From Casey in BC
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Happy Thanksgiving all!
Local eateries seem to be doing fine in my part of the Hampster,do wonder about the local drinking holes that had live music and all.That tis the biggest thing I see different,no damn concerts!
Libraries are still only e-mail for books and pickup,a total loss in my opinion,given the times I see the libraries more essential then ever!
My holiday shopping is small as always,just a few bottles ect.for friends and family.
I have been a bad boy this year so Santa has nothing for me,luckily I decided to get some gifts for meself,did about a grand in shopping yesterday,got meself a new tool and accessories!
Enjoy the holiday all,may be the last peaceful one for a bit.
The covid-19 pandemic is PURE BULLSHIT!!!
Here is the TRUTH from a doctor willing to tell it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/11/joseph-mercola/former-pfizer-science-officer-reveals-great-covid-19-scam/
It doesn’t fit my view of a pandemic with one in a thousand dead in a year but I shit you not they are stacking them up like cord wood here in Northern Illinois as I type.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING regardless to the brave souls carrying on in spite of the shower of shit which has been 2020.
Sidney has RELEASED THE KRAKEN! Another reason for holiday cheer. Go to National Pulse.com where they have the 104 page filing. I read it. No f’ing way Georgia was won by the Senile One.
We are going to win this fight and the others. It simply cannot be certified. CHEERS!
Stacking them like cordwood, that is as fake as the rest it.
Happy Thanksgiving to the TBP family!!!!! Here in the Adirondacks I will be celebrating the way I do every year. The whole family will be coming over. Cuomo will not be welcome either. I have even thought of putting a sign out front welcoming anyone who just wants to park their car here for the day. Any Fuck you I can send Cuomo’s way. I am rural though so no one’s gonna see anyway. Ohhhh and yes I will shop the way I do every year.Face mask arguing and all. There are only two ways this shit is gonna stop. Civil disobedience,or we all know the other way. There still is a choice folks!!!!!
My wife has been spending more $$ than ever. I’m livid.
My wife has been spending more $$ than ever. I’m livid.
Heh. Well, on the bright side, she’s doing her bit to buck up the economy.
Here in the Great State of Texas we still have to wear stupid masks to shop or conduct business but no lockdowns. I have yet step over the bodies of the Covid dead or dying, the lines to to emergency rooms seem normal, no overflows or triage tents in the parking lot.
The echos of gunfire woke me up this morning, the folks down the road doing some target practice evidently. Not sure they should be wasting ammo but then, who knows how much they have on hand.
I shall do very little Christmas shopping unless I spend it with individuals. The days of buying cheap Chinese shit are long gone. I made soap for the folks, I shall also be making bread and other goodies, I offer food for the belly and soap for all that hand washing going on. If I knew how I’d set up a still, making cactus juice whiskey cause there are loads of prickly pear for the taking here.
Best and Happiest Thanksgiving to all, eat, drink and be merry, happy thoughts and much singing and making of loud, really loud, celebratory noises. Cheers.
Gotta verify that zero. Stay frosty.
Tell me more. We have prickly pear everywhere.
Happy Thanksgiving to my extended family on TBP
1. Not a lot different around here, other than the face diapers.
2. We never experienced the widespread shutdowns experienced by those who are led by democrat dictators. Lots of help wanted signs out at local businesses and they seem to be doing OK.
3. We will be spending a little more this Christmas, as we have 2 new little ones to buy for. Life goes on and we enjoy as much of it as we can.
“as we have 2 new little ones to buy for”,hmmmm……..,might I suggest perhaps a Creedmore or AR-47!
I know,little kids should not have guns,too unwieldy!
So,perhaps a belt fed gun or perhaps a motar,both are semi fixed weapons systems thus they do not have to lug them around and also will help build up teamwork for the little ones,just saying……….
James,
What has more whup-ass at distance, 6.5 or 308? I don’t think I want to go with a magnum, too much whup-ass on the shoulder.
Its placement that counts. Small stones well placed are just as good as bricks.
Unless you can put that brick right between the eyes. LOL
My wife is an outstanding shot with our .22 Ruger. She will happily pick it up and fire. Multiple holes in a tight cluster always beat bigger holes all over the place. You should always shoot what you are comfortable with….not that she is all that bad with the 9mm.
Funny, she was always afraid of guns because her brother used to terrorize her with firecrackers as a kid. Then once she put one in her hand and had control over the “bang,” she learned to love them.
The .308 will have a heavier hit/the 6.5 long distance better and more forgiving with a flatter trajectory,a lot of research online in regards to the two rounds compared /barrel lengths ect.,the more you know!
What are your goals with said rifle,basic home defense/deer at 200 yards or so ect.,then go with .308 with 18″ barrel,will do you fine with some good glass.
You want to really reach out say 500-1000 yards would go with Creed,that said,do you have a place in your region you can even practice these distances,range/private property ect.
Now here is where it can get fun,you opt for a AR-10 style over bolt rifle,well,you can have one upper in Creed in say 20″-22″ and .308 18″ for more maneuver room close quarters.@ pins and remove one upper/attach other,the magazines the same/BCG the same/could dial in one scope on each upper for rounds and keep a log to reset each time you switch uppers.
I had a “friend”do this with his 15,had a 5.56. upper and bought a .300 upper,same mags/BCG/ect.Of course,he then built another lower/bought another scope/another sling/stock ect. sigh…….,they look identical excepting barrel mouth,DON”T MIX THE AMMO!You go this route the mix ammo rule applies here also!
So,figure out your goals/research the two rounds in comparison and get on it!
Iwill say though much more popular/availiable the Creed is still a bit of a esoteric cartridge and a bit more pricey the .308,the world ends,much more likely to stumble across .308 then Creed,why you should have both!
I will post longer distance shooting results in future(assuming there is a future)/best of luck with your build and you have any ?’s fire away(see what I did there pun wise?!),happy building.
I once read that a .22LR in the hands of a skilled marksman was as lethal as a 30-06.
they drop 1600 lb. (thick headed) cattle. albeit at close range. although (and not to give winnie any ammunition) a 22 mag would be better.
TN, some old sage was asked about the deficiencies of the stalwart .38 Police Special 158 grain lead against all the other things available. The answer was that outside of war, the .38 has killed more people than anything-except for the .22! LOL!
I see they now have scaled down long range precision courses which mimic those where they shoot at targets at various ranges out to a mile and more. There are .22 long range precision rifles and scopes where they are shooting on a smaller range out to 300 yards and beyond with .22’s. While a .22 won’t knock somebody ass over applecart, a heavy barrel Ruger 10/22 can dump an entire magazine in a quarter size hole at fifty yards as fast as you can pull the trigger which is pretty fast.
As for the .38, that is more of a lesson regarding police shootings than anything else.
A .22 is deadly. Head shots or heart shots up to 100 yards or so. The drop after that becomes difficult to deal with.
The issue is whether the shooter can hit the target. A good .22with matched ammo can easily shoot 1MOA – 1 inch – at 100 yards. Almost no shooters can do that free hand. Prone with a bi or tripod would be needed, even for good shooters. Plus you need time. And a stationary target. Which may not be available.
I actually have an amazingly accurate Walther G22 bullpup with a 20″ Lothar Walther barrel. I can nail golf balls offhand and never miss at 100. It’s the ergonomics of the bullpup design. The thing is a straight from hell bitch to maintain so it doesn’t get a lot of use. It vents a lot of exhaust gas from the breech that gets in your eyes too.
I have a bipod on the Ruger heavy barrel target with match trigger. Prone or from the bench it just lays there and with the 4-12×40 Bushnell and quality everyday 40 grain she throws one on top of another as fast as I can work the trigger. It is really neat visually to use those Shoot’n’C target centers while rapid firing say 25 rounds in maybe ten seconds.
I nixed the thought of 30-06. Ruger 22LR seems like a fun thing to have although it is much cheaper to shoot and very accurate, distance is a problem.
Wip – can you shoot distance? Be honest. Most cannot. What do you need distance for? To shoot distance you need time and clear line of site. And lots of practice with expensive ammo.
Want to kill deer? 30-30. Want something that works in woods? 30-30. Want something that can acquire target fast – 30-30. Etc.
Want to shoot something at 400 yards, then a 30-06, a .308, a .270, etc. is the go. Or if it is something big – ie grizzly, moose, etc.
I witnessed a person sot with a 30-30 through the hip. Woman mad at her husband for cheating. Messed him up for life. 30-30 hits plenty hard for most purposes.
Shot an armadillo at about 10 feet away with a 30-30 when I was around 12 and the sucker basically exploded on me.
Reading about your exploding armadillo reminds me of that “it” in Pennsylvania that runs public health-now that would be a sight to see.
The real question to ask is what’s affordable these days. Both get the job done quite well.
Saxon while agree the prices of everything have gone up(a lot stocked to the gills in good times)feel you still in need of tool and food for said tool still monies well spent,heck,cash maybe worthless any day,you have some and spend it properly should be done.
I promise to show some restraint and just have one lower,not build another for the Creed,wait,what?……..,oh,too late,already built another lower!
I think the AR-10 is the way to go with 22 inch barrel.
Or available.
If push ever comes to shove, the military uses the .308 (7.62×51 NATO) currently in the M-60, M240, electric Gatling guns like the Dillon and General Electric mini-guns. Also the M110, M-14 and the various bolt guns used for sniping. Large quantities available there.
SOCOM is buying 6.5 Creedmoor but it likely will not ever become a widely issued caliber outside of precision work.
Saxon… I think the word you were looking for was available rather than affordable. The shelves are bare around here. Was going to get the grand daughter a 22 rimfire for Xmas. No amm0=bad present.
Rimfires do weird things to animal tissue at close range. An old friend had to shoot an attacker. I read the autopsy report. Jeebus! The amount of damage was all out of proportion to what would seem normal. The bullet did a rough semi-circle for about 16″ & didn’t exit.
If the world turns to shit, 223 & 308 will be available as pickups… the 6.5 Creedmoor not so much. But there was a pile of it in stores a few weeks ago. The 6.5 Manbun is over rated. Not a laser or anything magical about it. Hornady marketed & hyped the shit out of it. It’s not bad but is about, ballistically, the same as the old 6.5×55 in a smaller case with higher pressure. Not much new under the sun. The laws of physics say that a 308 has more snot at range with comparable projectiles started at the same velocity because they’re heavier (140gr vs 190gr) & make bigger holes (.264″ vs .308″). I’m too lazy to look up the energy #s but they are higher for 308. Nothing’s free so the push back on the back end will also be a bit more. The debate continues… I wouldn’t want to be hit by either but would prefer to send the 308 towards the other guy.
Looks like a good day to head to the range while everyone’s gorging themselves on turkey.
I was intrigued like everybody else with the 6.5 but compared to the ’06 set up for long range there is no difference of note and at 1,500 yards I’m fairly certain a 190 to 225 grain .30 is way better than a 143 .25 or.26 whichever the Creedmoor is.
If I was shooting at that range it would only be for H&I and any hits would be luck.
The 6.5 edges by the 308, but the 308 is universal and the 6.5 is a ghost…
Wip – the fact that you are asking that question means you have no experience shooting “at distance”. Best you stick to something you can handle, and that has low cost ammo, so you can shoot enough to get some skills. A .22 is a must. To move out in distance to 150-200 yards maybe a .17hmr as a trainer (it will also mightily irritate anything it hits, btw – don’t be fooled by its small bullet, as it has a muzzle velocity of around 2600 ft/second, and it fragments severely at hits up to 160 yards or so). A good old fashioned 30-30 will do a lot of damage with little kick, but is no sniper rifle. Low kick longer range options are .223, .243, etc.
My personal favorite for distance/kick/knockdown combo is the .270. Not much in NA that will not drop.
LL,
I simply want to round out my toolbox. 9, 12, 223 and ?
Personally, if you are not a great shot, a 30-30. More deer, for instance, and it is not even a close run thing, have been taken with that than any other. Low recoil, hits hard enough, accurate enough to around 150 yards, shoots pretty fast, tried and true for a very long time, good in close quarters, like brush, can shoot it open sight which is a huge advantage at times, when target needs to be acquired fast, etc.
I think .308 and 30-06 are fine calibres. I like .270 better overall, but lots of opinions out there. 308 and 06 ammo easier to find, but plenty of 30-30 available. .270 is more rare.
You do not mention a .22. You gotta have a .22. A 10/22 is a good choice, or a bolt, and a .22 pistol not a bad idea either. You can feed yourself with a .22, and carry 2000 rounds easy.
The 10/22 does sound good. For power AND distance, 308 sounds pretty good.
No, I am not a distance shooter and may never be but, it seems like a good idea to have the option. Maybe I need a 10/22 AND a 308.
Yes. Do this
.308
The old 270 is a really overlooked bad ass of a cartridge. Can take anything in the lower 48 no problem.
I usually wait until they are 6 for the first freedom tool, but might have to pre-purchase for the 4 youngest ones. They are pretty dainty girls, so will probably stick with 556
Excellent choice and in spicy times will be a round available.
Might recommend 80 %builds,uppers ect.bought with cash,that way,they really do not exist until,well……they do.
Sigh……,mortar.
I feel inadequate. Dad had a 90mm cannon and a .50 BMG on his M26 Pershing.
About all those charitable food banks and giveaways – and yes they are all over my part of the South – I often wonder at those lines of expensive autos, undoubtedly with large loan and lease payments; Also I suppose they all have multiple smart phones, and tons of fancy sneakers. Yet they can’t (they say) afford to put food on the table. Just wondering.
I see the stories and wonder exactly the same thing.
It is the Free-Shit Army (FSA ) model: nearly new fancy car – Cadillac, Jaguar, BMW – on a lease and just enuff monthly Gubbermint (taxpayer) largesse for gas.
Food stamps and food banks fill in any empty spaces.
being from south Chicago originally… we had a term for it. n….r rich.
I did a little research a few years ago, wondering how all these thousands of million Dollar plus McMansions north of Chicago could be possible. It seemed that these guys with the $75,000 cars and million Dollar houses couldn’t write a check for $20,000 if their life depended on it. I heard about how this one or that one is making “200 grand.” I discovered that the average guy making that much never becomes a millionaire because he is always leveraging to the max of credit with his huge salary. A guy making $60,000 per year was more likely to wind up an actual millionaire.
I have usually found the guy driving an unremarkable car or truck can whip off a check for big bucks like water off a duck while the guy in the Escalade always has to check with the bank or see about financing. So seeing the parade of suburbans and Mercedes in the food lines does not surprise me in the least.
You nailed it, HR.
Our 2005 Camry and 2004 4-Runner are perfectly fine with us. You don’t get rich paying $50,000+ for a car. I remember seeing lots of Lexuses in our company parking lot, and nearly every one of them was driven by a guy working in the warehouse driving a forklift or similar. I don’t know how much they made, but I guarantee that they might have been able to afford the monthly payments, but otherwise had little disposable income beyond them. Choices, values, thrift…..these are the ways people become rich….not by being “white.”
Can’t tell you the hundreds of DTV installs I have done at giant houses with multiple new cars in the drive way and new furniture, but couldn’t activate the system because the customer couldn’t come up with $50 to activate the system.
Some friends invited my family to eat with them at a local restaurant. My friend never wears a mask so he is good company. I did buy a ham so that will be some great leftovers. Local businesses are slow but things are still open. We have had a steady stream of people from California move in. Housing here has been overpriced compared to local wages for some time now and the folks from CA. just made it worse.
Schools here are open under strange rules but many homeschool their kids like I do. Else than crazy spending by the fed and the debt that goes along with it, I was fine with Trump as president and hope he stays. Happy Turkey day!
Things seem weirdly normal around here except for the face masks as TN said. Many service businesses still closed and most probably won’t return, at least not in their previous form. Schools online. I have had a few personal (only secondarily financial) setbacks this year so my shopping habits etc. would be atypical and useless as data points. I hardly ever shopped anyway and that will continue.
I suspect that when the PPP loans convert (if they don’t extend them) there will be a significant uptick in the unemployment. I think that these loans were intended to throttle the layoffs (like they did with mortgage foreclosures) not prevent them. Ultimately, a shift to an entirely different society (as you all know) is in progress.
A very happy thanksgiving to all of you and your families! (remember to thank the one from whom all blessings flow).
Dan
The Quinn economic indicator is higher than ever. The number of commercial real estate empty spaces is growing. A local Tru Value is closing its doors this week after almost 30 years. That is at least a dozen jobs. It is right next door to a closed Macdonalds that was at least 20 years old when it closed. This is a St. Louis suburb that has had the fastest growth in Missouri for the last 30 years. Good ???schools, safe streets and low diversity. The Wu Hu flu is killing more business than people. That is the plan.
cliffie,
i agree w/you but we’re also heading into a residential real estate bubble–
a couple of days ago the wolf report had an article about how residential housing is exploding–
question is,do we take the $ and run or stay the course?
Keep your house and sell the rest. Buy hard assets free and clear.
I think the Quinn indicator just shows that some commercial real estate people and small businesses are in real trouble.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Pretty much the same here in TX, except for the masks.
I don’t know the meaning of holiday shopping.
A blessed and unfettered Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Happy Thanksgiving All! All I know is that I went to put on the Macy’s parade broadcast by Verizon for some young ‘uns in the house and a transgender or some other variety was hosting it. I walked away. Sick of the LGBTQwhatever getting rammed down our throats.
then you’ll love this…
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/26/scottish-hate-crime-bill-to-criminalise-misgendering-trans-people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29
Happy Thanksgiving to the TBP group. I felt welcome here
near a decade ago after I moved to the middle of nowhere
leaving everything familiar behind. The people here made me
feel welcome and it was a thanksgiving for me. Thank you
everyone, and especially Admin.
We are in a real mess and no one anticipated an “epidemic”
as the cover story for our mass subjugation and loss of freedom.
We are cooked/like a turkey. The move we made saved 10-15K
in city expenses. One year of city taxes will pay for our new well/
the sandpoint is now inadequate. So it goes.
I want to wish everyone the best Thanksgiving they could hope
for. Please accept my gratitude for TBP. I love it.
Suzanna
Christmas…the 2K I used to spend won’t be repeated this year.
A bottle of champagne for the women and some cash for the
men/more or less.
I think I told you all my adult sons “followed” me to the middle of
nowhere. The older one had $/sold his business and bought a place
outright. The younger boy married an angel woman, bought a house,
and gave us a now 3yr. grandson. Was the move worth it?
Absolutely. Downside? TV watchers wear masks and fear the flu.
Here in Minneapolis I can’t tell what’s going on. A lot of people are working from home and they’re fine. A friend owns a restaurant/bar and he says he’s doing fine just selling take-out food, since he’s down from 20 to 4 employees. Crime is up. Murders in the bad part of town, but car-jacking everywhere. We’re averaging two armed carjackings a day, and this is not a huge city.
There’s a bike path that cuts across town in an old railroad bed. I rode it a couple weeks ago when it was over 70F and there were still at least 50 – if not closer to 100 – tents along the path. It’s supposed to hit 50 on Saturday so I might ride it again. These are the serious homeless – the kind who make barricades out of grocery store carts and other detritus. It could be 0 degrees F any time now. Where will they go? They can’t survive winter here in a tent.
Some asshole posted on NextDoor that everybody should donate to the “Second Harvest” food shelf, but then he went on a rant about Trump and (paraphrasing) how anyone who’d ever supported the Republican Party is going to hell anyway, but their donation might make the fire burn a little less hot. He had a lot of upvotes. Fuck Second Harvest. I’ll find some other way to help.
yikes – really. bad. advertising.
Have local food banks in the nearby town (church-run) and county seat (non-denominational). They received a piece of tax refund and stimulus check, and will hear from me for Christmas.
Hey Admin,
When do you eat that tomato pie? Christmas? I hope that’s not on hold over this gay-ass virus.
Happy Thanksgiving to the TBP family!
Here in Colorful Colorado we have his eminence Jared “Polesmoker” as governor and, the City and County of Denver is run by one Mayor Michael “Hand on his Cock”. Needless to say things have gotten interesting. Shopping has really not been altered with the exception of the mandated face diaper. Restaurants and Bars however, have been shutdown again unless you can sit outside. Of course we received 5-8 inches of snow in Metro Denver two days ago so have fun with that. Oh and if you haven’t seen this News tidbit, “ Hand on his Cock” ordered everyone not to travel for the holidays then immediately jumped on an airplane to see his family. Comrade, Comrade wave at apparatchiks on plane as you stand in bread line. You know all animals are equal some are just more equal than others. The Colorado restaurant association reported 25% of restaurants closed after the first shutdown and, 75% of those still up and running may end up defunct after this second shutdown.
As far as shopping/spending the Mrs. and I aren’t spending much on each other but, we bought a nice O/U shotgun for the adult son. If it’s allowed we’re going to spend money on a trip in February to some tropical destination.
Happy Holidays to all and may The Kracken arrive as planned in all of its glory.
courtesy of the Earl of Taint,
I saw this and thought of you, Doc.
go green or get lean.
Cows are amazing critters…scary that they can pick their noses with their tongues…this one looks like she’s had a piercing ????
Woke up at 4:45 thinking I had to get to the jobsite . . . then realized that, no, not today. But i was too awake at that point to try to sleep again and got up like it’s any other day. Took the big dog out and brought him in and took the old dog out (they do not get along as well as I would like, so, in the a.m. I keep them apart so I don’t have to deal with a fight while my joints are stiff). While he did his thing – the morning loop around the property – I knelt down at the edge of the walk and “sang” the Lord’s Prayer. Quietly, cuz in the a.m. my voice is gravel and vodka rocks, but it was dark still, just me and the dog and God, and . . . as soon as I started to warble “Amen”, a mockingbird called out from his long-time condo/tree, followed by numerous who-knows-whats from multiple other trees here, across the street, the next place over, and the lot of us finished it together. They got quiet again, and I continued to kneel there, in the waning darkness as dawn waxed behind me, humbled, touched, and absolutely not alone, as if I knelt in the very palm of God.
“Thank you,” i said and meant.
I hope today that all of you find similar peace.
Where we are, what’s coming, what’s happened and what will, well, I think we all understand, but I am thankful nonetheless.
Come, Lord Jesus, and grace and love to one and all.
Your story made me think of this song. I’ve always liked it because…. your story.
Amen!
SW Arkansas.
Schools bouncing between virtual only (tough in rural districts, as internet service limited) and partial in class (substantial percentage of parents going virtual only every day). Constant covid illnesses in the schools, no school child deaths reported. Or even school staff, locally.
Local clothing store closed (might have been a regional chain). Daughter works at hardware store; they are crazy busy more often than not. Local owner said he got a call from a industry periodical — the reporter was astonished to hear how good business was.
Restaurants space patrons, but seem to be keeping busy (and have expanded delivery — no grub hub in this berg). One we patronize is consistently advertising for help wanted.
Statewide, tax receipts were down less than 5 percent in FY 20 from FY 19; receipts for the 1st qtr FY 21 (July-Sept) were up around 8 percent over 1st qtr FY 20 (before covid).
Personally, we are shopping more local stores/regional chains, but living out in the boonies, avail ourselves of free shipping from Sam’s Club and Walmart.
Happy Thanksgiving, folks. Here’s to simultaneously being thankful for so many good things and at the same time being hopeful that someone will shove a whole turkey up the Gesundheitsfuhrers’ asses.
A liquid “Thanksgiving” for Auntie this year – a fifth of Wild Turkey – as the usual boisterous and jam packed holiday feast at the town’s large Catholic Church community center (it is ecumenical –everyone goes) shut down by the tyrant-governor of NM, Commissar M. Lujan-Grisham.
Not thankful this year, just fucking furious, as this is the opening gambit (and astonishingly successful by every measure too) of the NWO-Beast System Evil Fuckers to institute their patented Hell-On-Earth.
If these demonic scum can get away with this friends, what will they try to do for Christmas?
Oh, yeah, they intend to defund, dismantle and disappear it, Christmas, to make room for the New/Old Religion: Satanism.
Shopping? Food, tactical and snow boots, a case of vodka, and a couple of boxes of small metal projectiles. Oh yes – for sorely needed entertainment; CD of Evaristo Dell’ Abaco suites plus “The Death of Stalin” movie on DVD (the most hilarious of black comedy, comrades.)
I just can’t believe Steve Buscemi as Krushchev but it is a hoot.
OK,time for a reality slap folks.
Sure a few family gatherings are Norman Rockwell types,everyone happy and grateful to be together,but for the majority,these gatherings are just another burden to bare/get thru.You believe most Thanksgiving meals Rockwell painting type events you also believe biden won the presidency!
So here is the reality(sensitive viewers might want to skip this post!).
It is your turn to host Thanksgiving and your family and inlaws have arrived.Your wife and your mother in law are already giving each other hateful glances(your wife married you to get away from her family/face it!),Uncle Charlie is already drunk in the living room screaming at the TV and throwing beer cans at it due to what he believes are bad calls in regards to game on the TV/your brother in laws little bastard kids are tearing up the house throwing pre meal snacks at each other/your dad has purposefully stepped on your cats tail as he is “allergic ” to cats and wants the cat to go into hiding.
You sit in the kitchen really trying to cook up a good meal and wonder WTF!At this point your wife and mother in law are screaming at each other and all you want at this point is for the day to end and actually for once have a decent share of leftovers,what’s a man to do?!
Well,give this a try.As you are bring food out to the table getting ready to eat(your dad and Uncle Charlie(his brother)are getting into a fight out in the yard over football game calls)and folks are finally getting ready to actually sit down casually bring up transgender surgery,you will be ignored at first but be persistent,bring up subjects like if a man gets transgender surgery do they save his penis in say a fridge for the next woman who decides she is really a man/what kind of hormone shots does one get ect.,there is a lot going on here on this subject so again,be persistent!
At this point your dad and Uncle Charlie have finally stopped fighting and come into the room,as they catch parts of the conversation Uncle Charlie denies transgender surgery is even a thing and this is were it gets good!
You earlier uploaded a transgender surgery from male to female off of u tube to your laptop and you bring said laptop to the table and start playing the video.As the show moves forward transitioning said person from male to female with removal of penis and the creation of a vagina in it’s place things get a bit unsettled!
Your mother in law starts screaming at your wife asking what kind of maniac did she marry/your brother in laws little kids are crying in terror at what they are seeing(suddenly you appreciate having them around!),Uncle Charlie vomits on the floor due what he is seeing,the cat(remember him from earlier?)is rooting thru Uncle Charlies bile for food scraps from afore mentioned appetizers thinking this is the best feed he has had in awhile!
Oh,and your dad,he is just shaking his head and is grinning as he grabs his jacket and heads out the door and you realize even though he does not like your cat he gets it and tis why you love him!You are grateful that your mom has passed a few years earlier and did not have to deal with this insanity of family!
Needless to say the rest of the guests leave and it is just you/the wife(remember,she just married you to get away)and a happy cat scarfing away.
You smile at the amount of nice food you have and smile even more as you realize dad and Uncle Charlie left two cases of beer in the fridge,thus you take a seat at the table and dig in!
Happy Thanksgiving all!
james,
what time did you start imbibing this am,or did you just continue from last night?
but i still love it!
maybe you’ve got it in you to unseat one of the other writers at the tbp round table–
Thanks Tampa,will say written stone cold sober.I am not a well man(well duh!) and have at best a dark a sense of humor.
As for unseating others,eh,not that good and why unseat,just add chairs to this scintillating Algonquin round table of intellect/wisdom!
I love a story with a happy ending.
Admin.,
Thanks to ya fer the site.
I’m probably admitting my insanity by writing this but, TBP is my Zoloft.
Please have a great T’ Day and drink too much.
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Two young Muslim friends, Rahim and Ahmad, decide to leave Pakistan and to emigrate to Ireland.
Before they leave they agree to meet after one year to determine who has become the most Irish. One year passes and, true to their word, the two lads meet in Dublin.
Rahim says: I have become very Irish. I have a Roy Keane Celtic football shirt, I support the Irish soccer and rugby teams, I fish, I play hurling for Cork, I drink Guinness and have an Irish red setter! He beams triumphantly at his friend: “How Irish have you become?”
Ahmad sneers at him and snarls: “Fuck off you Paki bastard!
The democRat governor and legislature have ruined Connecticut..they are now threatening people and businesses with large fines if you do not roll over for a virus that 99.75% survive….what will be the Rubicon for us remains to be seen..
I saw that.. It’s interesting because most fines are set by statute. For instance “not to exceed XX dollars” as in not the prerogative of an EO. and 10Gs (for every infraction)? WTF?
Happy turkey day you beautiful miscreants and malcontents,aka freedom lovers.
We have been very fortunate in our area of Florida. Small business hasnt been completely gutted and neither has the small restaurant biz.
I never plan on shopping for anything that isnt essential to the defense of the homestead or improves my position on my little half-acre.
Unemployment is ridiculous everywhere, but I got lucky landing my gig after I finished most of the house upgrades after we bought. I am thankful that I learned my lesson from 07-08 in always planning for shit economic times thanks to crony government.
Always have a plan and always be prepared for the worst and enjoy the good times for the dark time is coming again.
Molon labe.
My daughters are 5 & 8 hours away. Sweetie Pie’s daughter is 90 minutes but makes her chilluns wear wasks the moment they leave the house. Her other sons have to work Friday in ATL. So, they’re not here. SC has no limitation on # of people at dinner. Just the two of us getting ready to sit down to eat in 72º weather, no wind with a delightful marsh sunset view.
Had to go through Charleston Tuesday, and things were busy for once. Monday night, Charlotte was SLOW in the SouthPark area (highest end shopping/restaurants in the city).
As for business, my 31+ year old consultancy is down 60% from 2019. But I have scant overhead, no rent & no debt. I’ll slog through and watch the same thing as was the case in 2008 – 50% of my competiton will bite the dust.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Not sure if we will spend more or less compared to last year. We don’t live extravagantly and always spend within our means saving what we can. This thanksgiving was made extra special when I worked the spreadsheets this morning. I reached the milestone number I wanted to retire. I’m not sure if I will be more conservative now or not since I still plan on working a few more years.
Our region hasn’t really seen much financially different in terms of corona. Most industry is considered essential and is running 24-7. My brother in law actually gets a bonus at his factory job for not missing work. The only one I personally know out of work is my son’s best friend who is a Civil Engineer involved with fracking. Tom and Big Rachel have them shut down and Grandpa Badfinger will probably finish the job.
I know about a dozen people directly or indirectly that have had the bug now. Only one death. He was 91 and checking out soon anyway. A few cases where one spouse got it and one didn’t so it confirms to me that transmission is way overstated.
A close friend has it now. He lost his taste and smell last Friday. Sunday he got a low fever. Tuesday it peaked at 103 and has since come back down. Other than an occasional coughing and chills jag he feels OK. Late 50’s, overweight, high BP, diabetes, cancer survivor and a few other things I’m probably forgetting. According to our overlords he should be dead. His doctor gave him no meds and said to just keep doing what he’s doing.
I keep telling him by the weekend he’ll be fine. 1 week seems to be the extent of it.
Remember to give a few $ to LOCAL charities you trust if you can.
Steve,best of luck to your bud!He has unfortunately a lot of “co-morbidity “but feel he made it this far he will pull thru!
Charities you trust is a hard find(I have a couple),that said,if one can drop a few bucks here and any other sites you like to keep the electricity on and a few bucks for beer and pizza,they have earned it!
Happy Thanksgiving TBP.
How about we have a Thinksgiving?
I would like for you all to contemplate something about the on-going voter fraud shitshow. Many want to say it is the left stealing this election but the real reality is NONE of the people in ‘office’ have been elected. The fraud before you is so grand in its scale that most cannot even see it -it is like looking at a grain of sand to map the entire Earth the details are needed but from an entirely different perspective to fully understand. You can say that fraud was committed to steal the election but that is a grain of sand on the world’s beaches of fraud that we immesrsed in. It is not that fraud was committed in this election, it is that elections, as they are conducted in modern times, are fraudulent. The fraud is so deep that they are not even elections at all. This election has not been stolen, lawful elections themselves have been stolen – the very definition of what an election is and how it is lawfully performed was stolen a very long time ago. There is literally NO ONE in a constitutional office who has ever been elected. Why do you think they need to use statistics, circumstantial evidence, and other mental gymnastics to allege voter fraud instead of having the actual voters testify in court? That is because lawful elections themselves have been stolen not just this presidential election.
In fact the fraud goes much much deeper than this. There are no elections statutes on the books that they are using that have ever been enacted into law. That is because the law itself has been stolen too. Constitutions require laws be enacted by their respective legislatures but if you examine the process, bills and statutes you will find that the bills passed and enacted go to bar conspirators who then rewrite into statutes meaning that the statutes were NEVER enacted into law. Sometimes the statutes written ‘from’ enacted bills are the exact opposite of what the enacted bill was. While this fraud matters too, going back to those ‘reps’ who enacted the bills that are not actually statutes are not actually reps at all because they were never elected in the first place because the entire modern concept of elections is a fraud and by design CANNOT BE PROVEN IN A COURT OF LAW.
In fact the fraud goes much deeper than even all of this. There are entire military bases that are NOT actually even military bases but actual parallel command structures of fraudulent military that are actually bankster/deepstate constructs intermingled with actually military personnel where the military personnel think they are working at a military base when they are not and their ‘commanders’ are not even military at all.
Do you see? The fraud we are immersed in is so utterly vast and pervasive that it is nearly impossible to know what is government or not. When fully examined to its end there is only one rational conclusion -the states and federal governments were overthrown by criminals a very long time ago -THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT ALL ONLY CRIMINAL FRAUDULENTLY CLAIMING TO BE GOVERNMENT.
What you think is ‘government’, ‘courts’,’law’,’elections’,’representatives’ etc are actually none of these things at all and it can be found, examined, tested and proven that this is true but you need to follow the lawful path of truth to its end to unravel it. This truth shows that people participating in ‘elections’ are insane, mindless, incompetent people who should not be trusted because they know nothing of the level of fraud that is actually going on and in fact they are being conditioned deeper into the fraud with these new ‘revelations’ and led away from the truth. In fact, NO ONE involved in any aspect of ANY government anywhere should be trusted. Large governments have been built so large on purpose by criminals with an agenda to enslave and steal from others via inflation of fiat currency and enslavement. It is warfare, it is a capital crime. Anyone not seeking the death penalty for everyone involved from top to bottom are dangerous people whom are either criminals themselves or support criminals whether knowingly or unknowingly.
So my suggestion is that instead spending money after Thanksgiving, spend time on having many Thinksgivings to think, learn and reexamine the fraud you are immersed in so that if any of you contemplate or are thrust into civil war you develop sound objectives of what you want out the other side.
You must know where you are going in order to reach your desired destination. If you have no destination then someone else will lead to theirs which may be a worse place than where you are now.
I’m late on this thread so I’ll just talk about how the day went. My ex and I were invited for Thanksgiving with the extended family of my son’s fiancee. The ex met them last year but this was the first time I met them. I’m happy to report: Not a liberal lunatic in the bunch! We all think alike. They all believe the pandemic is a hoax as well, just the flu. And they’re conservative, down to earth, hard working people, and they raise good, responsible children. You can’t ask for better than that. Plus, they’re fun to be with.
As to Christmas spending, my elderly mother stopped the gift giving several years ago. She wants the holiday to be about the reason for the season, Jesus, and family. I do spend on my son and his fiancee. During the summer, I bought a not-cheap antique silver locket from England on Etsy for the future daughter-in-law. My son always gets money. I do add a few small gifts for both. And I usually give them a couple of $10 lottery tickets. My son won $100 last year. Other than that, I buy no gifts.
As to businesses in the area, we don’t have government-mandated mask rules but some businesses do put up signs to wear masks, like grocery stores and other corporate stores. Not everybody wears a mask, but they don’t say anything to you. The banks are closed except for drive-through service. Some fast-food still only has drive-through service. But the majority of businesses are open.
I’ve seen a lot of help-wanted signs around town. Once the unemployment benefits run out in December, I think there will soon be no or very few job openings since people will have to get back to work.
I hope everyone on TBP had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
First time I have been able to read TBP today. was surprised to see this actually posted. thanks for the replies to the ones who took it serious 🙂
Happy thanks giving to all fellow readers south of the border.
What made me ask the questions was from reading a post the other day about the “People going hungry = Record high stock prices” and that writing made me question what others were seeing in their community/town/city. boots on the ground with real eyes are a better indication over a phony stock market’s daily close.
Where I live (here in west coast Canada) stores seem to be quite and strip malls seem to be losing store fronts. the strange thing is, its slow this thing that you don’t notice at first, till you notice that a store front now seems different. after you have driven by it 100’s of times, and never ventured into it, but now its gone.
We just had an anchor store say that because of “covid” they couldn’t pay their rent, so court ordered them to stay rent free till who knows when. Can’t wrap my head around that, but another life line for “The Bay”. who as from what I believed were on the brink of closing forever anyway.
Bars and pubs are allowed to be open till 10pm as long as we follow the strict mask and social distancing guidelines. However I am not sure how many will survive as they are pretty dead for customers, or at least the ones that I casually patronize for weekend burgers. Will be a shame if they lose the battle, couple weeks back asked the 1 waitress how is it going? answer was point blank… “tough, the owners are just scraping by” If the rules get any tougher it will be the end of many small businesses here. But the worst thing is that the non stop TV and radio covid reports are what is killing everything, as people are so afraid to venture into the pubs, and or stores.. but cram on into the big box all you want.
Our political leaders have mandated mask wearing in all public areas, stores and restaurants, with 230 dollar fines if not following the rules. gotta pay that covid tax somehow I guess. Funny thing is, I want to ask politician or talking head on the TV what degree of PCR testing they are doing to get the infection numbers. Are they hitting each test at 40X amplification? and how many of these politicians even know what that question would mean? Are they locking down on whims of what might be there? or are the positives real… “never let a good crisis go to waste…”
No idea what the unemployment situation is looking like, but I have seen a uptick in pan handlers around now.
cheers and stay healthy.
ps, “….as god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly……”
I thought you asked some good questions.
Well,thi sis some good Thanksgiving news!
,things getting worse daily.
Perhaps time to cross a river/mention dies being cast,and,well………,you know.