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synopsis : COPYRIGHT 1948 by Norman Mailer. Blurbs on the back of the book -"The Best Writer In America" and "The Greatest War Novel Produced In This Century" there is a couple of others. They are not exagerating. Synopsis is "The story of a reconnaissance platoon that lands on Anopopei's unprotected invasion beach. It is the story of a handful of exhausted men who are charged with an impossible and futile mission from which few will return alive..." Trying to take an island that is occupied by the Asians. Basically the invasion and capture of the pacific islands. It is the most realistic book that I have ever read. It covers everything. It doesn't shy away from real life. People shit their pants when the bombs hit., I can't describe it all. You have to read it. llterally. If you don't believe me, just google Norman Malier. This book is fucking magnificent in every detail, like you cannot believe. Everything. It amazed me how a 19 year old could write about personality conflicts between different classes of people and describe them in detail. And make it all flow together so smoothly. Even you naysayers, this shit is on the mark. All the way. All you gung ho GI's, this shit hit's the mark, raises it and blows your mind away. I shit you not. This should be required reading for every kid in high school. It should be required reading for all the armed forces. Of course, Odd Man Out may have a different take on it - LOL! Seriousy, an excellent book. If you have Kindle, download it. Read it.
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Norman Mailer. It's really, really hard to believe that he wrote this book at just 19 years of age. Fucking phenominal. If you haven't read it. Just do yourself a favor and get it and read it. You will not be dissapointed. It's a long read. but well worth it. It is so absolutely fucking good, you just might read a review or two and think - yeah, yeah, whatever - but it is so phenominal. It is breathtaking. I really can't stress it enough. Words cannot convey what a 19 year old was able to accomplish. I still can't fathom how a youngster was able to see on so many levels, from jungle warfare grunts to generals in their command post tents, and explore the feelings and relationships between the higher eschleons to the lowest grunts, and the interaction of the enemy to the U.S. Forces, and wrap it all up in such a superb novel. And it was written so many years ago, yet everything is relevant and fresh. God Damn. it's just one of the finer books that I have ever read. It really is magnificent. I think that it's still in the top 100 novels written in all time. I can't stress or convey how good that it is. Do yourself a favor and read it. It is that good.
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Went to a car show 2 1/2 weeks ago. Not ONE vw there! Only 5 -6 Mopars there. But, get this - A local car dealership named BOSS Motors (in Kansas) had like 15 302 BOSS Mustangs from the late sixties, early seventies - ALL in pristine showroom condition, no to low miles. I'm not a big Mustang fan, but it was just effing AWESOME! All colors, all styles, factory fresh. WoW! A beautiful sight to behold. Your VW Bus is very cool!
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I can verify, that if you soak anything aluminum that is anodized in PB Blaster, it WILL eat off the finish and destroy it.
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And you may be greeted with an additional tax to help support the highway infrastructure. LOL LMAO this is funny and stupid at the same time. People try to be green and buy a car that is subsidised with YOUR tax dollars to the tune of $10,000 or more, and then they potentially could be taxed higher, because they don't use enough gas to pay their fair share of highway taxes! lol. I would post the link, but my posting skills apparently suck. You can read the story on fox News. LOLOLOL. You could not make this shit up! I love it! lol. LET THE MARKET DECIDE! We don't need government mandatinf shit that no one wants, and no one will pay for unless it is discounted through taxpayer monies. FUCK "Green" until it can support itself. That goes for ethanol, also.
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News said today that the shooter was upset because his parents divorced. They didn't mention the other person taken into custody.
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One S-12 has a Bulgarian wire folder with a grenade launcher butt pad. One S-12 has a Romanian wire folder with a grenade launcher butt pad. I absolutely love them, and they reduce felt recoil. It's like shooting my AR-15 with them on the S-12. One S-12 has a DPH folder with a limbsaver butt pad. it is too long. I don't like the cheesy mounting system, with the cheap machine screws and it is a biotch to fold and unfold. I like the DPH folder by itself, it just needs a better mounting point. The wire folders both have a simple thumb lever. I love, love, love both wire folders, and you don't have to cut the tang.
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You guys are very lucky. I wish that I had a store, any store that carried anything. Wal Mart is 45 miles away. Always empty. Always. Orschlens is here in town or the 45 miles away. Always empty. Their entire ammo (both stores) is on 3 shelves about 14" wide. Empty. I don't think either Wal Mart or Orschlens ever get any ammo in. Also the Wal Mart in Marysville Kansas. Empty. Nothing around here at all. Ever. Shelves have been empty for over 2 years now. I guess it's buy online time.
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Wow, why so many FTF or FTE? Otherwise, looks like fun was had by all!
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According to the Fox article, the program is called PRISM, and is only good for 3 months. After that, is extended for another 3 months, over and over. According to the Fox article, this was started under the obama administration. Verizon would not confirm, but felt that they had to acknowledge. Another tumor on the cancer that is obama has just popped up. Over and over it goes.
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Ha ha, I'll I had to go on at the time was his books. I didn't have internet in the mid-80s and I did not refute it. I never even gave it a second thought until I read this thread. Didn't mean to stir up shit? Don't know what Rhodes1968 is refering to. It's all good.
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OK. Mancat brings up a good point. i want to purchase a water filtration system for my home. I am looking at the charcoal, uv, osmosis ones.WILL they cancel out cyanide?
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According to Duncan Long, who wrote several books on the AR-15, in the mid 80s, the .22 caliber bullet (NOT just ar or m16 stuff, but also including them) is the most lethal round the world has ever known. he claims it has killed more people than any other popular caliber. I would almost bet he is right. That was 80s speculation, though. I still bet he is right.
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Good looking rifle! Nice score!
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Only if they scrub it out and put it back the way it was. There's no point is separating if you're going to keep it screwed up like much of the rest of the country already is. It's about a lot more than gun rights. Having rights protected in a sewer is useless, it's still not worth living in.
If you want that kind of action, you can't sit around on your ass and wish and hope that it will happen. You have to get off your ass and organize. What? Are you waiting for obama to do something for you? Good luck with that. Worthwhile shit takes worthwhile action. It will never ever ever be "the way it was" deal with it. Get organized and make it into the "way you want it to be". YOU can make a difference.
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Louisiana would be my second choice, but they are crazy bastards! ( again, in a good way ) Had a really good buddy from LA. Craziest son of a bitch you would ever want to meet. But he was good people. He was coon ass crazy. Weird thing, I actually got to talking to a RR dispatcher a few years back when I moved up north, when we had to call in to them, and the girl called herself.a coon ass, and it turned out that we had went to many of the same nightspots in Houston back in the day! She was from Louisiana. Small world. Nothing in the world like going 60 miles an hour downtown Houston sidewalks at lunch/rush hour in a 60's Chebbie pickup with a 454! I thought for sure we were going to jail or going to kill someone! LOL. Crazy damn bastard Coon Asses!! lol.
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I moved there, and lived there about 12 years. Originally from Nebraska. Sometimes (most times) I wish I'd never had left. Bastards (in a GOOD way) can be arrogant, pushy and condescending, but they won't lie to you, and stand up for their rights and are very outspoken. Not wishy washy at all. Yes, I would move back. (they hate yankees coming down there and taking their jobs and women - who could blame them?) (yankees are any one north of Dallas) They say what they mean, and mean what they say. They are good people. Your handshake is worth more than a piece of paper.
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Lock up your daughter, Lock up your wife. Lock up your backdoor and run for your life. I've got a big burn pit on my property. So I would have probably shot them and dragged them there. Glad everything turned out ok for you. But they will probably be back. All they have to do is watch and see when you leave. They know what you have now. They know the layout. And they are pissed because you caught them. Ain't nothin' gonna stop them. You should have killed them and planted knives in there hands and claimed - a feered' fer my life. I have no qualms about killing a person anymore. None at all. Esp. if they are in my house. YMMV. I fucking hate people anymore.The more people I know, the more i love my doggies.
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Maybe the PO uses micro dots in their stampings? Look it up. It has been in use for a long time.
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Hello! My name is Hubert Pumpernickle III, Sr. the third. I am 34 or so. I am a retired grapes extraction specialistsed. I hasd a bad back injury, but now that I haves my free obama phone and free heath care am felling much better thanks you too. Thanks you Lordy we have kiled a the AllKida, and the worlds is so much safery now. I gots to go. Thats als I gots.
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One question about a DD. I have a USAS-12. it was classified as a DD. I was grandfathered, since I bought it before the ban. Did it expire when the AWB expired, or is it forever a DD?
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the old - you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink applies here. Yeah, you love the guy like a brother, you can talk, reason, explain until you are blue in the face. In the end, it's a decision that they personaly have to make to get help. They have to be pretty far down the shit hole to steal from a friend. If he has sunk that far, he is pretty close to rock bottom. Don't hate on him too much. But don't ever trust him again. keep offering him help. He probably needs you now more than ever. He just doesn't know it yet. realize that some can't be saved. don't turn your back, keep an arm extended. But don't trust him, You don't have to invite him over, but let him know that you are there for him. And lock up all your shit or move it. Because he knows where it is at. EDIT: Well, after reading the above, it seems I gave bad advice.
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I'm glad to hear there were others with a one pump limit!!
That's a crack up. We used to have a one pump limit as well. Every once in a while you had that "long shot" that required two or three though, haha. We used to chamber a bb then hold it off the magnet with your finger nail, then chamber another and another till you had five or six then blast away with our "shotgun". Of course that required more than one pump. A friend was hiding behind hunk of plywood and I could see him through a knot hole. Took me a couple shots but I hit him in the nose through the knot hole with a pellet which were against the rules BTW. Cut him pretty good actually. He went bleeding to his mommy and we all got bitched at.
We thought about eye protection after that. We just made a rule not to shoot each other in the face, haha...
Parenting has a lot of pitfalls anymore. I've had child protective services to my home more than once in my child raising career. Both for bull shit. Here's an example... My oldest was being chased around the kitchen by my half brother. My son slipped and fell then hit his face on the counter and got a black eye. He was questioned about this at school and said his uncle was chasing him and he fell. This was true but his uncle was only like thirteen. So I got a visit from CPS since the school wanted them to investigate this terrible, scary, uncle. I can't remember the other, but it was equally as stupid. I do know that that was stressful for my wife and I no matter what. So in some ways I understand why people go the pussy route with their kids as stories like this scare the hell outta them. I never felt the need to use an object on my boys. Being 6'6" 240lbs, I could lay a pretty good ass whoopin with my open bare hand.
While I whole heartedly agree that we are raising pussies. All these fag nanny shows with the time out crap doesn't help any. There is a time and place for time out to let them sit and reflect. I believe the punishment should fit the crime. BUT! There's no replacement for a little bit of... lets call it respect that especially boys get from a nicely warmed ass.
I remember getting my mouth washed out with soap. Whatever I said, I'm quite certain I at least didn't get caught saying it again. That would probably land a parent in jail these days.
The last few years I've lived here, my boys have grown up with the kids in the couple houses around me. If the boys fuck up, any one of the parents may be out there chewing ass or making them do some kind of well deserved manual labor and none of us would even think about questioning the other parents in this village. I love that.
While I think I've done a decent job raising my boys who know right from wrong and are generally pretty damn good kids. I still fear this generation is pretty well fucked. But I'm sure our parents thought we were fucked too so ya just never know.
WoW! I almost forgot about being made to eat soap after I cussed! lol. I had to eat and chew and swallow a bar of soap! lol. My mom told me of one time her dad (my gramps) caught her smoking, and put a bucket upside down on her head and made her smoke several cigarettes. She quit for quite awhile, lol. Crazy stuff.
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Remember when Trijicon got in trouble and the optics were banned because Trijicon included bible verses on their scopes? Look up "Jesus Rifles" We can't be kiling Muslims with bible verses on our guns, because THAT would give us an advantage. So claimed the Muslims, and we caved in on it. This stuff is nothing new. Maybe we need a gun that includes BOTH pig fat AND Bible verses? LOL. I bet that would give obama an anyuerism.