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Yep. and it's 530 miles by Google Maps from Atlanta to Richmond, so yeah, they went about 500 miles from Georgia to Richmond.   The only thing game-changing about it is that they're back on the road again. Kirkman said in the Talking Dead that they'll be getting desperate as things like food and clean water run out. That's good.   Season 1: on the road = awesome Season 2: wandering around the woods for 3 weeks followed by sitting on the farm = suck Season 3: Sitting in a prison in a spitting contest with a town = suck Season 4: Getting sick in the prison followed by burning it down and a walk to another "shelter" at Terminus = suck followed by not bad Season 5 so far: Terminus....hiding in a church near Terminus....a nearly zombie-free Atlanta = suck   The only really good episodes in season 2-5 have been when they're on the move. Season 1 was almost all on the move which made it great. It looks like they're on the move for much of the second half of this season, so I'm holding out hope.

I'd be surprised to know that I wasn't being videotaped. That includes an LGS. Most have security video aimed at the door and the register if not the whole sales floor.

They're videotaping you from the moment you enter their parking lot until the moment you leave. The real questions are how long do they keep their surveillance video and do they keep it longer from the sporting goods register?

  Me too. After I posted that clip I walked down the hall and couldn't stop laughing. My wife thinks I'm a crazy person.

  That's fantastic!   For those unfamiliar, this is a number 6. Language is NSFW.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM-lxsxeXBI

Come on now. You know you need a $200 used HiPoint 9 with a cracked grip.

That reads like a veritable "Who's who" of a police buy-back day.

  Quoting myself to add:   Ukraine got humped and dumped like a cheap whore. They counted on Russia to stay out of their borders and counted on the US and the UK to enforce that. What they failed to realize is that Ukraine really isn't that important to the US or the UK and certainly wouldn't go to open war with Russia over them. They failed to see that Russia wouldn't stay in the disarray that followed the break-up of the USSR and would come looking to reassert their dominance in the future. They seemingly also forgot that Russia is a permanent member of the UN security council and would veto any resolution against themselves.   Getting rid of their nukes was still likely the right thing to do, but they should have negotiated a much stronger treaty with the US. I'm glad they didn't. I don't think we need to be getting involved in their war. We wouldn't win that and won't win the economic one Obama is trying to wage because we don't have leverage on the Russian economy. Europe does, but they're not going to hurt themselves to help Ukraine. Ukraine has to solve this by themselves. They sat there for almost 14 years with that Russian shadow growing and failed to build a strong enough conventional military deterrent or to diversify their economy enough that they could hurt Russia more than themselves by shutting down oil and gas pipelines.   They had to know that at some point Russia would make a play on Crimea, if not their eastern flank. Historical "ownership" of Crimea as part of Russia is just a load of crap. Russia wasn't going to continue to let its warm water port and home to it's large southern naval fleet be sitting in a foreign country whose eyes were on the west.

  That's why I DVR it and FFwd through the commercials. I can start watching the episode about 15-20 minutes after it starts and I end up finishing pretty close to real-time.

  Not exactly. You're thinking of the Budapest Memorandum which says we (plus Russia and the UK) would provide "security assurances" in exchange for nuclear non-proliferation. "Security assurances" in geo-political treaties is not the same thing as "direct military action" as we have with NATO signatories. It can mean sanctions against an aggressor, or hosting peace talks, or supplying humanitarian aid, etc.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances

If you didn't notice Metalhead's signature line, he's at Guns & Leather. 615.643.4865. Good shop, good prices, and good people.

  I don't disagree that communism is anti American. But who gets to decide what "communist" is? Certainly a card-carrying member of the American Communist Party who wear's Che shirts is. But what about a union worker? Is he a "communist"? What about someone who thinks universal healthcare is a good idea? Is she a "communist"?       As far as ole Joe only being tied to communism, you might want to read up a bit about his "Lavender Scare" witch hunt on homosexuals. It was in many ways more effective at eliminating his dissenters than his "Red Scare" communist witch hunt. He didn't have to prove anything. Just the stink of an investigation into being red or gay at that time was enough to sideline nearly any career. I suppose crucifying gays was as close as he could get to the moral high ground considering his heavy dependence on alcohol. People in glass houses and all that.

Guns and Leather. They're also a TGO Vendor. Locations in Hendersonville and Greenbrier.   I have also used Goodlettsville Gun Shop and would do so again.

  But who gets to decide what's "anti-American"? Obviously a dude with a bomb-vest yelling "death to America!" is anti-American, but it's rarely that easy to determine.   Example: A person supporting gay marriage says it's equal protection under the law. Standing against it is anti-American. A person against gay marriage says it's immoral and degardes the societal fabric of our nation and goes against the traditional Christian heritage of our nation. To support it is anti-American.*   McCarthy set himself up as the sole decider of what/who is and isn't anti-American and that in and of itself is very un-American. The goal was good, but that much power tends to corrupt and it ended up like LagerHead said. you didn't have to be a communist or a homosexual. all you had to do was disagree with Joe and he'd investigate you for one or the other. Even when the investigation turned up nothing, that stink stays around a long time.       *Just an example....let's not beat that particular horse into glue.

  They said it's OK unless you hold it sideways in your off hand. The manner in which you use it makes the difference.

There are douchenozzles on the Interwebz. News at 11.       Are you saying that censorship is the right way to handle speech with which you disagree?

It also sounds like the OP's contractor got some of his stuff back for $40 and can go about his day. Not right, but probably still more cost effective than taking time away from the job site to file reports and meet with a detective, etc.   Sometimes it doesn't pay to be right.

I've wondered how well a barge train might actually work. It's not something that would last a hundred years, but would it be workable? Could someting like this support enough food/fuel to be self-sustaining for the number of people needed to operate it? Any normal person wouldn't be able to have it prepared ahead of time, but if you survived the initial waves, would it be a viable option?   http://www.thehighdefinite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/md_board.jpg

Does anyone know why Rutherford and Bedford are special?

The background kid sitting on his desk in the top center of Pic1 looks like Boyd on Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing".

  Tags yes, court proceedings no. 1350 doesn't apply to off-duty LEO attending judicial proceedings.

If it's easily identifiable as his, then I would think he should file a stolen property report against the scrapyard. If the local PD won't get involved, would the TBI or State Police be the next stop?

  Sort of.   1350 says LEO can't carry off-duty in schools during regular school hours unless they immediately notify the principal (or aother admin if principal isn't available). If this bill passes, we'd have to do the same. I suppose after hours parent-teacher meetings would be OK, but that's sort of splitting hairs about "regular school hours".

I'd pay you double that.   :D

I'll take it. PM inbound.           :D   That's gorgeous. What's the story on it?