Dave

Hey all, pissing contests to a minimum please. I can say this about the subject, the Gripen is a cool looking, highly capable aircraft. But I am an fighter aircraft junkie and they are ALL cool. Who cares what a country chose, the fact remains WE here at CA wont get to fly our own.

You hit it right on the head Snailman. I have a few friends with pit bulls and they are giant babies.

Bring it in. Take a knee. Meach, low crawl up here. On Wednesday afternoon (Christmas), I received a phone call from a distraught Mrs. Meach. It seems her ungrateful son received his gifts of Legos and a Boba Fett action figure (with rocket launcher), and decided that an email would suffice to convey his love and gratitude for her decades of grueling motherhood. That's right, Mrs. Meach called me on Christmas day to tell me that her son hadn't called her. No, it seems that Young Meach has found himself an Oak Grove Trailer Manatee, with three kids and five "baby daddies", preferring instead to spend some time with her brood. You have heard me warn you in great detail of the dangers of the affections of the Clarksville wildlife, but the trailer parks of Oak Grove and Pembroke make Clarksville seem like Miami, verdant and lush with blossoming supermodels. Young Meach has been fooled, lured into madness with the undulating rolls of elbow flaps and excess neck. In time, he'll be stuck paying child support for a cross-eyed mongoloid half-wit named Timmy, complete with helmet and drool-catcher. This, all because Miss Trailer Manatee let him touch her boobs. Meach, until I hear from your mother that you have called her, and satisfied her desire to know about your every life choice, meal selection, sneeze, or fart, you will low crawl wherever you go. You will not walk, run, or crawl. You will not sit. You will not stand, not even to piss, until I have heard from Mrs. Meach that you are once again "her charming, snuggly little boy". For the rest of you, you are here because your families hate you. I don't know this, but it seems a reasonable assumption, as you're here with me instead. In case you've forgotten, I don't like you either. Because no one likes you, I want you gone from here before the echo of my words has faded. You will show up on Monday, shaved, with a fresh haircut, and ready for strenuous PT. I hope you vomit. The Five Ds: 1. Don't do dudes. 2. Don't do dudes' wives. 3. Don't do drugs. 4. Don't drink and drive. 5. Don't beat your wife. Meach, recover. Drink water. Now, get the hell out of my AO! -Bullwinkle

Very interesting.....

JA!

Merry Christmas friends!

True story bro.

I heard they were going to throw him in the mud for 3 days, get him out, pull his action and he will be fine. (AK-47 humor)

One person helping out at a homeless shelter or a food bank can do more than a person saying we need a revolution.

Today is bpao's birthday. He would of been 41 today. Is it right to say Happy Birthday? What is the right thing to say? Miss you my friend.

"Afro-Marxism" dude you owe me some monitor wipes. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I do agree with you about the "lets take back American" crowd of gun nuts are idiots. Those are the same people who say the Boston Marathon bombing was an inside job to see how the general public would react to Martial Law. (i.e. when everyone was told not to leave their homes why the FBI looked for those two fuck stains) I don't buy that. These are also the same people who say that 9/11 was another inside job. "Just don't bring that "gunclub skillset" to the street to settle our nations problems" I like this statement because it describes the morons above. Yes I like my high capacity weapons. I like shooting them, I like using them in competitons. I am not going to take the streets for a "revolution". That is just silly and those who have that mindset of the "fascist regime that occupies the White House" are people who are out of touch with reality. So you are displeased with your current officials? Then do the most American and patriot thing you can do...VOTE! Yes the government right now and I mean all of them is fucking up by the numbers, but what one in our history have been stellar? None that I can think of. There is dirt in all of them. We are not becoming socialist or is the President trying to change us to that. Sorry folks that dog doesn't hunt. You can quote all the websites you want, most of them are ran by the aforementioned nut jobs. Bi-partisian support on issues is what needs to happen. Example, even though the budget that passed is not the greatest at all, at least they all came to some kind of agreement. (The veterans getting the COLA decrease, as small as it is, its the principle behind it that chaps my ass) If the government is going to move forward on anything there needs to be bi-partisian support, this all or nothing mindset is killing this countries progress. With bi-partisian support there are always going to be things that not everyone will like. But as a quote from a book I just read sums it up. "We didn't lose, but we didn't win either." Not sure how I go on this rant....sorry. For the record I am not a Republican (I used to be) or a Democrat. Boths sides have been less than stellar and I think the government as a whole needs new blood from the ground up.

I wonder why this stuff never makes the evening news? It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. General George S. Patton

The world is an imperfect place. My cousin Vinny for example fell on a knife 21 times...Accidents happen all the time.

http://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/heroes/heroes-2013/once-declared-dead-in-korea-hernandez-full-of-fire-at-82-1.224939 He didn't have an ounce of quit in him. RIP sir.

Jamie A gun is a gun though, they all fire bullets. One might look more sinsister than the other. But a 7.62 will fire out of anything that is meant for whether it is a military looking weapon or a Ruger hunting rifle. What they look like does not matter. The damage is the same. I meant alcohol was used as a tool was for lack of a better word. Catalyist? You knew what I meant. I guess that is aimed at me then huh?

Soap Box rant on Cars kill more people than guns, lets ban them. McDonalds makes people fat, ban that too. Why is it that when someone kills someone with a gun they blame the gun, but someone drunk kills a person with their car, you don't hear the charge to ban alcohol or cars. Both were tools used by someone to commit these acts and kill far more then people with guns. I will say this until I am blue in the face and yet no one listens, it isn't the guns, its the people. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. If they do not use a gun, they use an ax, or a knife. Look at those wack jobs in China going around stabbing 10 to 20 people in one rage fest. Better mental health care and a better system of IDing the ones who might go postal is in order. It wont catch everyone. However in many cases you see that a person had a history of some sort of odd behavior prior to their rampages. Look at the Colorado movie theater shooting, Sandy Hook, the attack on Congresswoman Gifford, the naval yard shooting, all of them were wack jobs and people knew. Nothing was done or said. The system is broke. I have guns, I carry guns, my kids know how to safely handle and shoot guns. Even my 9 year old twins girls know what to do if they find an unattended firearm. Education and prevention is a key component here. It won't catch every situation but its a start. Soap Box rant off The TSA screeners do not need guns. That is what the airport police are for. I think that this is a recipe for disaster. LEO train and train and then when they are sick of training, they train some more. I don't see a week long or a month long course for a TSA worker, then you can carry a firearm is a good idea. If they are going to they need to train like LEO's and train often.