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look at it this way, you'll be an expert at PLF

I'm refereeing a soccer tournament. Hopefully the weather will cooperate, the coaches and parents behave, and no kids get injured.

Like him or not, Snow has been fighting cancer, you might want to remember that can be very expensive, even with benefits.

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I was center ref on a U14 Classic soccer match recently. After the match big redneck dad begins to read me off about giving his boy a pointed lecture about his behavior on the pitch. I look at the guy, smile and walk off with a "have a nice day sir" while the entire referee crew is laughing their backsides off. So what happened and what did I really want to say? His boy committed a holding foul that his dad couldn't see. He grabbed the other player's uniform, expecting to get a hand full of shorts, but got a hand full of the other player's crotch. Both players were equally stunned (these were 13 year old boys) by what was grabbed and who had a hold of it and the look on both their faces was, as they say, priceless. Talk about two deer in headlights. What did I really want to say to redneck dad? "I'm sorry sir but your son's inbred homosexual tendencies will not be tolerated on the pitch, keep it back in the trailer park"

I'm not in, but my oldest is USAF active and working on his A out at Skydive Ogden, and my youngest is a USAF 2nd Lt and is working in his B. A lot depends on what specialty you're in and what your daily routine requires. Upshot is, it probably won't preclude you jumping. From what they've both said, you'd probably have to attend a mandatory briefing on the hazards of the activity before participating. That goes for rock climbing, snow mobiling, downhill skiing, etc.

In my case, one side of a two car garage is taken up by tools, work bench, car parts and other stuff. The other by is taken up by an old Porsche on jackstands. When the weather is moderate, there's nothing like a good uninterrupted nap on a creeper under the car after an hour or so of tinkering.

Think this one through. In the past, most wars were fought by nation states v nation states. It was fairly rare to see some small country taking a much larger, richer and technologically advanced country. Fast forward to the time of WW1 and technology had advanced to the point of making killing very efficient and easy but military thinking still lagged behind the capability of the technology, hence the huge casualties. Move forward to Act III of WW1 (WW2), and the commanders had realized the killing capability of the new technology and adjusted somewhat. Even so, they realized that the concept of total war was the only way to bring about an end to the fighting. That meant that for the first time in recorded history, the entire populace, resources, and industry of the enemy country would now become a military target. Examples, the raids on London, Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima were designed to kill mass amounts of civilians and destroy industrial production. Did people of the time think differently than today? In a word, yes, death was not a stranger to many of the time and that colored the thinking of the value of the individual life. Polio, influenza, and other plagues killed thousands to hundreds of thousands and it wasn't uncommon to have known someone who died from those causes. Death in war was just another cause. Move further forward to modern times. One of the lessons learned by those who survived the bloodletting, life can be preserved and valued by medicine and avoiding war as it was fought in the past. Survivors on both sides were horrified by the killing and began to raise another generation with the beliefs that war on that scale should be avoided. Note that since 1945, there have been no major wars on the scale of WW2. There were some small ones, but as technology advanced, small nations realized they could make war on the larger by covert action or by proxy. Terrorism and war by proxy have become much more common than before. While both existed through history, it has become the method of choice for smaller nations to take on larger ones, and for large ones to fight each other without the damage incurred by total war. So what does this all have to do with the current Iraq situation? Yes, the people of today think very differently about killing and will avoid killing civilians if at all possible. In the past, killing civilians was part of the cost of doing business. Next, the press was tightly controlled and agreeable to self censorship. Not so today, in fact, an adversarial relationship is more likely with little censorship. I recall during the Vietnam war when Danny Blather sent his reports from in front of the same burned out C130 night after night and wondered why he frequently used it as a backdrop. Upshot of this, like W or not, agree with Iraq or not, what is going on is a war by proxy with those nations not strong enough to take on the Western nations directly. They will do so by funding Al Queda and similar orgs that have the mission of killing the infidels. War is no longer the simplistic thing people think it is, but people still die and things get broken. Our real enemies are those who fund the terrorists. Those who arm, shelter, feed, train and recruit them. And these people aren't always a nation state. These guys aren't dumb. They will do whatever they can to achieve their objectives and will use our press and mindset against us. The key is, do we still have the will to win? Can we do what is necessary to eliminate those who would fund the threats or will selfish political opportunism be the end of our society?

When actively competing in 3gun, I have gone through as much as 4k per month. It's easy to do if you're serious about competition.

I'd have to agree with that. As far as framing the laws, write constitutional laws, the penalties are there, enforce them. Those who choose to break the laws will find themselves sanctioned with removal from polite society to a less polite one. Mere possession of a firearm shouldn't be against the law, especially if no crime has been committed.

We used to decarbon gunked valves by locking the stem in a drill press, set it to medium speed and touched the bottom of the spinning valve with sandpaper. Grit used varied with amount of buildup, but we never used anything coarser than 100. The key is to let the paper do the work. This is ONLY for the bottom of the valve, the side that faces the chamber. We then took the valve out of the press and hand lapped them. Hand lapping is very easy. Get some compound, follow the instructions, don't overdo it. Put in new valve stem seals. Glass bead the chamber to clean it up. Put in old spark plugs to protect the threads. It is possible that you have a broken oil ring. Unfortunately, you're at the miserable point of doing stuff "while you're in there". May as well take care of other stuff too.

I find it amazing that the same crowd who lampoons Bush as being stupid and inept, can accuse him of a cover up of an inside job with 4 planes, thousands dead, and major landmark buildings destroyed. Which is it? Evil genius or bumbling frat boy? Can't have it both ways guys.

It could be very interesting diplomacy. A Jewish person having to represent the US? It's been done before, Maddy Albright is Jewish and ostensibly a woman. I wonder what the Arabs had to say about that one behind closed doors.

that definition of "weapon" is pretty broad. A Louisville Slugger would fit in nicely both on the diamond and across the perp's noggin. Having been victimized before, I've decided it isn't happening again. Whatever I have at hand if it arises again will be the weapon of choice, be it a claw hammer, a screw driver or a Glock, I ain't going along quietly. Last time I cooperated with the nice man who demanded my car and wallet, he shot me. Won't happen again, ever, even if it's my hammer against his gun.

Let's think this one analogy put forward about banning an activity or possession on the mere possibility of "something happening" Swooping should be banned because swoopers "might" injure themselves or someone else. See just how stupid that analogy is? I think the root problem is that some folks just can't stand the thought that somebody out there might have a gun, legal or not, so they want to ban guns in the hands of legal owners. Here's new idea, when somebody commits a crime, lock their a$$ up without parole or time off!!! Time to take responsibility for yourself and your own behavior and quit leaving it up to the nanny state to legislate morality, or gun ownership. Scariest words anyone could hear "I'm from the government and I'm here to help...."

one other thing to consider, it is possible to get good cylinder pressure readings, but leak down tests will tell whether the rings really are shot. At the moment, I'm thinking it's most likely a headgasket. I'd suggest easy stuff first.

valve guides could be worn. how many hours on the engine?

I SERIOUSLY beg to differ on this point. I shoot reloads all the time out of my 21C with no issues. The only way a reload could cause a problem in a Glock, or any other firearm for that matter, would be poor reloading technique. The Glock, along with other auto handguns, has a somewhat unsupported chamber to allow reliable feeding. In higher pressure cartridges, such as the 9mm, a small bulge will be present on the fired case. If this bulge isn't removed during the resizing part of reloading, a malfunction may result. If you're shooting range reloads, they may not be taking precautions to eliminate this bulge when resizing. As for the other issues, magazines have been mentioned, but I'd bet that the recoil spring in is probably the culprit. Most of the Glock problems I've seen personally while competing came from folks experimenting with that spring, both in length and tension. Install a new one, thoroughly clean the weapon and mags, then fire some factory fmj round nose ammo through it. It should function fine. One final point, on a relatively high pressure round like the 9mm, don't ever, ever shoot plain lead bullets in the stock barrel. FMJ, ok, plated, ok, plain lead, no no. At the higher velocity of high pressure rounds, plain lead will foul the barrel leading to higher pressures and a possible kb (kaboom for the non Glockers) as the unsupported part of the brass ruptures sending high pressure hot gas down the mag well and possibly wrecking the gun.

so was hitler, mussolini, and mao.

There might be one way to get past the neighbors and the city, get a ham radio license and put an antenna on top of the beast. A case could be made that the windmill is there to help generate power for the rig. I have a ham license and this stuff comes up all the time in the amateur radio community. Short version is, by federal law, you cannot be stopped or restricted from erecting a suitable antenna for your rig, no matter what the city or neighbors say. The real problem comes in when you build a tidal wave of ill will among the locals so this has to be done in a circumspect manner.

The ones that seem to work best are based on CO2 emissions as that's supposed to be the main attractant for the little pests. They're not cheap, but if the blood suckers are really crimping the fun, it might be worth it. The other side of the coin, if there are that many around, for every one that gets trapped, there's several of his siblings around to continue the family business.

I'm slowly working my way through AFF a the moment, mainly because I lost my "real" job back in Sept. To compensate, I'm starting up a remodeling business. Hey, they aren't shipping houses offshore. Anyway, funds for jumping are scarce, but where there's a will, a way will be found. If and when I get to a point that the business is doing fairly well, I'll jump way more often and have my own rig. Hang in there, financial difficulties are usually temporary.

Just to put things into perspective, try boating. Get a reasonable boat, say a 20 footer, for about $20k. Then add in dock fees, license fees, fuel and other sundries and all of a sudden that $20k is the small part of the investment. I used to hang with the PCA, Porsche Club of America. Take the cost of a Porsche, add in insurance, fuel, club fees, track day fees, tires, parts, etc, and it's very easy to crack $5k per year just in the cost of ownership, never mind the cost of the car. Suddenly AFF, a rig and jump tickets don't seem to be so expensive. After training and rig purchase, a day at the DZ is cheaper than a day at the lake or the track.

Double Bonus Time (not from skydiving) 1- rock climbing, no rope, took an 80ft ground fall. 2- got carjacked, shot and left for dead I've come to the conclusion that I'm not 10ft tall, bullet proof and can fly like Superman. So I've taken up skydiving.

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