Wish I did, but I do have a couple of these:
(in 9mm and .40 cal)
Posted on 08/17/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The events in Missouri spring from America's deeply embedded segregation and black economic deprivation.
I spent my very early years in New York, living a very multiracial Sesame Street life, a big swinging bellbottom of a childhood. And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. I felt that I had moved from the 1970s through a time warp where black and white were the only two colours and never the twain shall socially meet.
I grew to understand what the 50s were actually like in Baltimore, when my mother, for example, was permitted to buy clothes from the major department store but not try them on. (Heaven forfend some black lady should be in the dressing room, right? You know they leave a residue of blackness on the clothes.)
America has never had one racial reality, but a series of them strung together from San Antonio to Pittsburgh to Appalachia. What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, is the result of life in a specific type of heavily racialised zone. Yes, a city such as New York, where a black man was recently choked to death by police officers, has its own very clear forms of racialisation and it's a national issue. But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson has sparked national protests because it represents a specific type of racialisation. This is of the majority black city, big or small, with a white economic and political power structure.
I grew up with mayor William Donald Schaefer, who presided over Baltimore from 1971-1987, an unusually long stretch....
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Have you no shame at all? You know doggone well, that's a picture of uncle Ted stopping by to chat with JimRob at the border!
Just kidding. I like the hat. Almost picked up one myself but thought it would be too hot for summer wear. Old fashioned straw for me.
Humble's got a new gig --- celebrity impersonator .. LOL
Kinda weird how close the resemblance is, isn't it?
I credit my dear wife for capturing that shot. Normally, I'm so ugly I break mirrors and scare bats away. At night .. LOL
Oh sweetie, I hope you do
If you do feel poorly, holler.
I make a wicked good chicken soup with matzoh balls, you will feel better.
I've heard that Google is the best way to find one's old FR posts. I'd like to see my first replies to his anti-American drivel. That must have been a couple of years back, at least.
What's amazing, is that it took such a concerted effort on the part of so many to bring his rotten behavior to the boss' attention. I s'pose he can't be everywhere at once, and just never noticed it himself. I think it was bobby.223 that finally got the boss to put his eyeball on Alex.
Appreciate the props, buddy. Thanks!
Stetson Straw, 3/4 cut Horseman, 7 1/8 Long Oval.
Well?
Good pic BTW, even though you won't be posting to him anymore. :-)
Wish I did, but I do have a couple of these:
(in 9mm and .40 cal)
Humble... do you play guitar, by chance?
Thanks, honey. I appreciate it a lot. I’m doing all right, though.
Don't I wish! Naw, it's just a cheap knock-off I got at the Grapevine Mills Mall for $15.
I've got a couple of nice straw Resistols that cost me close to $100 apiece, and an old straw work hat that I got from Cavender's for about $25. That thing is beat to crap.
You sure did nail the size, though. Right on the money!
To give the benefit of doubt, Al probably wasn’t always like that. Something embittered him somewhere along the way.
Might be interesting to see his old posts, circa 1998 through early 2000s.
Not making an excuse for him, though; there’s no excuse for him taking delight in running down the Country that gave him every opportunity to succeed and gloating over it. That’s just crap by any measurement taken.
I want to know if he does the Wango Tango.
That’s the MODERN version of the D-ring Winchester...
Same job, different day.
And just as nice...
RE “Wango Tango”
I’ve often “pretended my face is a Maseratti”... It never ended well, by the way...)
As a matter of fact I do! Wonders never cease. ;-)
Never cared for those hollow-body Birdlands, though.
I like my Jackson.
My neck feels better to know Alex finally got the zot he so richly deserved for a long time.
Wimdflier, you are a handsome guy and the hat fits you like it was made for you. If the SHTF, I'll be proud to stand beside you if you can accept the fact my rifle is a PINK Ruger. All we dawgs together would be awesome.
Thanks, Jim, for the zot.
I see a lot of sentences like, “The cop shot a black man who was coming straight at the him.” That sentence should read, “The cop shot a man who was coming straight at him.” Color means nothing. Intent is everything.
Take good care, Marcella.
We’ll say a prayer for your fast, full recovery.
God bless!
RE Birdlands:
Neat old guitars... big and funky. Feedback monsters, though..
I’ll stick with my American Strat and my two Ibanez RG550s (one black with maple neck, the other white with rosewood neck).
Jacksons are sweet too... what do you run it through, a Marshall?
I have an old Mesa Boogie Mark III head and twin cabinet, plus a Marshall 40 watt that I use for the pre-amp out, slaved through the Mesa. Crushing sound...
“Stranglehold” sounds great on it... same with “Cat Scratch Fever”.
Thank God you’re ok. Prayers up.
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