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  This, times a million. That's EXACTLY how a center lane is supposed to be used when entering a traffic flow.

  Korean taxis are wild. I know the official reason for the color code is to indicate the niceness of the cab, but I think it really means how fast they go. Silver = hyperspeed. Black = Ludicrous speed. Out in the countryside and see a blue one? DO NOT GET IN THAT THING!!!!!   I think the bus ride up a wet, narrow, muddy mountain road to Baguio, Philippines takes the cake for me. Guardrails? What are those? More than 30 years later, I still find bits of seat cover when I crap.

Let's see if old J.J. can keep the lens flares to a minimum.     The first time I got to see ROTJ was in Manila. We were stationed at Kadena on Okinawa and had gone over to the P.I. on vacation. It wasn't overdubbed, but it was subtitled in Filipino. I remember thinking it was funny seeing double subtitles whenever Jabba or Bib Fortuna spoke.

Guns & Leather does them occasionally. Give them a call to see when their next one is scheduled. 615-504-1373

  Are you thinking of Kyp Durron pulling the Sun Crusher out of Yavin?     ....and hand me that mop.

That's an SBR.                     Spear Bullet Rifle

FYI - the trailer for the new movie will be paired up with the release of The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

1. Jar Jar sucks more than whiny Luke because he's a moron. Luke's an inexperienced farm hand who wants to see the galaxy. He's over excited on the Falcon when things get tense, but he's not a blithering idiot. Jar Jar is a blithering idiot.\   2. The light and sometimes subtle verbal sparing between C-3PO, R2-D2, Han, Luke, and Chewy is funny. The slapstick comedy of Jar Jar is not funny.   3. Han shooting first is critical. It establishes that he's, at best, a neutral character on the good-evil scale, and at worst downright dangerous. Tatooine is the first time we meet Han. Luke and Ben are hiring this guy and he just blasted a hole in Greedo. What are they getting themselves into? Rewriting the scene later because we want Han to always be a "good guy" misses the mark. He's a selfish scoundrel when they find him. To make him something else diminshes the journey he has to make for himself from that guy in the cantina to General Solo of the Rebel Alliance. Greedo letting Han get the drop on him just shows how inept Greedo was at the bounty hunting job. I don't think the same thing would have happened if it had been Bossk, IG-88, or Boba Fett in the cantina.   4. CGI has its place, but it's not great for living things yet. Puppet Yoda in V and VI is a little stiff and lacks the fine muscle movements of a real living thing, but it is "real" in the sense that it actually exists. The way the light plays off the puppet is the same way it plays off every other real object on the set. CGI yoda has more realistic fine movements (except for the crazy lightsaber fights designed by a 7 year old) but loses the presence of actually being in the shot. Changing the ghosts was just stupid. All of the others are still as old as they were when they died. How come Ben gets stuck in Sir Alec Guiness' body instead of Ewan McGregor's, but Darth Vader gets to go back to being young again? Much like cheapening the redemption of Han by having him shoot second, this cheapens the redemption of Anakin by Luke. It says "Darth Vader never happened. I get to go back to being the good guy I was before that darkness" rather than saying "I survived being Darth Vader and have returned to being a good man after passing through that darkness."   5. III was the best of the prequels, particularly the final scenes on Mustafar. Agree that H.C. couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. The only thing that ruined the final part of III was the Dr. Frankenstein's monster setup for creating Vader. Cheesy to say the least.

  No, it was to get ahead of the changing political tide and make money in the process.

  LOL!!!! "the Radnor Lake Rambo"

That would explain the 9% proficiency rating in English.

yep. You posted while I was editing. I had that orginally, but then couldn't find anyone quickly with a LEO badge icon to confirm. I saw the little gold star on the blue people one and got myself confused. Oops.   I also changed "retired" to "former"

Blue people = military (current or former) Gold badge = police (current or former) ID card = HCP holder NRA logo = NRA member   They're set by the way you answer the Yes/No questions at the bottom of your user profile.   Directly below the avatar may be a ribbon with the TGO logo and "Benefactor" or "Lifetime Benefactor". If you pay an annual membership fee, you get the Benefactor tag. That gives you access to a super-secret board for benfactors only and the ability to start new threads in the Trading Post boards. Lifetime Benefactors have made a larger one-time payment and no longer need to pay yearly to maintain that access. You may purchase either through the TGO Store tab at the top of the forums.

  I was too busy checking it out that I forgot to take pics. Here's a review from TTAG that has some good photos, including a good one of the bolt compared to a standard AR-15 bolt. Note that the review mentions the lousy trigger. CMMG took note and now offers it with a Geiselle trigger as an option.   http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/12/foghorn/gun-review-cmmg-mk47-mutant-ar-15-7-62x39/

  In a manner of speaking, yes. We're one of the few states that allows no carry at all w/o a permit, yet the permit allows both OC or CC. Many more states allow OC w/o a permit. You'd need a permit to CC in those states, thus the proliferation of the term "CCP"

This story/video has made Drudge. Currently at the bottom of the right-hand column.

I'm still not convinced that it wasn't a grandstanding stunt he meant for killing the bill, only to be stunned when it was accepted, and now coming around to it possibly being the nail in the coffin after all. He's going to come off looking brilliant, but I think he's just lucky.

  but there were at least 4, maybe 5 dozen people at Riverfront Park yesterday for the MDA rally, so that kind of cancels out the NRA.

  I was assuming the giveaways were meant for NRA members who didn't get pre-registered. TGoers who planned to go but then couldn't were trying to do their fellow NRA/TGOers a solid and save them the time in the registration line. As it turned out, the registration lines were never more than about 5 minutes long from what I saw. The NRA has this down to a science.

That's the very definition of "A hot mess"

  4 for me. Surprisingly low.

I was impressed with the CMMG Mk47. That bolt is stout ad the parts fit very well. Seemed like a considerably better 7.62 AR than the one a few booths over at Rock River.

  That was Tootsie's. They also had a large "We are NRA Country" banner fronting their rooftop balcony.

  Leave it to News 2. They found a couple with one strapped on the thigh saying they were skipping the concert at the Bridgestone because they don't allow firearms. Oh....did I mention the pistol was painted up like an American flag (matched the couple's matching shirts) with the Constitution painted on the mag? Just watched it on their 10pm newscast.   Good news was I only saw one person with a CCW badge and not a sash in sight.

+1 to UTG. I was surprised at how much I liked some of their rails, and how light weight they were.   I think I could live in the Benelli booth and be happy. soooo....many....gorgeous......shotguns!