Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Secular Talk"
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@Atticusnme firearms are just one more tool to be used and respected. Exercise proper safety measures, they're as safe as your household hammer.
Always respect the firearm and the end the thunder, brimstone and owie comes out of is hazardous and don't point it at anything you don't want obliterated. Keep safely handling it until it becomes like an instinct and practice, practice, practice. Be comfortable enough firing that you're certain that you'll never miss your target, then keep on practicing until you won't.
For me, it's an exercise in muscle memory and applied mathematics and I'm proficient to a kilometer - even with an M-16, better with a high power rifle and pistol I'm good to 50 meters from an old M1911 (my preferred sidearm). Shotgun, well, I can hit door hinges and locks... ;)
And take up honing knives. Not for military usage, conservation. A good knife should last a lifetime with proper honing. And a dull kitchen knife can really mess you up. Dull knives injured me badly enough in the past, my razor sharp kitchen knives left me alone with only minor nicks.
And a good heavy weight cleaver, great to tap around a bone to cut it and bake it into submission for boiling into stock.
Hey, even if the poop hits the fan, which I really hope it doesn't, ya gotta eat!
And I eat like a king for under $350 a month.
Balls! Just realized, forgot to grab coffee at the store earlier and a winter storm's blowing in. Oh well, pantry reserves it is!
Yeah, got four shelves of food and a stuffed freezer. Not a prepper, just well, lazy. Shop once a month for basics, get fast turnover weekly for milk and whatnot (used to include eggs in that list, but can't afford the armed guards). OK, got a dozen, don't tell anyone. ;)
Knowledge is power. Acquire as much knowledge as you can, from food preparation from scratch to which end of the firearm the thunder, brimstone and owie issue from and how to safely handle it.
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First, the plane hadn't just landed, otherwise a baggage tug would've been on the runway. He was on the ramp, where he should've been and clipped the wing, flipping the tug and getting pinned underneath the mess.
Unless you're going to now blame Trump for shitty driving on the ramp, you're barking up the wrong tree. That'd be putting POTUS in charge of a ramp operation at a small airport - along with every other airport in the land.
And oddly, you're not bitching about a week before the god-king wannabe took office and started fucking up the world, a 66 year old American Airlines employee died after being hit by an airport ramp vehicle at North Carolina's Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Guess that's Trump's fault too?
Putting the blame on him for everything is just taking a page from his dicked up book, making you no better than he is.
Both of these cases were tragic accidents that I know from firsthand experience, are not uncommon on airport ramps. They're congested, high speed operations to get passengers off and on their flights with their baggage and the aircraft turned around ASAP, as they make money in the air, not on the ground. And if you've not guessed it, I have worked the ramp, back when Piedmont was its original independent Piedmont, during the ice age.
ATC doesn't control the ramp, airline operations controls the ramp. The closest that ATC gets involved is when the aircraft is requesting to taxi away from the gate, initially usually being pushed back by a specialized push-back tug.
The NE Philly crash, ain't ATC, so unless you're wanting the god-king wannabe to wave Harry Potter's wooden marital aid to whammy everything perfect, it's likely either mechanical or a ghastly pilot error, I'm leaning toward mechanical or a forgotten locking pin that got missed on walk around in shit weather and oddly, that's also not magically the fault of the POTUS.
Who's got a smorgasbord of shit that are abominations he's responsible for, from establishing his own personal concentration camp at GTMO to bidding on sending US troops into Gaza for a Palestinian pogrom, ala Stalin. He's also threatened if anything happened to him or anyone close to him that he'd obliterate the entirety of Iran, which I can only presume would be via thermonuclear means, given the place is fairly large.
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Well, eggs are way up because bird flu obliterated entire warehouse sized henhouses of chickens.
But, one upside, at the rate DonOLD is going, he's gonna lay enough eggs to supply the entire planet twice over.
Maybe then, I'll not have eggs so old that they literally explode...
As for housing, that boat's long sailed. Owned a house some years back, deployed to some war thingie, redeployed home to find it empty, stripped of every inch of copper, walls torn out and windows left open. Fuckers even stole the water heater.
I let the city have what was left, as costs to repair at cost of just materials was greater than a new house and it was fully paid off.
Rented since, save for a brief period when I was homeless after my wife of over 41 years died.
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