Two-Sided Coin
I like the way this one came out – Mel wrote the dialogue. Mick can’t have it both ways. This is apparently something a lot of poly folks run into the first time out.
So this Government Shutdown thing is retarded, in my mind. Not because of what the GOP is protesting, but because these fucking maggots on both sides of the aisles can continue to get paid while doing NOTHING. Their salaries are not tiny. If I don’t work, I don’t get paid. These assholes get paid. That shit needs to stop. A Govt shutdown should only be allowed if the politicians involved in the shutdown get no pay – not back pay when the shutdown stops, but no money at all during the time the shutdown occurs.
In the meantime, they’re gone, I’m still in charge. I hereby command every able-bodied man, woman, and child to invade Canada. For the Greater Good.
Re: Archangel Mosin Stock
Dammit, now I do want one. I WILL DRESS UP OLGA.
Played like a fiddle
It’s a little bit of a catch-22.
When the government shuts down, government rules prohibit anyone from working if they’re unfunded, or deemed essential (in which case you may get paid in IOUs until the shutdown is over).
If they’re not paid, then by the other rules, they’re not supposed to show up to work, which means we’d be stuck.
That is, until and unless they specifically pass a law saying that they don’t get paid in a shutdown ~and~ they still have to come in.
How government funding is a murky subject, for those on the outside of it, but I suppose if there’s enough interest here, I could try to explain how some of it works.
It’s worse than that.
The Constitution *requires* that Congress get paid. The 27th Amendment states that any changes to Congress’ salary cannot take place until *AFTER* the next election cycle.
That means pay cuts as well as raises. The Amendment was intended to prevent Congress from making a cash-grab, but the unintended consequence means you can’t dock their pay, either.
Except that all they have to do to make a cash-grab is to wait until the proper time and then vote themselves a raise.
That’s the whole point – If they vote themsleves a riase, they CANNOT collect on it until the voters have had their say.
They cannot change their pay. Not the same thing as “getting paid” it. Treasury could simply withhold their checks ( or automatic deposits, or whatever ) for the duration of the shutdown.
Also….MONORAAAAAIIIILLL….
There is a senator trying to introduce a law that would halt congressional salaries in the event of a government shutdown, which I think is a fantastic idea.
Won’t affect *this* Congress, however – Only future Congresses. Any attempt to change the pay of *this* Congress which would be intended to be effective before the mid-term elections would be patently unconstitutional, as good an idea as it may seem.
Which makes that Senator pretty much either a long-term thinker (Hah!) or a grandstander making pandering gestures devoid of meaning (not unlikely).
A law wouldn’t do it. laws cant override the constitution (the whole reason we have the supreme court). Since the 27th amendment to the constitution says the pay can’t change until after an election cycle there would need to be a 28th amendment to repeal/modify the 27th amendment.
A law wouldn’t affect the current shutdown. It would affect future ones, however.
Absolutely a law will do it – For the next Congress.
27th Amendment doesn’t say you can’t change pay – it only says you have to wait until the voters have had a chance to vote your pay-tinkering ass out of office before the new scale goes into effect.
A catch-22? Comparable in that aspect with Marylands’s new gun laws, then.
I compleatly agree taht they should not get paid when the goverment is shutdown, but like Mithras said, if they arnt getting paid then why show up. Maybe in this day of tech 6 months after a law goes into effect the public vote wiehter it was good or not and represntives get paid based on people’s vote. Pass something NO ONE supports, no one get paid.
Still have to deal with that pesky 27th Amendment, though.
Which means you can put into law something that will crimp the pay of the next Congress, but not this one.
Personally, I’d think the 27th Amendment needs to be amended itself – to permit immediate pay cuts, whilst retaining the controls on pay raises.
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I’m all for them not showing up. That which governs least governs best, IMO. Also, the more you let Congress
regulatecontrol, the more they fuck things up. I am really unhappy with the expansions of Congressional power excused by the interstate commerce clause.Ah every man’s fantasy…well sort of.
I’m a 1 woman kind of guy. I love the idea of 2 ladies at once but I’m honestly not confident enough for that to work on a regular basis. I’m not totally possessive but I can’t help but feel almost caveman about this sort of thing… it’s weird because I’m totally against possessive behaviour and such but I just don’t have the mentality to share lovers *shrug*
This comic is misnamed. Mick isn’t having a failure to fire at all; he’s ignoring RSO commands to *cease* fire! His pecker is fully automatic….
Heh. Slam-fire?
I gotta see what that guy at 0:26 in that video did. I’ve got an original 91/30 Sniper Variant that I’d been thinking about throwing into one of the archangel stocks, but didn’t know if they worked/functioned on 91/30’s that had the PU scope and scope mount.
the archangel…I loves it….
I had a feeling this was coming, but it still elicited multiple chuckles and head shakes.
I’ve been thinking about how I might handle this myself if ever confronted with it and still haven’t figured it out. Even theoretically, since that’s all it would be until I was actually there.
It seems to be something that has the potential to shake one’s life philosophy to the core.
Yes, a lot of first time poly people want it both ways. My first secondary was like that. She hated me being with my primary, but had no problems sharing herself with me and her husband. It lasted two years, but I had to get out of it. They are no longer together. She wants monogamy and he wants poly…
Regarding archangel stock: I have one. Maybe I need to get down to texas sometime and take it with me.
I’ve…been looking for a job, been looking for a job, been looking for a job, been looking for a job, been looking for a job, FOUND A JOB…
…and they can’t hire me until the fucking government shutdown is over.
…fuck me with a screwdriver.
#2 Philips work for you?
Seriously, though, that sucks. I hope for your sake that the shutdown ends soon.
Sux, Du.
Full of sympathy/Empathy. I was still in uniform when the last shutdown happened, and we got slammed with a lot of crap that wouldn’t usually be our responsibility.
You’re stuck on the other side of that coin, and it has got to blow chunks.
Hang tough.
Us old hippie folks did a lot of this same stuff back in the dark ages (60’s). We called it free love and mostly it didn’t work out long term, more often resulting in serial polygamy rather than “poly”. Still, being in the sack with two women at the same time was a kick in the ass. Now I’m quite happy with my wife of 20 years and her gun collection.
I await, with some trepidation, for when Alex and Heidi meet.
Why trepidation, characters ”interesting times” is our amusement.
The guys with the reproduction sniper scope & Archangel are shooting it at (perhaps) 50 yards? And so happy with those 3 to 5 shot groups… Can’t imagine what they were doing before. I frequently shoot scoped milsurps that old or older with 5 rounds into clover leaves at 100. Usually using cast bullets I made myself. Granted they’re using milsurp ammo old enough to get an AARP card… And designed to fit into a dirty MG chamber in a Siberian blizzard, not my neck sized only brass.
I want to see someone who knows enough to use a set of bags do some work at 100 yards. Also an exact description of how that barreled action is held to the stock, what stiffens the Tupperware, barel clearance…
I’ve never deliberately gone to the range to test the accuracy of a load/rifle/etc without a set of sandbags. Granted, I’ve had my derp moments a few times- forgot that I’d taken my range bucket out of the vehicle and found myself without targets, stapler or sandbags. Even made it to the range without AMMO! However, never did any of that on purpose.
A coworker of ours suggested that the citizens of the US should have our taxes prorated for the time government services stay down. Not that it would add up to much for a lot of us, but that’s not really the point.
Been catching some of that from my Euro colleagues. Won’t happen, of course, but it’s fun to think of.
And BTW , how’s Omar doing on HIS date? In case you couldn’t tell, I’m much closer to his age than Mick’s. And I’m thinking his date looked a little broad in the shoulders , with perhaps a hint of an Adam’s apple.
Youth really IS wasted on the young.
I just realized, you never see his date’s profile, which would usually say something like “35TG MTF Submissive” or “30F Switch.” So we won’t know for sure until Omar knocks boots. Somehow, I don’t think Omar would care at this point in his life 🙂
Heh. My first thought was “Maria looks a bit… beefy.” Then I realized that the pic she sent Omar stopped at a very tuckable point. Methinks Omar is about to take a walk on the wild side (doot, doo-doot, doo-doot, doot-doo-doot…).
My biggest problem with the Archangel is what has been said here before: I worry that a bunch of historic rifles are going to have their original stocks destroyed and be permanently sporterized. Yes, I’m aware they made 37 million of the things, but that doesn’t make it ok in my book. (The thought of somebody using a Remington walnut stock for firewood makes me sad.) It doesn’t help that I find the Archangel stock ugly.
I have to say that a detachable magazine would be nice, though. I did think it was interesting that it appeared the primary shooter forgot that he had a detachable mag; you can see him take it out after firing his first grouping but not after firing his second grouping.
My original stock is going to be used for a steampunk looking gun. It was a refurbished stock, so I wasn’t too attached to it, and no two serial numbers matched.
Destroying it, though…no thanks.
Then I won’t tell you of my father’s Hungarian-issue M/52 in its lovely walnut Monte Carlo stock…
Ooops!
Too late!
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You should consider yourself glared at.
Heh!
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THIS SO MUCH.
There’s a guy I’ve seen post rage-inducingly awful photos of Mosins being deliberately trashed to make “art pieces”. Pouring salt on them to rust and pit the barrels, etc.
Because “…it’s ONLY a hundred-dollar rifle”.
…that was probably a good shooter before tomy the vandal got his paws on it. (I know some people that sneer at anything with a wooden stock. Their loss, my gain, but damn, if you don’t want it, let it be.)
I have a half dozen Mosins. But the one I put on the archangel I did not have to do anything permanent to the original stock. It’s still in the safe.
Believe it or not, this sort of thing goes on no matter WHAT sort of collectible you’re talking about. For example, fountain pens — there are people who modify the nibs in order to better suit their writing style, and those historical collectors who froth that the historicity of hundred-plus year old black hard rubber Watermans has been damaged. “They belong in a museum!!”
You’re in charge? Cool. I’ll need gas and ammo for the invasion. .308 winchester will will work just fine. Oh, and chow. Gonna need chow. We’ll get the beer there.
I’ve already started the invasion by catching up on Menage A 3 comics to learn the language 😉
So you caught up on Ma3 to become a cunning linguist?
But I thought Canada was already part of us. Isn’t it a National Park?
The only one still open!
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Quoting myself from FB:
“Okay, so..we won’t have to pay the taxes to support the government during the time it’s “shut down”, right?
Don’t we get a pro-rated credit/refund?
Seems only fair. Our cable company does it. When there’s an outage of several days, we don’t have to pay for those days.”
I started that as a joke, but now I think we should all insist on it, for reals.
I mean come on, what if you were planning a trip to a National Park with your family–especially one that can’t easily be re-scheduled.
What, it’s closed? But aren’t we still paying for it with our taxes?
I call
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION! AGAIN!
In fact, apparently:
TAXATION WITHOUT..ANYTHING! TAXATION FOR A BUNCH OF GOD DAMNED NOTHING!!
We have representation; as noted above, Congress is technically still in session. We just don’t have anything except representation.
Like I said: a buncha goddamned NOTHING.
Well I went down south
for to see my gal
sing polyamoreee
all day..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COB4_i5rcA
(kind of a cute last verse)
YOU, madam, are HIGHLY entertaining.
Yeah, invading Canada didn’t work out too well for us last time we tried it…
But now that we’ve upgraded all of our Mosins to EBR’s they don’t stand a chance
Nor has it worked out very well all times they’ve come south at us.
Which is why we don’t arm that border – nothing good comes of crossing it with force. :-p
What do you mean, “not too well”? They burned Washington!
Sure they did – After the US burned York (Toronto) – that doesn’t get mentioned much, I note. ALSO: The force that burned DC didn’t come from Canada – It came from the Peninsular War by way Bermuda.
Meanwhile, the forces invading from Canada, initially gaining some success, suffered a series of reverses and disasters, and were sent home having completely failed their invasion. From there, forces defending Canada wound up on a mostly defensive footing with some cross-border raiding going both directions.
Credit has to be given on their defensive efforts – with limited resources, they were executed with imagination and vigor.
Yeeessss… invade Canada… we’re not waiting ten feet beyond the border with rabid man killing beavers or anything like that… it’s not like we’re WAITING for a chance to try the plan out or anything. Come on in!
Naaah.
We’ll wait until y’all come across the border to go shopping then close the border to prevent your return. No need to invade – we’ll just annex your population down here.
…For some reason I find it acceptable to tacticool an SKS (Ordered one this week, WOO! Just have to remove the kosmoline when it gets here), but I find it to be utterly disgusting if someone wants to tacticool a Mosin. Re-finishing the stock is fine, but an attachment like an archangel?! You’re desecrating a piece of history. I don’t know why, but the inner IVAN LOVES GLORIOUS RIFLE OF MOTHERLAND comes out in me with Mosins.
If a government that can’t do anything shuts down, how can you tell?
You can tell by the media slurg-gasm of sob stories and dire predictions.
…they’re not actively making things worse, kind of the difference between abuse and neglect?
*snerk*