TGO David

Just a few notes... 1. 60m has reportedly opened up nicely as of late. 2. I'm sitting for my General test this Saturday. Should have no problems as I've been acing them on HamTestsOnline this week. 3. If someone would buy my damned HK 45 (for sale in the Trading Post) soon, I'll buy a HF rig for the house and be able to put my upgraded ticket to use.

That's a pretty childish angle to take, in my opinion. It equates to having two children, one of whom can't behave and the other of whom is just minding his business. When the misbehaving child starts causing a fuss, do you ground both or do you act decisively and fairly? Grounding both because you don't care to sort out the specifics is lazy and ... well ... sort of how Socialists think. Equal distribution of blame, rather than to each according to his works. It's not like we have a preponderance of pro-LEO threads on TGO so getting rid of this nonsense restores equilibrium. It's not setting us up for going to the other extreme; and so what if it does? Is it going to paint TGO as being friendly to Law Enforcement? Is that a bad thing? Honestly if a person doesn't want to be on TGO because there are too many cops, they sound like the kind of person who has something they're worried about and I wouldn't want them here anyway.

At the end of the day it really doesn't matter if anyone agrees with or disagrees with the decisions that I make as long as I sleep well having made them. This may sound like a smart-ass reply but I assure you it isn't. It's just the fact that once the die are cast, the only person who has to live with the decision is me. This issue has been boiling for so long now that it was well beyond time to do something about it. The moderators have been struggling with which direction to take, and I've been pushing for weeks now to just let heads roll. Suffice it to say the moderators are largely more patient than I am. We have a very good moderating team. Four factors need to be considered: 1. As I stated in my announcement on the issue, we have members here who are in Law Enforcement and they have gotten tired of the cop bashing. Particularly from someone, like TMMT, who purportedly is in the Internal Affairs business and seemed to be showing a serious hard-on for maligning them every chance he got. Cops expect IA people to be fair and just, but this guy clearly had a predisposed bias against. 2. TGO is not a media clearing house for anti-cop materials. Frankly we're not a media clearing house for anti-anything materials. We're a forum about firearms and firearms ownership. There's no justification for someone posting that many negative things about a particular profession that has very little to do with firearms ownership, over and over and over. He had beaten that dead horse long enough. 3. We have vendor partners who's livelihood depends partially on sales to Law Enforcement agencies and officers. How hard do you think it is for cops to support a vendor that supports a site that doesn't support them? Before some incredibly bright individual pops off with an "Ah hah! It's all about the money!" let me remind everyone that it takes money to keep a site of this size online and we all should value the participation and support of our vendors. 4. Last but not least, my actions were certainly not "severe" (as has been suggested privately) considering not only the above but also the fact that I've been more than patient and provided an overabundance of opportunities for TMMT and others to cut it out. Actually I provided them too many opportunities. In hindsight, my patience just prolonged the inevitable. So no, it wasn't severe. It was long in coming. The avatar change? Oh... yeah... well, if you piss me off enough you never know what might happen to an avatar.

Thanks.

You've never read about William Wallace needing Gold Bond, now have you.

Air circulation. Keeps them dry. (enjoy that mental image)

Guess not. /thread

What... no one else? Come on... thread's just ripe for it. Go ahead and see if I meant it when I said I was sick and tired of the LEO bashing. Step right up!

TMMT will not be rejoining us. TNFF319 may rejoin us in 7-days, proving him some time to reflect. Anyone else? I'll keep the thread open a bit longer in case more people want to test me tonight. PS: Anyone know what cops and firefighters have in common? They both wanted to grow up and be cops when they were kids.

Hmmm. Is your friend guilty of saying, "Man... I'd sell my soul for a really good pizza." ?

Sounds very interesting. I'll be anxious to read your review. PS: Things like this are why I want an iPad or Kindle soon. It'd be nice to download a book on the spot and just get started enjoying it.

Just another thought... People apparently forget the fact that one of our rules for participating is that you don't argue with the moderators publicly. Doing that is subversive and will earn you a vacation from this site. Going a step further, people who join the pile-up in threads that shouldn't even exist -- like this one -- and contribute fuel to the fire stand a good chance of sharing their fate simply because I don't like anarchy. If you think one of our policies is out of line, you are welcome to ask me about it privately.

I deleted the post and yes the moderators do have the authority to delete these things in accordance with my statement made HERE... http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/tn-gun-owners-announcements/22008-regarding-anti-law-enforcement-cop-bashing-late.html#post531895

Why do people insist on calling them "boolits" ?

Thank you for the heads up. It appears as though this was a false alarm, so... move along. Nothing to see here.

Nicely executed.

It will likely be replaced. With what I'm not sure of just yet.

I do have it. I don't intend on posting it publicly but if you PM me...

Change your avatar. You and I both know what you're trying to convey with it.

I'll be cranking Danzig's Mother on my way home from work in honor of this occasion.

300 rds isn't much. Run it for as many as you can w/o cleaning it. If you hit 1,000 you have a reasonably reliable handgun.

No, there won't be. Mainly because too many people think the way Kenstaroni does.

Define "Irony" -- German-built nuclear submarines.

Looks extremely familiar to my own setup.

Pretty soon. I've had a few other things I needed to take care of before I could devote a whole weekend to upgrading the software. I'm still doing some testing behind the scenes to make sure the upgrade goes smoothly.