Thanks, Plusaf. Good luck with the shoulder PT. The last time I had those kind of problems is when I got thrown off a horse. Painful ride back to the barn but I couldn't let the horse win. Normally the horse is gentle and fine to ride, but we jumped a small creek in the woods and started up a steep incline when the saddle loosened up and shifted and pissed her off. Two seconds later I was airborne, LOL!
Mine is esophagus problems. Biopsies say I don't have cancer, so I dodged that bullet. This was the first of 3 or 4 procedures. It sucks when it hurts to swallow Jello after the op, but the doc says that will pass in a few days. Kinda makes you not want to go on to 2-3 and possibly 4, but I'm going to "git er done".
All the best on your recovery! I started physical therapy for my left shoulder's damage repair. My operation was about 5-6 weeks ago to repair a lot of damage I sustained in a fall back in November. PT will probably go for another 3-4 months or more. Luckily, I can get by with my right wing for now, and the left one seems to be healing quite rapidly for an old fart of my age... Hang in there!
Plusaf, thank you! A delightful site! I will check it more when I can.
I would have gotten back sooner but had some surgery yesterday and it was a bad day. Op was fine, but recovery from anesthesia was nasty. Recovering fine now.
Hillary, you can say whatever you want, but if you make statements like that one without specifically describing "How many are Too Many" or "How many are 'enough' ..." Your comment is useless as an argument and basically intellectual bullshit. But "thanks for sharing," anyway...:)
I've notice hard liquor is gradually turning to plastic containers but wine is pretty much sticking to glass unless you're talking about a party-sized plastic bag with a spout surrounded by cardboard.
"Even New York has found that gun owners simply refused to comply with a new law that required them to register all removable magazines. Noticeably, there has been no state action taken against the "refuseniks"." This is sadly standard practice. There are all kinds of laws on the books. Everyone's probably violating at least one of them. Police officers usually use common sense and focus on crimes where people are hurting others or stealing. They're not going to bother people for some unregistered clip, driving five mph over, their kids not having bike helmet, an expired car seat (did you know they expire?), smoking weed or using someone else's prescription drugs, and so on. But if someone in gov't is against the citizen, they have an apparently legitimate reason to go after them. Rule of law becomes a fig leaf for rule of men.
I refused to register my gun here in Nevada. So I am a criminal, along with a lot of other people. If for some reason I am subjected to a search warrant, I am probably in trouble. If I was married, the wife would probably freak out that I could be arrested at any time.
I agree that its unlikely the cops would do a house to house search for guns so they could be confiscated. Imagine how long it would take to find all the carefully hidden guns !!!! Theres always the PVC safe deposit box in the back yard garden too.
Two thoughts: any idea of the size of a cooperative law enforcement team that would take? And how many constitutional rights would they have to violate?
Even New York has found that gun owners simply refused to comply with a new law that required them to register all removable magazines. Noticeably, there has been no state action taken against the "refuseniks". That might have been because most law enforcement in the state was very open about how they felt the law was unconstitutional, and that the strain on their resources did not justify neglecting higher priority activities.
Even President Obama has pointed out how unworkable the idea of registering all guns and confiscating them would be. Most of the Clinton bluster is window dressing to collect the votes of the most extreme anti-gun voters.
Any attack on the gun-owning American populace will likely start with an assault on the gun companies and the gun sellers, with the aid of a compliant activist judiciary. What's currently standing in the way of that effort is a right-centrist national legislature that may have to finally show some courage and stop the acts of an unconstitutional imperial Presidency.
Fortunately, if I picked out a different rifle from the safe to shoot each day, I would only have to repeat myself a couple of times in a calendar year. :)
Oh, wouldn't it be nice if there were no guns. Then strong criminals could just strangle victims, or rape them, through sheer superior, brute physical strength. A gun, as my late father said, is"an equalizer". It puts the one who is physically weak on the same level as the one who is physically strong. It can also help in the case of being outnum- bered. I have no sympathy for those who spew the slime-smeared sentimentality about how unsafe people make it when they try to defend themselves.
I wish you were right about the Pentagon sounding the charge to protect the American people M.A.
But I see Obummer gutting the military and setting up the left in the Pentagon. I know a 4-star that was a fine American at one point, but somehow has been turned. Seems like a nice person but is an Obummer puppet and is now serving the Hildebeast. Very sad and upsetting personally, but this is really happening.
Strangely, it seems the last guns to be outlawed will be those best suited to partisan use: bolt action rifles, which are the best for killing at long range, and shotguns, which are great for short range kill. Lower tech solutions, like big bore air rifles, crossbows, and slingshots can be quite potent killers. Improvised munitions are best, not easily tracked. A little study will reveal many options if it comes to an aggressive anti-gun government program.
With 80 million gun owners and 350 million firearms in circulation, I think the idea of stuffing all of that toothpaste back into the tube is delusional, but there are those who will try.
Mine is esophagus problems. Biopsies say I don't have cancer, so I dodged that bullet. This was the first of 3 or 4 procedures. It sucks when it hurts to swallow Jello after the op, but the doc says that will pass in a few days. Kinda makes you not want to go on to 2-3 and possibly 4, but I'm going to "git er done".
I started physical therapy for my left shoulder's damage repair. My operation was about 5-6 weeks ago to repair a lot of damage I sustained in a fall back in November. PT will probably go for another 3-4 months or more.
Luckily, I can get by with my right wing for now, and the left one seems to be healing quite rapidly for an old fart of my age...
Hang in there!
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Jefferson
I would have gotten back sooner but had some surgery yesterday and it was a bad day. Op was fine, but recovery from anesthesia was nasty. Recovering fine now.
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Hillary, you can say whatever you want, but if you make statements like that one without specifically describing "How many are Too Many" or "How many are 'enough' ..." Your comment is useless as an argument and basically intellectual bullshit.
But "thanks for sharing," anyway...:)
Of course if she really feels this way. Let me suggest that she disarm her armed bodyguards, as a step towards disarming America.
This is sadly standard practice. There are all kinds of laws on the books. Everyone's probably violating at least one of them. Police officers usually use common sense and focus on crimes where people are hurting others or stealing. They're not going to bother people for some unregistered clip, driving five mph over, their kids not having bike helmet, an expired car seat (did you know they expire?), smoking weed or using someone else's prescription drugs, and so on. But if someone in gov't is against the citizen, they have an apparently legitimate reason to go after them. Rule of law becomes a fig leaf for rule of men.
I agree that its unlikely the cops would do a house to house search for guns so they could be confiscated. Imagine how long it would take to find all the carefully hidden guns !!!! Theres always the PVC safe deposit box in the back yard garden too.
Even New York has found that gun owners simply refused to comply with a new law that required them to register all removable magazines. Noticeably, there has been no state action taken against the "refuseniks". That might have been because most law enforcement in the state was very open about how they felt the law was unconstitutional, and that the strain on their resources did not justify neglecting higher priority activities.
Even President Obama has pointed out how unworkable the idea of registering all guns and confiscating them would be. Most of the Clinton bluster is window dressing to collect the votes of the most extreme anti-gun voters.
Any attack on the gun-owning American populace will likely start with an assault on the gun companies and the gun sellers, with the aid of a compliant activist judiciary. What's currently standing in the way of that effort is a right-centrist national legislature that may have to finally show some courage and stop the acts of an unconstitutional imperial Presidency.
strong criminals could just strangle victims, or
rape them, through sheer superior, brute physical
strength.
A gun, as my late father said, is"an equalizer". It puts the one who is physically weak on the
same level as the one who is physically strong.
It can also help in the case of being outnum-
bered. I have no sympathy for those who spew
the slime-smeared sentimentality about how
unsafe people make it when they try to defend
themselves.
But I see Obummer gutting the military and setting up the left in the Pentagon. I know a 4-star that was a fine American at one point, but somehow has been turned. Seems like a nice person but is an Obummer puppet and is now serving the Hildebeast. Very sad and upsetting personally, but this is really happening.
of defense IS these guns which she hates! -- j
.
With 80 million gun owners and 350 million firearms in circulation, I think the idea of stuffing all of that toothpaste back into the tube is delusional, but there are those who will try.
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