RobertNashville

Did anyone say it wasn't?

I've always enjoyed and still use the KJV but I do believe the NIV is a more accurate translation.   if memory serves me, the NIV was translated from the most "original/oldest" documents we now have available (although the actual "discrepencies" between the oldest documents compared to the more recent ones; such as was used in the time of the KJV, is minor)...anyway, I had the privilege of actually knowing and spending a good amount of time with one of the team of scholars who produced the NIV (this was some 309+ years ago)...if he is any indication of the integrity, honesty and intelligence of the rest of the team I'm pretty confident that the NIV is an excellent translation.   All that said, there is a lot to be said to research some of the original language; English, for all its complexity, just doesn't always do justice to/encompass perfectly the same thought found in the original Hebrew/greek.

I don't believe it; there were only 9 witnesses...a shot like that needs at least 10 witnesses to be true. ;)

Well of course; that's why you have to keep moving around!  :)

Privacy is a myth...the only thing that makes proxy services, etc. "private" is if the government doesn't care enough to want the information. Everything you put online, look at, search for, post, your geographic position, every phone number you call or calls you...absolutely everything must be assumed to not be private. Who the provider of the service is makes no difference.   You can avoid some of it but really and make other pieces of info more difficult to obtain but unless you are going to live in a cave, are absolutely 100% self sufficient and communicate only using smoke signals it's pretty impossible to actually avoid the information/tech-age we live in.

???   I'm not so sure it doesn't affect anyone but even if that was true, I'd bet that fully half of what we talk about here doesn't affect anyone here.

That could be as I have limited experience with buying a firearm at a Pawn Shop...the only time I ever did was an M1 Garand but that was from a pawn broker who knew very well/was friends with.   Most of what I've bought from shops has been watches, jewelry and electronics.

It looks a lot like the first shotgun my Dad bought me (as opposed to letting me use one of his!)...mine was a Savage...I think we paid about $35 for it at a department chain store local to Ohio called "Buckeye Mart". :)

I think you can negotiate a great deal at a Pawn Shop if you know...truly know what the item is worth.   Of course it doesn't work every time and if the owner/salesman won't negotiate then he won't negotiate but there is always tomorrow. Or in other words, patience pays off. :)   I would suggest that where most people screw up is that they either don't know what the real value is or they are uncomfortable with/don't know how to negotiate.!

As it stands right now I'll still be driving around Illinois when traveling; no matter how many additional miles that adds to a trip. However, I certainly see this as a step in the right direction and hope that eventually, there will be reciprocity between TN and IL.   I do miss some of the restaurants I used to frequent when I have been there. ;)

Depending on the order you want to put them in, I believe that would be Romania and two other countries all on the same day (connected to WW2).

Good for her...I can't help but wonder exactly where the buckshot (or whatever was in the shotgun) went to??? :)   I think she is also a bit fortunate that 1) she didn't hit anyone she shouldn't have and 2) that she wasn't charged like the former marine in Oregon was recently...maybe the DA's office in Knoxville is a little more practical about such things!

Was it really all his fault?   Didn't it take a majority of both houses to pass whatever legislation he had his name on?   And who voted for all those blowhards and put them in those houses in the first place?   If we are going to start pointing fingers there are plenty of targets to point at, including ourselves. ;)

Pointing the firery death hole end of a pistol at a target, pulling the trigger and hitting the target isn't rocket science either yet people screw that up all the time, even not under stress...add real stress to the situation and it happens a lot more.   Remove pistol and insert shotgun and you get the exact same thing; in the case of shotguns, stress will often materialize as short-stroking the gun   I think the other caution with shotguns is that a lot of people just assume that they know how to operate one in a life and death self-defense situation...people need to go through training on using a shotgun as a home defense weapon at least as much as they need training on their other weapons. Unfortunately the shotgun often gets overlooked or pushed to the back of the training "to do" list . 

Do not  some of those rights, per our Constitution, include the right to hold different opinions and the right to try and and change things if they feel they should?   :shrug:   I'm not going to hate a person nor celebrate that person's death just because he held substantially different political positions on issues...I suppose in part because I don't think doing so is healthy (mentally or physically) and also because holding grudges; especially against the dead, is such a phenomenal waste of time!

I bought a Ruger Mark 22/45 and a Ruger SR22 late last fall knowing I would give one to my 12 year old niece, I decided to keep the SR22 but I've shot her 22/45 quite a bit when we've gong shooting and it's a great pistol....different enough from the usual Mark series but different enough that I think you would enjoy it.   And hey, if you don't, I'd be you wouldn't have ANY trouble selling it and getting something else. ;)

I don't really care what other's motives are (people or countries)...I only care and I'm only responsible for my own motives (and by extension, the motives of my country).

Absolutely.   My security system is always armed; as is my four-legged early warning system and cameras in strategic places...a handgun within arms reach in every major room in my house; a 12 gauge and my 5.56 in my bedroom at night.   As soon as I get a moat filled with sharks with f'ikin lasers on their heads I'll be all set.

Of course I am...I've said 5.56 HD ammo...ammo manufactured specifically for home defense purposes; surely no one though I was talking about perpetrator ammo???  :)

He's a politician seeking his next elected office; that's pretty much all you need to know about him.   As such, he's unlikely to be passionately for or against anything or be willing to take a stand on any principle because when a politician does so there is always a political price to pay (at least politicians think there is).   I've met him and talked with him...he's a a very personable guy...overall I suspect he's a pretty good guy on most fronts but I wish he would go back to just being a business man and leave governing to someone who has some real core principles.

It's not a matter of being beholden to anyone; it's a matter of doing what is right simply because it is right....it's true whether you are talking about a country on the world statge or your next-door neighbor.   I'm sure the founders you mentioned were happy to have the help of the allies we had in our first civil war (usually called the Revolutionary War).

You can argue the physics of it if you wish but there are plenty of actual, controlled experiments that show that 5.56 for HD will not penetrate as far as  buckshot shotgun loads.

I'm not sure why you want to keep arguing this with me...In any case, unless you are hiding some credentials as a world-wide acknowledged and respected historical expert and scholar on  WW2 and Hitler I'll stick to what I've spent a few decades learning about WW2.    :hat:  

Sorry...I didn't buy that stuff when RP was selling it and I don't buy it now. Hand in hand?  I'm not sure what that really means in this context but what I am sure of is that our fiscal problems, which are massive, and our tax system which is intrusive and confiscatory would not be impacted in any significant amount even if we closed all our overseas bases, stopped all foreign aid and never involved ourselves in anything outside of our own shores.   What happens to my next door neighbor does impact me whether I like it or not; what happens to/in other countries, especially those who are our allies, impacts the U.S....we cannot ignore that and if we do we don't deserve any of God's blessings.

He would have had all the resources he needed without our intervention not to mention time to develop weapons that would have obliterated our military capability. Hitler was not just going to stop and be a good little dictator after taking Europe and the only reason we aren't speaking German today as our primary language is because we got involved as early as we did.