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So it is no secret that I treat my daughter the way she wants to be treated. She collects Hotwheels, plays with LEGOs and her favorite films are Star Wars. Her mother is worried that she is a little tomboyish, but she hasn't complained too much. My wife doesn't know how to operate anything on a vehicle other than the go pedal and the whoa pedal. The little lever thingy goes from P to R to D. That is it. She has lamented several times that she doesn't know squat about cars, yet she never takes the time to listen when I try to explain something. So on occasion I get the odd phone call in a panicked voice asking what O/D OFF means... So I have started teaching Rebecca how to talk to cars. It has been interesting. I don't use a clutch. I drive trucks. Same thing in Chaos. So I have been teaching Rebecca how to listen to the exhaust note to follow the engine RPM, then blip the throttle to downshift, or float to upshift. She actually runs the shifter for me often when she is riding shotgun. The other morning I said something to Chaos, and Rebecca asked me what I said. When I explained that I was talking to Chaos, she got confused, and told me that Chaos couldn't talk back. I told her she was wrong, Chaos could indeed talk, but Rebecca needed to learn how to listen to her. So Rebecca asked me to translate. Every day for a week now I hear "What is Chaos saying now Daddy?" So I explain to her. "Hear the flat note in her exhaust? Smell the raw fuel? Chaos is telling me she needs new plugs, her old ones are fouled." "Smell the oil burning as I slow down? Chaos is telling me 'Thanks' for the oil I gave her last night at fill-up." "See the light on the dash, Chaos is telling me she is thirsty and she needs fuel..." As the prominent complaint lately has been for plugs, I stopped and got a set this evening. Rebecca helped me install them. She worked the ratchet, and even checked the gap, by the fourth plug, she did it all by herself. After we were done I told her the most important part of working on a car was driving her. "Daddy, what is Chaos saying now?" "She is saying thank you for the spark plugs Rebecca..."

Leagalizing drugs is a mantra of many but as to evidence that it would actually reduce crime or have any positive results at all is dubious to non-existant. Crime and gangs existed before we had any drug laws in this country and crime and gangs would exist if all drug laws were suddenly eliminated...it might reduce crime or some types of crime some but most crime really flows out of a person's general depravity, lack of compassion and lack of moral fiber - those shortcomings don't get fixed just because somehing that was illegal is made legal.

*shrug* I believe that even if you legalized narcotics there would still be plenty of gangs, violence and crime. It really just boils down to the fact that bad people just do bad things, extortion, kidnapping, rapes, robberies, all of that will still go on, maybe the lower cost of legalized narcotics will help reduce it some because "junkies" will have an easier time aquiring their fixes, but I just don't think that bad people will suddenly stop doing bad things as a result.

Legalize weed and tax it like cigarettes you will cut down on crime and generate revenue. Enforce the law just like you would a DUI.

I won't let them inject that poison in me...

Hookers and blow.

I was on vacation last week and stopped by Smokey Mountain Knifeworks. We went to the knife making shop and my kids made their own knifes. They guy was super nice and great with kids. If anyone is out that way, definitley stop by and check it out.

Next time someone tells you that the average citizen couldn't pass a police qualification course, show them this video:

2nd that. Seriously can't we keep Clarksville out of the news for a few days? You guys aren't Memphis.

Over a balloon? Seriously?

Thanks for the link Dave! Answered some of the questions I had

Welcoms to TGO and Clarksville. The shop on Tiny town is Big Iron Munitions. I haven't been there is a while but I've had good dealings with them. Very small storefront, not much in stock at any given time. Good customer service though and they will order in anything you want. http://www.bigironmunitions.com/default.aspx

Thank your husband for his service first. Then lodge your complaint with anyone who will listen. It will cost them more than they can imagine. Lol

Being drawn to perhaps more than a healthy share of strong women along the way, I learned early on to thrive on abuse. That certainly sounds more than passable. If I get to meet The, or even A, Big Guy, I'll surely be able to fill a good bit of eternity asking questions. Think I'll break the ice with, "so what's the story on that duck-billed platypus, anyway?" Well, I'm off on 8 mile round trip walk to the Y. Day to jump around in the pool with a bunch of fat ladies. My fav place to get the latest germs, I reckon, to bring it back on topic. - OS

AND he's still here. Definitive proof Heaven doesn't want him and hell is scared to death he'll take over. J/K

I agree with that but would like to expand on my experience. They're coming to an urban area near you. One of the main principals of gangs is they want / need to expand and start new chapters with money producing street corners and drug houses. Mixed income housing and Section 8 housing is helping them do just that. As far as the gang infested neighborhoods not trusting the cops, that's a cultural and survival instinct. Trust me when I tell you the neighbors will "talk the talk" in the beginning of an infestation and do absolutely nothing, not even call the cops when they witness something for fear of retaliation. In the established "hoods", there's only Mamma's that are head of households so parental control is extinct. The "hood" is not going to report on their own neighbors, friends and family because it's income generation and personal survival.

It's all a government created mess to begin with... The fact is you can't stop capitalism... There is a product and a high demand market.. By driving that market underground you end up with street gangs who can't work within the system and therefore blood spills out into the streets. We've seen this movie before and the *only* way to get rid of the gang problem is to get rid of prohibition because the high demand for their product is impossible to get rid of. Make the product they're selling legal and the gang problem would be gone in 12-18 months.

ammo is what i would go for and/or items to reload your own if you have a reloading setup.

Welcome to TGO and welcome to Clarksville. I've done business at TN Gun Country and at Allen's Gun Shop and I have good and bad experiences at both. I've been shopping at Clarksville Guns and Archery on Golf Club Lane and Madison Street. Great selection and friendly, knowledgeable service. I haven't tried the place on Tiny Town, but I hear its really small which could be good or bad. Grandpa's at 41A and 101 Parkway is just not my kinda place, I've never been able to see eye to eye about much of anything with those folks.

I got one on sale for $40 at JCPenny's a couple years ago. It's more a "field coat" style than mechanic's style, but it's held up quite well. As for online stuff... can't go wrong with Carhart, Cabela's, LLBean, Landsend, ... Having just looked, Cabela's has some pretty good stuff on sale. If I needed one, I get this without hesitation.

I agree with the suicide thing. When clean my guns, I usually check my guns 2 or 3 times while cleaning. Lay gun down go get a glass of tea come back check gun. Drink tea check gun. Come on guys. This ain't rocket science. I vote suicide. JTM Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Congrats on taking the class. I wish more folks would take it and get their HCP!

Agree with just about everything above, Leroy. Iraq wasn't really as bad as it was made out to be by the press, but it wasn't productive and its necessity is certainly open to debate. I will say that much of that conflict (the years that followed the establishment of an Iraqi government) was due to HUGE mistakes that were made after securing the population centers and the capitulation of Saddam's Army. These mistakes were easily aviodable, and simply were made out of a combination of laziness and politics. Bush wasn't the one making these mistakes, however, the folks he appointed to make them are still his reponsibility, and ulimately he is responsible for everything his subordinates do or fail to do. His mistake was trusting the judgement of some of those subordinates.

The zombies don't know how to refuel the phone company's generators, or they could have phone service. But the conversations between zombies are pretty boring anyway, just lots of mmmmmm and aaaarrrgggh and so forth. - OS

GREAT ANSWER BELOW!!! Couldnt let this one go. I think Mike's answer on "who wuz worst" is right. It precipitated the American Revolution. Now to Link's opinion RE: "...the worst president..." with the caveat "....in modern times...". I firmly believe that George W. Bush was made to be the "....worst president in modern times..." by several things. Some manufactured and some real. The "manufactured" one is the "....he wuz the dummest president ever..." mantra delivered by the media. The "real ones" are as follows: 1. GWB was sabatoged from the get-go by career bureaucrats who did not agree with his policies; and he simply would not neutralize them. They were principally in the CIA and in the State Departments. Their defiant actions made him look foolish and weak. 2. GWB said that Iraq would not be like Viet Nam. It wuz. The war ended pretty quck; but the occupation sucked; and still does. This wuz preceived by real people as a failing and spun continuously by a hostile press as a "needless war" we were loosing. Again, damaging GWB's stature and reputation. 3. GWB would not answer his critics in the media and in the Demorat party ALA Reagan. You simply cannot do this. The dems and the press finally won this battle. 4. GWB wuz not a real conservative, fiscal or otherwise. He wuz (...and is...) a "big govenment republican ALA "New Deal" Republican via the "compassionate conservative" monaker (...whatever that is....I think it is "New Deal" Democrat lite....). Havin said all that; i dont think he wuz the worst president in modern times; just the most villified and beat up. My vote for the worst (...up until now....) is Jimmy Carter. Carter wuz (...and is....) consistently wrong on every issue he chooses to weigh in on. He is no friend of freedom; and loves cozying up to any dictator; from the Banna Republics to Iran. He is anti American and anti Israel. Completely anti democratic. Carter wuz elected for one reason and one reason only. Gerald Ford (...the Republican candidate...) pardoned Richard Nixon. That sent the message to the american people that the repbulicans believed that some people (....Nixon....) were above the law. They were offended by that; and they should have been. That is the only thing that elected Jimmy Carter. Carter soon screwed up everything and lost to Reagan in a landslide. Everything Carter touched turned to manure (...or worse...). Carter cultivated the image of a "southern conservative democrat" and a "political outsider"; but he simply wasnt. Carter believed (...and still does...) in the "Citizen of the World" baloney ALA the Woodrow Wilson League of Nations. All the "citizen of the world" baloney is simply a ruling class, autocratic, "we are the smartest people in the room" world view that postulates that citizens are mindless rabble to be guided like children and the big decisions should be left to the "best and brightest"; namely them. Said another way, delightful rustics should not be given the task of actually affecting the outcome of the affairs of state. That should be left to the "enlightented" ones; namely the polititians. I think that to this day, Carter is a bitter, devisive, meddling old coot who hates the USA and courts any politico, dictator, or strong man (....foreign or domestic...) who shares his silly notons of being the "best and brightest". He has meddled in and opposed more genuine American policy than any other ex-presidental figure in modern times. Carter has continuously praised and coddled our enemies and hurt our friends more than any previous ex president. Carter is my pick (...up to now...) for the "worst ever". GWB aint close. I will grant that he wuz pretty ratty; all things considered. All that bein said; i believe that Nobama will take his place in a few months. leroy

The play wasn't reviewable, so they didn't see anything. LOL What amuses me, is what leagues were these guys blowing calls in before they became replacement refs?

Sounds like it's just criminals shooting each other. Five people shot; not a victim amongst them.

Why did it ever leave the car?

That's redundant

Watched it ... In the words of Charles Barkley .... "That was turrrrible, just turrrrible" I'll still watch the NFL ... Even with these ref's. IMO -- It almost makes it more entertaining

- OS

The last time I had a landline phone caller ID was revolutionary and cost me 10 bucks extra a month.

Perhaps TICS should be replaced with an IQ test.

Awesome! I spotted this moth on my back porch May 2011: and this little guy in June (looks like it had recently shed it's skin)

I think our approach to this is simply different (neither is wrong, IMO, just different.) I like the short crowbar because I would prefer a good pry bar, etc. that could work well if it needed to be pressed into service as a skull crusher (skull crushing being a secondary function.) It appears that you prefer a good skull crusher that could work well if it needed to be pressed into service as a pry bar (pry bar being the secondary function, in this case.) I think that is because I am coming down closer to the 'Caster' end of the zombie slaying continuum (but not entirely on his end of things.) I would want something that would work close range, hand to hand if I had to but doing so would be more because my plan failed than because I had planned to do so.

I went to the DMV in Murfreesboro this afternoon, got there about 1:15. I filled out the permit application, paid my $115 and got my photo taken. Tomorrow I get fingerprinted... then I wait. I was expecting a long line, but was pleasantly surprized. I was in and out of there in less than 40-minutes. Oh... they do take plastic, just not AmEx.

Generally not so bad, you can hold it shut without much force. What's can be really dangerous is putting fingers in front of revolver cylinder, bigger the caliber the worse! - OS

This thread kind of reminds me of the old joke, "I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather - not screaming in terror like the other people in his car." I kind of like the method of execution chosen by the condemned man in Monty Python's 'Meaning of Life'. He chose to be chased off of a cliff by a mob of attractive, topless women. There was, actually, some study done by various individuals involving people put to death by beheading. Mostly, the combined results are inconclusive but there is at least some indication that some individuals do survive and retain at least some level of consciousness for at least a short time. I have actually read a supposed account of a scientist who was curious about this very thing and, apparently, studied it as much as he could. Well, he got his chance to do the 'ultimate research' when he was sentenced to death by decapitation, himself. Supposedly, he told his assistant/understudy to watch carefully and if his brain still retained any level of awareness when his head hit the basket he would blink his eyes for as long as he could in order to communicate that awareness with the assistant. I found a link to an article about that, and other, accounts: http://www.damninter...d-decapitation/

So, would a fellow 'heretic' (me) be invited to shoot them, too? To me, part of the history of these guns is shooting them in the present. That is the only way, to my mind, to truly appreciate the craftsmanship, etc. that others have mentioned. Sure, light loads and great care, etc. but these aren't paintings, sculptures, etc, that are just made to look at (although some might be just as aesthetically pleasing.) I don't care how nice, old, rare, etc. they are - if these guns are just hanging in a museum somewhere not being fired then they are not much more than hunks of metal and wood languishing away, unused. But, hey, I am also the kind of guy who, at various times in my life: 1. Used my great grandmother's bed (which, if I am not mistaken, was also her parents' bed - made in the late 1800s) as the bed I slept on every night, 2. Daily drove a 1964 Ford pickup truck for a couple of years when I was in college (mid-1990s) 3. Buy unusual, antique doorknobs to repurpose as handles for walking canes (when I get around to it) 4. Have used my great, great grandfather's sharpening steel to sharpen knives 5. Enjoy making cider on a 1800's era cider press that a friend has and 6. Waited until no one was looking then slipped off, by myself, to the mostly unused second floor of the herbalist's cottage in Savannah (the oldest standing structure in Georgia and possibly the oldest in the South) just to see what was up there (hey, there were no signs prohibiting it and no one told me not to so...) So it isn't that I don't respect/value history. Instead, it is that I value and respect history so much that I want to experience it as much as possible. I would have been one of the scientists who ate part of a wooly mammoth that was found partially preserved in the permafrost or tasted wine found in amphoras at the bottom of the ocean from a Roman shipwreck centuries ago.

I just hope this does not turn into a rally call by the government to try to change the face to face laws to protect us and allow the government to cash in on the sales via tics.

I agree Volzfan. We must be careful out there.

Basically....no. http://www.tn.gov/tw...untweapons.html Reference "legal hunting hours". WELCOME to TGO! Dave S Sent via my tap-a-thingie

I agree 99% I will say, I would have complied too. BECAUSE, there's no threat and it's the fastest way to get away from the guy. During the process I would have noted the name tag and car number then immediately made a complaint to his department. Confrontation on the spot is never advantageous so why do it? I would certainly like to but WON'T. I'd bottle it up and ream his supervisor in a setting where there's no possible way I could see the back seat of a car.

I know of two in the Clarksville area, but none in Nashville. Don't come to Clarksville for one because you'll loose your money! Dave S

I'm going with option #4 here: FN Model 1910, .32 cal, serial number 19074 This was the pistol used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off a chain of events that would result WWI, and set the stage for the rise of Hitler and WWII. Certainly I believe these are more historically significant due to the fact that events were caused by this pistol that actually shaped history, unlike the pistols used to kill Lincoln and Hitler. The reason why those are not too historically significant: Hitler: Let's face it; Hitler was done for anyway. The fact that he shot himself didn't change the course of history. He would have been killed during the capture or the Russians would have hung him in short order. Lincoln: If he had been assassinated a year and a half prior I believe it would have been the singlemost historic shot in American history, as there is a good chance that would have altered the outcome of the Civil War. However, JWB shot him after all was over so it didn't really impact anything. If Lincoln would have croaked from a heart attack the same day or continued to finish out his term I don't think history would be much different. Maybe the North wouldn't have taken out so much of their anger on the South if it weren't for JWB, but I'm thinking it wouldn't have mattered. They were pretty pissed either way. Kennedy: I don't know how much it would be different if Kennedy wasn't assassinated. I'm sure there would be a different line of Presidents we'd be looking at today, but more significant than the one that killed Archduke Ferdinand? No, I don't think so.

I wanna go out the same way I came in. Kicking, screaming, and covered in someone elses blood.