Chucktshoes

Ya know, he might have a case there. IANAL, but I think it was a pretty obvious case of slander by NBC. Weren't a lot of of saying exactly that when it came to light what NBC had done?

Do you have a C&R? If not, get one and make life easier on both of you.

Pitt/Jolie were the only ones I was really questioning. The rest have generally made themselves known for what they are.

Not to step on toes here but I am going to question the Jolie mention. Everything I have ever seen about her on the subject pointed to her being pro gun. What is your source for this data on the listed celebs?

[quote name='Retired Navy GMC' timestamp='1354749594' post='855440']He is going to be on O'reilly tonight and explain his comment. Should be interesting.[/quote] Talk about home field advantage. It's gonna be one gun grabbing douchebag making equivocations to another gun grabbing douchebag.

Saw that yesterday. It was brutal.

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1354666660' post='854986']Good grief, are cops the only ones with discretion? [img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/TourGlide/Web%20Stuff/biggrin.gif[/img] As a cop it was up to me if you got arrested or not (except for felonies, DV, or DUI). If I agreed with why you broke the law; I could let you go. I would think store managers have some discretion when it comes to Company Policy. The conversation should have gone something like this… Store Manager: You violated Company policy, so you can’t be employee of the month this month. You were free and clear and could have left the night Manager for dead meat; but you didn’t. I think your actions may well have saved both his live and yours. You proved that you can do the right thing under extreme pressure. So I’m giving you a raise. Employee: Okay, thank you. Store Manager: We’ll talk next month about the employee of the month thing. Oh and BTW, next time you engage an Armed Robber; kill him, don’t let him run off.[/quote] In theory this would work. The only problem is that anything of this nature could not be kept at a store level. I would also put money on the store manager not being the one who made the decision to fire the employee; it was likely made by a district manager in conjunction with the Loss Prevention department. Someone at least at the district, if not corporate made the decision to terminate this employee.

[quote name='Mike.357' timestamp='1354663266' post='854961']Another writer for FOX Sports wrote a rebuttal of sorts against Whitlock's hackery http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/kansas-city-chiefs-jovan-belcher-suicide-murder-no-reason-to-take-away-rights-120512[/quote] That is an excellent article.

[quote name='Oh Shoot' timestamp='1354650842' post='854855']It's mainly helpful to hide porn activity from one's somewhat 'puter savvy parents or spouse. - OS[/quote] True story.

[quote name='6.8 AR' timestamp='1354632791' post='854729']Finished it last night and a CC is bothersome. Glad that book had a decent ending. A bunch of it was too close to home.[/quote] Just wait until you finish the rest of the trilogy.

[quote name='monkeylizard' timestamp='1354574935' post='854439'][url="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/3/police-man-shot-ex-wife-as-she-played-organ-church/print/"]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/3/police-man-shot-ex-wife-as-she-played-organ-church/print/[/url] aaahemmmm..... Again. Yes, I always carry at church.[/quote] I carry everywhere, why should church be any different?

[quote name='Oh Shoot' timestamp='1354569563' post='854393']Isn't it traditional by this time for someone from the shop to come on here and make a total spiteful ass of himself? - OS[/quote] You, sir, win 3.14 internets.

F-troop is the BATFE, so named for their habit of screwing up everything they touch. The Fibbies are the FBI, known for burning people alive and shooting women holding infants.

[quote name='drv2fst' timestamp='1354556359' post='854273']Elimination of BATFE would be a good thing. Of course elimination of many other unnecessary bureaucracies would be good also.[/quote] As bad as the BATFE is, I don't want them going anywhere until the gun laws are gone too. Do you really want the fibbies handling gun issues? I don't the fibbies get away with far more nefarious actions than the F-Troop ever managed to. Remember, when the F-Troop gets to where they need to start burning folks, they call in the fibbies to handle it.

Nice!

Seriously, we got to get rid of that bag 'o crap.

My wife and I have been to Stones River a couple times when we have visited the Nashville area. We have enjoyed it every time. We had no issues with the rules or the staff. Quite simply I think a lot of y'all in middle TN are spoiled and unappreciative of what y'all have. Come out Memphis way and see what it is like to not have anywhere to shoot rifles or outdoors at all unless you have land or join a very pricey private club. I would love it If we had a range like Stones River in the Memphis area.

[quote name='TankerHC' timestamp='1354484451' post='853895'] I have my facts straight. Jobs left (Was removed) from the company by the board because he drove it into bankruptcy. The Company didnt recover, in 95 Apple filed a patent lawsuit against MS. Then Jobs went to MS and asked Gates for 195 million dollars in exchange for dropping the suit. Gates has made it clear, Apple was on its last leg and all he had to do was wait it ou and there would be no Apple and no lawsuit, but he and Job were friends so he gave him the money. I never said "Apple" didnt develop anything, JOBS didnt innovate or develop anything. The original Apple computers were pure junk as were most of the later products. The Apple (Jobs) worshipers can thank Bill Gates for the products that Apple puts in their hands today. Not Jobs. Applle sells a lot of tablets, no doubt. But they didnt invent the Tablet, again thats old tech from the 70's, the modern iteration of the tablet is a MS invention. One of Apple's strong points is marketing, they have done a good job with that. Too many tablets, some that are even better than iPads on the market now for way less. Apple wont dominate that market in 2 years. As for the stock, I hold stock with Apple, MS, Copart, Comcast and several other Companies (Including Facebook), quick though I am not stock rich by any stretch of the imagination. I intended to cash most of it in except half the Copart and the FB stock and give the cas to my daughter when she graduates in May. I asked her and she would rather have the stock. So, thats where thats going.[/quote] If you say so, dude. I don't know what your big hardon of hate for Steve Jobs is about but I was just making a point about Apple shaping the market and consumer demand over the last decade. A point that is very hard to deny. You want to keep yer panties in a bunch about it, cool. Have fun with it, I'm done riding this derail.

[quote name='TankerHC' timestamp='1354482998' post='853885'] Apple consumer demand is low for Computers. They hold about 15% of the Global market, the same 15% they have been selling to for the last 15 years since Gates bailed Jobs out with $195 million. The other 90% is PC based with MS OS's operating on 90% of the global market. Jobs was a poor manager and never developed anything, sending your Engineers back to add something is not developing. Jobs drove the Company to bankruptcy in 95. What they hold is 68% of the Tablet Market and a large % of the Smart Phone market. Now that they are being required to release patent information to Samsung because of the lawsuits they keep filing, with Nokia, LG and other manufacturers coming a long way in just the last year, thats going to drop. Same with tablets, projection is they will lose 18% of the market this year to Google and even more to Amazon. I hold Apple stock, according to Fidelity, the valuation has plateaued.[/quote] Think what you want about whether or not Apple developed anything, or created market demand where there wasn't one before, but at least get your facts straight. Jobs left Apple in 86 and did not return to the company until 1996. At which point he brought it out of near bankruptcy and then charted its course to its current spot as the most valuable company in the world. One question though, if you own Apple stock and believe Fidelity that the value has plateaued, wouldn't the wise decision be to sell it? I do feel it pertinent to add that prior to the iPhone, the smartphone market was dominated by RIM's Blackberry. When was the last time anyone released a successful smartphone design that was based on a half screen and physical keyboard? How many tablets were sold the year before the introduction of the iPad, and how many were sold in the 12 months following?

[quote name='6.8 AR' timestamp='1354468041' post='853803']My point was that a market is created when one has an idea and produces something which another wants or buys. Until electricity was available the light bulb didn't have a market. Has nothing to with a candle or a kerosene lamp. The game changer was electrification.[/quote] See Apple's influence on personal electronic devices for a more recent example. They have continually created and changed consumer demand with the products they introduce to the marketplace.

The idea of a constitutional convention scares the crap out of me. I have no doubt that it would go in the exact opposite direction any of us here would want to see. I think Bracken's description in the Enemies Trilogy of a CC hijacked and gone awry would be a far more likely outcome.

Town & County Safe N Lock on Summer is the place to go is what I have been told.

Federal raids and prosecution of marijuana dispensaries that are operating IAW state law. See California and Colorado for many, many examples.

Another vote for Primary Arms.