Oh Shoot

I did! Exclamation point because it's the first tremor I've ever for sure felt in my life. Like Garufa, once I ascertained the roof on my building hadn't caved in or something, I assumed it had to be a tremor. - OS

"Poke" not "polk". Pokeweed. You pick a "mess" of it. Yes, berries and roots are toxic, but leaves can be eaten even after berries form, but small leaves in spring are best. I ate a ton of it growing up, and matter of fact picked a small mess along the 3rd Creek greenway about three years ago and ate it for old time's sake. And yep, boil for a bit, drain, change water boil some more, adding pork fat is traditional. Not bad, damn good if you're really hungry. If it were harmful to eat it this way, half the South would have died in the 30s. - OS

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1352551854' post='843005'] They don’t care what your sentence was; or even if you didn’t serve any time and got probation. It’s the amount of time the offense could carry. [/quote] Doh...that's almost certainly the correct answer, "a term punishable..." is the key. For some reason I equated his sentence as max sentence for whichever class of fraud OP got popped for, mea culpa. - OS

[quote name='zort' timestamp='1352555914' post='843027'] how old would she be in 2016. she looks older than dirt now. i dont know, kinda scary [/quote] Same age as Reagan first term. 3 years younger than McCain when he ran. [quote name='6.8 AR' timestamp='1352560349' post='843056'] I think she's is done, in politics, because of Benghazi. [/quote] She's Teflon on that issue long term. I officially predict she'll be the nominee in '16, barring health issue. Hey, I'm getting better at this seer thing. Hope I can soon sense which day TEOTWAWKI starts. - OS I

[quote name='Mike.357' timestamp='1352520651' post='842913'] yeah, Napoleon is what came to mind [/quote] Yup, the New York press hasn't always every time been flattering. Remember this?: [img]http://worldonline.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2008/07/14/na-color-OBAMA-NEW-YORKER_t640.jpg?a6ea3ebd4438a44b86d2e9c39ecf7613005fe067[/img]

[quote name='Seabeejason' timestamp='1352517172' post='842877'] Seen that today. We all know why Hillary, Petraeus, and Panetta are leaving. It has Libya written all over it. I fear that old hag will pop back up sometime in our near future though. 2016 perhaps? Lets hope not. [/quote] Barring any surprises or health issue, Hildebeeste is the Dem heir apparent for 2016. First black, then first woman. She'll probably be a shoo in as nominee. And unless things go so uber bad that even die hard libs cry out in pain, the likely winner, too. She's definitely quitting to run. Look for her to keep her name prominent in other ways. She's paid her Dem dues; if things go okay, she was on his team, if they go badly, she's got 4 years of separation from the stink, the savior to restore the party and beat the next poor choice of the GOP. - OS

[quote name='HottShott' timestamp='1352522789' post='842942'] ....[size=4][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][color=#000000]Should I bother with an appeal?[/color][/font][/size]...[/quote] I surely would. But I'd probably consult a lawyer hip to firearms law first, too. Maybe just a letter from one to the right division might even suffice. Send a PM to TGO user "Stegall Law Firm" or see his phone number in the Authorized Vendor section at bottom of TGO main page. Patrick Stegall --he's in Memphis. Qualifications seem pretty clear cut. Can you pass 4473 check to buy a gun? The federal ownership qualification is the same regarding the "a term exceeding one year". CCI's link seems to support same, even though it's about ownership rather than HCP, but both qualifications seem to be the same. If Patrick doesn't see this thread and post, please keep us informed here -- I for one would very much like to know the score on this point. - OS

[quote name='Mike.357' timestamp='1352518608' post='842897'] ...would be even nicer if he could get some media, both print and TV to tell his story.[/quote] Oh, he'll get all of that he wants, [i]if[/i] he wants it. He may feel that his most honorable act may be to clam up. I sense that it might be more honorable to spill the beans, just like Watergate. - OS

[quote name='Mike.357' timestamp='1352517562' post='842881'] don't military officers live by a code of conduct? If so isn't adultery a violation of that code? And assuming it is, is it uncommon for a resignation to be the result? All honest questions. [/quote] Eisenhower had affairs while a general, Patton did too. Somehow their sense of honor allowed them to carry on. A number of Presidents had affairs. Hell, JFK got more than Ron Jeremy. - OS

[quote name='TMF' timestamp='1352516845' post='842873'] My guess is the same. A shame, really. The timing is what makes it so suspect. [/quote] Yeah, that and the little factoid that Petraeus threw this little ditty right in BHO's face not long ago. "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ” Also, how he was "found out": "The FBI had been investigating an unrelated and much broader case before stumbling on the affair. Fox News has learned that during the course of this investigation, the name of biographer Paula Broadwell came up. The FBI followed that lead and in doing so, uncovered his affair with her." Now, just [i]when[/i] did this little revelation come about? How long has it been kept up BHO's sleeve, just in case? And he resigns right before he would have been grilled in Senate inquiry, under oath. Yep, all just total coincidence and he resigned only because his penis finally felt guilty and did the honorable thing. Does he have bridges to sell too? - OS [color=#000000][left][background=rgb(255, 255, 255)] [/background][/left][/color]

[quote name='tommy62' timestamp='1352512969' post='842845'] I think the director of the CIA could have come up with something better than,"I had an affair". That's horse dookey. Has more to do with Lybia than labia. [/quote] Ba Da BING! Love it. (except you misspelled Libya)

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1352511996' post='842835'] I would think a Federal ban on private sales would be overturned by the SCOTUS if it happened. They left the door open for banning and outlawing stuff, but they made it pretty clear that ownership is a right. They left half the 2nd amendment intact as far as the individual is concerned. [/quote] No lawsuits arising from the states that don't permit private sales. Or perhaps more pointedly, District of Columbia. Making you transfer a firearm through a FFL doesn't step on firearm ownership to any higher degree than the onerous hoops through which you must jump in DC and Chicago to simply own one. - OS

[quote name='Gen. Patton' timestamp='1352470546' post='842399'] I'm in a restaraunt with my daughter minding my own business and I am pestered by someone who has a problem with me exercising my 2nd Amendment right to carry open or concealed....[/quote] No one else has mentioned, but don't get all carried away with the 2A hayride here. The fact that you can carry open or concealed here is a privilege granted by the TN Legislature. One you pay for. That privilege is already a 2A infringement. I'll also posit that it's more likely that open carry will be banned as an option in TN than that unlicensed open carry will be enacted. - OS

[quote name='N2thebox' timestamp='1352499565' post='842722'] Maybe your views will change once you see the HUGE Democratic Federal government machine (obama train) attack our rights and mandate what we do. We need all the republican oposition we can muster to thwart off federal attacks on our state democracy. What you are all missing is this administration's agenda, which is to remove the power of the states to control what effects the state. The Obama plan is to wipe states rights clean and enforce federal rule over all! [/quote] We're talking about state government here. Our Republicans are mostly RINOs at best here, have been for decades. Most of them could run as Dems -- their records wouldn't even be campaign fodder for the opposition. Some of the staunchest movers and shakers for gun rights over the last 10 years in the TN legislature have been Dems. And I'm certainly not convinced TN Republicans are any more adamant as a group regarding our state rights than TN Dems. At all. - OS

[quote name='superduty' timestamp='1352507543' post='842794'] I'm curious about how all this would work in a state like TN, where private party sales are legal, you don't have to follow the serial number around forever, etc. What if you owned an 'assault rifle', and sold it in a private party sale? People buy/ sell/ swap guns all day long. You don't know the address or full legal name of the person it went to. As of now, you don't have to. What then? What would/could they do? You dont have it. What do you guys think? [/quote] I think a federal ban on all private sales is the most likely actual new gun legislation that will occur. Majority of FFLs would support it unless it made them do transfers for free. - OS

News Flash: he will NOT be testifying in the closed Senate hearings next week, CIA will send current employees. So BHO has dodged the first bullet on this. I swear, evil just wins all the time. Of course, they could subpoena him. Hmmm, plot thickens. - OS

I'd wager the affair was something BHO kept in his pocket until push came to shove. Which it has, with Petraeus bucking the admin claims, and with the hearings impending. As virtuous as he may indeed be otherwise, people don't abruptly quit such a high position when there has been no scandal. Hell, if being so noble were the only cause, he wouldn't have accepted the position to begin with, as I don't think this is probably a quick tryst that happened only recently. But now that Petraeus is out from under job pressure, the hearings next week may be quite a bit more interesting than they might have been otherwise. We'll see. - OS

[quote name='MilitiaMan' timestamp='1352487228' post='842583'] Civil Unrest is coming. That's a guarantee.[/quote] Civil unrest, even to the point of anarchy, is not civil war. You have to have two sides in a civil war. The government's troops are us. Perhaps they/we could be bought off with government food and other perks as in various have nothing hell holes around the world, but if it really came down to it in a nation-wide armed conflict, I believe not. - OS

[quote name='LINKS2K' timestamp='1352488719' post='842594'] You left out blacks. ..[/quote] Yes, I should have lumped the larger percentage of blacks into the same traditional Christian/family value/work ethic description of Hispanics. The difference though, is that a high majority of blacks would vote for Barack no matter what. And yes, that's more "racist" on their part than on mine for positing it methinks. But I also left out one of, and probably [i]the[/i] major factor, at least in that particular post. I've said over and over pre-election, "Mitt can't beat the media". BHO and liberal PACs may have spent 3- 4 billion, but the constant overall media barrage was worth three times that. Had the preponderance of that (really 6 year long) type fawning coverage been anti-Barack instead, I have little doubt that Romney would have carried it. - OS

[quote name='Seabeejason' timestamp='1352433028' post='842261'] Yes! Definitely a steal in my opinion. In very good condition, they usually go for $300-$400. You got a good quality gun made by Marlin. I love my 336. [/quote] Current 336 A or W is about $400 out the door, the 336 is more, only difference is walnut stock vs. birch. Andy's is walnut and would have nicer bluing than any of those in last 10 years or so also. It's a fine buy on a fine rifle. - OS

[quote name='krunchnik' timestamp='1352482522' post='842543'] You have a flair for words... [/quote] Fair disclosure, that joke has been around for a good while. - OS

[quote name='N2thebox' timestamp='1352464496' post='842362'] As I reel from the fact that Tues informed me I am now, an apparently have been, in the minority in this country I struggled to find some glimmering light from all of it. THIS IS IT! Tennessee Republicans win Super Majority in BOTH Chambers. Thank God I live in this state!!!!!!! [url="http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/nov/07/gop-gains-six-seats-each-state-house-and-senate/"]http://www.knoxnews....use-and-senate/[/url] AT LEAST we have a fighting chance with our state representatives to keep everything in check. [/quote] Right. As far as this forum's main focus, the only thing worse than a TN Democrat on 2A rights is a TN Republican. - OS

Romney lost because the demographics and opinion on issues of those demographics are changing. BHO got big majority vote of women, blacks, Hispanics, and gays. The only major demographic Mitt won was white men, but only 48% of all white voters. Hispanics will be at least one third of US population by 2050. The majority are Christian (mostly Catholic to boot), family oriented, and hard workers. That sounds like a Republican base -- so when the GOP can't win that demographic, the party needs to do some real soul searching as to what it is really all about. - OS

[quote name='RobertNashville' timestamp='1352448521' post='842332'] And I buy my guns and ammo from businesses that exist to support the firearms community and which are generally, albeit not always, owned and staffed by firearm enthusiasts like myself because I care a more that those business continue to exist a lot more than I care if WalMart exists. [/quote] I would opine that any retailer who carries guns is supporting the firearms community about 100% more than those who don't sell guns. And if there's any truth to the idea that people become more enured and receptive to firearms by seeing more of them in daily life, you can't beat your average citizen seeing those scary assault weapons at Wally's while shopping for their normal mundane items. - OS

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