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I've watched the State of the Union address nearly every year for as long as I can remember. I don't think I can stomach it this year. Probably going to sit it out and get caught up on "Justified".

You can't fix stupid!

Maybe it's just me, but I believe that taxes for EVERY American should be easy enough for a middle schooler to understand, be no more than two pages long, but preferably only one page, and take less than 15 minutes to complete. And if the government wants us to pay the taxes, they should make the software freely available to ALL taxpayers and we shouldn't have to PAY to file. I don't understand why the free online version is available only for the taxpayers that have the easiest forms. The reality of the free online version, is that it is pretty simple to do those taxes with a basic 1040 form where you transfer the info from your W2 and sign the bottom.   I don't know how or why it got so complicated to do taxes.   /rant

We started buying rental property a few years ago and I thought taxes would be difficult so I went to H & R, thinking they knew what they were doing. They charged me about three hundred bucks for everything. Later that year I bought a book ontax deductions for landlords and chapter one was on depreciation of basis. H&R completely forgot to do this on my taxes. I called them on it and they made it right. I went with them again the nex year and made sure they did it right, but realized I was telling them how to do their job. Last year I saw that turbo tax has an online edition for landlords so I tried it and it wss very easy. And it was only $80. I plan to use it again this year.

Wasn't there a young boy present with him at the signing of Obamacare too?   Think about that. It was a historic moment, and he knew that a picture would capture it and be displayed in history books, the media and the internet FOREVER. No matter what people say about him in the future, he will always look like a benevolent, caring leader

So Al not only sells his company to the mouthpiece of our enemies, but they are also backed by Big Oil, which Al has always been ethically opposed to. I also heard that he successfully pushed to close the deal in time to avoid the hike in the capital gains tax imposed by Obama Care, even though he is on record of saying that the wealthy need to pay their fair share.   There is also a rumor that Glen Beck offered to purchase it, and Gore wouldn't even entertain the idea. I guess he likes terrorists better than conservatives.   Al Gore is a disgusting hypocrite.

The Ocoee does not run this time of year, but Blue Ridge is a nice area.

Well, maybe they ought to stop selling footballs out of respect for Jovan Belcher's girlfriends family after he killed her. I'm sure someone must have gotten bludgeoned with a baseball bat or a golf club this year, maybe they should not sell those either.    It's stupid really. Someone is going to purchase those guns, it's not like they stopped anything. They just ended up making a former customer really angry. If they really wanted to show they had conviction, they would refund the money and have the rifles destroyed.

We went yesterday at about 4:00 PM and were able to walk right up to the ticket booth. It was pretty crowded at first, but started thinning out quickly.   I saw very little in the way of "Evil Black Rifles". There were only a few AR style rifles, and they were all int he $1800-$2400 range. I think I saw one AK, and it was an overpriced pistol variant.   It looked like it would be a good show if you are looking for a handgun, hunting rifle, or reloading supplies, but if you are looking for AR parts, forget it.

There is a cigar shop over near West Town Mall called Smokey's that has a back room for folks with a membership. I know someone from work who is a member, and he says they have a nice lounge with beer and big screens playing whatever sports channel you want. I don't know the cost of the membership. I've been in the store part and it is quite nice.   I think there is a similar store in Farragut too.

I started smoking the occasional cigar a few years ago, but discovered that I like the taste and smell of a pipe a whole lot more. Plus, my wife would run for the hills when I had a cigar, but she actually enjoys the smell of my pipe. So, now I smoke a cigar every once in a while, but smoke the pipe several times a week.

Don't know where it is, but I saw the YouTube clip of Obama mentioning the White House online petition for enacting gun ban legislation. I guess they like them when they lean their way.

Well, I guess it's better than Kerry for Secretary of Defense. I'm guessing he'll sail right through Senate confirmation.

I saw him too. I always though Geraldo was Fox's "balanced" part of Fair and Balanced. These days I think he is just part of the fair and Nutjob-ish. His reasoning for banning hi-cap magazines was that instead of killing 20 people, he could have only killed 15, and "Isn't it worth having a ban if it saves just 5 people?" I mean seriously, you think being restricted to 10 round magazines is going to stop anyone? They just carry extra magazines and reload. Since it is a "Gun Free Zone" a bad-guy is guaranteed nobody will fire back, and everyone will be so shell-shocked and panic stricken, it's doubtful anyone would try to attack him during the few seconds it takes to reload.   Geraldo also said he is a NRA member, and displayed his membership card, then said if the NRA's Wayne LaPierre does not give in to some kind of concessions and call for a ban on certain types of guns, he will publicly shred his membership card.   I'd be very surprised if Wayne accepts any kind of ban.

My question is: is the 21st the last day of the Mayan calendar? If so, tomorrow is not the day we should be worried about, it's Saturday. That's the first day of nothing.

I called one of our local shops yesterday to see if they had any AR's, the lady on the phone said "No". I asked when they would be getting any in and she said "Never." I asked "Never, like till next year, or never ever?" She said "Never ever" and hung up.   Don't know if they were just frustrated or defeated, but wow.

Leave the door ajar, or tape over the latch, when they kick the door it will fly open. Now it's breaking and entering, or a home invasion. The cops will be much more interested at this point.   But seriously, the game camera is the best idea.

I recently bought a new radio for the truck, and it came with one of those USB ports. I found a 16gb USB flash drive, that is really short. In fact the usb plug portion is about twice as long as the body part of it. It sticks out from the radio about a 1/4 inch, so it actually looks like it is part of the radio.The best part is no wires anywhere.   Anyway, I've got about 100 albums on there, after removing some of the songs I don't care for from each album, plus a large folder of one hit wonders. Then I just put the player on random. Every song is one I like and I rarely hear a song repeat. I call it Dave-FM to my wife.

Did anyone else notice that the final scene this season was very similar to the final scene of last? Last year it ended with Jax seated at the table and Tara standing behind him, almost as if she said "I'm on board and behind you". This season, it ended with Jax seated at a table and Gemma standing behind him, like she was back at her rightful place. I had a feeling that Tara was going to go to jail somehow.I didn't think Gemma would really rat her out though. Seems like too much of a risk. I'm actually sorry to see Pope go. I thought he was a good villain, and this show needs them. Pope had lots to teach Jax about mixing the criminal element with being a standup citizen. Holy cow! I can't get the image of Otto laughing with a bloody mouth out of my head. That was some crazy stuff right there. I thought it was interesting how the cop changed this season. Last season he was a hard nose about everything. This season he had softened and almost had a wink wink nod kind of relationship with Jax. Bet that's how Unser started out with the club.

[quote name='Slasher' timestamp='1354901099' post='856517'] The only issue I have with cell phone only is at that point then everyone has your cell number. It seems with a "home" phone that telemarketers and the like could call that number and that would keep them off my cell. Please correct me if that is wrong. [/quote] I've mentioned this several times on this site, but a Google Voice number will work for you here. The number is free, and is yours for life (or until they discontinue the service). They way it works is, you set up the account and enter any phone numbers you like. When anyone calls the Google number, all of the phones you entered in the account ring at once. Whichever one you pick up is the one the call gets routed to. Then give out the Google Voice number to business, or people that might sell it to tellemarketers. If any of them get out of hand, you can block their number. You can also set up times that it will forward to your phones. So, make the latest a call will be forwarded at like 6:00 and you'll never hear from telemarketers after that time. You can also set up groups, like family or friends that always get routed to your phones, no mater the time. You can also set up groups of numbers that always go to voice mail, You can also use it to place long distance calls for the price of a local call. If you call the Google number from any of your phones, it recognizes that, and gives you a menu of options. One of them is to place a long distance call. You enter the number and Google places the call on your behalf. But, all you've done is make a local call.

I use VMware Player to run a virtual Windows 7 machine on my computer. I installed the O/S and all updates and an antivirus on the VM. Other than that, it is a plain install. Then I set the virtual disk to be non-persistent. What this does is when I power off the VM, any changes that happened on the drive are completely forgotten and erased. It rolls back to just like the day I first set it up. I use this VM to browse websites, especially ones I don't trust. Also use it to test out freeware that I may download from the net. Then if anything gets onto the VM, I just power it down and restart it and it's like it never happened.

[quote name='Chucktshoes' timestamp='1354670514' post='855014'] 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] Man, I hope they didn't make the manager do the firing. If they told me to do it, I'd say "screw that, you come and do it yourself. He just saved my life". or maybe even, "when you come down to fire him, bring a new store manager with you too, cause we'll walk out together"

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/03/veterans-gun-rights-sticking-point-in-defense-bill/ This makes me so mad. This coming from a Congress that has no clue about how to properly manage finances. They have not had a budget in years, and have overspend our treasury like drunken sailors. And they think others should be stripped of their rights because they can't balance a check book.

I think I saw a sign in one of the local Christian bookstores that said they could rebind bibles.

I have a feeling this is being blown up because it was her "Service Weapon". Had it been a personally owned handgun there probably wouldn't have been as much of a to do. Stupid all the same, a gun is a gun.