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I'm 37 and this festival is far more interesting than bonnaroo. Very interesting mix of bands. I did shoot a music video for tyler bryant and the shakedown years ago and they are a pretty dang good band.

They called me yesterday and I didn't answer. Called today from a different number and when I answered the lady said she was paid to call me and that Ollie North had asked her to call me....and that's when I said, "listen, I am a life member and the NRA leadership needs to go after hanging us out on bump stocks. have a nice day. click." I saw an article yesterday that the NRA spent $40 MILLION last year with their PR firm. Can you imagine how how many good laws we could pass at the state level and how many lawsuits could be filed for that much money? Not to mention that ole' Wayne makes over $1 million a year. The libs claim that the NRA is just a wing of the gun lobby, but in reality it's just a money making scam for the officers.

Two things. First, the bridge was listed in "fair" condition in the report. So not "good" or "great" condition. Second, the driver's guardian angel surely has a concussion this morning. Talk about a close call.

Here, I fixed it for you. That's coming from an active lifetime member of the NRA. As someone else mentioned, the SAF is also a much better org to join than the NRA. Unfortunately, the NRA in action only really defends hunting and basic self-defense. They cover modern rifles (AR-15's and any other modern, plastic gun) and take ads in American Rifleman, but I've seen very little practical defense from them in the last 8 years. The same goes for supporting carrying laws. They seem to support more terrible carry laws in TN that don't restore our rights than actually using their might to get things like constitutional carry, or public school carry.

The law changed two years ago. Private K-College can allow carry. It's not automatic, but I would say 99.9% of them have no clue that they were supposed to decide one way or another after the law passed. The issue is, if they ban, they are supposed to post, but 99.9% didn't know they were supposed to post before the law. Considering how the carrying where alcohol is served law was stuck down after first being passed for being constitutionally vague, I would think that if you were caught on private school property that wasn't posted and arrested you would have a good case because they were supposed to notify you by posting that carry was not legal. It's really something that should be fixed next session by slipping a very minor revision to to make it totally legal unless posted.

You obviously are unaware of the massive surpluses from sales tax we had each quarter last year. The state of TN does not need more money. They, in fact, need to lower the sales tax because it's obviously taking it way too much money. Watching them talk about how to spend the extra money after each quarter was reported was sickening considering they had raise the gas tax last year.

What provider is it? I've never seen an ISP only give faster speeds if you have other services. For the past 13 years I've had 4 different providers and none of them have required other services for faster speeds.

You've obviously never seen Paint Your Wagon. I've seen movies from Ed Wood that are better than that clunker.

This is consistently the kind of thinking I've found from people coming from law school. Precedent matters more than the actual text. It's also scary that Judges like this don't understand that they are supposed to look at what the Constitution says, not what states have allowed. They are supposed to enforce the Constitution, not protect whatever crazy ideas states think the can do.

Just fyi, if you are getting lamps that work with ballasts (which I don't suggest) your ballast has to be electronic and not magnetic. Fixtures that are 30 years old will be magnetic for sure unless they have been replaced with electronic at some point. You don't have to actually recover the old ballast. Just clip the hot and neutral wires and then connect them to the leads off the holders the lamps hook into. The nice thing is that T12 and T8 lamps use the same size holder so it's an easy switch.

I have found that with the tubes I replaced with LED tubes that 1 LED tube is equal to about 3 of the old tubes. If you have a two tube light, I'd replaced both and enjoy the brighter light. If you have a 4 tube fixture I would do just two. 4 LED tubes together will be crazy bright.

I've converted plenty of fixtures and it's super easy. All you have to do is bypass the ballast and direct connect the power to the led tubes and you are done. Can be done in 10 mins or less and much cheaper.

What kind of fixtures are you looking to put LEDs in?

I love that the quote Kennedy put out about why he voted for it had zero to do with what the constitution actually said and only about "current times." In fact, I never see them talk about what the constitution says, it's always about impact with our current society and precedence from former rulings. Can't find any text in the Constitution that explicitly allows the Federal gov a say, or even the states, to charge sales tax on businesses not within their borders. Politicians could sniff out a dollar to tax if it was buried in 5ft of concrete.

That's not accurate. You can buy pre 86 machine guns, you just can't buy post.

I like the reset speed of the target. I thought they would snap back up, but it almost makes it look like a machine is pushing them back up. How much were they?

Just joined GOA. As a life member of the NRA, I think my money is better spent with GOA than the NRA. Strangely enough I am starting to think that the NRA is more geared towards the manufacturers than the citizen. The stupid part is, the more you gear the organization towards the citizen, the better off the manufacturers are.

Because it's come to a boiling point, that's why. But the issue is that our society has changed and people don't want to admit to it. They rather keep going down the same path and just ban some guns and accessories instead of actually dealing with the real issue, which is, why are so many kids depressed? I've yet to hear of a school shooter (or even any other mass shooter) that was described as "liked", "easy going", "joyful", etc. They are ALWAYS described as "loner" and "depressed". Our society is filling up with people who have no purpose in life and rather have other people share in their misery. Our society solution has been to medicate (look up how many mass shooters have been on anti-depressants) but that isn't working. So let's just take away this gun today...until another shooter uses small cap magazine and then we'll take that away and more away and more away until we basically have nothing. Or, these people just move to making bombs, cars, or using knives (which are surprisingly effective-see mass stabbings in China.) It is a HEART issue, but our society does not want to admit it because that would actually take more effort to fix than just walking out of school in the middle of the day. I did see a post by some teachers today that would do far more than a single gun law. It said for students to go sit with the lonely, to try and make friends with them, and to love other students. Gee, what a novel idea!

Don't forget we keep electing two senators who don't really hold to conservative principles. At least one is gone after this term! Most Republicans tout principles to get elected but don't even remotely vote them when the time comes so this is not really surprising.

I've had stuff shipped to me via freight (woodstove, business furniture, kitchen cabinets, other equipment) but never actually shipped anything freight. I would think the best way would be to see if there is a site that can let you put in the to/from, size and weight of what you want to ship and would give you quotes from different freight companies. What I have discovered is that unless you pay extra, you won't have liftgate service at your end and even if you do, it will be from, most likely, a bigger truck than a normal box truck with a lift gate. So you have to consider if such a truck can get into your location. What I've done for all my freight delivery except for one, is gone to the freight shipper center with my trailer and had them forklift it onto my trailer. Easier for both of us.

I have been thinking this after working with HS students at church for the past 15 years and just looking at the world in general. I know a big thing is that we are supposed to care about so much around the world but I don't think we can really process that the way we are supposed to. Heck, until the past 100 years most people didn't know much of what happened further than a few miles from where they lived. And when they did find stuff out it was just a tiny amount, not the 50+ top stories we get every day.

But it's easier to make a feel good law than it is to actually care about someone who has issues.

Then how would you write it so it's obvious you have to be asked and refuse to leave before you could be arrested? I could see moving "first" to before "being" but that's it. I think it's pretty clear that to violate 1359 you have to be asked and then refuse to leave. Unless I am mistaken, and I don't think I am, it had to be a felony to do a citizens arrest. I agree that the posting law makes it far more likely that businesses will post and only pulls police away from stopping real criminals. I think 1359 should be deleted entirely but our reps don't seem to have the balls to actually follow our constitution (although, haslam has had them strangled for the past 8 years...)

But an officer is the one who issues a trasspass warning in any other trasspass situation, why not in this case?

Would my two bolded changes make it extremely clear to everyone that you would need to be asked to leave first by an LEO before you could be charged under 1359? I ask because I am pretty sure Andy Holt would be open to language changes that would make the law clearer. On a side note, did anyone else notice this law getting passed and signed? (http://www.local8now.com/content/news/TN-bill-will-allow-purple-paint-markings-can-be-used-as-No-Trespassing-signs-431211773.html) If I came across a purple X in the woods, I would have no clue what it meant. Plus, purple, because it's a dark color, is a terrible color to use as a marker. Even as a lighter version like violet, it's not a high visibility color.