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Ugh, ticks...we used to do a count for how many we pulled off for each platoon after coming back from the field. This winter that wasn't is going to mean a lot more bugs a lot earlier than usual. I already have to cut my grass sometime this week as it's getting unseemly after all the rain and spring like weather we've had.
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I'm still undecided if the actions were right or wrong. I suspect they could be either and will be examined thoroughly...but the tactics seem a bit Hollywood to me, and that's not a good thing. If that's what any officer thinks is priority #1, they're in the wrong profession and should find a job without the inherent dangers of police work.
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Why spend all that money when you can just get 6' of '550 cord and take care of it the old fashioned way. :P
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Password protected phone could be your best witness?
btq96r replied to Lumber_Jack's topic in General Chat
It's called Bambuser. It's more of a mobile sharing site, but the upload of videos is super easy. You just configure the app how you want it, then all you have to do is press record and it takes care of everything. I tested it out a few times at drive-thru's after dark and it picks up video and audio just great if you position your phone properly. It's also free for individuals and charities. https://bambuser.com/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuser.broadcaster&hl=en https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bambuser/id344600665?mt=8 -
Password protected phone could be your best witness?
btq96r replied to Lumber_Jack's topic in General Chat
I have an app where the video I record is uploaded to the net at the same time and I can view or download it off a website at my convenience. Even encryption can't protect the hardware if it has an "accident" while in police custody. -
I turned fifteen not too long after that movie came out on VHS. It most certainly was not the worst movie ever at that time in my life. ;)
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I think it would be the perfect closing music as an episode fades to the credits for some premium cable TV show. It totally could have fit into an episode of Californication under the right circumstances.
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Key word in that sentence, when. And not just California or Illinois maybe with the rampant spending we'll have to bail out, but some of the red states that refused to raise taxes in revenue shortfalls. Louisiana is currently feeling the pinch after Bobby Jindal's pre-Presidential campaign tax cut budgets that left them completely unprepared for the price of oil dropping. Don't think they won't come to Uncle Sugar for some more money the worse things get. Wait for it to get horrible in 10-20 years, when the federal government is occupied with debt repayments, the states will get less federal funding, which make up a scary amount of their budgets these days. They'll either have to raise taxes and fees, or cut services dramatically to make ends meet. For how that looks locally, Tennessee's FY 2014 budget had just over 41% of its total spending come from federal funding. Again, scary amount of dependence there.
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This is what "call the police" as a catch all for problem solving gets us. The individual officers who have to respond are probably rolling their eyes while trying to be respectful, but the system and the powers that be are probably happy people are responding well to conditioning.
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Good Day for Gun Rights from the 4th Circuit
btq96r replied to btq96r's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
I tried not to get too optimistic when the panel came out with the ruling they did, knowing it was far from the end of the road. The State of Maryland exercised their appeal option, and after enough Judges agreed to hear it, the full Fourth Circuit will take up this case, and I can only hope that the same ruling will follow, as the Heller and McDonald cases are supposed to be binding precedent. Cross your fingers that all that good stuff we saw in the panel opinion carries the day on May 11th. -
I'm gonna guess those guys did a recon of the store a few times, and rehearsed the mechanics of the entry smash couple of times as well. If they had furthered their plans after that any, they might well still be on the run and have offloaded those guns by now.
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There was an allied effort in the Pacific as well. The Australians were a good partner, the British Navy showed up after the German Navy was handled, and while it's easy to forget since they went communist afterwards, the Chinese were fighting well before we entered the war,fought very bravely, and saw their share of losses similar to the Russians. 3.8 million Chinese military deaths (1937–45; 3.2 million Nationalist/-allied and 580,000 Communist). They also endured a remarkable reprisal for helping the Doolittle Raid survivors escape and evade. Whatever you think of China today, back then they paid in blood for their kindness and friendship to America. As to the breakdown of forces from the US side (per Wikipedia): Strength of the US Military in Asia and the Pacific as of war's end: Army: 1,770,036, Navy (excluding Coast Guard and Marines): 1,366,716, and Marine Corps: 484,631. These figures do not include the Coast Guard or naval personnel in the China-Burma-India theater (which was a primary Army/Army Air Corps command). All around, it's amazing history that should be shared.
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Anybody else know anything about this?
btq96r replied to bersaguy's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
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Profit leads to growth, so the two go hand in hand. Without profit, growth can really only come through financing, and too much eventually leads to enough liability to make Wall Street get cold feet over a company riki tik. If they are only growing through financing and debt, they'll shut down before too long without making any decent profit.
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Throw it in the car/truck, speed past a cop cruiser, and consent to a search. Then sit back and let the camera roll.
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Such a dedicated fighter of crime and protector of the public, that he resigned over nothing related to those two duties...what a crock.
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I think if it makes it to the courts, they'll rule that insurance companies can justify it because just having the gun creates the additional conditions where an accident could happen, and they'd be paying for the medical treatment. I think they would have to show some kind of risk calculation matrix or something else if pressed to justify their costs in court, but I don't think they would be denied from doing it outright.
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Well, if you're a Justice on the Supreme Court, and you're going to ask the first question you've asked in ten years...at least make it a good one. He did what Judges should do, question the logic of a practice and made the lawyer for the government provide justification for it. He's also letting the Heller & McDonald decisions make their way into other case law, which I like. That said, I'm not ready to get into these guys corner on this one. There is the whole element of these two guys hit a woman and are trying to pass it off as "heat of the moment," and even passively laying the blame for their domestic violence incidents due to alcohol, which I find a piss poor excuse, and even worse in some ways. Still, Justice Thomas was asking a valid question.
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Bill could make parents responsible for kids finding guns
btq96r replied to The Legion's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
Lock the truck. That should be a defense. Like I said on the last page, the only thing I have an issue with is the term "secure box or gun safe." I'd change that to something like "any apparatus or storage space that can be secured with the goal of preventing unauthorized entry." That way vehicles, closets with external locks, storage cabinets, ect., would be covered. -
Bill could make parents responsible for kids finding guns
btq96r replied to The Legion's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
Too vague for the things the law in question would create a clear and cut definition for. "Neglect" in 401 has to be an act against the child: (2) For purposes of this subsection (c): (A) "Knowingly" means the person knew, or should have known upon a reasonable inquiry, that abuse to or neglect of the child would occur which would result in physical injury to the child. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary parent or legal custodian of a child eight (8) years of age or less would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the defendant's standpoint; and Then, under Hailey's law, the term "is used" seems vague enough to lend doubt that unless someone commits an act against the child with a weapon, they couldn't be charged. Both those laws are also contingent on harm coming to the child...the proposed law would make a child under 13 getting their hands on a firearm unsupervised good enough to prosecute on its own. You're a district attorney...which law do you want to argue before a Judge & Jury...I'd take the one that makes it a clear open and shut case. -
Bill could make parents responsible for kids finding guns
btq96r replied to The Legion's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
What laws cover it? Show me in the TCA. Same as above. Show me which laws in the TCA can cover the exact same circumstances this law clearly covers. -
Word. The dust cloud obscuring the truth on this one may never dissipate.
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Fort Campbell has an MWR range for off duty shooting on post that is open on weekends, but the hassles of getting to it only make it worth the time for people who live on post and have to register their weapons with the Provost Marshall to begin with. Also, if memory serves, it's short of 1,000yds by a good bit.
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I'm waiting for the NSA to create a TGO account, just so they can click "✓ Like This" on all the posts supporting Dropbox.