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So when they (the group that Daryl is with) finally confront Rick, their story is that he murdered one their own and left him to re-animate.  Presumably, Daryl will feel all conflicted about helping his new friends, but maybe see their side.  Will Rick get a chance to mention that he heard them contemplating a gang rape of a woman that they deduced was living there?  Or will he keep his mouth shut like he did in front of the Governor's new group?     I hope Daryl doesn't act like Andrea and refuse to believe the truth.  Surely, having seen the result of the beat down, he will side with Rick? 

A thought that I had was that Terminus could be a cult that doesn't treat the Walkers the same way Rick's group does.  Like Lizzie on a larger scale.   Whereas Hershel had a barn, maybe they have a warehouse full of Walkers they think can be cured.   Another thought was that they were once a well-populated community, but then the same sickness at the prison decimated their numbers also.   I think cannibals might be more likely (Fight the dead, fear the living theme), but it just doesn't seem like the type of secret that could be stretched out over too many episodes.  Essentially if Terminus turns out to be Cannibal Town, the show will be more like Texas Chainsaw Massacre than Night of the Living Dead.     Probably the biggest twist will be that Terminus is full of normal, healthy people.  We've been conditioned to suspect any sanctuary the core group has found so far.  Since the separate groups will all be arriving soon, it may just be a back drop for the conflict that arises between Rick and Daryl's new group, the reunion with Judith and others, the tension between the Tara the lesbian and the prison group, etc.      Speaking of Tara, she said that she saw her sister surrounded by Walkers and implied that she was dead.  I thought they showed her sister getting away.

It seems odd that the leader made a big show of having rules, especially the "Claimed" rule, despite what we saw previously.  When Rick was hiding under the bed, the second guy comes in, bullies the first into getting off the bed, and then puts the sleeper hold on him in order to get the bed.  If they really followed the rules, then the first guy would have just said, "Claimed," and the second guy should have moved on.  It could indicate poor writing.  On the other hand, the fact that the social order was not maintained in this instance suggests that when the boss is not around, then the minions don't give a crap about rules and resort to typical roughneck behavior.   I wonder if the bow guy who got the beat down was the same one who choked the guy who saw Rick?  Could explain why the beatin' turned into a killin'.  Also, someone should have grabbed the arrow from that dude's head; I thought Daryl was going to get it.

The way some of the opposition clergy were talking, you would have thought that we were trying to force churches to allow any armed individual in. The original version of the bill merely removed churches from the list of prohibited places. Any church would still be able to ban anyone for any reason, just like other property owners. These clergy were wringing their hands that they would have tell someone they weren't welcome. They liked being able to point to a higher authority and say, "sorry, this is the law." They wanted to wash their hands of any decision that would offend someone. Sound familiar? It amazes me that they wanted the state to interfere with their affairs. Also, the original prohibition against carrying in church was aimed at freed blacks who only felt safe when congregating in their churches. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sister even spoke at a Senate hearing. See if you can get her logic: her mother was killed by a prohbited person in their church during a time when guns in church were illegal, and therefore thought that allowing guns to be carried by licensed individuals would result in similar tragedies.

There was a woman from the NRA at the House committee meeting, but I don't remember her name. I'm pretty sure she was there as an official rep of the NRA. Georgia is currently one of only three states that specifically prohibits carrying in church, which would change if/when this bill becomes law. Right now, even if the pastor wanted to carry for his own protection, the state forbids it. Small church that wants to use a non-LEO parishoner as armed security? Illegal under current law. We wanted to return private property rights to churches; this bill is a step in the right direction.

After I closed on my current house and moved in, the developer showed up with a list of covenants that he said should have been given to me at the closing.  None of them were onerous, and most concerned the styles for new construction, but I wonder if there would have been any legal ground if I had needed to fight one of them.  I know for sure it was not among the huge stack of documents at the closing.     I think at this point the property owners could vote to change whatever, but appears that everyone just ignores it.  We never had an HOA; the developer would show up now and then to harass people about things like cutting their yards, removing dead trees, and taking care of the landscaping around the entrance sign.  As far as I know, he never threatened any legal action; he just badgered people (I guess trying to use guilt trips) into doing what he thought would make the street look better.   Since the neighborhood consists of one street with four houses and several empty lots, the developer, who owned the empty lots, could have originally out-voted the others.  Now, I think the lots have been sold, and at least two look like nothing could be constructed on them.  Also, the developer screwed up the surveys, so one house was built one foot over their property line.  Can't easily move the house, so I guess the two owners had to reach some type of agreement.  Since the developer caused the mess, he hasn't been back around talking about enforcing covenants.

This is quite unlike the last gun bill that we tried to pass in Georgia, in which the NRA interference ended up sinking the bill.  The NRA was much more cooperative with GeorgiaCarry.Org this time around.   It's funny that they thank Lt. Governor Casey Cagle; he was one of the main reasons that campus carry was removed, and he violated Senate rules to turn the original church carry into opt-in church carry.  He allowed a non-recorded vote on the amendment that made the change so that his Republican minions could try to poison the bill and then say they voted for the entire amended bill.   The original gun bill was poisoned in a Senate committee, apparently at the behest of Governor Deal in exchange for a judge appointment for the chairman; the House maneuvered around those manipulations by amending most of the language of that bill to a separate bill that had already been passed by the Senate last year.  So we can thank Lt. Gov. Cagle for doing his job and calling the new bill for a vote (but really, he would have been happy to pass nothing this year).

This may be of minor interest to y'all in Tennessee, but GeorgiaCarry.Org was instrumental in getting a recent gun bill passes.  The Georgia Senate tried to poison the bill, but the House did some maneuvering around it.  It is not all that we wanted, but it opens up some more places for carrying, such as government buildings, eliminates the need for fingerprinting at renewals of the license, and clarifies that carrying a gun is not a sole cause for detention.   Previously church carry was prohibited; now it is allowed if the church gives permission, which is not exactly what we wanted, but is one of the changes that the Senate made near the end of the session.  There is a bunch of other stuff also.  One of the main benefits is that it shows Georgia did not bow to Bloomberg and the Moms Demand Action.   It awaits either the governor's signature (or at least non-veto).

I'm a little late to this thread.  Let the owners know that the standard protocol is to immediately booster the rabies vaccine on an up-to-date animal, even if the rabies vaccine was given relatively recently.  In absence of the raccoon to test for rabies, there is no way to be sure, and the Compendium on Rabies Control recommends immediate re-vaccination of animals bit by a potentially rabid raccoon, and keep under observation for 45 days.   There have been a few cases of well-vaccinated animals getting rabies.

For what it's worth, Terminus was a name for Atlanta once, but this Terminus appears to be Macon on the map.

I'll try my hand at explaining away the burnt walkers based on the rules of the Walking Dead universe.  We know from Woodbury that they routinely burned walkers in the pits, but I think they showed a few crispy ones still moving after the fire went out.  Therefore, the part of the brain that re-animates the body is heat resistant, but not invulnerable.  (It doesn't have to make real sense, just sense according to their rules).  Perhaps the burned walkers were ignited by coming close to the fire but did not actually walk into it.  Their clothes would catch on fire, burning their flesh, but eventually petered out.  I personally don't know what happens if you lit a person on fire, i.e., how long the fire burns before running out of fuel.  It looked like most of them had clothes burned into their flesh.   Therefore I propose that if you burn a walker long enough, it does destroy it, but it takes longer than you would expect.   Another mystery that I wonder about is T-Dog--did his brain get eaten and prevent him from re-animating, or was his body so ravaged that there it passed the point of re-animation?

  What's worse than a walking corpse intent on eating you alive?    A flaming walking corpse intent on eating you alive!  The experts (Max Brooks and the Resident Evil games) agree that lighting a zombie on fire just adds to your problems.  Maybe someone on the show read the Zombie Survival Guide.

Mine is the veterinarian version of the rod of Aesculapius.  It is traditional pictured as a snake, but some scholars think it represents the Guinea worm, which forms a sore in the skin.  The treatment was to pull part of it out and slowly wind it around a stick.  You could wind a small amount (like half an inch) at a time for fear of breaking it.  If the body broke, it caused an intense inflammatory reaction.  There are other theories, but the veterinarians like the one focused on the parasite.

  I think my imagination was just good enough to visualize the barrel.  Usually we used real fake guns (before the orange tips!).  I had a 1911 style BB gun that would have got me killed if I pointed it at the wrong person.  For hand grenades, we used magnolia cones (those hurt sometimes, to add to the realism).

If a teacher is really that bothered by a finger gun (looks more like a sideways ASL "L" to me), she shouldn't be teaching. She obviously has such a fragile psyche, she could snap at any minute. OMG! There's a gun in this children's book! I remember thinking when I was a kid playing guns this way that we were doing it all wrong--I though the index finger should be curled around an imaginary trigger, rather than be used as the barrel of a gun.

GeorgiaCarry.Org is the organization to which I belong.  GeorgiaPacking.org is an independent website that many GCO members are on.  GCO sends emails about current legislation and such, but I learn just as much from GeorgiaPacking.org.   Georgia2a.com is a website that was started by some members that were disenchanted when georgiapacking.org was sold and some changes were made.   You want to avoid Georgia Gun Owners, which some suspect is a fake group that only exists to raise money.     GeorgiaCarry.Org is the organization responsible for pretty much all the gains in the restoration of gun rights in the last 7 years.  Currently, we are trying to pass legislation that will, among other things, treat chruches and bars as other private properties.  It would also take some types of government buildings off the the prohibited list.

What if they don't specifically define "permanently inoperable?"  Some cagey lawyer could argue a lower separated from an upper is permanently useless in that state even though it could be combined again in the future.  You could even take an AR-15 down further, couldn't you?     Also, what if a Conn. resident did send his gun out of state?  Isn't the burden of proof on the government to prove he didn't comply with law, rather than the burden be on him to prove that he did comply with the law?  If a court agreed with that view, then any raids and confiscations would have to be based on a reasonable suspicion (like an ex-wife ratting on her former spouse) rather than, "How do I know you didn't get rid of your guns?"  Of course, we have already seen Conn. courts uphold an unconstitutional law, so I won't hold my breath that they will see the light.

   Like this:  http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Wild_Bunch,_The#Colt_M1911.2FStar_Model_B

Some people have dogs that will retrieve a newspaper; Great Danes can retrieve your mail.

I think we need to propose a compromise solution for the guns in parks bill.  The licensed carriers get to carry in all parks, but the illegal carriers are still banned. :rofl:   Seriously, how many of the misinformed fence-sitters in the General Assembly might actually vote for it if we presented the option that local governments still get to post signs that specify, "unpermitted carry of weapons prohibited" or "illegal possession of weapons prohibited"?

As far as the available food and fuel so far, I find it believable, assuming a huge percent of the population is dead or living dead.  I might feel more satisfied if the Walker infection outright killed a bunch of people and then turned them, as opposed to having to believe that the majority of people left their homes and died somewhere else.   I think the show's explanation was that the government (before realizing that everyone was infected), brought all the rural people into the cities for protection, and then fire-bombed Atlanta in a failed effort to contain the infection.  Which, according to those who believe in FEMA camps, would be a realistic response by our government.  At least a lot of modern apocalyptic fiction shares the same theme--the government first tries to circle the wagons in a legitimate attempt to protect the people, but as soon as it gets out of control, it becomes either every man for himself or kill 'em all containment scenario.

As far as the decomposition goes, I think I saw a behind the scenes thing where they mentioned that as time goes on, more of the Walkers are rotting.  I like to speculate also (some people call it making excuses for the plot holes).  Presumably, whatever animates a corpse doesn't necessarily need food, so the zombies may just eat for no reason.   If you ever think to yourself, "that's unbelievable!" just explain it by nanotechnology.  The perfect way to re-animate a corpse.  Make them solar powered or  powered by decaying tissue.  The sci-fi writers have been using nanotech to explain so many things (Revolution, G.I.Joe, Star Trek, etc), it's like radiation was to the 50s and 60s.  We will probably all be laughing at it 30 years from now.  But seriously, nanites could be considered an infection, could spread worldwide, and could all be activated at once remotely to explain sudden TEOTWAWKI (I think I just summed up the basis of Revoution).  Just like radiation, they are almost a throw-away explanation.     Every time there is a new scifi "mystery" show, I jokingly tell my wife, "It's nanotech.  It's always nanotech."  Sometimes I'm right.  She usually ignores me, regardless.

Coincidentally, I actually used a bicycle-pump nebulizer today.  We had a cat come in who I thought was scared by the air compressor on the nebulizer.  I got out the bicycle pump and used that.  Turns out, she didn't like the hissing sound from the vapor with either method, so we went back to using the air compressor just so it could be done faster.

So I was reading another forum, and some members were discussing how to stock up on asthma inhalers, which can be critical for some people.  They are specifically called meter-dosed inhalers.  Ever since they changed the propellant from ozone-killing to ozone safe, those inhalers have gone up in price tremendously, and it did not appear cheap to stock up on inhalers.   Someone mentioned a bicycle pump nebulizer, so I Googled it:  http://littledevices.org/2013/08/10/diyneb/   My son had to use a nebulizer when he was much younger.   We still have all the tubing, masks, and nebulizer pump.  To test out if it is a viable alternative, I connected a piston bicycle pump to the tubing (it came with an attachment for filling inflatable things that worked perfectly).  Instantly after the first pump, vapor started coming from the cup.  I was surprised because I guess I always assumed that nebulizer technology was more complicated.  If I pumped continuously, I could vaporize all the liquid in the cup.   I have researched the cost of albuterol ampules because we occasionally have cats come in with asthma attacks.  Since albuterol is an old drug, it appears to be relative cheap (when not in inhaler form), and thus could be stocked up if you had access or a prescription.  One person on the message board suggested that vets with breathing problems often get a whole bunch from the VA.   One of my veterinary pharmacy teachers (a PharmD) was talking about Xopenex vs albuterol.  My understanding is that the drug company convinced a bunch of pediatricians that Xopenex was better, but they basically have the same effect.  I think that I used an albuterol inhaler when I was young (some 30+ years ago).  We haven't had to use the nebulizer for years, but I'm pretty sure Xopenex cost a lot more than albuterol.   I just thought that I would share this with anyone who depends on an inhaler.  While not as portable and efficient, a human-powered nebulizer might provide a good back up to an inhaler.

So, is there not a large, influential gun organization in Tennessee to shepherd legislation through the General Assembly?  I went to the TFA page, but it looks like their last news update was from last year about the parking lot bill.   In Georgia, we have GeorgiaCarry.Org, which as been steadily moving Georgia firearms laws out of the Jim Crow era since 2008.  They literally write the bills that we want introduced each year.  The legislators still carve them up, but GCO has been quite influential in getting things changed.  The other aspect that they are active with is suing municipalities that won't comply with the law (Georgia pre-empts all local governments from enacting any gun law other than regulation of the discharge of firearms).   If Tennessee doesn't have a similar organization, then they need one.  This year, the various anti-gun groups specifically name GCO has the evil organization behind the attempts to allow carry in church and bars!  You know you are influential when the enemy targets you specifically.