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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on January 14, 2013, 11:16:39 PM
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Hi folks, I'm back from Naples. The old man is doing well, and didn't need a second surgery on the heart, so that is good. I'm without easy net access there and that's why I have been absent. To Alf and Santa I will mail your stuff tomorow. . Sorry for the delay, but things looked pretty dire and it just wasn't a priority. My bad.
In my mail today, I got a letter from the NRA. It was like publisher's clearing house. I (and you, if you're a member, and shame on you if you aren't), can win either 21 guns and a safe, a new Dodge 4x4, or an Alaskan Bear hunt. Just because I know it will piss off the antis, I chose the gun option. I mean hell, I wouldn't know what to do with 21 guns, but I do know it will piss off people I detest, so I'll go with that, and besides, I'm a Ford guy and an Alaskan brown bear never did anything to me. I enclosed a fifty dollar contribution and will be getting a nice back pack. If you aren't an NRA member please fix that. There has never been a time so dire as now. Every dollar counts. Folks are talking about buying guns, ammo and mags before the ban. Why not spend a little bit of that money on the one organization who has a chance in hell of preventing that ban from happening?
Send money to the NRA! They aren't perfect, but they are the ones that the politicians listen to. GOA might be more in tune with our views, but they don't have the the clout. Now is not the time to let the perfect become the enemy of the good enough.
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Nice to have you back. Glad to hear your Dad is doing OK.
Just because I know it will piss off the antis, I chose the gun option.
Wise choice. ;D
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Glad you're back !! Also very glad that your Dad is doing better. Your advice on the NRA is spot on.
Everyone should also be aware that you can visit https://www.nra-2013.org/ (https://www.nra-2013.org/) to join, extend your membership, or upgrade to 'Life Membership' for $600 (a $400 savings).
Again FQ... very glad things are better for you and your Dad. :)
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Good to hear from you, and that things are on the upswing, FQ.
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Hey FQ. I'm glad he's alright..
Keep it. It's worth more to me as an anecdote on socialism anyway.. ;D
I can't afford a light to put on it anymore anyway..
Welcome back!!
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Hey FQ. I'm glad he's alright..
Keep it. It's worth more to me as an anecdote on socialism anyway.. ;D
I can't afford a light to put on it anymore anyway..
Welcome back!!
Just for rthat I'll send the damn thing priority mail! ;D
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HAHAHA!!!
You don't know how long I've been waiting to say that!!!!!
Hehe.. I needed that!! Thanks!!!!
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Welcome back fq and ditto to what they said.
God Bless,
Richard
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Glad to hear Pappy is okay.
And your NRA advice is dead on. They may not reflect all our needs and wants, but they are basically on our side in this fight and they are the biggest guys on the block.
Crusader
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Hey FQ, don't sweat the heart stuff .
Last time I went in for an angioplasty I was working a 4 day week and I didn't miss any work. ;D
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Glad to hear your Dad is doing ok.
Welcome back... the zoo missed its howler monkey. ((foghorn leghorn voice) joke son, a funny - humor)
All is right (at least here now..)
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Welcome back, FQ :D :D :D :D :D and glad the news about your Dad is on the positive side.
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Glad to hear your Dad is doing ok.
Welcome back... the zoo missed its howler monkey. ((foghorn leghorn voice) joke son, a funny - humor)
All is right (at least here now..)
That was funny. ;D
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Welcome back FQ and glad to hear your Dad is doing okay. As for the NRA lotto, I haven't filled out my entry yet. I would so like to go with the 21 guns option as it outnumbers my meager collection by far. BUT, if you listen to MD's governor and the overwhelming Democrat majority here in this state, we ARE going to have an "assault" weapons ban and a high capacity magazine ban and a ban on more semi-automatic weapons (some already are) and total handgun registration and...and...and... I figure that if I win the 21 guns all I would get is the salute!
Have any of you read the fine print rules on the back of the entry form? Some members are allowed to enter via Facebook and email IF your entry package indicates you are eligible to do so. And they are allowed to enter them DAILY. This means that I get ONE entry (my package didn't indicate any such eligibility) while select members get to enter over 300 times. Who are these special selected people who are relatively guaranteed to be winners? Want to hazard a guess? Have you willed your assets to the NRA yet?
Yeah, I'm going to send my entry in, but I won't be waiting with bated breath. I am also beginning to suspect that the hey days of the NRA are over. This administration fights dirty and they have the resources of China and the skullduggery of mother Russia to pick apart the NRA. This is going to be one helluva fight.
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"This administration fights dirty and they have the resources of China and the skullduggery of mother Russia to pick apart the NRA. This is going to be one helluva fight."
Doesn't our side have any ball's or imagination to counter the dems ?
We used to .
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Bad Cop/Good Cop....
The Good Cop doesn't really mind what the bad cop is doing....it just gives them both an advantage.
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Our side needs to play "Bad cop/Worse cop" .
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Our side needs to play "Bad cop/Worse cop" .
I prefer the quote from Vick Mackey in The Shield. "Are you the good cop or the bad cop"? He says "I'm a different kind of cop". ;D Time to get in the damn game, screw the long game, its time to leave it all on the field.