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That is what I have lost so far and plan on being in the 150 range by my birthday in June.   Been eating ~700 calories a day and nearly zero carbs as well as limiting fats substantially. I can't exercise so it is diet only for me and seems to be working. I have also cut out all caffeine and any sort of processed foods. I cook fresh food for every meal.   After years of 230+ cholesterol and adding a few pounds a month it was time.

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Yep! Between the background checks for Hazmat endorsements and the ever-increasing medical card restrictions, being a truck driver is quickly turning into a giant pain in the ***.

  I like your message but I am not so sure of the broad brush.   I love my family but I am not killing and dragging retarded bodies off to the woods to move my family in.  I still have to look them in the eyes.  I live within the confines of a Golden Rule.    I agree the people in the prepor episode to be naive.   I am not striking a match that my loved ones will be ashamed of.  And I like to think my best friend will find another way than murdering my family in their sleep.  I'd really rather die.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/12/shoot-or-dont-shoot-police-scenarios-prove-eye-opening-for-civil-rights-leaders/     It was a split-second decision.     A distressed man with a baby in tow was pacing back and forth in a manic state and shouting incoherently. The responding police officer calmly addressed the man in an attempt to calm him down and defuse the situation, but the man suddenly pulled an object from his side and lunged toward the officer. Instinctively, the officer raised his Taser and squeezed the trigger. It turned out the man was armed with a knife, but the "officer," who was actually the firebrand African-American activist known as Quanell X, acknowledged he would have fired whether the assailant had a knife, a spoon or an empty hand. “I didn’t even see it,” said the leader of the Houston area Black Panther Party, who was taking part in a training scenario in an attempt to understand what police officers go through during high-pressure situations. “It could have been anything in his hand, and I still would have used force to stop him. “It all happened so fast," he added. "You don’t know what they could have in their hand.”   Quanell, a former Nation of Islam member, is one of at least two black activists to take the police training tests. Both he and Arizona activist the Rev. Jarrett Maupin came away from the experience with a newfound understanding of the pressure on police officers, not to mention a new message for black youth who come in contact with law enforcement officers. “I walked away with a few things,” Quanell said “Many of these officers do not have adequate training and they should not be patrolling by themselves. Having backup would stop them from being skittish and firing their weapon. “Also, we have to teach our community that, even if you disagree with the officer, do not try to litigate with them on the spot," he added. "Live to see another day. Don’t let our pride get in the way. Otherwise, you are setting yourself up.”   Quanell, who has been critical of police in Texas, as well as in Ferguson, Mo., where the shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer last August touched off rioting around the nation, took the test with the police department in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. In four scenarios, he had to instantly decide whether to use a [paintball] gun, a Taser or hold his fire. In another scenario, Quannel fired at a man during a routine traffic stop in which the suspect moved toward him, ignored an order to halt and reached behind his back  “I actually fired six times,” Quanell recalled. “I always questioned why officers fired so many shots in these situations. After going through the training, I think it’s very hard for an officer to know how many shots they fired when they are in the moment.” Quannel said he submitted to the test because he “felt it was the right thing to do.”  The same sense of obligation prompted Maupin to go through a series of real-world scenarios in January with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, as reported on by Fox 10 Phoenix. Maupin led protests in Phoenix after an incident there in which officers shot an unarmed man who allegedly fought with them.   Maupin was also surprised by what he learned during the exercise. “It was tense,” Maupin told FoxNews.com. “They had eliminated backup as an option. I tried to navigate it as best I could.” In one scenario, Maupin responded to a call of two men fighting. “What’s going on today, gentlemen?" Maupin said to the suspects in the live-action scenario. "What are you doing?" Despite his respectful greeting, one of the suspects rushed him, prompting the preacher to draw his weapon and open fire. “I had no intention of shooting them,” Maupin said later. “I can see how these situations occur. There is a level of fear that exists and the people who are often afraid are often the ones who are armed.”   Maupin said stressful situations still don't justify excessive force by police. But obeying cops is "a matter of survival," he said. “I walked away with a renewed sense of compliance in any situation,” he said. “There’s no shame in it. “I encourage all civil right leaders to take this training,” he added. “I know there’s truth to the other side." Law enforcement officials credited both men for taking the simulations and putting themselves in the shoes of police officers.   “I think it’s great,” Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said to FoxNews.com. “The leaders of many of these groups, people in general, those that are high profile, are always criticizing the police. Maupin proves the point when he went through the training that you would get a good idea of what officers go through.” Arpaio said he has extended a standing invitation to Rev. Al Sharpton to come to Maricopa County to complete the exercises. “I’ve only heard from his people, who said, ‘We’ll look into it,’” he said.

I have thought a lot about this as well, I sometimes have to go into bad areas. As much as I have thought as to what I would do I still do not know. I do keep my head on a swivel, drive around the building once to look for trouble and act on what I see. I have called the customer when I see what I think does not look right and let them know what is going on. It is a scary world, punks or thugs (what you call them) are my fear, some being so young and the group so large there is no way to tell what might happen. My advice, look close, drive around and look for "trouble". I wont get out of the car if I see more than 2 or 3 in a group. Leave the area as fast as you can, call me a scared y cat, I dont care, I want to wake up on this side of the grass.

I'm guessing it had these...

The only thing a 19 has over the 686 is it's blue.  As much as I love 19's I'd keep the 686....it's a better gun.

The Pig doesn't need a crush washer, since it doesn't need to time to a certain orientation like say a birdcage flash hider.   The only reason to use one is if you're anal enough to want the markings to line up in an exact certain place.   - OS

Some guy will really appreciate all their hard work. My forecast? Some man who was just like any other man, now finds himself with a deathly ill wife and two two starving children in a post apocalyptic hell on earth. He happens upon this group of wonderfully stocked and prepared dipsheets and armed with a simple little revolver and his his freshly seared conscience, he slaughters this entire family. Mops up the blood, drags their retarded carcasses off to the woods about a 1/4 mile down and moves his sick and starving family right on in. Now, that might be a bit of silly fiction BUT, these people are beyond deluded. They have obviously never considered a REAL man's resolve when his family is on the brink of death because a real man that loves his family will strike the match that sets his soul to burn in exchange for their well being. Never underestimate a man that loves his family. He might be the best friend you've ever had but he stab you in the throat while you sleep before his family starves and dies.

Propaganda follows.  Tasty, tasty propaganda...     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAbNvZ2QHVg&feature=youtu.be   The PMAG 17 GL9 is a 17 round Glock 9mm handgun magazine featuring a new proprietary all-polymer construction for flawless reliability and durability over thousands of rounds. High visibility anti-tilt follower, SS spring, easily removable floorplate for cleaning, Dot matrix for mag marking, ridged floorplate edges for better grip, 17rd indicator windows. Drops free loaded or unloaded. The same boring reliability you expect from an OEM magazine. MSRP $15.95    

I treated my old natural "raw" leather to a treatment of Neatsfoot oil. Not the compound ,but the real 100% pure Neatsfoot oil . It turned it a nice light brown. I like it . Here's a picture of it with my RIA fullsize . It was originally a bright whitetish creame color . [url=http://s768.photobucket.com/user/tercel89/media/m7_zpsjxnuqyyj.png.html][/URL]

Ive been wanting to pick up a DW1911 ever since a member here let me fondle his Dan Wessons a couple years ago after I bought a Kimber Eclipse from him. I found this one on Buds. Ordered it Monday night, and it arrived at my ffl today. It was a trade in but you can barely tell it. Plus it saved me about $300 on a new one. Cant wait to shoot it!

I picked this Colt up today for I consider a very nice price, but the grips do not seem right. The Colt site do seem to indicate that they did ship with smooth Walnut grips, but I'm no wood expert and have no idea from a pine to an oak. If they're not the originals, I'll probably pick up a set of repro's but still hang on to these. No telling when they were made or how long they've been on the pistol but the screws seem to indicate a LONG time. Serial number dates this back to 1935. Any Colt experts around here that can help me out with identifying these grips??? Thanks in advance. No... the serial number isn't 3939. It's 3939XX for safety sake.

You mentioned a Browning Hi-Power.  I had one once.  It was stolen by some POS about 10 years ago.  Finest pistol I ever owned.  I want another one at some point in time.  If you have the money, you will not regret the purchase!

Looks good... i like the darkening on the tan leather that the neatsfoot gives...   leroy

   I gotcha ! I put some on the inside but lots on the outside. I did this on my others and always use more on the outside . I know that the more you use the more it makes it flimsy/soft so I use it spariling.

  No Chinese fire drills for you, stop-drop-and roll

cz75 fits that bill,full size,all metal,and last time i checked not much more than the eaa witnesses. i have 2 75s one ive owned for 14 years and the other like 6.so i would say you couldnt go wrong with the the cz.

  Why build a 9mm AR?  We slap him around with our pistols all the time.

Ouch.   Welding it would be my first choice, and I know a couple local welders who could do it.  It might need to be re-heat treated after welding to ensure strength.  That likely would require stripping the finish.  I'll have to look up the temp for the heat treatment to see if that would kill the finish.    There are structural epoxies available that work well with aluminum and applying them is pretty simple.  We do it all the time at work (I fix jet engine parts for a living).   You'd need to blast the area to remove the finish so the epoxy will stick.  Then you basically just mix the stuff, glob it in there, cure it (typically heat cure), and then machine it back to final dimensions.   That said, fixing it will cost more than just replacing it.  But since is a special one, you might not have a choice.  Talk to Mike at Lawenforcementsalestn here... He's got the machine capability to do the work properly and he's in Oak Ridge.  Getting another lower and having him re-do the engraving and the machine work might be the best option.  Or if you just want to fix it, that's fine too. 

Almost thought it was real for a second. Cause real soccer players are famous for faking it anyway.

  I learned the pure art of sarcasm from the over three decades of exposure to the expression of opinions (both spoken and written) coming forth from Chief Warrant Officers.   CWOs are the High & Distinguished Masters of sarcasm in the most indirect way.  They have the skill and abilities to tell someone/something to Go-To-Hell and have them/it look forward to taking the trip.   The closest I have ever come to such a high level of verbal gibe and taunt is my well-know and often voiced contempt, resentment, ridicule, mockery, and outright scorn for IDPA Rule 3.2.2 - Tactical Sequence.  :yuck:   I trust an Outlaw Match would have no such ridiculous engagement method.      

:squint:  :stunned:    I hate loading pictures.......   Ahhhh.....THERE it is!!!  Now that's some great looking leather. Good job!  :up: 

Just don't buy a Tuxedo Godson, there will be an extremely cool TGO one offered here towards the end of the year 

There are some really good prices in that sale.

    FTFY.  :)

The Amish are not going to let an outsider just go live in their community.  It's still not the same though.  They have the infrastructure to make it without electricity we do not. We are dependent on it.  If there is an EMP we are immobile, they hitch up the buggy to the horse and go, just like they did yesterday.  We have no lights in our house, they light a lamp, because that is what they have always done.  If you want to see how much we are dependant go flip the main breaker on your house and take the battery out of your car for 3 days.  Without major preparation it will not be easy.  Most people in today's society are going to freak out when the TV doesn't come on and their modem doesn't work, let alone when they have no AC, their refrigerator doesn't work, and they have no hot water.  With an EMP thrown in the possibility that our cars won't work and we are really screwed seeing as so much of America lives so far from areas where we get things.   There is a whole plethora of problems to face that most of us haven't even given thought to, I too will recommend One Second After it will make you think about these things.

    I took Jane Babbit to see young Frankenstein. I was a junior in high school.  She laughed so hard I almost got laid.

Damn... So I am guessing the cartridge would go in the "cylinder" like a revolver and line up with the (most likely un-rifled) barrel and into the kaleidoscope silencer with that sweet ass drill handle vertical grip? I would almost pay to see this thing in action.

Thank you for not calling 840 "interstate 840". I don't know how many times I have heard people say that. When they do I ask "oh yeah? What other states does it run in to?"

If you can afford an NFA item, you can afford the difference in price for a real lawyer, from the state you live in to draft and execute your trust.  Or you can save a few bucks, get someone who may or may not be a lawyer (and certainly isn't licensed to practice in TN), from somewhere else in the country, to send you an email with an attachment.   Your call, folks.

The thing about the welfare state is that it has driven a huge amount of the economy underground, likely the largest  % in history. These "rich poor" folks that everyone cites aren't living that way on the various doles alone. The ones that aren't stealing are indeed working at something or other, for untaxed income. So you've got a double whammy with the various gummits paying more out with less coming in.   Half or more of the handymen, yard workers, mechanics,  flea marketers, eBayers, etc in this country are working off the books to supplement their "real" income from the dole. Hell, even the drug dealers are working, just off the books.   And of course the "gimmies" keep voting for the ones who promise the most to give them -- the worst things get from the absurd arithmetic of government largesse, the bigger the voter base for it, the vicious cycle of Big Brother Liberalism that strives to make everyone so frigging "equal" that you can't even see self-determinism and individual responsibility in the rear view mirror anymore.   - OS

No offense taken, I knew when I made these decisions the consequences. The big difference is the education and two decades of experience I bring to my field. I am not exactly a snot nosed punk like most think of when they think of a tattooed and pierced person.   However, things are much less drastic than you might think. The big thing is that your generation is retiring and is no longer the generation making all of those decisions. My generation is now the generation is or will soon be completely running things. I don't know what these so called 'Millennials' will come up with to be drastic, but I am sure they will, and myself and my heavily tattooed peers will glare down at them because it was not how we did it when we were that age. That is not to say that everything was wine and roses on my first day of work, or my second. It might even have taken a year or more, and several promotions before I got the biggest dog in the kennel to realize that I wasn't a moron. Guess who tells him what to do now?     Now at the end of the day the big question probably comes down to whether or not it bothers me. I know a lot of folks like to go out and do stupid things, then stand around and play the victim when they don't get what they want. Me? Not really. I have thick skin, because I don't really care. I have a great job, a great family, a great dog, a great things going for me. If someone wants to judge me based on my appearance, that is most likely someone that I would choose not to associate with anyways. I go to work, I go home. My hobbies keep my solitary. After all, lets be honest, I am an abrasive SOB and I ain't exactly friendly looking. Which is kind of the way I want it.   I think it also might have something to do with my raising. I have mentioned it, I didn't grow up on the right side of the tracks. I am a self made man, by the skin of my knuckles and sweat of my brow. When you grow up that poor and dejected tattoos and piercings are rank, and uniform, for all of the oxymoron there, you know, being different and all. I think I might have been ten when I got my first one. But hey, you live in the trailer park behind the projects outside of Fort Riley in the early `80s and you would make bad decisions too.   I guess the reason I get riled up about it, and I do, is that I don't like to stereotype, or be stereotyped. Not that we don't all do it, but that it is wrong. That and for the majority, I don't regret any decision I ever made, right or wrong. Because of those decisions, I am the man behind this keyboard right now, that you can't see. Cause I am really a dog. And I know how I got here, and who I am.   But that is enough off topic.   The point though, I ain't butt-hurt, I don't typically get butt-hurt. But I do like a good discussion.

Why not insist that people that are on government assistance do civil duty? There are many "jobs" they could do, but it is considered beneath them or insulting their dignity. Maybe they could help out in school and discipline their unruly children.

How come none of your guns are purple?!

We dont need any more peeps buying up all the 22 ammo in middle TN!!! :rofl: I live in Mt Juliet, not 5 mins from Providence, WAY TO MANY PEOPLE! We moved here 25 years ago, it was nice then. If I had to move it would be farther east.

I asked John about this and he said yes absolutely, however doing so will essentially give the ATF of an itemized list of all items owned by the trust whenever you send your schedule A.     Or something like that :D . He did say it was possible, but after we went over it I opted not to bother.

I can't tell the difference anymore.

Based on what you described you likely want to live southwest of town within 10 miles (east or west) of the I-65 corridor, likely south of 840. That will put you... 1. Close to Spring Hill 2. Close to Owl Hollow / CHMR outdoor range 3. Close to Strategic Edge in Chapel Hill 4. Close to Cool Springs for shopping, dining 5. Quick access to SR-840 to hit Rutherford Co if needed Basically somewhere in this area: Or you might try Fairview which is still reasonably close to Spring Hill thanks to SR-840, but further away from all of the other things I listed.

Instead of drug testing, how about we cut taxes, repeal onerous laws and regulations, eliminate various departments and/or agencies, enforce existing immigration laws etc...?  Basically, how about we just shrink the size of government and eliminate all the handouts?  If government wasn't involved, things would probably be cheap enough that non-freeloaders wouldn't need assistance in the first place.   We have some 40 plus million on food stamps alone.  It would get pretty expensive doing a monthly drug test on that number of people.  I don't want to pay for that, nor do I want to increase the size of government further, which is what implementing such a program would do.  Anyway, such a policy/law would never be passed at the federal level, but neither would my proposal.  Since I am debating two things that won't happen, I would rather have the one that eliminated all the handouts and shrank the government.

  Oldogy... I like this one... Recently, i've changed my approach on the hog ring and piercing thing... I used to smile and act like it wasn't there...Now, i take a close look at it like it's a problem and is hurtin the wearer; then i politely ask if they need it removed... I always tell 'em that i have my pliers in my fishing tackle box and that i'll be glad to get the hook out... Strangely, i've had no takers, but plenty of polite "no's"... Its great to watch the reaction...   leroy, "...hook removal jhadist..." and old time fisherman...

In addition, any one on assistance who sports new tats or hog rings should be removed from assistance immediately.

The fact of the matter is that there is a battle raging in this country between those who do work and those who don't... We all know who is who... We've heard the baloney and demagoguery from both political parties about the "safety net" and "compassionate conservatism"; all to buy votes and to pander to various constituencies... For the first time in this nation's history, the "non working class" united with disgruntled folks and elected a president who was non-abashedly anti-american...   This is a serious problem and needs to be attended to... Even the great "Bubba" Clinton realized the welfare thing was out of hand... I say we need to take care of those who genuinely need help; but we need to put conditions on that help... We simply need to eliminate the "freeloaders" and "career welfare recipients"...period... The drug testing thing is a step in the right direction... Another step is the requirement to continuously look for a job while on assistance; along with appropriate job training... I predict ya will see more and more of these things...   The sixties hippies did this country a great dis-service (...along with the great god Roosevelt; and that greatest of vote buyers, LBJ; with his "war on poverty"...) when they made "the dole" acceptable and inculcated the "...im ok-your ok..." philosophy into pop culture... My grandparents and parents thought "bein on the dole" was a disgrace... I do too; but there are many who don't and will get militant when the subject is brought up...   I say it's high time to declare war on the dole, along with the social security dole (...those. who get it, but didn't pay into it; e.g the "disabled" who didn't work to begin with and are only "disabled" due to drinkin and druggin...); and to fix the problem of the "non tax paying" segment voting largesse for themselves... As the old timers would say "...those who vote for a livin instead of workin for a living..."... It's an idea whose time has come...  Here's hopin it will take off...   leroy the "anti-dole" zealot

Nobody wants to see me shoot. It's so bad I can't even get anyone to video it

Or you could shop around and pick up something like this. It's a Springfield Armory Mil Spec with adjustable sights, a just a hair over 4lb trigger job and an ambidextrous safety. I got the pistol, 1 mag and the plastic case for $350?

"Ferguson police testing new device aimed at reducing fatal police encounters."     A device that does this same thing is already in place. It's called a Parent that teaches their children to respect authority.

Sounds like a really bad idea.  I think that if someone needs to be shot then they need to be shot, not hit with a ping pong ball and a firearm should never be seen as both a 'lethal force' option and a 'less lethal' option in the same package.  This isn't Star Trek where they can set their phasers on stun.  I foresee several potentially bad outcomes:   1.  Causing a mindset in officers where they begin thinking of a regular duty gun loaded with regular duty ammo as a 'non-lethal' or 'less lethal' option, causing them to draw their firearm when doing so might not really be warranted, at all.   2.  Causing a mindset whereby an officer, out of a desire not to use deadly force, opts for the 'ping pong' ball when he should really just shoot someone's a** - and the officer ends up getting hurt or killed in the process.   3.  Causing incidents whereby the officer intends to use the less lethal option but either doesn't attach the device properly or, in the heat of the moment, forgets to attach it and ends up improperly and unintentionally using deadly force.  IMO, any 'less lethal' option needs to be an entirely separate device.   4.  Instead of alleviating the problem of public outcry when deadly force is used I think this would actually make the situation worse.  Just like some people now say, "Why didn't they just shoot him in the leg instead of killing him," if an officer made a judgement call that deadly force is required then the family and friends of the 'little angel who loved everybody and wouldn't hurt nobody' (and anyone else looking for a BS excuse to loot someone else's business or destroy someone else's property) would be saying, "Why didn't they just hit him with one of those ping pong balls?  They didn't have to kill him!"   This idea also breaks one of the basic rules of firearm safety - never point a firearm at something you aren't willing to destroy (or kill.)  To me, that rule is clear, concise and makes sense while this attachment simply confuses the situation.  If there is room on the officer's belt to carry this attachment in a pouch then there should be room for something that is completely separate and self-contained.  If there really is a place for something like this, how about something like one of those single-shot 12 gauge flare pistols built to handle a 12 gauge 'rubber slug' load and colored florescent green?  They could call it 'The Noisy Cricket".  Just a thought.

How about ... Stop doing stupid stuff that makes the cops want to shoot you.