little_old_man

Beer, you look great for a man of 80, and loader, you have bigger man boobs than me. I'm jealous.

Great picture guys. God damn we're getting old.

RIP Mr. Bubbles. I didn't really know you but enjoyed many of your posts over the years. Condolences to his family.

Sorry Lead, I wasn't intending on "schooling" you. I've seen it before too and was amazed so I thought I would post the vid. As you know, I get a bit carried away with the details.

Found this on a sniper chat board. Bullet trace is caused by the bullet disturbing the air and simply causing light to distort in that spot, much like how heat rising from the ground causes a shimmering effect. Vapor trail is something else entirely and extremely rare as far as I know, as the weather conditions have to be very much just right, not to mention the background has to be dark enough to see the trail. The vapor trail is caused by a drop in pressure behind the bullet which causes water in the air to condense momentarily, similar to those little white streaks at the tip of a jet's wing. To view bullet trace, you simply need to have the right combination of environmental factors and be generally behind the shooter. It can be seen with the eye, supposedly, but usually it takes some good optics looking downrange to catch a glimpse of it. To view vapor trail, you also need the right combination of environmental factors (even moreso!), but you can be positioned anywhere to see it, as the white mist is easily visible from any angle even by the naked eye. Here's what it looks like.

Happy birthday painsponge. I hope somebody is nice enough to show you how to log onto this web site so you can see all of the birthday wishes.

Happy birthday Shermie. Hope you had a great one.

Happy belated birthday Dean.

Going pretty good @@Joe Canadian. Working for a small regional company that pays salary instead of by the mile. Had my automatic snow chains installed last week. Just push a button from inside my truck and I'm off and running.

Some of you may remember that I am a collector of ancient North American artifacts. In my new job as a truck driver I get to stop at some great places to view and sometimes hunt for things I collect. Last week I was able to stop at the Blackwater Draw site in eastern New Mexico next to the town of Clovis. This is where scientists discovered evidence of the first humans to come to the Americas known as the Clovis Culture (named for the town). Their distinctive fluted spear points were found with bones of wooly mammoth and other extinct megafauna animals that vanished more than 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. To a collector, owning artifacts from this era is a thrill. I have a number in my personal collection and they are my prized posessions. The park was closed this trip, but I hope to take a tour in the near future.

Great upload Damage. I personally believe there are older civilizations but evidence of them was wiped out by rising sea levels following the last ice age.

Contrary to what history has taught us Ter, Politics has always been a nasty business in America. The founding fathers weren't a bunch of well behaved gentlemen who sat around sipping tea and drafting our constitution. They were brawlers and it's been said that many walked with a limp from being shot in the leg during duels. The most famous duel between the sitting VP of the US Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury) was the most famous only because one of them died. It was considered more gentlemanly to shoot your opponent in the leg. There are many instances of all out brawls in the hallowed halls involving beatings with canes and fist to cuffs. We like to think ourselves as more civilized now, but in our lifetime we saw the assassination of JFK, RFK, and MLK, so it stands to reason we've been lucky for the last 40 years but things can easily turn very ugly again, especially when one party is trying to change so many things for so many Americans. Frankly most of us are fed up with politics as usual which is why you see the rise of people like Bernie Sanders and Trump.

Completely agree Sparty. If Trump wins and continues his crusade against the establishment, the entire landscape of Washington will change. Even if he loses, he has already set things in motion that can't be stopped. When he said a couple nights ago that he was going to push for term limits for all members of both houses, he instantly made an enemy of every single member and they will be going out of their way to stop him at all costs. I've being saying it my entire life that if you take the money out of politics you will find people seeking office who truly want to be public servants. People today get into politics as a very lucrative career choice and most become wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of most Americans. They get elected poor and within a couple years have a beachfront house in the Hamptons and high producing stocks and bonds in things that aren't available to us. It needs to stop, and I think Trump has started a movement that will snowball from this point forward. If you think Washington was afraid of the Tea Party, you ain't seen nothing yet.

I don't know Beer, I consider it a character flaw in myself. When lefties get on their high horse, look down their noses at us with a holier than thou attitude of how stupid we all are when we don't agree with their political views, I feel like Marty McFly being called a chicken. All I do is tell the truth and state the facts, and that usually shuts up most except for the most moronic liberals who can do nothing but parrot talking points hand fed to them by the media, (aka the DNC).

You literally must live under a rock, or are so blinded by leftist ideology that you are incapable of seeing your team doing wrong on a massive scale. You don't need to visit the dark web or scour obscure right-wing web sites to find a wealth of information on what Hillary and Bill have been up to for the last several decades. Just because the media chooses not to report on it for fear of shedding a bad light on their candidate, that doesn't mean it isn't happening. Wikileaks has made sure that the American public is well aware of just how the Clintons operate, and the in their usual fashion the press and the Clintons don't discuss anything about it, nor do they deny anything. I could post several pages of absolute proof here of things that have landed people in prison that Hillary is obviously immune from, but why waste my time on those who will not read or believe it? You truly are a lost cause and have my sympathy.

Sorry to dissapoint you but I don't watch FOX or Breitbart. Of course she didn't do anything illegal. When the FBI, justice department and even the White House are covering for you, who on earth would dare prosecute her? She has committed many crimes, but the only way they will come to light is if she loses this election. If she wins, her co-conspirators get rewarded which is what they're all counting on.

You like Hillary and we're the idiots? LOL

To quote your cadidate, "at this point, what difference does it make?" But I digress. Cheney's emails were eventually recovered. Bush made a lot of mistakes going into iraq, but wmd's wasn't one of them. They were there, and Bill Clinton also said they were there while he was in office, and yes even Hillary said they were there when she voted for us to invade. townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/02/21/show-this-column-to-anyone-who-claims-bush-lied-about-wmds-in-iraq-n2122278 So what is your opinion on the obvious indiscretions by Hillary and here email scandal? Of course if your only source of news is comedy central and the networks, you may not be aware of the scandal.

You really should do some research on this subject before spouting off things that are factually incorrect. The white house during the Bush administration had 2 email servers. One in the white house for official business and one through the Republican committe for political business. Some white house staffers used both accounts from the same devices which they shouldn't have, and when the white house found out about it they fully admitted it. The RNC server automatically deleted emails every 30 days, but there were backups. When the emails were requested the white house answered that they weren't sure that all would be available until the backups were reviewed. Eventually virtually all were recovered. No mass conspiracy with the state department, fbi, network media, or any other governmental agency like we are seeing with the Clinton's. Hillary NEVER used the state department server for ANY of her emails. She was intentionally keeping everything dark, and as we have found out just today, Obama knew about it from the beginning and lied. Today a quid pro quo arrangement was discovered between the FBI and the Clinton campaign, among several other juicy stories that will be breaking over the next couple days.

I'm aware damage, but in this case they're correct.

I call bullshit where I see it, regardless of what party is flinging it around. Please don't compare Nixon to Hillary. He was a fucking genius compared to her and accomplished quite a few monumental things until he fucked up. At least he owned up to it and didn't lie about it like Clinton did when he got caught with his fingers in the cookie "box".

Happy birthday Harry. I hope that you get a belated birthday gift in early November. And feel free to use Ted's sister as the stripper for you party. She did a great job at my party.

Nice try, but no. The emails lost during the Bush administration were eventually found. http://www.snopes.com/g-w-bush-lost-22-million-e-mails/ In plain terms, some 22 million e-mails had been deleted, though the White House described them as "lost" or "missing" — another apparent point of comparison between the Bush and Clinton e-mail scandals. However, most of the 22 million "lost" Bush administration e-mails (unlike Clinton's 30,000) were eventually "found." To put it more accurately, a large number of the messages were recovered from backup storage systems by technicians as a result of a deal struck between the federal government and two nonprofit groups that sued for release of the e-mails via the Freedom of Information Act. It may be impossible, ultimately, to restore all of the deleted e-mails due to funding limitations, and to date none of the recovered messages haa been made public because they're still under review,, but the fact remains that they were never permanently lost.

Looks like you two are about 6 hours apart. I envy you both for living up there. A beutiful state to see. I drove an all-nighter from Spokane WA to Great Falls MT last February and took Rt 200 between Missoula and Great Falls. A very stormy night with heavy rain, and heavy snow in the higher elevations. Had to lock up my brakes a few times for elk and deer crossing the road. My nerves were shot by the time I arrived. Would love to go back now before the snow starts again and take the drive in the daylight. What I could see was breathtaking.