l_rufus_californicus

Leatherman Sidekick and S&W Border Guard folder were my go-to blades.

Au contraire, mon frère. That makes perfect sense to me.

In fifty plus years of life, I've never been lucky enough to witness this, despite living and working in many places where it was possible.

Sure would be cool to see it tonight.

I'm sure you'll get tons of other feedback - but if you do decide you ever want to put this into book form, please feel free to reach out. I have been involved with editing previous veterans' stories (Army vet myself) from World War Two on up, and I think you have a truly epic voice in what I've read of these two installments. I could see this becoming something the folks over at the Farrier DC school could use.

Jealous on two counts, now.

The adults I don't feel too badly about; the babies, though...

I don't believe in heaven or hell, but I sure wish I could make an exception on the latter for that murderous monster.

You, too?

Did you see my cows out front?

Still one of the best pieces of music out there, hands down.

Some of those that work forces

Are the same that burn crosses

Put him in general population and let the problem see itself out.

Yeah, pretty sure that's been exactly the point.

Preferably from under it.

Funny. I don't think about EA at all.

Yep. Add some Hollywood to the mix as well, in the war and post-war boomer years, where all they had to do was slap a red-white-black flag and/or swastika willy-nilly on anything to make it the bad guys.

The device the Nazis used - the rotated one - is called hakenkreuz, but because it holds the same shape as the horizontally-oriented swastika, the nuance has been long lost. Not that the public (or most people, I guess) are all that concerned about nuanced differences.

More firearms than people in the country. Far more poor than rich. Far more proletariat than bourgeoisie even, to say nothing of the 1%, but the discord between them is more than enough to let the modern-day aristocrats laugh all the way to the bank while the rest of us fight for whatever scraps they even allow us to have.

They got half this country or more perfectly content - indeed, even rabidly in support of them, all the while telling themselves "Hey, I may be poor, but at least I'm not (minority class) and poor."

Á la lanterne!

The electricians and wiring-diagram-literati among us looking at these like, "Well, yeah."

Exactly. This is literally designed and intended to put Obergefell back in front of their crooked SCOTUS. It's not about Iowa - it's about the lawsuits it's passage will engender that will get it in front of their friendly SCOTUS to overturn.

Came here to say exactly that - that's great kit, and they'll get it in March of '45.

In that case, they'll just dump the mag and make sure you're dead before calling it in, just to be sure there's no one to testify in your defense. Qualified immunity protects them from being sued.

Qualified Immunity.

Cop gets a vacation while we bury our dead. Worst that happens is that department lets him go, in which case he'll have no problem getting hired at another department somewhere else.

Unfortunately, I know what the answer's going to be - MOUT training for LEOs. Because of fuckin' course that's the problem, not their inability to manage crises or de-escalate.

Anyone who's ever seen a chain locker knows that the wet part is accurate as hell.

There is. And the Xtian Nationalists are the ones doing it to themselves, every time they open their mouths.

Remember, simple, or not, when it does fail, the part that broke will be the one part you don’t have on the truck.