Posted on 08/27/2015 4:47:09 AM PDT by don-o
“Somebody planted the sonuvabitch.”
That was one organizer’s immediate assessment after a bomb threat forced about 75 bikers and supporters to disperse from in front of the McLennan County courthouse Saturday morning. The bikers had organized a memorial for the nine people killed at the Twin Peaks shooting in Waco three months ago, but the gathering was also supposed to serve as something of a rally for the 177 bikers arrested that day. But now, thanks to a suspicious cooler and a suitcase, the group dissolved.
Clint Broden, the lawyer most publicly associated with the case, was scheduled to speak. And from the sounds of it, Broden’s address could’ve been illuminating if he’d had the chance to give it—”I will have a lot to say soon, I have been saving it up,” he promised on the event flyer.
It’s still unclear what happened on May 17. Most of the national attention the shootout between cops and bikers garnered focused on the two clubs involved, the Bandidos and the Cossacks—essentially turning into PR campaigns for both sides, with law enforcement and bikers offering two very different interpretations of biker culture. -
(Excerpt) Read more at texasmonthly.com ...
He has his hands full keeping track of all of his handles, now you want him to keep track of yours?
Darksheare: You said you have no problem with ambush shootings by leo.
You: Most people don’t, as long as it is the other guy that is ambushed and shot.
Darksheare has totally distorted that post .... as usual.
Posted with corrections per D request.
What happened to TM?
Left for awhile, He will return
I had a pal from Tennessee who asked me about the possibility of replacing the mogas Hercules JXD 6-cylinder engine on his M20 [also a Ford 6-wheel Ford] with the 6.5 liter turbo-Diesel engine [400 cubic inches/190 hp] and 4-speed automatic transmission from a M1151 HMMWV/SOCOM Ground Mobility Vehicle. According to my tape measure, it'll fit. He wanted to fit up a CROWS .50 gun mount, but I twisted his arm and set him in the direction of something better instead.
We shoehorned one of the 6.2 liter Diesels and 3-speed out of one of the original HMMWVs into a 1952 GMC M211 deuce-and-a half, which originally had a mogas 6-cylinder and a 2-speed GMC Hydramatic automatic. It worked out okay, and the next intended victim is a WWII DUKW. I'd stay with a 24-volt military system, and build a sound system into a very-modified CVC helmet. Maybe Bluetooth it?
And if they hadn't said that, their family pets or kids would have turned up dead on their front doorstep, shot dead by those giving aid and comfort to their partners on the same side of the blue line of silence.
I’d love to drive that thing!
“Posted with corrections per D request.”
You know, outright lying like that is bannable?
Ah, Newton NJ.
Grew up around the corner from there in Vernon.
Not surprised at all.
It lives about halfway between Nashville and Memphis; it's daddy is fairly well known in the Country-Western music world.
If you can manage a trip to Memphis once we get the upstairs gun mount worked out, we could likely use you as a driver when we take it to the range [20mm or quad .50] for the first testfire.
*Waaaaant*
Don’t you get this picture of some 20 something with tattoos and pierced lips and hubcaps for earlobes sitting in his mom’s basement with a clipboard and 3x5 cards trying his best to manage different screen names and identities like nuclear engineer or electrical engineer. Surrounded by flies and empty pizza boxes and empty two liter soda bottles. Creating fictional, impossible histories like “patrolling Haiphong Harbor”, with “black palm trees in my back yard” “here in Massachusetts”. Can’t you just see it?
Nah. The most infamous of them is a botox queen. Really.
I learned of the palm trees first hand. Had a Eurailpass, no itinerary. Planned a trek from Zug to Locarno, "around the Alps," past Montreaux, to Domodossola, to Locarno. Got off the train at Domodossola, surprised at the need to switch railroads. By sheer chance, no planning, took the Centovalli Railway. Best train ride ever. Stunning. Then drop into Locarno and see palm trees!
No itinerary, no hotel. Ended up staying in a suite above the restaurant at one end of the square. Midnight "curfew," meaning we had to be inside the gate, but the bar would be open until we'd had enough. Suite was 40 Swiss Francs, in 1991, and had a balcony over the semi-outdoor dining area. Lucked out, all the way! Took a trip up to the Madonna del Sasso the next day.
My favorite part of the world, what parts I've seen so far - Northern Italy and southern Switzerland. Great food, ancient buildings, spectacular scenery.
:)
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