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Sorry for your loss Tanker and Prayers are being sent for you. You got something much more valuable than Gold Tanker. You have books of your Mothers Love. Things were different in my family. All of my family elders had great sums of money and as elders passed away there were only a few that earned the wealth and those were the ones least deserving of it but they figured out ways to swindle the rest of us out of our shares and that money did was divided my family and I have brothers I have not spoken with for over 10 years since my Grandmother and Mother passed away and the so called care taker brothers that cared for them in their last years managed to get all the Wills changed giving them all the wealth. But I don't miss the money of the relationship of my brothers. They will get their dues on judgement day and that is good enough for me...........jmho

  It actually did happen in New Orleans after Katrina when the National Guard was ordered to go in and disarm everyone and move them to the old  dome and they were forced to remain there even though many wanted to leave and had a safe place to go but were not able to leave because the National Guard was ordered to  contain them there. What right did the national Guard have to disarm people in their homes that were protecting their homes and property from looters? That was against the Constitutional 2nd Amendment rights of the people of New Orleans to disarm them. So don't say it can't or won't happen. It was never made big news because they did not want to draw attention to the fact it happened but do a little homework and you will find its true.

  This administration has done as much as they can to demoralize our military they can think to do. Between the Litmus tests being given to all of the highest in command in all branches and removing those who refuse to say yes  to the question of "would you order your men under you to fire upon American people on American soil if you were ordered to do so by the Commander-n-chief?" if they said no they are relieved of duty and either given a desk job or a retirement but never again would they be given a command position. That is a really a demoralizing way to treat our great Military Men and Women that have dedicated their lives to God and Country to make sure America is safe. Our Commander-n-Chief has proven time and again he wants followers and not leaders in our military.........................jmho

The people of Oak Ridge should be very proud of themselves for doing the right thing and giving another hero a great welcome home ceremony. It needs to be done a lot more than it is. I have a video of another vet that came hope under much different circumstances and I think an entire town turned out for it. More people need to show their support like they did in Oak Ridge today for our troops...............jmho

What ever you buy make sure you run a car fax report on it. If it has ever been wrecked or had major repairs done car fax can tell you. I know several people that used it and saved them from buying a car that was totaled and then repaired. I have done business with Harpeth Toyota and also Harpeth Ford back when they owned a Ford dealership and have always been treated well by the Alexander family. I think they own several different car brand dealerships now. They sell a lot of late model used cars also. Have not spoke with Mike or Barry Alexander in several years now.....................jmho

I'm not surprised about the brakes and brake lines as the car does have a few years on it but I am surprised that the 3.8 engine is giving issues. My Daughter drove her mothers 97 Buick La Sabre 300,000+ miles and the only thing that was never fixed or need repairs was that 3.8 motor. Finally bit the dust when she stopped and guy behind her didn't. Glad she was in that lead sled when it happened. She was not hurt but old Buick was history. Guys insurance bought her another later model car. Sorry for all that bad mojo your having with your car and hope it passes soon. If I had a car I was not using you would be welcome to it but only have one now.

  Yea well, I don't see myself pulling over for a bright yellow Camaro just because it has Blue and red lights flashing on it to begin with unless I am in the middle of town with people everywhere. This ain't Hollywood and Hawaii Five O were they drive Camaros and then they don't drive bright Yellow ones even then...........jmho

  I don't find it all that surprising coming from Justice Scalia since I think he is a Patriot that loves this country. Has the utmost respect for the Constitution and is trying to get the American people to wake up before it is to late and look at just what is going on all around them and even though many see it, they are of the opinion that it can't happen here or would never happen here and far to may people believe it when the Government says the the camps are being built to house what they say are and major influx of Illegal Immigrants. What is an influx since we already have 11 million + here now and none of them are in any of the already existing camps but instead receiving welfare and support from the Government with our taxpayer dollars. Like I said, Scalia is just telling America to wake up and smell the coffee.................jmho    

I thought it might be important for folks to read.........jmho     http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/17571-supreme-court-justice-scalia-warns-of-u-s-internment-camps

  :clap: I had to laugh about the kielbasa Sausage and Kraut meal your wife prepared for you. I grew up in a mixed home to but mine was a Yankee and a Southern Girl. My father was from Hickory Corners, Michigan and my mother was from Craggie Hope, Tennessee. My mother could cook about anything on a menu in about any restaurant from the finest top dollar ones in Chicago to the Ghetto's and everything in between. She was a Professional Chef much of her life and was employed as head chef in the Millionaire Club in Chicago for almost 10 years but only worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday when the high rollers came in so rest of the time she was home and cooked what ever she picked out and Kraut and Sausage was on the house menu at least three times a month. We also ate all kinds of Beans and Corn bread with fixin's. White, Pinto, Butter beans or mixed White and Pinto's. A real treat was Southern Fried Chicken with all the fixins. Now my Daddy being a Yankee(German decent) He did like the Kraut meals and liked Fish meals(Halibut) was his favorite along with Catfish I would catch and clean and she prepared. One night she fixed Salmon Patty fish cakes as something new. When Dad got in from work he sat down to supper and it didn't take Mom long to notice that he was eating some of everything but the Salmon. She asked him why he didn't eat any Salmon and his reply was he didn't care much for it. Now my mother cooked for her my father and four sons. Needless to say by the end of that week my Father developed a taste for Salmon Patty Cakes. We all had them for 4 nights straight and the last two nights my Father made sure he ate Salmon Cakes. Finally he asked her what her point was and she said that when she was growing up she was told that she ate what was put in front of her or she went hungry and she learned to acquire a taste for what ever was put on the table so she never went to bed hungry. From that point on until the day my Father died he always ate what my Mother put on the table but we also never had Salmon Cake patty's again. My Father learned to like Salmon and my Mother got her point across that if she is going to sweat and prepare a meal for 6 all 6 were going to eat what she cooked........My point to this is there is not anything in the way of food that is put on a table I won't eat but there are a few things I choose now not to eat at age 66 but only a couple. Now I know this is about as far off the topic of this thread as a person may go but I thought that Coke and America the Beautiful both needed a break.... :hiding: ...........jmho 

Well one thing for sure is I think they know how he feels about their laws they are trying to pass and they know he won't be voting for them next election. It is refreshing to hear from someone that has lives in a Communist country such as Cuba to get up and tell the politicians exactly how life was an how America save him and made him a free man. To many politicians have forgotten exactly what America stands for or don't care but he made it quite clear what America means to him and our Fore Fathers................... :clap: :clap: :clap:

I think it should all be considered before a warrant is issued by any judge just what it is for and what the threats are. Then he/she should make the decision of how, where and when the warrant is served and should not be left up to the discretion of the law enforcement personnel. All factors need to be in play before the warrant is issued.......................jmho

I probably have more than I would ever shoot in all calibers I own and like many have said, depends on the situation. If it's a home invasion only need a magazine or two. If it riots and your protecting your home and very existence to survive may need a considerable more. If the law comes to take your guns and ammo you know your going to be out gunned and out manned so you have a couple choices. You surrender or you go down in a blaze of glory which would probably last all of about 15 seconds before they blow your house up with you and anyone else inside. So as to how much one needs. I know I think I have all I need to both defend my home against gangsters and home invaders which I would pile up in the door way and may have enough to do a little bartering for things I needed for survival. But in an all out assault by police swat teams or military national guard notta!!! But at that point it really wouldn't matter.................jmho   It does appear like when our Commander -n-Chief realized he was not going to have a simple task of just telling folks to give up our guns is when he decided guns are nothing but clubs without bullets so he went after those and has somewhat succeeded but cannot claim total victory yet as the ammo companies are still running wide open to get ammo on the shelves. Expensive but still there anyway. I saw yesterday that Ammo to Go had some 22lr but only hard nosed and was not cheap but not totally outrageous.

Whats to say that is not what he acts like in a real life situation. I think both of them need some serious mental evaluations to see if they need to be police officers......................jmho

I have a 22WMR Marlin bolt gun that I wish has a synthetic stock on it now but back years ago when I first bought it the wood was fine and it still has beautiful wood on it but as I have gotten older I would like to be able to tote something lighter then it is now with the wood. I love the gun and the set up the way it is for shooting and it;s kinda like if I can see it I can hit is accuracy on but Just would like something lighter. I just had a Savage 93 that had the synthetic stock on it and it to was a stainless Bolt gun but weighed about 1/2 what my wood gun does. I was very tempted to begin building the 93 into the shooter the Marlin is but before I could make up my mind I just decided to sell it and it went to a new home. I might look at going synthetic on my Marlin if there are stocks out there for it. If I do I hope it shoots as good as it does right now...........jmho

A buddy and I went out yesterday just to get out and go check out ammo supplies in stores. Went to 5 different stores. Dicks, Academy, BPS,  NRange, and Gun City and asked each one for 22 LR. Got zero ammo but got a different excuse at each on. Clerk at Dicks said he never knew when he would be getting any and when it showed up it showed up in a shipment. Academy clerks same story, Gun city said they placed one order for it back about a year ago and when they get them they get about 10 boxes of the original  order and still have not gotten the original order filled yet. BPS says they get it about once a week but never get more then 50 boxes and it is normally gone by noon or 1 PM that same day and they do have a two box limit per person. NRange said they get a few boxes in from time to time and also have two box limit and it never lasts the full day.

Well, since we are on the topic of Children and schools let me add a few things I am really getting sick of hearing over and over and over by politicians and that is education and our Children. They have been using our children as pawns in their election bids and campaigns till I'm sick of hearing it. They talk real big about what they will do if elected to promote more and better education. Well, I am a high school graduate and even though I am not in a great financial shape now that is not something that can be helped because my son had an auto accident. I won't go there but most know about it. What I will do is go into prior to his accident. Like I said I graduated from high school, went and served my country almost immediately after graduation and when I came home I got a job as an auto mechanic since I always had a love for cars and loved working on them while in High School. I worked on every kind and brand and model of cars and light truck made for almost 37 years and the last 12 years of my high school education and hands on experience and no further schooling I was earning over $100,000.00 per year. Owned my own home and land, own my own small business repairing cars and light duty trucks, employed 5 people plus myself and didn't owe any one anything. Yep, making that kind of money on a high school diploma and hard work. My youngest son now owns and operates the shop on yep, a High School diploma and he has enlarged the business adding services I didn't offer and now he employes 8 people plus himself.       All I hear these days is everyone needs to go to college out of Obama's mouth and everyone needs to be in debt with the burden of Student loans even before they can get a job in what ever career they may have chosen while in College. To help them along he has made student loans easier to get but made the jobs those students will need when they graduate 10 times harder to get when they do graduate. He keeps saying that the Private Sector are the ones responsible for creating these jobs but then burdens the private sector with huge taxes like OBAMACARE to try and drive those very Private sector jobs out of business so the jobs are not there for the graduates. Like I said in the beginning of this post. I am getting sick and tired of our children being used as pawns to only improve their own personal political careers. I have come to the conclusion that any politician that uses education and our children as a platform to run on will NOT get my vote period regardless of party. If they run on an economy and creating jobs and making sure those jobs are there for our children platform they will get my vote!!...............jmho  

    Been to all three and grew up in Chicago and best thing my folks ever did was move me to Tennessee. Believe me when I tell you that you have not missed anything at all by not going to any of them and when I went and then left each one of them I made 100% sure I didn't leave anything behind that we ever make me want to go back......................jmho

Gosh !!!! Wonder where they found enough 22lr ammo to pull that off??????? :stunned: :stunned: :stunned:

Good gals 1 and bad guys 0    Sounds good to me.I hope this is a begining trend of good things to come and I do like that Sheriff. He knows how things are suppose to work and evidently he has them working well in his jurisdiction.................jmho

I figure before long most of New England will fall under pretty much the same situation before long they will all follow Connecticut on this stupidity and they will all fall in the big hole they are digging together..................jmho

Except for a few very stupid Democrats such as Kerry most of both sides of the isle have said for many many years that they will never ratify this treaty that the U.N. has been proposing for many many years and you would think by now they would get the message that the United States will never ratify this Treaty so they might as well just quit asking................jmho

Since i try to drive the speed limit f 5 MPH under it most of the time I have never had that I can remember another driver flash their lights to me. As far as flashing my bright lights at on coming traffic. If I have a driver approaching me and they are driving with their high beams on I will flash mine as a request for them to lower their high beams to enable me to see the highway better. That has been a tactic that has gone on since I first began driving 51 years ago and I didn't know it was against the law in Tennessee to do it................jmho

According to news there was alight fog last night because News 5 copter was going to go up and cover the scene and soon and it went up it landed right back down because of visibility. They also said he missed the John Tune Airport and was making a turn to try it again when it went down. They credited the pilot for being able to not hit any buildings and taking any more lives. Thing I did not understand is the News had people at John Tune and they said there was no one there waiting on the people on the plane to arrive and there was only on employee at the airport at that time and the run ways were not lit. Sounds kinda strange but I am sure they will figure it out. If not they will make something up!!! 

  I resemble that remark................. :rofl:  :rofl:  :rock:  :rock:  How ya doing buddy and hows them girls???????