CaptUSA
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We all thought we'd live forever. Getting old sucks. rip brother. See ya soon.

Story but the Mexican claims that cartels are sending people into US gun shops to purchase strictly semi-automatic civilian versions of military style weapons literally reek of bullshit. With their criminal connections cartels could and likely do easily obtain selective fire military versions on the international market, and do so at a better price. Hell, REAL AK 47s, M-16s, and a wide variety of other military arms are ubiquitous and cheap on international markets. There’s no need to buy the civilianized versions from gun dealers.

Look ma! No AR 15!

How did we go from "We want the freedom to do what we please in our own bedroom" to "Everyone else must see what we do in our own bedroom?"

My contribution. Midnight Rider.

Every time they get to the line, "if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all," it reminds me of this classic:

Wunerful wunerful wunerful.

Absolutely one of the best movies of the 70s. Also, back in those days it was a bit difficult to get my dad to go out and do things like see a movie. This is one of only 2 movies I ever convinced he and mom to come out and see with me, on my dime, of course. Up to his dying day you could occasionally find my dad quoting his favorite Jackie Gleason line from this one and laughing hi ass off. His favorite line? This one: On another related topic, in those days I lived East of the Mississippi where it was illegal to sell Coors beer. Everyone used to talk the stuff up like it was the frickin Nectar of the Gods or something. Well, we moved out west in 79 and I finally got the chance to try it. Why ANYONE would go to the trouble, expense and risk to smuggle that piss water is beyond me!

There was one cop I felt sorry for. Every time he went around a curve, his Plymouth turned into a Pontiac or vice versa. Can you imagine being in the middle of a curve and your cop spec Torsion-Aire suspension turns into four squishy coils with a four-link nightmare out back? Talk about pucker factor! Back to television.

I don't know why it never occurred to me before. But while we may have more different things we burn fuel to do than ever before, we use it more efficiently than ever before. We do more, but we also do more with less. I don't suppose there's any way to quantify that...

And for my part I may have overreacted a bit. Apologies for that. And I agree with you on the drone bit. I was hoping to see that too. But overall, I did still find the vid interesting and entertaining, and was really hoping that somebody around here could add some pertinent info. Like I said, I'd never heard of "Mel's Hole" and I get a kick out of these kinds of mysteries. Would get an even bigger kick if one of these damn videos or TV shows actually DID explain the damn things tho! Cheers brother.

Taste of Armageddon meets Mirror Mirror.

Holy shit! Why the hell are you guys so uptight about one stupid video? It's no better or worse than hundreds of "unexplained phenomenon" shows aired on TV over the years. I'd never heard of this "Mel's Hole," but I HAVE heard of Art Bell so I figured maybe somebody else had heard about it. Most likely just another yarn spun by some nutcase, but no worse than innumerable tales about Big Foot, the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster and on and on. Lighten up, will ya?

Just thought it was interesting. Apparently you didn't. To each his own.

Cornell West praising China's "public response" to COVID, blindly accepting their fake numbers as true. Of course ^this video was in 2022. In 2023, after China ended COVID-Zero, they had 1.4 million to as high as 2 million estimated COVID deaths as opposed to America's 1.2 million COVID deaths. Jimmy Dore, who was greatly awakened by the vaccine issue, called Cornel West out here.

Yep. https://www.nasa.gov/technology/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth-study-finds/

Are you SERIOUSLY arguing that a tax increase that the globalists have been pushing for will cause the globalists to "let the market decide?" What "market?" The market is already deciding this is all hogwash.

Yes. You heard increase taxes on everybody else and (most likely) cut taxes for Elon Musk. If you learned one thing from COVID it should be YOU CANNOT TRUST "THE" SCIENCE! There is no such thing as "scientific consensus" yet you hear control freaks demand you trust the so called "scientific consensus" on lockdowns, mRNA vaccines, not wearing masks, wearing masks, shutting down schools, blaming Trump for allowing the schools to be shut down, common sense gun control because gun violence is a "national health emergency", puberty blockers for 8 year old kids, double mastectomies for 13 year old girls, castration for 16 year old boys, not telling obese people they are unhealthy, the benefits of genetically modified everything, turning yourself into a cyborg with brain implants (another Elon Musk initiative) and the benefits of killing yourself if you are autistic or depressed. Science is great if it's used in the service of humanity. Science become evil if humanity is forced to serve it.

Hogwash! I could speak just as freely on the internet before Elon bought Twitter as I can after. Twitter is not the Internet!

He's about to make himself much richer. What's unintelligent about that? Unethical perhaps but quite intelligent.

I'm shocked that anybody is shocked that a billionaire owner of an electronic vehicle company might want more money.

Really? I don't recall not being able to say what I think. Oh...you mean I can say what I think on Twitter. Because the only way I can say what I think on the Internet is to go to some "platform" that I can be thrown off but for the benevolence of Elon Musk because I can't just launch my own blog on my own webserver and connect with other like minded people or launch my own Mastodon or create my own free community or get on the Hive.io blockchain and build my own Ecency community or follow the path of World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee and join the Solid network where I own my own data. Nope. Gotta go with Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg or the Google / Alphabet shareholders or whoever owns TikTok or..... The door to freedom in the Internet is staring us all right in the face if only a critical mass of people would walk through it.

Why are you surprised? He fucking literally owns an electric vehicle company. He's trying to convince people to become cyborgs and take brain chips. You thought because he smoked weed on Joe Rogan and let Trump back on Twitter that he was somehow on the side of freedom? Bwwaaaaahhhaaaa! Imagine what would have happened if Musk had NOT bought Twitter. Twitter was about to implode from anybody who still had any shred of human decency abandoning the platform for alternatives like Mastedon and LBRY.TV and HIVE.IO. Then Musk bought the platform, let SOME people back on, and the conservative / moderate flight from Twitter ended. Trump's own "Truth Social" is now as worthless pump and dump stock because....Trump's back on Twitter. (He still tried to make money off of Truth Social. LOL suckers!) Musk is down with the agenda. All of his "anti woke" stuff is just to keep you on board and not looking behind the curtain cause you think he's on your side.

Doom and gloom are agony on me. Good. I'm honestly relieved to hear that.

Well since you brought up Scott Joplin, check this out.