Thanks, Aqua.

I was “secretfornow” when I (terrified) began posting after a year of lurking…

My awakening really was a light switch, the new name is apt.

In the middle of trauma, I just realized it was 100% bullshit. One second I was a four decade dedicated blah blah, the next second I was done, it had all been BS.

The name probably resonates with many.

I’m lucky I woke up. I was musing the other day about some of my friends’ children who joined the SO at 14 and 15.. so many of my friends’ kids are staff or SO, now in their 30’s and 40’s, having had no life at all.

My years of “failure” as a parent, unable to get my kid on the bridge is now something I’m feverishly grateful for.

I like your name, Rip. Sure, he slept for a long time, but then, he DID wake up 🙂 I think we all feel like Rip Van Winkles to some extent. I know I do.

Got it. Oh, well. Can’t play into the cult’s hands by doing anything illegal.

Unfortunately it is probably illegal as it would involve getting into a server we don’t own. I wish it weren’t though. Would be hilarious and probably good for the target audience.

I’d love to be regged for a postulates seminar so I could try out this line:

“Tell ya what…..YOU go, and then postulate that I’LL come to the NEXT one!

And we can see what happens!!”

🙂

Oh, I wish they would call and ask me!

(Messing up while typing my screen name… Hell, I’m getting old, maybe I’ll keep it. “Rip Can Wrinkle”

Once upon a time ago, about the time I was posting the ASCII text versions of The Resister on Usenet, I bought an AK-47 chambered in 5.56 NATO. It had the thumb hole stock mandated at the time by our masters in Washington. As a former combat rifleman I took it upon myself to properly zero in the sights on the weapon. As I was doing this at the Moon Valley range down in Eden Prairie I was rudely interrupted. It appeared that a scraggly young man wanted to sell me a folding stock for the AK-47. I said no. He repeated his offer. I repeated my refusal. Eventually he got the point. First, I actually had no interest in a folding stock for the rifle. The folding stock for the Ak-47 series rifle is copied from the MP-38/MP-40 series machine pistols issued by the Wehrmacht. They’re inherently unstable and were used both by the Wehrmacht and the Soviets to shorten the weapon for carriage within an aircraft or armored vehicle. An acceptable trade off for them but not for me. Second, folding stocks at the time were illegal. I wasn’t about to ruin a weapon by installing an inferior stock simply for the sake of disobeying our self appointed masters. By his demeanor and his insistence on selling the stock to my unwilling self I concluded that this fellow was a stooge for the BATF. I refused to fall into the trap. A simple bit of common sense can go a long way.

Yo Newcomer!
Flunk!
Out of Sequence.
FIRST always comes my scotch.
Soon afterwards come my Oh Tee Powerz.
Find your misunderstood, good buddy.
Much love,
Dave

Let’s do it, Wynski. Is there a way? Seriously, could we Bitter Defrocked Types here on Mike’s pull this off together somehow? Dumb question perhaps but I’m not the most tech-savvy creature and I’d need some coaching IT-wise, but boyOboy do I have the questions ready to fire at them, bam, bam, bam, – oh, yeah… locked AND loaded 🙂 Let’s do it if there’s a way!

🙂 Thanks, Cindy.

This is funny! Great humor here, Aqua.