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I’ll tell you, some of the people on this board, I don’t want anywhere NEAR me if any real trouble starts up in this country.

Stay out of my foxhole, Paperdoll. You can’t be counted on in any real fight. You are unhinged.

It was a plain plastic bowl. Seeing it as a diaphragm—or even saying it looked like one—is a product of sickness or a(nother) shabby potshot at the Thompsons.

LOL!!

By the same token there are several folks on this board who I’d be proud to “share a foxhole with” if it goes into the crapper. In fact, if things get really bad I’d look to some of the folks here (if in my area) to protect my poor incompetent untrained (though really willing) behind. Sounds like you might be someone I’d hope to be able to put on that list, sir.

My nephew is LAPD homicide in South Central, having spent the 10 previous years on the gang and drug task force in the same area. If it were to all go south he’s the person I know who I’d most like to have at my back. He was a typical California education system liberal growing up and I kept telling him to “dial it back some” all those years, while trying to guide him to reality through a fog of conventional PC wisdom. He grew up and decided he wanted to be a writer and to do that he needed “life experience” and where better to get that than as a cop? He joined up and chose the hardest of the hard in LA. Within two years he was quickly becoming more conservative (in a very complex and interesting way) than I am. But I still keep telling him to “dial it back some” <g>. (if you'd be interested I can provide a link to some interviews with him and press about him via FReepmail - he's written a very good (but rough) police novel that has been published and also optioned for the movies)

He’s really smart, honorable and an incredibly GOOD PERSON and he’s also got some of the best moves and “combat judgment” (so far as my untrained senses can detect) there are. Those are the folks to keep around you if it all goes south. Too bad he’s so far from here!