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This is a pretty cool video of a log across a stream...

@AVB-AMG, where are you in this chart?

Arthur C. Clark fans will recognize Hanlon's Razor here: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Maybe if the Democrats in the House and Senate weren't so caught up in "impeach 45" there would have been more of a heads up.

Buy it cheap stack it deep, ya snooze ya lose.

Charges dismissed. https://bearingarms.com/cam-e/2020/03/13/criminal-charges-dismissed-roosevelt-twyne/

Weird coincidence. 8-9 months. Odd, that'd put us right about the election. Not going to happen. This thing will peak inside of the next few months, June at the outside and by August everything should be back to normal.

Exactly... After the Sandy Hook shooting, I decided never to be caught in that crazy again... You would think the members here would already know that..

This is a prime reason we need to dump China as a supplier....of pretty much anything. Chinese getting froggy

thanks for posting something cool, getting burned out hearing about the coronavirus

Surprisingly, the domain name bettycrockpot.com is available. @Zeke, jus say'n.

Pretty good article about modeling/predicting what will happen here based on data we are seeing in other countries. It is a bit long, but despite its crazy title, it is a good read. https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

While this isn’t a ‘joke’, it’s a humorous story on me. One that I’d better tell before Mrs Tex tells y’all at one of the shotgun shoots/bbqs and puts her spin on it. Lol We are in St. Thomas, USVI.... We’ve spent the day, drinking by the pool, soaking up the sun, as you do on vacation in the tropics. Mrs Tex and I have been trading quips at one another all day, as we usually do. Laughing and enjoying spending time with one another. We go back to the room..and my sunburned, half drunken ass is changing out of my bathing suit and into street clothes to go out. We are laughing and carrying on, and as I’m standing on one foot, putting my shoes on one at a time. She tells me to be careful, cause I’m gonna fall.....I make a quip about being ‘poised as a ninja....with quick, cat like reflexes’. As I’m putting on my second shoe, I fell directly on my ass. Without missing a beat, Mrs Tex looks down at me on the floor, and says, in a quite sarcastic tone, ‘yep....you’re a fucking ninja...’ Ugh...

Hey, no insults (no flinging poo at each other like monkeys at the zoo)! Be your best selves, gentlemen! As far as the original topic, I don't find it "amazing" (or even "surprising") how many people would fall for any scam. In NJ, approx. 20% of our elderly citizens have been financially scammed - often due to a combination of factors - being widowed/lonely, suffering from hearing loss (coupled with denial about it) is a factor, as well as other physical and mental attributes that may be slowing down a bit - all those things can make you vulnerable. Then you figure there are immigrants who may lack a full grasp of the English language - and they could certainly be more easily hoodwinked, too. Not to mention, look at all the reasonably sophisticated and wealthy people scammed by various Ponzi schemes, investment scams, etc. Bernie Madoff ring a bell? Some of these cons are very skilled. Unless you walk through life feeling thoroughly paranoid about everyone you meet, this could happen to anyone at some point in their life... under the right set of circumstances. No one is invincible throughout their full lifespan... if you think you are, you're in denial about the effects of aging/illness, etc. The people we should be trashing are the absolute scoundrels who took advantage of them! I hope the jerks who did this are caught and promptly sent up the river, as the expression goes! It's a despicable crime to prey on someone's fear/vulnerability.

Regarding testing, from Trump's news conference: They looked at the data from So. Korea, and out of all the people tested who exhibited virus symptoms, only 4% actually tested positive for Covid. So, it appears that the other 96% were either seasonal flu, common cold, allergies, or something similar. They said that in the US so far, out of the ones exhibiting symptoms, only 2% have tested positive. So yes, more tests will probably show more negatives or minor cases, which will reduce the overall mortality rate.

Ha ha! You just got owned

"This Office has elected to exercise its prosecutorial discretion and has administratively dismissed all charges pending against Mr. Twyne," the office said in a statement to Newsweek. "It is not in the interests of justice to continue his prosecution." How nice of them. The fact the law doesn't support the charges had nothing to do with it, for sure. Just imagine, the DA doesn't now the laws he has the duty to enforce.

White castle sends me to the loo. But they taste so good.

Oh stop feeding the frenzy

I bet it's a lot more than that. I saw a story that when they tested the Diamond Princess in Japan, over half of the people who tested positive never showed any symptoms. Which shows, many cases are really minor. But, it doesn't matter if people get tested. Bottom line, if someone is having symptoms, they need to stay home. Treatment is the same if it's WuFlu, seasonal flu, a common cold, or what ever. Does someone really need a test, when they have a fever, coughing or sneezing to tell them they are sick? Unless they want to do mass testing, to see if someone is carrying the virus but not showing symptoms, the actual test just ends up being a data point. It doesn't affect treatment is someone is already sick.

Some of this can also be attributed to the Russian oil issues going on right now.

They must keep control in the major cities and I don't necessarily just mean the disease...…..pending civil unrest....omol

May20 I agree with you on the X5 Legion. Very nice. No I've always wanted to add a 1911 so I went with the 1911 TACOPS.

You should try using it sometime, instead of asking other people to do your work for you.

+10000

Roger that. On it.

....."Residents are warned to not let anyone inside their home who claims to be a CDC employee. Instead, residents should contact their local police department immediately with a description of the people. "It is a shame how some people will use tragic events and fear to further victimize people," Russo said. "Citizens must stay alert and report any suspicious activity." What's more amazing is the number of people who actually fall for these scams...

Thanks Google....

I was researching that last night, based on how things are going in China, S. Korea, Italy, etc. It seems that a ballpark could be up around 2 months before the virus levels out and starts heading down. That said, Trump has scheduled a 3PM news conference, it's been reported he's calling for a national emergency and instituting the Stafford Act, what ever that is.

POTUS did not call Covid-19 a hoax. If you can't see that, you really are afflicted with TDS. What Trump DID say was, the demoncrat party is politicizing the event and making up shit about how the administration is handling the outbreak. THAT is the hoax. All the sudden every democrat is an MD and an expert on pandemics and knows better than the actual experts. The fact is, Trump acted immediately by restricting international travel, and was called a racist for it. That was very early on. You can't blast Trump for restricting travel in one breath, and then accuse him of calling the outbreak a hoax in the next. Just more leftist/liberal/democrat bull shit. AVB You are treading on troll territory. You are (I believe) an intelligent man, and smart enough to separate the wheat from the chaff. The only logical conclusion is that you are ignoring the facts, and towing the line for the left, in hopes of willfully perpetuating a false narrative. Very uncool.

I'm only about 20 minutes from you. I don't have a P320 X-Five Legion on hand at this moment, but I do have a P320 M18. I can probably do better on the X-five Legion if you have a littler time to wait for it.

That's gonna stick...

what is this crazy talk... you are trying to solve a non existent problem.. augmenting your weapon system to some goofy less functional configuration so you can spare the people next to you at the range.. you are IMO on the wrong track.. built the weapon so it functions the best.. and if being next to you at the range makes them sad.. tell them to toughen up... this whole not a pistol grip.. removing the pistol grip.. its crazy talk.. I shoot a 7.5in SBR... you think your gun is loud? it puts 2ft fire balls out of the front of it.. if people next to me don't like it they can piss off.. I would NEVER compromise the weapon over that..

Well, I mean, it’s already going to state and federal agencies. So, you know, they already have it. regardless, this is about opening an FFL. Please don’t step too far off the path and descend down the tinfoil hat rabbit hole.

That’s not funny, that’s troof

Well, if your gonna have to pay more for shit tickets, you may as well make it fun.

I thought the same thing a few hours ago as I replied multiple times and couldn't get through to him. So I did what I should have when I checked his content and found a 9+ year gap in his posts, I added him to my Ignore list, along with Greenie and a couple others. Life is too short. As someone wise once said "Don't argue with a fool. People might not be able to tell the difference."