The Gun Counter

Johnnyreb

take the Expendables clip where Chuck Norris shows up and use CGI to replace him with the Cookie Monster.

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LOL. Now that's one better.

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Thank God for Technology indeed. I've seen my Mother go though cancer treatment 3 times and she's still doing ok. I wish you the best on your recovery.

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I'm sorry to hear of your loss. Losing close family sucks.

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I read a little while ago the scum is charged with involuntary manslaughter. And that's messed up. So he didn't want to set him up to be killed, he was forced to do it? What was involuntary about it? Don't even call it negligent homicide since that means somebody died because you did something stupi...

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Don't laugh, that might be us real soon. Saw a story on the fox site this week about how the 3 places that make most of our saline solution IV bags are all in Puerto Rico. And now we're having a lot of shortages for people who have lost a lot of blood, chemo patients, etc. The story didn't say the p...

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Back in Texas I got called every year for jury duty. There are, or maybe were a lot of class action suits in Jefferson County. I understand Texas was real popular for such lawsuits but I hear there's been some changes since then. I never got picked. But then anywhere I go, where I may be sitting aro...

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I picked up a nice plinker a little while back. Heritage Rough Rider single action. Fun little 6 shooter that came with 2 cylinders for .22lr and .22 magnum. Took it to the range twice so far. A fair amount of fun for 200 bucks.

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What I want to know is if the scum who made that fake call will be charged with capital murder. People who do this need to die and others like them need to know they got the death sentence. Or it won't stop happening.

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I think I'd like one of those with glock mags in it, 33 round ones. But I think I'd like it better in .45 acp with say a 20 round mag. If I got the 9mm though, I think I'd want a matching pistol. But probably not willing to buy a Glock. I have an SR9 as it happens. Have to look and see if there are ...

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The other day at work a lady and her young son were there picking up a package that she had to sign for. She told her son it was from China and asked him if he knew where that was. The little boy boldly replied "Of course I know!" "So where is China?" his Mother asked him. The bo...

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There is a claim that a high school yearbook "proves" he's lying about one of the accusers. Moore has demanded that yearbook for forensic testing of the ink and the handwriting. But after a week, I haven't seen one word about that yearbook being handed over. All I've seen about this has be...

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They keep calling it shoplifting, as if that doesn't mean they were stealing. Weren't the shades he stole worth about 400 bucks?

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After 9-11 the Senate issued a declaration of war on terrorism and anyone who supports same, with I think it was just one Dem voting no. And President Bush declared that war would be pursued regardless of national boundaries. Since then I don't recall that war ever being declared to be over. So the ...

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The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat. I've got the old black and white movie, must have watched it a hundred times. One of my all time favs. But it occurred to me of late that I had never read the book. So now I have the book. It is fiction, but based on real stuff, Monsarrat served on corvettes and ...

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And will this even count as a felony? So that he can't vote or own a gun?

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Reminds me of an old news story from back during Obama's first term I think it was. A rich guy was going to open a mine, spend his money, start a new mine, and employ a bunch of people. And he got so much crap and bureaucracy (crap), that finally at a public meeting he just had enough and said to he...

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What is it with blaming this on Trump? Yes, he said that, so did probably 50 million other people. You want to blame someone for this utter travesty, blame the judge who let him walk with no prison when the scum deserted in the face of the enemy in a planned act during time of war while in the comba...

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I read a story the other day about the Corps of Engineers was supposed to get the power grid back up in 45 days, but at 35 days had made little progress and only 30% of Puerto Rico had power 6 weeks after the hurricane. And the Corps of Engineers was reported as saying progress has been hard due to ...

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Return to sender will work only if it was sent to you first class mail, or if it has some kind of "service requested" deal on it. And the right term for that is to tell us at the Post Office that it is "Refused". Now the idea of taping the return envelope to a brick has a little ...

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It's amusing. Amazon's founder supports liberal stuff all over the place. Yet Seattle has become so crazy even Bezos wants to leave.

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So is it me or does she have crazy eyes?

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When you get stuff that is adult material there's a thing you can do to block it through the post office. But mailing lists.. not much you can do. When they mailed it to you they paid the post office to deliver it, so we deliver it. There is no block for junk mail. Frankly if there was, there would ...

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I was down at a pawn shop today, picked up a nice Ruger 22 revolver for 200 bucks because I felt like it. And he had several Jiminez? .380 pistols, little pocket guns for about that same amount. I don't actually have any compact or subcompact handguns. Nor do I have something in .380. So do these li...

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The Orange plan was made when the fleet was burning coal. The world had watched what happens to a worn out fleet of ships at the end of a long voyage when the Japanese fleet, all fresh, took out the Russian fleet, worn out and in bad need of refit and unable to make normal full speed, with lousy cre...

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Oh well, it's Detroit. What sane white guy would want to go work in Detroit?

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WWI was not our business and Wilson made it our business against the people's will. But on the other hand, if we had stayed out of WWI... that would not have stopped the revolution in Russia, it would not have stopped Lenin or Stalin though a negotiated peace would certainly have prevented Hitler. B...

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I wonder a bit about this. Back in the 90s when I was doing college, I was friends or knew about half a dozen guys who had served in the Navy and then went to college. All of them joined the army reserve when they got out, and all of them said it was so that the Navy could not recall them to active ...

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I missed it in Arkansas. We might have gone outside to look, but there were just two of us mail clerks there and the line was all the way to the door for half an hour, so I missed it.

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The Fox story made a brief mention of someone saying young officers don't get the level of training that they used to get. And also mentioned 2 cruisers that of late one ran aground and spilled 1000 gallons fuel and another hit a South Korean fishing boat.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/21/texas-man-tries-to-plant-bomb-on-confederate-statue-officials-say.html Some jerk just tried to blow up a statue of Dick Dowling, the man who won the Battle of Sabine Pass during the Civil War, one of the most lopsided military victories you ever saw. He was an Ir...

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Franklin is famous for saying we have a Republic, if we can keep it. When people are cheating on our elections, we're not keeping it are we? That's why I favor election fraud as treason. You can't expect your govt. to work like it should, within the rules laid down in the Constitution, when people a...

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When I got out of bed and headed off to the royal throne this morning I didn't feel like taking 3 whole steps back toward the bed to grab my book. So I grabbed the next in line since it was closer. Lawdog's book, I bought the paper one. I had to stop at page 50 and do something about breakfast. Suic...

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Only 100 days? For cheating in an election it should have been 20 with no parole. Personally I've thought for years that cheating in an election should be a treason charge.

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Picked an old favorite off the shelf today. Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter. First book of a trilogy about the creation of a paladin. Always wanted to see that one turned into a movie. But I guess a story with very little swearing and no graphic sex doesn't have much chance these days.

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So Kid Rock is talking about maybe running for the Senate in Michigan.

And the experts are all saying nah, no chance. Will Trumpism last? etc.

But you know, I have to ask in reply... so how long has Al Franken been a Senator?

If a failed comedian can do it. Why can't a successful Rock Star?

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Well, I've always figured someone who wants to violently overthrow our govt and constitution falls under "enemies". Like those antifa people. That's what they want, since they are commies, to overthrow our constitution and replace it with Karl Marx. But no matter what violence they do, I d...

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I haven't heard of the news or the govt. calling it an act of treason. He was trying to change the govt by killing the party that won the election, overthrow and treason.

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Happy Birthday!

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Thanks guys.

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Well, in Arkansas we are now paying sales tax on Amazon, It happened to me just last month when I was buying more books.

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I caught a bit of video purportedly showing the aftermath of the attack, injured people, dead kids, etc. And half a dozen still images, mostly of people who are still alive being treated. The still alive part is what I question. Those kids and the 3 men in the white plastic suits and the oxygen mask...

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The part that got me was how this has been a problem for 5 or 6 years. Since when has mighty America gotten to where something like this, that is a threat to the life of every pilot that flies that thing every time they fly it, can go on that long until the pilots have to mutiny en mass to get somet...

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Find a leather worker. At work I see several such who make both gun holsters and phone holsters.

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This reminds me of that time some fool threatened Kim years ago. And in less than a day members of the Nation of Riflemen had tracked his IP, located the basement of his mom's house and posted google earth pics of that house with name and address, and personal details, etc. etc.

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I didn't think much of that story. The writer tried to make it sound like big deal... until you realise that it was 150 guns stolen over 4 years and at least 100 of them was from one crime. And the story DOES NOT say all of them were stolen in a train yard in Chicago. It says "The Bureau of Alc...

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I got to speak with a man that works for a small circus that comes to town every year right about when that news went out. He said it was more than PETA harrasment and lawsuits. It was a number of things, rising costs, less interest and attention span from kids, etc. And they all combined to make Ri...

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My condolences and sympathy on Connie's passing. I still remember that French toast and bacon she fixed up at the big meet in Dallas. We didn't shoot much due to the rain. But sitting around their house enjoying the conversation was well worth the trip.

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I just read on the Fox news site that California has hired Eric Holder to help them fight Trump.

Somehow I just can't be upset about this, since the state of California just hired what is very probably the worst, most incompetent USAG we've ever had to fight Trump.

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The really sad thing is that this means somewhere high in the California state govt. is someone who thinks he is so powerful he can tell a cow how much she is allowed to fart.

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Ran across this on youtube last night. The Russian version of the warrior song. It's worth a watch. This version has english subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlQ6KqTlyfk

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If I recall right, back under Bill Clinton the Air Force was going to retire the A-10. And the A-10 pilots responded by formally requesting, en masse, that they be transferred with aircraft to the Army. Soon after, the Air Force dropped the matter and kept them. Ever since the Key West Agreement of ...

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I read something about this years back, in a book about gun culture in different countries printed at least 10 years ago I think it was. It talked about how Latvia, Estonia, etc., after they were freed from the soviet union, kept the communist gun laws that kept most of the population unarmed. The g...

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Well, I was just down in Texas to visit my mother. I came back with my Texas voters registration card, sent to my mother's house. Last year I got a Port Arthur, Tx jury summons in the mail, at my mother's house. I moved here to Arkansas in Oct. of 07. It really makes me wonder how many times I've vo...

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I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. I have no wife, but in the past few years I have lost my sister, my only sibling, to cancer and the step-father who has been there since I was 4 to a heart attack 1 year and 1 week later. There is always grief when you lose someone close, and it can really take you...

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The Irish Sgt. and a few others had SMGs, and they fired them a lot at people who were not close in. I kept thinking that was just a waste of ammo.

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Happened to watch this a few weeks back. It was one of the added today movies and I wanted to watch a war movie. Learned myself something new in history. 1961 in the Congo. Katanga province, the place where we got the uranium from for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A leader was trying to break off from the...

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What's disgusting is all the Republicans who are just downright HAPPY to denounce Trump a month away from the election for some dumb guy thing he said over a decade ago. Like not one of them has ever said something in their whole lives that women would not appreciate knowing they said. What next, wi...

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It's the I.O. one. Been doing some webfu on it. One of the reasons I was so pleased to snag it is because it came with the ammo. All those nice metal surplus tokarov boxes of ammo went away apparently the day before I got that CZ52 pistol. And no pic. I once had a cell phone. But for all the use I p...

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Okay, A grail, not THE Grail. The Grail is currently an FG42 that shoot 7.62 NATO. (no pics, no cell phone). I went to the gun show today with a cool grand in cash telling myself I would get a .22 pistol with a threaded barrel, or an AR, or just maybe there would be a Colt Python around (there never...

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Ringo said he wrote both Monster Hunter books in a month. Well I started reading Grunge yesterday and finished it this afternoon. Ringo needs to write faster.

And do another Kildar book.

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Fox had a story this week about how Hillary is bashing Trump's economic policies and it explained how Trump's stuff is about the same thing JFK and Reagan were in favor of economically.. So how is it that when Trump says its a good idea, it is magically a bad, "dangerous" idea? But when Re...

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The press chanted Trump can't win about 16 times with lots of nice charts and statistics and were dead wrong every time. And now they are chanting Trump won't win with lots of nice charts and statistics. So why are so many believing them this time? Even Fox news stuck a big chart on their website cl...

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From watching that testing video, I kinda want one. Of course I've been wanting to see something with a double column magazine shooting the 7.62x25 round too.

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I didn't remember which box of books to look in when I got the bug for them so I bought new copies of the Forever War, the authors version with stuff that got left out of earlier versions, and Starship Troopers. Reading Starship Troopers, after so long a time since the last time, has reminded me jus...

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In the video bits I've seen of those 2 boats, it looks like they had some MGs aboard. But I have yet to see or hear it stated that they had any small arms with them. I have also not yet heard it said they even had any ammo. Give the Obama rules of engagement, I would not be at all surprised to learn...

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Is there anyone who is still sharing information with the US gov? If I were another country, I would not, not as long as Obama or Hillary were in charge. Take the Israelis, we've probably gotten lots of good terrorist info from them over the years. But Obama is their enemy. He has made it clear. If ...

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Before Guderian wrote his book about the Blitzkrieg, Charles DeGaulle wrote a book about mechanized warfare. Only a few hundred copies were sold in France, who totally ignored the notion that their motorized pillboxes might be more useful if they moved faster than 3 MPH. The Germans, if I recall rig...

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The British have voted to be British. And all over western Europe, elites are stunned. How, how could they want to be British?

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I don't see it on the FOX site at present, but I thought I read earlier that this guy was a security guard and had a Florida Firearms License? What I guess is the Florida version of a CCL? This guy was eyeballed at least twice by the Feds in the past five years, he had to be on their watch lists. So...

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Well, FOX is saying 50 dead, 53 wounded now. Actually, it is a miracle the enemy haven't done this a lot more often and started doing it some years ago. You don't need a bomb to make a big terror attack in America. All you need is a gun or three and plenty of spare magazines. But yes, the press and ...

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It sure isn't back where I am. But the way things are going, even if the .22 does come back, it will be 2-3 times the price it used to be. And in the meantime, have you noticed how commie surplus cases of 7.62x54R have all but disappeared. What you can get of that is selling for nearly what I pay fo...

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Jackson did fight well once he got there. But his force marching to make up for his delays cost him half his corp's fighting strength. That was his big flaw. Longstreet didn't have this flaw, he got his men there in good time and decently rested. But his flaw was that the only opinions he cared to h...

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When California started talking in the news about this, there was a story about Wendy's fast food chain announcing their intent to create automated kiosks to replace workers. Want to bet they'll be doing that in California first? Not long ago, a week or so? A former McDonald's CEO was on FOX talking...

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Thanks. Somebody at work might have done some cake for me, but I always give myself that week off.

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Have you ever truly wanted to understand the word Balkanised? Michael Mahoney can explain it to you. I know, he lives here in my town, a retired Postmaster who is really into the history of Eastern Europe and the Balkan States. He has published 2 books on the subject so far. They weren't just killin...

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Good grief, I used the spell check on that. :lol: And I do mean Andrew Jackson. The reason he is on the money is because if he had not been president, the history of our country would be a different story. Aside from facing off with South Carolina over a tariff and being the first President to deny ...

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I won't say that we should do something about this, send in the troops. In this modern world of ours, no one who can read and write can honestly claim they could not have known what happens to a country that goes over to socialism and dictatorship. Chavez was an army officer who previously tried to ...

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And the voice of the ship's computer is the lady who played Counselor Troy on the Next Generation.

edit: Just watched Axanar. I really hope they can get their feature length film done.

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Actually, there is a Downfall parody in the movie, a pretty good one. But not Hitler, it is a TV producer guy who is Hitler's enemy and tries to put a political knife in his back. Not because he opposes Hitler, but because he thought he was going to be the boss of the network and instead a woman got...

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*Threadjack* I feel compelled to defend this base accusation against the gnat. There are gnats here where I live, and if just one is in the house, and one always is. That gnat is right here with me, constantly, with mindless, endless, determination trying to land on my face, get behind my glasses, o...

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The problem I have with this is, actually, Harriet Tubman. I'm just tired of seeing her constantly treated as some kind of giant of history, of greater stature than those who actually were the giants. Way back when, a few months before my oldest niece dropped out of high school, (and I didn't blame ...

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Came across this site too. A group of people, a 10k square foot building filled with sets as authentic as they can get them. And 6 new full length Star Trek episodes, done as faithfully to the original Star Trek as they can get it. Sure the guy playing Kirk doesn't sound just like Shatner, but if he...

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My best friend talked me into finally getting netflix on the computer just to see this movie. I cut the cable going on a year ago, just have internet and a landline now, no cell phone either. The movie is a German movie with english subtitles called "Look Who's Back". The movie takes Hitle...

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Now I can't find it but earlier this evening some 5 hours back, I wandered through a story about Windows 10 and how it spies on you. It makes me glad I still refuse to let it upgrade, esp. since on several occasions the damned thing has tried to upgrade me without asking permission. The article said...

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I've been looking forward to seeing the game on a disk for a long time. Megamek is nice, but they are a shoestring operation. No serious funding. Now if they can just make it with custom stuff doable in the design rules like I can do with the Heavymetal programs that would be great. And since it is ...

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UPS and Fedex both couldn't do what the Post Office does on their best day. Together they don't handle but a small fraction of the packages that head out every single day. And they both drop off parcels by the pallet to be delivered "the last mile" at every post office in the nation every ...

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Nah, if the US ships had realistic torps half of them wouldn't run true and most of the rest would not go boom upon hitting something. As it is, US ships in the game have US torps range, which is much less than the Japanese, and also a lot slower than the Japanese ones. And yet time and time again I...

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I'm having a lot of fun in this game. Though so far I'm not sure I will get into the carriers. BB's can be fun if used right. Though so far I've only gotten the starter Japanese BB and the Wyoming class one, which I'm going to keep. 6 turrets, I'm having trouble believing that moving up to a higher ...

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Ok, I finally noticed this thread. Sent in $25 via paypal.

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That guy is 60, 61? Aside from the jail, he just kissed his Postal pension goodbye. He had a USPS logo on his ride no less. One way or another he's going to start wondering if the price he is going to pay for this stunt was worth it.

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One of my more recent finds is Spying With Lana. Fun, but not a comic rated for kids.

http://spyingwithlana.com/comic/ma26/

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Got home a few minutes back and saw Fox News website has posted the story. Pretty short story, but at least now more people know. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/26/obama-to-ban-bullets-by-executive-action-threatens-top-selling-ar-15-rifle/ I remember back in the 1st term, when Obama was mak...

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He mentioned that there was a story someone else was doing about Lt. Chin? I've wondered if that would be where the one who did the virus would get his. But yeah, somebody needs to tell us what became of the brother and so forth. I've read a bunch of zombie stuff the past couple of years and I think...

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The Japanese need to seriously stop lying to themselves about atrocities their troops did during the war and acting like none of it was their fault. But at the same time, I think they remember better than we do that after they surrendered we tried and executed over 6,000 or their officers, while the...

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Marshal was not a battlefield general and in his own words he was given command over what was at best a third rate army in 1939. He made it the force capable of fighting the war and he picked the men who led it in combat. In 3 years he increased the size of the US Army by times 40. In China, well on...

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Give War Thunder a try. They started with airplanes and now they have tanks in the battle too. They are working on ships.

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Greg, you are thinking 500 rounds. Federal Automatch is 325 rounds in a box. I paid 18-something each for them, about 6 cents a round. The stuff I found online, same box, was about 12 cents a round not counting shipping. I won't pay that for 22, that's more than I used to pay for Mosin commie surplu...

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George Marshall. All those other generals in WWII were men he picked. He built and trained the US Army that fought in WWII. He became Chief of Staff on Sept. 1 1939, the day Hitler invaded Poland. He flatly refused to do a memoir, refusing to embarrass anybody with what he might say. I put this vide...

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Another interesting viewpoint on bad generalship is this video about how the army stopped relieving senior officers. Called "Why Our Generals Were More Successful in WWII. Worth a watch if you are into history. The US Army War College channel has some good stuff too. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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