It’s been more than two decades since the murderous attacks by islamic terrorists cost over 3000 lives. We are thankful it wasn’t worse, but it was bad enough. The subsequent fedgov response added insult to injury and we are living with the consequences.
Never forget. Never forgive.
https://www.911memorial.org/visit/memorial/names-911-memorial
nick
And never back down.
Leftist Nike makes closure of flagship store in Portland permanent after leftist city government cannot improve safety in the area:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/11/nike-permanently-closes-flagship-store-in-portland-n577027
So will they build in the country, move to another blue shiitehole, or move to a safer less liberal city and bring their diseased philosophies?
Swimming naked.
If you’ve been religious with the oil changes on the EcoBoost engine, I doubt anything would happen within the extended warranty period.
When I asked my wife’s nephew which Maverick drivetrain he bought, the hybrid or the turbo, he responded. “The EcoBoost”.
“So, the turbo.”
“No. EcoBoost.”
Okay. Ford has done their marketing job well.
We’ve had to put about $2k into the Jetta so far with a brake job still waiting. Since my in-laws are so obsessed about Blue Book on their vehicles, I assumed the car was better cared for when I made my offer sight unseen. Lesson learned.
Never again with family. I didn’t know about the sleeping cat being ground up in the engine last winter until after I handed over the cashiers’ check.
72F this am, and clear. Forecast has clear for the next few days. The east coast should have an interesting week…
I’m starting to think about a car for D1. I want to leave plenty of time to acquire, fix, improve, teach, etc. It has to have mass but not room to fornicate! Wife was thinking her minivan, I’m thinking NO! Volvo sedan? No real preferences yet.
I’ve got some office type stuff to do first then a bunch of auction stuff all over town. We’ll see how all this shapes up today.
n
That’s embarrassing because Nike HQ is out in Beaverton, a Portland suburb.
OTOH, Nike supports all of the levels of Prog government in the Willamette Valley, city, county, and state. They even paid for the hideous new basketball arena floor in Eugene.
There are elements of our culture that are profoundly broken. I’ve mentioned related articles or channels before, as an observation about our current woes.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/passport-bros-feminists-are-outraged-men-going-overseas-find-traditional-wives
– there is a huge disconnect between what young women believe themselves to be worth, and the way they are valued by young men.
n
Nick, regarding a car for D1, I attended an Al Capp show in the 1960s. As part of his always amusing Q&A session, he told the story of a college student asking if he agreed that an 11 PM curfew was unreasonable. He said that any resourceful college student ought to be able to get in plenty of trouble way before 11 PM.
Lesson: if you raise ‘em right, you should be able to trust ’em.
It is possible to be a feminist – in the sense of believing in equal rights, etc – without being strident and toxic. I’m lucky enough to have married such a woman.
Sadly, some women seem to think being strident is what makes them feminists.
These women are classic “cancel culture” woke feminazis. Gee, what man would want one of those? Yeah, SIMPs.
On auto buying:
When I got my 2018 Subie, I found out this:
Subaru will match Costco car buying plans
Subaru will match USAA car buying plans
Vets can get no-interest loans from Subaru
I got my Subie with a three-year no-interest loan. Paid it off on time. Subaru won’t mention this upfront, but I had a cool salesman who clued me in. Now you know, too. 2017 purchase, so YMMV.
I am going to drive my Subie until it is dead. I do like new tech, but not having a car loan outweighs that.
Nick, my attitude regarding my daughter having sex is completely different. If she’s inclined to do it, I’d rather it be at home, where I know it’s safe and clean (or as clean as a teenage girl’s room ever is).
My wife’s attitude is more conventional: No!
To be fair, her attitude was about the same with the sons: No sex, and not even any dating, until you’re done with high school. Until you’ve graduated college. Until you have a job. Until you’re well established in your career. (For the older son, after he’d been accepted into engineering school but before he graduated from high school, she also wanted him to go into medical school after working a few years as an engineer, then get into a practice, then become established as a doctor. He and I sat down and calculated that by his mother’s expectations, he wasn’t allowed to date until he was past 40.)
Regarding D1, how about this: get her a smallish, fuel-efficient car and tell her that if and when she’s interested, she can drive her boyfriend to the BOL for sex in privacy. That’s a couple hours away, right? Plenty of time to get cold feet.
Why is the Resident-In-Chief spending 9/11 in Alaska? Maybe his puppeteers are trying to dilute the importance of the FUSA defending itself against Mooslim attackers. But they are all in on forever-wars.
Mr. 81 million is a disgrace to our country.
LOL!
re passport bros, the one time I had the face-to-face opportunity to say it, I asked why she cared? You don’t want any of those men anyway, so what does it matter to you if they stay here and go elsewhere. She had no real response, just some spluttered feminazi talking points which didn’t even make sense. (As is common any time you press a libtard for explication of their views.)
I have a mix of older and newer vehicles. This includes motorcycles. I also rent cars occasionally. I find the tech in the new ones to be distracting and annoying, and have turned most of it off where possible. I don’t want to become so dependent on it that I can’t jump in a 1960s car and operate it competently.
I just lightly read a Cycle World Online weekly article about some new MC that has radar adaptive cruise control. Yeccch!! Bikes are about freedom and fun. Safety is a state of mind. I can always tell a poor rider by their lane position. I give them lots of space.
Teenagers and sex: yeah, likely to happen. If it does, you want them to be safe and sensible. Denying reality doesn’t help.
We had all the talks with our kids. Turned out that neither of them dated till after high school, but that’s just how it worked out. Younger son was being pursued by a nice girl in high school, but he never noticed. Typical nerd…
I drove a chevy chevette with a fold down rear seat. Sister cleaned it and was grossed out by the amount of short and curly hair in the carpet… so I’m fairly familiar with the teenage ability to get down to business… granted that it’s decades ago, and the kids today are actually different socially and culturally…
The real rule is no dating until she can drive, so that she’s not trapped in a situation by not having transport away. Yeah, I know there are still ways for her to get trapped but that eliminates a major one.
The main requirement is crash survivability, and mass increases that dramatically. Can’t get too big though, or it’s harder than need be to park and control.
This is why I am thinking about it at age 14
n
I wouldn’t know aaaaaaanything about that.
Ditto for younger son. A couple times after all-ages get-togethers I asked him why he didn’t spend more time with Girl X, who was pretty clearly flirting with him. “What? She was? Why didn’t you tell me?” Older son was always more in tune with such things and I don’t remember ever asking him “Didn’t you notice…?” OTOH, younger son has been married a couple years and older son isn’t, so whatever.
The issue is different with The Child. As a decently attractive teenage girl, she’d have to be really obnoxious or smelly to not be getting anything from passive interest to active pursuit. I’ve given her some things to keep in mind on the topic, mainly “Don’t be a jerk about using guys or when you turn them down” and “Wanting to sleep with them isn’t enough. Pick a guy you also would want to wake up with.” (I got that last one from an author whose novels I edited. It’s strange that he had that as advice for a young, female character in one story. He never had kids and his one marriage was a disaster. As above, whatever.)
Newer cars are more survivable than older, pound for pound.
Of course, newer cars are more expensive to buy, more expensive to insure, more likely to be stolen, and so on.
I figure to teach my daughter to drive my minivan, including parking, parallel parking, and all the rest. It’s old enough that it has no aids other than cruise control. Once she can drive that to my satisfaction, we’ll figure out what to get her for real: keep driving the (old, worth nothing) van, get something smaller and more convenient and economical, or what.
Y’all are so cute, imagining you have input to your children’s adult explorations.
I did the best I knew how in raising my 3 sons, and I can safely say none of them followed any advice or example I gave them regarding alcohol, drugs, tattoos, and women.
I can’t imagine daughters would be any better.
But… but…. but…. they’re just trying to increase America’s cultural diversity by bringing in non-American women to do jobs that American feminazis refuse to do!
@Nick
A friend of mine in high school had a Ford Pinto. 6’4” and 225. Assured me, quite confidentially and not bragging, that it was not a problem.
Say, didn’t 1/6 set a precedent for insurrection:
Activists ‘occupy’ House Speaker’s office (‘is this an insurrection?’)
Oh, PLT’s, never mind.
that it was not a problem.
– where there’s a will, there’s a way, but I don’t have to enable or encourage it…
n
All of my kids went into or plan to go into engineering school rather than “follow their passions”. (eg, The Child enjoys drawing and playing piano and is good at both. As a career? Are you kidding? She’d already gotten gigs and commissions before she was a teenager, but that’s nice-to-have money, not buy-a-house money.)
Other than that … If I can think of any advice they’ve taken I’ll let you know. However, each son has told me “You were right” about a few things, so it’s not a completely futile effort.
I figure it’s something like Churchill’s quip about Americans: Your kids will take your advice, after they’ve exhausted all other options.
Rule of Law has been destroyed. Rule of Man has replaced it, showcasing a regression of several centuries and putting a capstone on the Era of Enlightenment.
You gotta admire the single-minded dedication of those who have worked to destroy the West over the past half-century or so. I’d pull their throats out, given a chance, but I have to respect that they set high goals and managed to achieve them.
That’s my opinion of all art. It’s a hobby, and maybe beer money, but not a career.
Rounding to the nearest percent, the number of people who play an instrument (or sing, or paint, or write, or whatever) who can live from that is: zero.
I sold my 1994 Toyota Camry to my best friend. I didn’t want to but he really wanted the car. I informed that if he choses to do so we are doing the sale as strangers. If the car gets 37 feet down the road and the transmission drops, too bad. It must not affect our friendship. He agreed and accepted the risk. He also stated that he knew I took car of my vehicles and he had more confidence in my car than a used car from a dealer.
He put another 50K miles on that car. He bought it for $1,200, sold it for $500. He says it was the best deal he ever made on a vehicle.
Why? The first couple of sessions only last a minute, or two at most, so being a contorted sweaty mass in a confined space for a short period is not an issue.
Youngest son, 34 years old, makes his living in music. Such a living as it is.
No degree, but he is on staff at the local university and several high schools, technically an educator. He works with theater departments and vocal departments, accompanying and teaching voice students and actors their material. He also accompanies high school chorus rehearsals and performances. He has been in several bands, variously as piano/guitar/bass/drums/vocals. For years, he played in a piano bar/deuling pianos gig.
In order to make ends meet, he also does two different community chorus organizations, and plays at various churches. Pre-covid, he would do mid-afternoon nursing home gigs, but those all dried up.
Sometimes he goes weeks without work in the Summer, and sometimes he has 60 hour weeks in multipile locations.
I wanted him to have music in his life, to help him cope with the inevitable crap. I always told him he should have a career and use the music as side money and release.
I tried to use humor to drive the point home, but I suppose I failed.
“How do you make a musician go away from your front door?” “Pay him for the pizza.”
@lpdbw: Yep, there are certainly exceptions. However, most of those exceptions – like your son – have to do a lot of scrambling.
I have a friend who does much the same, although she is an illustrator rather than a musician. Lots of scrambling, and living way to close to the edge. At the moment she has water damage in her house that she cannot afford to fix.
I have another friend who is a painter and sculptor, but her ex-husband was one of the lucky few who sold his tech stocks before 2001, and she got half of that, which how she actually pays bills.
I have several friends and acquaintences who are musicians, but know they can’t live off of it. It’s fun, and beer money. And there are many, many more people who are talented, but don’t even try to make money with it. Me, I used to sing in a choir that was good enough to do some commercial gigs. I paid for the privilege, because the choir’s earnings weren’t enough to cover the expenses.
IMHO, most of those who do try to live off of their art are ruining their own experience. Something that should be enjoyable becomes an eternal source of stress. Yes, you have to take that entitled, talentless kid as a student, because you need the bucks.
I wasn’t holding him up as an exception.
I was pointing out how he ignored my advice, and his life is in some ways the worse for it.
Perhaps in some ways better, but that depends on POV and value decisions. His values are not my values.
@lpdbw: Yep, I got that. I just wanted to toss out a few examples of my own…
@Nick – call your insurance agent and ask what is best for a young driver and won’t break the bank in insurance costs. Mine led me to begin considering used Chrysler minivans. The first one did its job and protected my son when he got T-boned by a distracted driver when he was 16 (yes, a more experienced driver would not have gotten into that situation). Its replacement is still keeping him safe after graduating college. It holds his band’s gear, and I don’t have to worry about him getting stranded somewhere without any available parts.
I suspect your girls have been taught how to handle themselves and how to get out of bad situations, so the car itself really won’t matter.
The dorky cars are also a good way to weed out super-shallow potential mates. Between marriages, I would always take the old pickup without A/C on first dates. If there was a second or third date, I would bring the Porsche.
“Robot Reads News 6 September 2023” by Scott Adams
https://www.reddit.com/r/dilbert/comments/16fthkn/robot_reads_news_6_september_2023/
The new Sexbot in RRN (Robots Read News) is not … sexy.
Swimming naked.
If you’ve been religious with the oil changes on the EcoBoost engine, I doubt anything would happen within the extended warranty period.
Nope, I meant Driving Naked. Swimming Naked is for stocks and real estate.
My buddy that chipped his F-150 Raptor ecoboost engine to 25 psig from 18 psig is well over 150,000 miles now. That engine is stout.
We assumed the car had been well cared for and the kid was getting hosed when the F&I weasel offered him three grand below wholesale in trade on the Jetta because he was buying a Maverick through some weird deal where a dealership employee actually held the title on the truck.
In retrospect, the F&I weasel probably had the right number considering the condition. I doubt a dealer in Clarksville would last long screwing with the military people on a trade.
Lesson learned.
Ironically, the in-laws have been mad at us for the last eight years because we refused to sell them my wife’s 4Runner with the bad rack for the kid to drive in college. Replacing the rack is always an iffy job on a 4Runner of that generation – the reason we had to accept $1000 in trade — and we didn’t want to hear about it when things went sideways.
I’m starting to think about a car for D1. I want to leave plenty of time to acquire, fix, improve, teach, etc. It has to have mass but not room to fornicate! Wife was thinking her minivan, I’m thinking NO! Volvo sedan? No real preferences yet.
A minivan is a good way to stop the fornication for guys. For girls, nothing works for that, guys don’t care. Mass is more important than preventing fornication. Please give her mass.
Be sure to tell her frequently “Girls get pregnant, Guys do not get pregnant”. It will really piss her off. And it is incredibly true. Even the video of a woman giving birth and screaming for hours will not stop them from having sex if they “love” the guy.
If she is 14, this is a good time to sit her down and explain the effectiveness of birth control. Do it NOW. Otherwise she will get her birth control effectiveness from her friends. My wife got nothing from her mom. My dad told me to use condoms but never gave any to me. Big mistake. My wife did it for our daughter when she was dating, we are not grandparents and probably never will be (this is a downside).
The pill works 99% until you take antibiotics with it which lowers the effectiveness to less than 50%. We have a kid to prove this.
Condoms are ok. Double condoms are much better. But double condoms suck. In fact, condoms suck period. Give her a box of condoms so she has a few to carry in her purse. Remember, she has the control, guys will agree to anything to have sex.
The rhythm method works great. We have a kid from this too.
The girls control the birth control method so she needs to choose something. Guys do not care until after having sex. And they do not care the next time either.
The BOL is a bad idea if she says no and he says no way he is stopping now.
Yes, you can get pregnant if you are both standing up. I have no idea who came up with that brilliant old wives tail.
Yes, you can get pregnant the first time you have sex. Another faulty old wives tail.
Nick, my attitude regarding my daughter having sex is completely different. If she’s inclined to do it, I’d rather it be at home, where I know it’s safe and clean (or as clean as a teenage girl’s room ever is).
And I am safely at work or any where else on the planet.
I just lightly read a Cycle World Online weekly article about some new MC that has radar adaptive cruise control. Yeccch!! Bikes are about freedom and fun. Safety is a state of mind. I can always tell a poor rider by their lane position. I give them lots of space.
Probably a Honda Goldwing. Those even have ABS brakes.
I learned the hard way to not ride in the middle of the lane in the oil thirty plus years ago. I laid my Honda Nighthawk 750 down when I tried to stop in the middle of a lane for a red light. I did skid into the intersection but I did not get go far into it. And my jeans took the grinding on the asphalt.
My granddaughter is living proof. Coincidentally, conceived in a truck cab.
And also an example of “don’t stick it in crazy”. (if this is too family unfriendly, feel free to edit it out. I won’t be offended.)
My oldest son, the pothead alcoholic felon with 5 DUIs and many tattoos and piercings was deemed the safe parent and given primary custody. Consider what that means about baby momma.
Thankfully, he’s actually a pretty good dad. She’s in college now and still chooses to live with him.
“Memes that made me laugh 176”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/09/memes-that-made-me-laugh-176.html
“There is stuck and then there is Army stuck”
My former USMC son tells the story of driving a Humvee in Iraq into quicksand. They drove a 7 ton truck in to get his Humvee out and got stuck. Then a Abrams tank drove in to get the 7 ton truck out and got stuck. Then they went and got a tank retriever which has a crane that can lift an Abrams out without getting in the muck. This process took a day or three to fix.
Ha. I work in the basement when I’m not sitting (with a computer) outside with the chickens, and have a pair of noise-cancelling headphones.
Your prior comment has a lot of excellent advice and I’m going to waft it over The Child’s head, at least the parts which we haven’t already discussed. Bonus points if I can make her become fully mortified but I don’t expect it.
How much does a Humvee weigh in comparison to a F150 Lightning? I’ll bet that they are close.
How much does a Humvee weigh in comparison to a F150 Lightning? I’ll bet that they are close.
12,000 lbs IIRC. Almost 2X.
V8 turbo diesel running on JP8. Body armor. Full time 4×4. Tire inflation system. 50 caliber machine on rear deck with turret system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humvee
Your prior comment has a lot of excellent advice and I’m going to waft it over The Child’s head, at least the parts which we haven’t already discussed. Bonus points if I can make her become fully mortified but I don’t expect it.
I found that the “Remember, boys don’t get pregnant, girls get pregnant” right before a date worked for maximum effect.
Of course, she repaid me with them pulling in the driveway as I was leaving for work in the morning. The guy did not even look ashamed.
“Clueless”. Dan Hedaya – “Anything happens to my daughter, I got a .45 and a shovel, I doubt anybody would miss you.”
Before “Clueless”, Hedaya was best known for playing Cara’s ex- on “Cheers” so he had instant cred with the audience when he dropped that line.
And, yes, I think Mel knew the date was gay. Nothing got past that guy.
Ah, our local electrical distribution company, Centerpoint, got a 47% price increase as of Sept 1.
Old rate 3.7332 cents per kWh
New rate 5.4694 cents per kWh
Wow, I wish I could get a rate increase out of my customers. Any rate increase !
Friend and his girl (now wife of 57 years) managed it in his MGA hardtop. My son found a Subaru for grand-daughter, based on crash studies.
Did it with my first wife in the front seat of her VW bug while we were in high school.
“Disney and Charter reach deal to end media blackout”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/disney-and-charter-reach-deal-to-end-media-blackout-150909407.html
“Disney (DIS) and Charter (CHTR) have reached a deal to end their historic carriage dispute — just in time for Monday Night Football, which airs on Disney’s ESPN.”
Interesting.
I just received a $550 electric bill covering the time period when my Honeywell 8500 thermostat went haywire upstairs.
I’m verifying that the power consumption has returned to normal. I may have the AC people out early to do the Fall inspection.
Charter offered all of their customers a free trial Fubo subscription which included the ESPN package ahead of tonight’s Monday Night Football game.
That caught The Mouse’s attention. Burbank needs every dime they can get their hands on because Comcast is about to turn the screws on the Hulu buyout.
Not even close. This is a sport-touring bike, but it looks a lot like a hyper-naked sportbike. A what? Here is a short quote: “Radar?! Yes, the 2024 Yamaha Tracer 9 GT+ got a ton of updates, including radar adaptive cruise control. There are other features associated with the radar that work with the braking system, electronic suspension, and more. It’s pretty cool, especially for the price.”
Still scratching my head, and I sorta follow this stuff. Here is the rest of the article:
https://www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle-reviews/yamaha-tracer-9-gt-plus-first-ride/
A friend has an older Goldwing. I asked him is it had air conditioning, and he said no, that wasn’t available until next year’s model. I think he was kidding me.
Must. Not. Say. “About as much as your mom.”
Oh, heck, that’s easy. First, establish a local monopoly on violence. Second, tell everyone that they must buy your product at whatever price you set.
Alternative: Talk with whoever’s in charge of the local monopoly on violence. (Money will almost certainly need to change hands.) Persuade them that your product is a vital public good and must be regulated in the public interest. Set up a regulatory board which is funded by you.
Come to think of it, I need to check whether such a thing is potentially interfering with The Child’s dating life. I don’t tell the kiddies about my hobbies and side gigs but some of the parents are in the circle of people who know that I am available to, for instance, give strong hints ex-boyfriends who don’t take ordinary hints. (In fact, one landlord I know is having trouble with a tenant, waaaay behind on rent, single mother sob story to the judge preventing eviction, and – the big problem – apparent drug deals taking place in the apartment. Cops aren’t doing anything. He hesitates to ask me to deal with it because that might make things worse, but it may come to that.) Also, a couple of times when I was at the school, an idiot teenager (redundancy alert) would think it was funny to pop out of a classroom and “Raaagg–”, then be on the floor in pain. Word gets around.
Will New Mexico’s legislature uphold and defend the Constitution — by removing a tyrant?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/09/11/will-new-mexicos-legislature-uphold-and-defend-the-constitution-by-removing-a-tyrant-n577115
Why do I have a very strong suspicion that the governor did have some discussion with elected leadership of her own party? Does anyone really think that she sandbagged them?
The Republicans are the minority in both houses . Moving too fast is not indicated. If my suspicion is correct, they need to ask some very pointed questions, and tell the other party that unless every elected senator and representative–regardless of party–upholds their oath of office and moves forward quickly on impeachment, the various federal suits (four to date) will be used to turn up the heat and ask those questions loudly and repeatedly.
If there was discussion within the Democrat Party of NM, that’s a hell of a lot sounder case for conspiracy than anything connected with Jan 6. If the Dems do their duty, chances are it could go away. If not, any “consultation” that is uncovered will result in demands for recusal from any impeachment proceedings.
re the Hitler wanna-be in New Mexico (Don’t “Godwin” me. Look into Hitler’s gun bans.), the out, loud, and proud gun-grabbing Democrat governors of NY, Illinois, and California haven’t said anything, have they? Their big, stupid mouths are usually flapping anytime a gun issue can give them camera time. Seems suspicious. Almost as if this were a trial balloon and they don’t want to spook the lumpens by making too much noise about it.
Friend and his girl (now wife of 57 years) managed it in his MGA hardtop.
Young and limber. My wife was a gymnast in high school until she dislocated her left knee falling off the balance beam. Very limber back then. Now, not so much.
Charter offered all of their customers a free trial Fubo subscription which included the ESPN package ahead of tonight’s Monday Night Football game.
That caught The Mouse’s attention. Burbank needs every dime they can get their hands on because Comcast is about to turn the screws on the Hulu buyout.
My Fubo is $90/month plus tax. Not cheap.
I just received a $550 electric bill covering the time period when my Honeywell 8500 thermostat went haywire upstairs.
Got my mostly August electric bill today from Juice. 3,632 kwh for $454.84. That is 12.5 cents/kwh. And yes, they managed to get the new Centerpoint rate on there.
My current contract goes through June 6, 2024. I guess that this was the best that https://www.energyogre.com could do, especially with the obscene Centerpoint rate increase.
A friend has an older Goldwing. I asked him is it had air conditioning, and he said no, that wasn’t available until next year’s model. I think he was kidding me.
I used to have a 2003 Honda Valkyrie (the naked Goldwing). It needed air conditioning. I was sitting at a long light one 100+ F day and the 10 inch electric fan came on for the radiator. All of sudden I was hotter than a 115 F day in west Texas. That 1,500 cc flat six with six carbs could make heat like you would not believe and you needed to be moving to disperse it. Some days I miss that bike.
https://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photos/2003models/2003models-Honda-GL1500C-Valkyrie
Yup, those are six straight pipes with just resonators. Loud pipes save lives ! Or so I have been told.
Over the years I have sketched designs for a number of bumper stickers not implemented.
One was the alternative to “Start Seeing Motorcycles”
Same colors, shows a bike in the crosshairs.
Caption is “Stop Hearing Motorcycles”.
I also had a design for a sound actuated aircraft cable positioner. String it across the road and it keeps the cable above traffic. When it hears the loud sound of the approaching motorcycle it drops the cable to neck high on a rider.
Has anyone tried this yet nonlethal CO2 tear gas pepper shooting pistol yet ? 330 ft/s .68 caliber does not sound like much knock down power. So you have to rely on the tear gas pepper ball to mess them up. Looks like a paintball gun.
https://byrna.com/collections/byrna-non-lethal-guns
I smell a Gecko. Berkshire Hathaway holds 2.5% of the stock.
That family owns New Mexico. At one point, the Lujans held 2 out of the 3 US House seats.
And a US Senate seat. Geesh.
I have faith in you. Just start talking about how to do it in a truck cab, and you’ll have her…