QuietDan

Welcome to the neighborhood.

Fond memories. Used one of these bag phones while working in the news department for a radio station in the late 80's.

There are so many stores that sound welcoming and inviting. This, regardless of what's gone down, does not sound welcoming and inviting. So, I'll make my choices among the welcoming and inviting stores, and work myself down the list, I imagine I'll get to all of them, sooner or later. . . . perhaps much later . . . 

  Well, He did say he wasn't going to drown all of us ever again.

What are the cost factors if you ditch one of two cars, pay the ransom, and just live right up next to Vandy? The old definition of a "Town House." And then, perhaps enough left over for a little place waaaaaay out . . .   A million years ago, attending MTSU, I got a room just off campus, and we kept our modest Nashville home. Got together on weekends, saved a ton of gas, rode a bike to class.   After a semester or two, put some of our stuff in storage, got an on-campus married student apartment and just gutted it out. It wasn't like it was forever, we met some nice folks we're still friends with, and we had the benefit of all the on-campus cultural stuff . . .

We are extremely happy in Smyrna. Killer commute for Vandy though . . .

  Voldemort . . . 

  The wealthy, educated liberals are, often, firmly convinced that they are members of the elite, and are destined to rule over us all with their superior intellect. It's one of the reasons they often go absolutely ballistic if their intelligence or judgement or ideas are even QUESTIONED.    They are not aware, however, that the truly evil people pushing the communist New World Order will just add the skulls of the "liberal elite" to the pile of skulls they will create.

There is a guy in Smyrna, but I've always used him through my car repair guy, which is Morris Auto in La Vergne.

A smart police department would concentrate resources in the described census tracts . . .

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A Localized Culture of Violence By David Waciski   H.L. Mencken once said “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” This quote seems applicable to the activists who blame a “culture of violence” for the high rate of firearms-related homicides in the United States and propose restrictions on or elimination of 2nd Amendment rights as the solution. A previous article “Guns Don’t Kill People, Democrats Kill People” examined three diverse states and demonstrated that the majority of firearm homicides in 2013 occurred in the small fraction of the voter precincts that overwhelmingly voted for Democrat candidates. This dataset of homicides will be mapped against socioeconomic Census data to quantify the characteristics of the neighborhoods where firearm homicide is prevalent. The intent is not to generate counterintuitive or surprising results, but to provide data that supports the premise that the United States does not have a systemic firearm violence problem.  Then, by identifying the characteristics of these localized areas, suggest that more effective, albeit more difficult, approach to reducing firearm homicides would be to address the root causes of the “culture of violence” that appears to exist in these neighborhoods.   The previous article describes how a dataset containing a year of firearm homicides was compiled for Louisiana (a solidly red state with the highest firearm homicide rate in the country), Virginia (an election battleground state with a homicide rate that is close to the average firearm homicide rate for the country), and Minnesota (a solidly blue state with a low firearm homicide rate).  The location of each firearm homicide was mapped to a voting precinct.  The results indicated that over half of the firearm homicides occurred in the small percentage of voting precincts that gave President Obama more than 70% of the vote in the 2012 election.   (more)   http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/03/a_localized_culture_of_violence.html

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  I'm pretty good with this and the OP's statement meme. Respect is a two way street. 

  There are a heck of a lot more of us than there is of them. Pick your them.   If we all had sense and stood up on our own hind legs with our courts and our legislatures and our properly chosen executives, we wouldn't have to put up with this crap and could return to a documented constitutionally ordered government once again.

If you limit arms for law-abiding  people, you increase your profit dealing arms for criminals. This state senator cannot be the only one working this scam. Check all the other anti-gun legislators.

  Kind of a big-mouth pussy, ain't ya? Or, am I misunderstanding something here?    You are making a fundamental error on the forum. You are boring.

When the government starts passing ignorant laws, then The People start ignoring them.

  S### or s######? Never mind, a D#######. S######.   (Self-imposed)

  . . . if you are describing squatters or transients living on someone else's private property just off a creek bed - living rough?? - it would seem to me that they have essentially no right to be there . . . the Sheriff may or may not know these folks are there and if they are not respecting property rights, who knows what other property rights, or personal rights they are also not willing to respect. That raises the threshold of threat especially for the women and children. Get the Sheriff involved for sure, perhaps also a County Commissioner if you live in the county, and the Police and a City Councillor if you live at the edge of a city.    Jeez Louise!

  Holly Bobo?   Maybe better to over-react than under-react.   A non-emergency call to the Sheriff's Dispatcher is pretty mild by my way of thinking. It's not quite firing a red flare and cranking up the air-raid siren.

Game camera and involve the Sheriff. If he's a problem for you, he might be a problem for others. Perhaps there has been a local burglary, and the Sheriff has no suspects. I imagine he'd like to know about your interloper.   If GSD is German Shepard Dog, hey, great.

Best wishes for the surgery and the aftermath, hope all is going well. We'll all work on the ACA thing, apparently a few (quite a few) politicians need changing like dirty diapers.

  I am NOT a number; I am a Free Man!   (hahahahahahahahaha)

This is "The Armadillo." He was my personal plush animal companion through three tours in Iraq. He has a scrapbook documenting his kidnap by terrorists and his escape in a pizza box. Of all the plush animals in the house, my wife insisted The Armadillo accompany me, as he was used to the heat and had his own body armor. After mutual adventures, we both survived unscathed.