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If you don't have an honorary squadron commander, get that program up and running. A few local big wigs leaning on local businesses to each chip in a bit and you'll be a significant way there. You'll also likely have an easier time making the bar a self-help process and purchasing morale stuff with a GPC. Find a pilot in the squadron that is good at woodworking/construction (actually good, not 'I put together my IKEA desk after only 3 attempts' good) and that would be a huge help also.

It takes a long time to get rich on your money. Making money off of other peoples' money is the way to go. For example, I bought a new house when the housing market was down. I put a grand total of around $15K into the house between VA funding fee and improvements. I rented the house out after I moved and sold it 10 years later at 200% more than I paid for it and walked away with about $50K more than the original purchase price. I did all this with other people's money because I got the loan at a low rate so it was worth keeping it to keep making money off of other people's money. If someone is willing to loan you money at well under inflation, take as much as they will loan you and put that money to work. Don't buy a car with it, most companies now are subsidizing rates down to similar or lower than the 3% from USAA. Invest it and your 40 year old self will thank you. VFIAX is absolutely what I would do. Then make yourself constantly add the same amount into that fund that you spend on beer and you won't have to worry about retirement.

Now that's a Beretta I could buy. Probably similar weight and pattern as the 92...

I doubt that many R's will sit it out in the general at the risk of four more years of Biden. I'm sure a few will, but I doubt it'll be a significant number. As much as the never-Trumpers dislike Trump, they dislike Biden just as much and at least Trump *might* decrease the severity of a couple problems they care about.

You will always be able to find crazies in any party and posting links of individuals being crazy doesn't reflect the larger party. Trump hosting that nut is bad, but on the whole, it is a sizeable portion of the left in America today that is anti-Israel. If there were a party affiliation in that poll, I'd bet that the vast majority of that 20-25% are registered Democrats. If that stat of thinking the Holocaust was fake is real and actually representative, that is insane. But one should also not be surprised when you sow insanity in the school system and the resulting crop has a lot of insanity. If there is no objective truth and the 'truth' is whatever I perceive, then obviously history can be manipulated and there is no reason to think that it has not been exaggerated. Same with all the anti-American propaganda now being taught as actual history.

Hearing... great, no reason there cannot be reasonable accommodations for office jobs. Severe intellectual disability? That is absolutely absurd. When is the left going to realize that it is not the right that put Trump in office, it was a knee-jerk reaction to BS like this.

I check off all of those... so do I get to join some sort of "super-privilege" club that will get me VIP seating at games and do cool things like that? "Owning class"? How is the American population so dumb that they cannot see that these people are not mentally living in 21st century America but mentally living in the reconstruction era and think they're dealing with ex-slave owners? If the people spouting this stuff actually believe it, they should be in a mental institution. The only "privilege" I have was growing up in the care of a loving, two parent house that gave me the work ethic to succeed. The same exact type of house that these people are actively trying to destroy. And if being a Christian is a "privilege" here on earth, then convert to Christianity. I think they will soon find that being a real Christian is not a privilege in this life.

Biff, I think you need a hobby:

Don't forget that the Ryan Air airport is up to 2 HOURS from the city named on the ticket. Made the mistake of flying Ryan Air to "Oslo". Two hour bus ride from the airport and we finally got to actual Oslo.

How about land loans? I'm considering buying 20-80 acres of land and then building with cash.

Wasn't even an exit row. Apparently it could be configured as an exit row, but it was not an emergency exit door as that particular airplane was equipped.

Best upgrade for an M9: Sell it, buy a Springfield, and take your wife on a fancy hotel date with the extra money.

Barbus - I hope so. Biff - I agree that most immigrants have more traditionally American values (work ethic, traditional family structure, etc) than many Americans do now. The problem is that people so rarely vote their values. According to Pew research, Catholics are 7% more likely to be Democrat than Republican. It is insane to me that the Catholic church teaches that abortion is murder, yet people that self-identify as Catholic vote to keep the practice legal anyway.

Impossible. With an evenly spread 50.0001% majority a party can change any law (including the Constitution) that they want to. My concern is this flight is going to make a state that was 55/45 red/blue into a 50/50 tossup without meaningfully changing the spread in the states they left. Many traditionally red states don't have enough of a majority to absorb the blue state flight without being in danger of turning blue themselves.

I see what you're saying and agree to a point, but the problem is bigger than FSU. I still think FSU should have sat out the bowl to highlight how messed up the process was. Can't blame the kids for sitting out when they got screwed out of a chance at the title. The NCAA basically said that they don't care what the FSU record was, the school didn't count because it wasn't SEC. The players got the message. I think this is a culture problem, but this would happen at almost any school right now in the same situation. Not a culture problem at FSU specifically (I detest all Florida teams, so this is painful for me to say), but a culture problem in college sports and our society at large. There is no real commitment anymore. Between the transfer portal and the ability for a kid to commit to a school only to "de-commit" and go to a different school, the NCAA has built a system that rewards continually shopping around for the best deal regardless of any commitment made. It is only a sad reflection on the rest of our sad society.

No SEC teams in the championship game (and shouldn't have even been one in the playoffs)... Maybe we can finally have a break from 'SEC is the only conference that matters' attitude next year.

Problem those people will move to other states and continue to vote the same way. "You know, I really like this new place, but it could really use some more government programs, more legal drugs, and way less guns..."

The seatbelt extender should be the go/no-go for having to pay for an extra seat to be empty. And if that will cause someone to get bumped, it should be the person that is too fat to fit their backside in a normal seat. Our society has become a parody of itself. In the 80s and 90s quest to give kids self esteem, we forgot that what people need more than self esteem is shame. Shame has kept societies functioning far better than self esteem ever could.

That full MCX upper looks awesome, if only it weren't $1700...

Anyone recommend a good folding stock AR-15 upper for those of us that have fresh form-1s?

FSU should publish how much they expect to make from the bowl and start a gofundme to make up for the bowl money and then cancel the bowl. I'd donate.

Clearly they learned nothing from the UCF debacle a few years go. The "strength of schedule" argument is BS and is an argument from silence. Until they get to the larger playoff format, the only focus should be determining on who is the best. No one cares who is second or third best. There should never be a D-1 undefeated team left out of the playoffs. I'm light years away from being a FSU fan, but they got screwed. I cannot ever think of a time that I would have ever even remotely considered cheering for FSU, but I hope they win their bowl and make the NCAA show themselves to be the bunch of clowns they are with a third (and completely avoidable) shared national championship.

So apparently the pistol brace rule has been tossed. It seems the common opinion is that if it was registered, the form 1 is still valid. Attached is a link if you second guessed your decision to get the form 1. https://thereload.com/federal-judge-blocks-nationwide-enforcement-of-pistol-brace-ban/ https://www.nationalguntrusts.com/blogs/nfa-gun-trust-atf-information-database-blog/removing-an-sbr-sbs-from-the-nfrtr-and-then-reregistering-the-sbr-sbs-process

I see the B-52 WSOs or whatever they're called are getting better at using the pod.

No way! They're the kind of guys that shoot you 5 times in the leg and once in the gut and it takes 30 minutes to die an agonizing death. If i'm in front of a firing squad, give me 5 bullets to the brain.