They made excellent guns of the AK-47 variant and still do as far as I know. But the whole hunting thing died out when a generation was not brought up to hunt. Even today if you want to hunt you have to register your gun AND the bullets. At the end of the hunting season you have to account for all the bullets. 

Probably hand in glove with Ceaucescu’s ban on hunting anywhere so he had all the good shots to himself. 

Nearest port is south in Bellingham. Unlikely an overseas RORO shipment would arrive there. Probably went into Vancouver, BC and they trucked it to the closest parking lot south of Blaine. 

My neighbor brought some lovage seeds with her from Romania when she emigrated here 30 years ago. She found them one day in a drawer and threw them in a raised bed. Six years later you can’t kill the things. They completely took over the bed. An elderly Romanian women was visiting and absolutely lost her mind when she…

I consider myself fairly literate when it comes to internet scams. But I got taken by a website that had cloned the hotel’s website where I wanted to stay. I was in a hurry and considered it legitimate. When I tried to change the date of arrival which was promised in the booking I got nowhere. My card company ended up…

I just got back from the liquor store with my tequila. I don’t think the Hornitos Corporation* cares whether I drink their tequila in the mistaken name of independence or to celebrate the Mexican win over the French Army at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. 

Most people associate Oregon with Portland liberals, IPA-swilling neckbeards and hippies in Eugene where meat has been banned from breakfast facilities.* There is a vast expanse of that state that is home to the likes of Nearman. He represents the district encompassing his home town of.... wait for it... Independence,…

This is not a civil damages case. Edwards was convicted in federal court in a criminal case. At his original sentencing, in addition to the ten years in prison the judge ordered $272K in restitution to make up for the back pay owed Smith. The Government appealed that figure to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals which…

Until the 2" lift and skid plates are a factory option I’m out. ND.

I usually pour some cat litter into the latex can and set it out in the hot sun. Probably not the go-to method in Alaska (plenty of sun in June, been kept awake by it there, just not warm). That’s a good tip about the chemical available at hardware stores. Never heard of that.

So my retired friend bought this monster Ford F-250 to haul the trailer they were going to buy and cruise all around Antivaxxistan. The tailgate’s top is about even with my eyes. I’m 6'. First thing my friend did was heave his bicycle into the bed of the monster truck which resulted in a titanium shoulder and a year…

The new Ford Bronco allegedly has this limb-riser option from the factory. I see Jeeps with them occasionally, but it’s a jungle/forest thing. 

Admittedly, Free Comb with Pagoda, is not one of Basquiat’s greatest works, but that you can buy anything original by Basquiat for $80K surprised me. At least the Estate put an end to the NFT nonsense. What would you even do with a Basquiat NFT? Have it play like some expensive wallpaper on a widescreen TV in your…

Rickenbacker Motor Car Company, started by the WWII Ace Eddie himself. Tandem flywheel construction at the rear of the crankshaft greatly reduced vibration. Although Chrysler later figured out a better solution. What did in the car was Eddie’s insistence on brakes at all four corners. Studebaker led the challenge and…

The lede is misleading. It’s a 14 hour plus drive from Anchorage to Haines, the ferry port nearest Juneau. It’s another 4 hours on the ferry to Juneau. Which assumes you arrive right when they are loading the ferry. Most likely you will have to wait around for hours to load your car. Then another two hours to offload…

It’s a 19 hour plus drive to Haines and the ferry terminal from Anchorage. You can fly from Haines to Juneau on a number of commercial small 4-6 person planes. Don’t know if they require masks.

Maybe read D.C. v. Heller, 554 US 570 (2008). That ship sailed under dead Scalia’s tortured reasoning thirteen years ago. 

Strapped into a Land Rover Airportable, thrown out of the back of a C-130 (as God intended) with a parachute, and enough explosives timed to obliterate it half way to the ocean’s surface. 

Those Uber/Lyfts are hard to come by in my experience on Maui unless you’re in Lahaina. Kihei you have to wait for someone to decide it’s worth it to drive down from Kahalui. Maalea, forget it. I stopped going to Maui because of the insane car rental prices in normal times ($120 a day for a Mazda 3. Seriously?). At…

I wouldn’t want to be the DA that signed off on the police going over to talk to a defendant who is presumably represented by counsel having been previously arrested. Maybe the police did it on their own.