Welcome to Crackpot Corner, the randomly appearing column where I (and other Featured Content Providers) make a low-effort post without doing the research of one written by Animal, Neph, Kinnath, Eddie, Hyp, or any of the more worthwhile authors. What makes this different than other posts, is this column will cover topics that are plausible, as long a) you don’t know enough about the topic for it to be ludicrously incorrect, b)you’re drunk or c) both.
So I was at the more mall-ninja of the gun shops in town (the only one that carries CZs) and hanging on the wall I saw one of the 25-round magazines for a 10/22. Now, since NYS bans magazines with capacities of more than ten rounds, I was intrigued. Maybe there was an exception for .22 or rimfire cartridges? I asked the sales guy and he told me that “Law enforcement can still buy them.” I became fucking enraged. I kept my cool (how stupid do you have to be to lose your shit in a gun store?) didn’t buy anything, and left.
And then I thought.
And then I had an idea.
I bring this idea to the Glibertariat, because to make it work, it will take some legal eagles and residents of accommodating states. It may not even be possible. But if it is…
The basic idea is, just like you can buy an ordination online, we set up a way of becoming a certified LEO online. The Law Enforcement Officers safety Act does make reference to “private agency/firm” being able to qualify someone to be a “Qualified Law Enforcement Officer.” We got Glibs with land. Let’s get the Glibertarian Legal Team to work drafting up the paperwork to give “Suthern’s Forest Preserve, Tactical Training Center and Muscadine Wine Bar” its own armed security force with arrest powers onsite. I will totally chip in to make this happen.
The Million Dollar Idea part comes in where we create a website to accept names to be added to the SFPTTCMWB police force and charge for a background check and “administrative costs.” The payments will need to be automatically converted to Bitcoin and downloaded to an offline wallet, naturally.
The site might not last too long unless we can generate enough money to bribe the appropriate politicos. Hopefully, though, the original members of the SFPTTCMWBPF will have prior to the discovery/media outcry retired and become “Qualified Retired Law Enforcement Officers” so I can run standard capacity mags in my CZ.
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166 responses to “Crackpot Corner: A Million-Dollar Idea”
And here I am. Reading a Not Adahn article.
And first, bitches!
The state doesn’t like anybody intruding on any of its rackets.
And don’t get E. coli!
Albany is also having a legionella outbreak.
Saw that too. Same nursing home that’s had a bunch of outbreaks, I believe.
Who the fuck likes Heath Bars?
Who doesn’t like chocolate covered toffee?
Heath bars are excellent.
Heath bars are the schnizzle. And you are obviously a commie bastard.
Shyly raises hand.
Worse I like Ben and Jerry’s Heath Bar Crunch.
Back when I ate ice cream, I could pound a whole pint in one sitting. Working out 15 hours a week made that possible.
Oh, I killed off many an Americone Dream container all by myself. That was my pre-fitness days, but I never really reached “obese” territory, probably due to working 10-15 hour days in a factory 6 days a week (meaning I had no time to eat anything other than small snacks during my shift).
Their politics suck but their overpriced ice cream is good.
Exactly my thoughts.
I’m not the kind of person who boycotts every company that has politics that I don’t agree with, but Ben & Jerry’s has crossed that line for me with the Bernie’s Yearning shit (which probably does taste really good).
Besides, I only get ice cream twice a year now, and it’s the green tea ice cream from the Japanese store. Damn tasty stuff.
Blue Bell from Brenham Tx is the best ice cream in the known world.
Tastes just like Mamma OneOut’s without having to sit on the bucket full of ice and salt while she turned the crank when you were 9 years old.
They don’t even own the company anymore.
You should be delighted with them. They make the ladies thicc.
HM is more of a Skor guy.
I can respect that.
He likes T more than I. 1 internet point for anyone who understands this joke.
I had a thing for Skor bars as a kid. They are yummy.
Sometimes I think you say these things to be hurtful.
I ducking love Heath Bars and Skor Bars. And nothing is better than Coffee Heath Bar Crunch.
Right? What are we, British?
Alcoholic friends of ex-Vol QB Heath Schuler?
MARGBMaLRBA > SFPTTCMWB
But Ed Zern and I approve anyway (Madison Avenue Rod, Gun, Bloody Mary & Labrador Retriever Benevolent Association)
Are these the new LGBT acronyms?
No offense to anyone, but I’m pretty sure that our time’s ejaculations of non-cis acronyms would have made Zern laugh so hard that he probably would have stroked right out.
Golden Retreivers for the win.
Or…you know…live in a free state. ?
Yeah, but being a QLEO lets you carry in/through non-free states.
I was totally going to go and make a pile of 30+ rd mags and take a pic for you, but meh…I’d rather sit here and drink my scotch.
I appreciate that.
The only good thing is that when picking a carry piece, I don’t have to worry about capacity differences, as long as it’s as least 10.
Also, the LGS had a ridiculously ergonomic used stainless 1911 that I almost impulse bought, but I held off long enough to read that the gun was way overpriced and has quality issues (Mitchel Arms Gold Series 95). But looking for another option for a 1911, I looked up “1911 for left handers” and found this
That price tag. Ouch.
Yeah, for that much you’d think they’d have a less gaudy trigger.
Stainless 1911s are sexy.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/RR7l75H4Q_mY12SX8lrMBQ.akLUaDUWys1mOSw2Vx33Gn
Yeah, I want one. When I have an extra grand lying around, I might pick up one of these:
https://www.colt.com/detail-page/competition-ser70-45acp-ss-81
Or one of these to be the basis for a pimp gun:
https://armscor.com/firearms/ria/gi-series/gi-standard-fs-nickel-45acp/
I’ve got a Colt gap in my collection (currently none!) . I’d probably go for the Colt.
If I were limited to 10 round magazines I would go with a 40 S&W Hi-Power converted to 357Sig. Standard magazines are 10 rounds and the 357Sig is a better bullet than the 40.
What are the odds of the current supreme court hearing a magazine limit case?
Pretty good I’d imagine, since they’re already hearing one against NYC’s carry rules.
I would love to hear a truly rational legal discussion about the issue of “high capacity” magazines. As long as it is just a matter of the time it takes to do a magazine change to the next full magazine capacity is not all that relevant.
There have been some recent legal outcomes in the direction of common sense. The BATFE’s BS rule against placing an arm brace against one’s shoulder was struck down pretty quickly. And it was refreshing when their rule against swapping parts to convert pistol-to-rifle was struck down.
There might just be some reason for optimism.
Mag swaps are pretty important.
doG I hate gun ranges and the damnable fools therein. Most places don’t allow quick draw or any other practical practice, which I certainly understand: in all my years I’ve seen exactly one guy who could do anything useful without endangering himself or everyone else on the line.
You don’t have USPSA groups or IPSC? No one shoots steel? Everyone I used to shoot with shot courses with reloads built in and even technical dqs were rare, much less actual safety violations.
“Suthern’s Forest Preserve, Tactical Training Center and Muscadine Wine Bar”
I’m down. But does Southen even like wine?
He likes making and cooking with it, just not drinking it.
Is my comma one of them English comma things that are so fadish these days ?
If not,,,,,,why ?
Oxford commas separate the last item on a list to clarify that that and is not a conjunction defining a conjoined item ie. I like beer, wine, and scotch. means I like beer; I like wine; I like scotch. I like beer, wine and scotch might mean I like beer; I like a mix of wine and scotch.
clarify that that and is not a conjunction defining a conjoined item
meant to be clarify that that is a separate item and not a conjunction defining a conjoined item
While we are at it why don’t we just buy up a chunk of land, create our own country and accredit people who didn’t move with us as diplomats. For $10k a year you can have diplo plates and exemption from all laws that Libertyrrany does not recognize ie. anything but rape murder assault and theft
Sovereign staters? Pass.
It has been passed down through five generations to me that the whole do what you want on your own property and fly your own flag thing is no longer an option.
For paperwork’s sake, easier for us to buy a small ship, register it in Liberia, park it in the ditch around the corner from SFPTTCMWB, and secure diplo papers from same?
How much does an abandoned deep sea drilling platform go for these days?
MOTHER BASE, let’s do this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
Apparently you need to be significantly off shore for that to work.
¿ If we’re willing to pony up, maybe we could buy a chunk of Playa Bagdad ?
Depends on:
1.) Where we do it
2.) how many guns we have
3.) if we have anything the big countries want
4.) if we can get a few countries to recognize us fast enough
Do you even Liberland?
If a bunch of silly Croats and Serbs can gin up their own country, how can you Don fail to proclaim yourself King of Mud Island? Fuck, Prince Mongo should be right there to help you with the legal details.
Negative Ghost Rider, that would make it subject to the EPA and their navigable waterways shtick.
STEVE SMITH DISAPPOINTED.
This is all I have to say to all of you.
I don’t speak Jive.
Is the the call for the Glibs to become a very minor league version of Militaires Sans Frontières or Diamond Dogs? Because if so, I can dig it.
Diamond Dogsyou say
Yes, very much yes.
Holy shit – Kraft Heinz just took a $15bn write down and announced and announced an SEC investigation.
Should be fun times tomorrow. Stock down 20% in the aftermarket.
Twas overpriced before.
Tis overpriced still.
In this day and age I get the write downs, but not how one wakes up today and does $15b at once and get it past the auditors blows me away.
Basically they didn’t want to write down $5bn a year down for 3 years.
I respect a dead cat bounce as much as anyone if the fundamentals are there.
Without fundamentals, we are merely speculating.
I’m not talking about the stock price. I’m talking about how they value and impair their intangibles.
But my background is financial services so I understand those impairments and writedowns much better than physical acquisitions and brand “goodwill”.
My bad: I carelessly read too much in your earlier “fun times tomorrow” comment.
Yeah: Arthur Anderson all over again? Related: Jeff Skilling got out of stir today.
My MBA concentration was finance, but there’s too much hatred of credentials to enjoy it here.
I’ve experience both on the inside of financial services companies and on the outside as an equity analyst.
My experience with companies outside financial services is only from working with the analysts that covered those verticals.
The advantages for me have been in industry (too much to go into).
Of course, portfolio management is a handy thing at home. I often mention here that Dave Ramsey’s advice is 90% right for 90% of the people. My main grudge is his hatred of stock-picking: anyone with $60k ($3k x 20 issues) can start a nice SP500 type book that beats even the indexes because it’s zero load, tiny fees (just the in and the out).
I’d agree with Dave Ramsey too with few exceptions.
He doesn’t quite grasp life in high property tax states. He keeps saying pay off your mortgage and you will always have a roof over your head.
My crappy 3 bedroom 1.5 bath on a 100×50 lot in a desirable area of NJ has $15k in property taxes alone.
They’re the ones writing it off.
+1 damaged in the mail
Scenes from the last Nippon Glibs meetup
Well, I’ve got to make sure to scrub my YouTube history or I’ll be getting more videos like this…
To return the favor…
https://youtu.be/64evz2g7SWo
And yes the Japanese is as ridiculous as the English subs.
And to think that Straf denied being a jousou.
You said there wouldn’t be cameras.
Alright, Shitlords. I have to go to an HOA board meeting where I will spend the next hour telling our newest member, a retired LA County sheriffs deputy, “no”.
Someone keep track of what we learned tonight so that I don’t have to read the comments when I get back.
No problem. I’ll tell Playa to get you the Cal score.
‘Someone keep track of what we learned tonight so that I don’t have to read the comments when I get back.’
No.
Idk if this is the right place, but Forcemeat Meatballs – 18th Century Cooking S4E9
STEVE SMITH FORCE MEAT. . .
I like it. I wonder if we’ll get the same courtesies…
OMWC joins us for a meetup – Livestream
Ok, that’s a goal to shoot for.
“Holy fuck! I’m an old fucking man!”
I loved that game on Price Is Right!
Um…that lead me to this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MXFYH6WEI
Recommended watching.
So, a company wants to make me the head of the Cali division, I know the job, the money is good, but they are an 8 month old company with a lot of contacts. My job initially is to clean up messes, then develop a training program to eliminate said problems. 22hr to ststart, then salary,any red flags you guys can see?
Does this make you the goto guy for the Cal score?
Yusef 1
Cal 0
If I develop training, and skill sets for the employees, shouldn’t I ask for a bonus,stock or something other than my normal wage? I’m new to this aspect of business
If you think you can get it sure.
That’s a living wage out there?
Knowing what you know, ever thought about running a string of work vans, having others ride for your brand?
For the 2 of us, barely, but if they put there money where there mouth is I might stay here.
We do operate in 6 states tho…..
Fuck that noise, friend; move in with me.
HVAC guys bill $100/hour here; I bet you can net half that if you have any tools to start and keep your parts inventory to a minimum.
Cost of living is nothing in TN, folks are solid, music and food are excellent, taxes are rare.
If I were setting up shop in SoCal, I’d figure my HVAC guy is going to cost me the best part of $150k, so $50/hour and a ton of benefits. I don’t believe in bonuses or stock: I deal in cold hard cash; I like my fuckings up front.
I’ve battled with the 0% car loans believers here, but I still insist: dealing in cash up front is the clearest way to know what the deal is; buyer or seller, nothing is ever truer than cash. Know your truth, know it now, and deal with it; don’t let any hopes or promises cloud your judgment.
Last opinion: this is the best market I (1965 vintage) will ever see: today is it, the best salary in real terms to be had. Now is the wrong time to settle, compromise, to accept promises; real deals are out there: go get one.
I rate between 40 to 80$ an hour in Cali, but rarely get 40 hours a week. This position is a starter wage to make sure I’m qualified then I want at least 4k per month, salary or not.
Man, the advice I gave you was a third again higher than that, with killer bennies and basically unfireable, not to mention crazy laid back and they cannot consider your age when hiring.
But, you gotta do what makes you happy. I’m glad you’re getting an upgrade from Wallyworld, anyway.
No unions for me, sorry
/took a minute to remember
I’m with Don, 80-120 per hour sounds fair for a qualified HVAC. If you’re working for someone else half that.
Why do they want you hourly to start but then convert you to salary?
To see if I’m as badass as I claim, tbey want to fast track the position, and need an HVAC GOD to help, i can do this job, well as long as theu pay me….
Dude, this seems like a classic example of a company that over committed itself and is looking for somebody to cover its ass. I do not doubt your knowledge or abilities but just be prepared to have your ass run ragged. I know you’re getting close to the age of thinking about retirement and this might be the financial shot in the arm to get you over the hump but I’d hate to see you figuratively kill yourself trying to get there. Give it some time, if possible, so you can objectively balance the pros and cons.
THIS! I needed a different POV there it is, thanks
No problem, bud. Our fields tend to cross streams and I’ve often seen some guys strain under the pressure of trying to both supervise and personally install and repair up to 15-20 residential and light industrial/commercial clients per week. It’s a heavy workload and possibly not worth the quasi-on-call 24/7 status I suspect they may gradually try to impose upon your time over the next few years. Just my two cents.
Fuck them..They know who you are and what you can do.
Don’t go to work on hopes and promises.
Onsist they pay you up front for your talent.
It sounds to me they expext to get the most out of you and then drag out any increases.
That doesn’t make them bad guys but if you go for it ot makes you a bad negotiator.
Get your money up front.
Do you have to go back to Cali?
There’s been a few “special” private police forces here in l.a., notably this one:
http://thedrive.com/news/2559/the-weird-wild-saga-of-gizmondo-part-1
Fascinating story.
God damn, that was a good story. Investor fraud, weapon boat parties, hotties, cocaine, private cops, luxury cars, rolexes… Libertopia was briefly glimpsed.
Soooo, you don’t want to be President then.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/21/elizabeth-warren-yes-support-reparations-black-americans/
So, more warmed-over sixties-style “urban renewal”. That’ll totally do… something.
In theory I’m not against reparations, but in reality it would only end up in even more injustices.
I would say the $22T dollars spent on the “Great Society” is more than enough reparations.
I favor them in reality but not in theory.
She realizes that 1/1024th won’t qualify for a reparations check, right?
Oh yeah, we are supposed to get snow showers tonight, in SoCal, low of 30, we live here for a reason, and this weather ain’t one….
Did I miss something? Didn’t you move to Arizona?
I thought so too. What’s the story Yusef?
Is this a compromise we can be happy about?
If a proggy wins in 2020, this is what will pass for pizza.
That, is a campaign commercial.
No, this is absolutely disgusting and must be purged with the hot intensity of a thousand suns. #NOCOMPROMISE
Needs a deeper dish
And pinapple*
*Runs real fast in a zig pattern and ducks
“You’re under arrest!”
“No, asshole! You’re under arrest!”
Oh, sure. This will work out great.
But count me in anyway, as long as the barracks don’t have the boot camp style shitters that lack partitions and face each other.
That was county jail.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an economic illiterate — and that’s a danger to America
AOC fucks Amazon and suddenly the WaPo is critical of her stupidity. Coincidence?
Marc Thiessen. W’s speech writer.
Well I’m gonna to go then. And I don’t need any of this. I don’t need this stuff, and I don’t need you. I don’t need anything except this. And that’s it and that’s the only thing I need, is this. I don’t need this or this. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that’s all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that’s all I need. And these matches. The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that’s all I need. And that’s all I need too. I don’t need one other thing, not one – I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that’s all I need. The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.
Are you having a stroke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2X3vVMdh-s
Don’t even read the comments. The truly scary thing is not that most democrats running for POTUS are that stupid, it’s that most WaPo subscribers are. There’s a lot more of them, and they vote. Now that is scary.
Sadly Arizona may be a longshot now, if this job works we may move anywhere in the tristate area, we shall see
Phineas and Frrb hardest hit.
F-dat noise. I love Suthen, but any first rate fake LEO is going to join the Dunphy’s Rangers.
While you guys are sitting around Suthen’s back porch sipping whiskey, shooting and starting to notice how cute that knothole on that old walnut tree is, us D-Rangers will be powerlifting, surfing and banging hotties!
Dunphey rides again?
We can’t afford to bribe west coast regulators. They’ve gotten used to tech and Hollywood money.
https://ftopx.com/large/201208/38857.jpg
NSFW.
Not bad. Two days.
I thought I saw a gun in that picture, but then I looked closer.
I am not sure how good a marksmen she is
So, uh, who’s gonna build the cloaking device to hide it away from prying gummint eyes?
It’s just my job, Ma’am
That’s why set set it up at Suthen’s place — Louisiana politicians are cheap .
Well as an European may I say why would you need a 25 round magazine? Also is it not boring to put the bullets in?
Good morning gunnutglibs
Good morning, Pie.
Good night, Pie.
In what other facet of your life do you see a requirement to be restricted to no more than you can prove you need?
Not enough. No one should have more than one house or more than 100 hp for a standard car
Back under the bridge with you!
Red Army beat Hitler with five bullet clips!
..and 72 round drum magazines.
And roughly 26M people.
That’s why you have multiple magazines preloaded before you ever go to the range. The same goes for every firearm that uses magazines. My .45 1911 magazines hold seven rounds. That’s why so have five of them ready to go when I head out to shoot.
Happiness is having lots of magazines.
Also it is work from home day
The best of days. Other than days at home where you don’t have to work.
The Great Snowpocalypse of Las Vegas is over. We have survived 1-2 inches and the schools…will close tomorrow with no snow left on the ground.
Stay safe Yusef in SoCal
We have rain. Much rain. Floody rain. Guy next door is putting together a giant wooden boat.
You showed up in the coldest, wettest Arizona winter in quite some time. This one looks like a serious flash flood risk. It is possible for me all the roads between me and town to be cut, although I’m not really expecting it.
Finally! A Law Glib!
What form do we need to fill out to make this happen?
Wouldn’t that be state-dependent?
LEOSA is Federal, though I am assuming the process of becoming a private LEO is state.
The Declaration of Independence. Should be available online.
I’m travelling and have 0 time to write it but a Declaration of Gliberpendence would make for some fun reading.
I treat Tonio’s “The Glibbening” series as the Glib equivalent of the Vedas and Upanishads.
Pshaw! That was written like a hundred years ago by white slaveholders, it has no relevance to modern legalities.
/joking on the square