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I have a leaf vacuum with a long hose and an adapter for a trash can. I use a trash can with wheels to collect the shredded leaves as they are vacuumed, then use the leaves as mulch and compost material. The wheels make moving around the yard easier. The vacuum came with a small cloth bag that fills up fast; the trash can takes longer to fill up. Shredded leaves compact and compost much better than just whole leaves.

Definitely no Georgia laws; wonder if it was an employee trying to fill the air (i.e., pulling an explanation out of their butt).  They should just be instructed to say it is company policy.  How hard can that be?

Are there places in Georgia that try to ban guns illegally?  Yes.  This is what happens to them:   http://georgiacarry.com/city/haralson_parks/demand_letter.pdf

  Maybe he is like my Filipino in-laws--they refer to almost every other Filipino that they closely know here as "cousins."  Sometimes we later find out that those people aren't even related to them.   After the military response falls apart, only the gangs will still have a cohesive working unit, at least according to many other apocalyptic writers.  Seems like plausible plot-point would be to have a cousin gang member become a warlord.  Maybe Travis and Madison's connection to Daniel will get them into a Woodbury-type situation, LA style.

I too think they either show them feeling more remorse or guilt about the killings, or they just explicitly admit that they know the Walkers are already dead.  The in between state doesn't seem realistic.   Although we know that Walkers have no hope of recovery, they don't know that yet, and Madison seemed far too sure that Mrs. Tran needed to be put down.  Maybe a little further into the outbreak that would seem believable.  It is only acceptable in this situation because the audience already knows that she is right.

I think it could be telling if gun-shy Travis eventually learns to understand the need for guns.  Frankly, having at least one California who thinks guns are icky adds to the realism of the show.  It seemed pretty clear in the way the show presented the issue that the audience is supposed to know that such a sentiment is stupid.   I hope they don't come up with alternate weapons to have him be just as efficient at protecting his family, which would be Hollywood caving to the the "no one really needs a gun" drivel from out West.  Now that I think about it, I wonder if any progressive-liberals try to pressure a show like FTWD into showing the ability to survive without a gun.

GeorgiaCarry.Org formed as a true grass roots organization, and relatively recently also.  A few guys got together and decided to do something; there is no reason Tennessee couldn't have the same thing.

I should add that after the airshow lawsuit, the General Assembly tweaked the law this year to make it even clearer that a private entity can only ban guns on private property, which should be pretty clear.  Yet the Great Georgia Airshow is doing the exact same thing this year.     The places that are still restricted include churches if the governing authority has not given permission; jails; nuclear power plants; courthouses; and within 150 ft of a polling place (which was changed this year to mean when active voting was occurring).  I'm typing this from memory, so I may have missed some.   Some personal examples that affect me that were only possible due to GCO's efforts:  both the local animal control and the water authority had "no weapons" signs up after the law changed.  Since they had no security screening, I contacted the people in charge and the signs were removed.  Previously, one of our parks still had a "no weapons" sign that was placed before the law changed; I contacted the county manager and it was removed within 48 hours.  Other effects are less noticeable but still can be attributed to GCO's actions.  I have seen two new parks built in my county, and they didn't even try to ban guns because Georgia has true state preemption.   Thanks to GCO, I don't have to disarm just to pay my water bill, get a car tag, go to the library, or register my dogs.  That was what I had to do before 2014.  There is still work to be done, like removing courthouses, polling places, and churches from the prohibited places altogether.   So yes, Tennessee needs an organization like GCO that makes friends with the legislators and sues the people who violate the law.  A carrot and stick, approach, if you will.

Firstly, GeorgiaCarry.Org is the only effective gun rights organization in Georgia.  When the laws changed, it was literally the lawyers at GCO who wrote them for the legislators.  Some of the key legislators are members.   Backed when the laws first changed, such as when municipalities were no longer able to ban guns in parks, GCO ended up suing several of them and winning again and again.  They have had such success that now they can sometimes just contact the infringing entity and get things changed, but not always.  GCO was key in making sure we could carry at the airport, Stone Mountain, and parks in general.  I'm told that before GCO existed, Georgia's Jim Crow-era gun restrictions were numerous and confusing.   Most recently, two years ago, government buildings were changed from completely prohibited to only prohibited if there is screened security.  Phil1979 has some stories to tell, and I'm sure he will find this thread and fill in the details, but there are some government-owned ball parks that are still trying to ban legal gun toters.  Currently on GeorgiaPacking.Org (a site independent of GCO), there are threads about two airshows and at least one fair that want to ban guns.  GCO does not necessarily get involved in each of these separate issues, though.   One of the most recent lawsuits involves the Wings Over North Georgia Airshow.  The Sheriff said no one could carry weapons there, GCO sued, and some judge managed to interpret a pretty clear law in a way that said they could ban guns.  It is on appeal right now.   Other active lawsuits involve suing the Corps of Engineers about their weapons prohibition and suing the Georgia Code Commission, the Governor, and others about their refusal to codify a bill that was passed and signed that would allow school carry.

So does anyone know if there is an organization that actively fights in the courts?  As many have said, it appears that a court would have to decide.  Since I assume few want to be a test case and get arrested, it would appear that an organization (or individual) with enough money would need to sue the cities to force them to comply with the law.  Has TFA or any other group indicated that they would do this?

I would love for the "clarification" to be even more explicit that everywhere in any public park is OK, and to clarify that a municipality cannot give away to private entities power that it does not possess itself.  While I am wishfully thinking, how about severe penalties for any municipality or agency who violates the law?  Right now, the blowhards in Knoxville and Memphis are thumbing their noses at the legislature and the AG because they know there are no repercussions. 

  I think it was ambiguous enough that you could interpret it either way--that he was blind until God chose him as a messenger, and was protecting him during the journey (didn't he miraculously survive the gunfight in the street because the bullets were going around him?).  Or he was blind the whole time and using Daredevil-like 6th sense to function (we assumed at the beginning that the ambushers just had strong BO, but maybe Eli had an unnaturally keen sense of smell, and he was fighting like a ninja in the bar).   I need to re-watch the film knowing the ending to look for clues one way or the other.

I think my suggestion was a much simpler solution.  I wonder if an attorney came up with that wording?

It seems like once a law is passed, it is much harder to repeal it than it was to make it in the first place.  I think a bunch of costly lawsuits to get these municipalities to comply is worth the risk that those same municipalities will use the lawsuits as a reason as to why the law needs to be changed.   As Phil said, Georgia went through similar growing pains when the laws changed, and we can still carry in parks.

In my email, I suggested that they change the wording to "no unlawful carry of weapons"  so that they could keep some semblance of prohibiting weapons without violating the law.  To my surprise, this is the response:  

I sent my email.  I feel if we don't challenge these people, then they every time they get away with it, it will embolden them further.

I'm going to send them an email referencing the AG's opinion.

I think they needed to either have the mother say out loud that she knows the infected are already dead, or have had a different reaction to bashing in Principal Walker's head.  She did eventually cry while alone, but if she really thought that she was forced to kill a living person, I think she would have tried to call 911, the police, etc, even if it was a futile attempt.  The way they both walked out of school suggested that they it was more than just self defense, I think.   I think the creators have said in the past that the concept of "zombies" doesn't exist in the Walking Dead universe, so no one in the show is supposed to have frame of reference when the dead start re-animating.  Therefore, I think there would be more denial as to what they are seeing (i.e., explaining away the victims still moving after being shot or hit by a car as "drug-fueled" or "adrenaline rush").

I have that same antenna in my attic. I have ATT DSL with a 150 GB monthly limit. With our normal viewing, we don't go over. During the summer, my son watches a lot of YouTube videos that gets us close to the limit. My in-laws house sat for a week, and apparently my father-in-law watched a lot of SlingTV on an Amazon Fire Stick, which defaults to best quality each time you use Sling. They used 3/4 of the monthly data in about 5 days. The Roku can be set to a lower quality and it stays set.

They have been publically complaining about the law, just not quite as bad as Nashville. http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/festival-organizers-want-guns-parks-law-reconsidered-19631.shtml

The drug addict practically necessitates a series of plot points:  First having withdrawal effects when he has to go without; maybe finds a stash on Walker at some point, and his addiction drives him to risk his life to obtain it; then some other danger element when he ventures out to look for heroin; and possibly someone gets killed trying to get him something to keep him even, which finally makes him kick the habit.   It seems so predictable, but they can't just have him addicted one day and then free and clear the next, because that would be less realistic than zombies.  It would be nice if they didn't resort to the above plot points, but the only way I could see how to avoid them is he either stays an addict and lucks into a mega stash, or he just dies.   That sick guy in the next hospital bed combined with the son's restraints was a good misdirect since the expected result would be him fighting for his life against the recently risen Walker, but they deliberately did not do that.  I think they may still have that old guy wandering around as a Walker, either as an Easter egg or as a wake-up call to the son (perhaps if he denies the whole zombie thing as a hallucination or something).

I have the ChannelMaster DVR; I wished I had known about it sooner.  Now I don't have to miss a show if two come on at the same time.  I used to have to wait and watch one of the two shows streaming over the internet, which could be any time from the next day to the next week.  Also I can record shows when I am away (it is like HD technology has caught up with 80's technology since I can't use a VCR for much anymore).   I have a whole-house antenna in the attic, and I also have Sling TV.  Sling TV can be frustrating when it freezes or just drops entirely, but it is useful if you don't want to either wait or pay per episode for new shows.  For example, I used Sling to watch Fear the Walking Dead.  Had I paid $1.99 for that episode, I would have been severely disappointed. I probably would not have tried watching The Last Ship if I had to buy it per episode also, but now I am hooked.

Or it could be a non-feral pet cat that kills things.

The disease is infecting Chattanooga: http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/festival-organizers-want-guns-parks-law-reconsidered-19631.shtml.  The organizers of Riverbend and other concerts don't like the fact that guns are allowed in public parks.     Because your realistic expectations are that anyone with a gun will be waving it around, randomly shooting people?  What an idiot.  As if no one has to walk in the dark long distances from Riverbend back to their cars.  As if no one has ever been attacked at Riverbend.

I think Day of Wrath should be required reading by every member of every school board in Georgia.  I thought about sending a copy to each member of my school board, but they would probably take it as a threat.   Current Georgia Code* allows school boards to authorize people with training and a Georgia Weapons Carry License to be able to carry in their schools.  It is a simple way to provide armed defense of schools.  The law is general enough that the requirements could easily be met, if the school board would just consider it.  Mine won't.   *As opposed to the actual law that removes the prohibition against carrying in schools by license-holders altogether, but the Governor has conspired and manipulated so as not be recognized.