Least of our bond-slaves or greatest, grudge ye the burden?
Hard, is this service of ours which has only our service for guerdon:
Grow the limbs lax, and unsteady the hands, which aforetime we trusted;
Dominant ones,
Are we not tried serfs and proven - true to our guns?

Ye are the guns! Are we worthy? Shall not these speak for us,
Out of the wood where the tree-trunks are slashed with the vain bolts that seek for us,
Thunder of batteries firing in unison, swish of shell flighting,
Hissing that rushes to silence and breaks to the thud of alighting;
Death that outruns
Horseman and foot? Are we justified? Answer, O guns!

- The Battle of Arras, April 1917. A 9.2 inch howitzer of the Royal Garrison Artillery in action in the ruins of Tilloy-les-Mofflaines.

Yea! by your works are ye justified -- toil unrelievéd;
Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achievéd;
Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeignéd;
Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and distainéd;
Courage that shuns
Only foolhardiness; even by these, are ye worthy your guns.

- A BL 9.2-inch howitzer on display outside the Australian War Memorial.

Wherefore, - and unto ye only - power hath been given;
Yea! beyond man, over men, over desolate cities and riven;
Yea! beyond space, over earth and the seas and the sky's high dominions;
Yea! beyond time, over Hell and the fiends and the Death-Angel's pinions.
Vigilant ones,
Loose them, and shatter, and spare not. We are the guns!

- Photograph from breech end of BL 9.2 inch howitzer at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

We are the guns!

- UK WW1 8-inch (204mm) heavy guns in battery on the Somme in 1916.

What appears to be a German 210mm M1916 Lange Morser.

>>112074
If you actually enjoy drinking that much fat and sugar in one sitting, I can't imagine it's your only unhealthy eating habit.

Trying out this Glenfarclas 12 year stuff, I have to say it's more flavorful than the Glenfiddich 15 yo.

tbh I don't know what I'm talking about, I drink like a bottle per year or less

This tariff bullshit has gone too far! Now tariffs on French wine!
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at France in a series of tweets on Tuesday, accusing the country of charging “big tariffs” on US wine imports. But, unlike his previous attacks on high Canadian dairy tariffs, he didn’t provide any details about exactly how high these tariffs truly are. Perhaps that’s because the tariffs are really quite low.

“France makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France, and charges big Tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines, and charges very small Tariffs. Not fair, must change!” he said.

In fact, the European Union — a bloc which includes France and 27 other nations — is in charge of setting tariffs, and it levies very modest tariffs on imported wine. A typical 750ml bottle of wine from the US would face tariffs at the border of just a few cents, according to the European Commission’s online tariff database. Sparkling wine faces some of the highest tariffs, but it’s below 20 cents per average bottle. The US association representing American wineries, WineAmerica, was quick to respond to Trump’s concerns, but said the issue wasn’t worth a fight, noting the EU tariffs were only modestly higher than comparable American tariffs.

“The US charges 5 to 14 cents a standard bottle on EU wine … The EU charges 11 to 29 cents a bottle on American wine. So there is a slight disparity. However, not the level that the President seems to imply here,” said Michael Kaiser, vice president at the WineAmerica. “We would support a trade agreement that would make the tariffs more equal, however we don’t want to see this lead to another trade war like we are seeing with China.” https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/trump-slams-french-wine-tariffs-theyre-already-really-low-162922119.html

Sacré bleu! Time to load up on French favorites like Chateau Mouton Rothschild Bordeaux, Dom Perignon Brut Champagne, Petrus Merlot, Mouton-Cadet Bordeaux, Saint-Émilion Grand Cru, and other Champagne (prestige Cuvée and affordable non-vintage Cuvées) from famous houses such as Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Bollinger, Louis Roederer, Taittinger, and Laurent-Perrier. Get 'em before Trump tacks on his tedious tantrum tariffs on 'em.

Occasionally I buy Champagne (or sparkling wine or low-priced Spanish cava) for my parents, usually domestic Korbel Brut or Natural Champagne from California, but today I splurged on the expensive French stuff like the above mentioned and the pictured Perrier Jouet.

  Donald Trump ramped up his spat with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, with an active day on Twitter. Stephen Colbert read and commented on the tweets — disputing Kim's missiles, defending his widely mocked decision to skip a World War I memorial in France due to rain, and several attacks on French President Emmanuel Macron, one of which included a threat to raise tariffs on French wines. "Aren't you losing support with suburban white women?" Colbert asked. "Maybe now's not the time to come after wine. What's next? Banning book clubs and Nancy Meyers movies?"
https://youtu.be/ujaRrfE1Lwc

  Back in the late 1980s, I went on a hunting and camping trip with some friends, but when we got to the wilderness we discovered nobody in our group of four brought any tents. Two decided to just sleep in their bags on the ground (they were miserable and got little sleep), but me and another (call him Mr. D) decided to put our Pioneer outdoor skills to use (the Pioneers were the Boy Scouts of the Lutheran Church) and assemble a lean-to shelter of timber. Luckily there was lots of fallen trees and logs strewn around. Just lash a support log between two trees and lay logs at an angle on one side. Pile evergreen boughs on top with more long logs lashed down to keep it together. We even made an elevated bed to keep the bugs and wet away. Build a good campfire in front of the opening (not too close and mind you don't set the overhead branches of the supporting trees alight). Only took about an hour of chopping, sawing and collecting the logs and branches to make it and we only needed to use a spool of twine, an ax and two saws.

Building Natural Survival Shelter Lean-to Winter Bushcraft Overnighter in Bear Country https://youtu.be/4N3n8hF2-f0

  The A-frame is even easier, but mostly just for one person (or an intimate couple).
Building a fire reflector wall behind the campfire is a must (but don't let it catch fire as what recently happened with the terrible wildfire in Northern California).
Camp Fire kills 23, becoming California’s deadliest wildfire since 1991 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/11/camp-fire-kills-becoming-californias-deadliest-wildfire-since/?utm_term=.8d11a31cfa80

Natural Shelter Building - Lean-To/A-Frame Hybrid - Lina Hut https://youtu.be/ezWApqSFA0k

People who are claustrophobic will not like these.
But picky people make poor survivalists.

Hammocks can be really handy as well, especially if they have a tarp roof and mosquito net walls.

  Best Hammock? Hennesy Hammock - REVIEW + Quick Setup Tips - Best Hammock? https://youtu.be/4XoKzKqbQok

>>111212
Get a 4k TV, don't worry about the "smart" aspect too much, they'll all have it, but within 2 years the "smart" bit will be outdated.
The TV will still work fine, you'll just plug in an external dongle and be good to go.

Earlier this week I got my sister-in-law a gift certificate for maternity clothes.
Today she lost the baby.

>>111252
Shitty.

About that time again. What's on the list this year? I haven't even begun to think about it. I'm told I'll get a two week break from BCT during christmas. Probably buy everyone alcohol.

Patches for everybody. I'm thinking of offering gift wrapping as a shipping option

>>112402
>What will it take to cut the fucking cord?
When the Saudis run out of petroleum, apparently.
Or when we no longer need oil imports from the Saudis. But even if that was the case, the Saudis buy lots of US-made weapons, so that gets them a pass, too.

>>112404
Or maybe they will realize that Syria and Yemen campaigns have gone total FUBAR and not even Saudi funding can save them. Simply put: never.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/inside-the-saudis-washington-influence-machine-how-the-kingdom-gained-power-through-fierce-lobbying-and-charm-offensives/2018/10/21/8a0a3320-d3c3-11e8-a
275-81c671a50422_story.html?noredirect=on

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner stands among Saudi officials as President Trump talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a March 20 meeting in the Oval Office. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
In March 2018, the Saudi ambassador to Washington summoned a cadre of high-priced Washington lobbyists to his embassy to grapple with a delicate, double-pronged challenge.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was preparing for his first official visit to the United States, just four months after he consolidated power by ordering the detention of members of the royal family and business elite. At the same time, Congress was facing a vote on a bipartisan resolution seeking to end U.S. support for a Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen that has killed tens of thousands of civilians since 2015.

During an afternoon meeting on March 12, Saudi Ambassador Khalid bin Salman sat at the head of a long table in an embassy conference room, flanked by a whiteboard detailing the prince’s itinerary. His assembled advisers included Norm Coleman, the former Minnesota senator; Marc S. Lampkin, a veteran Capitol Hill adviser who served on President Trump’s transition team; and Democratic strategist Alfred E. Mottur, according to people familiar with the gathering.

Eight days after their meeting, the congressional resolution aimed at extracting the United States from what the United Nations labeled “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world” would be defeated — hours after Mohammed was warmly welcomed at the White House at the start of his nationwide tour.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/u-s-persuades-iraq-to-quash-siemens-power-deal-in-favor-of-ge

>The Trump administration intervened to quash a $15 billion deal for Siemens AG to develop power stations in Iraq, instead persuading Baghdad to sign an agreement with General Electric Co., two administration officials said.

>The Trump administration’s push supports American efforts to curb Iranian influence in Iraq and the region in the months since President Donald Trump backed out of a 2015 nuclear deal and prepares to re-impose sanctions on Iran next month. The U.S. officials said they want to wean Iraq of its dependence on Iranian natural gas and suspect Iran had spurred Iraqi leaders to pursue the Siemens deal as a way of undercutting ties with the U.S.

At this point t actually looks like an effort to curb European influence and economy.

>The U.S. government learned in early September that Iraq was wrapping up talks with Munich-based Siemens over a contract to revamp the country’s entire power sector and swap out infrastructure that had been built by GE. Siemens Chief Executive Officer Joe Kaeser had met with Abadi in late September to discuss the plan to install 11 gigawatts of power generation capacity over four years and create thousands of jobs.

Needless to say, the bill will be doubled, the time requirements will tripled, half of the money will be stolen, half of the infrastructure will be unusable, the other half will be supplied with maintenance contracts that will overshadow the initial price.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/opinion/bernie-sanders-saudi-arabia-war-yemen.html

The likely assassination of the Saudi critic and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi underscores how urgent it has become for the United States to redefine our relationship with Saudi Arabia, and to show that the Saudis do not have a blank check to continue violating human rights.

One place we can start is by ending United States support for the war in Yemen. Not only has this war created a humanitarian disaster in one of the world’s poorest countries, but also American involvement in this war has not been authorized by Congress and is therefore unconstitutional.

In March 2015, a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates started a war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Since then, many thousands of civilians have been killed and many more have lost their homes. Millions are now at the risk of the most severe famine in more than 100 years, according to the United Nations. The chaos in Yemen has also provided fertile ground for extremist groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, and created new opportunities for intervention by Iran.

The United States is deeply engaged in this war. We are providing bombs the Saudi-led coalition is using, we are refueling their planes before they drop those bombs, and we are assisting with intelligence.

In far too many cases, the bomb’s targets have been civilian ones. In one of the more horrible recent instances, an American-made bomb obliterated a school bus full of young boys, killing dozens and wounding many more. A CNN report found evidence that American weapons have been used in a string of such deadly attacks on civilians since the war began.

Yet last month, responding to congressional concerns, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially certified to Congress — and Secretary of Defense James Mattis affirmed — that the Saudis and Emiratis are making “every effort to reduce the risk of civilian casualties.”

The data refute these claims. According to the independent monitoring group Yemen Data Project, between March 2015 and March 2018, more than 30 percent of the Saudi-led coalition’s targets have been nonmilitary. According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project, civilian deaths in one region increased by more than 160 percent over the summer from earlier in the year.

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>>112241
I hope everything goes well for you, RaceMixer.

  >>111015
Gas Station Cigars Vol. 2 (f. Cigarillos... vol. 2) https://youtu.be/OPm9Lnnkc2w
18:30 Grenadiers cigars? Grenadiers were mid-to-late 17th century assault troops for throwing grenades, which were Wile E. Coyote-style round iron bombs with fuses sticking out of them. I actually bought a reproduction flintlock grenade launcher / hand mortar that has a short but thick brass barrel with a 2.5-inch (63.5mm) bore that fires tennis balls instead of round pipe bombs. Sort of like a flintlock less-lethal rubber baton riot gun... if you fired at a rioter or one of your stupid drunken friends that wants you to shoot him with a tennis ball fired from a grenade launcher.
http://www.veteranarms.com/ReproductionMuzzleloadersandFlintlocks/Hand-Mortar-Pics.html

Smoked a nub connecticut. With a such a mild wrapper and large gauge, I expected a very mild smoke. Surprisingly got hit with a puff of pepper off the bat, but mellowed out considerably with the pepper not making another appearance until the end. Nice easy smoke. Paired it with good company and conversation.

>>112245
Yesterday, did the follow up after stress test, ultrasound, and 48 hour holter monitor. Normal, normal, and normal enough to not give a shit. Went straight to the recruiter.
>So it sounds like you don't have it anymore.
I- yeah, I mean, if that's how that works.
>You're normal. No problem.
I mean, she said some extra beats originating from the upper chambers, but that could just be too much caff-
>You can exercise?
Yeah. In fact, she told me to start doing cardio again. It kinda tapered off when-
>So! You don't have anything.
Ah... Yes, sergeant. I don't have anything.

ASVAB is today.

Is that from one of Daniel Gallery's books?

ahahaha my ID is doubles, every post i make is doubles, fucking awesome!

>>112374
no one gives a shit

>>112374
I suppose I could have done 22 mph, but I was in a parking lot.

Fuck me, this makes me feel old.

>>112352

Wow. I don' t think we ever chatted but I remember that video. Time flies. Still check on this site every now and then.

Holy crap. Welcome again dude.

Nah, fuck conscription. If I'm getting drafted - I'm going in, though.


It has been very rough five years, actually.
Almost got married, broke up, broke down, went through shrinks, got my shit together, finished my art education, trying to get back my god fucking damned apartaments that I bought with hard-earned money.
Life fucking sucks, my dudes, but we endure.

I'm kind of thinking about rolling into Legion Etrangere because fuck this country. But it's a last resort, honestly.
For now, I'm kind of coping with everything, but I'm just this close to blowing up.
Also, fuck stupid women. Never again.

welcome back! join the discord https://discord.gg/VMZxDBQ

It probably has more to do with the fact that they don't want to do any work than the specific source of that work.

> Is it just because I'm trying to do this in a southern state?
That is probably a very large part of it, considering historically the woman took the husbands name with marriage. I suspect if you were somewhere even slightly more liberal (or would it be a touch less conservative?) you wouldn't be hitting this issue.
Force Sensitive Weenie Dog also makes good point: people gonna people, and people are lazy, especially when working .gov jobs where its hard to get fired.

FWIW I think you have a perfectly fine reason to change your last name; feel free to guiltlessly ignore the opinions of anyone who thinks otherwise.

>>112340
This. Just dealt with the DMV in a southern state (completely black run office) with a non-standard request (like your request is).

They really don't like having double or triple work and will lie to you to send you away

  1980 Portland was as close as I could get

Is there...another PNW operator on here...with a GF? Do my >implications deceive me?

Also, the title was the name of the main character. Master Blaster, Kidd screech, fist zapper or something like that

  Shredder Orpheus

>>112342
Holy shit, thank you!