monkeylizard

Robert's Western World.   Also check out The Listening Room Cafe and Station Inn for less party and more focus on the music.   The Brewhouse has great food.

  http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=how+far+is+it+from+mt.+juliet%2C+TN+to+Frozen+Head+State+Park%3F       FYI - The primitive group camp sites can not be reserved. They are first-come-first-served.

  Thanks for reminding me of that. I recind my previous tacit endorsement of The Loveless Cafe.   The stickers are still there. They're clear backgrounds on clear glass, so hard to see. They're also very faded now. Add in all the Food Network, TripAdvisor, and Nashville Scene Readers Poll stickers and they would be easy to miss for someone who didn't know they were there.

Maybe not, but the Fair Housing Act cares about it. It does not care about firearms owners.

The Constitution is about what the federal gov't can and can't do. It's not about what can/can't be done on private property or between private individuals. As a society, it was determined that certain things should also be prohibited between private parties under certain circumstances, thus the CRA and the FHA. Discrimination based on other factors or during other activities between private parties has not been deemed inappropriate by society in the form of laws. As a society, we have not determined that it is in the best interest of our society to prevent discrimination in public areas or certain private transactions against firearms owners.

  Certain things are protected under federal laws like the Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act. Gun ownership is not one of them, but religion, gender, and race are.

  You're basing this on a false premise. Renting an apartment or leasing a car is NOT the same as financing a home or car. If you buy a home or a car you're the owner of that property whether you financed it or not. If you financed it, the bank holds the title because the house or car itself is the collateral for the loan, but you still own it. They simply have an outstanding claim against your property and will exercise that claim if you fail to pay the loan. But it's still your property. Renting or leasing does not transfer ownership.

Frozen Head has the best non-backcountry tent camping of any state park I've found so far. Period. That's my little tent on the right side of D3vo's picture. The primitive group camps are perfect for people who don't want to be next to an RV, 5 feet from another campsite, or carry an 80 lb. pack 5 miles into the woods. It's only about a 1/4 mile walk back to the main camp site for the indoor plumbing and showers. It's the perfect balance between primitive and modern for car-based tent camping.   As far as I've been able to find, it's the only thing like it in all of the State Parks. Some others have "tent only" camping areas, but they're small gravel pads (aka Chickasaw SP) that are relatively close to one another. They're set up like the main RV-centric campgrounds, just without the RVs and electric hookups.   ochretoe...are you listening? We need more primitive small group camps like Frozen Head's.  :)

  Memphis?

+1 to Hwy64 to The Natchez Trace. When you get to the end if the Trace, you'll be at the Loveless Cafe. Bonus. Take Hwy 100 all the way in to downtown from there to stay off I-40.

+1 for GnL.

To be fair, there is some glamorousness shown in the show. Jessie has a big screen TV, giant stereo, X-Box, etc. He bought is grandmas' house with cash. Walt does come off as a badass when he's Heisenberg and he bought Jr. a new Challenger. The Mexican cartel boss has the house, pool, and ladies.   But it's very clear that none of the "stuff" makes either one of them happy. Jessie lost his girlfriend and best friend Combo, then had to push away his latest girlfriend and her kid for their own safety. He's estranged from his parents and doesn't get to see his sister. Except for Walt who is increasingly unstable, Jessie is all alone. Even Skinny Pete and Badger aren't big factors in his life any longer. He started to get along with Mike, only to have Mike tell him he's worthless, then be killed.   Gus killed the cartel boss, so fat lot of good the house, pool, and ladies did for him.   Yeah...I think I'll start cooking up some blue candy 'cause that sounds like the life I want.

You forgot about Jessie's 1984 Toyota Tercel. Maybe that's the glamorous part.

  Promoting both censorship and the American way in one breath. Call me impressed.

Uncle Tio cruising by ringing his bell is hilarious.

How did you get pants and sandals on an owl?

Quite possibly the greatest fan video of all time. http://youtu.be/9nWjNgV_6yc

  Not exactly for the "purpose of homeland defense" but there are plenty of reputable organizations that provide training and opportunities for community volunteering and are active during disasters. Many church denominations have disaster relief arms (Catholic Charities, UMCOR, etc.) that always need volunteers. Some offer training to be early responders. Then you have volunteer fire departments, Civil Air Patrol, The American Red Cross, and as RobertNashville mention, the TN State Guard.

  FIFY!  :hiding:

Fly them enough and you start to hear the same lines from different crews. I've long suspected that SW provides a list of approved jokes like that. My favorite that I heard over 15 years ago now was a song that a crew out of Austin did on occasion on a Nashville to Baltimore leg that I used to fly a lot.   To the tune of the Oscar Mayer weiner song:   Oh I wish I were a honey roasted peanut That's what I think I'd really like to be For if I were a honey roasted peanut Then I could fly on Southwest Air for free.

  This. I still say WestEnd/Vandy is a much better location. Opryland is a restaurant and activity wasteland. Besides the mall, the Opry, and the gardens inside the hotel, there's not much there.   $126/night at the Opryland hotel is a good rate. Pack some Pop-Tarts or you'll be right back to your original price once you pay for breakfast in that place.

I've made the grass smoke a little at Gallatin gun club when I hit an unseen rock that was hiding out at one of the berms. It's very possible, especially in dry conditions. If it had been a really dry time with some wind, I could see that having  gotten out of hand in a hurry.

$550 OTD is a fair price. I consider any more to be overpriced and any less to be a good deal.

  Yeah, this is what I was wondering too. Can't the officers search his locked case without a warrant if they have probable cause? Ballentine's Law Dictionary defines that as a reasonable amount of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong to justify a a prudent and cautious person's belief that certain facts are probably true. I'd say the po-po had a reasonable amount of suspicion based on location, manner of dress (body armor), rifle-shaped case, and recent mass-shooting events. I suspect that most prudent and cautious people in this situation would believe that he's carrying a loaded rifle and is about to unleash a world of hurt on a group of people, creating probable cause to search the locked case.   Since one or more of them knew who they were dealing with, it might have been a bit more prudent to detain him while waiting on a warrant before searching it to save themselves some hassle from him later, but ISTM that they did have PC in this instance.

  I don't disagree with what he's questioning about our laws. I really don't think very many of us do. How he does it is critically important.   Let's take Belle Meade for example. No, he didn't break a law. Yes, it resulted in an outdated law being officially stricken from the books. So what?   Real world impact: It was an unenforced law* so getting it removed from the books was just clerical work. It's not like he suddenly instituted Constitutional Carry in Belle Meade. What's worse is that it gives fodder to the local news. During this latest dust-up, WKRN wheeled out the old footage of his Belle Meade stop and said something to the effect of "Embody was arrested in 200X in Belle Meade for walking down the street with a gun in his hand." No mention of what the law was at the time, nor that his actions were perfectly legal. They don't need facts. They have a person they can paint as a lunatic gun owner. Three guesses what they might do with that.   He possibly could have accomplished the exact same thing by setting up a meeting with a BM councilmember and pointing out the antiquated law and asking them to bring it up in the next city council session to have it removed. You know....the normal way of having laws changed. But whether that particular law was removed or not is totally irrelevant because nobody does that except for him trying to prove his point. Keep that law, remove that law...it makes no difference to anyone.   *I've long heard that some TN towns have a law on their books stating that if a woman is driving a car, a man must walk in front of the car waving 2 red or orange flags to warn pedestrians and other motorists. It's like the BM law in that it's really old, it's unenforced, and nobody cares. I suppose some women's lib group could protest that law by doing exactly that and holding up traffic (follow the letter of the law) but it serves no purpose. Nobody does that and women aren't being cited for not having their "warning man" in front of them. So who cares? All it would do is make the women's lib group look like a bunch of crazy people if the media were so inclined to paint them that way. Guess who they like to paint as crazy people...Only one guess this time and it's not women's lib groups.