Cats, Guns, and National Security

The "Password" franchise is probably my favorite game show franchise ever. I posted an article before using it for a political point. Here, it's just for fun. This is hardly a conclusive composition. Password Bloopers [Betty White and "Bull"] Passwood(Mostly Password Plus) Bloopers [Debralee Scott flashes audience] Super Password: The Testimony Incident Super Password - Funniest Puzzle Ever? [Kathy] Super Password Bloopers [Week 12 -- December 1984] Super Password: Bert destroys the Magic Toaster Betty White Destroys The "Magic Toaster" Password Plus "French" Incident Super Password (November 26, 1984) [The "Nimnal" Incident]  

Ian "Gun Jesus" McCollum seems a bit liberal or NeverTrump, but does good work. The M1 .30 Carbine is a good weapon when used within its ballistic limits. Just treat the early issue magazines as basically disposable. "Forgotten Weapons" page on M1 Carbine:  https://www.forgottenweapons.com/light-rifle-program/ CAVEAT TO THE TITLE:  NOT a "whole new class." Carbines, be they .30 or pistol-caliber, are (along with home defense shotguns) the modern descendants of the blunderbuss. The 1688/89 English Bill of Rights had a certain "Keep Arms" guarantee, which was interpreted as guaranteeing a peasant could keep a blunderbuss to ward off burglars. In America's settlement history, blunderbusses were rare, supplanted by full-size muskets and such given the frontier nature here that differed from the Old Country. That said, and Heller's focus on handguns acknowledged, if there is one sort of modern (rifled) weapon that is HISTORICALLY at the...

PLEASE FORGIVE SPACING PROBLEM IN FORMATTING. My friend publicly stated, "Leave it up to the individuals." I responded publicly with the portion below in italics. The rest is published here only: I remember a couple of weeks ago you saw a bunch of "individuals" doing that--and you being infuriated. The core flaw in that individual approach is what you term, "selfish bastardness." The intent of mitigation is not protecting oneself, but rather protecting OTHERS and THE COMMUNITY. That's the flaw in libertarian/individualist thinking--it turns people so self-oriented that they literally, though often unwittingly, lose sight of that core factor. This is part of why ALL libertarians--at least those who are not total sociopaths--are to some degree conspiracy theorists. Because reality blasts the viability of their self-focus to pieces, they have to come up with some reason why normally decent, rational, intelligent people sometimes do...

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"Super Password" is one of my favorite game shows ever. But beyond entertainment, there is a lesson to be gleaned from the 1985 Tournament of Champions about coincidental patterns--they do happen. Being the fan that I am, I have seen video of the tournament a number of times (the women in the tournament are quite pleasant to look at). Doing so has shown me how innocent coincidences can start to look like conspiracies, a phenomenon which can overwhelm and deceive lesser minds. They will see it, let their imagination--and often paranoia--run with it, and develop a narrative which at the least far overreaches the reality. Specifically, these coincidences and odd events involve Natalie Steele, the winner of the tournament (and taking home a then-amazing total of $106,000). Rewatching the final three episodes (the ones featuring Shelly Smith and Dick Gautier as the celebrities) of the tournament yields some odd things: 1. Steele wears red practically every day. 2. Steel...