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If you believe that the world and the people in it are products of Intelligent Design, then your Designer did a pretty shitty job.

I’ve got three crushed discs in my back, since the spine was not “designed” to be operated in a vertical position. Likewise, my knees and hips are wore down to bone-on-bone because they were not “designed” to support the entire wieght of my body. And who would “design” a creature with an endoskeleton, and then allow something like arthritis to exist? That’s like Chevy including free rust on every new car.

Why would you “design” teeth to fall out? Or cataracts? Or even toenail fungus?

If a first-year engineering student turned in a design as flawed as a human being, they would not only fail the course, they would probably be asked to leave the school, for being too stupid to ever complete the course.

I find it easier to accept the possibility of travelers from another planet, (or dimension, the future, etc.) than the idea of a supposed omnipotent being, who has the power to create the world and everything in it, but still did such a poor job of it.

My father picked up the jungle rot on Guadalcanal. Spent six months in the hospital to get it under control. The doctors told him when he was discharged that he could never donate blood, as the fungus would always be in his blood.

He didn’t have any more problems with it until one time in the early 80’s, when the temperature was over 100 degrees every day for almost two weeks. And that crap came back on him again, all over his legs.

So, you may be able to control it, but I don’t know if you will ever truly get rid of it.

Why can’t they just make it illega for anyone to make unsolicited phone calls to sell something?

I pay for my phones because they are useful to me. Not so they can be useful to people trying to sell me crap I don’t want and didn’t ask for.

I would prefer the MOAB concept. Destroy everything in the area! If these people learn that hiding behind “civilians” just gets them AND the civilians killed, the civilians will stop hiding and supporting them.

(The “civilians” are probably just a different faction of terrorists, anyway.)

People build “home-made” guns all the time. From the workmanship this pistol shows, I would think the maker knows enough to use the appropriate steel to contain the pressure. I would fire it remotely several times, with heavy or even over-loads, before holding it in my hands to fire. But that would be normal practice anyway.

Does sound like a good financial audit is in order. Which is probably a good idea with any organization.

However, if all this is based on an article in “The New Yorker”, which is possibly the slimiest leftist magazine that good wood pulp was ever wasted on, I am inclined to doubt there is any actual problem at all.

Every year at about the time of the NRA’s annual convention, there are always these stories about “the NRA is collapsing”, the NRA’s membership is dropping”, “internal dissent at NRA”, blah, blah, blah..... They only wish.

This is all just Lilliputians pissing on Gulliver’s shoes.

Well, DUH! It took a “study” to figure out that people were more likely to die from having a bigger hole poked in them, rather than a smaller hole.

Wonder if I could get a Government grant to “study” if night time was DARKER than day time?

DFG said:
“Eventually, the POWs agreed to return a secret book that was in the car, but only after they finished consuming its contents, and putting a special stamp imprinted inside the book (stamp made from heel of a boot) stating that the book had passed inspection at some British Department of something other. No one does cheeky like the Brits, and no one is more fun to have be the butt of such cheekiness as a Kraut.”

That right there is one of the funniest things I have ever heard!

From my time in, I don’t think there is ANY amount of alcohol that would be enough “to incapacitate the Coast Guard.”

USCG ET3
1971-1975

ETL said:

“How about the shout out to “The Godfather” where one of the first buildings you see is like this...”

Except that Vito Corleone’s company was the “Genco Olive Oil” company. Named, if I remember correctly, for the family that smuggled young Vito out of Sicily.

Any animal that large is NOT “helpless.”

And, BTW, nice shot on the critter.

BAK? Not sure what that is.

I used to go by there occasionally, driving for work. Finally stopped one day just to see what it was.

Mercat said:

“While Daniel E. Kelley sung the song, Home Home On the Range, a man named Brewster M. Higley originally wrote the song as a poem in 1873.”

I’ve been in the Soddy in NW Kansas where it was written.

Thanks, Mercat! I was going to say the same thing, but you beat me to it. I have also been to the Higley cabin. He actually spent TWO winters there, to homestead the place. Guess he was tougher than me....

I agree that percussion caps can be a problem, on any firearm, not just revolvers.

However, a few tips:

As I was telling someone else on here, take your nipples out and polish them. This will allow the spent caps to come off easier.

Also, if you are using Remington or CCI caps, they are a part of the problem. Get some RWS (Dynamit Nobel) caps, with the pleated skirt. These will go on, and come off, much easier.

ImJustAnotherOkie said:

The real trick was ejecting the percussion cap while cycling the next round. I’m sure a lot of guys were shot trying to unjam them.

If you have ever seen any old cowboy movies from the 1930’s and 1940’s, you will see people pointing their revolvers straight up in the air when they cock them. This is because they were taught by real old-timers, who knew that if you did this, the fired caps would fall out, and not back into the gun.

I have fired my percussion revolvers in Cowboy Action shoots enough to know this works!

“I give bonus points to the Leftists who knotted the noose. Although the rope is too thin, they did tie an authentic hangman’s knot. Usually in these stunts they tie a square knot.”

Nope, it is supposed to have 13 turns.

The author has it exactly backwards.

The universe was not designed to allow life. The universe is what it is, and life formed to exist in it.

Or, as the goofy Doctor in “Jurassic Park” said, Life will find a way!”

This, of course, all depends on whether you takes your religion straight, or with soda......

Uh-oh......my buttons have been pushed.......

I hate to burst this young lady’s bubble, but REAL spacesuits are going to continue to look pretty much like the current ones. Those sexy skin-tight 1950’s spacesuits WON’T WORK!

These people look at a SCUBA divers wet suit, and think that a spacesuit should look like that. But the two problems are exactly opposite.

The SCUBA diver is going into a HIGH pressure environment, and his air regulator is going to give him air at the same pressure as the surrounding water. With no pressure differential, the diver can breathe normally.

The astronaut is going into a LOW pressure environment. As long as his chest is inside the pressurized “can”, he can also breathe normally. But if he tries to put on a skin-tight suit, and is breathing space-craft normal air (pure O2 at 5psi) when he steps into vacuum, his lungs will explode. This would be painful.......

Another problem I always see, not only with Hollywood spacesuits, but with NASA’s planned Mars suit, is that you can’t see your feet. And you are going to go stroll about on a surface covered with loose rocks of various sizes. This will not go well....

I think at least two of the Apollo astronauts managed to fall down on the Moon. Mars would be worse. Hope they send plenty of spare plastic bubbles for those helmets. At least that way, they can salvage the suit......

After cleaning it out.

If I remember correctly, there were three of those sailing barks taken from the Germans after WWII. The Coast Guard got one, the Portuguese got one, and I think the third went to Norway or Sweden.

I am pretty sure the Coast Guard originated the saying about “We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that now we can do anything with nothing, forever.”

USCG ET3 (E4)
1971-1975
two years outside CONUS,
Italy and Turkey
LORAN stations

Then you might be interested in this:
https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?&sort=-downloads&page=2

Excellent! Not only the old sci-fi mags, but the detective ones, as well!

My eyes will be hurting.......

Thanks