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jmowreader's JournalNorth Idaho hardware store owner confirms what we've been saying about ammo
I've recently been relaying the "I'm writing Rep. Labrador as to why there's no ammo in the stores" letters. Today we get a follow-up from the owner of a hardware store who'd written one...and he says:
"The chief aide to Rep. Labrador in Boise called me and said from what he had found out, it was as simple as supply and demand. There isn't any government buying up of powder or ammo as some rumors thought.
We just came back from the ACE Hardware buying show in Orlando, and there I talked to two store owners that are big in guns and ammo. They confirmed the above comment. They went on to say that the biggest problem is that people are hoarding ammo; instead of buying one box, many customers are buying three to ten.
One of these stores buys direct from Remington and has been for years; however, he said some of his orders have taken 18 months to come in. Remington is not opening new accounts for individual dealers. Remington has added a third shift and is now running 24 hours a day. Their production is up 110 percent - more than double - bit their orders are up 300 percent, so they can't keep up.
The chief aide to Rep. Labrador talked to one chain store (Walmart?) and was told that later this fall things may loosen up a little as the manufacturers get better caught up with their orders, but the orders are mostly going to the big chain stores and the little guys are being left out of the chain."
Oh yes...today I had to go to the farm supply store to get some water filter cartridges - they're less expensive there and when you use as many as I do you like low prices. They had quite a bit of .30-06 and 12-gauge ammo...and it was signed, "One Box Per Customer Per Day."
It is time for women to stop playing softball
I've seen women play softball. They're plenty athletic enough to play baseball.
YOLO - the new, modern way to say "Hey y'all, watch this!"
How to get your sexual orientation changed in one easy step
Today I was stopped at a red light in the ultra redneck burg of Post Falls, Idaho. These two idiots in a 70s-era pickup that's got a red cab, blue door, black quarterpanel and white bed pulled up beside me and started screaming at me.
"Hey Fag. Yeah, you. In the blue fag car."
Apparently a fag car is one that's all the same color. But they kept on with this shit as I sat there...and then they started taking pictures with their cellphones.
Wrong answer. I simply reached over to my fag car's passenger seat, picked up my Nikon F4 (a very large 35mm camera), put it on its loudest motor setting, held it up to the window and hit the shutter button. All of a sudden I wasn't a "fag" anymore.
"You mother fucker, why the fuck did you take my picture?"
Fortunately, the light turned green before they could continue.
College fight songs, sung by an opera singer
This is Nebraska's...there are a whole bunch of these.
Did the Saudis close down Chop Chop Square?
It used to be, for a very long time, that Riyadh's Deera Square was the site where executions took place. It's a public place and the populace is welcome to watch. (It's also got a granite surface with a storm drain in the middle of it, all the better to clean up what little blood comes out of the bodies that have been pre-drained before being taken to the headsmen.) In recent years they cut down on the number of the beheaded who were crucified after their executions.
Now there seems to be a huge trend toward displaying bodies for three days after execution...are they executing them inside prison walls now?
I have been reading the Federalist Papers
A couple weeks ago I told you the story of the teabagger who told me the Constitution puts strict limits on Congress while pointing at the part of the Constitution that does exactly the opposite. (He turned to Article 1, Section 8 (Powers of Congress) and told me that section says Congress can't collect taxes or make laws. Those are two of the powers that section expressly GRANTS to Congress.) When I informed the gentleman that article says something completely different from what he was saying, he told me the Federalist Papers formed a limited government.
The supremacy clause of the Constitution does not mention the Federalist Papers, but okay...I figured I better read these.
Turns out the Federalists of old would have kicked the Teabaggers of today square in the nuts. The government the teabaggers claim the Federalist Papers endorsed, a loose collection of independent sovereigns, is exactly the government the Federalists warned against.
"Vodka Sam" is gonna be "Dead Sam" if she doesn't mellow out
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/of_iowa_vodka_samm_blows_in_breathalyzer_6ZfuMYPnSfVqdQoDpU9ztMIn case you don't follow the exploits of 22-year-old drunken idiots, University of Iowa student Samantha Goudie, whose Twitter handle is "Vodka_samm", got drunk off her ass before last Saturday's football game, ran onto the field, got hauled off to jail, and blew a .341.
.341 isn't "drunk." It's "a fire hazard." According to Wikipedia, .30 to .39 gives you "severe CNS depression, unconsciousness, possibility of death, impaired bladder function, impaired breathing, balance disorder and, apparently, total absence of judgment. And now she's got 15,000 Twitter followers.
I wonder how many of them are going to come to her funeral when she dies of alcohol poisoning.
Welcome back to school, DU. How did you spend your summer vacation?
The first day of my vacation I woke up. Then I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out in front of the drugstore.
The second day of my vacation I woke up. Then I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out in front of the drugstore.
The third day I woke up. Then I went downtown to look for a job. Then I got a job keeping people from hanging out in front of the drugstore.
How about you?
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