Oh Shoot

I'm guessing something like this. Except in green. The "bone" is ceramic. I've got a couple, works pretty well if edge doesn't really need re-profiling or anything drastic. - OS

Good call, found it right off: http://tennessee.gov/attorneygeneral/op/2008/op/op133.pdf There is more, but here is summary: "QUESTION Can a person who has been diagnosed as suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but who has not been adjudicated or hospitalized for a mental illness or because of mental incompetence, obtain a handgun carry permit? OPINION Yes. Under Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1351©(12), as it is presently written, a person who has been diagnosed with PTSD may obtain a handgun carry permit, as long as that person has not been adjudicated as mentally defective, been committed or hospitalized, or been judicially determined to pose a substantial risk of harm because of PTSD." - OS

Statute says: " (9) "Restricted firearm ammunition" means any cartridge containing a bullet coated with a plastic substance with other than a lead or lead alloy core or a jacketed bullet with other than a lead or lead alloy core or a cartridge of which the bullet itself is wholly composed of a metal or metal alloy other than lead. "Restricted firearm ammunition" does not include shotgun shells or solid plastic bullets; " This make the AP ammo a no no? - OS

"That the applicant has not been adjudicated as a mental defective, has not been judicially committed to or hospitalized in a mental institution pursuant to title 33, has not had a court appoint a conservator for the applicant by reason of a mental defect, has not been judicially determined to be disabled by reason of mental illness, developmental disability or other mental incapacity, and has not, within seven (7) years from the date of application, been found by a court to pose an immediate substantial likelihood of serious harm, as defined in title 33, chapter 6, part 5, because of mental illness;" "adjudicated" means result of court or judicial hearing. "judicially committed" takes court or judge's action. I'd say he should be fine, but IANAL, or perhaps more importantly, don't work for TNDOS. Who "told" him he didn't qualify? Is there some military paperwork that would surface during an HCP background check? - OS

You start a thread to SHOW your knife, and you don't SHOW yours? Jeez. - OS

I'm home...BUUURRRPPP...ah, that's better. Cole slaw, nothing really special. Besides the cabbage and smattering of carrot (store bought already shredded), add Vidalia onions, touches of red wine vinegar and horseradish, and the true secret ingredient, Duke's mayo. I even got a care package to go, so I get to feast tomorrow, too! - OS

Here's the scariest part of the whole mess: Nobody knows WHAT this is going to turn into. Exxon Valdez had a finite quantity of crude on board, and it was all near shore, and they could get at the SOURCE... this spill is for all practical purposes LIMITLESS until they can quell it at the source. Even drilling a relief well, which will take months, is no guarantee of really stopping this thing entirely. I wonder if there is an estimate of just how MUCH oil is potentially IN this deposit, for worst case scenario? - OS

Well, actually, there's another failsafe, forget what they called it, in use by most oilrigs off the shore of OTHER countries, but BP doesn't use them, even those they are said to be relatively inexpensive by oil industry standards. And now, with other previous BP fiascos that could have been just as bad, coming into more light, I'd say that this thing will make some big changes in entire industry. - OS

That would be equivalent of Ace Hardware absorbing and transforming WalMart. - OS

Rush can be a real douche sometimes. I've enjoyed him for quite a few years as an entertainer above all, but I've pretty much had enough - he's become a one-trick pony. Beck is still wacko and fresh enough to pick up the slack, for a while yet, anyway. I've felt that Boortz has struck the right balance over the long haul. - OS EDIT: apologies for off topic, let's get back to the spill

Have a mouse in your pocket? You can forget Republican Party as being good for The Republic anymore, too. If the Tea Party movement is to have any real lasting effect, it MUST foment (at least) a viable third party. Otherwise is will simply be absorbed and diluted into the biz-as-usual GOP. - OS

They were talking about the submersibles down there still trying to trip the cutoff mechanism, whatever exactly it is. Says they are proceeding as carefully as possible, since they could break the whole wellhead or whatever it is apart and create a gusher with many magnitudes of flow WORSE than is happening right now. I had impression it was already flowing at max, but not so. Fingers crossed on this new little tidbit, eh? - OS

And is an American citizen. - OS

Whole burn thing is pretty tricky. Has to be concentrated enough. It's not like a uniform concentration of oil is going to come into shore and just sit there in neatly combustible concentrations. Also, a helluva lot of this, maybe even most of it, isn't coming into a neat line on "beaches", it's coming into marshland, bayous, bays, cays, sounds, shoal areas, whatever. Water that goes from 20 feet to 6 inches in a matter of feet. All changing constantly with tides. A freaking nightmare. - OS

IF anyone could trust that it would ONLY EVER be used for identification, what's the prob? Ha. I crack myself up. - OS

Dunno. Certainly haven't heard it mentioned by any of the "experts" so far. - OS

When I was a kid there were still mussel fisheries on the TN river where I fished below Watts Bar Dam. TN used to harvest most of the mussels in the entire US, first for buttons, later for sale to Japan for oyster pearl implants. Now we have numerous extinct species, and over 40 species endangered. I think the only commercial fishery left is on Kentucky Lake. - OS

Hell, we can't eat fish from half the habitat in our own state. Nobody much seems to bemoan that fact. - OS

I'd venture all that is in the ballpark of the eventual scenario. Oh, nature CAN take care of it - in a hundred years or more given an otherwise pristine environment to work with. Which it doesn't have by a long shot - the Delta is already America's toilet outlet, amazing to me the fecundity still found there. Or was.... And this one will be seen and felt by far more Americans than the one in Alaska. - OS

They won't hang around with nothing to eat. They particularly like politicians, though. And lawyers. - OS

I'm pretty certain that 12 rounds at 3,7,15 YARDS and 12 rounds at instructor discretion is mandated in the state HCP course requirements. Somewhere, as I can't find it right now. - OS

"Why Won't the NRA Back a Third Party Candidate?" Maybe a better question is, "Why Won't America Back Third Party Candidates?" - OS

Yeah, I thought those were due to health code statutes, either state or local. - OS

Fareed Zakaria. Actually, pretty interesting guy, hard to categorize, really. He's pretty sharp, used to hear him on PBS, now has regular show on CNN, where he puts foreign leaders' feet to the fire pretty well at times. - OS

They might not find any sharks in the gulf for awhile. - OS