[NYPOST] There’s a maxim in sports that you are not as good as you look when you win, or as bad as you look when you lose. It aims to give athletes an even-keel attitude instead of riding an emotional roller coaster.
No doubt there are Democrats and well-meaning others giving similar advice now to the Biden White House. The president’s team is understandably shaken by the horrific events in Afghanistan and must fear it will never regain its footing and public trust.
But what if the sports approach isn’t valid in this case? What if the Biden team is every bit as bad as it looks?
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The 'elite' decided anything would be better that Trump.
And that's what we got. Anything.
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There’s a maxim in sports that you are not as good as you look when you win, or as bad as you look when you lose.
Anybody who believes that never followed the San Diego Chargers. Now they are the Los Angeles Chargers but it's still Dean Spanos calling the shots.
And yes, Joe is that bad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/30/2021 12:19 Comments ||
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Deep Biden concentration on: "Where's my ice cream?"
[ZeroHedge] After 20 years and a staggering $2.23 trillion spent in a “forever war” persistently spun as promoting democracy and benefiting the “Afghan people,” it’s legitimate to ask what the Empire of Chaos has to show for it.
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The moderation here is much like that practiced by SJWs. Only a narrow band of discussion is allowed, anything else gets censored.
Just because something is a colossal waste doesn't mean that we can't address waste that is merely gargantuan. We can do two things at once.
China spent $800 billion over ten years and got a nationwide high speed rail system for it. What do we get for all this money we spend on other countries? Jack and shit.
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[REGNUM] Defeats on the hills of Manchuria and in the waters of the Yellow and Japan Seas played a catalytic role in exacerbating numerous internal problems - agrarian, national, labor issues, etc. Port Arthur became a symbol of success or failure in war, a "symbol of dominion" for the Japanese. To an equal degree, he became a symbol for those who pinned their hopes for his downfall on the revolution.
[WND] While we live in a time when many Americans will not admit it, I will: I love my country. Through good times and bad, good presidencies and bad, that love has never diminished. One generation of family member after another — from Jacob Zumwalt who served during the American Revolution to my son's 21st century service in Iraq as a bomb technician — attests to this love by voluntarily serving in uniform.
As a veteran who served for over a quarter of a century, I never thought I would say this about a commander in chief, but the terrorist bombing at the Kabul airport that claimed 40 lives, including at least 13 of our brave warriors, leaves me no choice. It is love of country and all those serving to protect her who have needlessly, callously and intentionally been put in harm's way with no rational basis for doing so that forces me now to declare: "Mr. Biden, you are not my president."
I do this with deep concerns. Every president before Biden making a bad decision did it with the same love of country many of us harbor. But Biden's outrageous actions, both in opening up our borders and rushing to withdraw from Afghanistan, is senselessly claiming American lives.
While the lives of all 40 victims claimed by suicide bombers is tragic, as a veteran my heart went out especially to the soldiers and Marines lost. Many had spent months in harm's way and were undoubtedly excited to know, despite the chaotic withdrawal Biden ordered, they would soon be back with loved ones. Yet, in a split second, that all changed specifically because Biden had inexcusably ignored the advice of much more experienced military experts.
Based on a political career lasting almost half a century, Biden, allegedly, was more experienced and better qualified for the Oval Office than some of his Democratic Party presidential predecessors. Governors Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton lacked the national and international experience that senator and Vice President Biden had before becoming president. The danger of inexperienced governors taking the national reigns of power became evident as Carter dragged us through the Iran hostage crisis and Clinton did the same with his numerous sex scandals. Yet, only seven months into what, hopefully, is only a single presidential term, Biden makes Carter and Clinton look like boy scouts.
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Words, grom. Maybe we should look to actions taken under these administrations. It's pretty clear Biden is somebody's President, he sure as hell ain't that of the majority of citizenry here as we've been labeled domestic terrorists.
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O’buma will take over as Vice President, what are the DIMs waiting for? “By its terms, the Twenty-Second Amendment bars only the election of two-term Presidents, and this prohibition would not prevent someone who had twice been elected President from succeeding to the office after having been elected or appointed Vice President.”
[Lucky Gunner Labs] Brass vs. Steel Cased Ammo Test Summary
We acquired four identical Bushmaster AR-15 rifles. We chose the Bushmaster MOE Series AR-15 because it’s a widely available, affordable, and mass-market. Our team didn’t want something too cheap and of lower quality or something too expensive and of high quality since our goal is to help the most number of people. We acquired 10,000 rounds each of the following ammunition (new production):
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I have seen chrome plated automatic weapons glistening in the sunlight in the hands of Brazilian military sentries along the walls of a fort on the Amazon.
It is the internal ballistics and the metallurgical properties of the two metals of the barrel and of the bullet.
Two metals sliding against each other produces heat.
Enough heat and the two metal surfaces can begin to melt and fuse, which is called galling.
This is common with stainless steel bolts, in engines and bearings that get hot.
Many high performance gun barrels and chamber parts are either made of stainless steel (approx 10% chromium) for high temperature performance or are chrome [chromium] plated to prevent rust and wear.
My father chrome plated his Cessna Continental engine cylinders.
A few months later he found chrome flakes in the motor oil.
When he removed the cylinder he found the rings had destroyed the chrome plating on the cylinders.
I think my father used chrome plated rings in a chrome plated cylinder which is contraindicated.
I think stainless steel on stainless steel has poor friction qualities especially under high temperature performance.
Of course steel can also gall so steel ammo has to be coated.
Chromium is very expensive, more than copper or brass, and then it would have to be coated to reduce friction which obviates the extra cost over just plain steel.
Brass has much better frictional properties than stainless steel and can easily be impregnated with high temperature lubricants like molybdenum disulfide.
An interesting article on gun barrel material: best gun barrel material
As a long time reloader.
I go with a balance of cost, PSI delivered at x Ft. and accuracy at 100 yds.
Regarding Steel Bullet heads vs. Brass/lead heads
I'll pick Brass/lead. They mushroom better and don't quickly wear down the barrel rifling as steel would.
BTW: While I have owned a small collection of firearms in various calibers since I was 12 (50+ years ago). For the life of me, I cannot say I have ever wasted 10,000 rds pinking using any particular firearm I have owned. Including a 10/22 Ruger squirrel/rabbit gun, I purchased @ Jim's Pawn Ft. Bragg 1990 to train my kids.
I'm not doubting it for a second. I think the mention of chrome was referring to chrome lined chambers in the rifles, not the external finish. You can still order chrome lining on barrel chambers from several barrel and upper makers, but melonite is much more common now. If the chamber is hard enough, it's the cartridge case that will lose in the frictive struggle. All the same, put enough rounds through it, it will wear out. Entropy is the big picture term for it.
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08/30/2021 9:11 Comments ||
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Once I adjusted the angle of feed on the AK-74, the bolt over stoppages stopped.
I have stuck casing issues from time to time, owing to how the head space was set. Mine was set barely in one end of the tolerance. I get stuck casing stoppages every 700 rounds or so. Can't be helped. My guess is that the Russians ship their commercial rounds with the tolerance a bit looser than their army issued cartridges.
I use Silver Bear 60 grain cartridges. I've shot close to 4k rounds through the AK using only those cartridges. The rifling still is pristine. The barrel is made in the USA, as required by federal law.
My guess is that the actual armory issued Russian made AK-74s with the original 7N6 (5.45x39mm 53 grain) cartridges prolly function flawlessly from round 1 to 10k.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[NYPOST] There’s a maxim in sports that you are not as good as you look when you win, or as bad as you look when you lose. It aims to give athletes an even-keel attitude instead of riding an emotional roller coaster. 
[ZeroHedge] After 20 years and a staggering $2.23 trillion spent in a “forever war” persistently spun as promoting democracy and benefiting the “Afghan people,” it’s legitimate to ask what the Empire of Chaos has to show for it. 
[WND] While we live in a time when many Americans will not admit it, I will: I love my country. Through good times and bad, good presidencies and bad, that love has never diminished. One generation of family member after another — from Jacob Zumwalt who served during the American Revolution to my son's 21st century service in Iraq as a bomb technician — attests to this love by voluntarily serving in uniform.
