Mentioned it before but I have some 1973 surplus 5.56mm I've owned since 1999.

Today I fired 4 10rd stripper clips. The brass on the stripper clips was too brittle to feed well into the mags but the ammo performed flawless in reliability and accuracy.

Buy it cheap, stack it deep, store it right, and your ammo will last very long time.

Do parents even try anymore? Just countless amounts of screen time when in public or at sporting events.

It’s like books don’t exist

I'm surprised they thought this was a good idea to offer up publicly. Stuff like this just looks nutty to most people and is a consistent source of ammunition for the right in the culture wars.

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Iowa just shutout Missiour Valley. Really like the way Briana G wrestles, so aggressive. Big matchup coming up over on BTN+ with Life, the number 1 NAIA. Cant wait to see some of those rematches with the MCBryde sisters from Life.

The elderly Arizona rancher on the frontline of migrant crisis: The cartel watches him in the dark with scoped rifles and night vision goggles - but at 84, he's​

• Jim Chilton runs an Arizona ranch three times the size of Manhattan which is crossed by thousands of migrants to enter the United States illegally each month
• He said crossings have 'intensified immensely' over the last three years
• For four generations, Jim Chilton's family of cattle ranchers has worked the vast lands of southern Arizona which straddle the Mexico border, keeping the cowboy tradition alive.
  
  But after nearly 150 years, their business – and way of life – is under threat.
  
  The migrant crisis which has gripped America has turned the Chilton ranch into a perilous corridor used by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people each month to cross into the country illegally.
  
  Patrols by Jim, 84, across this ranch in Arivaca, Arizona, which is three times the size of Manhattan are no longer focused solely on traditional duties: tracking missing cattle, tending the land and maintaining infrastructure.
  The border crisis has threatened the Chiltons' business and cowboy traditions.

Today, he must also fill the role of look-out and rescuer of migrants who collapse, dehydrated and exhausted, as they trek across these remote and unforgiving lands.
And, most worryingly, his work now is conducted under the gaze of armed cartel members – equipped with scoped rifles and night vision goggles – who traffic the people across Chilton land and into America.

'We know we're always being watched,' said Jim of the cartel patrols which survey his land before sending migrants across the border.

'The problem in our area in the last three years has intensified immensely,' added Jim, who lives with his wife Sue, 81, in a circular house on the ranch which also serves as a 360-degree lookout.

Around 250,000 migrants crossed the southern border illegally in December alone. Across the whole of 2023, there were more than 2.5 million encounters of migrants at the US-Mexico border, according to official data.

The borderlands of Arizona have become a hotspot for crossings.

The growing problem has compelled the Chiltons to testify before Congress about its impact on their lands. Jim also campaigned in support of Donald Trump's border wall.

The Chiltons, whose home is nine miles from the Mexico border, have discovered 150 smuggling trails on their land in recent years, along with evidence of drug smuggling.

They have installed a network of security cameras to monitor the ranch - which regularly picks up large group of migrants who have recently entered the US - and have also offered to arm their team of five working cowboys.

Jim takes a handgun with him during rides onto the land - partly for protection from members of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world's most dangerous criminal gangs, who control smuggling in the region.

Several years ago, a cowboy who worked for Jim was ambushed by smugglers who forced him to deliver 44 pounds of methamphetamine for them.

He also carries a satellite phone because much of the land has little to no phone signal, a factor which also adds to the dangers for those people who attempt to cross on foot.

Jim has grown used to discovering the debris left behind by the groups of migrants which cross the land. Empty water bottles, discarded clothing and shoes litter the trails which cut through the landscape.

He also frequently encounters human victims of the crisis, including sick children crying out for help and dehydrated adults who have been exhausted by their journey into America. The Chiltons have installed several water fountains across the land to try and help the migrants who cross it.

'Just when you think you've seen everything, this place still shocks you,' Jim told the New York Times during a ride out in January as they encountered a makeshift camp with dozens of migrants who were traversing his land.

Brian Best, 64, a volunteer aid worker from Tucson, was delivering help to the group.

Best said that just hours earlier, he had seen cartel guides lead more than 170 people through a tiny, three foot-by-three foot opening in a stretch of border wall which separates the Chilton ranch from Mexico.

He added that he was 'almost getting used to' these chaotic scenes after several years as a volunteer for the Tucson Samaritans, delivering water, first aid and clothing. Migrants arrive here from all over the world, he said.

'This place breaks your heart every day,' Best said. 'They're exhausted. They're sick. They're confused. They're cold, and they just have to wait. How can this be our system.'

Jim added: 'If I had been born in one of these places, I might be sleeping out here, too.'

With Sue, he has campaigned for years for measures that will secure the border while also creating legal pathways to asylum.

'We're a nation of the rule of law. We need to stop people just having the idea that they can walk into the United States,' Jim recently told Fox News.


'They're entering our country unseen, and they could be terrorists.

'I'm really concerned. If our adversaries around the world want to bring terrorists into our country, this is a route.'

The Chilton family first arrived in Arizona in 1888 and have spent four generations working ranches in the state.

Jim and Sue have considered selling the current ranch and moving to Tucson, or closer to their grandchildren in Los Angeles, because of the new and unprecedented set of issues.

But they have persisted here, in spite of their latest challenge, and maintain hope that a solution can be found which protects their land - and their way of life.

'Secure the international boundary and develop a program to bring people into this country legally,' Jim said.

Lying Donnie Sexual Abuser's close love fest with his best boy Putin? I used to watch them just hammer on Russia. How come they embrace a guy who states he loves and looks up to one of the world's most murderous dictators? Poor Ronnie Reagan, a real Republican, must be throwing up in his mouth about now.

Let me start with a show I really enjoyed which was smart and funny but was canceled too soon.

Frank's Place 1987

Classic thought experiment I don’t know if we covered in the other thread: Fertility clinic is on fire. It has 100 frozen embryos and one newborn baby trapped inside. You only have time to save the embryos or newborn before everything inside collapses and burns. Which do you save and why?

If you've been wondering why we haven't had a movie about a lonely man in space and a space spider, wonder no more. It's here.

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Lying Donnie Sexual Abuser's total amount of fines once all his rape, J6 insurrection, stolen secret files, corrup NY business activity, GA election results manipulation, 91 felony charges... you get the point, are tallied? Will it exceed a BILLION $$? He's already at around $440,000,000. How high can the criminal go? I bet there is a Vegas line on this someplace.

This is a legal entity jumping to conclusions over an event (Nex Benedict in OK) simply because of their political position. If you're a legal entity this is a bad look. (given that they assumed a bunch of stuff about the event that doesn't seem to be true, we're learning)

And no I'm not referring to the Gift.

The Hawks were 9.5 point road dogs vs ranked MSU on Tuesday. The Hawks are 9.5 point road dogs vs ranked Illinois tomorrow. Do you believe Hawk fans????

"A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.


Its disappearance, which has not been previously reported, was so concerning that intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them, the sources said.


In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found."
The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.


The intelligence was so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances were able to review the material only at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where their work scrutinizing it was itself kept in a locked safe.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-russia-intelligence-trump-dg/

Sitting at the car dealership, getting an oil change, they have the TV on 70’s music. A performance of Elton John’s performance of Benny and the jets from 1980 came on. Being too young for that time and I’m a metalhead anyway, I had never saw that performance before. I have to admit that was pretty sweet and the guy was/is a hell of a performer.
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There is a great hew and cry about the waste from EV production and later disposal… Hold your beer.

By law, companies are responsible for plugging and cleaning up wells. Oil drillers set aside funds called bonds, similar to the security deposit on a rental property, that are refunded once they decommission their wells or, if they walk away without doing that work, are taken by the government to cover the cost.

But an analysis by ProPublica and Capital & Main has found that the money set aside for this cleanup work in the 15 states accounting for nearly all the nation’s oil and gas production covers less than 2% of the projected cost. That shortfall puts taxpayers at risk of picking up the rest of the massive tab to avoid the environmental, economic and public health consequences of aging oil fields.
The estimated cost to plug and remediate those wells if cleanup is left to the government is $151.3 billion, according to the states’ own data. But the actual price tag will almost certainly be higher — perhaps tens of billions of dollars more — because some states don’t fully account for the cost of cleaning up pollution. In addition, regulators have yet to locate many wells whose owners have already walked away without plugging them, known as orphan wells, which states predict will number at least in the hundreds of thousands.m

Don t know if discussed? But apparently red soles on shoes is a patented trade mark. The owner of trademark has defended it in court multiple times. So can ya get a refund? People paying thousand on secondary market to purchase the right to buy a pair.

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First-time ever the Big Ten WBB Tournament is sold out in advance, I believe.

The Target Center is going to be CHA North once again in a few weeks.