JoeWeber

No one is blaming you. You harshed Olof for being flippant about your experience. You also wished you had a gun while you were showering which is ridiculous. If it was just a random attack from someone who you had zero connection to then, like me, you probably don't need a gun when you are in the shower.

No, that is not wherein lies the problem unless you think that MAC-10's in the hands of anyone who wants one, or more, is a benefit to an evolving society.

Relax. What I mean is that it seems fantasy to wish you had a gun in your shower. Did you know the man?

You mean Dunsmuir, I know it well. We all had deer rifles and gun racks in our trucks. The woods are the woods, just how it is. But guns in the school bus? That just gets a Hmmm.. from me. You win, I'm gone.

Old stomping grounds those. I flipped and rolled a cherry '53 Chevy coming down the mountain out of Bridgeville after scouting deer. Traded it for a bag of weed to the property owner and caught a ride on the top of a firewood truck back into Fields Landing. I spent years in the area: Eureka, Blue River, Manila, Arcata etc. Guns were never a part of life there and I tasted a lot of life there.

Jesus Christ, man, I went to high school in San Jose and lived in East San Jose after I went on my own in the 11th grade. I had my own wheels, because of my business, but I never heard of guns on the bus from anyone. Where did you live?

While I can not imagine where we are in agreement on probably every other matter, I do respect that your self is inside of what you post and that what you post is what you believe. On that note, is there anyway we can buy up all copies of your soon to be published self help book so as to actually save the world from further chaos?

Sweet! Are you like in MS-13 or some other Pro 2nd Amendment Organization? What I'm wondering is what if he didn't buy it legally but got it from someone who stole it from someone like you? Or maybe it came from someone who died and his heirs couldn't pass up selling it to anyone for a few hundred bucks? The thing is I think the "I did it the right way argument" is bunk. I think having a MAC-10 in your possession, if that's the gun, should be a felony. I think they should all be turned in or confiscated and then destroyed. I think that until we, as a society, insist that those types of people murdering guns are considered to be the real problem we will never get close to fixing the problem.

Don't start quoting literature.

I say no. Think about the jump before jumping, think while you're making the jump, think about the jump after the jump, and think about it some more while packing. Get the most from every hop. If money is no object get good coaching before a second rig.

That's an interesting point of view. Were the circumstances unique or predictable?

That's not all that's common knowledge here. No matter, the good news is that Germany is saying Poland sending German made Leopard 2's to Ukraine won't be a problem. Now maybe we facilitate that somehow.

Sure, but viscosity is a factor. SVO as a fuel in cold environments needs to be managed,

Now that the professor has schooled you, it was. But the truth is you were intentionally slamming bio fuels. We aren't your acolytes, don't be so boring.

No you weren't, you were gathering nut fragments to put back in the shell.

Why, Brent? Are you that much of a player for the petrochemical industry that you are unable to help advance a simple conversation? Lippy's chunky joke was an actual joke. You're just exposing yourself, again. Bio-Diesel has huge failings, Solar has issues, Wind has it's own problems, but also, no one who paid for his trip expected Columbus to return. We advance prospectively, that's how it works. From climbing down into a savannah crowded with predators, to hazarding across a tenuous land bridge, to recognizing that collaboration is a better strategy than going it alone, to being able to measure with precision the molecules in our atmosphere, those are the bread crumbs that lead us to where we are today. Constantly you point out todays reality as seen through your lens. But there is no today. Every today is already part way to being a yesterday. What you want matters not, just the way it is.

And faster than a quantum leap. You don't enjoy intermix?

I may need to update my view on the logistical difficulties involved if the US sends Abrams tanks to Ukraine. General Barry R. McCaffrey, is of the opinion that UKR troops could be fighting with Abrams tanks in 30 days. He apparently believes they could run on diesel, not Jet-A, without significant degradation. He points out on Twitter: "Astonishing nonsense about refusal to provide M1A1/A2 MBT's to Ukraine. The Egyptians have 1100. The Saudis have 450. The Moroccans have 380. Its a multi-fuel engine of enormous speed and reliability. Incredible lethality. An experienced UKR tank crew could fight in 30 days." Inarguably, he should know. Unless there is better information we need to call Germany's bluff and send our Tanks now.

Sure he would. Conservatism is a locked in view like religion. He'll never see, really, the fallacies.

What is making this forum uninteresting is the lack of personality in the posts of too many here. Too many follow the format of: I R 1 Y R U 1? Too many have no other thing to say other than what someone else said is in error or to pick out a pointless point as an example. We have experts in dissection, we have Huffington Post caliber news aggregators, we have quick Googlers, we have world class pedants, etc. but we are short of people who are more interested in exposing themselves than their correspondents; we are short of people who put themselves inside their posts. To put it plainly, too many who post here are dry, humorless, and give next to no insight into themselves outside of the impression that being repetitive or petty is a key conversational virtue. Of course, that is the definition of boring. Hence our current attrition rate. What to do? Well, I have my ideas but it's not my site and, as any fool can say, I am not Mod material. So maybe we can all take a look at ourselves before our next post and ask if how we are making our point is helping or hurting in the long term.

You're right, I doubt I'm first to mention, but if we've learned anything it's that our fraternal myth adherents are unable to see past their brainwashing. Ironically, Coreece was right when he observed that a hiatus from here reveals the invariableness of here. Sad but true.

This is the problem in a nutshell: conservative apologists live in a nutshell. This message brought to you from the Peoples Republic of Joe

Better take that back before Jakee reads it.

In '89 I was practicing Leg Locks (Venezuelan Connection Day's) with a buddy. No AAD, no Dirt Alerts, no operating synapses, we saddled out just short of 500'. That was world class dumb.

Geez Joe everyone knows the impediment to sending the Abrams is logistics. The company of Challengers recently committed will also have issues but at least the fuel is the same. Leopard 2's are in wide supply, modern, parts and ammo are around, they burn diesel, and training and repair facilities are across the border. They can be supplied by the hundred. Poland seems ready to do it without permission. Maybe we should just give them a couple hundred Abrams in trade and get the show on the road.