JamesSavik

The problem I have with the current administration and gun control is their opportunism (never let a tragedy/crisis go to waste) and their strategy of incrementalism We saw this opportunism during the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. It ended up being a multi-billion dollar shake down where local democratic constituencies were rewarded and others were punished. I fully expect the Newtown tragedy to be milked for all that it's worth. It's already in motion and it is pretty disgusting. Second- the left, when they are trying to sell something that nobody wants, try to sell it in increments. OK. We allow a little gun control this year. A little more next year and a little more the year after. It all sounds reasonable but before you know it, all you can get are pellet guns and yet you can be sure that their black-clad storm-troopers will have the best of everything. The second amendment is NOT about hunting. It's NOT about sporting rifles vs mean old black guns of the same caliber that look scary. It is about yet another check and balance: the balance between the people and the federal goverenment. When the constitution was written, the state of the art infantry weapon was the musket. The framers wanted the people to have the same firepower as the soldier because they had just fought a long, bloody war and their enemies first move was to confiscate and destroy all of the weapons that they could find. The intention was to keep politicians honest and they don't like it. That is why as they steal our future, thy hide behind bullet proof glass and the Secret Service. Their are democrat power-brokers that want a total ban. They have said so. They live in mansions and have private security- with guns. Nancy Pelosi is one of the hypocrites. She wants a country where only the rich can afford security. Not quite a person of the people that her publicist would have you believe. If the Feds are serious about gun violence, they should get their balls out of their purse and go after the most problematic groups: gangs and insane people. When you look at the real statistics, the mass shootings are relatively rare. Most gun crimes are drug related and involve ex-cons. Trying to ban or restrict honest, law abiding people access to weapons is an act of abject cowardice. The place to start is keeping guns out of the hands of felons- which do have them, and people that are mentally ill. They are afraid to go after the real problem because they might be called racist or mean. Besides- it's easy to get law-abiding people to comply with the law. Taking on the gangs might be hard work. The big difference between democrats and republicans: republicans kick our enemies ass. Democrats kick our ass.

As long as still make Levis and Polo, I ain't switching.

I have learned that there is a significant difference in culture between the cities and the country. In the country, we are raised around guns. We grow up hunting. A great many of us are veterans. Guns aren't an object of fear. They are simply another tool. Locally there are two serious nuisance pests: wild hogs (wildpiginfo.msstate.edu) and nutria rat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coypu). Wild hogs are dangerous and cause huge amounts of crop damage and kill and eat everything in the woods. Nutria rats are serious pests that aren't native to our local ecosystem. They cause a great deal of damage in our sensitive wetlands. Wild pigs are no joke. They grow tusks and are quite aggressive in the wild. The haven't killed many people lately- we know to look out for them. They "cut" people and kill domestic animals all the time. Their meat is no good because they pick up deadly parasites in the wild. I've got a wicked scar from a wild pig I might show you sometime. Neither of these rather serious pests have natural predators. It takes a powerful rifle round to kill them. The much vilified AR-15 rifle and its little brother, the Mini-14 are the rifle of choice to kill these beasts. I've fired both. I want to introduce you to some family history: I grew up with this on the mantle. It is a Pennsylvania long rifle that is revolutionary war era. In the late 1700s, one of my ancestors carried one from New York to my state when it was only a territory. It fought in the War of 1812 at the Battle of New Orleans. It is a treasure and it belongs to MY family. It was appraised at being worth $120,000 but it will stay in the family. It sits on my older brother's mantle now. The Second is a Winchester 1894. It belonged to my great grandfather. It fed the family through hard winters and bad economy. The last is a M1 Garand carried by my father in Korea. With it, he won a Silver Star and two Bronze Stars (in addition to two more Bronze Stars he won in WWII). This isn't just my heritage. This is my family, our culture, history and where we came from. I am completely unwilling to give it up because there are gang-bangers and crazy people and the country is too squeamish to deal with the people that are the real problem.

I agree. Many "super"-heroes are written with abilities so powerful that it's pretty ridiculous. Superman and the X-men characters can get pretty... out there. Batman and the Punisher are exceptions here. Both are completely human. Batman has his toys and the Punisher has his training as a soldier.

Some people say paranoia, others say awareness. They are out to get us you know.

I'm there with you pal. My insomnia is worse now than it has been in years.

Ever wonder what happened to the Punisher after Tampa?

Rorschach was awesome in the Watchmen.

And that just common sense- deal with the problems that are predictable. Some of the "preppers" are preparing for highly unlikely events. That's paranoid and border-line goofy. There enough REAL dangers anywhere that you live that you should prepare for to worry about zombies and alien invasion.

So you're a Capricorn. That explains a lot. Happy birthday Matt!

Never cared much for our local gay bars. When I was interested in them, there were three in the area. #1. One was a dive that played shitty music and the older regulars leered at anyone under forty with hair. #2. Was a very scary leather place with hairy guys showing entirely too much skin. Chaps are for cowboys. Bare ass? Yeah- grizzly bear ass. Yikes. #3. Was a prissy little place where all the queen-lings went and laughed at people that weren't wearing Italian shoes. Typical conversation: Ewwww... don't talk to me. Yeah, well f*ck you too Princess. Went to a gay club in another city but was denied entry. To get in, someone had to vouch for you and you had to join "the club". You would get a membership card. They did it that way because str8 people would come in and cause trouble and the status as a private club kept the police out. Anyone that they didn't think the bouncer could handle they turned away. Haven't been to one in years. I'd much rather do anything else like wrassel alligators or French kiss water moccasins.

Aramus Depot Irulan 350 System The Aramus Depot orbited the third planet of the Irulan 350 star system. Like so many Alliance military facilities, it was an abandoned commercial concern. The big space station was originally a refinery and trans-shipment point for the minerals mined in this and the surrounding systems. When the mines were no longer commercially viable, the company had abandoned it. The Alliance Fleet took over the station when the war broke out. Now it was the graveyard of hundreds of obsolete ships that had been replaced by the new construction. Lt. Com. Nick Pace, senior officer of the facility, had a mixed staff of thirty fleet personnel and civilian contractors. Their job was to maintain the ships but they were hopelessly outmanned in that department. There were over a hundred obsolete destroyers alone. Many of the ships had sustained significant battle damage before they were decommissioned. Their real job was to make sure that those ships didn’t end up in the wrong hands. That was accomplished by removing the ships core security key. When ships were consigned to the depot, it was the first thing removed and stored in a safe deep inside the space station. Each Alliance naval vessel had to have a core security key. They looked innocent enough: they were 10 centimeter long stainless steel rectangle with a special interface connector on one end. Each was engraved with the hull number of the ship that it was associated with. The core key was actually a very sophisticated device that had to be in place before an Alliance ships computer core would boot. It had a considerable amount of static memory inside that contained the ships primary access and transponder codes and root encryption keys to Alliance codes. Once installed, it could not be removed until the computer core was completely shut down. Their construction was a closely guarded secret so they would be very difficult to counterfeit even if you could get hold of one. Commander Pace was inspecting an old light cruiser that had just been added to their tattered collection. The St. Louis had served with distinction through the first few years of the war. She had taken an enemy missile escorting a convoy to Epsilon Ceti and been sent core-ward or repairs. Instead of repairing her, she had been retired. The damage was extensive but it wasn’t the worst that he had seen. Much of the port side from frame 30 to the bow was gutted but it wasn’t anything that a couple of months in the yard couldn’t fix. He was entering her salvage potential in his computer pad when his comm link buzzed. “This is Pace.” Ensign Ortez voice came through his headset: “Commander, we just got a priority message from the Marine Annex on Parliament.” A priority communication to the boneyard? “Send it to my Pad.” The message scrolled across the screen: TO: Lt. Com. Pace, Aramus Depot FROM: Brigadier General Geiger, Marine Training Command RE: MAV Corregidor Prepare the Marine Assault Vessel Corregidor for reactivation as a cadet ship. We need her ready for pick up within the week to take advantage of dockyard scheduling. Your resupply ship will be carrying an officer and skeleton crew to transport her to the Griffin Shipyards in the Ostland system for refit. MarTranComm Ends Pace knew that this was time sensitive. The shipyards were at maximum capacity and any yard time was at a premium. He said, “Alert the team. We need to fuel and prep the Corregidor for pickup by the time our resupply arrives.” Well, at least we get to do something useful for a change.

If you think Batman is messed up, you must think the Punisher is a real loon.

I am the Punisher.

Do you want the honest answer or the politically correct one? I'll go with honest. Mississippi has huge numbers of poor- black and white. In other places when the economy has a downturn, it's inconvenient. In Mississippi, people starve. The jobs are a joke. They don't pay enough to cover the gas to get there. On top of that, we're getting flooded with illegals that will work hip deep in shit all day for less than minimum wage. Our gov't isn't a republic. It isn't a democracy. It's feudalism any way you cut it. When Katrina scoured the southern part of our state, we didn't get a fucking concert. We didn't even get mentioned in the news. We were told by people Oh, we just though it was New Orleans. Katrina was a slow cat 3. It took the damn thing 36 hours to pass. It re-wrote the MAP. Our whole Gulf Coast was GONE. We have thunderstorms worse than Sandy and the whining is getting on our nerves.

Anybody want a Hammerhead preview?

Christi screwed himself and the GOP when he kissed O'bumble's ring on the eve of the election. Don't expect the elephants to forget anytime soon.

I look forward to the day when the sexuality of a player or a kiss is NOT news.

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MW- What make it "news" is the contrast between the perceived stereotype and reality. To many people, the stereotypical gay male is small, effeminate and not very physical. This is completely at odds with the stereotypical football player. It is both a wake up call to reality and a personification of the fact that that the stereotype is invalid. As gay people we know that we are a diverse bunch: athletic, couch potato, short, tall, big, small, and every variation in between. To some people who have swallowed stereotypes whole, this comes as a big surprise.

trucks- Toyota clothes- Levis and Polo Drinks- Coke Camera- Canon Stores- Amazon Accessories- Maxpeditions Bikes- Trek various stuff- Swissgear (Wenger)

Be glad that you were born when you were. It hasn't always been that way. In some places in the past, I don't care if you had Lawrence Taylor or Ray Lewis' talent, if you were gay, you didn't play. In fact when I played in the seventies, a lot of people told me that it was a stupid idea to play sports.

United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Offutt Air Force Base Omaha, Nebraska General Jacobs looked at the displays programmed for feeds from Vandenberg Air Force Base, NASA Mission Control in Houston and the NASA Deep Space Network at the Jet Propulsion Lab at Pasadena, California. The machine was in motion. While there have been a number of studies, no one had ever tried to shoot down a satellite in geosynchronous orbit before. Flying at an altitude of 22,236 miles and

OK- I finish Operation Hammerhead this year. Start my new project about which all I will say is fantasy setting.