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Also, Glocks have a safety it's just a passive design. Google "safe action", it's kind of nifty.

For home protection get a shotgun. Mossberg or Remington 870 would be perfect. Won't go through walls, great effect and it's a billion times easier to aim if you actually need to use it. You don't want to go pouring 9mm rounds through drywall, that's how bad things happen. If you absolutely must go handgun I very highly recommend the .45 Sig. I own one myself, lovely little thing.

They also killed MLK, which was kind of a dick move.

This bandwagoning has to end.

Yup. Beware the social justice warrior..

I agree wholeheartedly and I think Chinese kids would greatly benefit from reading those books, but I cannot imagine the Chinese government would be pleased with those ideas being planted in young minds. They would probably displeased enough to sequester them from society in whatever neo-gulag situation they have there for the mentally awakened.

Yea! Let's have CHINESE KIDS read Brave New World or 1984! I'm sure the apparatchik will appreciate a new crop of thought criminals to lay bricks on the Three Gorges Dam with no safety equipment.

Vonnegut.

I own a Scott Podsednik All Star jersey. Remember that? This board was instrumental in electing him to the f***ing ALL STAR GAME.

I really enjoyed backpacking the length of Pictured Rocks NL. Probably my favorite Midwestern destination overall. And yea, Superior is a brutal creature.

Just announced. Our friendly, benevolent government at work. Let's give them more power.

I hate the fundies as much as you do, FYI.

100% agree. Totally reasonable, especially with all the crappy state laws that give women like 10 hours to decide whether or not to abort.

Well this is obviously a case of rich dude paying for laws that benefit him. Sounds like every law in this country (begging the obvious question....). But hey, explain to me why in the context of an "accident" the man has to be stuck with the woman's decision. If you want to ban abortions, fine that works because its consistent. You also can't appeal to pregnancy, 9 months of suck does not entitle one to 18 years of someone else's money. Both parents decide, its the only fair option. (As a man not supporting this is like being black and supporting Jim Crow)

Record speed you two! Both sarcastic one-liners too. If a woman can choose not to have a child a man should be able to make the same choice. Right? Equality is something you guys still like, correct? Either that or you ban abortions. Then it'll make sense because both people have their hands tied. I prefer the let people abort option personally, less kids = happier Duke.

To be fair, in a world where abortions are legal child support shouldn't exist.

The GoT trailer. Oh lord, April hurry up.

I don't see how that's possible without straying off truck routes, which is probably where BNSF and UP are getting that stat from.

Then he wins.

Whether or not I do this job that is not a choice I reasonably have. Besides I feed your beast a decent percentage of my income so I might as well get some tangible benefit out of it before it all starts going to welfare.

How can I be a daring, brave individualist in this painfully weak, boring, terrified country? Its not even possible. Of course I'm none of those things and never advertise myself as them because your toxic ideology has poisoned everything. I just want to be left alone. Not told what to do or who to give my money to or "what's worth it"; I want to make those judgments myself. That's all I really ever ask for with very limited exceptions.

Rail releases "studies" like this all the time. CSA, HoS, theyve been aggressively targeting the trucking industry for about 20 years now. Its all bulls***. Besides that almost entirely deals with oversized loads, I never go heavy and if I do I have to get permits for it that are not cheap.

I dont use gas, maybe you mean fuel. Even then, fuel taxes only account for $25 billion? f***ing ONLY? How blood drunk off government money are you? Motherf***er that's half the budget right there. I also burn cleaner than a ca due to something called regens that I barely understand unless they break me down (they do that a lot). Again, you don't know what you are talking about. Tailpipe? What? Have you seen a truck or do you just stare at rocks in your basement wondering what the outside world is like? But hey, to settle this once and for all because I'm utterly sick of you thinking you "got me" because of my job. 1) They most I ever hear about your employment is you b****ing that you didn't get enough public funds to sit on your ass. Or youre just whining about income and what other people have but you can't earn. You want to make occupation fair play? Let's do it, let's see how much more you do than your average unemployed twit living off the dole. "But Duke, we need geologists and stuff" yea we do, we need a lot of them which begs the question why the f*** are you so whiny all the damn time? My guess, you don't want to go work for Halliburton or whoever because they'll make you work while waiting for that big grant to come through or blowing other similarly useless academics is generally no-work for little-pay. That's why you're such a gimme gimme little brat about other peoples money. That's why you want free s*** all the damn time. Because you cant/won't/are too lazy to work. I don't think there's all that much to my job, but I do know you couldn't do it for a day. So until the time comes where you can say you actually create something that isn't a study, theory or idea you can go ahead and shut up about what I do. Don't cry foul now, you brought my job into it now I'm doing the same. 2) The only reason I do what I do is because it is demanded by the general population. Don't complain about a trucks exhaust fumes then go to the supermarket and buy a fish from Washington. I may have been the one who actually drove it but I am not the one who demands things be shipped thousands of miles because "they want them". All this that you're saying, its me who wrecks the roads and needs the government and pollutes the air--its not me, asshole. If I wasn't driving this crap around someone else would be because you are all so hopelessly addicted to stuff you need it fed to you daily by 53 ft long, 13.5 foot tall trucks carrying 20 tons of crap for you to shove down your gullet. Do not even try to pin the reckless, wasteful attitudes towards consumption on me when I live in a closet about 4 feet away from my office and generally travel to places where things are made to buy them as opposed to sitting on my ass while an entire industry of millions works 24/7 to provide needless tons of useless s*** to satisfy my addiction.

Next time its prudent I'm going to say some really ignorant s*** about geology I gleaned from an article I barely remember reading. Then I'm going to use that ignorant s*** to make a personal judgment about you. When you become frustrated with the level of ignorance and just give up I will come back with that same ignorance whenever I feel like it because I will be mistaking conceding out of exhaustion with actually winning the argument.

The % of the transportation budget I contribute exceeds the % of wear I put on the roads. Hence the initial claim "I don't get anything from the state I don't pay for 3 times over."