oddprimer

I love knives, the one you have I'd really like, but there is a joke/truism thing with knives:   What is the difference between the winner and loser in a knife fight?   Winner dies in the hospital, loser dies in the street.   YOu get teh idea right, knife is there to get to the better option but as a defensive weapon any knife leaves something to be desired. 

The thing that needs to be remembered is that this started with the statement:   "This week 24 black veterans are being awarded, because exceptions were made for them. Their background is not even close to Lt. Conner."   An untrue statement. A statement that should tell  you about the rest of the posts. They weren;t  all black and if you got worried or offended that they were you need to check yourself. 

OP didn't get the story quite right. Obama doesn't get to pick the recipients as others have pointed out, congress does.    "The presentation came after Congress in a 2002 defense bill ordered a review of thousands of war records to determine whether Latino and Jewish veterans were denied the nation’s highest military decoration because of discrimination."   But it is a little worse, OP makes it sound as though Obama is doing some white/black thing and injecting race. But what Obama said was a little different:   "This ceremony reminds us of one of the enduring qualities that makes America great," Obama said. "No nation is perfect. But here in America, we confront our imperfections and face a sometimes painful past, including the truth that some of these soldiers fought and died for a country that did not always see them as equal." Which is largely true. There are plenty of reasons not to like this particular president without making things up. Here's the worst thing of all: sure Lt. Garlin got the screwjob but a lot of people get the screwjob. Go through the list of recipients and pick out one or a dozen that didn't deserve the medal. In general I believe you should try to pull yourself up instead of dragging others down.     

I have the 350 (and a 300) I like them both, high quality and all. But for EDC the Kershaw blur is hard to beat. Fairly cheap at amazon, sturdy enough, deploys with the thumb studs (better than flippers) and doesn't cost so much that it'll be the end of the world if you lose it. I take the clip off mine to minimize the size in the pocket and love it. ZT 350 is my second fave for EDC. 

Yeah, I get it, a lot of religious people who can't believe anything but what the preacher tells them. You die, you go to heaven or hell, and if you are catholic maybe you can work purgatory in. It is great, I suppose, to imagine the world has to abide by what you  imagine to be the truth. It says a lot about your closed mind.    Skeptics are just the same. As a skeptic I demand evidence of this and that, but not any evidence, repeatable evidence. Why if I can't performa ritual at the gates of hell and get satan himself to play chess with me it is all bull.    Than there is that weird guy who has a really simplistic understanding of physics...   What this thread is about, or what it should be about, is ghost stories. Not factual, not actual, stuff that just freaks you out.    I'd make a ghost story up but I'm not good at that stuff. I can tell a slightly disturbing story though. Maybe you'd like to hear it.   Well, that is a lie. I can give you a great link though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVawmopW4S4   Happy Halloween

If you are close to knoxville she can try mine. I'm a little torn about it. It is easy to carry but a little big to throw in the pocket. It does feel great in the hand but the felt recoil is a lot more than my 92fs. 

here's the truth and BS about the show:   The truth is that it is national geographic for this generation. You get to see a naked girl!   The BS part is that it gets edited hard. If it is going to get ratings it has to be watchable. I'm not sure it succeeds on that count.    Here's the hardest part of all to grasp: most of them would adapt. They would live for a year, two years, whatever. 21 days is a short amount of time when it comes to survival. The stuff they are hesitant to do on the show for food would become really easy on day 45. By day 90 it has become a tradition.    That said, it is all such perfect fakery. You are putting people in a situation that they would never, ever be in if it wasn't the show. I'd be more interested in a show where people had to live in downtown Detroit with only a lighter and sparkplug. 

Just tried it on three different kershaws/zts (zt 301, kershaw chive, kershaw blur) and discovered that this is only possible if you really try. The place where you push the liner lock is not under the sharp of the blade so unless you move your thumb into harms way after you start closing the knife you should be good. 

My kid has a buck knife with a clip that hides the entire knife. I think it is the parallax or something. IT's okay I guess but he likes it.      I've gone from worrying about the clip to just taking the thing off. Sounds like heresy but hear me out. I'm not likely to use my knife for self defense so I probably don't need to get at it in a super hurry. What I do need is for the knife to take up minimal space. The clip takes up a lot of space. If I take off the clip I can carry a thin knife really deeply in my pocket.    With all that in mind I've found the the knife, out of the knives I own, that I carry the most is a kershaw leek with the clip removed. Very flat and easy to carry. The blade is a nice length but some will say it is a bit thin.    For the record the leek win out over: Kershaw Scallion Smith and Wesson Tac Ops (suxxor) Kershaw Blur ZT 350 ZT 300 SAK fisherman SAK OTher thing (not a real model) and a whole bunch of other shinola with various clips and so forth. But in the morning I almost always pick the clipless leek. Less space, light, not a catastrophe if I lose it and so forth. 

This is something I actually considered. The chances of me actually needing the gin are small. The chances of me actually firing the gun at an assailant are smaller yet. The chances the caliber would be the difference between bad outcomes and good outcomes is very small indeed. Logically I can't help but think that 9X18 is plenty. Marketing tells me I better drop some cash on one of the pocket nines.

Just got my HCP. I was planning on buying something cool to roll around with. Shield, Nano, PPS etc. Before I actually got around to dropping the dough I started carrying my p 64 in my front pocket. I like it, it is easy to draw, I shoot well with it and so forth. Should I pay the dough to move up to parabellum or stick with what I am happy with and spend the cash on something fun?

Seems to me the worst idea is to imagine you can win nationally if you can't carry your state (Al Gore and Romney). Al Gore didn't have to lose TN, he chose to lose it. Side note I hear the Romney campaign is being baptized into mormonhood because it is completely dead.

that's what folks said when he was elected the first time. No election is the end of the world.

Not according to me, according to Mitt. Transplanted Hoosier I value work and work ethic,some work pays more than others and so forth. LEts take a look at the forty seven percent: The 47% are probably you. How much did you make last year? If you're a senior or a military kind of person or someone with a salary less than 40 grand a year than Romney called you entitled. I know what you're thinking, you're thinking I pay my taxes, I'm not the damn leech. Of course you think that, you work freakin hard. It's that flat black bitch who is moochin all the money. She's driving a god#### cadillac, snorting lobster and pumping out babies for ever more money. Sorry that's not the problem. The problem is the people who paid into the system and now expect something back. The problem is medicare for those that are 60+. I'll cough up the dough for those because I respect my elders. But, goodness me, I seem to be the only who is willing to pay taxes.

The thing with that quote: What Mitt is saying is that the 47% are going vote for Obama because, well, free lunch and all. Turns out that that is bull. If you're on social security you are in the 47%. You paid for that and Mitt is calling you a dependent? You make less than 60,000 a year? Yep, you're in that 47%. You drive a liquor truck or something, eff you, you are on the dole. What people really don't want is someone who just sits around and does drusg all day to live off the government. Thankfully that isn't a real issue, unless the it is blood pressure medicine,