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Something I posted next door – in a bad place for it to be seen – that I thought I’d put here and tweak just a hair (I added the pay for NASA astronauts at the Colonel rank – usually the highest rank you’d find as a NASA astronaut.
In discussing the poor, disenfranchised and put upon black NFL players I thought I’d do a small chart to see how these victims stack up.
US President’s yearly salary: $400,000
Chaiman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: $220,734
US Brain/Neurosurgeon median salary: $395,000
NASA Rocket Scientist: $108,000
NASA Astronaut:
Civilian at the GS-12 level: $82,680
Civilian at the GS-13 level: $98,317
NASA Astronaut:
Military, Colonel (highest rank that would regularly fly) 20 years service: $123,552
” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” 30 years Service: $153,792
Lowest paid NFL players in 2018, rookies: $450,000
Sorta put things in perspective?
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Sorry, quotation marks under ‘Colonel’ were rearranged by WordPress when the post posted.
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These NFL guys have a short window for a career. Usually 5-7 years. Then nobody knows or remembers you.
Just shut up, Stand for the flag…….. we have the Pittsburgh Kneelers, led by a two time rapist.
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I had friends in Vietnam – and after – who had shorter careers than the NFL guys and they made **** for pay. No one remembers them either…I’ll be visiting the grave of one I went to high school with when I go to Dallas next week.
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Yes Czar your right. A while back I was asked, America’s longest War. I answered the Indian War. Nobody remembers those Soldiers, Troopers either. I’ll just go too the Wall, and Arlington to visit. Some are from RVN, through current operations. My only regret is not Soldiering with you……. keep the girth strap tight, and Colts at the Ready…….
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I really appreciate the comment though I kept getting issued a broom, shovel aand a box of pens as I had the uncanny ability to clean up nasty admin messes before CLRT inspections.
We’ll kit-up on Fiddlers Green to make up for missed opportunities here.
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Amen my friend, Allons
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Essayons et faisons
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BTW, we’re somewhat broken and sa few parts aren’t working as well as they should but from the numbers I’m seeing only about 1/3rd of us who served in Vietnam are still alive. About 2,710,000 of us were in Vietnam so we’re winking out at a pretty good rate, we’ve become our fathers. Amother ten years and…
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And now we can enjoy these overpaid athletes with a side of this 👆🏻🙄
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Not me. I won’t be watching. I only watch Navy play.
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And Army will kick some butt!!!!!!!
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Go Navy. Beat Army!!!
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Dream on.
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Roll Tide. Jus’ sayin.
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Traitor ‘Tide’ coach, got good at LSU and then slithered east on the I-10.
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They lost me too Aus.
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I can’t stand NFL anymore. Sad they ruined the game for so many of us.
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SMH like the bozos who picked Elton John for the surprise rocker at the Harley Davidson Anniversary closing event.
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Yeah…. some things do not go together.
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It is too funny to me, not so much to the poor guys and gals who were there, I personally would have enjoyed the concert if all he did was sing and not talk.
But Elton and Harley? No.
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😊
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Czar that’s right down to the penny. Miss that paycheck…..
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Yup, 0-6s are still limited by that executive order.
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That’s crazy. Bunch of spoiled babies, in my opinion.
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I have absolutely NO RESPECT for these guys. They are like 3 year olds who want to get their way and throw a tantrum and scream. They can’t tell you what they want. What I hear them saying is, “Figure out what I want and do it.” If they really want to accomplish something, they need to research it so they can discuss it intelligently and then set up a meeting with someone who can help. President Trump says he is open to meeting. They won’t do it. They just want to continue their stupid, ignorant tantrum. I spit on them.
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All true. It’s very hard to relate to these giant men who refuse to act like adults.
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And, it is time for them to grow up.
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Definitely!
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Morning Everyone……. water for Teais slowly boiling, and the Coffee is hot and ready. I’ll take first watch on the rack, threat is low.
The meteor shower tonight, Perseids, look too the north east about an hour after sundown. The real action is around 0200 too sunup. Reports of 30-50 meteors per hour………
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Good evening/morning, Colonel! I’ll be popping over with the tea bags shortly. Then the whole gang can watch…
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Wow!!!! That’s amazing! Morning Lucille!
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Good day to you, sand! It’s going to be only 86 today. Relief from the 104 yesterday!
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That’s wonderful!!!! The rain has really cooled our temps down and my very pregnant daughter is extremely relieved!
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Morning Col. Ken!
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Morning SaS…….
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I’m making BLT’s for lunch Col. you’re welcome to stop by 🙂 !
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Thank you lovely……
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Morning Col. !
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😊❤️
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Beautiful Saturday Lucille 🙂 . I believe it is a million degrees in Waukesha right now 😞.
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Thanks, lovely! I’d like a nice big bowl of ice cream…but I don’t have any. Waaaaaaaa waaa!
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I have Raspberry sorbet in the freezer so come on by!
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A good Saturday night flick…
“The General” (1926) – starring Buster Keaton
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Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) – France
Danny and his son, Paris,1944
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That little baby is 74 years old today. It is so amazing how time is gone in the blink of an eye.
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If he hasn’t passed, I hope he’s had and continues to have a wonderful life.
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I had the same thought. How can that little peanut be an elderly man? Or even already have lived his life.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Smoking Bishop)
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 (Yuengling)
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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Just a sweet roll and some tea, please. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Morning Nyet! Thank you!
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Nye!!!!!!!! Thank you
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Good day, Nyet! Send some of everything over by rail, would ya?
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Afternoon Nyet 🙂 !
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Mornin’ sportsfans!
https://twitter.com/WeeWeedTX/status/1028278177075015680
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!,,,
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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“This is Howard Cosell telling it like it is!”
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Afternoon Z’s!
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And a wet one – lightening bolt landed in the Walmart lot while I was there – maybe God telling them he’s PO’d with their instore selections too.
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Thought He was giving me His opinion of me smoking on the back porch yesterday, myself….. ‘Twas close….
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Y’ad think He’d just text…
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Or even call on the phone….
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He probably has AT&T and he can’t get a decent signal.
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Good day, WeeWeed! The blue wave delusion infecting lefties will be swept away….
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Dr. Steve Turley
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Afternoon Miss Wee 🙂 !
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😀 Afternoon Lovely!
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No hope for the Dope, nope.
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Evening WeeWeed!
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Morning all 🙂
Today’s horse is the English Shire horse. These beautiful horses have exceptional power and strength combined with a willing temperament and are well known for their densely feathered lower limbs and Roman nose. Shires stand between 16 and 17 hands and weigh around 2000-2400 lbs. The tallest horse ever recorded is a Shire horse called Noddy, who stands at 20.2 hands = 82 inches = 6’10”. Their great strength and size enabled them to be used in mediaeval times as a war horses as they could easily carry all the armour and would of been quite an impressive sight. Later on they were used on the canals and for working the land and forests, as well as in towns for deliveries. ~ h/t equestrianandhorse dot com.
Here we have a colorful painting “At The End Of The Day” by David Stribbling:
This is a white Shire at work, and a black Shire showing off that beautiful hair! 🙂
Here are 2 horses set up for show:
and this cute foal seems to need to rest on it’s mom to hold up it’s head. (I’ve seen this a lot with foals.)
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Big Jake’s got the Shire beat by 3/4″: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2012/9/record-holder-profile-big-jake-worlds-tallest-horse-video-44749
Taking a break, gotta wipe the envy-drool off of my keyboard. Draft horses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQPHxTUgzI
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And when that beautiful hair was trimmed (every so often) it was used to weave into cloth for railroad carriage seats. Very hard wearing!
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The part about horse hair fabric is about half way through this video. This is a very interesting series, btw.
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Just beautiful!
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They are so regal looking and that sweet colt melts my heart! Thank you G & C!
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I’m watching Cavuto Live, hosted by Trish Regan and she is interviewing Burgess Owens about his new book Why I Stand. I was following along with him about the football players being used by the left until Trish pointed out that he was accusing the owners of being the ones who were doing the using. He implied that they are pushing these guys to kneel, which makes no sense at all to me. He says some contradictory things, like all the owners are interested in is money and something about them being globalists and wanting to ruin American football so they can tap into the Chinese market. 🙄
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Good overview of this complicated and depressing mess….
Declassified: Did Rosenstein Make False Statements to the FISA Judge?
By Allan J. Favish – August 11, 2018
“The June 2017 warrant application begins on PDF page 292, with the title ‘VERIFIED APPLICATION’.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/declassified_did_rosenstein_make_false_statements_to_the_fisa_judge.html
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I’m ready for this….
Take the Most Beautiful Train Ride in the U.S. for $97
https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/bus-train/scenic-train-ride-pacific-coast
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Ocean Shore Limited, a subsidiary of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S) perhaps around 1912…
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BURKA ROW Motorbike instructor slams Shell garage for ‘racism’ after he’s told to remove helmet as woman in burka fills up next to him
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6994230/motorbike-instructor-slams-shell-garage-for-racism-after-hes-told-to-remove-helmet-as-woman-in-burka-fills-up-next-to-him/
SMH
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We went to see Three Identical Strangers today. I didn’t realize it was a documentary, but it was very good. It starts off very happy and lighthearted, but it does get dark. Some people may remember the story of the triplets finding each other, I think it was back in the early 80’s. This also covers the rest of the story up to this date. It is a reminder that we need to stamp out evil when we find it.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/three-identical-strangers-sundance-2018-1075831
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Cooking dinner so can’t retype it but if you’re interested in the resolution of the case involving the two bodies found burned by our NOLA house I posted it next door: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/11/saturday-august-11th-open-thread/comment-page-2/#comment-5775636
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen.
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Amen
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Walmart strikes again.
I bought two boxes of rifle ammo today and the cashier at the sportying goods register asked for my ID. I asked why I needed to show ID and she said Walmart’s told the styores that as now the age to buy guns has risen to 21 they have to card every ammo buyer who doesn’t look 50. Both I and the white-haired guy next to me looked at oneanother and just shrugged.
Previously when I’d bought 9mm ammo I asked ‘why they needed to see my ID’ and they said it was a blanket policy that anyone buying ammo for a pistol needed to show ID to prove age. I said that the ammo was for a 9mm Marlin camp carbine which isn’t a pistol, it’s a rifle. (boing, sproing sound of springs becoming unsprung). I showed my ID anyway.
About 15 minutes later andv feeling impish I went back and bought some .223 ammo. When she didn’t ask for my ID I asked why. She said that it only applied to ammunition to be fired in a pistol (as slowly as she said it I’m betting she knew something was afoot). I told her that the .223 was going in my AR-15 pistol, avrealpistol under ATF standards. More ‘bpoiiiing, sproiiiing so I just showed my ID and checked out. FIGHT THE SYSTEM!
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Try buying ammo in Illinois. Loads of fun. Better to say, Hmm…I’m only a few miles from the WI border so “See ya’ later.”
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Yup, make a day of it.
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Hubby wants to know what they do about 22 caliber, because it shoots in both pistol and rifle.
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My .223, 7.62×39 and .300 Blackout all shoot in pistols/rifles. Then again there are pistols/rifles that shoot .45 ACP, .40 S&W and 9mm.
Last time I bought .22LR at Walmart they just asked me if I were going to fire it in a pistol or rifle – hey, that’ll catch them bad guys!
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Next time tell them you’re gonna make a necklace out of them. They might just fall over from the dilemma you create in their itty bitty heads.
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Let’s see her get thru TSA wearing that.
I’m still reeling over her saying I didn’t look over 50 – she’s in the will.
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Funny today a recent acquaintance refused to believe I was over 40 😊. I still don’t think I’ve convinced him. That’s ok by me 👍🏽.
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Like I said, she’s in the will.
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LOL I had a massage scheduled last week, and just before I left home, I got a text asking if I could move the appt. to this week. She said the woman was already there and evidently she had forgotten to write down the appt. in her book. She added, the woman is elderly. So, I thought, “Oh, she thinks the other woman is elderly, and evidently doesn’t consider me elderly.” I’m good with that. 😀
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I loved it when I saw her wear that during an interview. 🙂
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Me too 🙂 ! Anything that requires fainting salts for the Leftist Loonies makes me smile !
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Okay. He was just curious if they’d given you a difficult time with .22. He’s bought ammo from them, too, but more recently he’s just ordered it from Freedom Munitions and had it mailed to us.
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Yup, I find it more readily available and, insome cases cheaper, on line. Walmart gets dribs and drabs and it goes fast, I find it easier to use a bot to search for best prices on a brick.
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We used to have a Cheaper Than Dirt in town, but they closed. They had everything! Tons of the MRE’s and other dehydrated emergency foods.
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Gotta watch those MREs, a lot of old government ones got snuck out to the civilian market. Some had good expiration dates but hadn’t been stored correctly. I use ’em for gun stuff frequently.
Better than MREs are dried foods from reputable companies – I like big Utah ones as they’ve been supplying LDS preppers for years. Store ’em at the right temp and they can last for decades while MREs are more ephemeral. I can buy them at the commissary but don’t bother.
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Thanks for the advice, czar!
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Sunset and a Passing Train….
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I love this story.
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