07:55 – All we can do now is wait for the FBI to determine who committed this outrage. If there’s one thing the FBI is good at, it’s accumulating and sorting through huge amounts of data, which is what they’re doing right now. FBI analysts are going through thousands of business surveillance and cell-phone videos and photographs frame by frame, looking for images of the person or people who placed the bombs. Eventually, they’ll have recognizable images of the perpetrator or perpetrators, and at that point things will begin to unravel quickly for the terrorist or terrorists. Someone will recognize and identify one or more of the people in the images, and a massive manhunt will be underway. Let’s hope the criminals aren’t taken alive.
Meanwhile, for most of us, life goes on. UPS showed up yesterday with the 2,000 beakers I was waiting for, along with some other stuff I had on backorder. Over the next few days, I’ll be doing final assembly on a few dozen more science kits. I’ll also be checking out Barbara’s sister’s desktop Linux box, which needs to be repaired or replaced. Fortunately, Frances does most of her computing on her pad and her husband uses a notebook, so they’re not in a big rush to get this system back. I can take my time and get it right.
“Let’s hope the criminals aren’t taken alive.”
We want them alive so as to sweat them real good for more intel. And I don’t mean torture, either. More carrot than stick gets the good stuff. Unless it is determined that there are other devices somewhere about to go off, then a different approach is called for.
Life goes on here, too; pesky network issues with new RHEL cluster build; and complex PITA fiber optic cabling needed for storage array. PHB manglers way downstate in Megalopolis (Vampire State) have no clue what it’s like at this level and expect shit to work outta the box instantly and on-schedule. If not, it must be incompetence, laziness and probable criminal malfeasance on our paht.
56 and might hit 70 by Friday; folks will be nekkid all over the place up here.
Nah, I don’t want their stinking intel. I want them dead, pour dissuader les autres. I want them gut-shot and left to die slowly. Then, I want the bodies to be beheaded, and I want those rotting heads on pikes along the route of the 2014 Boston Marathon.
If they’re taken alive the legal battles will go on endlessly, and they’ll just get life without parole. Three squares a day at your expense Dave.
Noted. They may not have much of any useful intel anyway; could just be a local shit-head group, maybe even only one or two asswipes involved; the “higher ed” “communities” in and around Beantown no doubt have a pulsing virus infection of like-minded hadji fucktards and their supporters, some of them with doctorates.
The cadavers should then be soaked good with toxic stuff and fed to the outta-control feral hog populations in TX or wherever that is a problem and televised globally. We can take however many heads and affix them to pikes all along the Marathon route, which runs from Hopkinton, MA (where OFD stood at the starting line in his cop disguise in 1977 for roughly 6k runners then) along Route 135 (past Wellesley College (alma mater of HILLARY!, Heroine of Tripoli and Benghazi) and on to the finish line in downtown Boston.
If it is discovered, for example, that these subhuman scum were educated and/or trained at some kind of madrassah or camp in some other country, those sites should then be wiped out totally and their financiers and enablers likewise gut-shot, beheaded and put on display. That would most emphatically include the Saudi princes and their minions.
I disagree. I’ll take their stinking intel. Then lock them up in a maximum security prison for the rest of their lives.
There is a surprisingly high percentage of prison inmates who think just like we do about people who blow up eight year old girls. They are also much less squeamish about acting on their thoughts than we are.
Well, I have no problem with your solution, on one condition. When they lock them up for life, they weld the door shut and don’t give them any food or water. They can check back every week or so to see if they’re dead yet.
“They can check back every year or so to see if they’re dead yet.”
Fixed that for ya!
We want them alive so as to sweat them real good for more intel. And I don’t mean torture, either. More carrot than stick gets the good stuff. Unless it is determined that there are other devices somewhere about to go off, then a different approach is called for.
I am thinking about buying this tshirt:
http://thoseshirts.com/wtr.html
We now have a new Toshiba laptop with Windows 8 x64 on it. It was an emergency purchase at Best Buy to replace a stolen laptop. It is a 17″ widescreen and was only $465. Amazing.
If you want a start button for your windows 8:
http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
Windows 8.1 appears to have a start button again:
http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2013/04/hello-old-friend-will-the-start-button-return-in-windows-8-1/
I’ve played with Win 8 and could find nothing compelling and a lot annoying. For a touch screen it might be okay. For desktops and laptops there’s no there there.
dkreck, I know a guy with Win8 on a regular computer and on a tablet. He really really likes Win8 on the tablet now that he’s figured out how to use it the way it’s supposed to be used. Less so on the desktop, but he deals with it for compatibility’s sake.
I had one elderly neighbor ask where the games were. (yes some people like MS solitaire).
Here’s the answer
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/the-new-and-updated-games-of-windows-8/
So I had to help her download some from the ‘app store’. I’m guessing you can install the old ones but I wasn’t that enthused. As I said, annoying.
I have Win8 on a desktop at home, mainly for Mrs. OFD’s backup; we and our son apparently routinely just use the regular desktop, and yeah, I got that Stardock Start button. Other reason I have it is for streaming video to the tee-vee occasionally using XMBC. (also available on Linux). I’m a dumb ol’ classic Solitaire guy; my WWI vet grandpa taught me fifty years ago how to play it with actual cards. So I play the Klondike version on 8 while I’m waiting for other stuff to happen or just killing time and bored. Tried Wolfenstein 3D but the game takes forever to get going with endless trailer crap. And Doom II and III are now missing some code or other. Back to train/railroad simulations, I guess.
Anyone know any first-person shooters that don’t require a joystick, X-Box, $700 graphics card, or PhD in modding? Something along the lines of the Doom games, or maybe one of the historical/war games?
Unreal and Unreal Tournament were good. I really liked the originals; the sequels less so.
Unreal was an adventure game with a lot of killing, like Quake or Doom.
Unreal Tournament was just jumping around shooting at people, like Quake Arena.
Both worked fine on my old P3 with a good graphics card and on a more powerful computer with built-in graphics.
Alas, they were among the losses when we moved this last time. (Along with several dozen Avalon Hill board games. Aside from sentimental value, they were worth thousands of dollars, going by Ebay prices.)
Thanks! Ordered that and Quake 4. Gotta have some mindless stuff ASAP due to craziness at work ongoing and more at home.
I’ve always been a fan of the original Call of Duty game. Killing Nazis from the US, British and Russian POV. What could be better than that?
Yesterday OGH wrote: I’m surprised that we haven’t yet heard any demands for new bomb-control legislation.
There is. The Occupy types are circulating a graphic accusing the NRA of blocking the use of taggants in explosives. A little digging showed that they did block post-use taggants (tiny plastic beads) in explosives after OKC for a variety of reasons, one being that they make black powder more unstable. They supported pre-use detection taggants, which are in all US commercial and military explosives, and are aromatic compounds that are easy for dogs and sniffers to detect.
There are also problems with post-use taggants, in that they can be “contaminated” by the presence of tags from demolitions done in the area, explosives used in quarries, etc. Apparently only the Swiss require them, and the tags are changed by the manufacturer every 6 months.
What’ funny with that is that the “Occupy types” undoubtedly knew/know full well those details but went ahead and circulated the graphic anyway. The Left lies nonstop and is physiologically incapable of anything else, just can’t do it. And the so-called Right in this country is too stupid to tie its own bozo shoes. While the genuine Right is a tiny minority, vox clamantis in deserto.
In my daily email from the Front Sight Blog ( http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/blog/ ) , Dr. Ignatius Piazza talks about our 46 treasonous senators in the USA:
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2013/04/17/special-front-sight-blog-more-treasonous-senators/#senators
None from Texas, thank goodness!
The Republican Party needs to dump all this “social conservatism” crap and get back to its roots of small government and fiscal responsibility. Of course, that would kind of make them libertarians.
The Republican Party is moribund because of its constant catering to the Religious Right, not just in its platform and policies, but in the candidates it runs. I know a ton of people who voted for Obama and the Democrats not because they particularly liked them or their policies but because they’d vote for anyone before they’d vote for the religious nutcases that the RP runs.
The RP needs to tell the Religious Right to fuck off. They need to pull all the anti-abortion, anti-science, and other “social conservatism” crap out of their platform and get back to what they did best: small, unintrusive government, low taxes and spending, and non-interventionism in foreign affairs.
OFD, along with the Call of Duty WWII titles (up through COD2), the original Medal of Honor games (Allied Assault, Spearhead and Breakthrough) are playable without having to invest a high-powered GPU. I also have COD World at War (Pacific and Russian theaters, released in 2008) and it plays very smoothly on an E8400 CPU, 4GB RAM, and a GTX465 GPU. Enjoy!
Thanks, guys, for the recs; I will investigate accordingly.
I agree with Bob to a point on the Repub half of the War/Money Party but have zero hope that they’ll reform themselves within our lifetime, as I have zero hope for the charade that is our political system and elections anyway. Thus, what the Repubs do is moot to me now; I bailed out of their bullshit back in ’98 and became an Independent up here and as of this past national election, have stopped participating altogether, except for local town meeting stuff.
My senator Hairy Roid voted it down so he could bring it back up later. You know, when everyone’s ready to book for the holidays. Next up, taxing internet sales. The Feds need more $$ for our Jordan deployment. Sheesh.
Obummer says gun lobby lied about bill. Anybody says Obummer lied…raaaacist! He’s black so you’re a racist for saying he lied. Raaaaaaaacist!
Agreed. The Republicans are pretty much universally viewed (both inside and outside the US) as old white male bigots. Until they shake that image (which is probably too long established to ever get rid of) they’re going to continue to lose an increasingly large percentage of elections. They really just need to rename and re-establish the party. The socially conservative and religious right extremists are the face of the party right now.
Best coverage OFD has seen so fah of the Boston incident; warning: GRAPHIC photos here, too:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310596/Boston-bombings-latest-Boston-bomber-trapped-phone-FBI-use-phone-records-identify-suspect-spotted-store-cameras-talking-cell-just-seconds-blast.html
Immigration is up next. That piece of crap better not pass. I’m reading that crimmigrants relatives can also get amnesty. Double sheesh!
SteveF wrote:
“(Along with several dozen Avalon Hill board games. Aside from sentimental value, they were worth thousands of dollars, going by Ebay prices.)”
What happened? Did the fembot chuck them out?
I’ve got 20 or so AH games from 30 years ago, plus some from other vendors. I’ve been told that some of them are pretty valuable. I miss the social aspects of face to face board games.
The AH games were boxed up in the attic before I went to Minnesota for a year. They weren’t in the new house when I came back from Minnesota. My wife denies throwing them out or giving them away and I believe her. Quite a bit of stuff just turned up missing. I have no idea how this happens but apparently it’s a common phenomenon: “Two moves equal one fire.”
“Two moves equal one fire.”
I need to have a fire (he mutters darkly). We still have 20 boxes in the front of the house and 10 in our bedroom. I am thinking about moving some of the boxes to our storage shed, just for a little while. Maybe 20 years?
We close on the old house next Monday (and I gets my money !!!!!). Then I can get serious about unpacking this place.
The Republican Party needs to dump all this “social conservatism” crap and get back to its roots of small government and fiscal responsibility. Of course, that would kind of make them libertarians.
Sounds good to me. Of course, when the new immigration bill passes, Texas will immediately become a blue state. Probably 20% of the population is illegal XXXXX undocumented immigrants and rarely votes now (yes, they vote already). Once they all become citizens, they will vote for Democrats for the free benefits.
Speaking of our illustrious Congress, did y’all see the bit where they just quietly gutted the bill that’s meant to control financial shenanigans?
Lynn wrote:
“We still have 20 boxes in the front of the house and 10 in our bedroom. I am thinking about moving some of the boxes to our storage shed, just for a little while. Maybe 20 years?”
Can’t you get rid of this stuff when the girls are in Dallas doing some shopping?
Can’t you get rid of this stuff when the girls are in Dallas doing some shopping?
I wish for more reasons than you would understand. My 25 yr old daughter is severely disabled and rarely leaves the house. A trip to Dallas (300 miles each way) would be very tasking on her. She went with us last year but it put her down severely after that.
“…A trip to Dallas (300 miles each way) would be very tasking…”
Sort of like us traveling down to Boston to go shopping. Not bloody likely. Your daughter’s probably a trooper but I’m a big wuss crybaby after that long in a vehicle; sore lower back but the killer is the knees and butt. I have to get out and walk around every half-hour, which makes the trip that much longer, natch. Also, being an old crybaby wuss, I gotta pee every half-hour now, too. Sucks getting old.
I look at the great Lone Star State and other humongous states on the map and see the distances involved and shudder. I’d have to get a pilot’s license and a plane.
Lynn, if for some reason your daughter needs to go on a long trip, would a minivan help? Take out or fold down the seats and put in a small mattress, or some variation on that idea. I know a couple people who did something like that. (One of whom was taking an elderly parent “back home” to die. What a joyful trip that must have been.)
OFD, I hear ya. I have no physical problems with long car trips, but I hate hate hate driving — so much time wasted for the basically stupid purpose of taking me from somewhere I’m perfectly happy to somewhere else. I’ll be much happier when semiautonomous care are more available and more widely accepted by the governments. Then I can tell the car to handle the interstate driving for the next 600 miles while I get some work done and stay available for problems the car can’t handle.
Lynn, if for some reason your daughter needs to go on a long trip, would a minivan help? Take out or fold down the seats and put in a small mattress, or some variation on that idea.
I wish. I drive a Ford Expedition (land yacht on wheels) so one cannot get much more comfortable that that.
My daughter’s problem is that she has chronic lyme disease and it causes her to have constant migraines and many other physical ailments. Any kind of change causes her migraines to intensify. This includes light and sound.
We are fighting the lyme disease but it is not going away easily. She has had it for over a decade now and was diagnosed 18 months ago. Actually the constant antibiotics has actually made her worse since the lyme disease has formed nodules under her skin. The antibiotics has caused these nodules to rupture and flood her system with fresh lyme. And then the nodules reform and she is in a viscous cycle.
They are measuring the lyme antibodies in her system. She started at 20 and is up to 54 now. A score of 130 is considered cured.
Also, being an old crybaby wuss, I gotta pee every half-hour now, too. Sucks getting old.
I am at every hour now. My son was amazed and very critical when we took a trip together recently. My 74 yr old Dad is taking Flomax to help this but he gets up 3 times every night to pee.
I am at every hour now. My son was amazed and very critical when we took a trip together recently.
Holy crap dirty diaper man. When I go on trips I go for half a tank of gas before I need to stop. 200 miles between bathroom breaks is not unusual for me. Even then some of those stops are purely for the females in the vehicle.
I actually enjoy road trips, getting to see new places, do new things.
What I am not anticipating is the upcoming trip to Germany. 10 hours in an aluminum tube is bad enough but dealing with the TSA thieves will be the big issue. We are taking gifts and due to rules some of the items will need to be in the checked bag. I suspect there will be several items stolen.
Every hour? You’re kidding.
In usually don’t need to get up during the night, so when I’m tired and have a long sleep that can be 11+ hours.
Tell your son his day is coming.
I’m nearly 60 and it’s once a night about every other night and half a dozen times a day when I’m up and about. I also probably drink a gallon or two of water and other beverages per day.
Prayers for your daughter to get them antibodies way up soonest.
OFD, with that fluid intake, you’re normal even for a young man. I generally get up once or twice a night, but I also consume a liter or so of Sprite in the hour before bed. It used to be regular Coke, but after I turned 50 or thereabouts, I found that the caffeine kept me awake. But even when I was in my 20’s and 30’s I’d get up most nights at least once to pee because I’d been drinking significant amounts of liquid right up until bedtime.
“… you’re normal even for a young man.”
Well, that makes my week. Maybe my year.
But I know full well that in other areas, like the multiplying and random aches and pains, and the increasing fatalism and cynicism, that I ain’t a young man no mo. Reaction times for various things is still pretty good, though. All fading away, as dross, as dust in the wind…
…and I suspect that Mrs. OFD and others believe me deaf as a post. Let them continue in that belief…
Yeah, I know what you mean. Physical frailties are unavoidable with age. I think my reaction time is about as good as it was when I was younger. When I open a kitchen cabinet and something falls out, I generally catch it before it’s fallen more than a couple inches. Call it 0.1 second reaction/response time.
“Call it 0.1 second reaction/response time.”
About the same here. Except I might miss. Or grab it, esp. if with left hand/fingers, and drop it anyway. Butterfingers lately on left hand. Had noticed intermittent numbness there (middle, ring and little finger, plus down left arm) previously.
So extrapolating from this to a gunfight: I pull iron the same time or faster than my opponent and then flub it by dropping the gun or missing the trigger. But if I can overcome those two challenges, I have a pretty good chance of plugging him/her with center mass/head shots. If not, I’m sucking dust.
I’m nearly 60 and it’s once a night about every other night and half a dozen times a day when I’m up and about. I also probably drink a gallon or two of water and other beverages per day.
I suspect that I drink two gallons of water, coffee and one diet dr pepper per day. And, both of my grandfathers died of prostate cancer. Its not the one who was 87 that bothers me, it was the one who was 59.
Prayers for your daughter to get them antibodies way up soonest.
Thank you!
My brother-in-law was murdered here in Houston (.357 in the back for $65 and his car) when the wife and I had been married for just two months back in 1982. I’ve often thought that was the cruelest thing that you could do to a father. I am beginning to think that watching your daughter slowly fade away may be crueler.
So extrapolating from this to a gunfight: I pull iron the same time or faster than my opponent and then flub it by dropping the gun or missing the trigger.
You forgot shooting yourself in the leg while drawing. They told us that the #1 gun accident at http://www.frontsight.com/ is people shooting themselves in the leg. First was putting the gun back in the holster and the hammer getting actioned by your clothing. Second was finger on the trigger during the quick draw.
“I am beginning to think that watching your daughter slowly fade away may be crueler.”
But she may get those antibodies back up and have a full recovery before you know it; it’s happened before with this rotten ailment. Can I assume your church prays for individuals who are sick and hurting? Maybe a group that does it regularly? Will a pastor visit and/or any Christian healers?
“My brother-in-law was murdered here in Houston (.357 in the back for $65 and his car)…”
That year or thereabouts we had police department recruiters in Maffachufetts from Dallas/Houston looking for guys to relocate down there; some of the ‘hoods were described then as de facto combat zones and on weekend nights in the summers the guys would arm up before going out with selective-fire M-16s and full combat gear. The pay was an attraction, but I had just gotten back from combat zones a few years previously and had to deal with our own in a pretty grim area of central New England. A few years later we read that two guys who’d been hired on Houston’s department, from Vietnam originally (when I couldn’t get on the state police or the Border Patrol or Customs services as a decorated combat veteran of three wars with military police experience and perfect scores on the exams) turned out to be former NVA cadres. I about fell on the floor laughing. Very bitter laughter, to be sure.
Our chances of dying in our family are pretty much equally split between cancer, senility and gunshot; my dad’s young uncle was shot and killed in a robbery on the New Bedford-Fairhaven bridge; my uncle’s brother was shot and killed by his estranged wife in NH (she emptied a mag and reloaded and emptied that one, too); and a cousin of my mom, another ‘Nam vet, shot and killed his wife in Fairhaven. And I’ve had my share of guns pointed in my direction since being back in The World.
That sounds very plausible on the shooting oneself in the leg; there is being quick and there is being accurate and not blasting yourself in the process. This is one reason I like the shrouded hammer on the snubby for CC CQCB if necessary.
I still remember reading when I was just a little fellow about Old West gunmen, how people of the time made a sharp differentiation between being “fast with a gun” and “good with a gun”, and how the twain very seldom met. I decided even then that when I grew up I would be good.
Of course, there are always guys like Ed McGivern. One just has to hope one doesn’t run into one of them.
A guy like Ed would have been bushwhacked back in the day, shotgunned in the back or as he slept. Why fool around with lightning?
One needs to avoid and stay outta gunfights. Might look romantic, like old-fashioned dueling and chivalry in Days of Yore and suchlike, but on the ground it’s anything but.
“One needs to avoid and stay outta gunfights. Might look romantic, like old-fashioned dueling and chivalry in Days of Yore and suchlike, but on the ground it’s anything but.”
I grew up on a diet of westerns, of course, but when I bought the Avalon Hill board game Gunslinger in the early Eighties I was a bit shocked to read that the designers had had a lot of trouble actually coming up with scenarios because some of the legendary gunfights were little better than executions.
“…some of the legendary gunfights were little better than executions.”
As in, for example, the one at the O.K. Corral, and Pat Garrett”s assassination of Billy the Kid, his former friend.
“…I also consume a liter or so of Sprite in the hour before bed. It used to be regular Coke, but after I turned 50 or thereabouts, I found that the caffeine kept me awake.”
In summer I can drink a fair bit but as we’re approaching winter here my intake is way down. Keeping my diabetes under control also helps a lot. I’ve heard many times that caffeine is supposed to keep you awake, but have never noticed that myself. I usually fall asleep within a few minutes of turning off the light.
But she may get those antibodies back up and have a full recovery before you know it; it’s happened before with this rotten ailment. Can I assume your church prays for individuals who are sick and hurting? Maybe a group that does it regularly? Will a pastor visit and/or any Christian healers?
Yes, many, many times.
I am in a little bit of despair over her since her antibodies have not changed in the last six months. Hopefully this will change soon and they will zoom up. Her doctor is mystified also which bothers me. And her doctor is the only infectious disease doctor in the Houston area that treats Lyme.
A few years later we read that two guys who’d been hired on Houston’s department, from Vietnam originally (when I couldn’t get on the state police or the Border Patrol or Customs services as a decorated combat veteran of three wars with military police experience and perfect scores on the exams) turned out to be former NVA cadres.
There are so many Vietnamese in the Houston area that all of the nine county voting ballots support Vietnamese. I would not be surprised if quite a few are former NVAs. We even have Vietnamese on some of the street signs along with Chinese in other areas.
BTW, Front Site does not allow inside the belt/pants holsters either. Too many accidental self shootings. With 1,000 student per week, I imagine that they see quite a bit of sad happenings. They had quite a few “don’t let this be you” stories.
One needs to avoid and stay outta gunfights. Might look romantic, like old-fashioned dueling and chivalry in Days of Yore and suchlike, but on the ground it’s anything but.
I’ve often thought that “The Shootist” movie with John Wayne and Ron Howard was a fair depiction of real gunfighters.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075213/
Hey, I forgot that Jimmy Stewart was the dentist in that movie. You get three world class actors in “The Shootist”. Plus Harry Morgan and Lauren Bacall.
“In summer I can drink a fair bit but as we’re approaching winter here my intake is way down. Keeping my diabetes under control also helps a lot. I’ve heard many times that caffeine is supposed to keep you awake, but have never noticed that myself. I usually fall asleep within a few minutes of turning off the light.”
Damn, I keep forgetting youse guys are on the underside of the World and now you’re heading into what, laughably, passes for Winter. Here in winter I drink a LOT more fluids, usually gallons of water, and my intake drops off in summuh unless I am exerting myself, such as rising from a chair or typing at the computer. As for falling asleep at night; I drank like a fish for decades thinking I’d not be able to sleep if I didn’t (one reason, anyway) and I’d keep having nightmares. I had trouble sleeping and had nightmares anyway, some of them howling mad nightmares that scared the bejesus out of both wives. (in separate marriages, mind you, not that craziness that our host fantasizes about all the time). Once I quit, Presto! No more nightmares and I fall asleep within two or three minutes of hitting the sack. Get up once maybe to pee, and even then I’m half asleep.
“Hopefully this will change soon and they will zoom up.”
Yes, and meanwhile you have the doctor, who may be temporarily mystified; and we keep praying. We do the best we can and even only knowing you through here I feel confident that she is in the best of care and love down there in the tropics…or is it desert?
“…would not be surprised if quite a few are former NVAs.”
Or VC. They’d be in me and Bob’s and Ray’s and Slim’s age bracket. We have Vietnamese custodial staff where I work and I’m pretty sure Papa-san was on one side or the other; my team lead tells me they’re the good guys, i.e., from the South, and I say “Yeah.” And he busts out laughing; his older brother just died last year and was a U.S. Army Ranger chopper pilot who had a fruit salad on his chest when he finally got out but major-ass PTSD rest of his life. One illuminating episode occurred when their hooch girl was found disassembling and re-assembling one of their M-16s; they took her around back and shot her.
“…Front Site does not allow inside the belt/pants holsters either. ”
Good. Too many folks aren’t careful enough. Mine is a hip-hugger pancake which rides my belt real securely and does not print through an untucked summuh shirt.
“One illuminating episode occurred when their hooch girl was found disassembling and re-assembling one of their M-16s; they took her around back and shot her.”
Could you translate this into English please?
The girl they had hired for some combination of housekeeping and sex was sabotaging a rifle, so they killed her.
“Here in winter I drink a LOT more fluids, usually gallons of water, and my intake drops off in summuh unless I am exerting myself…”
In summer after mowing the lawn a couple of stubbies of ice cold VB (370 ml each) don’t touch the sides on the way down. I drink plenty of lager, diet soft drink then (caffeinated and non-caffeinated), OJ with/without vodka, tea and not a great deal of milk. In winter I practically give up on lager and drink a lot more milk (Kahlúa and milk, Baileys and milk, etc, cold or hot). I’ve never been much of a wine drinker, for many years I’ve thought of doing a wine appreciation course to find out what to drink with what sort of food. I simply don’t understand the attraction of wine.
Ah, thanks. I sussed out most of it but since she was re-assembling the rifle I didn’t catch the sabotage implication.
The M-16 is a piece of crap. Overcomplicated, fussy, and delicate; you’d think the damned Germans had designed it. A little bit of mud or plant matter or sand can keep it from working, which makes it just perfect for a battle rifle in a jungle or desert environment.
It’s easy to sabotage an M-16, or even screw it up by mistake. A cubic millimeter (not a cc) of mud packed into the blowback tube (which pushes the bolt back and cycles the next shot) will do it.
Mine’s a custom Milt Sparks similar to this one:
http://www.miltsparks.com/CC-AT_large.htm
Milt made six of them back in 1979, and I ended up with one. He decided not to put them into production because no one would pay what it cost him to make them. He wet-molded the leather on an actual Colt Combat Commander, and it apparently took so many steps to make a finished holster that it was completely uneconomical to manufacture them for general sale.
Yep, Milt’s holsters always had a great rep. And if I was gonna carry a .45 it would be a Combat Commander or nearest reliable clone.
The Mattel Toy 16 *could* be reliable and accurate in jungle conditions but had to be babied daily; one of the comic book instruction manuals had a well-stacked cartoon blonde exhorting us “You’ve got to STRIP your baby!” She was also featured in the M-60 comic book, a weapon that *was* designed by the Germans, originally, and its descendants are still employed today by our forces.
“I simply don’t understand the attraction of wine.”
One of the attractions for me at one time was slugging down a gallon bottle of it at a sitting and getting pretty buzzed; it took that much to do the job.