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^^^LMAO at all you jokers. At least I hope you're joking. :rofl:

  The free market at work. Ain't it a beautiful thing? 

We really need a conspiracy theory subforum for...stuff...like this. Anyone want to volunteer as a SME?  :rofl:

  Me too. I'll hit you up for a game. 

How sad that this even has to be addressed. 

The more I think about it the more I laugh. That was awesome. 

Congrats man. I hope you had a chance to say goodbye to your old friend sleep. But all the lost sleep is worth it when you raise a child that becomes a decent adult. 

Good luck. We just went through 2 months of searching before we found a car for my daughter that didn't involve a rebuilt title. And of course there was only "minor damage" to each of them, which explains why the insurance company totalled it, right?  :squint: We finally had to stop looking on craigslist and go to a dealer but we did end up with a pretty nice deal. 

You will be assimilated. 

I think there is more archaeological evidence than is hinted at in the article that beer was the reason we moved to farming. There are beer vessels that have been found that predate the earliest known bread recipes by at least a couple thousand years. Some even credit beer with the invention of the wheel and bookkeeping. There are very early records of beer distribution to support this theory.    In addition beer was used to pay the workers who built the pyramids. Early Egyptian beer recipes produced (or included ingredients that contained) tetracycline 2,000 years before its discovery as an antibiotic by modern medicine.   Beer helped contain the spread of disease during the plague because you were forced to boil the water in it to make it.   Beer helped bring about the modern age of industrialization as bottling beer was one of its first uses.   In short, beer is definitely the most important invention in the history of mankind, bar none. 

  Awesome observation. Inflation is called "the hidden tax" because it is a way for the government to get more of your taxes without passing a law to do so. 

  When the economy crashes commodities will definitely increase in value. It won't necessarily be monetary value but having some meat will definitely trump having a leather couch.      Agreed to a point. But the gold of today will always be gold. The value of gold has remained pretty much constant for a couple thousand years now. There hasn't been found a single commodity against which you can so accurately and consistently measure the value of goods yet. While guns, ammo, food, etc. will definitely have an intrinsic value that will increase in a financial collapse scenario its value will always be able to be measured against that of gold, and people will always take gold in trade for any of the above.      You need to come to downtown Nashville and tell that to the people who used to own property where that money pit they call a convention center now sits. 

This is happening worldwide. It is not an American, a Colorado, or even a California phenomenon. The Socialists are patient and whether you like to think it or not they are smart. They already have control of the language and the world financial markets (IMF, World Bank, Federal Reserve). So it's really not a question of "if" it can happen. It's already happened. 

In case you're not aware, the Kimber line uses the "II" to indicate that it is their equivalent to a Series 80 1911, e.g. Kimber Ultra Carry II. If it's for carry I wouldn't do a non II version but of course that's just me. I love my Kimber.  

  Well yea, I guess you could do that if you want to take all the fun out of it. ;)

This is how they raise money to do things like fight the cities of Chicago and Washington, D.C. in the Supreme Court to affirm our right to keep weapons. It's much harder for them to successfully fight these anti-freedom zealots in court than it is for us to create an email filter that sends these messages to the trash. 

  Don't let them? It seems to be a job requirement at NBC.

Regardless of what happens I will not change my shopping habits. I have a decent relationship with a fairly knowledgeable guy at my local liquor store. He even recognized my wife when she called to ask a question. It's a lot easier to drop a good bit of dough on a bottle when you know you're getting service based on what you like rather than somebody who hardly knows there even IS a wine section let alone the difference between northern Italian wines and Napa Valley wines. 

  I'm afraid you have more faith in humanity than I do. I seem to remember the people re-electing Obama. That pretty much sealed my opinion of the masses.

  There's not really anything to enforce. It just creates a special class of criminal because as we all know being killed with a gun is much much worse than being killed with a knife or a car. If you're killed with a gun you're not just dead, you're super-secret-double-indemnity-with-a-side-of-fries dead. And nobody wants to be that dead.

Did my basic at Ft. Jackson, SC. I believe my company was A 1/28 but don't quote me. It was directly across the street from the rappel tower. I got a week's leave before heading to language school at the Defenese Language Institute and Foreign Language Center in Monterey, CA. After a year there I headed to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX for AIT. That's right, I started AIT when I had been in the Army for 17 months. I finally hit my first duty station 22 months after I stepped off the bus in Ft. Jackson, SC. Ahh, lovely Camp Hovey, Korea. It's lovely at...well, no time.    From Korea I went to Airborne school and then to 2nd Bn, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) in beautiful Ft. Lewis, WA. Had a great time there before heading back to the land of the morning mist at Camp Essayons, about 1.5 miles east of Camp Red Cloud, Korea. ETS from Korea in 1997.   My best memories are all about how people bonded in the military. The folks in your squad, on your team, in your platoon, whatever, generally had your back. There was the occasional "Blue Falcon" of course but for the most part they were good people. I also appreciate that the military fosters an environment where you can mentor a person (or be mentored by your superiors) in an open and honest fashion, instead of the politically correct way we dance around the real issues here in "real life." I don't miss the pay but I often miss the people. 

Sorry for your troubles JCJ. You hang in there too.

  TMF, anti-gun politicians don't care about the accuracy of their statistics or whether or not their "advice" is realistic (see just about everything Joe Biden has said about guns for a perfect example). If they did they would acknowledge the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' word on this.    Percent of people injured during a robbery and resisting with a knife: 40.3% Percent of people injured during an assault and resisting with a knife: 29.5% Percent of people injured using non-violent resistance during a robbery: 35.9% Percent of people injured using non-violent resistance during an assault: 25.5% Percent of people injured doing nothing during a robbery: 24.7% Percent of people injured doing nothing during an assault: 27.3% Percent of people injured resisting with a gun during a robbery: 17.4% Percent of people injured resisting with a gun during an assault: 12.1%

I know a couple of people that have the Sig and love it. It's a pretty stout (read heavy) 1911 and as far as 1911s go seems to be fairly enjoyable to shoot. Neither has had any issues of which I am aware. If I was in the market for a 1911 I might have jumped on that purchase too. (A friend of mine sent me the flyer for it). 

    Minor or not, I think he still deserves the beer. :D