I once worked for a nice female boss at a certain company. She was enormously talented. Not bad looking, either. But she had hell getting dates, and if she got one, she'd never get another call from the same guy. I later found out why: on dates all she did was talk shop. Let me tell you something, ladies--guys hate that. You might make a passing comment, but to make your entire conversation about what happened at work is a huge turnoff for men. We don't really care about what you did at work. What we care about is having a nice, relaxing time. When we leave work, we want to get away from all of that. And, frankly, it's boring as hell. By all means tell us about yourselves--but don't give us a blow-by-blow description of everything that happened at your workplace!

Shucks!

I'm OK now . . . and in a less than a month I'll be in African temperatures once again!

That constant cold is wearing down your immune system--hope you get indoors soon!

On two occasions I did commutes of 2 1/2 hours one way. Never again. Long commutes cost you a fortune in gas, make your car and its components wear out faster, increase your chances of being in an accident and burn you out. I have passed up a number of job offers with commutes 3 and 4 hours away. There's just no way to physically do it without killing yourself.

I remember reading about how some British veterans had to take their Lee-Enfields (bolt action rifles in .303 British) and have them de-miled, i.e., rendered inoperable. I thought that was terrible. The British have built some of the finest sporting rifles in the world, such as the Holland & Holland double rifles.

I will let the badgers alone. Nobody wants any truck with a badger!

Oh, Dolly--wish you were looking at him in your rearview mirror!

Well, you know, Nix, that after that Dunblane thing in Scotland, the UK government went nuts and outlawed all kinds of guns.

People hunt with semi-automatics for a number of reasons--and, by the way, in the States there are limits on how many rounds of ammunition your hunting gun can hold while out in the field. Game departments don't want people "spraying and praying."

But semi-automatics have one key advantage over other guns: their gas operated actions reduce recoil. That's important for recoil-challenged people. The new breed of semi-automatics are also as accurate as most bolt-action rifles.

But back to recoil. Shortly after shooting my "elephant gun" a number of times, one of my retinas started to detach. I had to get it tacked back in with a laser. That elephant gun was in .416 Remington magnum caliber--and its recoil was quite fierce. And while I can psychologically handle heavy recoil, my eyes cannot do so any longer.

That's one reason a new cartridge, the 6.5mm Creedmoor, has become so popular for long range shooting competitions and hunting: it has the same trajectory as a .300 Winchester magnum, but only about a quarter of the recoil.

Put another way, you can go to the range and shoot a few boxes of 6.5 Creedmoor--especially if you are shooting it in an Armalite (AR) type of platform--and not have a bruised shoulder. If you shoot a few boxes of .300 magnum ammunition, you are very likely to have a bruised shoulder. And if you shoot a few boxes of .416 Remington magnum ammo, you may end up in the ER!

Truthfully, I haven't hunted for a number of years now. The only animal I'd really want to hunt is the coyote--because they are nasty pieces of work that kill and eat people's dogs and cats, and even attack children. We need to thin out their ranks, as they have expanded their original ranges many times over.

But when I go coyote hunting, it will be with an AR--because of the high degree of accuracy and light recoil. A magazine capacity of 10 rounds or so should do just fine, as that will provide the ability to track a running coyote and give you several chances to get him.

The last deer I had in the crosshairs of my .30/06 I let go. I could see she had been wounded by another hunter, and some dogs had been chasing her. I did not want to add to her troubles.

Well, Soco, I don't know anyone who goes quail hunting with a rifle--any kind of rifle. I am reminded of Joe Biden talking about going deer hunting, saying that you would take your double-barreled shotgun and crawl around on your hands and knees until you saw a deer. I don't know anyone who hunts deer with a double-barrel shotgun. With all due respect, both comments suggest a lack of knowledge when it comes to firearms. And that's one of our biggest complaints--people with a lack of knowledge coming to us and telling us what we "need" for hunting or target competition or self-defense.

But as far as relating an AR-15 to hunting, we are always compelled to remind people making such arguments that the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution is NOT about hunting. It's not about duck hunting, or deer hunting, or any other kind of hunting. It's about the right of the PEOPLE to keep firearms suitable for self-defense and defense of the country.

And the fact is that Democrats ARE talking gun confiscation. In her 2016 failed bid for the Presidency, Hillary Clinton said that she'd like to take a look at Australia's gun confiscation program. The Australian government called it a buy-back, but that's a misnomer since the government was't buying anything back--it didn't own the citizens' guns in the first place. Australia simply turned to its gun registration lists and told those people who now had "banned" guns to turn them in--for some pittance of compensation. That one remark cost her the Presidency.

We tried the Democrats' Assault Weapons Ban in 1994. It didn't work. We still got Columbine out of it. And the overall crime rate was not influenced by it one single whit--not one atom.

Bump stocks? You can have 'em. I would not be caught dead with one. I am not in favor of any device that helps people get around the law. I see them as something that only wastes ammo--expensive ammo. Which reminds me--Democrats are trying to get bills passed to require background checks for buying ammunition. I can imagine the lineups at the cash register now. Of course, Democrats want to make it harder to own a gun and shoot it--they figure that if they manufacture enough red tape, fees, waiting times, etc., etc., that the average person will say to hell with it and will give up his or her gun.

Back to that "80 round clip." Well, there's no such thing as an 80-round "clip." Clips are little metal strips that hold cartridges by their rims for *********insertion into a rifle's magazine. There's that problem again--people who don't know guns telling us what we need to do.

Age 18? I personally don't care if the age is upped to 21--but I'd make exceptions for people in the military.

What I haven't seen from any anti-gun people are calls to hold the FBI accountable for their failure to act on a credible tip about the Florida shooter, or to hold the Broward County deputy accountable for failing to take action or to repeal the Obama-era "Promise Program" that gave police departments federal funding for reducing youth arrests.

What about we stop shielding youthful criminals and put their juvenile crimes into the National Instant Check System database? Does anybody really think that a punk who got arrested 15 times while a juvenile is magically going to turn into a responsible adult at age 18?

And what about getting the people off our streets who have demonstrated a capacity for violence against others? Take the case of the young men in Canada who recently beat up an autistic man. Shouldn't they be hauled in for a psychological evaluation to determine their further capacity for violence against innocent people? Shouldn't they be locked up if found to be a danger to the public? We need to ditch antiquated notions of crime and punishment. If somebody is found to be a dangerous psychopath--shouldn't we have the mechanisms to take that person out of the mainstream before he starts piling up a body count?

We also have to do a better job in the US in dealing with mental health. The ability to see a counselor or therapist or psychiatrist should not depend upon someone's job or insurance policy. It is in society's best interests for people who need help to get it!

Dolly, this guy will never, ever change. He doesn't like the idea of personal responsibility. He flees from true commitment like a vampire flees from a silver Crucifix!

You have put up with this intolerable situation because, somehow, you feel that you don't deserve any better.

But you do.

There are guys out there, Dolly, who would crawl on their hands and knees over a kilometer of broken glass just to receive a smile from you.

And, as you have found out, one person cannot love enough for two people. When there is true love, your love and devotion is reciprocated. If you are not loved back, then the relationship is doomed. In fact, it is not a real relationship at all.

You could earn twelve doctorate degrees from that university, and they would not make up for a life in which your love was not returned.

Please extricate yourself from that prison immediately. And that is what it is--a prison.

You can never find the man who will return your love and make you feel like the Empress of the Universe as long as you are living with a loser.

Check out this article about the mess that Snopes.com is in: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4730092...

Of COURSE the kids from Parkland are being controlled by outside interests! Do you think they just broke their piggy banks to fund cross country flights, hotel stays and meals far away from home?

Remember the JROTC cadet who had some differing opinions about questions that should be asked during the CNN town hall meeting? He was told by a CNN staffer to shut up and "follow the script."

"Common sense" gun laws are anything but. Examples: a past proposal to ban any ammunition that would penetrate a police officer's bulletproof vest. If it had passed, ALL hunting ammunition would have been outlawed, as they ALL can penetrate a vest designed to stop only handgun bullets. Another case in point: a proposal to ban any gun capable of accepting a magazine that held 30 or more rounds. If it had passed, it would have outlawed ALL magazine-fed firearms as any gun that can accept a 5-round magazine can also accept a 30-round magazine.

The country IS in a political crisis. The FBI has been caught red-handed giving Hillary Clinton a pass on her violation of national security laws. They wrote the memo exonerating her even before the investigation was completed--and that investigation was a sham. The deputy director's WIFE accepted $700,000 from Hillary Clinton for her political campaign--and the deputy director was supposed to be investigating Hillary Clinton. The FBI's own Office of Professional Responsibility recommended that McCabe be fired for gross lapses of professional ethics!

That's not a right-wing conspiracy. That's the facts. Read it again: the FBI's own Office of Professional Responsibility found McCabe guilty of gross misconduct!

We KNOW that George Soros is funding these marches. He has a million ways to trickle--or flood--money into these Left-wing causes. The movement registered as a 501c(3) organization--which means it doesn't have to disclose its donors. Some of them, however, include George Clooney, the washed-up actor who mocked Charlton Heston because Heston was suffering from Alzheimers, Oprah "Can't Hug Harvey Weinstein Enough" Winfrey, Leftist Michael Bloomberg and other Hollywood celebs whose mansions are surrounded by high walls and patrolled by armed guards.

Signs carried by the "March for Our Lives" marchers read, "We Wish Obama Had Taken Your Guns."

And don't forget Planned Parenthood--they are also in on the act. Planned Parenthood is, in my humble opinion, the vilest, most evil organization upon the face of the earth. As abortions are their biggest revenue generators, they push them and individual Planned Parenthood centers are recognized and rewarded by how many abortions they perform.

Too bad the 61 million unborn children aborted by Planned Parenthood didn't have somebody to march for THEIR lives.