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Which tends to result in mourning doves.

Your using that word for something besides a muscle car transmission says a whole lot more about you than about whatever you're writing about. Do you use "bitches" for "women" in private? How about "queer," "faggot," "spic," "kike," and the best one of all (the n-word)? Or is "trannies" OK because it's still OK to hate them? Wendy P.

And they are finally - FINALLY! - seen as powerful, and they get the respect they feel they are owed from their lessers.

In February of last year I became a father fornthe first time, so I haven't had much time for Mr. Cooper

I also had a West Berlin experience back in 1988 but not as noteworthy as yours. While stationed with the US Army in West Germany, I jumped twice into the 1936 Olympic Stadium with the British Army of the Rhine Parachute Team in celebration of the British/American/French Armed Forces Day in West Berlin. Prior to being stationed in Germany I was on the 82nd Airborne Team. To this day, I have no idea how the Brits found me and invited me to participate. The view from above was spectacular and sad at the same time. Two years later when I was a civilian living in Germany, the Wall came down and thousands of refugees poured into West Germany. It was a great time to be alive!!

What were you going to spend it on? Healthcare?

If the climate change advocates are wrong; nothing happens. If the climate change skeptics are wrong . . .

Also the changes to gun laws in UK after the Dunblane mass shooting, and in Australia after the Port Arthur mass shooting. It can be done. All it takes is some backbone by the politicians.

I love it when people try to tell Kallend how his job works. It always ends well for them

Hi folks, Looks like they are going to have to increase those enlistment bonuses: Head of Russian private army Wagner says more than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle | AP News Join now & spend a lifetime in uniform. It's the length of that 'lifetime; that is problematic. Jerry Baumchen

Your argument appears to be that man made climate change doesn't exist because people don't want to pay for it and that trans people are bad cause Bud Light sales are down. The logic is so faulty that there really isn't anything of substance to discuss.

Bingo. There are countries I've traveled where if it creeps, crawls, swims, or flys it goes in the pot regardless of it's age or the time of years. America isn't one of those countries, last I checked. On the other hand, we are a country where we've learned that folks with indifference to animal life need to be closely watched.

That is an on-going controversy with Canadian gun laws. We have a a huge split between city slickers and natives who live off the land. Few Canadian city slickers have any need to own a gun beyond plinking at the range. OTOH many natives have always been poor and they live beyond range of a grocery store, so depend upon hunting and fishing to feed their families. Natives tend to not waste ammo since it is expensive. The latest version of Bill C.21 (currently under review by the Senate) proposes prohibiting a variety of military rifles. I agree that most of those rifles serve little sporting purpose. The prat that I do not understand is their proposal to ban SKS carbines (ballistically equivalent to an AR-15 or AK-47) because those SKs are preferred by native hunters. At less than $500 Canadian, a native hunter can purchase an SKS (7.62 x 39mm Commblock) for half or 1/3 the price of a .303 (equal to NATO 7.62 X 51mm). Natives need to modify (trap door) magazines to limit them to 5 rounds ... to conform to the old version of Canadian laws. ??????????? Remind me to write a letter to my senator(s).

What is being said here is that USPA takes an active role in PROMOTING CP events. Promoting the events is a form of encouraging participation.

Casualties, especially Russian casualties are largely guesswork. Estimates for Russian casualties (dead and wounded) at Bakhmut run from 40k to over 100k. Higher rather than lower seems likely. For the prisoners that Wagner offered amnesty to, upwards of 40k of the 60k sent to Ukraine are dead (just the dead, not counting the wounded). And, on a slightly different note, 2 'independent Russian separatist groups' (Russians fighting for Ukraine) have invaded Russia. They crossed into Belgorod and ran around a bit. The Russian army is all in Ukraine, so all that was opposing the 'invasion' was some border guards. All that was sent as a 'reactionary force' was riot police, who are really good at beating up unarmed protesters, but not so great against actual soldiers. The best part is the statement by Ukraine: This virtually mirrors the statements by Russia back in 2014, when they invaded Ukraine the first time. There was nothing tactically or strategically significant about it. But it sure makes Putler look like a fool. And it might motivate Russia to pull troops from Ukraine back to Russia. That would be strategically significant. The Russians don't have enough troops to defend their lines as it is. Removing any would be bad for them.

There is a small city in Manitoba called Brandon. Farm economy based and pretty conservative. To a point. Recently some reicht wing religious fanatics petitioned the school board to start a censorship committee to review and ban books in the library just like it was in Florida or Alabama. Last night was the meeting where the people rallied and it was shot down 6 to 1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brandon-school-division-books-libraries-1.6852651

Morning, Phil. Not quite sure what you're trying to get to, but the .22 cal air rifle round is actually .177 and does weigh about 10 grain with a 700-900 f.p.s. Conversely, the actual .22 cal round tops at 40 grain, with a 1260 f.p.s. At 25 yards, the air rifle round can go thru a piece of tin. At fifty yards, not so much given the light weight and drop. If it had been a full .22 cal - different story with a max effective range of 150 yards and a significant drop after that. The good news is the child is expected to make a full recovery.

The Gamo break barrel pump air rifles have a very impressive velocity.

Brilliant! They get their own league, so all the normal people get to compete against other normal people, and the freaks get their own league! All the bigots love it, and those trans people should love it too. And if not, well . . . they're trans, who cares? But why stop there? We should have "separate but equal" schools for them. No more worries about who will see your precious little girl in the bathroom! And we fund both of them equally of course. Well, we fund the cis schools of course, and if the trans schools are a little short of funding, no big deal if you know what I mean. They like to change their genders; let them change some dirt into money or something! Hahaha. And we could have separate water fountains so cis people don't get that trans stuff on them. Separate bathrooms of course. We could make a law that says they have to sit in the back of the bus so that regular people aren't inconvenienced by them. And of course have a special section for them in restaurants and whatnot. I am amazed no one thought of this practical, and modest, solution decades ago!

I know, right? The opportunity to own an EV that will cost less and the opportunity to invest that money that one loses on CE.

Yeah, well . . . prolly the same argument the horsemen had about the horseless carriage. Time to move up and on as a society.

I don't understand. Pellet guns are a preferred method of hunting small game.

Or alternatively… not?

But talking about actual records requires you to do actual maths. You've never really been up to it

Many gun loving right wingers dream about survivalist living in a apocalyptic world. Where their AR-15s make them relevant, for once.

ER doctors are trying to get the information and a few images out about the combat injuries the AR platform DOES to small children. There is no reason everyday citizens should have military weapons.

Hi Keith, As I have posted before, you bring more to this discussion than any other poster. THANK YOU, Jerry Baumchen PS) Oh, I agree 100%. Also, doing nothing is not the solution.

If we, as a species, we’re worth half a shit at weighing long-term risks vs short term costs, there would be fewer McDonalds and Lipitor in the world. You’re focusing on the second half of the sentence quoted above: while it may unfortunately be true, it doesn’t negate the first half. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m headed back to my hotel in Ankara to take a shower. I’m a bit nasty from walking through a bunch of flooded streets today. While it’s not unheard of to flood here, apparently it’s happened more this year than anybody can remember. (I wrote that just for you Brent….this time, you can focus on the first half of the sentence and ignore the second). p.s. with only two bookends, it sounds like you have a pretty shite library.

They are issued. Just like in the military. Officers must sign for them. They are accountable not only for their securing the weapons in a proper manner, just like in the military; they are accountable for every discharge. And, if they do not do these things, just like in the military - they can be subject to an Article 15 or court [martial] (civilian style). And, if every one was required to register their guns, ensure they were properly stored, and ammunition were to be signed for by lot number (just like in the military), and the signing party held responsible for their expenditure; then law enforcement would have a much better path to resolving crimes committed with the use of guns. A by-product of this would be people maintaining better control of their weapons and ammunition. Finally, if the police were to come across a weapon that is unregistered for any reason - it gets confiscated and smelted. Over time, the number of unregistered weapons would diminish. If we had started this after Columbine, some 350,000 children's lives would not have been impacted by gunfire and 379 school shootings would have been lessened. A by-product of this would be the ability to take a walk and not fear getting shot. But, of course as long as the other 24 states pass constitutional carry, then everyone can walk around like John Fucking Wayne and carry a gun on their hip - making the world a much safer place. /s

So one red herring. But there is: American Pulverizer Gun Shredder systems utilize our TRS Series Low-Speed High-Torque Shredder Joe, you understand the issues as does BIGUN yet you have never come up with a real meat on the bones solution. For about a hundred billion. or 1/8th the annual cost of the US defense budget. Every gun could be bought up and destroyed. I like guns as much as you do, But there are in fact solutions. What are yours? and no B.S. window dressing around the edges. No 'performance theater.'

The standard around here is.... https://eclecticproducts.com/product/shoe-goo/

We used to manifest him as Greg Reynolds (grim reapor) from the local Perris film at that time to get him on any week day load, but Lou (his mom) the manifester knew it was Ed, she always looked the other way. He was 16 when we first met . I was 6 years his older but we were both kids and boy did we have fun. Boy did we do some crazy shit back then together. Every stupid dumb shit crazy thing you could think of, we did it. To soon my friend.

Not quite the right context, but "as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly,"