Mad as Hell and not going to take it anymore ???

[AK]

Europe is not the Promised Land. Europeans can be intolerant, violent, ignorant, insular, selfish, etc., just like anyone else. I’ve met my share of racist European liberals. I’ve met European Joe-the-Plumber types who complain about their tax dollars going to lazy welfare bums.

Doctors Without Borders runs free clinics and other services in many European welfare states … Spain and Italy, but also Belgium and even SWEDEN. Yes, even Sweden. The clinics serve illegal immigrants, who risk deportation if they use government hospitals.

And I’m all about double-action revolvers. Just took my S&W Model 19 to the range after a 14-year hiatus. Still just as smooth as the day I bought it. Accurate and powerful enough to please the firearms conoisseur, yet simple enough that a n00b can learn to handle it in an hour. Try that with a typical high-capacity Wundergun. “This is the safety. Well, actually the thumb safety. No, that’s the slide release. And that’s the takedown lever. Well, that’s the decocking lever. No wait, you just activated the magazine safety. And that? It’s the trigg… BOOM!” 🙂

[Allan from Fallbrook]

AK: Nothing like a big Smith K, L or N Frame to get your point across. My favorite S&W is still my 6″ Model 57 in .41Mag (I own a 4″ M629, too). I used to shoot silhouette and ran 210gr jacketed lead core rounds through it. Accurate as hell and they’d knock the snot out of a steel ram at 25 yards. I used to daydream about mailboxes, engine blocks and Coke machines.

Another major drawback to Europeans is that they think the 9mm round is powerful. You’d see cops running around with Walther PPKs in .380. Embarrassing, to say the least. Dude… get a real gun!

[Allan from Fallbrook]

AK: Nothing like a big Smith K, L or N Frame to get your point across. My favorite S&W is still my 6″ Model 57 in .41Mag (I own a 4″ M629, too). I used to shoot silhouette and ran 210gr jacketed lead core rounds through it. Accurate as hell and they’d knock the snot out of a steel ram at 25 yards. I used to daydream about mailboxes, engine blocks and Coke machines.

Another major drawback to Europeans is that they think the 9mm round is powerful. You’d see cops running around with Walther PPKs in .380. Embarrassing, to say the least. Dude… get a real gun!

[Allan from Fallbrook]

AK: Nothing like a big Smith K, L or N Frame to get your point across. My favorite S&W is still my 6″ Model 57 in .41Mag (I own a 4″ M629, too). I used to shoot silhouette and ran 210gr jacketed lead core rounds through it. Accurate as hell and they’d knock the snot out of a steel ram at 25 yards. I used to daydream about mailboxes, engine blocks and Coke machines.

Another major drawback to Europeans is that they think the 9mm round is powerful. You’d see cops running around with Walther PPKs in .380. Embarrassing, to say the least. Dude… get a real gun!

[Allan from Fallbrook]

AK: Nothing like a big Smith K, L or N Frame to get your point across. My favorite S&W is still my 6″ Model 57 in .41Mag (I own a 4″ M629, too). I used to shoot silhouette and ran 210gr jacketed lead core rounds through it. Accurate as hell and they’d knock the snot out of a steel ram at 25 yards. I used to daydream about mailboxes, engine blocks and Coke machines.

Another major drawback to Europeans is that they think the 9mm round is powerful. You’d see cops running around with Walther PPKs in .380. Embarrassing, to say the least. Dude… get a real gun!

[Allan from Fallbrook]

AK: Nothing like a big Smith K, L or N Frame to get your point across. My favorite S&W is still my 6″ Model 57 in .41Mag (I own a 4″ M629, too). I used to shoot silhouette and ran 210gr jacketed lead core rounds through it. Accurate as hell and they’d knock the snot out of a steel ram at 25 yards. I used to daydream about mailboxes, engine blocks and Coke machines.

Another major drawback to Europeans is that they think the 9mm round is powerful. You’d see cops running around with Walther PPKs in .380. Embarrassing, to say the least. Dude… get a real gun!

[CricketOnTheHearth]

Submitted by macromaniac on February 18, 2010 – 10:36pm.

Anyone care to comment on this truth:

“In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). ”

I noticed that too. Especially that he went into no explanation of what the section he cites actually did to the tax law, other than somehow it makes is harder for independent technical workers to earn a living.

The other thing that makes me wonder is Ricechex’ observation that the building was virtually empty. Really?? Were they warned?

Reading his essay, he says that he decided to become a free-lance engineer and not work for any corporation after, as a student, meeting the widow of a steelworker who lost his retirement when his company folded. Ever since, he’s been trying to free-lance it and finding things harder and harder… until he finally decided to literally throw his pound of flesh in the IRS’s face.

Many comments in his essay are eerily reminiscent of things that many other bloggers have also pointed out about the government, corporations, politicians, etc. What kind of gobsmacks me is how severely does a geek have to be pushed before he literally goes kamikaze? As an engineer myself I find it a little hard to imagine.

I hope that Charles Hugh Smith is right and the revolution will not occur with a bang with many guns and explosions, but instead with a quietly kudzu-like subsuming of the old order by the new.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

Submitted by macromaniac on February 18, 2010 – 10:36pm.

Anyone care to comment on this truth:

“In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). ”

I noticed that too. Especially that he went into no explanation of what the section he cites actually did to the tax law, other than somehow it makes is harder for independent technical workers to earn a living.

The other thing that makes me wonder is Ricechex’ observation that the building was virtually empty. Really?? Were they warned?

Reading his essay, he says that he decided to become a free-lance engineer and not work for any corporation after, as a student, meeting the widow of a steelworker who lost his retirement when his company folded. Ever since, he’s been trying to free-lance it and finding things harder and harder… until he finally decided to literally throw his pound of flesh in the IRS’s face.

Many comments in his essay are eerily reminiscent of things that many other bloggers have also pointed out about the government, corporations, politicians, etc. What kind of gobsmacks me is how severely does a geek have to be pushed before he literally goes kamikaze? As an engineer myself I find it a little hard to imagine.

I hope that Charles Hugh Smith is right and the revolution will not occur with a bang with many guns and explosions, but instead with a quietly kudzu-like subsuming of the old order by the new.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

Submitted by macromaniac on February 18, 2010 – 10:36pm.

Anyone care to comment on this truth:

“In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). ”

I noticed that too. Especially that he went into no explanation of what the section he cites actually did to the tax law, other than somehow it makes is harder for independent technical workers to earn a living.

The other thing that makes me wonder is Ricechex’ observation that the building was virtually empty. Really?? Were they warned?

Reading his essay, he says that he decided to become a free-lance engineer and not work for any corporation after, as a student, meeting the widow of a steelworker who lost his retirement when his company folded. Ever since, he’s been trying to free-lance it and finding things harder and harder… until he finally decided to literally throw his pound of flesh in the IRS’s face.

Many comments in his essay are eerily reminiscent of things that many other bloggers have also pointed out about the government, corporations, politicians, etc. What kind of gobsmacks me is how severely does a geek have to be pushed before he literally goes kamikaze? As an engineer myself I find it a little hard to imagine.

I hope that Charles Hugh Smith is right and the revolution will not occur with a bang with many guns and explosions, but instead with a quietly kudzu-like subsuming of the old order by the new.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

Submitted by macromaniac on February 18, 2010 – 10:36pm.

Anyone care to comment on this truth:

“In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). ”

I noticed that too. Especially that he went into no explanation of what the section he cites actually did to the tax law, other than somehow it makes is harder for independent technical workers to earn a living.

The other thing that makes me wonder is Ricechex’ observation that the building was virtually empty. Really?? Were they warned?

Reading his essay, he says that he decided to become a free-lance engineer and not work for any corporation after, as a student, meeting the widow of a steelworker who lost his retirement when his company folded. Ever since, he’s been trying to free-lance it and finding things harder and harder… until he finally decided to literally throw his pound of flesh in the IRS’s face.

Many comments in his essay are eerily reminiscent of things that many other bloggers have also pointed out about the government, corporations, politicians, etc. What kind of gobsmacks me is how severely does a geek have to be pushed before he literally goes kamikaze? As an engineer myself I find it a little hard to imagine.

I hope that Charles Hugh Smith is right and the revolution will not occur with a bang with many guns and explosions, but instead with a quietly kudzu-like subsuming of the old order by the new.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

Submitted by macromaniac on February 18, 2010 – 10:36pm.

Anyone care to comment on this truth:

“In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). ”

I noticed that too. Especially that he went into no explanation of what the section he cites actually did to the tax law, other than somehow it makes is harder for independent technical workers to earn a living.

The other thing that makes me wonder is Ricechex’ observation that the building was virtually empty. Really?? Were they warned?

Reading his essay, he says that he decided to become a free-lance engineer and not work for any corporation after, as a student, meeting the widow of a steelworker who lost his retirement when his company folded. Ever since, he’s been trying to free-lance it and finding things harder and harder… until he finally decided to literally throw his pound of flesh in the IRS’s face.

Many comments in his essay are eerily reminiscent of things that many other bloggers have also pointed out about the government, corporations, politicians, etc. What kind of gobsmacks me is how severely does a geek have to be pushed before he literally goes kamikaze? As an engineer myself I find it a little hard to imagine.

I hope that Charles Hugh Smith is right and the revolution will not occur with a bang with many guns and explosions, but instead with a quietly kudzu-like subsuming of the old order by the new.

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At around 3:00 into the video, the eyewitness reports that fire trucks and hazmat were already on scene when the plane crashed.

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At around 3:00 into the video, the eyewitness reports that fire trucks and hazmat were already on scene when the plane crashed.

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At around 3:00 into the video, the eyewitness reports that fire trucks and hazmat were already on scene when the plane crashed.

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At around 3:00 into the video, the eyewitness reports that fire trucks and hazmat were already on scene when the plane crashed.

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