MacGyver

As a side note, the white, heterosexual, 'Merica loving pundits who are feigning outrage over Coke taking liberties with this commercial ought to Google Katharine Lee Bates, the author of the lyrics to America the Beautiful. Though she identified as a Republican most of her life, she wouldn't be welcome in today's GOP. She "lived" with one of her fellow Wellesley professors, Katharine Coman for more than 25 years. How's that for a historical fun fact?

In my opinion, this ad represents exactly why America is beautiful.    This noble experiment that is our country does one thing that no other nation in world has ever managed to do.  We can take the world's tired, poor and huddled masses and turn them into Americans.  Wander the streets of New York and watch the immigrant Sihk cab driver working 20 hours a day.  Go to the fields on the west coast at harvest time and watch the immigrants who have come here illegally - with no small amount of personal risk to better their families.  Stay in any hotel in America and try and count more than one hand worth of non-immigrants working past the front desk.  Go put your boots on the soil of any third world country and talk to the common man on the street, who regardless of their leaders' rhetoric would give everything they own right now to come to America.   This is what makes America great, and it's something we're in danger of losing.  Our political parties love nothing more than to divide us into factions, and nothing makes that easier than spreading distrust of people who aren't like us.  Our "pundits" are getting rich off of selling a message of fear and hate.  It's cancerous, and it will affect us as a country.  Don't believe it?  Watch an hour of Fox News and keep a running tally of the stories that are based in something other than fear.   If we're going to find our way forward as a country and make the next two and a half centuries better than the last, we're going to have to find a way to embrace each other - even when they don't look like us. 

Killing someone, however justified should not be cause to make someone a celebrity.  To have someone seeking and embracing celebrity status after shooting someone should be abhorrent to anyone.   The fact that they would televise these thugs beating one another probably says something about the state of our society at large.

Thanks for that.  And to be clear, we were very pleased with it.  We've just been around enough group buys gone bad that we were nervous about it.  Soured deals can hurt communities, so we wanted to make sure that if we were going to do one, we were going to do it right.

It's to be expected.  That's why we were so particular about the whole affair.   All in all, I'll say that it actually went a lot better than I expected.  I give almost all of that credit to the guys at CMT.

Weird.  I'll look into it.

All in all, we did 169 lowers, 119 uppers and 66 BCGs.    Considering the number of people who bought their limit of 2 uppers, 2 lowers and 2 BCGs, about 1/4 - 1/3 of the people who "committed" actually followed through.  This ration is a great example of how group buys can quickly go south.  We were so fortunate to work with Jeff and his team at CMT.  They're really top notch.

Stainless can be cleaned in an ultrasonic cleaner.  Aluminum generally shouldn't be.

If it's only pistol calibers you're looking at shooting, I can speak highly of the AAC TiRant45.  You'll need a thread adapter to go down to 9mm, but it will work fine.   Rifle suppressors are made to handle a lot higher pressures, and as such a pistol rated model isn't going to work safely on a rifle.

Likewise, if you don't want it to be anonymous, you're welcome to forward it to him yourself as well.

Dave, send me the voucher code, and I'll send it to him.  I talked to him, and he's on an iPhone, so it wasn't obvious as to where it was.

With further inspection, these have been photoshopped - unless that Obama/Morgan model is a left-handed 1911.   Fitting maybe, but man would that ever offend some folks.

Something's wonky about their pictures - besides having Obama on a 1911.  I'm assuming they mean that top picture to look like both sides of the same firearm, but neither has a safety or slide release.  Likewise, on the bottom, both contain safeties and slide releases.   So, I think their scrimshaw guy got the grips wrong and they tried to compensate for the pictures.  According to the grips, you either get the Obama/Morgan model or the Bush/Nugent model.

I don't think you need to do anything.  I'll let you know when I hear back from the user.

He's got to 'activate' the gift.

I must have looked over it with the capitalization of the 'C' instead of the 'r' in your username, but welcome to TGO, Doug.  I've enjoyed your blog for years!

I read that article this morning.  The whole thing is worth a read. My favorite quote from the article:        "The thought nagged at me that I was enabling the same government-sanctioned bigotry my father had fought so hard to escape."  

As it turns out, heavy wheel movements on a ship of any size can be terribly effective when employed appropriately.  The bow waves and wash generated by any of these ships travelling at speed can be devastating to a small craft.

Maritime insurance regulations have historically been against it.  Likewise, it creates problems trying to gain entry in just about any country in the world.  As such, most transport companies have eschewed carrying firearms.   That said, the game is changing a bit.  The transport companies have adopted some interesting tactics reducing hijackings to zero in 2013.  This is down from 52 in 2009, the year Maersk Alabama was hijacked.

Were I a funeral home director in Memphis right now, I'd wear my nice pajamas to bed.  I expect that we'll be seeing some early morning visits from the authorities as we learn more.

Are you guys in Memphis following this story?   http://wreg.com/2014/01/27/caskets-crushed-to-make-room-at-overcrowded-cemetery/   There could be hundreds or thousands of unidentified graves in this place.  Forensic teams are going to be busy for years.    

David is pretty covered up this week, but in a uniquely good way. I'll ping him and see what I can find.

That's great, Mikey!

Officially, yes.  I was in the field 50 weeks a year for the last 4 years I was there, so I don't even remember if we maintained an office. 

I love their quote, "we start with the possibility that we will be in that location for decades, if not hundreds of years, to come."  This coming from a company that's existed in the same place since 1526.