Oh Shoot

Didn't even know MSN was still extant.   - OS

  Yep, compare to being a kid in the 40's and 50's confronting the quite real odds of polio. Perspective.   - OS

So it'll look like normal ammo gouger morning lineup, only more so, eh?   - OS

  It's actually John Sevier Hunter Education Center, part of TWRA range system.   http://www.state.tn.us/twra/region4/johnsevier.html   The Volunteer Rifle and Pistol Club is private club entity that operates under/within it.   - OS

  Umm, thanks, but when was I not "around"? (it's a rare day I don't post something). And who did you "ask"?   - OS

  Just the messenger of the messengers here Dave, dunno. If facts so far are valid,  the CDC hired private security which didn't property vet the cat?   Point is, again if facts are correct,  according to Secret Service protocol, he shouldn't have been packing during prez visit period, even if his background were impeccable.   - OS

All relative, you know. We sometimes have 20,000 deaths or more in 60 days here,just from influenza, and the curve on that is way more drastic. There are way too many of us, and the herd will naturally be thinned at some point, but Ebola won't be the agent, in current form it's just not efficient enough. There are lots of more common diseases that are more effective en masse, and all it takes is economic failure to point that health and sanitary services break down to let them again have at it. Which is actually closer to status quo on those countries being pervaded by Ebola now, and hence the reason it can spread there so well. But sure, some new strain of something could arise to be a world changer. Maybe Ebola becomes airborne and even more infectious. But what much more likely is a strain of influenza or even the common cold, which picks up the immunodeficient aspect ala HIV -- that could be a Doomsday Bug. - OS

  Gimme a break, way overstated and you know it. Probably in close contact with symptomatic person, at least some of those factors you mention would likely be transmissive.   We have 10-15 cases of bubonic plague per year in US also, and unlike Ebola, it can indeed be airborne spread when moves to pneumonic phase. But due to overall decent health care system of treatment, isolation, and contact investigation, it never becomes significant.   Seasonal flu kills many thousands of folks per year in US too.   Though this is is indeed apparently the widest outbreak of any of the Ebola strains in history,  the nature of transmission means it will never be a pandemic if it keeps behaving as it has in the same stable way since it's discovery in the 70's.   Seems to me this enterovirus thing that seems to be mutating rapidly to causing paralysis is much more worrisome threat here. Ebola is sort of like shark attacks, gets all the press out of all proportion to threat to average person.   - OS

I have little problem with the "You’ve Got To Shoot This!" folks myself. Have gotten hands on with lots of shootin' irons I'd never have had the occasion to otherwise, or they influenced me in what I chose to buy.   - OS

  Again, this had nothing to do with any of that. Sounds like guy probably isn't even American, was just coming to visit relatives here.   - OS

Just in:   Convicted felon with gun was on elevator with BHO in Atlanta:   http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/armed-former-convict-was-on-elevator-with-obama-in-atlanta/2014/09/30/76d7da24-48e3-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html   - OS

  Since not airborne, not likely. Also not demonstrated that an asymptomatic carrier is infectious period.   - OS

  Bringing the previous patients in had nothing to do with this fellow.  He flew it in himself.   - OS

Does the change in law require a doctor's visit for each script? Meaning, most docs will write a script with a phone call for their patients if it's within the parameters of what they'd give them to begin with.   - OS

  Only took a few visits out there to confirm that. Some of those guys are likely to tell you anything at all.   And remains the only range where two of us were asked to talk less loudly ... during live fire!   - OS

  Seems most of the ones in TN are reciprocal, up to a certain number of visits per year anyway. Doesn't seem to be totally consistent policy state wide or even Y to Y, might only be regional within the state too, not sure. But yeah, Nooga gives ya something like 15 freebies a year if you are member in Knox, couple bucks per after that, but they never kept up with it, usually go over 20 times.   But since I became official geezer, my Advantage Plan has free Silver Sneakers card which all the Y's take (plus most other gyms too), so I just use that rather than relying on my Knox membership (which also uses the card, so it started saving me 50 clams a month). Any place that takes it get whatever per visit, so they get more money that way.   - OS

  Yep, have heard nada regarding law change and City Council. No new signage in areas I frequent, including World's Fair area.   Either no clue or let sleeping dogs lie policy, dunno.   - OS

  It was only first name during the vBulletin Era ... just was kinda nice to put a (probably) real handle with an online persona, made it a bit more communal, I felt.   - OS 

  Everything I saw seemed to indicate that every agency under the federal sun scored, from frigging IRS to BLM to the Post Office, don't see why DOJ would have been left out!   - OS

  Used to could see real name if you put one down, I know I used to look at a lot of them just for that before the switch to IP Board.   - OS

  December. ;)  Except for the ones that make it inside.   - OS

Just got around to reading thread, and high lighted portion was my first thought too. And besides, all the 3 letter agencies just not long ago bought enough .40 HP to shoot everybody in the world ten times or whatever too, eh? - OS

I saw guy with tucked in shirt, OWB Glock and OWB 2 spare mags in locker room at the Y in 'Nooga the other day.   Pretty brazen since they have policy of no guns/knives (but not posted). But maybe a plainclothes LEO (or not) and had sports coat still to put on or something.   - OS

  I can only assume they mixed up the descriptions for the FMJ and HP rounds?   Who regularly shoots higher priced HP ammo for target practice? (except of course all the beau coup federal agencies and their ten trillion rounds or whatever on our dime. :))   - OS

  Echo that, I grabbed a thousand of the 24gr.   "However, it will suffice, and is 100% better than no bullet at all."   ;)   - OS