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I was thinking that Daryl might be safe since Norman Reedus and Andrew Lincoln have been in a glitter bomb war on the set, which suggests Reedus has been there filming past the season opener (although he could be a pseudo-ghost or flashback)

I'm not sure if he was a gun guy, but it appears he liked to abuse his power: http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/08/10/punta-gorda-cop-killed-woman-long-history-abuse/

Most of my experience is with snakes in Georgia, but I strongly suspect that is a water snake. I can't say the exact species it is, but it most resembles a Northern Water Snake. http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/nersip.htm

Bermuda is so pernicious that it comes back even after using Round Up. I heard that you have to use it repeatedly. In Atlanta, some companies just Round Up the weeds on Bermuda lawns because it comes the grass comes back so fast. I have a fescue lawn steadily being replaced by Bermuda. In the last 10 years, one part of the lawn has become approximately 40% Bermuda despite my efforts. I have accepted it's fate at this point. In my area, you can choose to have a brown lawn either in the winter or the summer.

It's creepy when stuff I researched at home shows up on ads on an email I only access at work, on different computers.

Happens on my Ipad 1G no matter which browser that I use (Atomic, Safari, or Dolphin). I posted about it in another thread where someone had a similar problem.

I agree with btq96r that if "they" really wanted to eliminate open carry, they would have the Secret Service extend the National Special Security Event boundaries as far as they need to. I'm pretty sure that is what they did along the entire parade route for the Pope--they turned long stretches of otherwise public roads into cordoned security zones that excluded all manner of things, including guns.

I am having this happening now using two different browsers on an Ipad (first gen). I tried Atomic and Safari browsers. Also happening with Dolphin browser.

I can't imagine disarming myself in front of a cop; it seems like your odds of getting shot would go up dramatically as you touch a weapon. Videos like this seem to reinforce the idea to tell cops nothing unless required by law. The one time that I was stopped, I answered yes to "Do you have any weapons?" That went OK, but now I'm not sure how I would answer in the future.

I have been telling people since Obamacare passed that it seems the ultimate goal is to make everyone hate whatever insurance they have so that the people will beg the government to swoop in and save us all. Every time I have to deal with insurance, it reaffirms my belief.

Actually, good on the organizers for not trying to say that they have private property rights while occupying the public property to which the law applies. We've had state preemption over municipalities in regard to parks and such in Georgia for years, but there are still many groups here that think they can ban guns just because they rent the park, despite repeated clarifications to the law. Several of them have had to be educated on the issue.

http://newschannel9.com/news/local/guns-allowed-at-riverbend-for-permit-holders Riverbend is respecting the parks law. Sounds like open carriers are getting permit checks by LEOs, but not being denied entry.

It hurts even more when they won't even give you a chance. I may not agree with it, but I understand that some states require training. Yet even if I had that training, they still would not let me carry. Someone on GeorgiaPacking.Org called it the New Jersey of the South, and looking at the list of prohibited places (any place that performs medical procedures, for example), they are not far off.

For most of y'all, this news is unimportant because South Carolina already recognized your TN permits. As of yesterday, SC passed a law specifically granting reciprocity with Georgia and North Carolina. Unlike Georgia's governor, Nikki Haley wasted no time in supporting the expansion of gun rights; she signed the law within days of it passing, and it became law immediately. Previously, there was no legal way for a Georgia to carry outside a residence or vehicle in South Carolina. Ostensibly, some RINOs in their legislature opposed reciprocity with Georgia because we do not have a training requirement. However, even if a Georgian had a non-resident license from a state that does require training, SC still would not let us carry (they do not recognize non-resident permits, regardless of the requirements to obtain them). Also, under SC law, you have to own property in SC to receive one of their permits, so a Georgian could not just go to SC and take one of their classes. A group of us even invited a SC instructor to teach us the approved SC CWP class so that we could say we passed all of their requirements except being residents. I took the course, got fingerprinted, and paid their fee for a permit; the only reason for rejection was that I did not own property in South Carolina. This discrimination was the basis for a class action lawsuit against the state, but was put on hold while the legislature considered expanding reciprocity. During the bill's hearings, the amount of disparagement against Georgians by the Law Enforcement Division was sickening. Based on their testimony, there will be blood flowing through the streets due to all the untrained Georgia yahoos carrying guns. It took several years longer than it should, but now Georgians can legally carry in South Carolina. Also South Carolinians can now carry in Georgia since Georgia automatically grants reciprocity to any state that recognizes our licenses. So this year, Georgians got back more rights from another state than we did from our own state, thanks to our governor's backstabbing us.

Just a FYI for anyone considering burying a pet but may have difficulty digging a hole: many of the crematories (we have 4 now that come to our area) will cremate and return the ashes in bag or box for burial. That option is usually less than cremation with a nice urn for the ashes but more than the communal cremation. With communal cremation, more than one animal is cremated, so they can't guarantee the ashes are just from that animal. They don't stack the animals like firewood, but the natural drifting of ashes of more than one animal prevents them from ethically offering it as a private cremation. The main benefit is the cost. We are located near the notorious Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Georgia which defrauded lots of people (they buried the human corpses on the property rather than properly cremate them), so people are very sensitive around here to being sure the remains are authentic, even for their pets. I know the difficulty of digging a hole for a bid dog. My father's dog died in her sleep while he was on vacation and was discovered the next day. By the time I could drive down to Macon to bury her, she was stiff. I had to dig a U-shaped hole in the Georgia clay to accommodate her stretched-out Labrador sleeping posture. I can't imagine trying to do that where I live, where the soil is made of little rocks, big rocks, and a little clay to hold it together. Before I moved up here, I dug another hole for his remaining dog and covered it with wood so my dad wouldn't have to dig it.

He originally was a Democrat; so was his next likely replacement, the Lt. Governor.

The Governor waited until literally the last minute (nearly 5 pm on the last day that he could) to veto this bill.  He has always been lukewarm on gun rights.  Today, he bowed to the wishes of some of his most vocal critics in the last election while ignoring those who supported him.  The NRA spent several hundred thousands of dollars to get him re-elected.   He also vetoed another bill that, among other things, would have allowed a person who recently moved to Georgia the ability to carry using their old state permit for 90 days after becoming a resident.  So now, if any of you with a TN HCP moves to Georgia, you might have to wait anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months (depending on the county) before you can legally carry outside your home, car, or office.   He has betrayed us.

  For a lot of these books, I look at them as information manuals in entertainment form; otherwise, I would be too critical of the writing in some of them.  Rawles especially seemed to bounce around in his books, and the change from first person to third person in A. American's Going Home was annoying.  Beside the interesting technical information, it is informative to see how various minds think a TEOTWAKI situation would play out.  Many of them share similar plot points--city gangs spreading into the rural areas, the government turning on the people, etc.  Is this because it is likely to happen that way, or because the small community of authors absorb and regurgitate the same ideas?   It is disconcerting how frequently authors think people will turn to cannibalism and that the military will become tyrants over the people.  I hope they are wrong.

I'm pretty sure my veterinarian skills will translate into fixing people, at a level somewhere between first aid and advanced medicine.  For example, I believe I could easily fix trauma such as lacerations or minimally-displaced fractures, and I might muddle through dealing with internal trauma without the benefit of advanced diagnostics and available treatment.  In the latter case, I don't have the experience to know or recognize all the ways that a human presents, but on the other hand, I have had to deal with major trauma without the benefit of advanced diagnostics such as an MRI, or even less advanced things such as an ultrasound.   In the scenes where they would interview the refugees before letting them stay in town, this is exactly what I was thinking.  My wife used to be a CNA, so it would be a package deal.   My advice in a One Second After situation:  try not to get hurt and hope you don't have a chronic disease that depends on modern medicine to treat.   On an related note, I thought it would have been cool for the people to use go-carts to get around.  I assume most of those would still work after an EMP, and many people can repair and maintain small engines.   Edit:  I can also now add reloading as a helpful skill.

  Thanks for the offer.  I have actually used about a fourth of my brass so far.  I decapped and primed a bunch while watching a movie and have since turned them into cartridges.  It may be slow going, but it has met my needs so far.

On Talking Dead one of those trivia things mentioned that Nick said he already been living in his own Apocalypse; now everyone else was just catching up to him.  

I didn't even consider that at the time; I guess I was just thinking in the same orientation that I was already using.

As I mentioned in this thread, I use a Lee Hand Press, which is adequate for my small needs. It can get to be bit awkward at certain stages of the reloading process. I Googled DIY stands for the Hand Press, and I found one that a guy was selling, but no instructions. So I made my own. I can use the stand for each stage of the reloading process. For resizing and decapping, which takes the most force, it does strain the clamp. It works with the stand, but it works better using two hands--one to brace the press and one to move the ram. For all other steps of reloading (at least for 9 mm and .223), and I can work the ram while it is clamped to the stand one-handed. I just thought I would share some pictures in case anyone else needed a similar solution. The blocks of wood have the magnets from a hard drive glued to them. The magnets hold the clamp in place, but not with enough strength to hold against the force of working the ram. The clamp has enough force to keep everything together. Yes, I realize that a single stage press would be more efficient, but I already had the Hand Press, and if I choose not to use the stand, I can resize while sitting in the living room, watching a movie. The stand is especially useful for priming and bullet seating, which, when using the Hand Press normally, requires a bit of coordination between your two hands and your lap so that you don't drop a component. The bag of cartridges are the .223 that I did this way over the weekend.

I had the die itself clamped in a vise while using the two wrenches. Lee rsponded today. They said as long as it doesn't rise further out, then it will be ok. They described it as adjusting itself to the case length, so basically they agree with the advice of y'all. Now I won't worry further, and hopefully make some new cartridges this weekend. I just cleaned half the cases I have (before decapping this time).