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As far as TN HCP is concerned, here I'd think it's gonna come down to which driver's license you have -- I wouldn't think an Indiana carry permit and a TN driver's license are going to go together very well if you are carded in TN, but doubt any issue with IN permit and IN DL in same situation. Then again, I don't see why a TN DL and TN HCP should be a prob in IN, either. I don't think it's a federal law that you can't have more than one driver's license, but not sure how TN and IN feel about that. There are also tax issues involved. IN has state income tax, TN doesn't per se, but you DO pay TN income tax on dividends, interest, and the like, but I guess you know about all that. - OS

There are no "exemptions" in the Fair Tax. "Exemption" assumes from income tax, property tax, capital gains tax, and the like, and there are none of those. - OS

Call. - OS

Almost slipped by me too, 'cept I had never heard of Darlington County, TN, so I read closer. - OS

South Carolina, FG. Dunno what the law is there. - OS

My mom, 84, has carry over insurance from my Dad's (deceased) retirement from BellTel. She pays about $350-400/ month, great insurance. Picks up essentially every other dime that Medicare doesn't. Medicare has to be hit first, though, but that's another issue. Just heard the news that AT&T claims the new health care taxes/prescription drugs policy will likely cost them a billion bucks, which they have set aside just during first quarter of 2010, as I understand it. "As a result of this legislation, including the additional tax burden, AT&T will be evaluating prospective changes to the active and retiree health care benefits offered by the company." Any changes will only mean one thing, of course, so there's another "personal story" to add to this thread. - OS

.7 inch actually, but who's counting? - OS

So a single attacker means that there's plenty left over for innocent bystanders and collateral damage in general, eh? Absurd. - OS

My insurance just jumped over $50/month last time around. Last two years I raised deductible and total yearly out of pocket to keep premium about the same. So I pay $4228/year. Single coverage. No co pays. $8500.00 deductible, with total out of pocket of $12,500. Had had a bowel resection about 4 years ago just before previous insurance ran out (pricey COBRA to extend from last job). No malignancy, full normal recovery. They deemed it a pre-condition. Plus being 58 at time of new policy. Guess I'll try shopping around here in a month or two, see if any better joy. No idea, but I don't expect any better deal. - OS

My first wife's Chevy Covair threw a vane off the fan WHILE I was working on it, could have killed me. Unsafe At Any Speed, indeed. 1965 model. Rear mounted, air-cooled, horizontally-opposed, aluminum six-cylinder, four in the floor. 80 horsepower. White.

Half ammonia and half water in a squirt gun does pretty nicely if you can hit face. I'd try that first. Weirdly bad things can happen once you start shooting dogs. - OS

No worries, actually Mike.357 "confirmed" it, but I looked them up after the fact to make sure. Yeah, everybody thinks Texas is gunslingers' paradise. - OS

Nope. Flat Tax no good. Still tied to the individual. Still controls the individual. Still have to file taxes. People cheat. Still have to have huge IRS. Fair Tax collected from consumption. From everyone. Even illegal aliens. Anonymously. Good. - OS

IWB, all the way. I'm very self-conscious about printing.

Well, ummm, let's just say I'll not see any significant return to independence in my lifetime, even if I make 100. Unless it's the kind even I might not care to live through ... and I don't thing THAT will happen due to concerted revolution, but more likely through socioeconomic breakdown and anarchy. And that means Republicans. Which is why I see no real change in libertarian sense. None at all over time. sorry, - OS

We already said, Vermont and Alaska. Alaska actually gives you every benefit possible -- lets you get a permit to carry concealed if you want to, so you can carry in other reciprocal states, but doesn't require one to carry concealed in Alaska. I don't think Vermont does that though? - OS

Right, no political ties at all. "Prior to his appointment, General Cooper served as Legal Counsel to Governor Phil Bredesen from 2003 to 2006." He is also, of course, a Democrat. My guess: won't file. You've read his namby pamby statement?: http://www.tennessee.gov/attorneygeneral/press/2010/story/pr10-11.pdf I'm doubting that these law suits will have any success. Not sure about the actual statutes being passed though, maybe between them and the gun statutes they'll lead to secession! Nah. - OS

Oh, totally agree. I don't think we should vote for president either, also not called for in the Constitution. It's become an American Idol contest, mostly bought anyway. Something basically wrong when a man spends a billion dollars to get a 400K/yr job, and we call that "democracy" because we get to vote, and the popular vote doesn't elect him anyway. - OS

Read both paragraphs. "Not only did the provision remain in the bill, but it was improved..." - OS

I know. And it's the only way they can control you to obey it, through the IRS. - OS

Yah, and get my rubber band bump fire technique down too! Can't find any real user reviews, looks like Midway just started selling them for example. Here's manufacturer's video: - OS

Ya know, after being brought to bear on some of my jaded comments on the tyranny that our hopeless two party political system has become, and explaining my feelings there, I've thought long and hard for one positive sweeping change that could be made, short of a second revolution, that could make the biggest difference, and it is, simply: ABOLISH THE IRS in favor of an anonymous consumption based taxation system. The Fair Tax is of course the best known plan, and by all accounts, would work fine, and put more money in the federal coffer than ever, even during lean times like now. The prime advantage is, of course, that an anonymous consumption tax frees the individual (and business) from THE primary control used by the federal government. It would effectively negate most every onerous law passed since The New Deal on, while still allowing the government to have plenty of money to waste (nature of government expenditures would still have to be corrected with separate efforts). Ideologically, there is no reason why BOTH the Dems and the GOP couldn't support this, except of course that they both WANT this type of control to continue, even though both would claim the opposite. So maybe this should become the rallying cry for the Teabag Party, if indeed they are as many feel the best and last hope to save The Republic. At any rate, though I am certainly not the first to promote this, I have now offered a positive suggestion to offset all the negativism that I generally radiate in political threads. You're welcome, thank you very much. Back in character, though, I can say that it will never, EVER, happen as long as our two party system exists. Neither party can be changed, it can now only dilute and corrupt to its own level any effort injected into it to do so. "The Soviet Union had a single, entrenched, systemically corrupt political party, which held a monopoly on power. The U.S. has two entrenched, systemically corrupt political parties, whose positions are often indistinguishable, and which together hold a monopoly on power. In either case, there is, or was, a single governing elite, but in the United States it organized itself into opposing teams to make its stranglehold on power seem more sportsmanlike." Dmitry Orlov Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century - OS

There will never be any significant advance in personal liberty until we get rid of IRS and adopt an anonymous consumption tax like the Fair Tax. - OS

I got no where to go but drum, now. Since the ProMag drum simply doesn't work, I'm looking into the Black Dog: - OS

Most are not very detailed, meaning "boned" for contour fit to individual gun, but certainly the OWB ones will do the job. They look nice enough. - OS