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"Exaaaaactly. Doh!" • Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...guns! • Operator! Give me the number for 911! • Oh, so they have internet on computers now! • Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. • Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. • Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids. • Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.' • Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel. •Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do? • You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons. • Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Rat Patrol! Haven't seen that one in a long time. I used to love that show.

I was going to mention this several days ago on another thread, but since you brought it up again... I HATE it on these dumb tv shows and movies when the cops (plain clothes, detectives, etc.) get a call and then 1) rack the slide in the car when they are speeding off to the location, 2) then rack again when they skid to a stop and jump out at the location, 3) then rack again when they are in the stair well, 4) and then finally rack again when they confront the bad guy and yack for a few minutes...THEN, to make it really plain they are really really serious, they THEN rack the slide...AGAIN! ALSO... When I was in the police academy (1984) and we were going through the Hogan's Alley course, if anyone held there weapon upwards towards the sky they got smacked in the head by the instructors followed by a sharp, "We're NOT here to shoot ducks!" (ducks are up, suspects are in front of you) We were told to ALWAYS keep your weapon pointed in front of you wherever you were looking, NOT up in the air like on tv.

Same year I looked at Uzi 9mm for $700. Should have bought several.

yeah... a lot of that goes on on forums (all forums) Very good advice! Unless you have a commercially marked locksmith vehicle present, you don't want to be caught with burglar tools on you in the wrong situation.

My dad was/is buried in a National cemetery. He got a one-gun, three shot salute. They didn't send 7 guys, or 21 guys. Unless he was a general/admiral, probably not going to be '21' guns.

I take issue with that comment. I happen to be an out of work potographer because of the new trend of 'good enough'. And your niece is a 'photographer'. And the kid three doors down from you is a 'photographer'. And so is the guy/girl who waits on you at (insert restaurant name here). Everyone is now a 'photographer'. Anything can be a hobby to one person and a skill or trade to another. I have a very nice pen, that doesn't make me a writer. I have some very nice pots, that doesn't make me a chef. I have a floor jack, that doesn't make me a mechanic. I can pick a lock in a few seconds, that doesn't make me a thief. ;)

Capital Hooters!

On Target in M-boro is much closer to where you are. Cut straight over on 840 or on 96.

Isn't Kalifornia due to slip into the ocean sometime soon? I've got investment property in NV just west of Reno that I'm waiting to become waterfront so I can cash in.

+2 I remember reloading both kinds back in the early 60's.

Pan up please.

I believe O'Charlies now has prime rib all week long and during the day too. I believe.

I have an acquaintance who has had a similar non-LEO 'badge' (since way before TN HCP was available) and he carries it in his wallet. He has one of those special wallets with a leather flap that covers the 'badge' when the wallet is opened (i.e. to withdraw cash, etc.) so that no one can see the 'badge'. Honestly, his main purpose in carrying it, I'm quite certain, is so that he can 'accidentally' let cashiers catch a glimpse of it as he pays at restaurants so that he gets a discount or a free meal. Another time...we were in Las Vegas...and he had the occasion to flash his 'badge' at a nightclub type location. I was NOT present. He had gone off by himself. He was almost killed/beat up/arrested. I had to go save his butt. What a dumb _$$! The ONLY time I could see where one of these might have come in handy is in a situation like in the 1997 Tim Robbins movie Nothing to Lose with Martin Lawrence. Robbins goes into a gas station to pay for gas at one point after having disarmed a bad guy moments before. He is wearing a suit and has the bad guy's gun tucked in his pants waistband. He did not put it back far enough though. The gas station clerk catches a glimpse of it and asks him if he's a cop. Robbins, unaware that the clerk has seen the gun, answers, "no". The clerk whips out a shotgun and the action starts. In a realistic similar situation, a clerk may partially see a gun and the glint of a badge and then not give it a second thought. The bad outcome scenarios of that combination are much more likely however, so simply keeping your weapon DEEPLY concealed to prevent accidental and unwanted disclosures is the best course of action overall.

No problemo, I understand.

Cherokee has great steaks, but it is not fine dining by any means. Used to be BYOB, not sure if they still do that. It's been 2-3 years since I've eaten there. Woody's is good. Texas Roadhouse at Indian Lakes has excellent steaks, but a roadhouse atmosphere. Jimmy Kelly''s or The Stockyard have fantastic steaks. ($$$$) Outback has great steaks and the best crab legs in TN. Finezza is excellent, reasonably priced and your girlfriend will probably be very impressed. I've been eating there for over 15 years. Reba owns/owned the land next to Cherokee, so not sure that she actually wanted to keep it as a running restaurant or wanted the land and the marina for personal use.

and to jackdm3 as well... That was a smart-a$$ answer as to SUNTZU's comment of - "Well, its Memphis. I think its something in the water." Not meant to be a serious answer. I'll specify next time if it helps.

Be hookin' us up dude!

Memphis does not have as good of a water treatment plant as we do in Nashville. A lot of still gets through into the water and that messes with their minds.

Originally Posted by Overtaker Does no carry for responsible sober citizens eating a meal prevent crime? Not a chance. Dude, you mis-read or mis-answered. Either way, we knew what you meant.

The CBO used bogus numbers to meet the demand that Obamacare not increase the deficit. But now the truth is out there. <b>The massive accounting blunder that should sink health care reform</b> By: MARK HEMINGWAY Commentary Staff Writer 12/24/09 12:05 PM EST Yesterday, David discussed the CBO's miscalculation regarding the Senate health care bill. Democrats had been insisting that bill somehow cut the deficit and strengthened Medicare, but as it turns out the CBO had to clarify that the savings of the bill were being double counted. The "savings" the bill produces either have to be applied toward the Medicare trust fund or they have to be put toward the cost of the legislation to make it reduce the deficit by $132 billion over the next ten years. (That's assuming you buy into the shady accounting tricks used to score the bill.) Megan McArdle has a typically astute blog post up discussing the implications all of this. Megan even observes that as recently as Saturday, President Obama was trumpeting the bill's twin achievements of deficit reduction and strengthening Medicare. However, Megan didn't quote Obama in full -- fortunately The American Spectator's Phil Klein did. The entirety of Obama's remarks in the immediate aftermath of Senate Democrats securing finally securing 60 votes to pass their health care bill are worth pondering: "This bill with strengthen Medicare and extend the life of the program. Because it’s paid for and gets rid of waste and inefficiency in our health care system this will be the largest deficit reduction plan in over a decade. In fact, we just learned from the Congressional Budget Office that this bill will reduce our deficit by $132 billion over the first decade of the program, and more than one trillion dollars in the decade after that." Well, we now know that whether it was an innocent mistake or fiscal prestidigtation, one of these claims is simply not true. Which is all the more reason you don't railroad an unpopular bill through in the middle of the night, as this episode proves conclusively that the Senate can't be trusted not to make mistakes involving literally hundreds of billions of dollars. But the bottom line is that this is a massive, massive blunder and the President and the Senate Democrats need to come clean about it. They sold the American people, or tried to anyway, on specific promises regarding deficit reduction and preserving Medicare. Now they can't be sure of either of those promises. And Joe Taxpayer should probably be scared has heck about what else they've overlooked regarding the consequences of health care legislation. If the President and Senate Democrats are serious about their repeated promises to produce health care reform that saves money in the long-term, then they're going to have to scrap what they've got and go back to the drawing board. But nothing in the way that health care legislation has been handled so far suggests that Democrats are hoping for anything other than a short-term, ego-driven legislative victory. additional links - The massive accounting blunder that should sink health care reform | Washington Examiner http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/12/dems_2010_strategy_gop_will_re.asp">The Weekly Standard http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122302439.html?hpid=opinionsbox1">washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Yes-ObamaCare-would-add-to-the-deficit-80001757.html">Yes, ObamaCare would add to the deficit | Washington Examiner http://spectator.org/blog/2009/12/23/obama-and-reid-both-double-cou">The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Obama and Reid Both Double-Counted Medicare Cuts http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/cbo_democrats_double-counting.php">CBO: Democrats Double-Counting Medicare Savings - Megan McArdle

A VERY accurate observation!