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Duluth's ballroom relaxed fit jeans are quite simply the best I've ever owned. They retail for about $60, and the gosseted crotch is worth it. They can fit everything from casual to a good pair of jeans to wear with a button down shirt and a blazer for a decent look. If you've for the time to visit, the store in Franklin often has sales going on.

I hope it's a temp thing, but with a Democrat administration, legislative majority, I can see it being a minute. Manufacturers can only meet so much demand with the equipment on hand, and that means the big boys getting inventory from the benefit of bulk purchasing agreements take precedent. This will put the squeeze on small business locally, because that's how the free market works when supply is constricted. Sign of the times in a lot of ways. Hopefully the gunsmith and transfer work can keep their cash flow from dropping too low.

I heard about this investigation on The Dan Patrick show a few weeks back. They joked that Tennessee can't even win at cheating. I think this move is partly to get ahead of any NCAA punishment, but good luck with that. Now that sports betting is getting more legit, they need to bring the hammer down on things like this. This gave the university a perfect excuse to cut Pruitt's contract for cause, and it looks like Fulmer is going to bow out to try and save his reputation. The real danger to Pruitt is if he can show he was doing things with the university's knowledge, and wants to salt the earth. My guess is he goes through the motions to see what money he can shake loose, then bites his tongue while hoping a mid-major team picks him up. Either way, more losing for Tennessee is on tap.

Oh, I'm sure. In my hiding child analogy, I still expect the kid (NRA) to get the whoopin' they're trying to hide from. This is going to end up needing a federal court (maybe even the SCOTUS) to get involved in.

This is almost comical. WLP's statement and the document filed in Texas so just how they're using bankruptcy law like a child uses their mother to hide behind when they're scared. https://www.nraforward.org/waynesletter https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnb.490758/gov.uscourts.txnb.490758.1.0.pdf

Watch a few videos, get a good workspace to do it in. It's a bit of a pain with the springs, but otherwise simple. The triggers are awesome. I get the cost can be off-putting to some, but they really do perform that well if you've got the money to blow on cool gun accessories. Never tried the LaRue triggers, but have only heard good things, and know the company makes a solid product.

I wouldn't underestimate the budget deficits they're under. Both those cities are probably approaching junk bond status, so unless the Fed is buying, they're SOL. With offices closing or reducing size to allow work from home to become a permanent thing, and vacations, conventions, and all other forms of travel down to a trickle, a lot of commerce that kept a city budget in good order just isn't happening in big cities anymore. McCormick Place in Chicago being a ghosttown has to be a sucking chest wound in the budget right about now. Add to that the costs of turning a brick and mortar school system into a virtual classroom had to have been staggering for school systems those size. It all comes out to a lot of red ink.

@TGO Davidwill open up a new politics sub-forum before he gets back on the merry-go-round with Tapatalk again.

This is one of the ways an index fund can cover you. Since it's tracking the total market, or replicating the S&P 500, you'll get in on companies like $TSLA and rise with them...just not in get rich quick proportion that carries the same if not more risk the other way.

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VTSAX (or VFIAX) and Chill. Invest excess cash in the above after paying bills if your emergency fund is loaded and you're not paying off bad debt. 401k and IRAs (traditional or Roth) are better than taxable, but taxable is fine for long term (>5yrs) saving goals. Best not to blow off retirement savings, especially if you can get a match from your employer along the way. Rinse, lather, repeat. Don't get cute.

Nooooo...we all know David keeps the TGO money safe by converting it into tricked out Glocks.

I look at American guns like I do American beer. The domestic heavyweights have been so lackluster that my money has been going to the small business and European brands providing a superior product anyway. So this latest development won't matter much if it doesn't work out, and might fix things if it does. Either way, I'm fine with it.

Hoping for the best. Thanks for letting us know, @bigun.

So it's a vendor issue, not a USPS issue. Sounds like they're trying to save costs they would have to do some measure of cost they'd have to eat (dealing with multiple shippers) or pass along (the actual cost plus overhead). Not uncommon practice.

FedEx/UPS have easy ways to hire temp workers to handle surge times...the USPS has government hiring burdens and union contracts, though they do make allowances for holiday season workers. Outside of that, they have a normal staffing roster like any government agency. You're never going to see a fast response to peaks from them, and that's okay...their set up to be a steady provider of a service outlined in the Constitution, not a flexible private industry. If you want the business solution, go with FedEx/UPS...just be ready to pony up more money.

I don't think it's too much to ask for folks to cite what they're starting a conversation over if it's about some proposed legislation or executive action. It's a waste of time when we get into, "I was reading" or " a friend told me", when there isn't anything substantive to back it up.

This is why I use an Android device. Much simpler and safer to get what I might want to install outside of apps approved on Google Play. Apple products are apparently very user friendly, and I recognize how good the iOS software is...but that ease and convenience has always been at a cost that for some is finally coming due.

Yup. I also look at each news source and ask myself, "who is their target audience" because they're also a business, and businesses cater to their market. I then go into the question of can I still trust the information being presented, even with the biases known. The Washington Post was a great example of this over the last few years...they're in general, a dependable news organization for information and content. Sure, their editorial side has a liberal bend, but most large papers outside the WSJ do. More and more, however, I could see their news being run on a business model of information, often unflattering, about one certain person or their efforts in our government. That's not inherently a bad thing, both on the grounds of an independent media, and holding those in power to account...but it was something I had to keep in mind whenever reading.

It was surreal to say the least. Brought a sense of vulnerability because as you mentioned, these kinds of things were what you saw in other countries. Even if you try to compartmentalize and say, "we'll I've seen something like that before", it's still different because "other places" isn't home. One thing some vet friends and I have talked about is just how crazy things we've learned to mentally categorize as normal are anything but. There's a certain mental resiliency in that for the moment, but I wonder how the long term effects are. Ties into what you mention about the D in PTSD being a misnomer because when a person reaches their limit of stress (and we all have one, I promise you), it's not a disorder, but a reasonable reaction when the mental and/or physical limit has been reached. James Mattis makes frequent mention of how those moments should really be focused on post traumatic growth, because that's going to get an individual through it faster than thinking there is a problem, or falling into an identity of victimhood. Sometimes people need a friend to help them, other times they can do it themselves, just needing the space and time. But you're absolutely correct in saying this isn't someone anyone has to feel bad about, or go alone if the buddy route is their best way forward. Thanks for opening the dialogue.

Still haven't read that book, but I know I need to. I was working with your battalion sniper section once we got to Mosul in 2003. My GSR team was out at that water treatment plant a bit northwest along the Tigris with them for two and a half months while the rest of the battalion was taking up residence in the Mosul Hotel and wondering when the elevators were going to be fixed.

I only spent a few weeks in direct support of his company, and a week at a shooting course between deployments with him, but it was instantly clear this guy was a helluva Soldier and leader. Not only did he excel in what I think is the toughest job in the Army- Infantry Company First Sergeant- but he went through hell and back to do the job getting injured, and going through rehab so he could go back to Iraq and finish the deployment with his troops. You can read about then 1SG Skidis here. https://tulsaworld.com/news/battle-scars-cant-keep-soldiers-out-of-the-action/article_13c5ccfb-1b3e-5dc7-a82a-feab28ed5f67.html @Wheelgunner, you might remember 1SG Skidis better than I do (can't remember which BN you were in direct support of during OIF 05-07), and if you do, please chime in. You'll also smile reading that Clark is in this link too. I still tell stories about how unlucky his 4x Purple Heart wearing ass was and how funny of a guy he was to be around.

It's all fun and games until this meme becomes a government meeting.

Is what it is. I'm not getting any this go around, only got a bit less than half last time. But if that money keeps people from having bills go into arrears or makes it way to local businesses who could use it, I'm good. I'll bet it's funny for some to see what side of the makers vs. takers spectrum I'm on.