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You already gave Fritz, so you don't have to double pay.

Anthony Harkin

703 Margaret Lee St.

Copperas Cove, TX 76522

Thanks.

It would be nice to get rid of that logo, but I guess I've gotten used to it. I need to explain. Invision Power Board is a software program that we paid for. The board has historically been Military Firearm Restoration Corner. Now the site web address more accurately reflects the emphasis of the site (quite frankly I'm shocked this name was available) sporterizing.com.

If I had the smarts, I'd post some fancy picture, or do some fancy web thing. I don't have a resident geek to do that stuff.

Pretty neat.

Both my neighbors have been to Iraq; we never talk about it. Why? Not pleasant. However, I've noticed some things about vets. They will tell bits and pieces of things that come to mind, like food, some odd character, or some interesting or funny thing. What isn't said are the battles in the mind.

Many points to ponder there Fritz.

The wife and I will keep that on our evening list.

There is a problem in that if topics are relative much of the time. Some folks get easily offended, and some don't. I don't want to do like our infamous board counterpart and be an autocratic ruler. In other words, I am lenient on topics- but if somebody gets brave they have to be prepared to defend themselves. Dog eat Dog is pretty much hands off unless it gets crazy. When I had to be an umpire and take sides and play policeman I lost the desire to run this show. It is too emotionally draining. I find that the peer pressure usually suffices to regulate things. Police thyself is the best route. I don't really know how to put that any better. I can't picture very many outside the shooting world hanging around to view the landscape. That can happen, but the only time in 3 1/2 years was when teenage twerps from England spammed us bad. In return I made their lives pretty unpleasant for two weeks. A truce was called.

I'm not above reproof, so fire away!

I'm only out $90, and that's no big deal. Thank you to the following folks:

Bubbamauser (Roy)

DT (Ken S.)

Tom

Sonic1

Spiris

Remember that I'm not pushing any prior donors, just maybe a little nipple tweak on the old timers getting cheap! Nah, I'll live!

The good thing is we are set for two years. I'm liking this place!

I am steaming. Here at the hospital we got 5000 free gun locks. We had a big public safety program underway. Today I got the word that some bozo has caused us to get our program put under investigation! The word is that somebody thought the Emergency Nurses Assoc. is anti-gun. Bull-crapola. Here I have 26 guns and a bulletin board and I don't object, but some retard does, whoever the jerk is.

Like I said once on Bill's board, "Just because someone pulls a trigger doesn't make him my brother".

There are a lot of retarded shooters and hunters out there. You meet them at the range. I am embarassed by them. It's like having some nutball representing the Church making you look like a wierdo since you go there too.

Not a well written article, but basically says what I heard on TVYeah, they let me advertise on Google for a spell, then said, nope, you promote firearms. I'm not the only one.

I hate it when companies get carried away with their own greatness.

I love the guy already!

Google has agreed to censor references to anything contrary to the Chicoms. This includes references to Tienamen Square, and other such things. Add this to Google's refusal to support gun-related advertisements. I use Yahoo.

Dried apricots! Yer crackin' me up!

Fritz, go to another computer and re-register yourself there as "Ghost Fritz".

You should have seen the picture of me with the Persian in the vise and a hacksaw in hand! Gives me shivers just thinking about it!

I was speaking of the formulation itself having varnish. Think of it like an exterior door facing the elements. In short order the urethane/varnish chips and peels. The finish is an oil, but it is a wipe-on varnish, I suspect.

I could be wrong, but this is what I think-

I think there is some varnish/urethane in the oil, like I think Formby's has. It is wipe-on. It is varnish finish flaking off, not oil. If I'm wrong tell me so.

I'm going to have to try this.

Now that sounds like fun! Wild dog hunting.

Camels in Australia! Who'd have thunk it?!

Cats like to do that to get out of the cold. We killed a lot of kittens that way long ago.

What a man!

Thank you gents!

You are welcome.

Sure was a pain in the rear getting this done, but it's done!

Did you have any problem getting here? I had to type www.sporterizing.com/index.php

Maybe it's just this 'puter.

Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Yeah baby! New site!

I'm related to Noah

Some fellow in our family wrote a really interesting book on an ancestor of ours, "Jacob Hutchins of Athol (MA)". This 17 year old's dad was in the French and Indian War. Jacob went off to war with the Massachusetts Militia. He was at Bunker Hill and Saratoga. He got typhoid or some such thing, went home, and never went back to war. He thought the Virginians haughty types, and discussed some war stuff. It's pretty interesting. Well, Jacob did a funny thing, and I wish he had discussed this conversation. He went up to the Canadian border. There is an island there on the river that is the boundary with the U.S. I think it was the St. Lawrence (shows I lack good geography of that area). The island's land was given to former soldiers of the Crown for their service during the Revolution. What's Jacob go and do? He marries a British Sergeant Major's daughter! Not only that, they both fought on opposite sides at Saratoga. What a conversation that must have been! "You want to marry a rebel?!" I think around 1820 Jacob got a land grant from the U.S. government for his service in the war in Ohio. He farmed and died there.