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Both are administered out of the SS office and are something that an individual pays into unless they are disabled from childhood. I'd hardly call them freeloaders. I actually have a disabled adult daughter who worked and paid into the system until she became disabled who can't get disability because that system is just as hard as the VA system, (deny until they die), so I am a bit offended by your statement.

We're all going to get a dose of it if people don't wake up. Funny thing is, 100% vax participation would drop the death rate to damn near zero. So, "compliance" is actually the best way to fight these damn control freaks. They gotta have dead bodies for their BS to fly. I didn't get the shot because old braindead-in-chief told me to.

He's out of the hospital. Thanks for asking.

I had reason to visit the Cumberland County hospital on Monday afternoon and I was shocked to see a packed waiting room, people were warehoused in there until a bed became available upstairs. The poor staff were running pretty hard. But I saw two problems that really should be addressed somehow: One floor was entirely vacant due to lack of staffing (I was told), and ER's are misused by people who don't have insurance and know they can't be turned away. But even with short staffing and a packed waiting room the staff saw me right away and got me taken care of, so the system has some safeguards in-place. In these times, our medical community are, quite literally, lifesavers.

This is what’s known as a ####ing hint.

@E4 No More how's the 21 year old on the ventilator doing? He's been on my mind. My dad has done surprisingly well with COVID. He's looking forward to getting out of the house. It didn't really hit his lungs real hard like it does some people. I'm guessing that antibody treatment he got helped.

If you are working or using your money to pay someone to do your work for you, you are not a freeloader. Everyone else is…

Or people who are on the gvt dime and clog the system because EVERYTHING is life or death.

Those politicians only improve one thing... their own personal wealth. The parties have different mechanisms, and the same outcomes. I'm tired of feeding these bastards. And YES, I am drawing SS money that I PAID IN. I will be dead way before I get what I paid in, much less any interest.

I will take my wedding over that one. I was still active duty in San Diego, the future wife was still in TN. We decided to do the chapel thing in Gatlinburg. We rented a B&B up in the mountains for the guests. I had Sailors coming in from CA, OR, WA and MI. The B&B was basically three houses and three hot tubs. Lets just say the civilian guests of my wife didnt mix well with the Sailors that I served with. We had a great three days in the mountains before we fly to Hawaii for the honeymoon.

There are many choices - it's a blend between French and Indochinese and can be quite varied. It , of course has similarities to Thai, Chinese, but is it's own thing, too. Seafood and beef are usually two big features as well as pork. Ban Xeo is really good. Sometimes called a Vietnamese pancake, it's actually a crispy rice-flour crepe with with Nuoc Mam (fish sauce). Nuoc mam is one of the distinctive attributes of Vietnamese food. It's pretty tasty stuff, by itself and even though it starts with fermented fish juice There are a whole bunch of Pho dishes which is beef with noodle. Some Vietnamese restaurants have a lot of charcoal-grilled meats and seafood serve over rice vermicelli with Nuoc mam. I eat it with fish. And yes, they do great fish at some places - whole steamed fish (or fried) with Nuoc mam is wonderful. They also have both Spring rolls (fried) and Summer rolls which are uncooked and often filled with basil and dipped in peanut sauce (and of course nuoc mam). And if you like your caffeine like me, go for the Vietnamese coffee. It's espresso ground strong spiced coffee with sweetened condensed milk. I forgot to add, there are often some wonderful huge bowls of soups, too. I'm glad you are open-minded because it's best to step away from the comfort-zone and discover new things, especially with food!

Jusst got back did not see any shooting but only stayed a short while a two leased fields in Wilson Co and they were too crowed for me. South one almost need FWD to get in to parking. Info is on TWRA Wilson Co. they are leased so no WMA permit needed. Last time I hunted in a crowd some kid put pellets into two people on low birds . That was at the old public field behind the Hermitage before it was closed,birds would come in fifty at a time and you could limit out in 15 minutes. I like the Oct&Nov season better as the birds from up North are corn fed and much bigger and nobody Dove hunting. Hunted a private farm in Williamson Co. for years and would get a few now and then,but the opening day I was out of town the group got about 400 birds in a half hour limited out and went home. There was a small patch of bushes that they dove into and would feed and leave under fire,some kind of ripe seed? I seen that happen in the yard one time the mutt got a whiff and dove in and about a hundred Doves flew out.

So if you can't see those bushes, give it a pass?

Vietnamese food, by 5 clicks!

Sorry to hear it, Mike.

Lost another 20+ year friend to this crap again this morning. I wonder when folks are gonna realize that if you die, you lost. Not that complicated to me.

Shooting about 20 will do that. Still hopeing for a bison to show up, LOL.

Lighten up Francis! YOUR politicians suck. MY politicians suck. And NONE of them could manage a 7-11 without running it into the dirt. The government just isn't all that useful, given their complete lack of ethics. I need to go back to drinking.

Got the cath out Monday and doing well. Not a lot of pain at all. Cath was a real bother. Now hoping for good results. Dr said we will know in a month. Got some residual swelling but should go away in 2 to 3 weeks and things will be back to as normal as possible. So far, I would recommend the Resume procedure and for sure if good results happen.

Howdy, I thought I would post this just in case someone has that question rolling around in their noggin. I loaded .357 magnum with158 gr. Hornady XTP HP for hunting and defense. It cost me a tad less than $30 for 100 rounds. Ammoseek had 158gr Hornady XTP HP for $174.99 for 50 or $349.98 for the same thing I loaded for less than $30. Granted it took my time to do the work, but most hobbies like fishing, golf, hunting etc won't pay you $319.98 per day. Plus it was a nice rainy day and I was dry and all by myself.

Looking good, Chuck.

I doubt that hurricane helped things.

Memphis…… nuf said.

I'm still getting used to it. Having never shot with one before this I'm finding it less instinctive. First shot is definitely slower, but follow ups are much quicker & my groups do seem a hair tighter with it.

@xsubsailorknows how to handle thread drift.

What would you suggest I try?

Yeah I feel bad for her. It wasn't like the videos you see of people intentionally driving through floodwaters. I'm convinced some of those people are committing insurance fraud for a new vehicle. She made an honest mistake. This is the entrance I'm talking about and you'd never guess the water gets 3 feet deep when it rains. The curb I circled in red is where that car flew over it at warp speed. BTW, is that Asian Grocery store really good or are you joking? I've never been inside.

I think this was @Erik88out doing a survey of places prone to flooding.

We received an e-mail yesterday that stated that if a customer asks for proof of vaccine to call the office. If asked to take a test to call the office, or take the test. I will take a test, no worries.

I don't know how it's doing, but I'm still at work and it sucks. LOL

I'm not using that much. But yeah, they're gonna steal way more than they take in. Won't last forever.

Hey y’all, so how about that Delta variant?

Yep. We just did a flood tour. Not looking good in places.

You may want to add more items ro stop a bleed, depending on the trauma you're willing/prepared to take on. My wife (a nurse) just had to dig into her kit this past weekend while out of town when she and 2 other nurses rolled up on a large accident on the highway. What they needed most while waiting for EMTS to show up was multiple pairs of gloves, tons of gauze and irrigation.

Welcome to TGO.

Welcome from a fellow Cheatham County TGO member. Lots of good people here and a lot of good information.

Sigh...We know the answer. Also, they put a pause on federal student loan payments. Of course, you could still pay if you wanted to, and the entire payment would have gone to the principal. So you could actually pay them off a lot faster. Instead of doing this, I have two friends that just stopped paying them entirely. Both have good jobs. I think they are hoping the debt will be forgiven but I really doubt it.

My wife was from Roanoke Island and we used to go back there every year for at least a couple of weeks. Sometimes I would leave her and the girls there and go back to pick them up a couple of weeks later. We didn't fish with rod and reels but the whole family was in the fishing and seafood business. We would go out shrimping, clamming, mullet netting ( they only talked me into that once ) and harvested oysters. We also had one nephew that ran crab pots so we lived on a seafood diet while we were there. Normally brought home 50 - 60 pounds of shrimp and some soft shelled crabs when we came back home to Tn.

Praying for you too, friend!

There are people who make selfish choices? Say it ain't so!

That's something that used to make me nuts! (Retired now, thank goodness!) People would come to work sick, but would take sick days when they weren't ill, just didn't want to come to work. I guess that's bad human nature,

Regardless of the vaccination, anyone should stay home if you are sick. Vaccinated people can still transmit the china virus

Granddaughter got the shot but grandson refused. Get the shots! It ain't going away and the shots are your only defense against it. Most who get Coved, and are vaccinated, are NOT dying.

Three local friends have it, not serious so far but have symptoms, all vaccinated, We are vaccinated but though that we may have been exposed and wife has been a little under the weather so we went and were tested, both came back negative. First time to have the nose root rooter, not to bad but could do with out a repeat. If a booster is offered we will get it. Old and over weight, need all the protection we can get.

Worth is irrelevant in this instance. It could be worth $1000 untouched or $100 in the condition I have put it in. Makes no nevermind to me. It's not leaving my possession until my son or grandkids come of age.

I have a Browning Baby .25 and an Iver Johnson single 12 gauge and both will be refinished. in 20 years a refinished piece will be worth more than an un-useable rusty paperweight. It looks beautiful, the way it should. let the barn finders keep their high priced junk and enjoy!

Exactly and the reason for my previous question. No one is going to get into the reloading game today and load at that kind of cost/round.