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Politics / Re: Boy Scouts Are Officially No More
« Last post by cordex on Today at 07:35:36 AM »Inevitable.Haven't we done this before? As far as I can tell, the current BSA offerings are here, both made in the USA, between $80-$100 each.
The decline in the Boy Scouts of America can be illustrated succinctly by comparing the BSA hatchet I had as a Scout (and which I still have) to the piece of dreck they sell today:
Then:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.K_Tg0DWE2JBJap2F-VB4xAHaEK%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=2adfc3a5fa651a82c954cdb31198fc182afbe1fbfa95fb2885fdfeaaf6dd9c2b&ipo=images
I can't find an image of the current offering. A friend across town has (or had) one. It's a cheap, Chinese piece of junk that Harbor Freight would be ashamed to sell. Flimsy, tubular steel(?) handle. My friend had it in his camper. He said every time he tried to use it the head flew off.
https://www.scoutshop.org/camping/knives-tools/axes-and-saws.html
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The Roundtable / Re: Central Oklahoma in High Pucker today
« Last post by WLJ on Today at 07:32:57 AM »Dash Cam footage from Lincoln, Nebraska
EF-3 according to the comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw2RB9WhIq4
EF-3 according to the comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw2RB9WhIq4
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Politics / Re: Illegal immigrants there, not here
« Last post by K Frame on Today at 07:17:21 AM »Massachusetts has also done it.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/07/15/host-homes-immigrant
You know, oddly enough, I'd bet conservatives would step up to do this more than liberals would. It always seems that liberals talk a good game... until they're expected to comply with what they're asking...
Friend's mother, quite liberal and fairly wealthy, was QUITE enthusiastic about building some center for something or the other, maybe the homeless, and plunking it down in a working class neighborhood across town. She just couldn't fathom why there was so much opposition to it.
But when asked if she'd support it being built in HER neighborhood, that's when all of the excuses started coming out as to why it couldn't be built there.
She just couldn't see the glaring light of her own hypocrisy.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/07/15/host-homes-immigrant
You know, oddly enough, I'd bet conservatives would step up to do this more than liberals would. It always seems that liberals talk a good game... until they're expected to comply with what they're asking...
Friend's mother, quite liberal and fairly wealthy, was QUITE enthusiastic about building some center for something or the other, maybe the homeless, and plunking it down in a working class neighborhood across town. She just couldn't fathom why there was so much opposition to it.
But when asked if she'd support it being built in HER neighborhood, that's when all of the excuses started coming out as to why it couldn't be built there.
She just couldn't see the glaring light of her own hypocrisy.
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Politics / Re: Illegal immigrants there, not here
« Last post by K Frame on Today at 07:11:06 AM »Denver residents are being asked to take in illegal aliens:
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1787618753884078274
If memory serves, at least one east coast city is already doing this. I'm curious about what percentage of city residents comply.
Back before the 2020 election I got an e-mail from the Democratic Party in Virginia, asking me to open my home to one or more Democratic field staff who were working the upcoming election.
I'd take in a whole family of tuberculosis-riddled illegals before I took in a Democratic field staffer.
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The Roundtable / Re: Oh Oh, Chongo! Danger Island
« Last post by K Frame on Today at 07:04:01 AM »Loved Black Sheep Squadron.
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The Roundtable / Re: Covid: Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists
« Last post by Boomhauer on Today at 06:55:24 AM »"Advanced Ripeness." Loved it. You mean moldy, don't you?
You should re-read what you said, and I'm not taking back what I said.
These unitary "my brother in law had it and died / was sick for a week / became impotent" stories are not enlightening.
I'm no champion of the medical industry, but I'm reminded of back in the day when a lot of people would not give their kids polio shots (or the later mouth vaccine) for vacuous reasons.
Yet we basically rid the world of polio. Fortunately, there's a transmission vector effect, where if enough of the population are immunized, the disease has fewer and fewer "pathways" to propagate and dies away.
But in the meantime, people die from "it" (whatever is the "it" de jour) needlessly. So thank you for dying, thereby restricting the propagation channels.
So. Go ahead and propagate the propaganda and good luck to you and your heirs. That's a joke...but a sharply-pointed one.
Terry, 230RN
The pro-vaccine crowd wanted to throw people in gulags or ruin their lives otherwise (and did their best to do so for many) for not wanting to get the vaccine. Let’s also not forget the other damage that was done either, economically, to us all.
I don’t abide by tyrants, and you shouldn’t either.
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The Roundtable / Re: Covid: Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists
« Last post by cordex on Today at 05:22:24 AM »These unitary "my brother in law had it and died / was sick for a week / became impotent" stories are not enlightening.Which anecdotal story did I give?
I'm no champion of the medical industry, but I'm reminded of back in the day when a lot of people would not give their kids polio shots (or the later mouth vaccine) for vacuous reasons.Cool cool cool, so it is 2024 and you are still under the impression that the COVID vaccine provides sterilizing immunity and is likely to result in the extermination of the underlying virus if only enough people get the vaccine? How can a man possibly argue with such deep and abiding faith and conviction despite all evidence to the contrary? Truly an apostle of The Science.
Yet we basically rid the world of polio. Fortunately, there's a transmission vector effect, where if enough of the population are immunized, the disease has fewer and fewer "pathways" to propagate and dies away.
So. Go ahead and propagate the propaganda and good luck to you and your heirs. That's a joke...but a sharply-pointed one.And which of my points are propaganda? The age-stratification of covid? The increased consequences of iatrogenic harm to younger people? The idea that one-size-fits-all might not be the best medical approach?
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The Roundtable / Re: Central Oklahoma in High Pucker today
« Last post by 230RN on Today at 04:44:02 AM »Jesus.
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The Roundtable / Re: Covid: Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists
« Last post by 230RN on Today at 03:46:37 AM »"Advanced Ripeness." Loved it. You mean moldy, don't you?
You should re-read what you said, and I'm not taking back what I said.
These unitary "my brother in law had it and died / was sick for a week / became impotent" stories are not enlightening.
I'm no champion of the medical industry, but I'm reminded of back in the day when a lot of people would not give their kids polio shots (or the later mouth vaccine) for vacuous reasons.
Yet we basically rid the world of polio. Fortunately, there's a transmission vector effect, where if enough of the population are immunized, the disease has fewer and fewer "pathways" to propagate and dies away.
But in the meantime, people die from "it" (whatever is the "it" de jour) needlessly. So thank you for dying, thereby restricting the propagation channels.
So. Go ahead and propagate the propaganda and good luck to you and your heirs. That's a joke...but a sharply-pointed one.
Terry, 230RN
You should re-read what you said, and I'm not taking back what I said.
These unitary "my brother in law had it and died / was sick for a week / became impotent" stories are not enlightening.
I'm no champion of the medical industry, but I'm reminded of back in the day when a lot of people would not give their kids polio shots (or the later mouth vaccine) for vacuous reasons.
Yet we basically rid the world of polio. Fortunately, there's a transmission vector effect, where if enough of the population are immunized, the disease has fewer and fewer "pathways" to propagate and dies away.
But in the meantime, people die from "it" (whatever is the "it" de jour) needlessly. So thank you for dying, thereby restricting the propagation channels.
So. Go ahead and propagate the propaganda and good luck to you and your heirs. That's a joke...but a sharply-pointed one.
Terry, 230RN