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Black Rifle Coffee Stillwater, Oklahoma
Camo Corner Range & Co is proud to say we are Stillwater’s oldest and strongest carrier of Black Rifle Coffee. If you haven’t already tried out Black Rifle Coffee, swing by the store and ask and we can help you find the perfect flavor and roast for you!
Army Military Models in Stillwater, Oklahoma
If you haven’t been by in a while you may not know that we are Stillwater Oklahoma’s largest military model retailer. We carry a wide range of military models, from M60 MBT’s to Shermans, F-15’s PT boats, Battleships and Apaches. Swing by and check it out!!
The Great Argonauts Black Friday Sale in Stillwater Oklahoma
I’ve always hated black friday sales, partly because black friday sounds like an awkward B-grade movie and partly because I hate sales, they’re too gimmicky. But I’ve also always hated the word argonaut, because it confuses me. I think somebody is saying astronaut but instead they’re talking
An Argonaut, apparently, alliteration
about sea mollusks of some sort, unless of course they’re making a veiled reference to the Greek mythos or the etymological origins of the word. You can imagine my dismay when I begin to envision Neil Armstrong walking on the moon and then I am met with the rude awakening that this is not a conversation about man’s greatest triumph (or staged triumph, depending on who you ask) but rather a dialogue on the merits of the pelagic octopus. And yet not only have I decided to use the word argonaut in my blog, but I’ve also decided to have a black friday sale!
Note how I put an exclamation mark at the end of the word sale! I’ve found that’s a common theme in advertising.
It begins a week early and runs through christmas.
I’m calling this sale! The Great Argonauts Black Friday Sale! (beginning a week early and running through Christmas) in Stillwater Oklahoma !!!!!
Let’s start with some special pricing on guns;
Tan Kel-tec KSG against a random wall with miscellaneous shells thrown in and a patriotic type logo in the upper right corner…..note how I could have shortened the word miscellaneous to misc but instead chose to use the full form of the word…..miscellaneous
I have a few black Kel-tec KSG’s that I’m offering for a special pricing of $699
A tan KSG for $759
A Kel-tec PF-9 in Desert Tan for $265
A handful of Marlins (336) 30-30 for $415
Special discontinued Desert Sand Howa’s chambered in 25-06, 308, 30-06 etc starting @ $399.
Springfield MA9102 Standard M1A $1285
Springfield Rang Officer Commander 45 ACP $750
Anderson Lowers for $45 (no transfer fees)
A 4″ S/S Smith & Wesson 686 for $689
A Sig Sauer P290RS 9mm EDC Extreme for $325
Delton AR-15’s for $499
9mm UZI’s (UC-9) for $585
American Classic Government Model 1911 45ACP 5″ $500
FNS-C in 9mm for $455
Glock 42 for $400
One Glock 43 left for $450
Springfield XDs Gen 4 in 9mm for $525
Buy a Redline Aquamira Water Bottle get an extra filter half off ($20 value)
All Eberlestock gear 20% off
All in stock Danner boots 20% off
More deals to come on Henry’s, FN’s, Springfields, Rock Islands, and Glocks, stay tuned !
We Don’t Get to Pick the Truth
History is subjective; it shouldn’t be that way, but it is. Text books tell history selectively to fit the mold of a curriculum, and a historian tells it another way.
History can be dragged out over time and so covered with lies that it becomes a shell of what it once was. Other times the present can be so covered with lies that it takes a century for the truth to come out.
And then there’s shadow games, little lies mixed in with the truth. History is rampant with the worst kinds of lies; lies of omission. And that’s where the conjecture kicks in.
One of the greatest victim of history is Poland.
Their story hasn’t been told as diligently as it should have been. For instance, very people know how the conflict in Poland began in WWII.
During the night of 31 August, the Gleiwitz incident, a false flag attack on the radio station, was staged near the border city of Gleiwitz by German units posing as Polish troops, in Upper Silesia as part of the wider Operation Himmler.
The German regime needed an excuse to justify invading Poland.
By US Miltary (Photo #: USA C-543 (Color)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
The plight of Polish doesn’t improve very quickly either.
In fact it gets downright horrific, and furthermore, it provides us with an insight into the fickle nature of historical accuracy.
The Katyn Forest Massacre
The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria‘s proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower bound.
At first, everybody assumed that the Nazis had murdered the victims. History changed again though;
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Soviet Union (1990–1991) and the Russian Federation (1991–2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre.
And the story continues to ‘evolve’ because just recently it was discovered that American POW’s sent coded messages to the Allies explaining the events in detail.
The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.
The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head. Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control.
Again, history is shaped as much by omission as it is by admission.
In the early years after the war, outrage by some American officials over the concealment inspired the creation of a special U.S. Congressional committee to investigate Katyn.
In a final report released in 1952, the committee declared there was no doubt of Soviet guilt, and called the massacre “one of the most barbarous international crimes in world history.”
Despite the committee’s strong conclusions, the White House maintained its silence on Katyn for decades, showing an unwillingness to focus on an issue that would have added to political tensions with the Soviets during the Cold War.
For the sake of the people involved, it’s important to get the facts right.
The silence by the U.S. government has been a source of deep frustration for many Polish-Americans. One is Franciszek Herzog, 81, a Connecticut man whose father and uncle died in the massacre.
It may seem simple minded or nitpicky, but we have a responsibility to get history right, so that it doesn’t repeat itself, and so that justice, to whatever degree, sees it’s day. Only remembering the parts of history that we like makes us inaccurate, and that’s what leads to repeating mistakes.
As Herzog said in his AP interview;
“There’s a big difference between not knowing and not wanting to know,” Herzog said. “I believe the U.S. government didn’t want to know because it was inconvenient to them.”
All in all we can learn a lot about ourselves now by how we treat history. If we believe the convenient parts of history, we’ll most likely believe the convenient facts in the present, but past or present, we don’t get to pick the truth.