Posts by Ghostman 91 posts • joined 30 Oct 2018
Now you see it....
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Now you don't
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I see it in both photos.
It will let you only read the first two paragraphs.
Complete opposite here in the US.
The "left" in the US don't believe in the Constitution. They invariably violate the 1st Amendment by not allowing anyone to voice a differing opinion, down to destroying places that conservatives are scheduled to speak. They want to abolish the 2nd because they are afraid of firearms, particularly the "scary looking" ones.
A Ruger 10/22 semi-auto rifle, firing .22 caliber rim fire shells can be made,by their definition, an "assault rifle" by clanging out the standard stock to an aftermarket one.
They don't believe in choice, they believe that you should have what they want you to have.
Examples please. People spread lies about the new laws in Georgia. I offer them a copy of the new law, with each line of the document numbered, and ask for them to show where "voter suppression" is in the new law.
"They voted out the ballot drop boxes!" Ballot drop boxes were never voted in as law, it was a resolution due to the pandemic. They DID vote in that at least one ballot drop box has to be available, in a monitored location, in each county.
"They want you to have to show an ID before you can vote. My grandma can't get to the DMV and get a
state issued ID." I guess you missed out on reading the lines of what is an approved ID.
Does your granny get a Social security check, use Medicare/Medicaid? Does she have a Social Security Card then? Guess what, she already has one of the acceptable IDs.
"They set up the precincts so the lines are too long, you get thirsty, and hungry, and wait too long."
Water can be given out by poll workers if the line is long, food vendors (not representatives of candidates) can sell food and drinks, if the line is too long (more than an hour wait) in metro areas a bus set up for the election and extra poll workers will arrive and handle the overflow. (Yes, all that is in the new law.)
so, just keep listening to Sister Stacy, who is under investigation of attempting to register people from out of state, ineligible to vote (prisoners, illegal aliens) and dead people for the 2020 races.
I've repeatedly proposed that the utility services share the cost of burying a 6 foot high, oval shaped pipeline along the right-of-way for rural roads. One side would carry electrical service, The other side would carry phone, fiber, and cable lines. A platform in the bottom of the pipe would provide a protected area for gas pipelines.
Similar underground pipelines could carry the high tension lines.
This would negate the need for telephone poles (actually misnamed since most are owned by the power companies), high tension tower lines, and power poles used to tie the houses into the power lines.
One upside to the underground infrastructure would be that the utilities would be protected from disasters like the outbreak of tornadoes we have had here in the southeast US, the damage done by ice storms and broken branches, and the never ending problem of some drivers who for different reasons go "Off-roading" and knock down the poles. Knocked down poles usually get fixed in a day. Problems like the tornado outbreak, blizzards, and hurricanes sometimes take weeks with crews from several states called in to help do the repairs. In 2017 we had part of a hurricane come through mid-Georgia and power was out four days. For two days our area was shut off due to the large number of trees blocking roads. If the underground utility pipeline had been in use, power, phone, and internet would have still been available.
Two years ago I quit going to Fry's since the employees seemed to have no time for customers. The managers were more interested in moving product from place to place, usually in the wrong place and price point.
I once stood in line asking a question to the cashier, no one would stop running from place to place and check on some components (M/b, case, processor, memory, video card, NVME, around $600 worth).
She kept saying she didn't know about those items and I kept asking her to call someone from tech, or a manager. Her response was: I think they're busy right now. Wouldn't call anybody up front.
I stood still and blocked the line until she did. Manager would call back and say handle it and hang up.
I would get her to call back. Same thing. Got her to call back and I answered the phone.
He started to cuss out the cashier and was surprised when I told him to shut the F up.
I let him know that I had waited in the tech department for someone to write up an order and confirm that the items were in stock. I WOULD get them myself but they are in a locked cabinet. I could still get them if you don't mind me getting the bolt cutters out of truck and opening up the cabinet.
He didn't seem to like that idea and he wouldn't meet me at the cabinet, but would send a tech rep when they got through with the item on hand. I guess he forgot you can see into the in store cafe from the front registers.
I left the registers and went toward the Tech area, went past the unmanned register, waved my empty hands at the security cameras, and went out the alarmed emergency exit.
having already gone through the comments, I'd like to address the one issue that many of the posters forget. The majority of Texas never-ever see snow or temperatures in the freezing range (32 F), and some parts have only seen freezing temps or snow in over a century.
There hasn't been a need for snowplows or the type of "winterizing" that some of you suggest was needed. Granted, they now wish it had been done, but it's been said hindsight is 20/20 and cooda/shooda is not helping anyone.
Calling this "climate change" is a fools errand since it was caused by a polar vortex that pushed father south than usual, one of those once in a century events.
Central Texas is where migratory birds go to winter since it basically stays warm there and the birds have a better chance of survival. If it stayed cold there, why would they fly all that distance to keep warm? Right now, my bird feeder empties twice a week with the influx of birds coming East to get away from the path of the polar vortex (I live in Byron, Ga. 998 miles East of San Antonio). I see groups of birds not normally seen this far East clustered around my feeders.
If you are so concerned about the people in Texas, come over with firewood, generators, propane tanks and heaters, mops, sponges, squeegees, and plenty of extra warm clothes (dry socks and underwear would be nice). If you can't come, donate to an organization that can help.
Icon because some in Texas would love to have fire to keep warm.
i was there for 20 years, saw all the ways on how to not run a company. Corporate got to where they didn't seem to care about customers, just increase daily sales.
They began the death spiral of dollars to schedule, rather than when you have demand or not.
i managed a store when we had a snow storm, a rare event in south Ga. Didn't matter that I was one of two that could get to the store until later in the day, and we did a killer business on batteries, candles, matches, heaters, firewood, blankets and many other cold weather goods.
Salary dollars were cut since we lost sales that day. The work week went from Thursday to Wednesday. Got a call from regional that I had to cut salary by about 1000$. This was Tuesday. My reply was "Which store is going to send some managers to help me open and run the store since I will be the only person in the building?" Told I'd just have to do the best I could and I said I guess I will keep the doors locked, let in one person at a time, and let another customer in when i get through ringing them up. Of course I'll have to keep the doors closed if I have to use the bathroom and during lunch. Of course I could just leave them open and probably half the store will somehow just disappear during the day.
Regional didn't want to hear anything about that until I reminded them I would have a sign in the front window explaining why there wasn't anyone in the building but me. I'm sure customers will understand about salary dollars at work and not go to the Walmart a mile and a half up the street.
Six months later, I went on a vacation that just coincidentally had the 20th anniversary of my employment date. Didn't go back, but did send my resignation letter by registered mail dated for two weeks before my vacation.
Remote location where one can get stuck even if they know the area, but somebody managed to get a big chunk of steel up there unnoticed and get back out without asking for help. Yeah, sounds legit.
UPDATE UTAH: The monolith has disappeared, seemingly overnight.
https://www.facebook.com/BLMUtah/posts/3816317375067234
Bureau of Land Management , the federal agency that oversees National Parks, says they did not remove the object.
Trump's "Million MAGA march" this weekend.... got 11600 people. Hillbillies with beards screaming racist hate. Just 11600.
So much for the liars. Fox News, Hannity, Carlson, Pirro, Ingrahams, all parroted the Trump lies, only 11600 people believed them. One America Network / Sputnik Russian news? No traction at all.
1%.
"Find the "Off" button for the TV"
This.
Go be that shadow in the sand, go see those 'Leonids' tonight, go dive in that lagoon and have that beach bbq. If it's snowey? Go make that snow angel, go sledding with your kids.
Trump the loser has lost. His lawyers are deserting him, Republicans are distancing themselves, nobody is endorsing his 2024 bid, TV channels are planning their new schedules with their new presenters and their new directions.
Girlfriend Stacy still got you by the naughty parts, telling you to be angry and vindictive at a person who lost the election? Go back to kissing her ring and dreaming about how you and she will transform Georgia, then America in your vision of a Socialist/Communistic state.
PS: and YOU talk about not spewing hate?
@" It's one of the few things a protestor can do that I'd happily rule justification for use of live ammo."
Obviously protestors shining lights at police doesn't justify deadly use of force.
You have Trump supporting gunmen killing police while pretending to be BLM protestors, if laser-pointers were enough to justify deadly use of force, then Trump's boys wouldn't need to spice it up with some false-flag police murders. Police murders by Trump supporters:
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/far-right-boogaloo-boy-killed-officer-after-using-black-lives-matter-protest-as-cover-prosecutors/
"Far-right “Boogaloo boy” killed officer after using Black Lives Matter protest as cover: prosecutors"
You know your boy "Unindicted Co-Conspirator #1" will start to get really desperate near the end of his term. The whole reason he's trying to damage the USA right now is to force an exit deal, Nixon style.
Fox News and his enablers think he won't throw them under a bus if they help him try to keep power, but he will. It's all about him now, they're the suckers he's fooled.
I think they should make him President for life despite the election loss.... President of Landscaping.
* Hannity Ingrahams and Tucker Carlson can go down with that sinking ship, but Fox Execs need to cut the links to those 'anchors' before they drag FN down with them.
Stacey's' boyfriend is back, and forgot to take his meds again.
You're critical of us, and we will come by and let you know how upset we are. probably get in your garage and mess up your car.
OK, just don't tell me when you'll be here.
Why, you gonna run away?
Nope, I live in Georgia.
What has that got to do with anything?
Not only do I get to carry a gun on my person, but we get to shoot trespassers.
OH CRAP. click brrrrrrrrrrrrr
" ...If the US had a single electronic voting system across the country ..." Uncle Putin would only need to crack ONE password!
That would be hard to do since there are no Federal elections. All elections are handled through state election laws, even those for president.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but I'm white and it took 2 hours to vote last election. This time i voted early and it took several hours on a Monday to do so.
What state law are you referring to? I can't find what you're posting about anywhere in Georgia law.
It seems you have an axe to grind and don't care if what you use to portray it is true or not.
I bet you still believe that Kemp kept 87,000 black voters from the polls in the last election. You do know that there were white, Asian, Hispanic, native Americans, and others in that group.
That included those who were being purged from the rolls because they were dead, had not voted in over 7 years, filled out their voter applications wrong or incomplete.
Note: Those that showed up at the polls were given a provisional ballot and given a week to provide correct information (as in: I'm not dead, I may not have voted in a while, but I'm here now) phone number address, finish filling out the form. If the information on the voter registration wasn't corrected in that time, the provisional ballot was rejected.
Your gun grabbing friend Stacy just caused a lot of people to get pissed off because she didn't give the whole story.
The challenge is: Are you who you say you are, and are you registered to vote?
Your state issued drivers license or photo ID card (Military ID is good too) can be used.
If you wish to cash a check, what do you use for identification?
If you drive, what do you have to have to drive a vehicle?
If you wish to pawn something, which I've heard that some people do when they need ready cash, what do you present in order to complete the transaction?
When you are called for jury duty, which uses the voter registration rolls, what do you use for ID when asked?
So again, tell me how Voter ID is a form of voter suppression since there are a myriad of things a DL or State issued ID is used for.
Would you think a DNA sample would be voter suppression?
There used to be (still is? I don't know ... it was forty years ago, or thereabouts) a gambling & drinking establishment in Auburn, California. I can't remember their name, but I do remember their bumpersticker:
<bar logo & name> "Liquor in the front, poker in the rear"
There was also the establishment that had a large replica of a revolver across the front. The name was Pistol Dawn.
their logo, "Drink All Night, Pistol dawn".
One problematic fix i had to do was an older gentleman kept bringing in his laptop complaining that his wi-fi quit working. Turn on laptop, connect to my wi-fi, worked fine every time he brought the laptop in.
Shortly before I retired he had the laptop back in. My wi-fi isn't working, and hasn't worked properly since the last time i saw you.
Again, connected to the wi-fi I used and it worked fine (I had learned to just leave the connection in the list).
Showed him it worked fine and again asked if he had any problems with his other wireless devices.
He said he never had any problems with his phone or tablet, but every time he plugged in the Ethernet cord, his wi-fi quit working on his laptop.
Cue Loony Tunes music and a Yosemite Sam angry face.
That's because in California only the rich (in general) can get permits and get armed protection.
The state legislature tries their best to disarm the populace, even though the Constitution says they can't.
Note: Celebrities, actors (even ones not American citizens), politicians, and the rich can get their permits, but regular citizens somehow or the other get their applications "lost".
Another person that doesn't understand laws and regulations for buying military equipment.
Short of a nuclear warhead, any civilian with a Class III Federal Firearms license can buy and use any military surplus they wish.
M-16, M-60, M1-A1 tanks, Patriot Missile systems, I've even been to a government auction where bids were taken on a Minuteman missile.
Class III FFL applicants undergo very strict background and FBI checks.
Myself, I have permits and licenses to import "ammunition, components, firearms, and weapons of mass destruction" from Canada. My background checks from both countries took several months to complete, so it's not anything like the ATF Form 4473 and NICS background checks.
Tried to contact a streaming service about signing up. Went to their "chat room". Started chat, asked my questions, and hit send.
"You are #1 in the Que, a representative will be with you in a moment."
Five minutes later, "All Representatives are busy at the moment, we will start the chat when one gets available. you are number 6 in the Que".
This is underneath the banner advising 24/7 award wining support help.
Every few minutes the message came up with me getting farther down the line
UNTILL, someone brings up the chat page.
While I'm typing my response, the chat page closes.
Guess they didn't want my money, which they didn't get.
Exactly! What about when OBAMA set up the immigration policies you are fussing about. Why didn't he/you protest when Obama had the children put in cages? Why didn't he/you protest when Obama started the separation policies? Don't blame Trump. Blame Obama.
You don't research who started what, you just go along with the "what can we blame Trump for today" crew.
Want to pull the software away from everybody just because you don't like the government? How many lawsuits for lost productivity from customers? Breach of contract?
IRS audits for him, his accountant, his family, his business, for years past.
Loss of future business?
The guy is more than likely screwed for the next 10-15 years.
"Locking them up and mistreating and abusing and neglecting them to the point of having many die is also illegal."
Links to proof of this would be nice, if you could ever find one.
If you have large numbers of refugees showing up, it takes time to process the cases.
The citizens are tired of the "refugees" coming in, given a court date for their case to be heard, and the "refugees" disappear and never show up.
California, where most of the "let them in" protesters live, has several large military bases that have been closed down. There are thousands of units of base housing and barracks that could be used to house them in fenced in, gated areas. Couple of security personnel at the gates and roving patrols to keep everything safe could insure that there is a place where family units could stay together.
Of course those who are loudest protesting the conditions of the refugee camps could take legal and financial responsibility for a busload at their home.
When the migrants show up at the border and fill out the paper declaring refugee status, each member is implanted with an RFID chip for identification purposes.
The chip would remain until the refugee status is removed. Note: Refugee status is not a permanent visa. Status is in effect until the situation that made the person request to be a refugee has ended.
Refugees are not actually immigrants.
Sorry, but you are way wrong about there only being single shot firearms during the American Revolution, much less when the Constitution was written.
The Continental Congress gave a contract to John Cookson for 100 of his lever action repeating rifles based on the Lorenzoni system, which was developed in 1660. Cookson also offered his gun for general sale in Boston Globe advertisements.
If you are in England,an example of the Cookson repeater can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, British Galleries, Room 56, The Djanogly Gallery, Case 5.
There were also Cookson model repeater handguns, Loernzoni handguns, and eight shot revolvers-yes I said revolvers.
If you find yourself in Lillehammer, Norway, go to the Maihaugen Museum and ask to see the revolver used by Georg Von Reichwein during the Thirty Years War. Hans Stoppler was the gunsmith and made the revolver in 1636.
There are many examples of multiple fire repeating firearms during the 1600 to 1800 era.
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