Geeto67

I do not have a permit to carry in Ohio. Have I had a permit to carry other places? yes. I have in the past had jobs that required me to have firearm training. I am currently trying to help a friend get a GCA mfg license because he want's to start making handmade lemat revolvers (it's a new orleans thing). How this is relevant, I have no idea other than you want to try an invalidate my opinion that civilian training isn't up the same standards as military or Law Enforcement training and oversight which is pointless because it is just not. Do you have mandatory conflict resolution training in your life? Do you have ready access to mental health professionals as part of your routine? When I was in the Fire department if we even came into contact with a severely wounded or deceased victim we had mandatory counseling and I was a volunteer. that kind of service doesn't come with a CCW permit. To me a gun is an extremely fun and inefficient way to put holes in paper. And like anything mechanical it's fun to geek out over the engineering, or the history, or the metal craft. and since it's very hard to reason with a bear it's probably a good tool to have camping. All this self defense crap? the odds just are not in your favor. Do I carry? no. no point. Do I respect other's right to carry? if the law supports it yes. But that isn't going to stop me from having the opinion that some people's reasons are irrational justification. it's an opinion, so what. I'll turn this around though....how many times have you actually had to defend yourself from a violent crime? not job related I can think of 3 times (two muggings and a bar fight). 1 I was young and stupid and put my self in that situation but learned from it, 2 were unavoidable based on environment. you know what? no gun. I am still here. Even job related I have hours upon hours of verbal conflict resolution and not one gun related incident. I have been stabbed in the hand twice but we aren't talking about knife violence. your turn.

Then let me revise - show me 1 where the individual was not ex-military, law enforcement, or security and where the shooter did not run out of ammo or otherwise surrender. In my head I was thinking job blow CCW permit holder with no military or LE training but it came out as "anybody", so that is my bad. I find it hard to accept your last point about stopping a shooting through force being both a good positive ending and not newsworthy. Maybe if it was done without any violence it is good but it is still newsworthy, that's why they still print stories about kids getting caught with guns in school before anything happens. Also there is national news and local news. the overwhelming majority of violent news stories tend to be local not national unless they are really a spectacle. there are plenty of gun violent related crimes in NYC every day - if the NY Times reported about half of them that would fill the whole paper everyday. how many do you hear about in Ohio? probably almost none - even in the internet age.

you won't see the Associated Press do a piece like that because they don't publish op-ed pieces. That's the job of pundits and the op-ed sections of the NYT and WSJ.

that wasn't the firm that was a national average for security professionals and it included things like bank and armored car robberies, hostage situations, and also considered deaths of fellow guards by their co-workers fire arm in the mix. It's one of those things they tell you to highlight that the gun is not a crutch - it is at best a complete last resort. It was also their training material and I don't know the source so dubious at best, but it always stuck with me.

I will make sure to mention this at the next security guard, armored car officer, or police officer funeral I attend where he or she was shot with their own or a co-worker's weapon. It happens more often than you think. from your own link: "Police who were helping with security at the event fired back, killing both gunmen." Police are not dipshits with CCW permits - they are highly trained professionals. Let's get this out of the way right now - unless you are active military or currently a police officer you are not "trained". Maybe if you were ex police or military and you kept your same training regime in civilian life you can maybe say that you are fully trained in conflict resolution though force. Other than that you are kidding yourself. What passes for civilian "gun training" in this country is mostly to keep you from blowing your pecker off because you think it is cool to carry in your waste-band. Seriously more goes into this kind of training than just point the front toward the target and keep your grouping close, there is psychological evaluation and training, constant review of verbal communication skills, etc.... I really think you sell law enforcement short if you think your twice a week at rage prepares you for a situation that requires you to use your firearm in self defense. In about half of these the individuals "fighting back" were ex-military, police trained, or active security guards. Also in some of them the "rampage" had already stopped because the initial shooter had run out of ammunition or otherwise surrendered. Convenient of the highly inflammatory conservative website to leave details like that out. I will trade you one batshit conservative site for one batshit liberal site invalidating all of what you say: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/armed-civilians-do-not-stop-mass-shootings But there is something else to ponder. I wonder how many people that think "they will have the answer for when trouble comes looking" consider that that upon drawing that firearm they are equally as likely a target for any Law enforcement as the original shooter. You know what LEO's hate? People firing guns in public. All people. They really don't have time or want to consider who is the "good guy" vigilante and who is the "bad guy" original shooter. you know when they figure that out? at the station after you have surrendered, or in the corner's office after they have put a nice tight grouping in your chest. Oh and by the way I am pretty sure being a vigilante is also a crime.

You do realize that statistically speaking that answer is most likely to be "shot to death with own weapon", right? I don't think in the last two decade anybody has "stopped" or "prevented" a mass shooting with a firearm in the US. when I worked private security in NY I remember being told that I had a 30% chance of my own weapon being used against me in any altercation and that the best countermeasure was better strategy and preventative action training, not a more secure holster.

It's a gorgeous car, and having seen it in person it is surprisingly clean for a mid-western car. Wish you good luck.

which one? LoL

knack or brat? I love a good sausage joke.

Also, since everyone in politics is an "idiot" it is hard to know who you are talking about. It's not an unreasonable jump to say that it might be workplace violence when a person who works for the county leaves a party for county employees and then comes back in tactical gear. it's recognition of the possible link between the shooter and the victims - some of the post office shootings that first highlighted the issue didn't happen because of a dispute that day.

The NY times is reporting that one of the shooters was a health inspector work worked for the county and was at the center before leaving and then coming back in tactical gear. Gawker is parroting the same thing: http://jezebel.com/san-bernardino-mass-shooting-suspects-killed-in-shooto-1745911542 in before some moron says "if the disabled people in the center had guns then he wouldn't have gotten three feet in the door"...

Thanks! Will do.

Went in hoping to see a DOHC v8, was not disappointed. Can someone let Dominic Toretto know his car is ready?

To be fair, that car was going to go sideways whether I wanted it to or not, the fact that I was delighted by this is almost irrelevant.

Holy fucksticks that is a nice car. Love the stack injection.

The nice thing about quadrajunks is they have small primaries with massive secondaries. As long as your foot isn't buried in it the throttle response is great and mileage isn't horrible. When those secondaries do open however it often feels like god kicked you in the ass and told you to git. I'm ok at tuning it but I bought one that had been redone by the carb shop and was on someone's NCMA FAST class car before being swapped onto my engine. It's pretty good when warm but hard to start when cold, further compounded by the fact that the float bowl weeps into the engine. The problem is I don't really know what to replace it with. I had a Holley on it for a while and it was ok, but didn't look stock and when the timing walked that carb backfired horribly and always melted something. Tri-power has been done to death and honestly $1600 fir an original setup or $2300 for the Barry grant setup is too much to spend, might as well go EFI at that point. I thought about getting a 2x4 manifold and running two of those Webber side draft conversions just for giggles. I've been playing with the dellorto versions on one of my cb750s and the adjustability in the thing is pretty amazing.

I agree those numbers are stout. I was talking with a buddy of mine recently who tunes a lot of turbo v8 cars and what he was saying is that there is just way more "room" for improvement in the LS platform than you see in the dodge. after the pully, the chip, and the intake you are starting to look at an engine that you can measure it's lifespan in days. maybe it's got enough to get to 850 hp but there are already 1200hp LSX street cars out there so.... I have to be honest, all this is starting to seem pointless. I love a stupid fast car as much as the next guy but after you cross the 500hp mark most of these modern muscle car chassis start to get un-driveable without heavy computerized stability assistance and buckets of talent and restraint. I'm not saying you couldn't drive a hellcat to the store for milk like it was a 2015 altima, I'm just saying the overwhelming marjoity of people probably don't have the self control to do it without having a "watch this" moment. I'm guilty of this too, a buddy lent me his ZL1 and all I wanted to do was hang the tail out every time I made a turn.

Going to assume this is a serious question. Here are the breakdowns of NHRA racing classes. http://www.nhra.com/nhra101/classes.aspx Super Stock and Pro-Stock are NHRA racing classes. Any Pro-Street racing class wasn't really an NHRA racing class but was covered more by events like NCMA's Fastest street car challenge in the 1990's. Even now you are likely to see a pro-street car in the super street class in NHRA. to be honest I don't actually know if there is a current class called "pro-street". there are a lot of books on the subject but for brevity's sake I ma just going to rattle off a top of the head informal history that is probably mostly accurate. Think of early 1960's super stock as the grand daddy of modern regular body race and street cars. In the early 1960's from Super Stock you got Afx altered wheelbase cars and then "funny cars", but also Pro stock and Gas ("Gasser")classes. Super Stock was one of the top classes for stock cars in the 1960's and it wasn't uncommon to find the MFGs and dealerships sponsoring guys like "dyno" don nicholson, Phil Bonner, Arnie "The farmer" beswick, Gas Rhonda, Danny "On the Gas" Ongais...etc. Despite the sponsor backing it was still an "open class" and anybody with a car could enter. Race cars looked like this: http://image.superchevy.com/f/38660838+w640+h640+q80+re0+cr1+st0/sucs-110049-years-52-1962-dyno-don-nicholson-409-bel-air.jpg As more money got poured in the classes changed to keep up with the money and you got Factory Expiremental (Afx) classes where you started to see things get wild like factory lightweight and altered wheelbase cars. Race cars started looking like this right around 1964.... and evolved into the tube frame floppers we know as "funny cars" by 1969: http://www.draglist.com/artman2/uploads/2/2_16.jpg Since the dealers couldn't really compete with Chevy and mother mopar they pushed the pro stock classes because that was the closest to what they sold on the dealer lot, leaving Super Stock to be a largely privateer class. by the end of the 1960's and well into the 1970s pro stock cars looked like this: http://www.camaro5.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=352646&stc=1&d=1333139664 http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/12/SoxnMartin_1000.jpg However by the late 1970's early 1980's pro stock cars started to look like this http://www.angelfire.com/tx/fuelcarfan/outlaws/outlawimages/marriottps2.JPG Some say this style of chassis came from the gasser classes which had started as Super Stock cars but were restricted to running pump gas. Back in the 1960's there wasn't a lot of prohibition on "exotic fuels" so a class that forbid them was novel. My father still tells the story of when he was running his 409 in super stock and blew the manifold off the engine because he was running hydrazine and stalled the car pulling to allowing it to pool in the manifold. Upon restart....boom...2 four barrels through the hood. I think Ohio George Montgomery's Malco Gasser is the origin of the Species: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--tyS1ikwX--/875043449641960002.jpg As is common, street cars tended to mimic the race cars. in the mid 1970's your average pro-stock car looked like this: http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2006/images/Sox_Martin.jpg and your average "street machine" looked like this: http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2013/06/full-205-5103-imag1672_1.jpg however by the 1980's pro stockers looked like this: http://image.hotrod.com/f/61600219+w660+h495+cr1/restored-reher-morrison-racing-engines-camaros.jpg and "Pro street" was the attempt to make the street car like the race car and you started to see this http://bangshift.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/prostreet21.jpg what was really interesting about pro-street in the 1980s was that the street rod movement was going on at the same time and the camp divided into two types of "pro street" cars. The "Pro Fairground" cars like those built by Rick Dobbertin and Troy Trepainer http://image.hotrod.com/f/46260695+w660+h495+cr1/hrdp-1306-02-z%2B25-years-of-troy-trepaniers-greatest-hits-in-his-own-words%2B1966-chevy-chevelle.jpg and the "fastest street car" movement where people thought these should be pro stock cars with lights and license plates: so that's the basic idea. Street machines and Pro Street are street car versions of Pro Stock race cars from different eras.

Depends: is it a street car? do you spend all day polishing it from a lawn chair while it is parked on grass? Do you have one of those stuffed crying kids (I just learned they are called time out dolls) leaning up against the bumper? Is it 1990? If you answered yes to 3 of the 4 questions then you might have a pro-street. Thats a nice setup though, what car is it under?

Craig here recommended me to AutoBody Specialists on 5th ave in grandview for an insurance job on my jeep. Was very happy with them. they do a lot of race car work too which was really impressive. http://www.yelp.com/biz/auto-body-specialist-columbus

http://jalopnik.com/the-2016-cadillac-cts-v-is-crazier-than-any-hellcat-1745310237?utm_expid=66866090-68.FLd2bbXWSVeOIUIrpr9Fmw.0&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fjalopnik.com%2F Jalopnik has certainly come a long way since the days of Wes and I taking press cars street racing and getting our asses handed to us, feels more like a real car review....however I don't know if I can get behind the assertion that a car is "crazier" because you are less likely to expect it to be fast. I feel like this article should really be "the CTS-V is for grownups and the charger Hellcat is for that 45 year old dude who still collects star wars figures, listens to glam metal, and calls people "babe". CTS-V gives up 67hp to the hellcat from what people are telling me there is a lot of room left where as the hellkitty may be at it's ragged edge already. thoughts?

Actually I think the lift is about .510-.530 so somewhere in that range but it's been a long time since I looked at the cam card. It's a wildly impractical cam for a street car. It also has massive overlap and pulls no vacuum below 2000 rpm. It's a 400 cu pontiac engine so it is also running somewhere between 180 and 230 degrees temp at all times. At one point I had dreams of running F.A.S.T. Class or Pure Stock drags with the car so it has the stock 670 heads acid flowed to the stock intake and a 1969 GTO Judge R.A. III Quadrajet internally flowed and blueprinted to push 825cfm. It's not a great setup but it runs pretty well. looks bone stock, doesn't ping with 9.5:1 compression and makes about 350hp to the wheels. Idle is set at 800rpm and until it is warmed up it won't hold an idle. I can't seem to get the partial choke settings right so that is where the reving and loading up at stoplights comes from. Also like every single pontiac ever made the timing likes to walk which doesn't help. once the temp is above 180 and the choke is full off the thing doesn't do it anymore. I do also happen to own a harley, a 1974 ironhead with a magneto, Y cams and a Screaming Eagle carb off of an EVO sporty and drag pipes. It is an ironhead which is to say it has it's own issues.

you are right, but there really isn't an over-arching term for language spoken by poor white other than the regional names (hillbilly, redneck, whisky tango, etc...) also it sounds funnier. Point is if a person thinks American should have an official language they are a socialist/fascist/communist who hates the first amendment of the constitution, the constitution in general, freedom, bald eagles, apple pie, mom, Chevrolet, the American flag, and Jesus. So, here is the thing I wonder about - is Russia really considered a "threat" in this modern age? I remember as a kid when the cold war ended it was widely reported that less than a 1/3 of Russia's arsenal was actually operational during the cold war, and that hurt their credibility as a world military power a lot. I get the Putin is a relic of the cold war himself and a lot of this echos the old saber rattling of the 1960's-1980's but really, are NATO forces not doing anything because there really is a complex power struggle here or do they just know that Russia is a paper tiger and they are just letting Putin dig his own grave so to speak?

Pro Street grew out of the Street machine Drag car movement of the 1970's to be basically street legal "pro-stock" style drag cars. Hallmarks are huge tubbed rears with 33" wide tires and narrowed rear ends. In the 1990's it go so out of hand that that it was jokingly called "Pro-Fairground" as guys began to tub otherwise stock cars. I'm talking 13 second cars with huge rear tires, parachutes, and wheelie bars that did nothing but rumble from the show field to the snack bar and back. Pro Touring grew out of the backlash against pro-street in the 1990's (although you can probably trace its roots back to Trans Am road racers, Gymkana, and Mullholland racers of the 1970's). Basically it was setting a muscle car up to not just go and stop but turn as well. I think Car Craft's Real Street Eliminator was a big boost to this movement in the 1990's as it put cars through a well rounded series of paces with auto-x, dragstrip, braking, and skid pad tests. this is a pro-street car: and this is a pro touring car: http://image.superchevy.com/f/59523166+w640+h426+q80+re0+cr1+ar0+st0/1970-chevy-nova-front-three-quarter.jpg These categories are some what fluid because there were also things like "pro-street" racing classes in the 1990s that started with legit pro street cars (back halved stock steel bodied cars) like this (Pat Musi's popeye camaro): http://www.geocities.ws/kotenberger/popeye_camaro.jpg and ended with tube chassis cars that were maybe 1 or two steps down from a pro mod car like this (also pat musi's popeye camaro): http://www.cruisenewsonline.com/WorldStreetnationals2004/PatMusiPopeyeCamaro.jpg any questions?

At least it doesn't attract very drunk, 40 miles of bad road, cougars in dunkin donuts parking lots. Something my GTO seemed to do in spades for some reason in the late 1990's. Half of them would make a shifting motion (i hope) with their hand while they screamed Gee -Tee -Oh at the top of their lungs at 3:30 in the morning. Must have been all the patches of black primer over rust - looked just like their flavor of poor life decision.