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They are imported through another company now, I can't think of the name off the top of my head, from what I remember they have a fair reputation. I think $300 for a reliable semi-auto shotgun is a good deal.

I have to disagree with a fair bit of your post while agreeing at the same time. Discipline is important, as is consistency, however unconditional love should always be first. My daughter is a gift to me and my legacy to the world. I do not want to be the overbearing parent that forces her into a mold that I believe she should fit in order to make my life easier or more idealistic. Believing that my five year old won't lie to me is nice, but thinking that she has to grow up afraid of me is a very scary thought. Naively believing that my daughter will never make a mistake is even worse than the thought of the lengths she will go to hiding that mistake for fear that I will find out. I understand the old school mentality. I also understand the children that were raised in this fashion that left home at eighteen and never spoke to their parents again. I know that what you posted was only an excerpt of your philosophy and I am not trying to be confrontational. By no means am I a tree hugging liberal hippy "let the child choose their own path" parent. But I try to make sure that my daughter understands that when she makes a mistake, Daddy will not punish her unjustly because of it. After my daughter's first 'whoopin' I sat down with her, with tears still welling in her eyes and I explained to her how her actions had led to that. I was calm, and I spelled it out that Daddy still loved her, but if her actions were dangerous or destructive, she would be punished as such. The difference is that house rules and society's rules aren't always the same, and I want my daughter to understand the pros and cons of both so that she can function within the moral boundaries that she chooses when that time comes.

Find toys that you can all enjoy playing with. My wife is frustrated about the gender identification with my daughter. Her favorite toys are LEGOs and Hot Wheels. She has most of the Star Wars sets (her favorite films as well) and over three hundred Hot Wheels. I have tried to explain to my frustrated wife that our daughter is not having any issues understanding gender roles, she is playing with toys that not only does she enjoy, but toys she knows that Daddy will play with as well. The two of us have spent many hours recreating scenes from Star Wars, as well as incorporating out own elements (such as the Storm Troopers crashing the Krusty Krab and arresting all of the Bikini Bottom regulars) and having a jolly ol' time. My wife is disappointed as she still has her collection of Barbies from her childhood and out daughter (who loves dresses) won't play with Barbie, or the Dream House or anything else related to 'girl toys.' The question I ask my wife is simple "How many times do you get down into the floor to play with her?" That is not to say that my wife isn't a good parent. She includes our daughter in her activities, such as sewing, cooking and other domestic duties, as do I. Out daughter loves to bake. However, if you ask her what she wants to do when she grows up? She wants to be a mechanic and work on cars with Daddy. Or a "Jedi, a bad one, with the red sword." I am not claiming to be an expert on children by any stretch of the imagination, however I do understand how my daughter ticks. We are cut from the same cloth. I have found a way to connect with her, on her level and communicate in a fashion that she can understand and grasp. Today's children are very techno savvy. They inherently grasp electronics in a fashion that many adults can't. Adults are amazed at what a smart phone can do, yet a child accepts and expects the phone to do anything, after all, today they can. Video games can be one way to breach the wall. The LEGO video games are not extremely violent, and they have basic problem solving skills. Mixing those with simple physical activities can get the child's wheels turning in their head while still exercising their bodies. For example after playing the Star Wars LEGO video game, I went out and picked up a pair of Nerf Swords for myself and my daughter. After we finish a level, we will go outside and pretend to be Jedi having a lightsaber duel. Again, Star Wars is just my example as it works with my daughter. But using something that she likes I have been able to include it into films (giving us time to cuddle on the couch,) video games (which she enjoys and despite all the negative press does improve hand eye coordination,) building blocks (which teach problem solving skills and rudimentary engineering,) and out door activities (for exercise and burning off energy.) My daughter is an only child and is five years old, so I am not sure how well that would translate to three children. However if there is something they can all agree too or somehow be coerced into accepting and enjoying, go for it. If you can get all the children into something that will help them bond with not only you as a parent, but each other, it will be beneficial for life. Good luck. I have been blessed in the fact that my daughter has mostly been stress free, and well behaved, even if she is conniving and precocious to a dangerous degree with her mother. I have no idea where she learned that.

I think folks are being too hard on Glenn. He is a normal person, not a cop or a seasoned killer. Plus Rick moved so fast it would have been hard for Glenn to take the lead. As mentioned, he prefers stealth. I like the new Rick. Many characters that are dead aren't at this point in the comics, many characters that are still alive aren't in the comics. I think we can expect a clean break from the comics and a new story with their characters. I don't think Rick was picking up brass, I think Rick was picking up unspent rounds. I could be counting wrong, but I only counted four or five shots before his reload. It would make sense that he was picking up unspent rounds. As far as the extra drama of the show, sure, for those of us that are used to run and gun zombie movies, it makes it a bit tedious at times. However I appreciate it as it shows the trials that would come with the post apocalyptic world. The inter-character drama is interesting and leads to character development that is not available in a two hour zombie flick.

Install a bullet guide and a Saiga can take a regular AK magazine, plenty of walkthroughs abound. Drill out a couple of rivets and move the fire control group and you can install a pistol grip and a regular AK stock. The only thing that requires a fair amount of work is the forward handguard. However, there are parts and walkthroughs for those too. After all of this you will be around the $500 or $600 mark for an equivalent of an Arsenal, which oddly enough is a thoroughly converted Saiga. If you get a WASR or similar, you can change all the furniture. It is similar to cost of AR furniture. Same as a converted Saiga. The difference is in milled, stamped underfolder and side folder. However there are parts for all of them.

I like that method.I may have to try that on the third and fourth box hidden in the cabinet.

Thin Mint fan here. I have a direct supply via one of the wife's friend's daughter.

I finally got my rump in gear and ordered the rest of my parts to complete the first rifle. All PSA and MOE. I am winding up spending a bit more than I anticipated, but I am still coming out well ahead in my opinion. When I started this gig I got it in my head that I could get the whole thing completed for ~$500 not counting transfer and shipping. So around ~$600 would be a realistic goal for a quality mil-spec rifle. I have to admit that I am over budget by a whopping $100. The hardest part I have had is the plethora of choices out there. Do I want mid length, rifle length, carbine length? Do I want a 20" or a 16" barrel? Free floated, railed, plain or MOE handguards... In the end I took the path most traveled. I just ordered a PSA MOE Complete Lower kit in black. I then got the PSA M4 Carbine Upper (1/7, 5.56 chamber and chrome lining) with the tactical latch charging handle, the MOE handguard a MBUS in black and the A2 muzzle device. The odd thing is that in order to get all of the MOE furniture, I had to order it in pieces as opposed to a complete rifle kit. It wound up costing about $10 more once you figure in the tac latch. I don't know why I wanted it, but for $10 I figured why not. Now my choice is which lower to build, the pictogram or the S/F.

Have you thought about the absorbing targets? They are made of a foam, and when you shoot them they kinda bounce around. One of these and a .22LR pistol and I as bad as cat and a laser pointer.

I have buying the Winchester Cowboy .22LR bulk from Academy. 525 rounds for $15.99. Last time I was in there they didn't have any, but they had what I think was marked T22 at the same price. I assume it is the same stuff. My Ruger and Rough Riders eat it up. I haven't had any FTF in four or five bricks and my 10/22 is accurate enough to make a lot of little holes into one big hole.

I think I like it. I am enamored with DW revolvers. They are on my short list.

It is a shame, and she had a huge impact on pop music. She will be missed.

I think running it over in the driveway would have served the same purpose without making him look like a crazy ###hole.

Shooting it was irresponsible as a parent and a gun owner. However, it served a point. Posting it on a pubic place was the most irresponsible part. Going to the extreme to prove a point to a rebellious child is one thing. Hell, even shooting the laptop is well within his rights. But now, the daughter could use that against him to portray him as a violent gun owner. And trust me, there are plenty of folks getting all excited at this thought. He even posted the evidence for the world to see. As one poster above mentioned, comparing this to burning his baseball cards. This isn't even in the same category. If he had taken his daughter out in the backyard and made her shoot the laptop in a private, family setting, maybe. But trying to publicly humiliate her? Nope.

1982 Ford Mustang Notchback. My senior year of highschool I moved to the next town over. I lived just up the street from one of the teachers and the school and I rode back and forth to school with her. Her husband had an old Oldsmobile Omega sitting in the front yard collecting leaves. I was working as a Bagboy at a grocery store in the next town over. I lived in the middle town, worked in the westernmost town and went to school in the easternmost. I had a little money saved up and asked about the Omega. We agreed on a price and I came over one afternoon to run the bugs out of it and get it cleaned up and running. I wasn't much of a mechanic back then, and after an entire afternoon I could not for the life of me get the thing to run. The old man was a nice enough sort, and knew I had my heart set on driving home. So he said "Well, I have this Mustang behind the house..." And that started a pretty long love affair with automobiles.

Again, there is no way my car would pass emissions. I do not have any of the factory emissions components on my car. They have all been removed. I wouldn't even make it to the sniffer test, the visual would fail me. The taxes from what I see don't include groceries, which would be a boost of 10% in purchasing power right there. Feeding my family costs me $400 a month, that would be a $40 increase out the gate. After talking with the wife, I think we are going for it.

Pretty good episode.

Our Regional HQ is in Louisville. It is either there or Plano Texas, which would be the next move. I was kinda hoping to be able to do the job from my current office, but political issues will prevent that. I completely understand, and in one sense am relieved, but I am hesitant about relocation. I rent, we intended to purchase a home within the next two years so this stays mostly within those goals. I am currently looking at the area west of Louisville, but I am sure that there will be several scouting trips in the near future up there. The open carry thing is interesting. Is it common up there? Or at least more common that here in Tennessee? The one thing that is sticking out to me is that of the dozens of times I have moved, Tennessee has always been home. Until I was ten, I had no home. We would transfer to a new location every summer. Washington, Virginia and California. A year and then back. The apartment I am in now has literally been the longest I have been in one location at seven years. My mother's house where she has lived for the last twenty years is the second longest I have stayed at one place, four years. My wife is very receptive to Louisville, she is just concerned about crime. She will trust my judgement, but she is a nervous type.

I was just given on offer I can't refuse. More money, less hours, a much better title and less stress. The catch? Move to Louisville Kentucky. I am married. With a young school age daughter. My wife is a Yankee. Sorry, an Ohioan. I am technically a native Tennessean, though I didn't move here until I was ten. I was born in Washington, my father was stationed there in the Navy. Both of my parents are native Tennesseans. My mother, one sister and one brother live in Tennessee. A few hours south, where I was raised. My Stepfather (even though he divorced my mother) and several cousins live in the same area to the south. Other than a few visits down there a year, I wouldn't say that I am close with any of them. Visits with my Stepfather are always pleasant and far too infrequent though. My wife has no family here. I have lived in East Tennessee on and off for nearly twenty five years. I went to school in Indianapolis, where I have a brother and a sister, and returned to Knoxville. I have been in Knoxville for the better part of fifteen years. This move is a no brainer. I have been with the company I am with now for seven years. In that time I have have watched as we went from a nothing group of miscreants to an entity that has become a local force to be reckoned with and after a buy-out/de-merger is a Fortune 500 Corporation. This is a large step up from where I am now in the scheme of things. However, I have misgivings about moving. I like Knoxville and East Tennessee. Sure, it isn't perfect, but it is like Baby Bear's porridge, it is just right. I have the mountains and the ability to pursue my hobbies, which aren't vast, but fit the area perfect. I like driving fast through the mountains and shooting things. I am certain I will accept the position and make the move, but I am just curious about what other's have to say about Louisville and Kentucky in general. This is more of an spoken (as it were) musing than anything else. The crime rate is higher in Louisville than in Knoxville, but from what I can see in my searching, the cost of living is similar. Kentucky has a state income tax doesn't it? I am reading a 2%-6% income tax with a 5% sales tax? What about the gun laws? From what I can tell they are very similar to Tennessee, however they allow carry in a vehicle. I am not one for open carry, but they only issue a concealed carry permit? What about Class III? I don't currently own anything, but the idea appeals to me. One real downer is the Vehicle Emissions Testing. We don't have that in Knoxville, and my current vehicle (which is heavily modified) wouldn't pass in any way shape or form. So this would include the added cost of a new car. My family vehicle is fine and my collector car would be exempt. Input and opinions?

First, let me say a serious thank you to David and the staff. You guys do a great job here and have been very fast with responses and keeping the general peace around here. Now the issues. Or issue as it is. I have only found one so far. When changing my profile information, it will not allow me to update, saying that "Gender can not be left blank." I am not leaving gender blank. There is also a radio button for gender, and I have tried to save the profile information with the radio button checked, and unchecked. Chrome and Vista in case you need to know. Keep up the great work. And can we get a dark theme for this software?

I made it. It kinda sucked to have to work while I was at the office today, but I made it.

I would have asked him to come around behind the dumpsters for a second...

Diablo and Diablo II were awesome. I played Diablo and Warcraft II on the computer, when the Playstation version of Diablo came out I got several friends involved. Computers weren't super common in the sticks in the late 90's. Diablo II was superb. I can remember many a late nights playing that. I saw some previews of D3 a couple years ago when I still played WoW, I wasn't that impressed, but it was like a ten second video. I have kinda given up on games lately. I might play two or three hours on XBOX Live with some coworkers once or twice a month, but that is about it.

The young man had a history of violence and of being difficult to deal with. It sucks, but the family should have removed him from the situation before it got this bad.

I am pretty sure you work for my father-in-law.