Oh Shoot

  Good catch on that part... I had missed the timing of actual date of the Judicial Nominating Commission going defunct before these last two justices were appointed.   But I don't get the part about them "bypassing the election". We haven't elected supreme/appellate judges since 1971 or before, and the retention elections are only after each 8 year term. The fact that the Commission has sunsetted, with alternate rules still in place by statute, would indicate that without a change in law,  the Gov's sole discretion on appointments would just continue right along if the ballot initiative is defeated. No?   - OS

  Well, actually, I was wrong .. that was the way it has been done for a long time, but what I missed was that we have had two of them appointed after the Judicial Nominating Commission went defunct. I didn't notice the dates of the committee's "sunset" vs their appointments, but SteelHarp covered that is his point 2 in post above.   And sure enough, Gov. was allowed to simply appoint them with no one else's approval.   But my main point that started this was that the opposition to the amendment is crying that it will prevent us from voting for the judges, and we already don't, so that's laughable. If the amendment fails, it will take gawd knows what kind of litigation to actually cause election of the judges, and will likely continue just as now, with no oversight from the legislature.   - OS

  That seems to be true. According to NIH,  a person who had never had chickenpox could be infected directly from someone else's shingles blisters, but would develop chicken pox, not shingles. But of course later could then develop shingles.   - OS

  Fake by "The National News Report" site.   But reminds me of The Andromeda Strain, though was set in Arizona in book and New Mexico in movie.   - OS

Link doesn't work for me right now either. But anyway: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Plain-Clothes-Man-Perplexes-Viewers-279357962.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DFWBrand - OS

  Pretty sure it was, but didn't know that long ago. Kinda hard for a new prospective J frame purchaser to grab one, though. ;)   - OS

  Any lower, new or used, should be marked by FFL as "other firearm" on question 18 since 8/2008. However, what an FFL puts on 4473, correctly or incorrectly, doesn't actually determine legal classification of a firearm, nor the legality of a particular future configuration of it.   The only federal requirement for legality to make a pistol is that the lower did not begin life as a rifle, either by retail manufacturer, individual, whatever.   The burden of proof to prosecute you for making a firearm from a rifle falls on the prosecution. Quite easy if you built a pistol from a used lower that left the manufacturer as a rifle. Virtually impossible if the rife were first configured by an individual gun owner who bought a new lower (unless the guy wanted to rat you out :).)   Not "once a rifle, but "first" a rifle, always a rifle. If first configured as a pistol, can be either from then on.   - OS

Is that some discontinued model? - OS

  Available since 1995 in the US.   - OS

  Perhaps with guns they're afraid of someone breaching a tank. But for the other items, completely beyond the pale of any logic.   - OS

Not had Shingles, and unclear whether I had Chicken Pox as a kid, but I took the vaccine anyway, since it is obviously a miserable condition to have.   Note that the vaccine is only estimated to have 50-70% hedge in prevention, but I thought it worth it.   - OS

  Again, that's not true.   1. The governor does not appoint them from scratch. A committee selects three and gives the gov a choice among those selections. He can reject all three, and they give him three more, at which time he must select one of those.  However, that committee has recently gone defunct, so if the ballot resolution fails, not sure what will occur.   2. We already have the retention election by the voters.   3. It is true that if the amendment passes, the gov's nominee will have to be approved by both houses of the legislature. This is perhaps the best part of the thing. I guess. And yes, the retention ballot remains.   - OS

  I should perhaps have mentioned,  to be fair, that I have a ProMag 30+ mag I bought on a lark for XD 9 pistol -- though it takes a slight twisting motion when inserted to lock in, it has been 100% during firing the 5 or 6 times I've used it.   But I also have a couple of 15 rounders for Hi-Point carbine that do not work unless I hold up on them -- but I may have developed a mag catch prob as regular mags seem to sit too low also, in process of sussing this out.   - OS

  Total lies from that faction. Voters do not choose those judges now, haven't since 1971, so that's all based on hooey to begin with. Whether failure of the amendment to pass will actually lead to them being elected or not is debatable at the least.       Again, hooey from the antis. We haven't elected those judges since 1971. The only vote we have now is retention vote. This would not change if amendment is passed, retention vote still there.       No. Supreme and appellate judges have been appointed under the "Tennessee Plan", which is not by the Attorney General, but by Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission and then by the Judicial Nominating Commission, submitted to the governor, where he could yea or nay them.   That latter Commission is currently in limbo due to complicated rules regarding failure of review of said Commission.   http://judgepedia.org/Tennessee_Judicial_Nominating_Commission   I'm not sure what will eventually happen if amendment 2 fails. But if it succeeds, yes it will be similar to the federal procedure, except we will still have retention votes on them in the polls, same as the current procedure.   - OS

  ??   A yes vote on #2 calls for the governor to appoint them, subject only to legislature confirmation (or not, depending).   - OS

  I still think Eugene will prove to be a fraud, just a line of BS he's used to get other people to protect him.   - OS

  Yep, I mentioned this early in first season. Even if you wanted to claim the "logic" that military arsenals were raided and those rifles got scattered around, those guns would almost all be 3 shot burst models.   And of course, no suspension of belief possible at all for all the many full auto AKs throughout the series.   And sure, full auto anything is stupid for use on Zeds where precision is mandatory.   - OS

  Well, if you never went in there and set those ip addresses manually, I think it's pretty safe to say you got nipped by something that did. 

  Again, I ask: did you just have the default of auto find DNS, and a baddie changed it to those specific IPs?   Other puter still set for auto?     - OS

  Of course the Sevierville store charges sales tax to anyone who buys there, TN resident or not. But Budsgunshop.com still does not charge TN residents sales tax.   - OS

  "Seems" too big?  Meaning, it won't go in chamber? If so, is chamber gunked up, or possibly even rusty?   6.35mm is indeed metric for .25ACP.   - OS

  Yep, it's full service also.     No, not full service.   http://www.tn.gov/safety/driverlicense/dllocationdev.shtml   - OS

  That's likely another good choice roughly same distance I'd guess.   http://www.tn.gov/safety/dlstations/anderson.shtml   - OS

  That's a lot farther than Maryville for him.   For my CDL, didn't realize it could only be done at a full service station, had popped in to a west Knoxville satellite one. They suggested the Maryville location. Nobody in the know goes to the Staw Plains location for anything if they can help it.   - OS

  I gotcha, sorry had edited above post, thought I was in the other thread actually. :)   But I still wonder just how many folks that wind up in the tourist mecca of the Sevierville store are even aware of Bud's online rep. Or even if they are, would think that being in that location, would get about same amount of traffic regardless of affiliation?   - OS