Murgatroy

I have a similar subforum on a forum I run. I have seen some good items go through it.

Awesome, and a pretty talented dude as well. I listened to several of his other songs, Hickock45 gets a positive shout out. I kinda dig them.

Nice.

And that is how you get to be the coolest 11 year old in your class.

Wrap it in a bicycle box.

Yeah, I kinda had a hard time understanding the question. The way I read it: "How many convicted, guilty imprisoned men would you free to allow one convicted, not guilty imprisoned man to go free?" None. However the way I think the question was meant more as "You have X men in front of you, and one of them is not guilty, but you have no way to prove it reliably as to which one is not guilty." In that instance, I would let them all go. Innocent until proven guilty. If you can't prove which one is innocent and which one is guilty, none of them should be imprisoned. I think the question was a little to ambiguously worded. I don't have extreme faith in our judicial system. To many lawyers are out for themselves, to many officials are out for themselves. Statistics are skewed for published numbers to show who is safe, who isn't and who does more. However, I prefer our judicial system over those in other countries. As someone mentioned earlier, it is not perfect, but it does make it a lot more even. While I don't think it is awesome to dump a million dollars to prove your innocence, the possibility exists to be able to do so.

I have a pair of Heritage Rough Riders, both the 6.5" model. I have yet to have an issue out of either of them. I don't have any experience with the Ubertis, though I keep thinking about the .357MAG "Hombre" they sell at Academy.

Agreed. If we get it set up, I will be there.

It is illegal to open carry or conceal carry in Tennessee, without a permit. A felon can't get a permit. It is really that simple. Unless you find a law or opinion in Tennessee that states a black powder firearm is NOT a firearm, a felon can not carry one.

Linky no worky.

It is all about the different types of high. I don't consume any illicit drugs at this current point in my life. I don't drink. I do smoke tobacco. I try to avoid getting prescriptions if I can. I don't like the feeling of drunkenness. I feel slow, sluggish, it is hard to think. However when I am given a prescription of pain pills, say hydrocodone/vicodin I feel energized, sharp, on point. When I was younger, I had been known to partake of other illegal substances. It was green. It kept me calm and allowed me to concentrate, to think on one subject at great length. Again, all different types of high. And that is as deep as my experience goes with the above, other than watching some close to me destroy their lives.

That is BS. How are lightbulbs going to feed his family? Not that I have heard of. They do snort them, and some can be taken intravenously.

Not to make it that I know of, but to smoke it. They take the filament out and it makes a sort of pipe. Meth isn't smoked in the traditional sense. It is cooked. When the meth is heated it begins to smoke, not burn, kind of like sugar will, then it melts, they then use a straw to suck in the smoke.

It has been a couple of weeks, but CCA had one in stock. The best way is to go into a couple of shops and just bluntly tell them, "I want xxx, what would you price it at, as yyy is charging $zzz for it shipped?" I have done that a few times and had the firearm ordered and priced within $50 of what I could have gotten it from Bud's. I don't mind paying $50 more to a local brick and mortar. Bill's Outpost is good about this.

I have very mixed feelings on this matter. I have watched from the sidelines after years of trying to help as my second from youngest sister has destroyed her life through drug abuse. Including meth. She is ten years younger than I am. However she now looks at least ten years older than I am. She has lost custody of her son, she is a convicted felon. She has been in and out of rehab more times than I can count, and more than my mother or myself can afford anymore. I washed my hands of her several years ago, after I tried getting custody of her son, thankfully her ex-husband stepped up and became a man and I didn't have to take on that responsibility. She has stolen money and goods from myself, my mother, her ex-husband, the few friends she did have. She has stolen cars, been involved in a counterfeit money scheme, stolen from her drug dealers... The list goes on. I personally had her arrested after I caught her stealing from my mother. She showed up at my mother's house, slashed the tires on my mother's truck. I politely asked her to leave, and eventually needed the persuasion that only a double barrel 12ga can provide to get her and her associates off of the property. I followed her into town, her vehicle was struck from behind by one of her associates, and when the truck lid popped open, my mother (who was with me, as we were going to get her tires replaced) spotted her brand new LCD TV in the trunk. I exited my vehicle, and gave my sister the fairest chance I could. "N*****, I am calling the police, you have ten minutes until they arrive, you have some very important decisions to make." She was defiant and stood on the side of the road, when the police arrived, they busted her with the following: two of my mother's checkbooks, the television, three bottles of unidentified mixed pills in prescription bottles without labels, drug paraphernalia including needles and syringes and the icing on the cake, the S&W Sigma that I had purchased the day before, and still had the receipt in my pocket for. At this time, my sister also had a pending warrant for check fraud and theft over $500, the sum was actually better than $5000. My mother will never see a penny of it I am sure. She had filed charges against my sister on Friday for the checks, I took her out Saturday and bought her the pistol, and taught her how to use it. She was afraid of retaliation, such as having her tires slashed... She left in on her nightstand, and that is where my sister found it. Oddly enough, she unloaded it before she took it. The officer assumed she meant to sell it, as opposed to rob someone with it. Now, having personal experience with the dangers of hard core drug addiction, including meth, I am on the fence with some of the laws we are enacting to combat it. Yes, it needs to be fought, but how? Making the items used to produce it means they find more dangerous ways to make it, such as the shake and bake method we are hearing of lately. It makes it inconvenient for law abiding citizens such as ourselves to walk into Walgreens and buy Sudafed, Walmart and buy batteries, Autozone and buy brake fluid. Where do we end our civil liberties to combat something as vicious as meth? Meth doesn't have as clear a target as the marijuana trade. The users are often making it themselves. We don't have a farmer, a mule and a dealer to contend with. We have half baked drug addicts with a two liter bottle making it in the back of their van, while their kids sleep in the front making it, so they can smoke it right then. I don't know what the answer is, but I know we need to do something.

I was thinking along these lines as well. After going through the same issue with my mother, we bought her a Sigma, as she could rack the slide on it. If I had it to do over again, I think I would steer her toward a tip-up barrel.

That is something I have taken into consideration a lot when investigating these methods of food storage, caloric intake. MREs offer a much higher caloric intake, and do not require water to prepare, but the trade off is a much shorter shelf life and a higher price. I have been thinking of a combinations of dehydrated food, MREs, rotated canned meats and pastas and then bulk rice and beans. I was raised as a Mormon, I haven't practiced in years, save your opinions on the religion, but one thing that was ingrained in us, be prepared. LDS is big on the survivalist movement, from Boy Scouts to long term food storage and prep. One of the things that was taught was to always have a year's supply of food on hand for your family.

Yup. They strip the batteries for something or other. When I was in retail, we were distributed a list, if a customer bought more than three items on the list and purchased less than ten items total, you had to ask for their ID. This was eight years or more ago.

Just saw a preview for season 3, I am excited.

South Knoxville is going downhill rapidly. I can't imagine pulling a gun on a cop, over shoplifting no less. I am glad no innocents were hurt.

Season 3 moved slow at a couple of points, but the ending was great.

Well to be optimistic with them, if they are selling the kits to end consumers, the user will create his own holster, thus having an intimate knowledge of how it was assembled and constructed. Meaning it could be his 'old faithful' holster, and if it never needed repairs, he would know how to make them. And of course, I am sure they sell replacement parts, should the need arise.

But they obviously can't be as good as the real thing if Wal-Mart is selling them!I think I might pick one up too, I have the United M-48 Hawk, it might be fun to have a more useful one.

I am a huge fan of his Xanth novels, read all the originals in my youth, but I couldn't keep up after The Color of Her Panties, or Demons Don't Dream, somewhere in that era. I couldn't really get into his Incarnations of Immortality, though I have read them all, I don't recall much at all. Tatham Mound was probably my favorite of his works, or Kill-o-Byte. One extreme to the other, I like how versatile he is as an author. I have Split Infinity in my car right now, but I haven't gotten started on it yet.

My wife and I go back and forth on this. I firmly believe that within the next ten years everything will be digital. She believes there is still a huge market for physical books. My only gripe with the Kindle is the cost of the books. The physical book was printed, distributed and sold to me. Requiring raw materials, labor, fuel, transport and lading costs. A minimum of ten people touched this book before me getting it to where it is. The digital was converted to digital format, then placed on a server. That means that maybe four people had input. This is not counting the author, whom I am sure gets the same cut, digital or physical. Now, explain to me why the digital book costs the same, or in many cases, more than the mass produced paperback? This came to me as I was searching for some old out of print pulp novels, and Amazon wanted $10 a book, for a 200 page pulp novel in digital form, and even there in the sidebar was a link to used copies for $0.75. It frustrated me. A lot. Damn evil publishing companies, and folks want to bitch about banks.