Interesting political interlude
JoeSpareBedroom
some leaflets for a candidate who needs signatures to get on the ballot for
NY State Senate. A quick peek at the pamphlet revealed the usual list of hot
button topics: economy, war, health care, more potato chips for all
citizens, immigration, blah blah blah. Considering that micro-stamping
legislation is floating around the state senate, I asked the political
powerhouse about her candidate's views on gun rights in general, and that
issue in particular. She stammered a bit, said "I'm not exactly sure about
that thing", followed by "...but I know she fully supports the 5th
amendment."
We are doomed if this is typical of the up & coming generation.
[MODERATOR: I knew we were doomed when at a national museum we overheard
a teacher walking her middle school class through a WW II section, and
telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
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"...but I know she fully supports the 5th
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# We are doomed if this is typical of the up & coming generation.
#
# [MODERATOR: I knew we were doomed when at a national museum we overheard
# a teacher walking her middle school class through a WW II section, and
# telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
Maybe her students will be fighting World War Eleven. The last world
war lasted less than a month after nuclear weapons were used. There
are plenty of countries who hate each other enough to have nine more
world wars in a few years.
David R.Birch
# A 20-something hottie came to my door over the weekend with a petition and
# some leaflets for a candidate who needs signatures to get on the ballot for
# NY State Senate. A quick peek at the pamphlet revealed the usual list of hot
# button topics: economy, war, health care, more potato chips for all
# citizens, immigration, blah blah blah. Considering that micro-stamping
# legislation is floating around the state senate, I asked the political
# powerhouse about her candidate's views on gun rights in general, and that
# issue in particular. She stammered a bit, said "I'm not exactly sure about
# that thing", followed by "...but I know she fully supports the 5th
# amendment."
#
# We are doomed if this is typical of the up& coming generation.
#
# [MODERATOR: I knew we were doomed when at a national museum we overheard
# a teacher walking her middle school class through a WW II section, and
# telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
Aye, we remember The Big OneOne! I was crew chief on a 4 terawatt
Discombobulator Type 7 at the beginning, by the end we were down to
garage made Stens...
Those were the days...
David
JoeSpareBedroom
# # We are doomed if this is typical of the up& coming generation.
# #
# # [MODERATOR: I knew we were doomed when at a national museum we overheard
# # telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
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# Aye, we remember The Big OneOne! I was crew chief on a 4 terawatt
# Discombobulator Type 7 at the beginning, by the end we were down to
# garage made Stens...
#
# Those were the days...
#
# David
Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
RBnDFW
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# # # a teacher walking her middle school class through a WW II section, and
# # # telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
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# # Aye, we remember The Big OneOne! I was crew chief on a 4 terawatt
# # garage made Stens...
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# # Those were the days...
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# Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
<raises hand>
Dad was a World War Eleven guy
John Husvar
# # # [MODERATOR: I knew we were doomed when at a national museum we overheard
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# # Aye, we remember The Big OneOne! I was crew chief on a 4 terawatt
# # garage made Stens...
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JR
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57 here
willshak
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Knocking on 73's door
Jim Rusling
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## # telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
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## Aye, we remember The Big OneOne! I was crew chief on a 4 terawatt
## Discombobulator Type 7 at the beginning, by the end we were down to
## garage made Stens...
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## Those were the days...
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#Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
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Just 66.
--
Jim Rusling
More or Less Retired
Mustang, OK
http://www.rusling.org
Larry Farrell
# "JoeSpareBedroom"<news...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
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# #Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
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# Just 66.
67 here.
David R.Birch
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# # # telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
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# # Aye, we remember The Big OneOne! I was crew chief on a 4 terawatt
# # garage made Stens...
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Me, at 60. Or I've been 25 for 35 years now.
David
Bob Holtzman
# "JoeSpareBedroom" <news...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
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Infant!
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Bob Holtzman
Key ID: 8D549279
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
check the price of the beer"
Gunner Asch
NapalmHeart
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-Kevin R.
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Ed_G
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Me too,
Ed on the Oregon Coast
IGot2P
> ...
Yeah, so was my dad but he would never talk about it because he was in
the "blood and guts" part of it.
Michael Medley
wrote:
# Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
Age 45 here
MR
# # Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
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67.8
RBnDFW
# On 2010-08-11, Jim Rusling <use...@rusling.org> wrote:
# # "JoeSpareBedroom" <news...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
# #
# # #Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
58
Gray Ghost
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# 63
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I'm 51 and appalled by how little people know of even recent history or how
twisted thier knowledge is, if they have some.
I have 2 kids, a 16 yo boy and a 7 yo girl. I have already corrupted both of
them politically. 8) My boy doesn't know it yet but he is getting additional
reading starting this year. De Toqueville, Stuart, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, etc.
I'm going to read or reread the books I've got for him myself so we can talk
about it. My kids will have a clear idea of how the world works before they
get to it. Oh and I model a lot of military stuff, tanks, planes, ships, etc.
And have quite a library to boot. Kind of a amature historian of the 20th
Century conflist and it's causes. A nephew who syayed with us through the
summer when he was younger actually got extra credit for a report he did based
on my own brainwashing of WWII events.
We also live near Fort Knox and we can hear 'em training the troopies on the
M1 Abrams and the Bradleys. Depending on what range they use we can hear the
Abrams main guns and even the chain guns on the Brads (or ehatever they are
using, it's pretty distinct. My little girl knows that it is our soldiers
getting ready to go defend the country for the bad people.
Oh, and the 7 yo shot for the first time on Sunday. My Ruger single Six, the
Mark II and my old High Standard Sportmatic. She was even earing back the
hammer with one hand while holding on to it with the other. I think she liked
the Single six best. That's my girl! She even hit a couple of the milk jugs we
had set up!
She wants to shoot my 1892 S&W Safety hammerless in .32 S&W 'cuz it is so
small and fits her well, but I don't think she has the strength to work the
trigger yet, it's a hard pull.
Mebbe I need a round butt J frame in .22. Aww now I have to buy another gun!
Gray Ghost
news:i40j3e$vkd$1...@news.albasani.net:
# On 8/11/2010 6:40 AM, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
# # # #
# # # # We are doomed if this is typical of the up& coming generation.
# # # #
# # # # [MODERATOR: I knew we were doomed when at a national museum we
# overheard # # # a teacher walking her middle school class through a WW II
# section, and # # # telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
# # #
# # # Aye, we remember The Big OneOne! I was crew chief on a 4 terawatt
# # # Discombobulator Type 7 at the beginning, by the end we were down to
# # # garage made Stens...
# # #
# # # Those were the days...
# # #
# # # David
# #
# #
# # Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
#
# Me, at 60. Or I've been 25 for 35 years now.
#
# David
#
That's it dammit! Refuse to grow up. That's what I do.
RBnDFW
#
#
#
# I have 2 kids, a 16 yo boy and a 7 yo girl. I have already corrupted both of
# them politically. 8) My boy doesn't know it yet but he is getting additional
# reading starting this year. De Toqueville, Stuart, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, etc.
# I'm going to read or reread the books I've got for him myself so we can talk
# about it. My kids will have a clear idea of how the world works before they
# get to it. Oh and I model a lot of military stuff, tanks, planes, ships, etc.
# And have quite a library to boot. Kind of a amature historian of the 20th
# Century conflist and it's causes. A nephew who syayed with us through the
# summer when he was younger actually got extra credit for a report he did based
# on my own brainwashing of WWII events.
WWII - You did tell them we won that one, right?
No telling what their teachers are telling them now.
Misifus
# # #
# # # Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
# # #
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# 67.8
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68, myself.
-Raf
Martin H. Eastburn
Early 50's
My first recollection is a wing of B-36's turning our way - miles away - while
warming up their engines. They spent time to save engine wear. It was loud!
Early 60's
Then three wings of B-52's forming up in formation before all flying off in
the same direction - that brought chills. It was Bay of Pigs week.
I knew that one wing was in the air at a time. But all three meaning one
was off station and the ready was there and the one that just came back
was there. And painted in battle colors. Chilling for a Jr High kid I tell you!
It is good when an understanding is obtained early in their years.
They may never be a gunner, but enjoy shooting or simply know life
saving skill.
Martin
misanthropic_curmudgeon
wrote:
[snip]
# Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
Just call me 'the foetus'. 41.
Steve B
"JR" <rac...@comcast.net> wrote
#
# 57 here
#
62 here, which puts me a little young for some things, but you know, I found
these remarkable things called books ....................
Steve
Steve B
Steve
Gray Ghost
# WWII - You did tell them we won that one, right?
# No telling what their teachers are telling them now.
Not to worry, it's aprivate school with the "right" view on things.
RBnDFW
# I'm 62 and lived next to B-36 bases - and B-52 bases and firing Missile Silos.
# Early 50's
# My first recollection is a wing of B-36's turning our way - miles away - while
# warming up their engines. They spent time to save engine wear. It was loud!
# Early 60's
# Then three wings of B-52's forming up in formation before all flying off in
# the same direction - that brought chills. It was Bay of Pigs week.
# I knew that one wing was in the air at a time. But all three meaning one
# was off station and the ready was there and the one that just came back
# was there. And painted in battle colors. Chilling for a Jr High kid I tell you!
I was an Air Force brat, spent most of my formative years on SAC bases.
Dad worked the Atlas missile silos around Roswell during the Bay of Pigs
and the Cuban Missile Crisis. We didn't see him for weeks. Lots of
nervous family members.
Then there was the time the B52 hangar blew up, knocked me off my
feet just as I was coming out the door of the school.
Martin H. Eastburn
another and then to White Sands - then South Pacific....
I left for school about that time.
After school, I taught advanced training for B-36 designers so they would
have a better background for the Solid-state F-111 bomber/fighter.
Working in the Bomb/Nav group - radar - the open house used a radar to
home in on and rattle 50's on unscheduled inspectors. Some shook fingers,
others got out of there. They didn't do it the next year open house!
Martin
Dillon Pyron
#JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
#"...but I know she fully supports the 5th
## amendment."
##
## We are doomed if this is typical of the up & coming generation.
##
## [MODERATOR: I knew we were doomed when at a national museum we overheard
## a teacher walking her middle school class through a WW II section, and
## telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
#
#Maybe her students will be fighting World War Eleven. The last world
#war lasted less than a month after nuclear weapons were used. There
#are plenty of countries who hate each other enough to have nine more
#world wars in a few years.
"I don't know if we will fight the next war with nuclear weapons, but
if we do, the one after that will be with sticks and stones."
(credited to Dr. Strangelove, oops, Dr. Kissneger)
Alex Cunningham
# On 8/11/2010 8:01 AM, RBnDFW wrote:
# > ...
#"IGot2P" <d...@crsales.com> wrote:
# Yeah, so was my dad but he would never talk about it because he was in
# the "blood and guts" part of it.
#
#
Nor would my Dad. He served in WW I (Eye) ;-)
He was seventeen when he went to France was badly wounded at Vimy Ridge and
shipped home. That's how he met my mother. She was one of his nurses.
--
Cheers!
Alex.C
There are twelve million sheep in Ontario.
Problem is nine million of them think they are people.
Alex Cunningham
# #JoeSpareBedroom wrote the following:
# # Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
# #
#"willshak" <will...@00hvc.rr.com> wrote
# Knocking on 73's door
#
Me too.
Wayne
"Alex Cunningham" <true...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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#
# # #JoeSpareBedroom wrote the following:
# # # Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?# # Knocking on 73's door
# #
#
# Me too.
Me too although I don't post that much.
MWF
SaPeIsMa
#
# Nor would my Dad. He served in WW I (Eye) ;-)
and
# shipped home. That's how he met my mother. She was one of his nurses.
#
Have you read "Vimy" by Pierre Berton ?
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22Vimy%22+Pierre+Berton+&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=Cs7XRev6ATPXQI5HCNrD58MYBAAAAqgQFT9DUgzw&pbx=1&fp=fbb82a6afec8c3ff
It's a worthwile read
Truebrit
# and
# # shipped home. That's how he met my mother. She was one of his nurses.
# #
#"SaPeIsMa" <SaPe...@HotMail.com> wrote
# Have you read "Vimy" by Pierre Berton ?
#
# http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22Vimy%22+Pierre+Berton+&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=Cs7XRev6ATPXQI5HCNrD58MYBAAAAqgQFT9DUgzw&pbx=1&fp=fbb82a6afec8c3ff
# It's a worthwile read
#
I did not read the book but I did watch the documentary about Vimy that he
made for the CBC.
My Dad was not in the Canadian army who were the successful takers of the
position.
He was in the British army (Highland Light Infantry)
Both the French and British had made previous unsuccessful attempts to take
the position but failed.
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Cheers!
Alex.C
There are twelve million sheep in Ontario.
Problem is nine million of them think they are people.
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Molesworth
"Alex Cunningham" <true...@hotmail.com> wrote:
# # #JoeSpareBedroom wrote the following:
# # # Just curious: Who in this newsgroup is under 80 years old, besides me?
# # #
# #"willshak" <will...@00hvc.rr.com> wrote
# # Knocking on 73's door
# #
#
# Me too.
Me? A child at 64
Shall not be infringed
wrote:
# A 20-something hottie came to my door over the weekend with a petition and
# some leaflets for a candidate who needs signatures to get on the ballot for
# NY State Senate. A quick peek at the pamphlet revealed the usual list of hot
# button topics: economy, war, health care, more potato chips for all
# citizens, immigration, blah blah blah. Considering that micro-stamping
# legislation is floating around the state senate, I asked the political
# powerhouse about her candidate's views on gun rights in general, and that
# issue in particular. She stammered a bit, said "I'm not exactly sure about
# that thing", followed by "...but I know she fully supports the 5th
# amendment."
#
# We are doomed if this is typical of the up & coming generation.
#
# a teacher walking her middle school class through a WW II section, and
# telling the kids all about "world war eleven." ]
;^)
A couple of hotties were working the crowd at a parade. Clipboards
and forms for each county, they were trying to get a bill on the
ballot to stop animal cruelty.
Everyone was signing up.
When it was my turn, I asked if she meant dog fighting and puppy
mills. No. She meant farming.
Good grief.
Shall not be infringed
# #
# #
#
This is just like ham radio! At 52ish I'm the youngest guy in the
room.
Kevin Snodgrass
# # # Me, at 60. Or I've been 25 for 35 years now. # #
# # # David
# # #
# #
# # That's it dammit! Refuse to grow up. That's what I do.
#
# This is just like ham radio! At 52ish I'm the youngest guy in the room.
Not quite. 47 here...
JR
Tech class now doesn't even require a code test.
It was getting as bad as CB radio which is when I sold ALL my HF & VHF
equipment.
Regards,
JR- Formerly KA3IZT
Brian Goralczyk
# On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:24:52 +0000, Shall not be infringed wrote:
#
# # # # David
# # # #
# # #
# # # That's it dammit! Refuse to grow up. That's what I do.
# #
# # This is just like ham radio! At 52ish I'm the youngest guy in the room.
# Not quite. 47 here...
I got you all beat. 37.
Allan Matthews
<kdsno...@yahoo.com> wrote:
#On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:24:52 +0000, Shall not be infringed wrote:
#
## # # Me, at 60. Or I've been 25 for 35 years now. # #
## # # David
## # #
## #
## # That's it dammit! Refuse to grow up. That's what I do.
##
## This is just like ham radio! At 52ish I'm the youngest guy in the room.
#
#Not quite. 47 here...
I'm 76, W2IJL ex W3BEF, licensed since 1954
Allan
clarkm...@gmail.com
wrote:
# A 20-something hottie came to my door over the weekend with a petition and
Jennifer Dunn was a Republican congresswoman with an NRA rating of B
that always won with huge margins in WA's 8th district.
She was going to retire in 2007 and the position was up for grabs.
I was in my workshop building on a rifle, when in walks the Democratic
nominee for the position, wanting to shake my hand and give my a
flyer.
I said I was a single issue pro gun voter.
He said he supported the second amendment.
I said that "I support the second amendment." is a DNC talking point.
I asked if his support for the second amendment included doing
something about getting rid of 30,000 gun control laws that in
violation of the second amendment.
He did not respond to that question, but instead wrote something down
in a little book.
He lost. Republican Dave Reichert won.