Happy Fathers Day! I got a fan cause a storm hit. We got no fucking A/C! Burnt something?
Had to go pull the camper out of storage so we can sleep with out being in a pool of sweat!! Could be worse?

Dead Eye Dick said:

You nailed it.

Without steel and Oil, they had to do something, and give up China was not that something they were willing to do.

You can't build a nation with artificially drawn, straight borders encompassing a land full of people who hate each other. At least we are not guilty of drawing the stupid borders but we are guilty of having VERY stupid people like Hillary Clinton who naively think they can. (and others such as Traitor John Kerry who always put personal gain and interest over everything else, including the lives and honor of brave American soldiers and sailors who died to gain him that advantage.) Both of whom along with a couple of presidents, one from each party, that really blew up the entire Middle East political situation.

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Well, can blame Churchill and T.E. Lawrence in the Colonial Office c. 1920 for the borders in the M.E. Churchill had no clue and was an empire-loving bigot. T.E. Lawrence should have known better, but succumbed to expediency. Together, they drew the lines with no clue as to tribal history or 2,000 years of 'memory.' They stuck 'kings' in new kingdoms hundreds of miles away from their actual tribal lands.

U.S. has been stuck with that mess since. Not that we have done any better, really. That said, we were never in pursuit of empire. It's not really in our DNA despite what leftist college professor twat-waffles say. We are not an empire-seeking nation (well, OK, Teddy Roosevelt tried somewhat.)

Really, we are the Mrs. Kravitz of the planet. We can't keep our fucking noses out of everyone elses business and think that Jeffersonian democracy will work well in shitholes where "If Allah Wills It" is a higher calling.

Sirhr

GreenGO Juan said:

What can Ru and Iran produce in offensive ballistic missiles yearly? Anyone have those numbers?

Are they getting outside assistance cough cough china cough cough????

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Whatever is going to be used now is already in stock , china does sell rocket fuel to Iran , but why shouldn't it. But china is far less involved than folks like to imply .Sanctions are not good for business particulary when in a fight they don't have dog in.

Well reports on Russians running out of missiles 2 weeks into the fight have turned out to be BS.

Israel estimates Iran retains 2,000 ballistic missiles from its original arsenal. That is about as many as used in Ukraine since 2022 ,but Ukraine is a huge country vs Israel


In any case unlike Ukraine , Israels core policy is to get US to do the fighting , at present supprisingly not jet the case .

Interested in the Bergara Long Action Stock.

Happy Fathers Day!

Took a road trip today to pick up these tires. All total 375 miles and part of that was I40 over Black Mountain.





Previous best mileage on my ‘98 Ram was just under 20mpg. After the gov springs, fuel plate and a little fiddling this past week, I set a new benchmark






Saw this guy and had a chuckle





Fisher Peak, when I see it I know I am almost home.

Maggot said:

So the Hightalians shit 8 times a day? How did Rome get built?

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They did a shitty job?

Sirhr

Thanks for all of the info. I decided on the Griffin Optimus Micro. I figured I'd spend a little more and get a good bit more flexibility out of it.

carbonbased said:

With any of the products you’ve tried, have you ever had issues with the emissions of fogging up optics? Just thinking of a gun off-gassing in a safe.

Like, in certain cars, the plastic interior isn’t quite right and it off-gasses (sometimes near-forever). Your windshield gets constantly fogged up over time.

My son’s 2004 Subaru does it over and over to this day. You clean off the interior windshield and after a while it fogs up again.

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That is a great question. I know exactly the slight interior glass buildup you are talking about. I would be much more concerned with the VPCi (IE vapor phase) products causing this.

I primarily use Corrosion X on the firearms, with the Corshield stuff being for other equipment exposed to more harsh conditions. I don't think Corrosion X is a vapor phase product (the aviation stuff is a fairly thick green oil). I store stuff in open air as much as possible instead of being cased, so they tend to be well ventilated. Either way, I have not experienced any weird fogging issues with it.

OK… I guess we’re doing this again.

AR > Shotgun > Pistol for home defense.

If you’re actually asking for advice, I recommend something subsonic with a can in ‘home defense’ guns; one of my bedside suppressed .45s is there to get me across the room to a PCC, and an AR with a 300BLK upper loaded with subs; both suppressed. My wife’s night stand gun is her CC .380, so that’s kind of a last resort in a HD scenario.

If we need more than that, well, we’re fucked anyway, but at least we can fight our way to the safe to get to the heavier and much, much louder options.

Regime change wars for Israel , as soon as AQ took over Syria Israel could freely attack




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mosin46 said:

post # 402 Israel is not really any kind of reliable partner. they have been our Gurkhas because we let do what they want,which is building greater Israel and we guarantee their survival.
and forcing our "liberal" democracy on ME theocratic dictatorships (like Israel) has had a huge neg impact on our foreign policy. others have said that we really don't need the ME if our own energy policy wasn't self destructive. correct. wouldn't need a trillion $ navy to get oil from TX,AK etc. but then,our oil producing states don't control 80% of congress like Israel does. our MIC wouldn't have such foolproof stocks if we didn't need the army we have. a smaller one could handle our borders just fine,the navy our coasts.
you quote Churchill,one of the war mongers that got us into ww2. he was faithful to his empire. it was lost but he did believe that "spheres of influence" was the way to go. makes,or should make,perfect sense. US i w.hemisphere,China in Asia,Russia in Europe. us trying to control Europe and Asia is retarded. controlling our hemisphere is reasonable,doable and doesn't require foreign wars of choice. who gives a shit about Europe,ME or Asia. there is nothing there that we can't get here. Africa and the ME are crap shoots but ww3 over them doesn't make any sense. some accommodation or agreement could be reached about them with the other big boys.
the Liberty is a BFD. it was not an accidental friendly fire incident. those do occur for sure. the ones you mention don't really = deliberate attacks.
and no,i don't love Iran. i know they are an enemy and their proxies have killed Americans. i don't care if both countries are flattened. we just need to stay the F out of it.

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We'll have to respectfully disagree on this... Churchill got us into WW2? Well, he was certainly trying. But IIRC the Japs got us into WW2 and Hitler declared war on us first... Churchill was happy. But it was our economic embargo's against the Nips that got us into WW2.

The whole of Africa and the ME are shitholes. But they have resources we need. Or need to deny to our enemies. Remember, too, that our oil strategy has been to drain the world first. Keeping our vast reserves in the ground. And deny that oil to others.

And Israel has been our 'protectorate' for 80 years-ish... in large part because the US and the West failed to prevent 6 or so million of them from getting turned into air pollution. Now that sounds kind of academic here and now. But the US stood by and let it happen. Largely because bureaucracy and anti-semitism prevented any action pre-war. So the nation has had the guilt for a while. And in the post-war period, it was decided that the Jews needed a homeland. And that it should not be Germany (which was a real proposal) because Germany was needed as a bulwark against Stalin. Hey, Interests again.

So your points are all well-taken.

Though regarding Liberty... deliberate is a perception. Did they deliberately attack? Yes. But against a mistaken target. Oops. Fog of war. They thought it was an Egyptian ship. They had no motive for attacking the Liberty. In fact, they had every motivation to protect it. But fucked up. Bad. But they still fucked up. Noone said "Lets get this American Ship." Because that would have been stupid! And they are anything but Stupid, them hooknoses!

It's a good debate... but a lot of the arguments come down to... do you want to vilify Israel, or defend them. Me, I'll defend that we have an interest in being their 'friend' for now. For... interests. They have so far been more reliable than most over there. Lots of reasons to distrust them. Like Spy rings. Possible theft of nuclear material. Influence peddling at a massive level (though any more than Catholics or Wayne LaPierre?). And some acts that didn't help our foreign policy at times (settlement building, for example.) But in the big picture.... they have been 'less worse' than others.

And right now, I am hoping they turn the entire Iranian hierarchy into martyrs. So there is that. Saves us from having to do it and then get stuck with more "Nation Building" that we suck at and should never attempt.

Cheers,

Sirhr

Edsel said:

That actually happened, that was real?!

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But they missed the chance to run something in this vein


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So it's three cans at 440rds per? If it's match and not rotten it's a good deal at .80 cents a round and at a buck a round it's okay. People always want more but it's nearly 60 years old if it's got 67 or 68 headstamps. And depending on how it was stored it might have issues. Nothing dangerous but you might get a few low velocity rounds or an occasional click bang round.

I'd make the effort to get it. I have some from the CMP that was straight from a depot. It's pretty good ammo.

If it's on strippers it should be really old. If it's match ammo on Garand clips it's 60s vintage usually. If it just M2 ball on Garand clips I'd make sure its not corrosive. The US transitioned away from corrosive primers by the mid 1950s.