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A great one for the choir, Oleg. Several details make it less useful for outreach. Just on a technical level, I found it odd to see her dressed differently while he was dressed the same in both shots.

To put the thought in more general, theoretical terms... Where the actions of a free adult person are concerned: context does-not-equal causality —and— causality does-not-equal culpability So my context (all the abuse I may have suffered in my past) is not a sufficient...

That's exactly the sort of dangerous dilution of the meaning of the word that it's a mistake to give them the means to get away with. We can't hold government to a real standard if we don't uphold it ourselves.

Angry and inappropriate? Yes, of course. Hypocritical? Possibly—not all Dems are pacifists. But terrorism? Come now, bg. The more people dilute that term, the more dangerous all our lives become in future because the more the government, with Patriot Act powers, has the "right, nay...

So you like Bush better because he'll lie to you. *skritches head*

If the cities are parasites on the countryside, so is the same true in reverse. Look at the county map that ctdonath so helpfully provided. All the major ports except New Orleans voted blue. -- And the Mississippi river north of New Orleans is "bottled up" by a two big swaths of interior...

bbaerst: we're here. But the tenor on THR is so consistently (and often stridently) right-wing that many of us post seldom. The great thing about THR is that the mods maintain an atmosphere in which it's possible to have meaningful discussions between people who disagree. This puts this forum...

Put "martial arts" where you have "a personal handgun" and the statement is as true. Okay... nearly as true. Guns are more versatile than hand-to-hand training. But IMO, the two are complementary rather than contrasting. What makes the difference is not training in technique but in...

the connection Pro-gun folk have so thoroughly adopted Niemöller's observations that we sometimes forget to reread it. He wasn't talking about a Warsaw Ghetto-type resistance of one "type" of people, nearly unaided. He was talking about the solidarity of regular folks with each other, despite...

c_yeager: Best of a bad lot didn't used to be understood as a recommendation.

Wow. Not even an attempt to rebut. Instead, Art obliges with "it is readily believable." Textbook case of innuendo. I'll willingly grant that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But what that justifies is further investigation, not action -- and particularly not the initiation...

So this is what feud feels like. :(

Indeed.

I cold-called someone with the name (not the Kari Grittner above) and lucked into a relative. I guess I have an honest-sounding voice because the relative gave me his number.

Thank you, everyone who tossed out ideas and/or offered help. I took a shot in the dark and it turned out to be a lucky one. I just spoke with Kerry on the phone -- should be giving him his stuff back next weekend.

although it's been said many times, many ways... Happy birthday, Oleg! From both of us (of course!) To your continued health, happiness, prosperity, and growing wisdom!

larry_minn: Please see PM. ScottS: :p ... but thanks for playing! KMKeller: No idea. Didn't seem like his speed. He was more a motorcycles and sharp pointy things sort of guy... but people surprise me all the damn time. All of the ostensibly helpful leads (the places he used to...

SteelyDan: I suppose it was silly of us to agree to hold the gun for him -- we didn't know him for very long or all that well. But we had a more stable life than he and we thought he was trying to be responsible by leaving it with us rather than keeping it around him. He didn't give us any...

Sorry, no. I've done the obvious searches. This Kerry is a guy. (Kari looks like a woman's name to me.) I'll toss a bit of cash into the less obvious searches if I don't find him soon. Edited to add: Thanks for the thought, though!

Some years ago (~6) Kerry Grittner asked my wife and me to hold his gun for him. Then he dropped off the face of the earth. I need to return it to him -- I may be moving to Canada this summer and I do not want to move the gun with me. So my question for Minnesota people is: do you know the guy...