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“The article is basically pointless.”

As are most of the comments.

You wouldn’t know it to look at him but apparently Robert Smith has a wicked sense of humor.

Like when some twitwit posted a photo of young him (with trademark disheveled hair) and lamented, “Why can’t I find a guy like him?”

When today Robert Smith replied (along with his today photo), she snubbed him. And he very deadpan replied, “I’m literally the guy in the pic.”

https://americasbestpics.com/picture/why-can-t-find-a-guy-like-this-ugh-robert-HW2OZgdB9

“Julian exposed the raw corruption of the deep state . Doing so did something the elites find unforgivable: he embarrassed them and therefore must crushed!”

Assange knowingly committed a crime. Several, in fact. He might have thought it was for a good cause, but the individual doesn’t get to make that determination, that’s what courts are for. You don’t get to skip the legal rigamarole just because your crime is popular with the general public.

And if the courts don’t agree, and if it was a crime that really was for the public good, that’s what presidential pardons are for.

To commit the crime and then try to weasel out of the foreseeable consequences by pretending you’re some manner of a crusader is pure cowardice. If he wasn’t prepared to stand it like a man, he shouldn’t have done it.

The word “genocide” was invented from whole cloth by Polish Jew and lawyer Raphael Lemkin in about 1944 to describe Nazi Germany’s campaign to exterminate the Jews and the Poles. His definition of genocide was used verbatim as one of the charges prosecuted by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

If you attack a civilian population without provocation and as a consequence get hammered into dust, that isn’t genocide, it’s justice.

If you attack the Israelis without provocation and don’t kill them all, don’t expect to have a peaceful nights sleep again. Ever.

YE GODS! I’m exhausted from just watching the first five minutes. I’ve never seen a course that was that fast AND that rough! Those lava fields are un-be-wee-vabul.

He ran across a patch of a’a about two minutes in that was so rough it made my nards reflexively draw up inside my abdomen. I’m sitting right now with an ice bag in my boxers to keep the swelling down.

You’ve got to be at least half masochist to sign up for something like that.

Without the blow bag, most of you would have thought, “Peter who?”

SoCal has had Africanized killer bees for about 30 years. It takes close inspection to tell them from ordinary honey bees so anywhere they’re known to inhabit, you have to treat every unidentified swarm as if they were killer bees.

It could have been disastrous if killer bees had swarmed inside a baseball stadium.

If the victims have been irredeemably traumatized, and unless the perps can make full restitution, bilking the elderly should be a capital crime.

The law isn’t just about 2A, it also violates the 4th and 14th Amendment protections of private property.

After the protection of individual life and liberty, the most important function of any state is the protection of private property. If you own a thing and the government comes along after the fact and places impediments on you selling or trading that thing for personal profit, then they have devalued that thing.

But the government may not deprive you of that thing’s full value without due process, and ATF rulemaking does not rise to the threshold of due process.

I hate to break the news to you but all heads of state have “canned” funeral plans prepared in advance because of all the pomp and circumstance involved and the international customs and protocols that must be observed.

Appeals Court Rules That Cops Can Physically Make You Unlock Your Phone

04/19/2024 12:39:09 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 91 replies
Reason ^ | 4.19.2024 | Joe Lancaster

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4232330/posts

When was there ever a volcanic eruption that wasn't powerful?

Putting weasel words in the headline is usually a pre4tty good indication the article isn't worth reading.

The author mistakes the free market for capitalism. Which you shouldn’t do if you’re inclined to lecture the youth on the better alternative to communism.

It bears mention that after conquering a region, the Romans didn’t force anyone to adopt a Roman lifestyle. They just put it on display, and if offered so many more creature comforts than most of the period’s alternatives (at least so long as slaves were in good supply) that its attractiveness was self-evident.

The same can be said for a free market and the value-added economy.

I think the Form 1 applications are also up. The suppressor “kits” you can buy are increasing in quality but you have to have your tax stamp in hand before you can buy the components. For some unknown reason, Form 1s usually take much less time than Form 4s.

No, they’re not of the same quality as factory-made and bought thru a Form 4, but they are in general just a fraction of the price.

"...Do I give up any 4th Amd protections?

No. None. That is a myth the people who are too stingy to buy one for themselves made up to discourage you from having one either.

The guy who wrote this is on crack if he thinks shortening the wait (or even taking suppressors off the NFA list) is going to suddenly make integral suppressors popular.

First of all, integrally-suppressed handguns are substantially bulkier and heavier than non-suppressed. Neither of which is a plus for EDC or CCW. It could work for a plinking toy or a nightstand gun but most people don't buy so many handguns that they can afford to have one that they know will never need to leave the house mounted on their hip.

But putting a threaded barrel on a handgun (so you can mount a thread-on suppressor [or Nielsen device]) is more utilitarian because without the can it's almost identical to a regular handgun, so you can still CCW with it with virtually no handicap. But you can slip the suppressor on as suits your need.

But the down-side, obviously, is it's a fair bit longer than an integral suppressor mounted.

But the integral suppressor also puts you in a jam if you're wanting to run really hot loads because the integral barrel is ported along much of its length to tap off gas before the bullet ever gets to the muzzle. So you can NEVER match the non-integral barrel's muzzle velocity.

Second, integrally-suppressed rifles are a mixed bag of nuts because they cost you a substantial portion of your usual muzzle velocity. Yes, they weapon will be shorter overall but rifle bullets are designed to perform at rifle velocities. Take off too much MV and you'd be better off shooting a pistol-cartridge carbine instead.

One thing you don't hear people talk about when they're hawking silliness like 300 Blackout subsonics is that when you're shooting subsonic rifle rounds, the first rule is ALWAYS MAKE CERTAIN the last round you fired exited the barrel before squeezing the trigger again.

Why? Because you're "down-loading" the cartridge to such an extent that you've manifestly increased the potential for of a "squib" load. One that doesn't have enough "Pop" to drive the bullet the out of the barrel.

Ruh-Roh!

The funny thing about suppressors is that after you've owned one for a while, once the novelty of it has worn off, you start asking yourself, "Why the heck didn't I didn't do this sooner?" Because not having to deal with all that noise, and especially the muzzle blast in the face (in the case of long guns) just makes the whole shooting experience more enjoyable and less taxing.

Plus, in most cases, they'll make your rifles very slightly more precise. However, depending on your suppressor and the length of your barrel, hanging that added weight out at the end of the barrel might spoil its handling characteristics. Not such a prob with shorter barrels (like 16" ARs) and light-weight (<16 oz) cans, but still noticeable.

FWIW, suppressors have evolved tremendously (to the GOOD) in the last 20 years. They've gotten smaller and lighter all at the same time while still targeting that magic "hearing-safe" (<140dB) sound pressure level. Because these improvements weren't self-evident, somebody had to spend money on the R&D to make them to happen. And the more suppressors they sell, and the brighter their future prospects look, the more inclined they are to spend from the black side of the P&L sheet on product improvement. There are steel centerfire rifle suppressors on the market now in the 12-oz range, which was strictly exotic materials country just a few years ago.

And there are new mounting standards that make the latest generation of cans more utilitarian than ever before.

"... I knew people had to get rid of all leavened products in the house, but I thought they just threw them out...."

For the Seder (Passover meal), it's common for the entire house to get the spic-n-span treatment to make sure there isn't even a crumb of leavened bread left anywhere. Even after the white tornado routine, some of the more stringent sects will cover the kitchen cabinets and counters with aluminum foil to make sure none of their Seder dishes come into contact with a speck of yeast that might have been missed.

But the truth is that the air everywhere is full of wild yeast spores. Sourdough bakers know this and some make their own wild sourdough starter just by leaving a container of water and flour (maybe with a bit of sugar or potato water) open, exposed and undisturbed for a few days. But the people who wrote these rules obviously weren't aware of that when they wrote them.

If this sort of thing interests you I would suggest you watch the 4-par Netflix series, "Unorthodox." It shows a lot of stuff that the typical Gentile probably would have realized, like a bride-to-be having her hair shorn before her wedding. And a wife reporting to the synagogue to have her ritual cleansing bath after her menstrual period ends, only after which may she resume intimate relations with her husband (because Jews have a lot of rules involving blood).

"...I offered to write it down for him, but he declined. I don't now the exact rules, but it seems like more work to memorize it."

You were offering to be a "Shabbos Goy," a gentile who does tasks that are forbidden for a Jew on the Sabbath. Which is forbidden if the Jew does anything to enlist your aid or to encourage you. If you had just written it down and left it for him without asking, making sure he seen you do it, he might have taken advantage of your thoughtfulness.

Judaism can be incredibly complex like that.

It's only been in the 21st Century that anyone invented the Kosher lamp shade. A Jew can't turn an electric light on or off on the Sabbath, so once upon a time, they tended to turn on a minimum of lights to get by before Shabbos and leave them on until Havdalah (end of Sabbath) and just put up with the glare when it was time to turn in. So some inventive guy invented a light-tight lampshade, sort of like vertical Venetian blinds, that could be opened and closed by turning.

But the inventing was the easy part. The hard part would have been getting it proclaimed Kosher. But the adjudicating Rabbis apparently agreed that the turning of the lampshade did not violate any of the rules against work or other forbidden activities on the Sabbath. I don't know how many attempts might have been made before that but it was 2004 before anybody got a kosher lampshade "approved."

As for memorizing being more work, one of the reasons the Jews are such accomplished people is that theirs is a religion that values and encourages development of the human intellect. Not to put too fine a point on it but it was the Jews who invented the abstract god. The gods of all the religions before that needed to have a physical representation (i.e., idol). And great deal of their history has survived only because people were carrying it around in their heads, sometimes for generations, before someone received the story who had the capacity to write it down. Carrying facts and figures around in their heads is what they do.

The entire article is nothing but circular logic.

"Two men charged with spying for China under Official Secrets Act"

What an absolutely horrifically-written headline.

What is says is the spying was directed under the Official Secrets Act. As if they were commanded to by the OSA.

What it means, obviously, is that they were charged under the OSA with Spying for the Chinese.

How ironic that even the professional practitioners of the language their country invented have such a limited grasp of its use (and where was his copy editor, on a fag break?).