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Actually, "non-student adult". The diff is, I can do it and not get fired if found out like faculty or staff. - OS

That's some snake myth or other, never even heard it, and I thought I'd heard them all. Not that it matters, as the only poisonous snake with bands in North America is the coral snake, regardless of their width. And they're not in TN. - OS

Snake in yer loo is pretty damn wild!

CM9 same size as PM9, CW9 is larger -- significantly so, as far as pocket carry. - OS

Crazy as ever. Freaks out every time it rains. Well, "here" is nationwide, as it's a federal law to which they're complying, not state. - OS

Only if you can hold it steady enough to maximize it. I never thought of myself as being particularly UNsteady, till I first tried red dots (and lasers)! - OS

...that disassembled like a Beretta NEOS. - OS

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And don't misspell psycho -- and some of us are proud of our heritage, so that's Psycho American to you Dave. - OS

I do too. Love my Ape Planet 995 like an ugly ole dawg. - OS

Yeah, just been a 50 year PC campaign to ameliorate n****r to African American, s**c to Hispanic American, etc etc. To my memory the first cleansing occurred with "Native American" as "American Indian" was still seen as a slight pejorative when used to distinguish Crazy Horse from Gunga Din. Guess it still suggested "injun" or "red devil" or such. Btw, Brits called any of the dark skinned folks in their former Empire "n****rs, so the US of A didn't coin the phrase to begin with, but that's another story. Of course, the "American" tag is stressed when somebody does something laudable; African Americans work hard and get college degrees, Blacks join gangs and go to jail. Hispanic Americans are hard working family oriented folks, Hispanics are on welfare and smuggle drugs. "Hispanic" was bastardized by the Nixon admin to begin with -- it really only described Spaniards and Portuguese but now includes any New World Spanish speaking country too, but that's another story too. Zimmerman has entered rarefied status though, as a villainous "White Hispanic". If he had saved Martin from being run over by a bus, he'd be a Hispanic American hero. - OS

Yeah, it happens, gets reported here from time to time. Didja use your SSN?

One of my fav little works by James Dickey (good ole Gawga boy): Kudzu Japan invades. Far Eastern vines Run from the clay banks they are Supposed to keep from eroding. Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leafage As though they would shriek, Like things smothered by their own Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts. In Georgia, the legend says That you must close your windows At night to keep it out of the house. The glass is tinged with green, even so, As the tendrils crawl over the fields. The night the kudzu has Your pasture, you sleep like the dead. Silence has grown Oriental And you cannot step upon ground: Your leg plunges somewhere It should not, it never should be, Disappears, and waits to be struck Anywhere between sole and kneecap: For when the kudzu comes, The snakes do, and weave themselves Among its lengthening vines, Their spade heads resting on leaves, Growing also, in earthly power And the huge circumstance of concealment. One by one the cows stumble in, Drooling a hot green froth, And die, seeing the wood of their stalls Strain to break into leaf. In your closed house, with the vine Tapping your window like lightning, You remember what tactics to use. In the wrong yellow fog-light of dawn You herd them in, the hogs, Head down in their hairy fat, The meaty troops, to the pasture. The leaves of the kudzu quake With the serpents' fear, inside The meadow ringed with men Holding sticks, on the country roads. The hogs disappear in the leaves. The sound is intense, subhuman, Nearly human with purposive rage. There is no terror Sound from the snakes. No one can see the desperate, futile Striking under the leaf heads. Now and then, the flash of a long Living vine, a cold belly, Leaps up, torn apart, then falls Under the tussling surface. You have won, and wait for frost, When, at the merest touch Of cold, the kudzu turns Black, withers inward and dies, Leaving a mass of brown strings Like the wires of a gigantic switchboard. You open your windows, With the lightning restored to the sky And no leaves rising to bury You alive inside your frail house, And you think, in the opened cold, Of the surface of things and its terrors, And of the mistaken, mortal Arrogance of the snakes As the vines, growing insanely, sent Great powers into their bodies And the freedom to strike without warning: From them, though they killed Your cattle, such energy also flowed To you from the knee-high meadow (It was as though you had A green sword twined among The veins of your growing right arm-- Such strength as you would not believe If you stood alone in a proper Shaved field among your safe cows--): Came in through your closed Leafy windows and almighty sleep And prospered, till rooted out. James Dickey

Don't really know exactly, might be simple as looking at number of officially lodged complaints and compare to standard deviation, stuff like that. But probably precise databases like that simply don't exist, and how could you verify the accuracy of the reporting in the first place, as crime stats themselves are famously been shown to be skewed. How could it relate? Well, that the (sort of, closer to) white Zimmerman gets cut slack over the totally black Martin, consistent with the claimed biased official culture there? Remember, I'm not the one really hinting at a possible "cultural bias" within the police down there; the city manager did, and I found rather astounding really. I mean, he could have said, "we're not above the norm of complaints from our black constituency" or "our PD has the highest standards with treating everyone equally" or any of the normal stuff you'd expect. But he didn't. What he did say, to find one quote, "The issues that have been brought to my attention regarding the black community and the Sanford police department go back 10 years," he said. "There's a lot of work that needs to be done there." And "political pressure" to have the chief resign I can only see as tantamount to calling him part of the overall problem. Had he simply stood his ground and said "I and the DA didn't find sufficient evidence to present this to the grand jury", okay. But he didn't. And yeah, if this gets presented to a grand jury, whatever happens happens. But it's pret damn obvious that would never have happened. Haven't heard much about the head prosecutor down there but surprised he hasn't had to step aside yet either. 'Course now that the pressure is coming down from Tallahassee and the Fed, sounds like he may eventually be charged without grand jury being involved at all, which also ain't right either IMHO. I guess my only point is that the whole thing sounds rather dirty -- at the very best there are a bunch of idiots down there if they couldn't see a big whup coming by just letting the whole incident slide hoping it would evaporate into thin air. At the worst, it's a whiff of the deep south in the 50s-60s. - OS

Knowing you only as well as I do virtually from TGO, I'd posit you wouldn't have resigned if you'd done everything above board, and I know I wouldn't have. Dunno, we only have claims, but if a statistical review of complaints and incidents over last decade revealed an atypical pattern, perhaps it relates quite distinctly. Quite telling that a city manager gives lip service to the problems. He is black, but he speaks for the city. - OS

Why did police chief resign? Why did City Manager Bonaparte acknowledge 10 years of police vs black probs? Because there are, I guess. Always plenty of questions in whole thang down there. - OS

crap, again, meant to edit, not quote

That's essentially it. Switchblades open with various spring releases on the handle, from static to fully engaged. AO, you have to start movement by moving blade itself. Most AO models are so close to speed of even the best switchblades I've never really seen the why of full autos even in cases where they're legal for carry, since it would be a rare auto that's as overall strong as even inexpensive AOs, like the Chinese Kershaws, to name one line. There's also the gravity thing, too. Have read in law part of Blade Forum about some jurisdictions (not TN) where they'll try their damnest to flick knives open even if they aren't really designed for that in first place. I guess best advice is to keep pivot tight enough to prevent that (which, since I don't like any horiz play, I do anyway). I know the venerable Buck 110 was tweaked way back in the late 60's for this very reason, it flicked open too easily once it was broken in. - OS

Sky King's link puts you toward bottom of page is all. R-Bert's link you put you at top of latest entry. - OS

The fact that a lot of glass was on the opposite side of the van seems almost impossible to me, so I share your bemusement. - OS

AO knives have been proven to be legal under state wide weapons law, which follows federal published opinion on that matter (ie, assisted opening does not equal switchblade). I can't speak for any antiquated local laws (unlike firearms, state knife statutes do not have preemption) but I think if any burg were popping folks for AO, it would be pretty well known. - OS

Just burn a pile of pallets out front; they'll assume you've already been visited. - OS

Wow, had to look that up, not being Harold Potter literate. Speaking of Bible vis-a-vis Harry Potter, thought this was one of the more worthy little essays: http://ezinearticles.com/?Harry-Potter-vs-The-Bible...Whats-the-Difference?&id=90676 - OS

An anachronism with your humorous scenario: humanoids (even the earliest apes) did not coexist with dinosaurs. - OS

I'm always afraid one will start talking again. And probably liberal crap to boot. - OS