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Just got done hanging up my doe. I took her with a 320yd shot from my Remington 700 30-06 / 3-12x40mm Cabela’s Guide Pro scope.
Missed on the first shot. Doped it and hit her square in the ass. Got her home, sprayed her cavity out and removed the inner loins.
Mrs Nota just made homemade bread, so I toasted some – fried the loins (medallioned) in butter, white onions, with a dusting of my special blend [salt, pepper, garlic, cayenne]. Topped with a slice of cheese and had the tastiest philly steak ever!
(And no, this doesn’t violate the man code rules, because I killed it myself)
I hung her from the kids playground.
Vintage find.
I have pods of junk in various rooms of my house that act as time capsules. Things are in boxes where they don’t belong and every few years I clean things up and move them somewhere else. Today while rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic I found several VHS tapes bearing my handwriting on labels entitled “CNN News coverage Gulf War”. Endless hours of air strikes and cruise missile attacks being explained, along with images of the latest and greatest stealth technology. It was all pretty amazing stuff during its time.
All American men like explosions.
Save them, Brad.
they are memories of good times.
Anybody care to recommend a new rifle scope for my M1A? Looking for something no more than $500. No less than 40mm objective diameter (50mm is better). Adjustable magnification out to 10x at least. Doesn’t have to be mildot.
{{Slightly}} over your limit…
Great scope…
Thanks for the tip.
Here is the one I was leaning toward before I asked.
Back on the dark side as of yesterday. No problems at all.
Yes sir. I noticed the IP. Glad to hear you made it safely.
Let them eat Moroccan Swordfish Sliders with chermoula marinade, fennel salad, aged pecorino and hazelnut coffee dressing.
Just what is a swordfish slider? Is it anything like a White Castle slider?
Hey. To all you that see an uncertain future in our beloved country.
Over at survivalblog.com today, there are links to making penicillin and insulin.
I know, but when it gets down to it, I won’t watch people die if there’s any other chance.
Re the wingsuit video: what is the purpose of tricks like that? It seems to be to go as long as you can on adrenalin highs until you kill yourself.
Anybody understand it?
I don’t know Jim…I understand it, but I sure as shit wouldn’t attempt it. Heck, i’ve never even been on a snowmobile. Just not interested, but then again, I’m not an adrenalin junkie. A rollercoaster has the same effect on me as a wingsuit has on thrill seeker.
By the way…how does one practice flying a wingsuit? If you screw up once, youre toast.
I have jumped from an aircraft in flight at 800′ and 15,000′. I have dived in the ocean down to 146′ below the surface. I have climbed an 800′ sheer rock wall. I have flown in a helicopter into a war zone. I have parachuted into the jungle at night in a foreign land. I have hiked alone in the wilderness for days on end. All I can tell you is that it feels good to push the envelope.
I have driven 68 mph in a 65 zone.
Eviction papers served in Glenview on Cain accuser for $7,500 back rent.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-eviction-papers-served-in-glenview-on-cain-accuser-for-7500-back-rent-20111130,0,3137453.story#tugs_story_display
Iowa Couple, Married 72 Years, Die a Day Apart
Dunno if this has been posted here before but worth repeating….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUPDSpCcdg&feature=youtu.be
And my wifes all time favorite…
Sorry… it’s this one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzFWRPiNXOI
I agree with RD.
I’ve hiked in the wilderness of foreign lands. I’ve had to SURVIVE in the wilderness and the city.
I’ve kicked in doors on dope dealers & murderers. I’ve been in many a fight on the street. Many civilian, many police work.
I’ve driven way too fast, and been way too stupid.
The envelope loves to be pushed and pushing it is fun.
Ah, the conveniences of modern life…
As Brad would say, “This is funny. I don’t care who you are.”
It’s funny but it is an Internet hoax.
Dammit! Nothing is real.
I have been sick as a dog since last night. Fever, chills, headache , body aches, this sucks hard. It felt like the small of my back was in a vice. This is the sickest I have been in years. I might be out another day.
Count your blessings. At leaast you don’t have to drive 700 miles while feeling like that
I used to think schools were the worst petri dishes on earth but am coming to believe truck stops might be as bad.
Theres a reason we always look like shit.
Get better man, get some sleep. Hopefully you won’t graduate to the heaves.
If you are a big fan of “Guy on a Buffalo” like I am then episode 2 is must see youtube.
I especial-like the cactus punch kitty in the face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Lmkm5EF5E
Get Well RD.
RD. Low profile. Stay warm. Hot toddies. I don’t know how cold it is out your front door. Mine, however, is below freezing and the north wind is blowing 40mph. I changed back into my flannel jammies. Hope you’re better soon.
Lots of liquid, vitamin C, sleep, and aspirin. Then it just takes time.
Hope you’re on the mend.
There are two statues in a park; One of a nude man and one of a nude woman. They had been facing each other across a pathway for a hundred years, when one day an angel comes down from the sky and, with a single gesture, brings the two to life!!!!!!!!
The angel tells them, ‘As a reward for being so patient through a hundred blazing summers and dismal winters, you have been given life for thirty minutes to do what you’ve wished to do the most.’
He looks at her, she looks at him, and they go running behind the shrubbery.
The angel waits patiently as the bushes rustle and giggling ensues.
After fifteen minutes, the two return, out of breath and laughing. The angel tells them, ‘Um, you have fifteen minutes left, would you care to do it again?’
He asks her ‘Shall we?’
She eagerly replies, ‘Oh, yes, let’s! But let’s change positions….This time, I’ll hold the pigeon down and you crap on its head.’
Sorry for the absence. Won’t bore you with the details. Been a tough couple weekds.
Saw this today. Even more pertinent now than it was when it was filmed…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl4VD8uvgec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UcxU8PtzRs
How long before someone makes a commercial (or web video.. hint hint) featuring this Congressional Scholar making an incredibly compelling (and IMO indisputable) case that the Obamacare mandate is absolutely positively NOT a tax?
It’s one of the only things I’ve actually agreed with him on. It should definitely be broadcast again and again… enough times to ensure that even the most cloistered SCOTUS member see’s it and is likewise influenced by it.
I mean, Barry really knocked it outta da park! What a superior legal mind he was blessed with! How could anyone possibly disagree with his position?
I like this one too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-qh9XDbgE
Today is the Feast of the Inarticulate Conception. To celebrate, I am doing the prep for a colonoscopy tomorrow. I just started. Wish me luck.
What was it that Dave Barry said about preparing for a colonoscopy? Oh, yeah, “There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt.”
Never understood the thinking behind the name “Golytely”.
‘Goheavily’ would be more apt but… if you wanted to be truly descriptive it would have to be something like ‘Gofrequently’ or ‘Goprolifically’ or (my personal favorite) ‘Gothoroughly’.
My heart goes out to you RD as well as positive vibes that all is well in the land down under.
MoviPrep should be controlled under the Geneva Convention as a chemical weapon.
The Horror… The Horror.
Good Luck!
Damn, my day is coming soon.
Just think of all the time and money yer saving using MoviPrep instead of ColonCleanse ColonBlow or whatever the latest ‘diet’ cleanse is called
God how I miss Phil Hartman….
http://www.hulu.com/watch/10304/saturday-night-live-colon-blow
This isn’t a fun evening.
Ah yes, but be grateful you have a Droid to entertain yourself in isolation. I’m assuming you’re isolated, lmao. Can’t imagine anyone in the house but your boy would find humor in this
Wait, on second thought.. my wife laughed her ass off at my first prostate exam
Yes. I am posting from my android. I am almost done with the prep. Praise Jesus.
Just got this via e-mail….
The Green Thing
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she
should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the
environment.
The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier
days.”
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough
to save our environment for future generations.”
She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The
store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could
use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have
the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office
building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine
every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing
in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind.
We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts –
wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got
hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But
that young lady is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the
TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the
size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we
didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item
to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or
plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to
cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so
we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she’s right. We didn’t have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic
bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of
buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away
the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing
back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or
walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical
outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we
didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000
miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just
because we didn’t have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in
conservation from a smartass young person.
Remember: Don’t make old people mad.
We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off.
JD, that put a huge smile on my face
I shouldn’t talk because I was lucky enough that during my childhood I got everything I needed and lotsa things that I wanted. My mom came up in the environment described in that e-mail and her work ethic is, to this very day, impeccable. She’s 26 years older than me and I have a hard time keeping up with her. She’s never known anything but hard work and she’s a better person inside and out because of it.
My step dad was several years older than my mother and that SOB was the hardest working MFer I have ever known. Not just ‘biznez’ work, although he worked 6 days a week servicing what he sold, but ‘homework’ too as he always worked outside till sundown AFTER her got home (not to mention ALL weekend too) and I never once heard him complain.
He served in WWII and he always had a prolific garden .. the fruits (and vegetables) of which he mostly gave away to his disabled vet buddies. He worked his ass off till the week he died and his old man did the same thing. I am honored to be his son and I’ll consider my life a resounding success if I turn out half the man he was.
These whiney pukes we’re forced to endure today would make him puke. Literally. Shame on us for allowing this state of affairs to come to pass. My old man educated himself by lamp-light. He walked to school every day with no shoes (and uphill both ways).
Seriously though… shame on us. The best thing we can do for these fucken whiney pukes is put a man-sized yoke on their backs and let them feel the weight. Of course, a swift kick in the teeth might be appropriate for the obstinate.
So true JD. Great post.
Video proof that gun-free zones are safe environments;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pGt_O1uM8
More brilliant observations from The Distinguished Gentleman From Georgia…
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/09/congressman-attempts-to-transfer-fast-and-furious-blame-onto-nra-radicals-the-senate-holder-obliges/
All is well in the land down under. I had a bit of scare on my last scope three years ago but all is well now and I am officially on the five year plan. Good to get that behind me.
‘behind’
heh heh
Glad to hear it RD! Hope you and the rest of the Revoistas have a great weekend!
How old should one be to have that done? I haven’t been to the doctor since I was 16 when I needed a physical to tryout for my high school golf team.
They say 50. My younger brother had other issues and had it done much younger and discovered polyps. Since he had them, I had it done. Yep. I had ‘em too. None this time however.
Good to know. However, under Obamacare, they aren’t going to recommend this until the age of 95. Guess I wont be looking forward to that procedure for a very long time.
Under obamacare, they do it down at the car wash. You know that long, black hose hanging on the wall……
hehe…50 cents for a wax is optional
They’d better buy me dinner first.
The wax is included.
That’s how they get it in.
Don’t know if it’s true or not, but if so it scares me.
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/12/08/oath-keepers-alert-federal-agents-demand-customer-lists-from-mormon-food-storage-facility/
my GOD my wirelss bill is going to be expensive this month. Downloading everything I need into a new laptop is a massive bandwidth pain in the ass.
Jen, I suspect the story IS true. Agreed, creepy stuff.
It kind of reminds me of Y2K demands that were foisted on us by the Feds back when I was a broker. Everyone had to prove compliance in a number of ways and it drove us all nuts. Many of their demands seemed flat out stupid but the leviathan was gearing up for a perceived potential threat.
if the bishops pantry locations are getting checked out I would imagine the same thing is going on again, only this time the Feds see US as the potential threat. I’m not alone in thinking we could see massive unrest by the end of next summmer. I’m not alone in thinking too many revolutionaries are lined up globally to make a concerted effort to upend western powers. Lastly, I’m not alone in believing that Iran or someone like them is now capable of pulling off an EMP attack. With us running what now appears to be a yearlong covert war with Iran (reference RDs Boom Boom Boom stuff as well as the recent Drone downing) I’d say they might just be anticipating all hell breaks loose soon.
However you slice it, the Feds have NO right to demand those customer lists. And they have NO right to inventory our self defence stores either. You’re a tick in the hide of the leviathan now, maybe YOU can sniff out the truth
Good thing nobody knows what I have – so long as you guys don’t tell anyone.
Shit, who could even find you
Its easy – I’m in the shadow of 135+/- (400′ tAll) wind turbines, now.
Bigfurhat wants evidence that Newt is a progressive.
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=109305
“Yesterday I requested that people list Gingrich progressive policies that have ever become law. I wasn’t looking for things he has said, or places he might have worked as a private citizen, or thoughts he’s expressed as an intellectual compromise.
There was only one taker, and that person listed a co-sponsored bill from 1989, on Global Warming, that went nowhere. Newt is no longer a believer in AGW or it’s “solution”, cap and trade. I am not fearful of Gingrich flip-flopping on this.”
Anybody want to help him out?
Fever, aches, vomiting, diarhea…. Wow. This is rough.
aw hell, no fun there buddy
u know the drill…soup n sleep
My friend, I know this may make you hurl more……but:
When the stomach rolls, I sip a little dill pickle juice. I know.. but the vinegar seems to help me almost immediately. If that fails, hot toddies and rest. May you rest easy, bro.
There is no such thing as sick for me this month. I had a tenant that left in the middle of the night on Thanksgiving.
Pickle juice works for me too Sorta. I prefer Bitters and Ginger Ale tho. Bitters works wonders.
Can’t believe my luck. Damned Atlanta drivers.. For the first time in my driving career I shifted a Hazmat load significantly enough to require reloading. I hope those asshats appreciate how I didn’t run over their stupid cars. Driving in Atlanta is a bloodsport. Ugh. Now I have to spend 2 hrs tomorrow getting it rearranged before I cross the Mississppi scales and final in Houston. Wonderful. 650 miles AND a 2 hr hassle. Grrrrrrr.
Well, so much for MacGyver.
Rapper Freddie Gibbs is a buddy-fucker. A TSA agent did him a solid and he responded by likely getting the man fired.
That will be the last time anybody passed through unmolested with weed. Good job Freddie.
LnL, at least you do not have to drive in Atlanta traffic on a daily basis, like myself.
Going to and from work is a test of patience, alertness and timely aggression.
Anyone have any insight on this 1 Trillion behemoth that passed in the house today? I though the Republicans got elected because the Dems were spending to much?!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/house-passes-1t-budget-bill-avoids-shutdown-185348086.html
I am working up a post on it DJ.
The bottom line is that the Leviathan has a life of its own and can no longer be stopped by man. It will, however, eventually die. It has its own demise programmed in. That which cannot continue will not continue.
The bad news is that it is going to thrash around and cause a lot of damage as it dies.
The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners. It’s an armored booth you step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on your person.
Israel sees this as a win-win situation for everyone, with none of this crap about racial profiling. It will also eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials.
You’re in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter, an announcement: “Attention to all standby passengers, El Al is proud to announce a seat is now available on flight 670 to London . Shalom!”
These flash mobs are really starting to get out of hand. Thank God no one got hurt!
Actually, it is quite sweet
Go Grandmas! This type of thing almost — almost — restores my faith in humankind. It’s nice to see that there still are some (humans) inhabiting the Earth.
Boy howdy I loves me some Bush!
FBI Crime Reports Drop in Cedar Rapids and US!
The Cedar Rapids police chief takes credit for a 50% drop in robberies, for the first half of 2011, credits “police persistence!”
I wonder how much influence the Iowa change in Jan 2011 from a “may issue” to “shall issue” for concealed carry permits?
http://thegazette.com/2011/12/19/fbi-crime-reports-drop-in-c-r-and-u-s/
Here’s a handy little chart that shows crime rate per households with guns. It shows clearly that the more households that have guns also have a lower crime rate. Surprise! Surprise! (Channeling Gomer from Mayberry.)
Amazingly Califorinia and Illinois are “not available!” Gee I wonder why 2 of the strictest states on gun control don’t share their information?
http://www.datamasher.org/mash-ups/crime-vs-gun-ownership#table-tab
Correction, Washington D.C. is also not available.
Barney Frank on Jiggly stuff:
http://www.jigglystuff.com/display.php?id=990
Guess who the Democrats want to pay for the payroll tax cut? Home buyers!! Punch to the middle class again. Harry Reid ya jerk!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/story/2011-12-17/payroll-tax-mortgages/52027164/1
I ended up going with the Leupold VX-II 3-9x50mm for my M1A. I bought it at Bass Pro Shops in Des Moines yesterday.
Just got a call from the Shrimp Boat reporting a missile launch from the Kings Bay Trident Sub Base area. I just stepped outside to watch it. That was one fast moving rocket.
It’s pretty odd to look North and see a missile launch. If we see any more I’ll give y’all a heads up.