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In #6 PaladinPhil said: Good to know. Still good practice until I can get into a proper range. Figure a little over a month now before that can happen.

With the son at home, I'd like a virtual version that works with the Wii or something similar. 

Occasional Reader 1/14/2020 11:28:11 AM

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Project Veritas video: Bernie Sanders field organizer promises riots, cities burning, if Sanders doesn't win; gulags, mass executions if he does.  

JCM 1/14/2020 11:41:53 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9:

I'm shocked a communist would advocate such things. I mean that is so out of character for communist regimes!

doppelganglander 1/14/2020 11:42:52 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9:

Wow. Obviously that plan exists nowhere other than Kyle's unmedicated fantasy world, but it's disturbing that he's a paid staffer. How many people are watching this and saying, "Right on, dude?"

JCM 1/14/2020 11:46:35 AM

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In #11 doppelganglander said: How many people are watching this and saying, "Right on, dude?"

Anyone educated by Ayers.

Occasional Reader 1/14/2020 1:19:07 PM

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In #11 doppelganglander said: Obviously that plan exists nowhere other than Kyle's unmedicated fantasy world,

Probably/hopefully.  Nevertheless, I'm going to be sure my friends Messrs. Mossberg, Ruger, Kimber and Sig-Sauer and clean and function-checked just prior to Election Night, just in case. 

Occasional Reader 1/14/2020 1:29:35 PM

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In #13 Occasional Reader said: and are clean and function-checked

buzzsawmonkey 1/14/2020 1:39:18 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 13:

And thou shalt rain down pistolence upon them.  How Biblical...

buzzsawmonkey 1/14/2020 1:40:04 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

BTW, I hope you saw that I did reply to your comment yesterday, albeit in reconstructed form.

Occasional Reader 1/14/2020 2:52:14 PM

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In #16 buzzsawmonkey said: albeit in reconstructed form.

Reconstruction has to be mentioned in any conversation about race and racism in America!

/yes, I did

buzzsawmonkey 1/14/2020 3:27:51 PM

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In #17 Occasional Reader said: Reconstruction has to be mentioned in any conversation about race and racism in America!

In that case, so does Andrew Johnson's Erector set...

buzzsawmonkey 1/14/2020 3:46:16 PM

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By the way, two idiocies on our local NPR affiliate this morning:

1) People are objecting because certain entities that receive city tax breaks, such as the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of the City of New York, are not willing to open their facilities to be used as polling places, so the city has to rely on---gasp!---school buildings!

2) There is an initiative against the Transit Police for supposed "disproportionate" enforcement of anti-fare-beating efforts, because apparently more black and brown folks are being nabbed for fare-beating than white folks.

doppelganglander 1/14/2020 4:00:15 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 19:

1) As lovely as it would be to cast one's ballot in the Temple of Dendur, it would be enormously disruptive to visitors and potentially endanger works of art. 

2) Some people believe black and brown folks should never be arrested for anything, or if they must, an equal number of white people should be arrested, whether they're suspected of wrongdoing or not.

Occasional Reader 1/14/2020 4:09:40 PM

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In #20 doppelganglander said: 1) As lovely as it would be to cast one's ballot in the Temple of Dendur

#I’mWithRamses