monkeylizard

Here's NASA's. It's a similar map but without the ads and a cleaner page design. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html?zoom=1

Works fine on Firefox too.

I'm seeing an odd effect in IE, but not in Chrome. There's almost no right side to the page so posts stretch off the right side and don't CRLF. They just stretch on and on. I have a reeeeeaaaaally long scroll bar at the bottom. About halfway across, the white box of text ends and I have the "Submit Reply" button. After that I have to scroll really far again to get to the "thumbs up" like button. I flushed cache and restarted IE. No change.

FYI . . . Every hotel in Nashville is booked. Every . . . last . . . one. That includes the surrounding communities. Franklin? Booked. Lebanon? Booked. Murfreesboro? Booked. I did find a motel in Waverly, TN with a couple of rooms left. . . I don't think I've ever seen that happen before. Even the combination of Bonnaroo and CMA Fest can't bring in that many people. If the weather is clear (right now, it doesn't look so good) and all those people show up, it's going to be traffic hell.

Lowes has them.

For the same reason that staring at a 100w light bulb is different than staring at a 100 w light bulb with a basketball in front of it. During totality, you're not actually looking at the sun, you're looking at the moon. Just like in my example you're looking at the basketball, not the light bulb. The two things I'm most looking forward to are seeing the sun's corona, and hopefully seeing shadow snakes (aka shadow waves).

The owner of American Paper Optics in Memphis was on TV a few days ago talking about the counterfeits. He said the Chinese are printing them EXACTLY like his. Same designs, same ISO certs on the inside, same brand name, everything. But the way to tell you got the real thing is that his lenses are silver on the fronts, black on the backs. the knock-offs are the same color on front and back. If yours aren't silver fronts, black backs, you may have fakes.

I'm going to guess the tabbed trigger being made the standard (and only) trigger, and that will be what they'll install on recalled firearms. I guess we'll see on Monday.

This is interesting, especially since the Army has just chosen the P320 as their new sidearm.

Only shade #14 is dark enough for solar viewing. That's the darkest welding glass available. Anything less is not dark enough. And stacking doesn't work. Two layers of #7 does not make #14 glass.

Where's the hot tub? Looks great!

Since he likes his Jennings, I have a Rohm Rg-10 that I could be persuaded to part with for $300 It's all steel. Well, it's some kind of metal anyway. The safety is that it only sometimes works, and when it does, it will safely NOT hit what you're aiming at. My dad bought it when he was a broke college student back in the 1970s. We all laugh about it now. I know it's worthless, but even if I was offered money for it, I'd never get rid of it. It's kind of the dirty Santa gift of family heirlooms around here. My dad and I had it out at Stones River range one day just for laughs and the guy in the lane next to us asked us to stop firing it because it was shaving so much lead off the bullets and spraying it into his shooting bay. What a piece of crap.

Sportsmans Guide has some police trade in mid-size M&Ps in .45 with night sights. Just a hair over $300. I know it's not 9mm, but it's a great price. They have thumb safeties.

Speaking of your wife, I haven't seen her post for quite a while. Tell her we miss her.

To me, that's true of the entire XD line vs. most of its competitors. Just look at how "tall" the slide is vs. a Glock, M&P, and most Sigs and you'll see that there's a lot more steel up top on an XD than those others. I shoot them well enough, but that weight was eventually more than I wanted to bother with and happily sold my XDsc. It's the only handgun I've ever sold that I don't wish I had back.

I also have a Winchester Ranger 20ga semi. I picked it up here on TGO a few years ago. It seems to break clays as well as I can. Nice soft shooter, but it's not real pretty. I'd have no issues with adding a 12 ga. version to my wall.

I have a cheap Lanber O/U with 30" barrels. I got it for $550 from CDNN a few years ago. It goes bang every time and it works well enough for me and my casual clay breaking. I can definitely tell a difference in quality though between it and my FiL's Beretta Silver Pigeon II. Besides the obvious aesthetics of better graining in the wood, polished receiver, and better engraving, the Beretta is much smoother in the breach action and in the trigger and it's noticeably lighter. It locks up smoothly. Sometimes I have to give the Lanber a little extra effort to close it up. But I don't think I actually shoot the Beretta better than the Lanber, and I can replace my cheap Lanber a few times before I get into good B-gun (Browning, Beretta, & Benelli) prices. If I was trying to get good at clays instead of just having some fun from time to time, I'd invest in something better, but for causal fun from time to time, the Lanber meets my needs. I haven't shot one yet, but I was impressed with the CZ O/U shotguns I handled at the NRA convention. If I was looking for something a step up from my el-cheapo Spanish Lanber, but wasn't ready to pay the B-Gun prices, CZ would be on my short list.

Me too. Everything else is ( A ) localized (floods, hurricanes, small nuke attack) so the rest of the country/world can help, or ( B ) kills so many people (big nuke attack, massive disease outbreak) that there's not a whole lot left to worry about. All the people remaining with none of the systems needed to keep them alive would be one of the worst possible scenarios. Remember: Never use up all of your ammunition. Always keep one bullet. Always.

I know. I just don't know why they do. It's clear that we've created a serious conflict of interest in many areas involving police and money.

Yep. We could also skip fines altogether and give points instead. Get too many points and your license is revoked. Plus if NHTSA really wanted to stop speeding, they could. The Waze app (and others) knows where I am and knows what the speed limit is on that roadway. It doesn't seem to me to be a far stretch to make my car know the same thing and dynamically govern the speed. If public safety was indeed the primary concern, this seems like the easiest, and most effective solution to stopping speeding in pretty much every new car. In 10 years time, you'd have all but eliminated speeding. That's all moot anyway once self-driving cars become the norm over the next 20 years. They either won't speed, or there won't be a need for a speed limit as they'll al communicate with one another and move at the optimal speed, whatever that happens to be at the moment rather than what some road engineer decided it should be all the time.

When a backwater Sheriff starts getting calls from The Washington Post, that's a good sign that he won't be able to sweep it under the rug.

Why would anyone ever think otherwise?

Ray Blanton made Rod Blagojevich look like a choir boy. He had schemes inside his schemes.

Dunkirk at the IMAX is on my calendar for tomorrow night.

I'm not moved to be against it yet, but I've long held that it should only be used for heinous crimes when there's zero doubt of guilt and innocence. Get a conviction beyond reasonable doubt, but only have execution on the table when it's beyond the shadow of a doubt. We wrongly convict too many people to use it in any other way.