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Good Morning:

I'm up to early. It's just 81 already. Feels like 83? Not supposed to be as HOT today. No records today? Pop up showers when the heat gets going later?

I have a little bit of stuff to do, nothing major. Pick up my monthly meds. Probably go get me and grandson lunch. I need to get the front windshield replaced in my Silverado. Where a rock came off a trucks tire and smashed it good. While I was doing 70 on the interstate. It scared the heck out of me. It hit top dead center. Of course, now the veins are spreading from all this heat. But I don't feel like sitting there for an hour and a half today, while my glass guy fiddles with it. He's fast and good, but he'll answer his cell phone 10 times and have to deal with a walk in customer or two? Other wise he could do it in 20 minutes? But he'll do it for $135 cash wholesale for me. Labor and windsheild.

Speaking of FLAG DAY! That reminds me, back in the late 1960's early 1970's. I dated a girl that wore American flag unmentionables. That was common stuff in the 60's. Flag Tee shirts, flag blankets etc. you don't see flag clothing or blankets any more. And NO I won't do my comic routine of telling her to wear em half staff for me.

So if your out pounding the pavement today, running the roads, cruising the curbs, winding up and down the motor ways, stay safe, stay strong, stay alert, stay mean and Remember Old Glory! Our US Flag
 
In an attempt to arrest the Sioux Chief Spotted Elk and disarm his tribe,

U.S. Troops surrounded the encampment on the banks of Wounded Knee creek.
When the gunsmoke cleared....approximately 200 American Natives of the Sioux tribe lay dead
along with 25 Troopers.

The worst mass shooting in U.S. history? Time will tell, I guess.

Will gun owners and the Christian right be the next to fall to the governing elite's forces?


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Those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it.


The Truth About the Wounded Knee Massacre - ICTMN.com
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keith44spl said:
In an attempt to arrest the Sioux Chief Big Foot and disarm his tribe,

U.S. Troops surrounded the encampment on the banks of Wounded Knee creek.
When the gunsmoke cleared....approximately 300 American Natives of the Sioux tribe lay dead.

The worst mass shooting in U.S. history? Time will tell, I guess.


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Those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
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I so very much wanted to make the lighthearted quip that it gives a whole new meaning to the term "so Sioux me!"...but it was a truly dark moment in U.S. history...

...I've had a lot of friends both on and offline whose families and ancestors were impacted by the reservations, the broken treaties, the "Trail Of Tears" etc. Mostly Cherokee but members of other tribes as well.

An interesting parenthetical note if I may...

...Back in the late 80's I attended a federal academy for several weeks in Marana, AZ, northwest of Tucson. The base was located on BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) land and was also used as a training facility for their tribal officers from all over the U.S. (Lots of internecine historical tribal rivalries there, as you can imagine.) Great bunch of guys that I used to spend a lot of time playing basketball with on many early evenings. (The base was also used by SEALS, CIA and a variety of other law enforcement and clandestine ops.)

Anyway, the thing I found very bittersweet and ironic was when one day I, (without forethought), asked some of my Native American friends if any of them would be heading over to the base pub for a cold one later on.

The answers I received were eye opening. They were not allowed to enter or drink at the pub even though it was on their own base and they were all citizens of legal age.

Granted, some of the guys mentioned that with the history of alcoholism among Native Americans it was best for them to avoid consumption...which I totally understood and apologized for not thinking of beforehand...but I found it hard to wrap my head around the fact that they were not permitted to make that decision for themselves but were instead commanded not to do so.

These same fine men would raise our flag at sunup and lower it at sundown every day and were always reverential throughout the ceremony. It was a daily event that touched my heart.

My Flag Day story.

(Didn't even realize I had a Flag Day story to share other than my joy in 1994 when my beloved NY Rangers won the Stanley Cup for the first and only time within my lifetime.)

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bigride said:
At what point does one lose the urge to quit buying and selling pocket knives? I just want to know when I will outgrow this phase I'm going through.

Just pretend this is hwitty.
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Errr.. Never, my late hubby was a lifetime knife collector. I have literally thousands of knives to sell so I'd happily enable your buying habit.
 
pawngal said:
Errr.. Never, my late hubby was a lifetime knife collector. I have literally thousands of knives to sell so I'd happily enable your buying habit.
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pawngal, sorry for your loss (even if not recent).

I sent you a pm that I hope you may find useful. (Nothing motivated even remotely by self interest but hopefully of some use to you.)
 
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Pocket knives are one of the things you can never have too many of, even if you don't have pockets! I stash them everywhere just in case. I have even watched the knife shows on the tube when I can't sleep late at night,they put me out right now.
 
bigride said:
It's a shame I don't live closer pawngal.

Of course, my wife would probably be pretty upset if I spent my whole paycheck on knives.

Just pretend this is hwitty.
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Man started making one woman happy and another unhappy from the beginning!
Tis our heritage to do so, so who are you to deny your heritage?

Besides quantity discount !
Large quantity of money for a large quantity of knives!
Can you get a recording or transcript of the negotiations? Should be interesting, a pawnshop owner dealing with a man with no pants! Bet she could give you a good deal on a barrel!
Maybe you would even get driven back home in a convertible, top down , no pants, trunk full of knives, sounds like a reality show in the making? 😏
 
I'm very grateful today for the wonderful nation for which our beautiful flag stands. As a poignant corollary to the Memorial Day commemorations of a few short weeks ago, I'll have the privilege tonight of visiting a local cemetery which serves as a final resting place of so many of our veterans dating back to the Revolution. The sea of American flags adorning the grave sites of these veterans stirs an emotional response in me that I pray I'll never lose. I am also grateful for all the fine young men and women who continue to volunteer their service to our nation in this time of great need. Please remember that they are in so many ways the product of our "greatest generation" and will continue to guard well the finest traditions of the United States' armed forces.


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Great progress has been made in the deck repairs, the main post has been repaired and the footer poured. A second post which is a minute 4x4 support has been replaced and a footer poured. The main steps have been removed and a footer for new ones have been poured and the stringers are cut.
The rest of the deck planking is being removed.
Hopefully tomorrow they will start putting it all back together! :D
I disassembled, cleaned and lubed my LCP while the deck was being done! :cool:
It is now reassembled and back in service! ;)
 
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