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Post by bretf on Aug 15, 2021 11:05:59 GMT -6
I totally relate to the Higher Power watching over us.
Several years ago, when I could still sleep through the night, and did, I woke at around 1:30 – 2:00 one morning/night. I looked out the bedroom doorway and saw an odd glow from the kitchen. I wondered what my wife was up to. But when I reached over to her side of the bed, she was there. So, I went to see what was up.
I’d been dehydrating fruit on the back porch/deck. The odd light was the dehydrator and the back wall of the house in full blaze, the firelight dancing through the kitchen window.
Bear in mind, I considered myself newly-wed at the time. I ran back to the bedroom and roused my bride, then ran outside, bare-a—and found the garden hose. I put out the fire while my wife called the fire department, dressed, and got the pets out of the house.
I had time to dress before the fire trucks and my brother arrived. (He was the fire chief, and more family arrived as he informed them where the fire call was).
I firmly believe a Higher Power was watching over us that night and alerted me.
As for old rifles, the rifle I hunt elk with is/was my dad’s. When he quit hunting, he passed it on to me. It is a Mauser action, complete with the eagle holding the swastika stamped on the barrel. I believe it came home as a war souvenir, and a gunsmith converted it into something compatible in the western US; 30:06.
It is heavy, but takes a beating. And if my hands and aim hold steady, it never fails.
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 22, 2021 12:40:56 GMT -6
Oh SHTF! also see my post about this in "current events" section Soon? Harris as fraudulent president? Peloski as fraudulent vice president? Or will it be Hillary as vp?
BIDEN 'NOT FIT' FOR OFFICE
On August 20, 2021, Representative Ronny Jackson, who is the former White House physician, went on Fox News and explained the decline in Biden's cognitive functions, pointing out that the decline has been coming and was highlighted for more than a year, but is not being seen on the International stage.
Jackson says Biden should resign, but it is more likely that Democrats will be forced to remove him for office using the 25th Amendment.
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment is the relevant portion to this situation:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
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Post by solo on Aug 23, 2021 14:20:04 GMT -6
I don't know... I known Ronny for almost 23 years, since he was my diving medical officer at Navy Dive School... I would take his opinion with a grain of salt. Will not say anything else about that.
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Post by kansasterri on Aug 23, 2021 14:56:41 GMT -6
Iamnobody, everybody knows that some guys are players. Well some women are players also, and it is a shame that you have been hurt by one.
Great story, by the way!
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 23, 2021 16:49:06 GMT -6
Iamnobody, everybody knows that some guys are players. Well some women are players also, and it is a shame that you have been hurt by one. Great story, by the way! At least she gave me lots of story material
And as a man, I will be the first to admit that there are plenty of nasty men out there too
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 24, 2021 12:18:24 GMT -6
A question.
My story: As you all know, I am a widower and I am raising 3 teenagers. We live in a rural, conservative area and do manual work around the place. Which means we burn a lot of calories and also teenagers eat A LOT.
During the last lockdown, there were store snitches “concerned Karens” of why I had a shopping cart full of food. I shop once a week, not once a day after work.
In one food store, a woman employee kept watching me as I went up and down the aisles. She questioned me over several visits why I needed a cart of “so much” food. One time she even followed me outside to try to see my vehicle license plate. I had to threaten to call the home office on her activities.
I tried another store. A cart of food, then suddenly there is an attractive woman employee next to me asking my name, where I lived and that is a lot of food, while she was trying to bat her eyelashes at me. I brushed her off over several weeks. I had noticed her talking with her boss and looking my direction when she thought I wasn't watching her actions. And no, she wasn't attracted to me. She was trying to gather info.
I had to switch stores and go farther to get away.
How do you handle “Karens” that think they and their bosses were already playing dictators over what they consider is too much food to be buying. And these looming 2nd lockdowns are going to be worse than the 1st one.
1 adult male and 3 teenagers, all doing manual work = at least 8,000 to 10,000 calories of food a day.
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Post by solo on Aug 24, 2021 13:36:41 GMT -6
Yeah, those nosey karens have gotten way more numerous. It is almost necessary to make multiple stops to avoid the lingering, sizing up stares. And what ever you do, don't get more than one pack of toilet paper. That is a sure give away.
Solo
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Post by NCWEBNUT on Aug 24, 2021 14:04:07 GMT -6
I see people in my area with over full carts all the time, and no one bats an eye at them, when I'm working on filling a hole in my preps I will buy maybe 5 or 6 of one item, and no one even looks at me for the most part, and the cashiers don't even question it, but then I live in a farming community and I guess folks are just used to seeing people stock up on food once a month.
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 24, 2021 14:05:37 GMT -6
I'm rural enough I can use leaves instead of TP. Just need to remember to check its not a 3 leaf pattern.
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 24, 2021 14:40:59 GMT -6
I see people in my area with over full carts all the time, and no one bats an eye at them, when I'm working on filling a hole in my preps I will buy maybe 5 or 6 of one item, and no one even looks at me for the most part, and the cashiers don't even question it, but then I live in a farming community and I guess folks are just used to seeing people stock up on food once a month. So, in other words, I'm still getting all the crazy, nasty women in my life. No matter where I am or what I'm doing, it seems like I am a magnet to them. I thought rural areas are safer.....
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Post by NCWEBNUT on Aug 24, 2021 15:14:46 GMT -6
Try taking all those kids to the grocery store with ya when you go shopping, I bet you won't have any more issues then when they see the crowd you feed.
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Post by papaof2 on Aug 24, 2021 18:35:25 GMT -6
Try taking all those kids to the grocery store with ya when you go shopping, I bet you won't have any more issues then when they see the crowd you feed. And have one of the kids say "Dad! You know that's not enough. I eat two cans of soup with my four sandwiches at lunch almost every day. And you need to get more pizzas - Mike and I can finsh those two off in one sitting and then what will you and Jim eat?" --- Maybe it's easier when you're an old guy with gray hair and a gray beard - they might be thinking I get Social Security once a month and that I have a month's worth of food in the cart for me. No questions or watchers at Walmart or the grocery store - yet. I don't get the usual packs of toilet paper unless they're on sale. Most of what we have is the 80 roll box of "commercial/industrial" individually wrapped rolls bought from Amazon. If it's purchased in the same day as tools or ahop supplies (gallon of degreaser for $10 delivered), it's just business supplies ;-) Think on things a bit and put pieces together to make the system work for you instead of against you. A year's worth of toilet paper for two people fits under a twin bed - semi-secure storage?
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 24, 2021 19:27:35 GMT -6
No questions or watchers at Walmart or the grocery store - yet.
That is the key word - YET
My personal opinion, its coming fast and it will be very bad
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Post by misterjimbo on Aug 24, 2021 19:41:00 GMT -6
You should plan on a prepared explanation that will justify your purchase. The best lie always contains some truth. Tell the exact truth if you want. Maybe the Karens will offer a sympathetic discount. Buy a smaller amount in each of the stores so no one actually knows how much you are taking home. To push home the SS income idea take a couple of extras to the register and then say you cant afford them when you see the total. That will either shut them up due to embasrrasment or start the opportunity for you explanation. I like NCWEBNUT's comment also.
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Post by kansasterri on Aug 25, 2021 9:22:31 GMT -6
3 teens and an adult doing manual labor? Your family is burning closer to 12,000 calories a day.
I think that it is terribly rude to have a Karen checking out your cart: if somebody did it to me I think that I would just say "teenagers" and continue on with what you were doing.
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 25, 2021 9:25:59 GMT -6
On with the story
The old man looked at Dan and told him that he had just talked to his wife not too long ago. With anger in his voice, Dan asked where. He was told that she had been in a dog fight with her jet with Chinese jets, had been finally shot down after having shot down several Chinese jets, bailed out and had been captured on the ground. The old man said he had killed the Chinese patrol and rescued her. That his wife had told him her tale of how she had betrayed her husband, that she had finally seen the truth of what was happening and was trying to go find her husband to free him.
Dan looked at the old man in disbelief and asked how he could believe that load of garbage from her, that she was a lying piece of manure. That when he found her, he would kill her for her betrayal. Dan could barely control his emotions while speaking.
The old man said that was up to him but he did believe she had a change of heart. That he was only interested in finding a way to get a hold of that laptop that controlled the nano particle chips in people. Dan asked how he was going to do that. The old man said he was thinking on a way to get it plus set the Chinese and US troops against each other. Maybe behead a couple on 1 side and capture 1 on the other side along with the laptop. That way 1 side would maybe think the other side was doing something sneaky.
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 25, 2021 12:01:15 GMT -6
The old man and Dan were watching the camp. The guards were still being sloppy, he could see 1 guard smoking and from the smell of it, the guard liked marijuana. Another guard was taking a snooze under some brush. Another guard must have ate beans because he was passing loud gas and could be smelled from a long distance. The old man smiled as a plan started forming.
As midnight rolled around, the old man and Dan were quietly closing in on the 1st guard, a US soldier. That guard had his head removed with a swing of an axe and the body was left. The 2nd US guard was soon dealt with in the same manner. While Dan stayed hid in the brush, the old man crept into the Chinese officer's tent. He could hear the officer snoring and smell the stench of alcohol. The woman he had during the night was passed out in a puddle of vomit.
The old man could see the laptop setting on the desk and quickly picked it up and exited the tent and then the camp. As planned, they moved towards the 3rd guard who was Chinese. This guard the old man used the flat of the axe to knock the soldier out and they tied his hands and feet and gagged him. They carried him about a mile away where they then beheaded him and hid the remains. Hoping that with 2 visible dead US soldiers and 1 missing Chinese soldier and a laptop, that it would pit the Chinese against the US troops.
Safely away from the camp, the old man started the laptop and easily got into the section for controlling the nano particles because it wasn't even password protected. It had a program for scanning for nano particles, the old man and Dan scanned negative. So now they would have to find someone with it to try it out. So back to the camp.
At the camp it was plain to see that the camp was divided, US vs Chinese. It seemed to be close to a shooting war. The Chinese officer was screaming at all the troops. The US officer was screaming at the Chinese officer. Finally the Chinese officer got everyone calmed down and had both sides stack their weapons and stand back.
The old man grinned and said for Dan to come along. At the camp motor pool, he found a US Jeep with a SAW249 already mounted. He saw cans of ammo for it setting in the back. Charging the weapon, Dan got behind the gun and the old man was driving with several cartons of grenades in reach, to throw. Their plan was to grab some of the men workers and kill a lot of the enemy troops. The old man reminded Dan to shoot at the heads, otherwise he was wasting ammo.
The old man drove quickly to the middle of the camp and tossed several grenades into the stacks of rifles, making them into useless pieces of plastic and metal. He could hear Dan opening up with the SAW249. Those 5.56 were like a buzz saw as he made short controlled bursts at heads. Many soldiers going down to never rise again. A few only had body wounds and they were quickly back on their feet as the nano particles repaired their bodies. More bursts from the SAW249 put them down. Only a few stragglers made it away into the brush.
They made it to the men prisoner pen and only found 1 remaining alive. They had to help him into the Jeep to drive away. On the way out, they spotted a prisoner standing under a cross beam, with their hands chained over their head.
Slowing down, the old man came to a stop about 30 feet away. The prisoner raised their head and instant recognition flashed between Dan's eyes and the prisoner's eyes. Dan had a full can of ammo already fed into the SAW249 and was leaning into the weapon, sighting on the body of the prisoner. Dan's finger already squeezing the trigger.
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Post by jpr9954 on Aug 25, 2021 15:04:02 GMT -6
A question. My story: As you all know, I am a widower and I am raising 3 teenagers. We live in a rural, conservative area and do manual work around the place. Which means we burn a lot of calories and also teenagers eat A LOT.
During the last lockdown, there were store snitches “concerned Karens” of why I had a shopping cart full of food. I shop once a week, not once a day after work.
In one food store, a woman employee kept watching me as I went up and down the aisles. She questioned me over several visits why I needed a cart of “so much” food. One time she even followed me outside to try to see my vehicle license plate. I had to threaten to call the home office on her activities.
I tried another store. A cart of food, then suddenly there is an attractive woman employee next to me asking my name, where I lived and that is a lot of food, while she was trying to bat her eyelashes at me. I brushed her off over several weeks. I had noticed her talking with her boss and looking my direction when she thought I wasn't watching her actions. And no, she wasn't attracted to me. She was trying to gather info.
I had to switch stores and go farther to get away.
How do you handle “Karens” that think they and their bosses were already playing dictators over what they consider is too much food to be buying. And these looming 2nd lockdowns are going to be worse than the 1st one.
1 adult male and 3 teenagers, all doing manual work = at least 8,000 to 10,000 calories of food a day.
You put the corporate office's number in your cell phone to dial when they start that. You play up that you are a widower doing your best to raise three hungry teens with nutritious food from their store. The moment they start following you around you call. With luck you will get a manager and then you hand that phone to the store manager. If they keep it up, you call the local TV station and get them working on a human interest story about why you are being harassed.
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Post by iamnobody on Aug 27, 2021 12:08:46 GMT -6
As Dan's finger moved that last small distance and started sending a stream of 62 grain 5.56 bullets that would riddle his wife's body, the old man used his rifle to deflect the SAW249 barrel upwards and held it there while Dan was screaming in rage and keeping the trigger pulled back, sending 100's of bullets skyward as he tried unsuccessfully to bring the barrel down onto target. Soon the belt of ammo was expended.
Dan jumped out of the Jeep and headed toward Karen, his wife but the old man stood between her and Dan. He told Dan that he should at least hear what his wife had to say.
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Post by iamnobody on Sept 2, 2021 14:11:57 GMT -6
Federal government State government Local government Corporations Just when you think they can't get any stupider or tyrannical – they prove me wrong and it is happening daily. I have a brain – so I think I have 2 eyes – so I see I have 2 ears – so I hear Evil is now good Good is now evil So now they are calling me an enemy of the State How did I go from being a handsome, lovable guy To being a nasty, hated outcast?
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Post by gipsy on Sept 2, 2021 14:53:08 GMT -6
Your not a progressive dem
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Post by papaof2 on Sept 2, 2021 17:59:47 GMT -6
Federal government State government Local government Corporations Just when you think they can't get any stupider or tyrannical – they prove me wrong and it is happening daily. I have a brain – so I think I have 2 eyes – so I see I have 2 ears – so I hear Evil is now good Good is now evil So now they are calling me an enemy of the StateHow did I go from being a handsome, lovable guy To being a nasty, hated outcast? Because you see the error of their ways and refuse to follow the Party line. Does that sound like Stalin's Russia??
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Post by iamnobody on Sept 4, 2021 11:42:49 GMT -6
The old man turned and told Karen she had 60 seconds to state her case to her husband because they were leaving quickly.
Karen looked her husband in the eyes and told him she did not deserve his mercy and had every right to kill her. That she had done him a great evil in betraying him. That she had seen the truth, was sorry and sorrowful for her actions. Dan looked at her and said that she had broken several of his ribs, that he had lost 1 testicle from her kick and was unsure if he would be able to have sex ever again due to the injuries to his private parts.
With tears running down her face, Karen said she understood his hatred of her, to pull the trigger. Dan fed another belt of ammo into the SAW249 and settled into the stock, aiming the weapon. As Dan's finger tightened on the trigger, Karen said “I love you my husband.” A short burst of 50 rds sped her way and shredded the crossbar above her and she collapsed to the ground. The old man walked over and picked the key off the peg holding it and told Dan it would have been easier to of used the key to free her.
With the 3 of them in the Jeep, the old man drove several miles from the base and stopped. He told Dan and Karen the Jeep needed destroyed, it was unsafe to travel in it but not to let it for the enemy again. Dan took supplies from the Jeep that would be needed. When it was empty, they opened the hood to expose the motor, poured some gas from the spare can onto the motor and throughout the jeep. Standing far back, Dan and the old man each took a grenade, pulled the pin and threw 1 in the motor area and 1 into the rear of the Jeep. It erupted into flames. It had also consumed the man prisoner they had freed, who died from being overworked while they had sped from the base.
The old man took the laptop and offered to destroy the nano particle chip in Karen. Dan told her to think hard about her answer. If the chip was destroyed, she would be back to a normal person. She looked at Dan and said as long as she could be with him forever, that was acceptable to her. So with a few keystrokes, the old man destroyed her chip. Dan and Karen decided to go their own way and the old man took a roundabout way back to his mine.
Back at the camp, the few remaining soldiers came back and radioed the attack in to their superiors. The report was passed to a department that handled it. It ended up on the desk of a man that was sitting there being pleasured by the old man's wife. Reading the report, the boss used his foot to push the woman away and gave her the report to read. He told her that was in her area of responsibility and it was her job to find and eliminate the persons responsible. Not to fail, or else.
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Post by iamnobody on Sept 10, 2021 7:36:41 GMT -6
Well, I'm assuming most everyone saw yesterday's news release by the all powerful one
It looks like our lives have now turned into shtf and a real PAW life soon.
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Post by arkansascob on Sept 10, 2021 9:14:39 GMT -6
Well, I'm assuming most everyone saw yesterday's news release by the all powerful one
It looks like our lives have now turned into shtf and a real PAW life soon. its getting closer for sure. Just dont see how this can be enforced. Gonna be a lot of unemployed people out there in the near future.
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