- Joe Biden, the walking punchline generator. Seriously, we haven't had a Veep this good for the joke-writing business since the Bush Sr. administration, and yet most big-name comedians seem content to leave this vein of comedy gold unmined. Wonder why that is?
- Ohio has been putting up oral history from survivors of the Great Depression. Given current events, it might be worth taking notes. (H/T to Commander Zero.)
- Via Sitemeter, somebody apparently came here from a sigline link in an eleven-year-old caliber war, back when I had a favorite caliber and righteously defended its honor in vigorous arguments on the internet. Man, I was such a dork.
- "I go in tonight to see how I did on my Homeland Security test in grad school. I'm not enthusiastic. Then again, I'm not really enthusiastic about the state of our nation's homeland security, either." -MattG
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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In Re Caliber Wars: thanks, my S&W 610 needed those suggestions!
I'm a 7-millimeter crank, m'self, when it comes to rifles. That does seem to be a "sweet spot" for smokeless powder ballistics.
6.5mm here. Just a smidge better than 7mm IMHO.
Gosh, I reread your comments from long ago, and you seem to be spot on then.
I have given the same advice to someone looking for a pistol for dual usage (hunting/home defense).
I wish Ruger came out with 10mm carbines rather like the old .44 magnum carbines they used to carry. If I was the dictator of a small banana republic, I would seek to furnish my carabineri with 10mm carbines and pistols, and use .50 BMG for vehicles and my small fleet of propellor aircraft.
Joe Biden.. What a maroon!
The Depression stories are awesome. Being a fat guy, I mainly read the stories about food and it hit me how many of them included living on a small farm and growing their own food. It struck me, if we do see another depression of simular proportion, the small farm thing is out. Very few people live on small working farms in comparison to back then.
Out of curiosity, I went and
read your "caliber war" comments. I was half expecting you to be advocating the .41AE! Instead they struck me as decent advice (even today, somewhat given the aims of the OP). They didn't come across to me as being fanatical at all. Granted, I've always had a soft spot for the 10mm round and hope to add one to the arsinal if/when I ever find just the right one (and by some strange coincidence have money to spend).
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Back in the day we could say something stupid and it would just vanish into nothingness once the echo faded. These days every half mad comment I make on the net will just sit there waiting to be discovered and mocked as primitive superstition by some archeologist a thousand years in the future.
Kevin - me too! (specifically 6.5x55, aka 6.5 swede, I like long flat trajectories).
Of course part of that is that it was the first centerfire rifle cartridge I ever shot, and put 5 rounds in a 2" group at 218 yards, from prone, with no additional stabilizers(elbow on ground). I could cover 3 of the holes with a single target patch.
When Trump announced he wasn't running, I had a flash of Leno and Letterman crying on each others' shoulders at the loss of all that material. Politics would be so much funnier if it wasn't so sad.
You may have been a dork all those years ago, but I couldn't tell from that thread.
OTOH, you did write 15,858 other posts (on just that forum) ...
Damn.
The Joe Biden Joke doing the rounds on Mobile Phones over here in the UK is "Last week,when Joe Biden heard that the lead Monkee had died, he ran down the hall of the White House yelling " I'm the Fucking President!"
We can only imagine his disapoinment...........
At least you stood up for what you believed!!! :-)
Very few people live on small working farms in comparison to back then.
Well, if things go really south, they will be...
Larry Correia on Joe Biden: "You're like assassination insurance."
Pure genius.
gvi
"Seriously, we haven't had a Veep this good for the joke-writing business since the Bush Sr. administration, and yet most big-name comedians seem content to leave this vein of comedy gold unmined. Wonder why that is?"
I'll tell you why: We have not had such a powerful fascist in the oval office since the Wilson Administration..... the press/MSM is either in the tank for him, or scared of him, or both. We have been running the .gov on continuing resolotions since the came in office..... did the dotguv shut down because they ran out of money? The Consttuition means nothing to this guy and his minions: If you can tell a Catholic Hospital that they must provide abortions to their employees, pay for them and like it, then there are no limits, are there, really?
I'm just waiting for him to ask how many Divisions the Pope has.....
Noah D,
That's just it. Those farms don't exist anymore. The land they were on is now either suburb or farm ground owned by the one of the big corporate farms, and you know they aren't giving it (or selling it) back.
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Just wait until the People's Land Redistribution Act of 2021, comra... er, citizen.
How do you translate "Holodomor" into English again?
Turns out that I got a 92. It was a take-home test that he'd given to us two weeks before, and I started working on it just after midnight, the morning that it was to be turned in. My wife is furious at me for getting an A on something that I put so little effort into (It's 40% of my semester grade.). "You'll never learn if you don't get stomped with a D or something when you do that! Instead, you get rewarded for procrastinating!" she fumed. "How do you do that?!?" (It was a 12 page paper, plus a page of works cited.)
"I did it because this is the crap that I've been thinking about for over ten years," I answered. This is what I do."
And by that, I mean that I evaluate the state of our Homeland Security from a street-level bureaucrat's perspective, and from a graduate student's perspective.
And I play with kids in sandboxes like this one.
"Just wait until the People's Land Redistribution Act of 2021, comra... er, citizen."
Tam, You know as well as I do that the Redistribution Act of 2021 will NOT be used to create small farms so that people could feed themselves. It will move the few remaining self sufficient people living outside the citys into the citys to make room for more farmground to be utilized by the Farming Committee.
Self sufficiency is anathema to the types of people that write such things because it precludes reliance upon government to fulfill basic needs.
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