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Saturday, January 26, 2019

A Saturday in late January;

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I need something to take my mind off the temperature
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It's cold, I ache,

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and I really don't want to bitch and yell about things right now.  See you later.
Friday, January 25, 2019

Almost end of the week, so

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the study materials are in

Prison-Industrial complex

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Messy .
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Surprising no one who's been paying attention.

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Bloostein is just one restaurant owner, you might say. But he is not alone. A New York City Hospitality Alliance survey shows that 75 pe...

Crank-cocked medieval crossbow,

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1,250 pounds draw weight

Tab clearing

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Four days to crash a new "Learn how this works" truck?  Surprised it took that long. Only six reasons not to vote for her?   M...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Still messing with the .310 Cadet

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Loading some using the shortened 7.62 Nagant brass, discovered something: after crimping, some of them would need a fair amount of pressure ...
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Kipling unavailable for comment, because this would probably strain his ability

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to say something without resorting to very bad language. No wonder the Brit cops can't deal with slavers and rape ...
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Mike Rowe is a national treasure

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Two of the takeaways from this article : “Be wary of experts,” he told the group. “Don’t dismiss them out of hand, but don’t always assume...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

New cartridge from Winchester

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.350 Legend . Says the first rifle will be a bolt-action.
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Occasional-Cortex strikes again

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says it's "immoral" that the American economic system "allows billionaires to exist." I wonder if she includes the ...
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Monday, January 21, 2019

A light machine gun

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in .338 Norma Magnum . Damn.

Security Staff(Sr.) has an injury on one leg,

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and is having to wear a cone to prevent her gnawing on the bandage. You can imagine how thrilled she is.

A crimp experiment

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While digging around on black-powder loads a while back, ran across several people saying that instead of a crimp die to lock the bullet in ...
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Once again, the major media has given us two choices:

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Either they're incompetents who didn't bother to actually investigate before shoving a story out, or They're a bunch of corrup...
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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Another weekend from, if not hell,

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a suburb thereof.  Very busy, and still shorthanded.  I'm beat. Then get home, browse some news and look on Bookface, and find that so...
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I'm going to have to write it 'scientist', because this idiot

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is a disgrace to the real thing . [Scientists] want to be sure to have sufficient factual evidence to infer a conclusion about climate. Bu...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Dammit, it's cold outside

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I don't want to hear anything about "Well, in Alaska-" or anything else; I don't care what polar bear wannabes think, it...
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