Rightwinger

I beeped when I passed your place of employment the other day ZZR! Did you hear me? LOL Very sweet bike!

And that is why there are plantiffs doctors and defense doctors. The formulas you refer to are designed to fairly determine when the claimant has reached maximum medical recovery and then determine if there should be further benefits awarded. My problem, as stated was his doctor, his lawyer and he all said he was totally disabled. He had said so in a deposition, he stated so on the stand and my video totally disproved it yet he still got his life taken care of. He is probably now working somewhere under the table on a cash basis and receiving his check. Its a mill of lies and deceit. Your case is probably what the laws were designed for. If you have a permanent injury then I guess some compensation may be forthcoming but as a proponent of self determination and reliance I don't see where an employer should be responsible for more than providing a safe work environment. If a farmer has his cattle step on him who provides for his welfare? Somewhere, sometime, America is going to have to remember we are all ultimately responsible for our own lives and responsible for the choices we make. Next week I go to trial on a case where a magic healing occured everytime this person got into their car. They would hobble back from the doctors office on crutches and the miracle occured in their apartment complex parking lot. They would get out, put crutches in the trunk and MIRACLE, they could walk normally until the next Dr.s appointment. Why this is even going to trial is beyond me. Defense has released my video to them but they are going to take the chance that something will go their way. What do they have to loose? We don't go after folks for frivolous law suits like we should. I bet if they knew they would be on the hook for about 40K in fees (mine and both attorneys plus paying back all the temporary benefits already paid) they wouldn't have filed in the first place. Ya think??

Carlings Black Label and PBR were the low end beers for us growing up. I do recall a memorable beer as a bunch of us got into beer can collecting back in the 70s. I was called Ole Frothingslosh and had pictures of large ladies on them. Sort of a novelty but the beer was actually pretty good. Mike speaks of church keys and such but for the collector, the flat top cans were good, but we wanted the real fortunes. Cone tops ! Yep, first beers in cans had regular bottle tops to seal them and looked like oil cans. Anywho, there is lightning in the area and I got to sign off.

Well damn, and I thought everything on the internet was real! This one is real folks, I was there, testified and heard the judgment. Caught a totally disabled fellow in the Chattanooga TN area replacing the underpinning on his trailer and he also was able to mow the lawn and drive around town to get parts for said trailer. He gets on the stand and says "I can't do nothing". I get on the stand and let the video say otherwise. Judge says that although the claimant could apparently do more than he had stated (in most places its called perjury), that since he had only a 5th grade education and because of his age (50s) he would not be able to maintain his current lifestyle based on the income he was making when he was "allegedly" injured at work. He was awarded lifetime medical benefits, I won't state the monetary settlement, and walked out smirking at me! What the FRACK does his education matter when he claims injury at work and then has it disproven! The answer: judges get elected from the local populace...if you keep them happy they vote for you again...and insurance companies have deep pockets. Ever wonder why your premiums keep going up even though you haven't had a claim with your company (like me).

I think if you put a poll up here and the haters didn't come out in droves you would find that most prefer the FOX version of NASCAR. I'm just the opposite and find the 2nd half of the season almost unbearable when NBC takes over. TNT would do better than them. Weber and has been/never was Wally Dallenbach just don't add as much as the Fox boys since they really have been there and done that. My 2 cents and worth every bit of it.

So you like the lower quality version of NASCAR eh Mike?

I thought the shrub (Kyle Busch) was out of it but the little turd is on his way back to the front. Little E gets his usual dose of bad luck and is out. Truex caught up in a wreck and out. At this point I gotta root for the 31 Jeff Burton as he is the only non whiner, pro driver left at the front. Stewart is a nut case and Kasey Khane just does good commercials ! Anyone got good pics of the Dodge girls who always wreck Casey's car? That would be some decent BOTD

The Full Metal Jacket DVD case was a nice touch! Nice 1911.

I have a problem with some of the methods of this as well. 1. I have never been called. But being a Private Investigator (now part time) I have testified too many times to count and seen the jurys they pick. Also, I have only testified at workers comp and accident cases so my view of other types of cases is limited. 2. The Voir Dire (selection process) is supposed to give both sides a fair shake at getting un biased jury, however, in my opinion, its still weighted to the wrong side. Self Employed folks who understand small business are generally not on a jury. Company management generally don't make it in. Prior service law enforcement, nope. What you get is a mixture of older folk who are retired...no problem here AND those who are NOT working! They have the time. Why are they not working. Some are on disability! Why would you want someone who is disabled and probably thinks they deserve more than they got deciding for someone else! Terminally unemployable folks....yep, they can't hold a job so they have the time to sit in on one of these cases. They really hold no bias against corporate America and insurance companies. 3. I think its kind of like what I saw happening in the service all those years ago. I hope its changed, but some of the, how should I say this, less than stellar soldiers generally were getting promoted before or ahead of their much better contemporaries. Why? Well when the unit would deploy on extended training or even just during normal garrison duties, the NCO's would allow the "less thans" to go to training to keep them out of their hair so they could handle their squads or platoons! It helped them during those times they didn't want to deal with them but when it came time to stand a board for promotion...dill weed had the extra training points and the good soldiers did not. Now Mr. Platoon SGT has to deal with the dill weed becoming a Spec 4 or buck SGT. I see sort of the same situation applying itself to jury duty. The folks we don't want judging our peers are doing the deed. Here are some recent events to back this up. Do you think your salt of the earth citizens made these awards? In the order I saw them on the web, these are undocumented: 7TH PLACE : Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son. 6TH PLACE : Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps. Go ahead, grab your head scratcher. 5TH PLACE : Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more... 4TH PLACE : Jerry Williams, of Lit tle Rock , Arkansas , garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pel let gun. Grrrrr . Scratch, scratch. 3RD PLACE : Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her&n bsp;$113,500 after she slipped on a spill ed soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? Scratch, scratch, scratch. Hang in there; there are only two more Stellas to go... 2ND PLACE : Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $1 2,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. 1ST PLACE : (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos please) This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual t hat she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set . The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just incase Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home. Are we, as a society, getting more stupid...? Ya Think??!! More than a few of our judge's elevators don't go to the top floor either!

INCOMING ! ! They are launching more than T-shirts into the infield today. A tire just went into a camper in the infield at Charlotte. How much for Bunker seats?

Now Joe will have to kill us all for revealing to many details of his assignment. As long as it involved jumping out of perfectly good airplanes I'll be impressed! No, seriously, I too joined in the "elite" mentallity at times when I was wearing the maroon beanie. Funny thing was I was looked at as a sub warrior by the guys in the 82nd because I was not in the division but part of 18th ABN Corps. Worse, I was a Signal Officer so two strikes against me. I in turn looked down at the leg (non airborne persons) support guys until I got assigned as transportation officer of my company and had to work with the service and supply guys to keep things running. Cooks are up before anyone and no one wants to train without eating something. Mechanics keep em running, riggers pack the chutes, armorers check the weapons....goes on and on. They are all needed with our current forces structure and all are HEROs

Reef, A lot of us have let our fingers be our brains and typed something off the cuff and pressed "submit" before our brain caught up. I applaud you for stepping back in and saying it. I'm sure Joe will as well. I have no issues with a State auxillary or such. Joe pretty much laid it all out as it should be. As long as they are not a bunch of Mall Ninja's recruting IQ level 20s and then paintballing until they get their real stuff on, I'm good with it.

Never priced Buffalo against the standard factory loads. If your not getting huge velocity gains (without losing your expansion) then IMHO its not worth paying for a name. If you really want consistent loads you can trust, get into hand loading and roll your own. I just buy bullets and powder now for everything I own except my sons 30-30. I'll probably get dies for that sometime but we just don't shoot it enough yet to even generate enough brass to make it worth it. Get a box of each and do some comparison of accuracy, weight retention (shoot into wet newspapers and magazines) and then weigh the costs of each. You'll know what you want then.

Both the Remy 300 and 405 grain JHPs are fantastic deer stoppers for this caliber. I use the 300s in my AR platformed 458 Socom and the energy transfer is pretty amazing with 90% retention of mass. Looking at the Remy site they don't offer the 405 in HP but the soft point. I used to shoot the .444 Marlin with soft points and they were great short and medium range rounds as well. I think either the 300 JHP or the 405 SP would do you. Sorry, I missed you did NOT want to handload at first. http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/centerfire/core-Lokt.asp

That was amazing. True marksmanship

I think it was one each. Apache = Spray Insurgent = Pray (just a short one) And Rightwinger = Hooray

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Aint no fun playing if we all spelled it rite all the time now would it Boom:) I was just joshing ya. (Hope I didn't offend any Josh's out there, don't know why you all would be tagged as ignorant:stir:

What are you trying to say Boom??? G IT Do we gotta leave?

It lives again?

Its worth a try! I took the TN Hunters Safety course back in the 70s and wanted to hunt at Ft. Gordon, GA when I was in the service. They mandated that you have taken a safety course as well. I called up TWRA and they sent me one gratis! Won't be nothing but an email or a call to try. If not, take the course, I went through it again when my son took his and its not bad.

There WERE cougars in Tennessee. My father has seen and heard them in Wayne Co. back in the 40s and 50s. Easy to recognize, if you hear what sounds like a woman being hacked up roaring in the night air, that would be your 6 foot bobcat! I took a pot shot at a bob a few years back with my bow while deer hunting. He had been trying to catch some turkey based on the cackle storm that went up down in the valley below my stand. He came skulking up the hill and right underneath me without ever knowing I was there. I drew and shot almost straight down. That sucker did a 6 foot bouncing backward launch, spun on his heels and ran 20 yards before stopping to look back at what had smacked the ground next to him. Missed him by that much.......anyway, he wandered off and I never found my arrow. Burrowed all the way in and disappeared. Pretty amazing to watch no matter.

The serious heat has turned a little cooler on ARFCOM. Just since we are posting updates and all.