Oh Shoot

The Morristown Citizen Tribune. That'll surely impact national opinion.  :)   - OS

  First play of the game likely made the diff, no kidding. I'll give Dobbs credit though, amazing performance.   - OS

Amazing.  Reckon the GA kid was paid off to drop that scoring pass? ;)   - OS

  That would take a most peculiar mindset indeed.   - OS

  Wouldn't bother me. And I wouldn't even lie to get the discount. But I sure would to save my ass (as per the Umpqua thread).   - OS

  Yeah, to give up 96 yard TD from 1st and goal, that's an understatement.   - OS   edit: well, crap, now it's suddenly a ballgame -- guess I'll have to watch the second half ;)

Yow, Chubb's knee, very first play! CBS wouldn't show it any more after the first replay, so if you didn't see it:   http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/nick-chubb-knocked-out-of-game-with-horrific-knee-injur-1735853054   - OS

  Duck soup most of the time, at least for for anything sold since 1968.  Manufacturer and/or importer/distributor to first retail FFL.   Probably hardest part is finding the actual person if they've moved since. A SSN on the 4473 would make that part easy too.   - OS

  Facts don't matter. Some people will always say the shot makes them sick. I think they're being infected by black panthers. :)   - OS

Banks are not off limits unless posted like any other biz. If you must leave a firearm in the car, small lockable safe is easy, 25 clams or so.   Speaking as a single guy, I have no choice but to "maintain possession" at all times, and don't see it as a hassle.   Domestic violence conviction = forever. - OS

  That probably happened because first owner was contacted and he was the one who sold/traded it to the FFL where your co-worker got it.   - OS

  Could be. Actual sentence and max possible sentence often aren't the same.   - OS

1. Was her crime indeed one that disqualifies her from possession?   2. If so, one or more of our attorneys have opined that a gun safe to which one spouse does not have access would suffice for legal possession by the other. If a carry gun, should be on you or in a safe (a small quick access one could serve for a nightstand gun).   - OS

  Ah so. Thanks.   Drill the sucker out? Even if it puts a small hole in side of tube shouldn't matter if edges are smooth on the inside?   - OS

I don't know HK rifles by any means, but looking at pics/parts of that rifle, I'm a bit curious about the pin. Meaning, looks like a multi-position stock on a buffer tube, like any AR.   What does this pin "hold" and what does it prevent you from doing?   - OS

Yup, have taken it the last six or eight years. Didn't take it most of my life, and seldom got the flu, but did maybe once every five years, and each time I swore I'd take it the next year but usually didn't. :)   Being official Gummit Geezer now, they're free. Have had the shingles vaccine and both of the newmonie ones too.   I have no tin foil layer regarding vaccines. They're significant reason we can be as over populated as we are. :)   - OS

  I know a little about much but much about only a little.  ;)   edit to add:   Far as nuke stuff, I was contracted to do enviro training related things off and on for a few years with DOE weapons plants and labs all over the country, tangentially involved power plants too -- some of it stuck, just like names of old movie stars and other garbage brain filler that has done me soooo much good over the years.   - OS

  Wow, 15 nanometers is really close, your back wall must be attached to a cooling tower.! ;)   - OS

  They are designed to shut down by themselves with backup power after a certain time interval with no input or dangerous condition and whatever. Supposedly several layers of redundancy. Don't swim in the spent fuel rod pools, though. :)   Oh course, Russian ones might still require the last man out to flip a switch, so hopefully he's not already a Zed. :)   But even a meltdown doesn't cause a nuclear bomb. There might be a local explosion, but not a nuclear one. Lots of radiation released, and for thousands of years in the area too, but not traveling "fallout" in the sense of a thermonuclear bomb.   For an idea of scale, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is "only" about 18 mile radius. I'd at least double it myself, though. :)  I guess at least a simple Geiger counter would be a handy item, though.   - OS

  Yep, that's the main thing. The current generation might well see things as the "end of days", but assuming there are at least tens of million of folks still around after all the initial panic and dieoff, even starting from almost "scratch",  1930's or better conditions would likely be accomplished again in a generation or two, at least where people chose to congregate and work together.   Disease would probably become the biggest single life limiter for a good long while. Hell, just lack of sanitation will bring back several our old adversaries -- cholera,  typhoid, various dysentery conditions, whatever. All kinds of other stuff we routinely immunize against. Diptheria, tetanus, etc. Maybe yellow fever in the southern states. All kinds of stuff that's kept at bay these days through immunization, sewage control, insect control, whatever. And without the drugs to treat them when they do occur.   Obviously, folks with conditions that require drugs simply to survive, wouldn't. On the other hand, some conditions, like Type II diabetes in particular, would be virtually eliminated for a good long time span,  probably much fewer heart attacks and stokes at earlier ages, etc.   - OS

  Okay. So the short answer is -- no, no credible documentation of a black cougar in South America either.   Indeed, he says that a black cougar is "...little short of impossible - for two extremely good, fundamental reasons", then goes on to support that with both empirical and genetic reasons. Good enough for me.   Thanks for the testimony, Doc.  ;)   If you want to postulate a hitherto unknown species of cougar sized black cat running around the country,  I posit my white grizzly sighting as having equal validity. :)   - OS

  Horse pucky. We have grizzlies. Pure white ones. They hang out with the black cougars. I've seen them. Same conspiracy denies them.   - OS

  Not saying they don't ever exist east of the Mississippi, singles have been proven to be here and there since the '20s. We just saw apparently hard evidence of one in W. TN, and if so, the first truly confirmed one I know of in my lifetime in TN.  Maybe there have been one or two more, but I don't think so. But sure, there's always the chance of the rare wild errant traveler or escaped captive animal whose owner may have had it in violation of law and ain't gonna fess up.   But to assert they can exist anywhere in the neighborhood of the ballpark of the populations logically necessary to account for the number of people who have claimed to see them here in essentially every part of the state (or in most any eastern state really) is just fanciful -- there would have to be resident state-wide breeding populations, and also necessarily would have any number of them photographed and tranked and shot and run over and whatnot, simple as that, just as they are in the western states where there really are resident populations.   Hell, as funny extreme case, there's a now famous one living in Los Angles proper for the last three years, ole P-22.  He's seen and photographed regularly, monitored with a radio collar from a previous capture,  and since he's confined his predation so far to Griffith Park, the wildlife folks are leaving him alone, even though he roams as far as the Hollywood Sign, under a house in Los Feliz, and George Clooney's backyard. :)     I assume you are still talking cougar here? -- I have never seen such credible documentation at all .. references? Certainly this would be big news in the wildlife science world, not to mention price a zoo somewhere would pay for one I'm sure.   Genus puma would also include the jaguarundi; they can be black-ish, but they're certainly not in the "big cat" family -- Maine Coons are probably  bigger on the average (and can be black, too).   - OS

  What's that got to do with cougars?     Gasp. Radical idea to actually read thread. But thanks to Runco for the corroborating link regarding my previous post.  ;)   Course, I guess we could have a bunch of black leopards and jaguars running about in the state, eh?  :)   - OS

  How weird. My guess is that if it does okay by hand, it'll do same when firing.   - OS