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    A happy story about wood bison being reintroduced to the wild in Alaska. http://www.adn.com/article/20150321/wood-bison-set-return-alaska-wilderness-after-century-away What finally allowed the project to finish was a pragmatic exemption of the Endangered Species Act.
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    Relevant. It's always important to wash your ferret.
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    Not "Medieval" but certainly the best place to put this. The most complete ancient crossbow unearthed with terracotta army http://www.ecns.cn/2015/03-20/158884.shtml I'm not going to hold much stock one way or the other but the article claims those Chinese crossbows had a range of 800 meters, which sounds rather fantastic.
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    The picture of the dead Whale shark is sickening.
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    I thought those guys are cheap up-armor to protect from shaped charges?
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    Time for the White Man's Burden Mark II. "All We Are Saying..." *badum clap*... "Is Give Neo-Colonialism A Chance"
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    Has anyone noticed if he signs his name with the wrong hand? I watched the series "V" in the 1980s. I know how the alien mind works!
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    The issue with the Palestinians is that none of the other Arabs want to live with them either.
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    Back in college I attended a Women's History class at the U-Dub during the summer quarter in order to get an easy history credit. Plus I'm kind of adventurous like that and have always opted for the "Hey, that sounds crazy, let's do it!" approach to life. The fact that I was rather openly conservative but in my normal polite and handsome fashion aroused (I'd say aroused) a lot of attention amongst the women there. In short, I was the only straight man in the class and I wasn't a douche-bag. Even though they were rabid feminists, at a genetic level they were still women. Had I been a different type of person with different morals, the "Fuck feminists" phrase would have taken on a different meaning. I sometimes wonder where Alternate Universe Donward-who-opted-for-the-lesbian-bi-sexual-feminist-summer-orgy is right now? Seriously, the last time I felt like a piece of red meat was when I was hit on by a gay newspaper columnist at a Christmas party when I was crossing the picket lines during a newspaper strike. But that is another story.
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    What changed it - in my opinion - was the Assault Weapon Ban of the 1990s and subsequent anti-assault weapon legislation. Suddenly firearms that really had no real purpose and that serious gun owners really wouldn't buy other than just to stick in the safe were must have because you couldn't get them. A similar phenomenon happened with Twinkies. Nobody was eating them anymore because they were unhealthy and - let's face it - gross to anyone with a palate more advanced than a teenager and Hostess was going out of business because of it. There was also some BS about Union workers wanting more money which brought in conservative talk radio hosts spouting bullshit and so forth. The upshot was that everyone had to buy Twinkies before they were gone for good. Back to assault weapons, by trying to ban assault weapons using ambiguous language created a different market for those weapons. Gun makers found out that they no longer needed to make carbon copies of the M16 that the military was using and instead made them more modular to get around the bans. Here's me being a conspiracy theorist. A more cunning aspect of the black gun craze is that scary looking ARs and scary looking polymer handguns are dirt cheap to make (I would wager) compared to more traditional weapons. Never forget that gun makers are also out to make a buck. And if you can get people to fork over more money for a product that is less expensive to build than that is a good thing. For the gun maker.
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    It was the third of September. That day I will always remember. Cause that was the day my daddy died. Yes my children. There was a day not so long ago that African American artists knew how to harmonize while combining a complex array of horns, keyboard, a driving bass beat, and guitar while ironically keeping the whole song in B flat minor. All without the aid of Auto-Tune or sampling a more talented artist's work.
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    I guess I didn't even realize I had been dumped by the gun community hobby until recently. Does that mean I don't have to answer these pestering fundraising letters from the NRA because I made the mistake once of attending an NRA at College forum where cold pizza and 30-year old gun control cliches were spouted?
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    A triple posting about boobs calls for the Total Recall homage! And an interesting story about the actress Lycia Naff who was in that scene.
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    Objectify those T-28 turrets!
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    I thought this was a classic Disney cartoon thread...
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    I look forward to the day when Rap dies/has become completely appropriated by suburban white kids and the glory that is Funk is reborn.
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    So I was wandering through TFB today like I always do and became bogged down in one of the press releases articles on the site penned by a writer other than Nathaniel about an effort by SilencerCo to update laws regarding silencers/suppressors and to presumably get rid of the federal tax stamp. This is something that I'm supportive of. And there's a slick little website run by SilencerCo offering their services with photos of models gunowners with duct tape over their mouths, talking about the right not to shoot loud guns without suppressors and likening the $200 tax stamp to the Tiananmen Square Massacre. And they have an Instagram page where you can submit photos of yourself with duct tape over your mouth holding a suppressed firearm. One of which is this one of a (I'm guessing) six year old kid brandishing a cocked semiautomatic handgun. https://instagram.com/p/0VP1J7kfTu/ So. Smart move or more dumb stuff by gun owners? And I suppose we can expand on things with the question of when is the "right" time for kids to become familiar with rifles, shotguns and pistols?
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    I'm not certain about that de-scenting bit. I've met some stinky ferrets and stinky ferret owners. What I AM certain of is my affection for the 1982 family classic The Beastmaster, starring Kodo and Podo. https://youtu.be/F461FINv3DU (Also, I'm not sure why the YouTube embedding no longer works cause I'm as bright as Dar in that movie...)
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    First Kim Jong-Un goes missing and now Putin? Are the nation's dictator's getting replaced by Pod People now? Has anyone seen Barack Obama lately? https://youtu.be/WFnSxeDfENk
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    Things will get a lot more interesting when Iran finally gets the Atom Bomb. We'd see the Saudis get there's next and - who knows - maybe the Turks as well. The map above needs to feature a lot more Trinitite deposits*. *Yes, I know that Trinitite is specific to the Trinity bomb tests but you get the point and I also like using the old timey phrase "Atom Bomb".
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    Good deal Walter. I haven't had the time but when I saw this, the first I thought of was Buster Keaton.
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    Everyone.
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    My wife and her entire family are huge Terry Pratchett fans. I've read and very much enjoyed his books myself. Quick story since I have to run to pick up a load of cured horse manure - for schnerious - a year or so ago we found out Pratchett was coming to Seattle on one of his tours. And by "found out" I was reading the blog of our city's OTHER alt newspaper and found out about his appearance at Town Hall less than an hour before the event. It was one of those times where we could have talked ourselves out of going since it meant dressing up, driving 45 minutes into Seattle, finding a place to park and hoping there were tickets still left. Rather than making excuses, I asked the (fiancee) "Terry Pratchett's in town. Want to go? We have to leave in less than five minutes." Shannon had missed out on a pair of previous opportunities to see him speak and said simply. "Let's Go". Fortunately, there was no traffic, we found a place to park less than a block away (that being the true miracle), talked our way into getting in and were only fifteen minutes into the show. It was one of the events that was more memorable for Shannon which was good enough for me. The best was the Question and Answer period where one of the audience members actually asked a decent one, whether Terry Pratchett thought that Lord Vetinari or Granny Weatherwax would win a game of chess. And you could tell it was a question that had not been asked of him a thousand previous times and he was actually stumped. You could tell he was mentally writing down the notes "to use for later".
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    I would ask what is the overriding purpose for the weapon? What is it designed for? Once you know that, then you know what to build. As opposed to the 16 pound monstrosities that you see on the range which are intended for 800-yard shots that can stop a bull elephant and then be used for suppressing fire, clearing rooms and a marital aid.
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    Wholesale killing of Russians is silly since we need to keep some to work the wheat fields and be used as mail order brides.... I mean... How Terrible!
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