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I don’t. I am in practice what most would consider a conservative Christian. But, I also work to sync my faith with what’s been revealed to us through science - or art for that matter. My faith is not challenged if the narrative of Genesis has more to say about the relationship between God and his created people rather than it does specifically, literally about “how” the earth was created. I do very much believe in a creator God. My kids were taught the creation story on the flannel graph just like I was. But, as a church - we don’t want our kids to grow up feeling like they need to turn part of their brain off when they go to church - so we try to struggle with these things in a way that’s open and genuine. As scientists, the more we learn, the more we find we don’t know. I’m certain future peoples will look at us with the same wonder that we look at the understanding of other ancient cultures. I think our modern, post-enlightenment minds make a mistake when we try to take the Bible and turn it into a scientific text. That’s not how the intended audience would have read it - and so we should be careful there, too. I do believe it has an enormous amount to tell us about our relationship as a community with a creator God. In that way, the stories in the first part of Genesis represent a far different story than the creation narratives of other near-Eastern cultures of the time. For that matter, and back to this topic, I’m even okay if the flood narrative is mostly apocryphal. It doesn’t disrupt my faith. But, at the same time, I can go to see a full-scale model in Kentucky and think it’s pretty cool.

Yes, Fentanyl is being shipped into this country from China everyday. DHS just said they are considering classifying it as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Radioactive material is very easy to detect and track. Treaties & International law control it.

Thanks Hozzie and Chuck. I used Hozzie's direct pay link and it worked fine. I don't know why I was never directed to it from the IRS stuff. But it got it done...thanks.

Just received this, this morning, from Alaris tactical. I'm really liking the way it sits under my bino harness. I think this will be my 'final solution' for my bear carry!!

So many crazy folks, so little help for them.

I've resigned to the theory that the folks in biblical times had a different concept of time, or at least a different way of measuring it than what we have today. I still can't wrap my head around folks living for several hundred years then, yet I've watched the average life expectancy go up my entire life. I'm pretty simple minded.

Drugs are already being shipped into this country from many other nations every day. There are a lot of online pharmacies that operate out of foreign countries and ship to US residents with impunity. Radioactive materials are a slightly different ball of wax and much harder to finagle around controls than other items.

I could make a reasonable argument for both sides, but at the end of the day God doesn't give a crap what I think.

BRAVO SIERRA, the birts came for cannon and shot. Taking away ammo be it lead or what ever is an attack on the 2nd!

Nice. That should work well. Thanks for letting your phone block out your face. Makes the pics much easier to look at.

So let me get this straight, hundreds of years of hunters using lead bullets and NOW they have ONE eagle die and its the bullets? What is the likelihood that the lead the eagle ingested was from a gut pile? I know some do gut shoot their deer, but most aim for the boiler room, and hardly ever does the bullet, even fragments, end up in the gut pile.

My wife used to work with a raptor rehabber. Bullet fragments aren't so much an issue as shotgun pellets. A single shotgun pellet consumed can make a smaller bird very sick, I've seen it. Most of the birds she dealt with had been shot but there were a few that injested the lead. I think I recall an Osprey that ate a fish that had swallowed a lead sinker. It doesn't take much when you weigh 5lbs or less. Most raptors are opportunistic. If they find something edible that's already dead, they'll eat it. It's easier than expending the effort to kill it. Was it you that had the pics of the albino hawk on a gut pile?

I use the direct pay. It's simple. https://directpay.irs.gov/directpay/payment?execution=e1s1

Another option is that you can pay your estimated tax using the IRS2Go app. It’s how I make my payments.

I found this under your mattress. It's nothing to be ashamed of, I'm just glad you're using protection. If you ever want to talk or just ask questions, I'm here for you.

Why yes Sir, this is the very pistol I used to shoot the man that broke into my bed room last night!

Thought this was an interesting way to fund projects. Good proof how well buybacks work.

We ended up looking at and getting a used Taurus 605 at a local pawn shop here. Shot it a bit today with some .38 special and she seems to be pleased with it with regards to the recoil, so I'll probably sell off the little Tomcat. Thank you for all the advice! I was planning on getting her a crimson trace laser grip for the Taurus, and she was fond of the idea as well -- while she is a proficient shooter on a static range (post-it note sized groups at 5 yards slow fire and good hits at 7), she doesn't get out to practice nearly enough and never under stress, so my theory is that in an actual encounter she will end up being target fixated and point shooting, so I'm thinking it could help, especially in low light and combined with aging eyes. Not that it should be relied upon 100% of course (and she'll practice with irons as well). Unfortunately, they apparently only fit the 605 made prior to 2014, and this one was made in 2017 so looks like that won't be an option. The pawn shop had a Model 36-2 lady smith that was also steel for $140 more, and it looks like it might be easier to find a laser grip for that one, so I'm considering it still

I bought a Stainless 605 a couple weeks ago. I like it a lot. Its a little rough with 158 gr .357 mags. but, still shot them good. A lot less recoil with a 158 gr. swc and 6.0 gr. Herco. Everything I've shot in it has shot good too.

Dam and I have 2 (R)DIAS currently sitting in my cart