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  1. That's the gun I saw many of the locals in SE Alaska carry on their back in a sling. Easy to reach back, pull over your shoulder and fire from the hip at a charging bear. Made more sense to me then the 45 I was carrying on my chest.
  2. I guy broke into my house last night looking for money . . . So I got up and looked with him.
  3. HBD Red. . . stay the charming southerner you are!
  4. IDK about that … 6 years is a a lot of time to be spent miserable or feeling you’re unappreciated or unrecognized. Many have reimagined and started over careers well into their 50’s and 60’s. All depends upon your motivation and entrepreneurial spirit. Personally I started over at age 54, same industry, but almost from scratch at possibly the worst time in my life. It was hard and took about 8 years before I started to benefit . . . Looking back I’m grateful for my stupidity, as they say stupid is what stupid does and I did stupidly okay!
  5. Considering the bar is set so low for Joe regarding speech delivery and gaffs, he did okay. You see and hear what you want to. Overall, I thought his dressing down of the SCOTUS was inappropriate and downright nasty. If fact, as many have said, he came across as being very angry and looking to pick a fight. Best word I can use to describe his State of the Union address ... disingenuous. Hopefully we can survive the next presidential term regardless of which angry narcissist is at the helm.
  6. You may know this, but I’ve had success cutting on the small mark at base.
  7. Are they peddling ecollars for dogs!
  8. The SCOTUS cannot change the constitution . . . they can overturn laws they deem unconstitutional. Assuming you mean the constitution when you say "it".
  9. You're wrong . . . a "Living Constitution" is one that changes over time without a need to be formally amended. Our constitution needs to go through a very stringent process to be amended. It cannot be simply changed or adapted based on current beliefs or positions . . . thank God! However, many like yourself want to treat it as a "living constitution" and will inevitably be the downfall of this great country and the free society we enjoy.
  10. There is a lot to unpack in that statement . . . good luck in the game.
  11. You really believe you're intellectually superior . . . don't you?
  12. So, where we at . . . grandma's with guns are a threat to groups of black transgender swimmers in upscale neighborhood swimming pools?
  13. Sure they have . . . I can believe the UN atomic watchdog . . . the article is so baseless, at the very end it states "... in the last 3 1/2 months, the IAEA reported that Iran's total stockpile of enriched uranium continued to expand." Also, Iran is refusing to allow entry of weapons inspectors and removed camera's that assessed parts of Iran's nuclear related work. Just a matter of time before they feel emboldened enough to sling a nuclear weapon in someone's direction. Wall Street Journal 2/26/2024 VIENNA—Iran reduced its stockpile of near weapons-grade nuclear material over the past 3½ months, the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said Monday, a surprise step likely to be welcomed by Western countries who have been alarmed by Iran’s buildup of highly enriched nuclear fuel. Iran still has enough near-weapons grade material to fuel almost three nuclear weapons, underlining its status as a threshold nuclear-weapon state. However, by diluting some of its 60%-enriched uranium in recent weeks to lower-grade material, its stockpile fell for the first time since it started producing the 60% nuclear fuel in 2021. Iran’s decision to reduce its stockpile of 60% nuclear fuel comes as Iranian-backed militias are involved in clashes throughout the Middle East with Israel and the U.S., from Yemen’s Houthi attacks on international vessels in the Red Sea to Israel’s clashes with Hezbollah on its northern border and conflict with Hamas in Gaza. It also comes as Washington and its European partners have floundered over how to respond to Iran’s expanding nuclear program. In its confidential quarterly report, sent to member states on Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran had reduced its stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium by 6.8 kilograms to 121.5 kilograms since late October. U.S. officials say it would take Iran less than two weeks to convert that amount into weapons-grade material, roughly 90%. Tehran is the only nonnuclear weapons state producing 60%-enriched uranium. By the IAEA’s definition, Iran needs a minimum of 42 kg of uranium enriched to 60% to make a nuclear bomb. Iran continued to build up its stockpile of lower-purity enriched uranium. It added 145.1 kilograms to its stockpile of 20%-enriched uranium which experts say could be increased to weapons-grade level within several weeks. Uranium enriched to around 90% can be used to fuel nuclear bombs. Iran now has 712 kilograms of 20%-enriched uranium. Iran says its nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes. U.S. officials have said Iran could field a nuclear weapon within several months. The Biden administration has upheld longstanding U.S. policy of pledging that it will prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, second right, visiting an exhibition on Iran’s nuclear industry in Tehran. PHOTO: IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER’S OFFICE/ZUMA PRESS The reduction in 60%-enriched uranium will offer some respite to the U.S. and its European partners who have grown increasingly concerned about the expansion of Iran’s nuclear program. The Biden administration failed in its efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which lifted international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for tight but temporary limits on its nuclear work. So did an attempted de-escalation effort last year which grew out of indirect discussions between senior U.S. and Iranian officials in Oman. The indirect talks ended after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Tehran praised the attack. Iran had slowed its production of 60%-enriched uranium last year as part of its de-escalation efforts. However, Iran reversed that slowdown in November, the agency said late last year. In recent weeks, Iran twice carried out a process of diluting the material by mixing it with low-grade 2%-enriched uranium. Overall, in the last 3½ months, the IAEA reported that Iran’s total stockpile of enriched uranium continued to expand. The IAEA also said that Iran wasn’t cooperating with it over several issues, including its refusal to allow the entry of a number of weapons inspectors and an agency probe into undeclared nuclear material found in Iran. The IAEA has said Tehran’s uncooperativeness created an increasingly dangerous situation that needs to be addressed by major powers. The agency has repeatedly warned that because Iran has removed some cameras that were assessing various parts of Iran’s nuclear-related work, it will be very difficult for the agency to assert that Tehran hasn’t diverted nuclear material to a covert weapons program. IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said earlier this month he hoped to visit Iran in coming weeks to resolve the agency’s standoffs with Tehran. Iran has said he can come in May. Write to Laurence Norman at laurence.norman@wsj.com
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