MacGyver

Spectacular!

CCI Mini-Mags stay subsonic. They are pretty easy to find, and as quiet as any regularly available ammo I've fired through any suppressor. I've heard horror stories on the 60gr SSS rounds. They can have a tough time stabilizing and thus cause baffle strikes. If I were going to shoot them, it would be out of a weapon designed to stabilize them.

That sounds fun!

I was thinking about this the other day when I saw that the govenor of New Hampshipe signed a new bill into law making switchblades and other autos legal. I started checking into the laws, and come to find out, both California and New York are ahead of us on this issue. They both allow autos in some form or fashion for both possession and carry. Maybe we could forward a copy of the New Hampshire law over to some of our reps?

suicidemachine.org - an interesting take on the concept

Now those are fun times. Be safe out there.

Have fun on a few needed rest days. Readjustment is hard. When you live on the trail for months at a time, you occasionally feel the urge just to toss everything when you get back and go back out.

Unless you want to shoot up a grocery store with an accidental discharge like happened over in Clinton last year, run away...quickly.

That is a GREAT looking blade. I'm in for one for sure!

I carry one. I use either a D.M. Bullard Dual Tuck if I'm carrying IWB or a Raven Concealment Phantom LC if I'm wearing a jacket.

Congrats. And thank you for 36 years of underpaid service. Have fun and be safe out there.

I didn't even know you could buy waterbeds anymore.

We've started getting tarballs on CR-30A thus week. Grayton Beach, Seaside and Santa Rosa beach are all getting them. A friend of mine down here told me that not a single piece of property in Seaside or Watercolor has sold since the spill happened. This is going to have a major long term impact.

BladeHQ was running a deal on these a couple of weeks ago.

I've handled one. They're pretty nice. They are pretty wide, which I like in a blade, but it's pretty big in your pocket. And this is coming from someone whose EDC is a Spyderco Military, which is no small blade itself.

I'm curious as to why this guy was reluctant to sign his plea deal in open court??? I've worked a lot of cases, and been a part of a lot of plea deals over the years, but that's the first I ever recall seeing something like this.

I'm kind of hesitant to step in here, as this thread seems to be taking that ominous turn that these threads usually make. That said, the thing I keep thinking about here is not how we've failed this generation in their upbringing, but how we somehow failed their parents generation. Mind you, I'm only 35, but if I had tried a stunt like those girls pulled, looking like a fool on YouTube would be the least of my concerns. My dad would have killed me, and probably called the officer I assaulted to come help.

Imagine how frustrated the militant group must have been - "AGGGH, WHY ARE ALL OF THESE DOMAIN NAMES TAKEN! We're never going to get our website up now."

BP's market cap at the close of the market today was $99.71 billion at $32.11/share. They've got some blood to shed in the market before this is done, but they're certainly worth more than $20 billion. Read what they tell you, listen to what they say, and then use the common sense the good Lord gave you to ask yourself if they're being straight with us. My conclusion right now is that they are all either liars or fools. I need to get one of those Fox Mulder "Trust No One" posters. I've got nothing more to add today. I was having a good time earlier going back and forth with mike and 6.8, but I'm spent for the day.

He's smart, I just don't think he's smart enough. I hope that this is what will save us from this mess. Not that he doesn't have an agenda. Not that he wouldn't love to capitalize on it. It's just that this wasn't in his gameplan, and politicians suck at improvising when things don't go according to plan. I think that he's going to have so little political capital coming out of this, that it really won't matter what he thinks. Everyone that matters is going to see him as a one term president, and who wants to side with that? Long term, our country is still on a collision course with calamity unless major changes are made. But, short term I think the best I can hope for is that he comes out of this with so little brand integrity that the DNC does what they're best at, which is screw around and accomplish nothing. If that gets us to November, then hopefully we can have a Republican majority in the house, a smaller democratic majority in the Senate, a lame duck president and complete and utter gridlock. That sounds terrible, but I increasingly beleive that the less they do, for whatever reason, the better for us. Like I said earlier, our two party system is a true zero sum game. What's good for one party is necessarily bad for the other. The problem is that both parties have gotten so focused on looking out for and protecting the party that they've lost sight of the people. That's the biggest problem in my book. We don't have a government "of, by and for the people", we've got two relatively small groups playing a high stakes game with our lives.

Far be it from me to support the guy; I think his handling of this has been miserable so far. But then again, I don't believe that our government is capable of creating value. So, big suprise. I don't think it would have matter who was in office. They would have done an abysmal job as well. The lesson that things like Katrina and this should teach us is that we depend far too much on our federal government. There are some jobs that they're just not cut out to do. I don't think he's smart enough to capitalize on this. Not really, anyway. I think that's why we've seen him so disconnected. He's trying to find a way to capitalize on it, and there's not one. It's all downside. The only scenario where he wins is by plugging the hole, and he can't do it. All the might of our federal government isn't big enough to plug an 18" hole in the ground. I think he certainly has an agenda, but the problem with this disaster, from his perspective is that this is really screwing it up. Spending political capital on this costs him in areas where he really wants to bring that "hope and change".

The two year's I spent in Houston investigating this little oil and gas company that declared bankruptcy may have jaded me a bit. The one thing I learned from that experience is that there are only two groups that come out ahead in a calamity like this - the lawyers and the restructuring specialists. I can't even count the number of meetings I walked into that had $60,000/hour worth of professional fees sitting around a conference table. It's ironic, but it's kind of like going to the gas station. From the time you get there, until the time you leave, you can just watch the price go up. And the sad thing is that they don't leave until the tanks are dry. Maybe we should send restructuring specialists to siphon the oil from the wellhead. They can certainly suck faster than any pumps that BP has out there.

Somebody's already looking for the hammer to crack that piggy bank. This ought to make people really angry.

Not saying it's easy, but that there is recourse under the law as it exists today. BP couldn't afford to get this wrong. Not that their handling thus far deserves any slack. This is a huge disaster, and the clean up may indeed last generations in some ares. Managed independently? From CBS's report of the meeting this morning: Call it what you want. This play was stupid on the part of the administration. Again, I hope you are right.

I'm afraid I'm still out in the cold.