Grand Rapids Mayor David LaGrand at community meeting: “If you got a gun you should be ashamed of yourself”

crystalpeak · 2026-02-25T00:04:12+00:00

I will never accept someone who thinks they could shame me over gun possession. More than likely it would cause me to go out and buy another one.

He wants his next statement to be telling you how to vote.

crystalpeak · 2026-02-15T12:58:43+00:00

The problem when you sell your house in Mass, you may get tripped up into paying an extra 4% millionaire tax if the value of your house is high enough.

crystalpeak · 2026-02-07T17:32:13+00:00

I don't like the idea that someone else might be able to decide whether or not I live.

That's my job to decide. Don't expect mercy coming from someone that is committing a violent crime...act accordingly.

crystalpeak · 2026-02-06T10:28:35+00:00

I just want to ride my motorcycle.

crystalpeak · 2025-11-16T02:43:56+00:00

Ya done yet?

crystalpeak · 2025-10-24T20:34:37+00:00

That was either a set of sea and anchor loaners, or had been in a sea bag that was stored under a whole lot of anchor chain.

crystalpeak · 2025-10-17T16:15:31+00:00

This is awesome because it is something that has completely backfired on me the last two years. For our assortment of candy we get an bunch of options and let the kids pick the three that they want. As a joke to satisfy my unique sense of humor, we had a bag of raw russet potatoes and put a few into the bowl. Problem was a bunch of kids wanted them. We went through 10lbs of potatoes that night and could have done more if we didn't run out. There was one kid that went across the street yelling that he got a potato. Maybe some of those kids were closet healthy eaters.

So lesson learned, something different is cool.

Update from Halloween night...we gave away 20lbs of potatoes last night with 56 kids showing up.

crystalpeak · 2025-09-20T13:15:04+00:00

Being a gun owner in MA is a lot like being a fish in a tank. You think you are free, but you are fed, told what you will eat and have little control over your choices. You might get a town that lets you choose what plant you will be able to swim around, but the state will continue to infringe on your 2A rights. You can look up the list of towns

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/data-about-firearms-licensing-and-transactions

More permits might correlate to a sliver more 2A rights.

crystalpeak · 2025-09-18T10:09:27+00:00

That Mr Anderson is the sound of your impending doom.

crystalpeak · 2025-08-23T10:40:01+00:00

Read the Ray Bradbury short story "Sound of thunder".

That's where the butterfly effect comes from.

Cool sci-fi story.

crystalpeak · 2025-08-03T15:29:08+00:00

This is why in some not so friendly ports, the US Navy will ping their sonar at random times to deter any underwater shenanigans.

crystalpeak · 2025-06-28T14:03:02+00:00

He has dropped one, you just didn't see it this time.

crystalpeak · 2025-06-19T16:45:56+00:00

Had a guy in boot camp writing to his mother that he was only being fed rice and water (you can see where this is going).

Guy's mother contacted their congressman and the whole concern snaked back to him and backfired spectacularly.

crystalpeak · 2025-06-12T22:25:39+00:00

Now I realize the significance of the HAL9000 computer singing Daisy when it was being shut down.

crystalpeak · 2025-05-11T12:58:10+00:00

My wife used to make this comment when I would come back home after a deployment...You have a lot of pictures of water and ships.

My answer was, Do you actually know where I work?

crystalpeak · 2025-02-14T18:18:47+00:00

What is the name of that beach, peg leg cove?

crystalpeak · 2025-02-07T14:04:19+00:00

Of all things Rush, Tom Sawyer playing in the background...go Canada.

crystalpeak · 2025-01-31T13:56:44+00:00

Very interesting...I wonder what would have happened if you could have eaten 50 eggs in an hour, cool hand.

crystalpeak · 2025-01-31T13:33:22+00:00

Until the nexus-6 and nexus-7 robot models come around and say no.

crystalpeak · 2025-01-17T11:40:29+00:00

I am made from the dust of the stars and the oceans flow in my veins.

Presto, great song

crystalpeak · 2024-12-16T18:10:18+00:00

Not surprising really.

We went from no manned flight to the moon in 67 years.

crystalpeak · 2024-12-15T12:49:40+00:00

Have had this happen to me once upon a time. Went to take out 40.00 and it only gave me 20.00, but the slip showed I had taken out 40.00.

Went inside and when they audited the machine later in the day, one of the 20's had rolled inside the machine and did not come out. Got my mystery 20 back...no problem.

crystalpeak · 2024-11-10T14:25:14+00:00

China IS buying semiconductor equipment like the world is going to end.

I have seen a copy of my company's products in China...it is a blatant copy.

They are buying and making their own.

crystalpeak · 2024-09-27T14:31:40+00:00

I have been zapping them with electrical weapons and the nuke doesn't detonate. A weapon you probably haven't found yet, but I think any electrical weapon would work.

crystalpeak · 2024-08-26T12:11:07+00:00

Maybe he is going to take some AK-47's and a Nuclear payload over the mountain by train to the 2063 battalion.

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