Three Items For The Overnight

…While finding that ukulele clip above I stumbled upon this gem by the incomparable Bob Brozman, one of the best musicians alive.  Whole family gathered around the computer and stared slack-jawed at the screen while Bob did his thing.

Even if you don't think slide guitar music is your cup of tea, check this out anyway.  Unbelievable virtuosity. This is what having total mastery over an instrument looks and sounds like.

Since your coin is dated 1913 note the news from the year 1913. Fed income tax started that year among other things.             http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1913

glad I cashed in some paper notes for some shiny..

Regarding the carbon tax clip on page 1, I frankly have no idea what caused Emerson to break out into an extremely poor rendition of "Horror Movie" by Skyhooks.

For those that are not familiar with this band, they epitomised the late 1970's populance revolt against authoritanism.  Not too dissimilar to punk in the UK.

Not only did his little sing along make him look extraordinarily idiotic, it would also not be out of the ball park to hypothesise that conspiracy theorists the country over will liken his performance to:

a) a statement upon the Machivellian tendencies of the media and opposition spruiking of a deeply unpopular policy, or

b) we all watch too much television and instead should just blindly obey Our Blessed Leader's policy ideas rather like Boxer out of Orwell's Animal Farm.

Either way, I'm embarrassed to be Australian today. 

I did not see your post of making sure to pick something someone else hasn't.  I just saw Turd's post, left, came back a few hours later and made my guess.  It wasn't until the new thread that I noticed the guess wasn't on there.  No worries, it's just a hat.  A frickin awesome ass hat, but just a hat.  And I hope 27.12 is way, way off on the low side as well.

Looks to be in Maine.

  If the weapon was not concealed, I believe no permit is required.

Though I am surprised they allowed him to go. 

....couldn't stand that last tune.

The Rolling Stones  Gimme Shelter 1970 / full concert

The Rolling Stones  Bridges To Babylon /  full concert

I doubt it.

Garrett is probably the most ineffectual politician we have.  No thanks to Rudd.

He should have stuck to songwriting and milkshake machine imitating.  

Ok, I will go to my employer and ask them to stop taking out the tax that is taken from my paycheck every week.  

IT IS NOT FREE OR VOLUNTARY!

I am not saying insurance companies are not part of the whole cartel now, they are, but that was not always the case and would not be in a true free market, nor would I have money stolen from me daily against my will.

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years (and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood

Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the nation in general and gun owners in particular seemed rather grim to many people. A few years earlier in 1986, Congress had banned civilians from owning newly manufactured machine guns. There was ever more strident talk of banning semi-automatic weapons or so called assault weapons. Many of us regarded a semi-automatic rifle as the foundation of a home defense battery. Many of us believed that more laws banning ever more types of guns were imminent. About that time I acquired a Ruger Ranch Rifle through a private sale. I decided to stash it away in a safe place just in case my worst fear was to materialize, another gun ban.

The general location of the pipe after the logging was done. It would have helped if I had had a better method of locating the pipe.

First order of business was to decide how I would prepare the gun for long-term storage and where I would store it. I decided that for maximum security I needed to bury it. This would keep it safe from all but the most determined government goons. I set about finding an appropriate location. I live in a fairly remote, wooded rural area in the northeast. One day as I was walking in the woods I noticed a hemlock tree had blown down and been uprooted by a recent windstorm. There was a small crater about eight feet across and three feet deep where the root ball had been torn out of the ground. It occurred to me that this would be a good spot for my rifle.

Since I now had the location, I began preparing the rifle for storage. I bought a piece of 6-inch diameter schedule 40 PVC pipe, end caps, and PVC solvent from a hardware store in another town where I had never done business before. Being in a rural area where everyone knows everyone I didn’t want to arouse any suspicions about what I was up to. I then disassembled the rifle and completely coated every metal part with a rust preventative oil intended for storing unused machinery in damp locations. This oil dries to form a waxy coating. I was extra careful that the bore was completely coated. I wanted to vacuum-pack the rifle as extra insurance against rust. As it turned out my employer had just taken delivery of a mainframe computer that happened to be wrapped in a large

Here is the top of the pipe uncovered with the noose and winch attached.

aluminized mylar bag for shipping. This proved to be the perfect material for my purpose. I discovered that with a warm iron I could fuse the edges of this material into a custom-fitted airtight bag for the rifle. I placed each individual component of the partially disassembled rifle in its own custom-made mylar bag with a small bag of silica gel desiccant to absorb any moisture present. Using my shop vac and an iron I managed to produce a professional-looking vacuum-packing job. The barreled action, stock, trigger assembly, hand guard, magazines, scope, and mounts all went into individual bags. Since the rifle was so heavily preserved I knew I would need something to degrease it with when I finally retrieved it so I included two small cans of 1-1-1 Trichlorethane in the package. Also, since a rifle is of little use without ammunition, several thousand rounds of .223 were included. Because every well-maintained rifle needs to be cleaned and oiled occasionally, I added a cleaning rod, patches, Hoppe’s #9 solvent, gun oil, grease, and owner’s manual. A set of reloading dies was included as well. If dire circumstances required me to retrieve my rifle I wanted to be sure that I would have everything at hand necessary to put it into service. All of the individually wrapped components were sealed together into a larger mylar bag custom-made for the purpose along with a couple more medium-sized bags of desiccant. A few bags of ammo were taped to the side of this bag and the entire thing was wrapped in duct tape. Additional ammo was packed into zip lock freezer bags.  <Rest of the Article>

Go silver go.  Not used to seeing late night upward spikes, but I like it!

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In the olden days the first one that crossed the finish line won. Period. End story.

Now we are negating the time eliminate and opening the race to folk that hold back and enter their guess to the equal status to those that made a snap decision?

The snap decision may have been a Karma or Zen thing. The digits of the number may have represented a set of fixed, personally important dates. Regardless.

All contestants should receive one chance and one choice.

If more than one pick identical times, dates or numbers, there IS a problem.

However, the problem does Not justify changing a contestant's guess/submission at the flip of a coin by an arbitrator 'judge'.

I guessed silver at 29.12.

Someone 'flipped a coin and assigned me to 29.13?'

By what right can you deny me my choice?

I would much more cherish the memory of having guessed correctly and lost the chance for coming second to the finish than been reassigned another number that turned out to be the winner. I for one would never respect the hat that came from such an obviously rig-able game.

If desert fox entered his guess before I entered mine at 29.12, he gets the hat.

If I was first, desert fox is a bright feller that is sucking hind tit.

OLD SCHOOL RULES

bitches.

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