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  Exactly. If you've ever played chess with a skilled player, you often won't see that you've already lost until bam, you're two moves away from checkmate.   I'm sure there's some football analogy for those who are more comfortable with that.   These people have been patient and have undermined things for generations.

I'll pass. I have enough hats I never wear. And I got most of them for free too.

I do not yet have an AR but I do have the parts from the group buy on order.   I only have a drill press, not a mill. But I hear it can be done with the press (in fact, I have seen where someone did it with hand tools only). I would like a mill. In fact, I was considering setting up a mill with CNC and having a go at milling my own lowers but that was probably one of those pie-in-the-sky ideas.

I think I'll go ahead and order up five and the jig. I'll probably lend out the jig for a deposit.

Hard to comment as I'm not sure about what's going on there. There's a joke where the first punchline is '"You must be an engineer, everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone."'. I think that engineer must have written the summary to that video.

There are times to judge and times where, if you do, you lack class.   Bringing a downer to kids on Halloween is just mean spirited.

I think there was one turned up at the British car show last time I went. The 2013 show was a couple of weeks ago though.   There could be one at the Lane Motor Museum but I don't recall seeing one there (it had some other really cool cars though).

So-called gouging doesn't bother me. But cancelling customers already agreed orders? That's a no-no.

  Heck, McConnell, the minority *leader* even managed to come away from it with a nice fat piece of pork. If things don't get turned upside down in 2014, it's done (arguably it already is anyway).

  You're certainly not wrong. And open primaries are the worst. Whilst I think the Republican party bears much of the responsibility to McCain, it is quite clear that he wasn't doing well until Democrats were able to vote for him.   The whole primary thing is puzzling to me anyway. If the parties want to field candidates, it should be up to them how they choose who to pick. Whether that is in smoky backrooms, internal party member voting or throwing it all wide open, that decision shouldn't be the province of the states.

  So if you lived in a Democrat safe seat, you wouldn't bother voting?

It's TRICK or treat, right?   Maybe it's a sneaky way to get free TP and eggs.

  They f***ed up running McCain and the Romney. That's as simple as it is. The Republican party is rotten at the core and is incapable of doing the right thing.

  Mathematics does not bring the meaning. Mathematically, it's just x->x+1   As to actual meaning, sure it does. People like you claim that you will not vote for a party that can't win. How is a party to win if it can't increase its vote? Therefore voting third party improves the possibility of future success. In addition, people may look at whether the vote is increasing rather than absolute numbers and jump on the bandwagon.   It also send a message to the people in the mainstream parties that maybe they could have had that vote but they're simply not good enough. If you have a RINO that is no different from a democrat, it would be better for the democrat to be in power while the republicans sort themselves out a proper candidate.

  Even if that was valid (and it isn't, logistically or morally) , it's no moreso than not voting at all.

  It's also possible it would have not passed the senate if there was a chance of it passing the house. Politicians like to play these games where they vote for things that have no chance of passing just so they can big-up to their constituents. There's a lot of horse trading of votes that goes on *before* a bill ever reaches the floor and they know if it's going to pass or not by the time it comes to the actual vote. That's just a show for the proletariat.   Oh, I'm sorry. What was I thinking. Obama said he was going to put an end to all those backroom deals so ignore everything I just wrote :rolleyes:

  The problem is, a no vote for laziness counts the same as a no vote from protest. That's why it's a shame that spoils aren't counted. A spoil means "I care enough to vote but screw you and the horse you rode in on".   The closest alternative is third party. If you don't like the choices from the majority left/right party, choose one that mostly agrees with your principles and go for them. The more votes a third party gets, the more likely one of the majors is likely to bend and the more likely you are to actually have a voice in things (and if eventually they get enough votes, it may even swing some of those "I only vote for winners, yuk-yuk" people. Your vote, your voice.

I'd like to see the tea party make some inroads on getting some fiscally conservative dems online. I know that seems like an oxymoron but one can hope...

Ah, mammary fluids...

I'm sure we subsidize some to not produce milk somewhere along too.

Yes. We should all get behind the change that we don't want so that we can say we got some change.   Seems legit.   90% of politicians are just corrupt. Only by fearing that they will lose enough votes that they'll be unable to maintain their greedy grip on power can any kind of leverage be applied to them. They will all, (on both sides) do the same thing if they think their support is unconditional.

They should all congregate around one area to allow pooling of skills and resources. They could call it Saltpeter Valley or somesuch.

  The problem with that is that then they would need to take a stance on other issues. One of the best things about the tea party was the focus on the finances only.

Cool. I'll make it "NO SERIAL". Should be fun if it ever needs to be communicated over the phone.

Or just park this van in the road