MacGyver

Shoot, we ought to take up a collection to FedEx Mike his so he gets his first. He's been like a kid waiting for his birthday since he got on the wagon.

The ladies down at Swett's make the best chow chow in this town.  Doesn't do you a lot of good down south, but if you're ever in Nashville, it's worth checking out.   Most chow chow seems to be pickled.  I kind of like the fermented varieties.  I don't know that affects the heat of the mix, but it sure does seem to bring out the flavor.   One of these years when I get a bumper crop of peppers, I'm going to try fermenting some of my own hot sauce.

Not me.  We took the boat out Sunday after church with the kids and some friends.  Put in up by DLM37015's house and cruised around and fished for several hours.  Enjoyed every bit of the sun.  I threw some fleeces in the truck for the kids before church, but once we hit the water it was shorts and t-shirts all around.  The kids even swam some - even though the fish finder showed the water at 62 degrees.   This Georgia boy will never complain about an indian summer.  The cold will be here soon enough.

There is such a market for a print edition, local paper! There is intrinsic worth in sitting down with a paper and a cup of coffee that delivers exposure to the reader in a way that the Balkanized worlds that we create for ourselves online will simply have a hard time competing with. As a reader, I should be able to sit down with my local paper and see both stories that are of interest to me as well as a variety of stories that I have not been exposed to, yet. The problem with Gannett, E.W. Scripps, et al is that they've turned these local papers into financial instruments that are designed to deliver value to shareholders instead of delivering value to their readers. The reason I quit subscribing to the Tennessean when it was still $0.35 was that I realized I could pick up a copy of the Tennessean, The Jacksonville Sun-Times, The New Orleans Times Picayune, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, etc... and essentially read the same paper. The management of these papers mistakenly thought that they could become rebroadcast services for the Associated Press, Reuters and UPI and that no one would notice. They replaced local knowledge with syndicated content and fundamentally misjudged the value that they brought to their readers. It's probably too late for these companies. The newspaper of the future is going to have to support a business model that doesn't depend on classifieds, obituaries and ad circulars. Bruce Dobie is going to have to answer these questions with his experiment with the Nashville Banner. I hope some of the staff of the former Metro Pulse in Knoxville can find a vehicle to answer some of those questions as well. I spend several hundred dollars a year on a print subcription to the Wall Street Journal. I have online access as well, but that's not the primary method I use to interact with that publication. I would love nothing more than to replace that subscription with a daily local paper of value. I hope someone will take me up on that. Brian, I appreciated the voice that you and several others brought to the Tennessean, and I respect you guys for hanging on as long as you did. Good luck and Godspeed in you new endeavor. Don't be a stranger!

There's really not a better solution than Kilz.  You can try other stuff, but you'll wind up coming back to painting surfaces with Kilz.

That's the truth.  You'd be hard pressed to find a single place within Davidson county where you can't go a half mile in some direction and find yourself in a different place than you left.  That's the hazard of a big city, I guess.

That doesn't look like a joke. It looks like it was meant to hurt someone.

Where are our Memphis folks at?  Here's a great opportunity to pile on Nashville in a way that's usually reserved for our neighbors to the west.  And, in fact it is completely and totally deserved.  Whereas Memphis can claim several redeeming qualities, I can't think of a single one for Antioch.   Last person out of Antioch please turn out the lights.

In the Spectre, I've shot a fair number of 300 and 325gr. I've just got a bunch of 250gr SMKs. I'm guessing in the .338 Federal you could chuck some heavy stuff pretty well. I like the Spectre because it suppresses nicely out of a 9mm can. I expect the Federal is going to need a rifle can.

I've kind of got a project in the back of my mind to do some subsonic stuff for the .338 Federal - it does use .308Win brass.   I'm not sure what it get's me that my 338 Spectre doesn't - as 250gr at 1040FPS is the same regardless of the parent case.  But, .308 brass offers more space to work with, so in theory you might get a little wider selection of powders.

The Ruger P-series has to be one of the ugliest guns ever made. That said, their reliability seems to be inversely proportional to their beauty. I don't know that I've ever known anyone that's had one that has ever had a single problem. They seem to run like tops.

The shut one down on Abbott Martin Rd. in Green Hills earlier this year:   http://www.wsmv.com/story/24683503/police-raid-4-nashville-businesses-in-prositution-case

Surefire's batteries have historically been private labelled Duracell's. So, not only are they generally a decent price, they're also a great battery. You can probably find a cheaper battery, but I don't know that you'll find a quality battery any cheaper.

Stamps are specific to the device.  So, you'd purchase a device through a dealer, fill out the paperwork, pay the fees, and try to be content with the suppressor sitting in the dealer's safe for a while before your paperwork comes back and you are able to take possession it.

We don't use the same term to describe it, but in fact our courts have long held that one Congress cannot "bind" the hands of a future Congress.  It's actually making its way through the courts again right now, as the ACA contains language that tries to do exactly that in a couple of places. Section 3403 of the bill stipulates that, "it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.”   The more I think about it, though.  This disparity really sums up pretty well what is wrong with our political class.  Any single Congress could make a decision to move towards solvency (so long as they also have a President on board or a reliable two-thirds consensus).  The vast majority of the folks who get elected are smart enough to know that they system is fundamentally insolvent.  Yet, they make the decision to strive towards a goal where they have to know going in that they're not really going to do anything about it.  In fact, they're going to participate in the charade.    I don't know how any of them sleep at night.

At 40, I'd happily sign up today to let them keep what they've squandered so far and to let me out of the deal.   But, that's the very problem.  They simply cannot even consider letting anyone out, because then they pyramid that they've got resting on our heads tips over.   Mac, it's certainly not relevant here, but your Weimer Republic comment brought this to mind:   [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k[/media]

When it comes to Social Security, only two things are certain:  Math.  At some point, a large portion of the population is going to get screwed.  You can try to push it off, but a day of reckoning is coming. All main-party politicians - Republican or Democrat will do anything possible to avoid having to be the responsible voice in the room.  They'll hold hands and sing campfire songs before they admit that we'd send people to jail in any private sector business for doing what they've done with Social Security. So either you're going to have the political class grow up and do the responsible thing (which is not ever going to happen) or you're going to have the political class pretend to look away and feign surprise as we skip towards a European-style socialist state that consumes a growing percentage of the wealth that it claims to help create.    We've got the consumption part pretty well squared away in this country. We probably also have a moral responsibility to ensure that those who are currently of retirement age (or close to it) don't have to eat dog-food during their golden years.  I'd much rather see local communities, churches and families step up to fill this gap.  But, without sane voices in the government and a plan to wean the people off of the government teat, there's no incentive for anyone to have those conversations.   Strange place we find ourselves in.  Empires are hard. 

That brought a smile to my face...

So glad to hear that your condition is improving!  We'll keep you in our prayers.

I read an interesting article last week about a coming collapse in whiskey availability due to the new-found popularity amongst the hipster crowd and the fact that they - along with other new consumers worldwide are consuming at an unprecedented level.  Basically the consensus was that it was going to take some time for the makers to equilibrate to the new demand, and when you've got a product that's production is measured in years, it's going to be an issue.

TN doesn't require a tag for recreational trailers, but I went ahead and got one anyway.  GA and NC both require them, and even though I would have loved to have saved the money, I really looked at it as a safety issue.  No one ever gave me a ticket, but I've been pulled over to "check" in some places where it was difficult to pull over safely without dropping a wheel off of the pavement into the grass, mud or who knows what. Then, I'm trying to get back up to speed and merge all while pulling a 21' boat.  It's just a pain.   It was worth the $12.25 to not have to deal with it.

That's sweet!

It's sad, too, because these are accidents that can truly be avoided.   Hunt smart, y'all!

The local VA office has the capability to do them.

The only voices I see in this thread are white ones.