TGO David

The media elected Obama months ago.

It should be working now. There was a compatibility issue between it and the vBulletin 3.8 (beta) software that I had to hunt down and fix.

Weird. Let me see what's happening here.

We have added the real-time chat feature back to the forum tonight for the elections! Feel free to join in by going to Flash Chat. Enjoy!

Comp-Tac MTAC or Milt Sparks VM2, inside the waist band.

You just killed the funny.

Hustler Hollywood on Church Street (Nashville) sells them as part of their "Flash-Bang Play Set". If I buy two more, my fifth is free.

Here's my take on the whole issue of race in this election... The progressives want us to get past seeing color. FINE. But they are supporting a candidate for whose campaign race IS an issue and has been an issue regardless of their superficial efforts to play it off as anything else. Officially they want you to believe that race has nothing to do with it. Unofficially they are laughing all the way to the White House because they know that somewhere north of 90% of black voters will be casting ballots for Obama just because he's "one of them". Unfortunately for the black voter, quite a few of their "appointed leaders" in the black community (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, etc.) have been exploiting racism for a long time now purely for their own selfish ends. Race has been and will be an issue until people really no longer see color of skin when they look at a person. And frankly, I doubt that is ever going to happen. For proof, just look to the Middle East. For thousands of years, those people have been killing each other because of racism. Arab versus Jew, Sunni versus Shiite, Iraqi versus Iranian, and so forth. They have had far longer to come to terms with differences in skin color than we have had here in the United States. You would therefore think that if the human mind was capable of divesting itself of color-perception, it would have happened by now. But it hasn't. Racism is alive and well no matter how deplorable it is. Yes, black Americans were victims of discrimination in the past. It is a historical fact and cannot be argued against. BUT... the majority of that took place several generations ago and not at the hand of any who are left alive today, yet the spirit of hate is being kept alive by those who harbor it. Reparations? Official apologies by white Senators for things done years and years and years ago by people I'm not even related to? Really? What does that accomplish other than fuel the fire and keep hate and resentment alive? The concept of "reverse racism" has sadly become true. It's hard for me to believe anymore that a person offering peace with an outstretched hand really means it when his other hand is clenched in a fist, drawn back to strike.

Freakin SWEET. You've fast-roped into bed before too, huh?

Have I shown you my ninja climbing spikes?

It's actually more of an Oakley combat glove. My hands get kind of sweaty sometimes and if you're wearing an iron gauntlet it ends up smelling funky.

A gun was banned? Or do you mean GUY was banned?

The next step in integrating your gun-friends into your life is to bring your wife to a TGO get together. Our very own HunterH learned the perils of doing this.

I don't recall precisely. I bought some other stuff too so all I remember is that my total wasn't too bad. It's within the normal ballpark for good ammo. PM Joe and see if he can give you an exact quote.

Regarding PMC, I have read quite a few threads on M4Carbine stating that people are having trouble with PMC rounds causing their rifles to short-stroke. Ostensibly from having too light of a powder charge. I recently bought some Armscor ammo from Joe @ Hero Gear and it has performed flawlessly. In fact, I need to go buy more from him soon.

We really are a civil society here.

Thanks. As always, I have to point to the team of moderators and to the members themselves for the success of the forum. I just sweep the floors.

The show's only redeeming feature is Shatner as Denny Crane. Unfortunately, Shatner has let himself boldly go.

James, if you'd been my third kid I'd have gotten chopped too. Do you ever fear for your wife's safety working in the ghetto like that?

Nice kill on the bobcat, Kahrman!

I admire your optimism. I think it probably has more to do with the fact that in your part of Tennessee, traditional values are still held dear ... even by the teachers.

I want to be happy when I hear stories about kids at elementary schools voting for McCain but then that sinking feeling sets in and I am reminded that this means that kids who are too young to understand any of the issues are being indoctrinated by an overwhelming liberal, socialist biased public education system and that only a few will survive it without being utterly brainwashed.

Tru-Glo sights are nice but should be considered to be expendable items. Even non-chlorinated gun scrubbers will cause the fiber optic rods to lose their transparency over time. If you opt for them, try to keep chemicals away from the fibers when you clean the gun and realize that you may need to replace them periodically depending on how much use / cleaning the gun sees. Just my $0.02 worth on it.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,446140,00.html John Ripley, Who Led 600 in Battle Against 20,000 North Vietnamese, Dies at 69 Monday , November 03, 2008 Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday. Ripley's son, Stephen Ripley, said his father was found at his Annapolis home Saturday after missing a speaking engagement on Friday. The son said the cause of death had not been determined but it appeared his father died in his sleep. In a videotaped interview with the U.S. Naval Institute for its Americans at War program, Ripley said he and about 600 South Vietnamese were ordered to "hold and die" against 20,000 North Vietnamese soldiers with about 200 tanks. "I'll never forget that order, 'hold and die'," Ripley said. The only way to stop the enormous force with their tiny force was to destroy the bridge, he said. "The idea that I would be able to even finish the job before the enemy got me was ludicrous," Ripley said. "When you know you're not going to make it, a wonderful thing happens: You stop being cluttered by the feeling that you're going to save your butt." Ripley crawled under the bridge under heavy gunfire, rigging 500 pounds of explosives that brought the twins spans down, said John Miller, a former Marine adviser in Vietnam and the author of "The Bridge at Dong Ha," which details the battle. Miller said the North Vietnamese advance was slowed considerably by Ripley. "A lot of people think South Vietnam would have gone under in '72 had he not stopped them," Miller said. Ray Madonna, president of the U.S. Naval Academy's 1962 graduating class, served in Vietnam as a Marine at the same time and said his classmate saved countless U.S. and South Vietnamese troops. "They would have been wrecked" if the tanks had crossed, Madonna said. He said Ripley also coordinated naval gunfire that stopped the tanks from crossing at a shallower point downstream. "He was a Marine's Marine, respected, highly respected by enlisted men, by his peers and by his seniors," Madonna said. Miller said Ripley, who was born in Radford, Virginia, descended from a long line of veterans going back to the Revolutionary War. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1962, after enlisting in the Marines out of high school and spending a year in naval school in Newport, Rhode Island. He earned the "Quad Body" distinction for making it through four of the toughest military training programs in the world: the Army Rangers, Marine reconnaissance, Army Airborne and Britain's Royal Marines, Miller said. He was also the only Marine to be inducted in the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame. Ripley earned the Navy Cross and Silver Star for his service in Vietnam. He later served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was regimental commander at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, among other postings. After retiring from the Marines, he was president and chancellor of Southern Virginia College in Lexington, Virginia. Stephen Ripley said his father had a deep and tenacious love for his country, the Marine Corps and his family. "My Dad never quit anything and never went halfway on anything in his life," he said. "He just was a full-throttle kind of person and those people that he cared about, he really cared about." Ripley is survived by his wife, Moline B. Ripley, 67; three sons, Stephen Ripley, 43, Thomas Ripley, 38, and John Ripley, 35; a daughter, Mary Ripley, 39; and eight grandchildren.

In all seriousness, I do appreciate the cooperation but I do ask that the members at large let the moderators do the moderating. "Mob Rule" doesn't get any traction here. A while back we took in several new moderators, so they should be left to do their job and everyone else should just try to enjoy the place. If you don't enjoy the place, the exits are clearly marked.